Market Update

General - Strike ( I am sorry! ) - Resolute

Good afternoon

Credit Growth in China is still strong, pointing to an ongoing recovery. PPI in US stronger than expected, but seems well in hand year-on-year.

German economic advisors cut their GDP estimate for this year and next…-5,4% and + 4,7% ( from -4,2% and + 5,8% ). Government is using -5,8% and +4,4%

Gold bounced again off a low of 1882 early in Asia, to 1905 currently. The US$ is slightly weaker - or better: slightly less strong! Base metals are up - especially nickel by nearly 2% to a new, recent high of 15315 US$ or nearly 7 US$lb. . In A$-terms, that´s 21343 or a very respectable 9,67A$/lb!! My friends at Panoramic would make very god money on that, if in production already!

Strike Energy - announced a problem with the drilling gear today…They believe, that it has been rectified, but you never know these things until you really know! I hpe and at this stage assume, that they will announce tomorrow or latest by Friday, that the well is drilling ahead as planned. A failiure wuld do nthing to the resource - but could well do some damage like 10 mill$ or so. Never good! In any case, a time delay of one week or so.

Resolute - announced the outcome of a prefeasibility study into mining Tabakaroni , where the open pit is finished, as an underground mine., The current resource ( before some very strong drilling results announced today ) is estimated to have a resource of 7,4 millt at 4,4 g for just over 1 mill z of gold. Resolute expects 80.000z of yearly production for an initial 4 years. That is very meaningful for RSG…the fact, that the stock did not do anything today is an indication of the credibility problem they have with investors. Today in Kalgoorlie they stated, that the underground at Syama is now at full production at expected grades - the market does not seem to believe them!

Have a nice evening

WS

General - West African

Good afternoon

European equities are taking a breather today, as Johnson & Johnson is als halting testing of it´s vaccine. Johnson & Johnson, JPM, Black Rock and Citi with strong results. Expectations for Amazons´s Prime Day are, that they will shoot out the lights!

Chines exports last month were booming ( +9,9% in US$ ) and imports even more so ( + 13,2% yoy). Amazing numbers, driven by the fact, that manufacturing is very strong in the more-or-less corona-free economy. Car sales were also surging - +7,4% yoy and including 138.000 EV´s! A European research body expects a doubling of EV sales in Europe this year to about one million cars , and 1.8 mill or nearly 15% of total car sales in 2021. The news for EV´s are getting stronger every day - copper/nickel and especially lithium will profit! It´s still early days - but numbers are growing extremely strongly, and demand for batteries etc will be so strong, that price rises for these commodities are inevitable??

Investor Confidence is Germany is falling much stronger than expected , as corona numbers are surging! The CPI is falling in by 0,4% in Europe, as expected - in the US, it was rising by 0,2% - also as expected. Bonds are stronger today - in Germany and Switzerland, governments are charging you about 0,55%p.a., if you want to lend them any money! As people hate that, especially young people are increasingly buying stocks…at least you have the chance to make some profit!

Base metals are mixed today in a quiet market, with gold weaker ( 1891 as I am writing ) and the US$ is up. Gold came under heavy pressure as soon as the US CPI had been announced.

West African Resources - presented at Diggers & Dealers. The company poured 45.000 z of gold in the Quarter, which was up strongly from the previous Quarter. But only 22.000t were prduced from underground! Covid is making travelling very difficult, still, and at least initially, the underground mine needs more expat-labor relatively to the open pot. The market was worried about this and sold the stock down from yesterday´s fresh alltime high. I personally think, that it´s more important, that grades from the initial undergrund hit target of 10,5g/t. Richard Hyde is still forecasting strongly rising production this Quarter, and next , as more personell has been made available. Still - a small disappointment , just as shares were making new highs - never good, but I am not worried about a few month here or there to fire up the underground to full speed! The plant continues to perform ahead of expectationsI have not even tried to speak to Richard, though, as Diggers & Dealers is in full swing! Late this year, the company will present the Life-Of-Mine plan, as well as an updated resource, especially for the underground resource. Initial drilling here has been very positive and I think life f the underground mine will almost certainly be extended, possibly to 10 years.

Apollo Consolidated - Roxgold announced another round of exciting results from Seguela, which is subject to a royalty, owned by Apollo. 25m with 7,4g / 18.8m with 8,8g are certainly results, from which y0u would expect an increase of reserves. As I said befoore - the value of the royalty got to approach 20 mill A$ fast! that´s of an enterprise value of about 71 mill A$ - so pretty significant and underlining the value in AOP, which themselves have a resource of 1 mill oz+ with Lady Rebecca in Western Australia. It´s hard to find better value than in AOP in my universe, I think!

Have a nice evening!

WS

General - Evolution - Strike (again!)- Panoramic - Centaurus - Poseidon

Good afternoon

risk-on continous too be on! Despite US interest rates rising somewhat last week, to 0,77% for the 10 year-bond from as low as 0,51% by the end of July. Equities are stronger across the board, led by Nasdaq.

