Off the piste in Kalgoorlie, silver proves a gold medal winner with investors

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It has risen because it shares many attributes with gold.\nBut it hasn’t performed as strongly as gold, with the gold: silver ratio back out to 88. Use a ratio of 60 like most silver bugs like to fashion where the silver should be, and it would be more than $US40/oz, which would be nice indeed for the growing ASX silver sector.\nBut all that is really by the by judging by the Sun Silver and Andean presentations at the Hannans Club. The 100-plus who rocked up heard about the fast-evolving new age industrial uses of silver, most notably in solar panels where its extreme conductivity reigns supreme.\nIt is an important theme for the ASX silver sector too because recent share price falls have outpaced silver’s retreat from $32/oz at a time when the supply/demand balance in the market is swinging wildly to the benefit of producers/developers, and explorers, the latter from a market sentiment point of view.\nSun:\nIt was kind of fitting that Sun Silver boss Gerard O’Donovan, originally from County Cork in Ireland, was speaking  at the Hannans Club all these years after a County Clare man, Paddy Hannan, first hit gold at Kalgoorlie.\nO’Donovan noted that the silver market had been in structural supply deficit for the last three years (184 million oz short in 2023) and that because of the rapid growth in demand from solar panels, all of the known silver reserves/resources in the world could be gobbled up by 2050.\nIt is an outlook he his keen to hitch Sun Silver’s wagon to by investigating an opportunity to build a silver paste plant in the US, with both the former Trump and the current Biden administration using tariffs to choke off supplies from China.\nIt is an interesting downstream opportunity to the main event, Sun Silver’s advanced Maverick Springs silver-gold project in Nevada, brought to the market in the company’s May 15 IPO at 20c a share.\nThe stock has come back for its highs when silver was running hot but remains double the IPO price at 40.5c a share for a $51 million market cap.\nMaverick Springs hosts an inferred resource of 125.4Mt grading 43.5g/t silver and 0.34g/t Au for 175.7Moz of contained silver and 1.37Moz of contained gold, or 292Moz of contained silver equivalent all up.\n“But it doesn’t stop there,” O’Donovan said. “We have got massive resource growth potential we are currently working on. It’s a beast and it is only going to get bigger.”\nTo that end, recent extensional drilling has confirmed a high-grade zone (assays pending) outside of the resource to the north-west. \nAndean: \nAndean Silver boss Tim Laneyrie also revved up the Hannans Club crowd on silver being the next growth “commodity”.\n“What people don't usually know is that we consume about 1.2 billion ounces of silver per annum, but we only mine 1 billion,” he said.\nHe said the 200 million ounce deficit was basically being covered by stocks out of the vaults of the LME, COMEX, and Shanghai.\n“(But) there's only five years of vault stocks remaining in the world before we have that deficit actually come to market, and that assumes solar (demand) stays flat,” Laneyrie said.\n“So in the next five years, you can see probably a dramatic increase of silver price to meet that deficit. And if you go by Sprott, it'll be somewhere around $US100/oz an ounce, which will be excellent.”\nAndean’s newbie status as a silver play comes from its February acquisition of the Cerro Bayo silver-gold project in the Aysen region of southern Chile.\nSince the acquisition, the resource has doubled to 5Mt at a grade of 311g/t for 50Moz of contained silver-equivalent. Like Sun Silver, it is not the end of the story.\nLaneyrie said a resource update would be out by the end of September, and there would another one in the December quarter.\nAs previously mentioned here, the project is a former producer of 45Moz of silver and 650,000oz of gold over 15 years before it was put on care and maintenance in October 2022.\nThe former owner sunk an estimated $150 million into the project which comes with its own onsite assay lab, a 500,000tpa treatment plant, power generators, and a tailings dam and more.\nWhile the treatment plant has been kept warm, the growth in the resource is likely to lead to its right sizing.\nAndean (formerly Mitre) is from the Steve Parsons, Ray Shorrocks, and others camp which followed a similar success pathway at Bellevue (BGL) and more recently FireFly (FFM). It’s all about finding an unloved asset with genuine geological upside and hitting it with the drill bit to create serious value.\nThe company is on that pathway now. It last traded at 66c for a $75 million market cap after having raised funds at 20c when it picked up the project. \nVintage/Galilee:\nTalking about Shorrocks, he is no J.R. Ewing of the Australian oil and gas sector. But as executive chairman of a little thing called Galilee (GLL) he does know what makes for a sensible consolidation of juniors in the space.\nSame goes for industry veteran Reg Nelson, chairman of another little thing called Vintage Energy (VEN).\nThe pair have agreed to merge through a scheme of arrangement, with Galilee to receive 2 shares in Vintage for every 1 Galilee, valuing Galilee at 2c a share.\nBoth Shorrocks and Nelson will continue on as directors of the merged company while others will go to keep Vintage at a four-person board.\nThe merger brings together the Eastern States gas production interests of Vintage with the big unconventional gas resource position of Galilee, plus the $2.5m Galilee is raising as part of the marriage.\nThe enlarged group will be better able to compete for investor attention. There should be plenty of that too given Eastern State gas prices. 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