Overview
Copper’s shocking efficiency in 2021 makes many market watchers count on its costs to stay excessive and provide to get tighter within the coming many years. “Copper is an effective factor to personal,” stated Barrick Gold (TSE:ABX) CEO Mark Bristow. Regardless of being a part of one of many world’s largest gold mining corporations on the earth, Bristow (amongst different mining companies) has apparently named copper a metallic of curiosity for future progress. In the meantime, Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) World Head of Commodities Analysis Jeff Currie went so far as calling “copper the brand new oil.”
Whereas China is already trying to broaden its publicity to copper provide, specialists predict China will supply a big portion of its copper provide from Belt and Highway nations like Mongolia.
Mongolia has among the finest up and coming mining economies on the earth, with an estimated $1 to $3 trillion {dollars} in mineral wealth and a mixed billions of confirmed sources in copper, coal, iron and different metals. With present exploration and mining licences accounting for lower than 5 p.c of the geological survey, it’s clear Mongolia presents traders and mining corporations with a largely untapped supply of high-demand metals.
Aranjin Assets (TSXV:ARJN) is a Toronto-based mining exploration and useful resource firm working out of Mongolia, with specific deal with copper. The mix of the corporate’s sturdy management crew in addition to its work within the untapped, however mineral wealthy Mongolia places Aranjin Assets in a possible place to enormously revenue off its operations.
Aranjin Assets presently has three energetic mining tasks, with majority shares in every of the tasks. The primary is the Sharga Challenge, positioned in Sharga Soum of Gobi Altai Province (roughly 80 km away from town of Altai and 20 km away from roads connecting Altai to China).
The Sharga Challenge consists of over 9,000 hectares, with important prior explorations and surveys. The second is the Bayan Undur Challenge, positioned in Bayan Undur Soum of Bayankhongor Province. The Bayan Undur challenge consists of 4 mining licences issued for a thirty 12 months interval and has had $10 million in earlier exploration already utilized. The third is the Baruun Tal Challenge, positioned within the South Gobi Copper Province. The Baruun Tal Challenge is positioned close to a number of different tasks and well-positioned, offering the challenge with already accessible sources and infrastructure.
Past geography, there are a number of causes as to why Aranjin Assets is a doubtlessly enticing possibility for traders. Its administration crew is close to unmatched with respect to mining operations in Mongolia, with members of the crew having been concerned in Hunnu Coal (which achieved an exit worth of $500 million) and Steppe Gold (Mongolia’s prime gold producer). Moreover, administration and the board management 50 p.c of the excellent shares of Aranjin, offering them with funding within the firm’s success.
Aranjin just lately entered right into a time period sheet settlement for an exploration three way partnership with ION Power (TSXV:ION,OTC:IONGF) granting each other reciprocal exploration rights on their respective exploration licences inside Mongolia. In keeping with a press launch, each ION and Aranjin will leverage each other’s experience of their respective metals, with Aranjin being granted a proper to discover ION’s properties for base metals (together with copper, lead, zinc, nickel, cobalt and related metals), and ION being granted a proper to discover Aranjin’s properties for lithium.
Firm Highlights
- Aranjin Assets is a Canadian firm working out of Mongolia with specific deal with copper.
- Aranjin Assets has three tasks:
- The Sharga Challenge is positioned in Sharga Soum of Gobi Altai Province. Vital prior work was performed within the challenge, with a number of excessive grade copper targets, in depth rock chip samples and tens to a whole bunch of kilometers of geological surveys.
- The Bayan Undur Challenge is positioned in Bayan Undur Soum of Bayankhongor Province. This challenge has important prior work, together with however not restricted to a whole bunch of drill holes and a floor magnetic survey that coated your complete space.
- The Baruun Tal Challenge is positioned in South Gobi Copper Province, with proximity to profitable close by coal, copper and gold mines (together with Tavan Tolgoi and Oyu Tolgoi) and established infrastructure.
- The corporate contains a confirmed administration crew with a longtime observe file on the subject of mining in Mongolia.
- Aranjin entered right into a three way partnership settlement with ION Power for reciprocal exploration rights on their respective exploration licences inside Mongolia.
