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Proposed Pala deal undervalues Cobalt 27: Anson Funds
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n June, Cobalt 27 Capital’s (TSXV: KBLT) board agreed to a $501-million takeover offer from Pala Investments, which already owns 19% of the company. Cobalt 27 has a cobalt stream on Vale’s(NYSE:VALE)world-classVoisey’s Bay nickel-copper-cobalt mine in Labrador beginning in 2021; holds an 8.5% joint-venture interest in the producing Ramu nickel-cobalt mine in Papua New Guinea; owns one of the world’s largest stockpiles of physical cobalt; and manages a portfolio of 11 royalties on mineral properties containing battery metals. Under the proposed deal, Cobalt 27 shareholders would receive $5.75 per common share, consisting of $3.57 in cash, plus one share of a newly listed company,Nickel28CapitalCorp.,valued at $2.18 per share. The new entity would be funded with US$5 million in cash and hold Cobalt 27’s interest in the Ramu mine, its royalty portfolio on future projects, and its equity position in Giga Metals (TSXV: GIGA; US-OTC: HNCKF). What won’t be transferred to Nickel 28 are two of Cobalt 27’s most valuable assets — its physical inventory of cobalt and its stream on Voisey’s Bay, both of which Pala will keep. Anson Funds, a long-standing shareholder in Cobalt 27, warns that the deal undervalues the company. The privately held asset manager See PALA / 2
Coro Mining president and CEO Luis Tondo and exploration manager Paola Kovacic at the Marimaca copper project in Chile’s Antofagasta department. PHOTO BY TOM AZZOPARDI BY TOM AZZOPARDI Special to The Northern Miner MEJILLONES, CHILE
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oro Mining (TSX: COP) could soon be building Chile’s newest copper mine. You would think someone would have already looked here. High in the arid hills above the Chilean port of Mejillones, where metal from some of the world’s largest copper operations is shipped to Asia, a mining junior thinks it has found the country’s next mine. Coro Mining is rapidly advancing Marimaca, an expanding copper oxide system with the potential to enter production in less than four years.
A ONCE-IN-A-CENTURY RAINFALL WASHED AWAY DECADES OF DUST TO UNVEIL MOUNTAINSIDES STREAKED WITH THE TELLTALE BRIGHT GREENS AND TURQUOISES. “We are already attracting the attention of large mining companies with whom we could form a joint venture,” the company’s Brazilian president and CEO Luis Tondo told reporters on a recent visit to the site. Lower and older than the Andes, northern Chile’s coastal range is one of the world’s most prolific copper districts. Nearby mines include Glencore’s Lomas Bayas mine, the 60-year-old
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Mantos Blancos operation, now owned by Mantos Copper, and Haldeman Mining’s Michilla. But geological prejudice meant most mining companies wrote off Marimaca’s potential to host significant mineralization, despite decades of artisanal mining activity in the area. As almost all copper discoveries See CORO / 8
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