The Northern Miner Jan 22 2018 Issue

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Aurania sees shares jump, identifies target in Ecuador GOLD EXPLORATION

| Stock hits 52-week high after endorsement from investor report

BY TRISH SAYWELL tsaywell@northernminer.com

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hares of Aurania Resources (TSXV: ARU) skyrocketed in the first week of January after a senior analyst at The Casey Report recommended to his subscribers that they buy the junior for up to $15 per share. The stock, which opened on Jan. 4 at $3.20 per share, soared to a 52-week high of $7.57, before closing at $5 — a 61.2% increase. “He put a target price on the stock and said it was something worth watching and literally within minutes the stock took off,” Richard Spencer, Aurania’s president, tells The Northern Miner. “It was quite scary for a while and we sent the report to IROC as soon as we got it.” The Casey analyst and editor, E.B. Tucker, said he met Aurania’s CEO, Keith Barron, about a month ago in London, when the company’s shares were trading at $2.45. “With less than 23 million shares outstanding, if Aurania hits the mother lode in Ecuador, its shares will explode,” Tucker said, adding that Barron has “found a billiondollar mine before in the same region.” “He thinks he can do it again,” Tucker mused. “For that reason, he’s not letting go of shares unnecessarily.” Barron — who cofounded Aurelian Resources in 2001, and along with Stephen Leary and Patrick Anderson discovered the multimillion ounce Fruta del Norte gold deposit in Ecuador in 2006 — sold the project two years later to Kinross Gold (TSX: K; NYSE: KGC) for $1.2 billion. The exploration geologist has now staked 2,000 sq. km, or 1.5% of Ecuador’s total landmass, in the Cordillera de Cutucu, 90 km north

First Majestic bids for Primero in friendly deal M&A

| Proposal includes stream agreement with Wheaton Precious Metals BY TRISH SAYWELL

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irst Majestic Silver’s (TSX: FR; NYSE: AG) proposed acquisition of Primero Mining (TSX: P) and its San Dimas silver-gold mine would bring the number of its operating silver mines in Mexico to seven. Keith Neumeyer, First Majestic’s president and CEO, said the friendly, all-share deal would take the company’s annual production to 30 million equivalent oz. silver a year, up from the 16.2-million equivalent oz. silver it produced in 2016. “It’s a pretty big chunky asset,” Neumeyer told analysts and investors on a conference call. “This is very much a world-class asset and Durango is our backyard.” See FIRST MAJESTIC / 8

Jean-Paul Pallier (left), Aurania Resources’ vice-president of exploration, and Richard Spencer, president, discussing stream sediment sampling techniques at the Lost Cities-Cutucu gold project in Ecuador.   AURANIA RESOURCES

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“ECUADOR IMPLEMENTED A SUPERTAX THE WAY AUSTRALIA TRIED TO DO THAT KILLED THE MINING INDUSTRY, [BUT] THEY’VE BASICALLY DEFANGED THAT SUPER TAX OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS, AND WE’RE HEARING THAT THE SUPER TAX IS GOING TO BE REVOKED COMPLETELY.” RICHARD SPENCER PRESIDENT, AURANIA RESOURCES

of Fruta del Norte, now owned by Lundin Gold (TSX: LUG; US-OTC: FTMNF), which sits in the adjacent Cordillera del Condor. Barron is hunting for two famous gold-mining areas, or “Lost

Cities” that Spanish documents and maps from the 16th and 17th centuries refer to as Sevilla del Oro and Logrono de los Caballeros. Logrono was considered the richest gold mine in the Spanish Empire

and Barron’s 12 years of research has taken him to libraries in Quito, Lima, Madrid, New York, London and the Vatican in Rome. See AURANIA / 2

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