Key Initiatives
Sharga Challenge
The Sharga challenge is positioned within the Sharga Soum of Gobi Altai Province and is Aranjin Assets’ main challenge. Vital prior work was performed within the challenge, with a number of excessive grade copper targets, in depth rock chip samples and tens to a whole bunch of kilometers of geological surveys.
Challenge Highlights
- Drill Gap Outcomes: On the East Prospect of the Sharga Challenge, Araniin Assets introduced a finest consequence (of 6 drill holes, totaling 2211 meters) of 15.4 meters at 1.33 p.c copper and 0.94g.t gold.
- SH-2: 54.1 meters at 0.27 p.c Copper and 0.35g/t Gold, together with 7.7 meters at 1.04g/t Gold and a pair of.9 p.c Zinc.
Bayan Undur Challenge
The Banyan Undur challenge,positioned in Bayan Undur Soum of Bayankhongor Province,consists of 4 mining licences, with an issuance interval of thirty years, and over 2,773 hectares of land.
Challenge Highlights
- Historic Analyses: There was $10 million and 1000’s of geochemical and laboratory analyses in earlier challenge work.
- Floor Magnet Survey: A floor magnetic survey coated your complete challenge space, at a distance of 125.2 m complete.
- Geochemical Sampling: 1,973.52m3 of trenching with 137 channel samples, 57,446.8m (546 drill holes) and RC drilling with 14,215 core samples.
Baruun Tal Challenge
The Baruun Tal Challenge is positioned within the South Gobi Copper Province. The Baruun Tal Challenge has the benefit of being positioned in a well-defined mining jurisdiction and a historical past of profitable mines together with the Tavan Tolgoi and the Oyu Tolgoi.
Challenge Highlights:
- Developed Infrastructure: The Baruun Tal Challenge is positioned near important infrastructure, together with however not restricted to, roads and direct entry to the Chinese language border.
- Close by Rivals: There’s a historical past of profitable mining operations and rivals close by, together with Rio Tinto’s Oyu Tolgoi mine.
Rock Chip Sampling Outcomes: Rock chip sampling outcomes revealed a highest copper grade of 14.5 p.c copper with over 90 samples revealing better than 1 p.c copper.
Administration Group
Ali Haji – President and CEO
Ali Haji collectively serves as CEO & Director of ION Power, a lithium brine explorer in Mongolia and is proudly a member of the household of corporations that features Steppe Gold, Mongolia’s premier gold producer. Haji has over 13 years of worldwide expertise, together with asset administration, danger evaluation and program governance. He serves as Director of Antler Hill Mining Ltd and as Advisor to ATMA Capital Markets. He holds a Bachelor of Sciences from the College of Western Ontario.
Matthew Wooden – Govt Chairman
Matthew Wooden has 30 years of worldwide trade expertise in mining and commodities investments. Wooden was the founding father of Hunnu Coal Restricted, which offered for ~A$500M (2011). He was additionally the Chairman of the TSX predominant board listed Steppe Gold (TSX:STGO). Wooden was awarded the Order of the Polar Star, the best state honour that may be awarded to a non-citizen of Mongolia.
Jeremy South – Chief Monetary Officer and Govt Director
Jeremy South has over 35 years of expertise in M&A, capital markets and personal fairness in Europe, North America and Australia, together with senior positions in funding banking at Deutsche Financial institution, NatWest Markets and Deloitte. For 10 years ended December 2016, South was World Chief, Mining M&A Advisory at Deloitte. Based mostly in Beijing for 4 years, he suggested main Asian buying and selling homes and monetary traders in mining M&A, financing and technique and he counted a few of Asia’s largest corporations as shoppers. He labored extensively in Mongolia over the previous 8 years.
Solongo Gunsendorj – Govt Director
Solongo Gunsendorj is a Mongolian nationwide with appreciable expertise within the sources sector throughout a spread of commodities together with copper, gold, coal, iron and hydrocarbons. Gunsendorj is an govt at boutique Mongolian funding agency Garrison Capital Growth (GCD). She presently acts as a Company Secretary of Steppe Gold Ltd, a Mongolian treasured metals firm listed on the TSX.