Base metals are little changed, and gld is down a few$, with also little change in currencies today.

The Diggers & Dealers in Kalgoorlie started today, with 1850 delegates…all from Western Australia, as the borders to other states are still locked! There is no corna anymore in WA, and also there are no restrictions except for travel!

No major news on day 1, as the attention is still on the very large NST/SAR merger and it´s potential ramifications - the most tipped next target is Bellevue.

Nickel miners and explorers continue to get a lot of attention - especially Centaurus, Nickel Mines, Poseidon and Mincor.

Evolution announced their Quarterly production, which at 170.000 oz at 1198 A$ AISC and All-In-Costs of 1663 A$/oz ( incl sustaining capotal, grwth capital, royalties, G&A - so really everything except for tax ). Despite div-payments of 154 Mill A$, net debt decreased to a residual 180 Mill A$ ( from 196 Mill ). Looks like a good Quarter - full details later, once the full report has been released on the 27th.. The company has now applied for license for the new underground mine at Cowal, which should incease production by about 20% p.a.

Strike - have secured the large rig, which is currently being used for the West Erregulla wells, for anther 3 wells to be drilled in 2021 at the Walyering discovery ( 50% ventured out to Talon Petroleum ) and South Erregulla ( 100% owned by Strike ). These wells are targeting a potential resource of 1686 PJ ( Strike´s share ), which is roughly as large as the West Erregulla discovery! Following interpretation of recent 3D-work, Strike is giving South Erregulla a 57% chance of success. These two assets to be drilled ( and being the perator ) differentiate Strike from Warrego. Still - as this concept remains to get proved, I think Strike are cheap, and Warrego probably very cheap! I hear, that the current placement of Warrego is going very well. Stock should relist on Wednesday.

Panoramic - announced the sale of the Panton PGM project. In a way, this is a pity - but having said that, fr example Macquarie attributed zero value to it in recent research. The sale proceeds of 12 Mill A$ ( once due diligence is finished, latest by early Dec ) for 80% of the project, and potentially another 3 Mill A$ for the last 20% no later than 6 month after that should ensure, that the ramp-up to full production of Savannah can be done relatively easily with some bank-financing! The market is currently nt paying all that much fr fundamentals , but loves exploration. I therefor hpe, that the current drilling will deliver some juicy results, and that the company will also increase the exploration budget by 1-2 Mill$ for a few more holes! The stock remains to cheap - definitely in relative terms!

Centaurus - announced a number of excellent exploration results from their Jaguar Project in Brazil: 45m with 1,36% Ni/ 11m with 1,96% , 27m with 0,9% Ni frm step-out drilling - 45m with 1,07% Ni/30m with 0,93% Ni from jaguar Central - various results arund 10m with around 1% Ni frm drilling at Jaguar North. At the Onca Deposit, they hit 6,3m with 3.2% Ni. All the aove holes also show some values for copper and cobalt. Jaguar is really shaping up as a potentially large project, with a resource of 48mt at 1,08% Ni fr 517.000t of contained nickel, which also includes a high garde resurce of 20.6 mt at 1,56% Ni for 321.000t. The above results will add to this…and it´s not too hard to see a 30.000t p.a. project shaping up here. The stock has had a pretty good run ( I sold my stock to early ), but with those kind of results as above, there should still be room!

Poseidon - have a few DHEM-conductors at their Black swan deposit, which recently had some spectacular intersections like 9m with 10,5% Ni and 7.5m with 8,8% Ni. DHEM conductors have proved to be a very succesfull indicatior for nickel deposits in Western Australia and elsewhere. The stock reacted very strongly to the news. POS are currently drilling to test the first DHEM. I have to say, that POS are not that cheap vs say Panoramic - but in case of successfull drilling, they would probably go higher!

Have a nice evening!

WS

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General - Liontown - Strike

Good afternoon!

By early afternoon, European equities are slightly up, as are US-futures.

The US$ is slightly weaker - goold is profiting with a convincing move to currently 1927 US$ or 2670 A$/oz.

Base metals are very strong today, driven by a strong PMI today in China - especially nickel and copper. Nickel is probably also profiting from Vale not being able to find a buyer for it´s lossmaking nickel operations in New Caledonia, which will most probably lead to the closure of Goro by the end of this year. To my knowldege, that will remove abut 30.000t from the supply side.

Liontown - what a beauty of an updated feasibility study! Kathleen Valley is expected t produce 350.000t p.a. of 6% lithium spodumene frm early 2025 ( by that time, most analysts expect a shortage of lithium ), at costs of 260 US$/t before royalties, for 40 years! No hard rock mine in the world other than Greenbushes can produce as cheap as them! And even at current,depressed prices for lithium, this mine would make money! The company is using the Roskill forward estimates as pricing - that´s 739 US$/t and sounds realistic to me, and a currency of 0,72 AUD/US$ - probably als realistic. On that basis, the project will generate 4.8 bill$ in free cash flow over it´s mine life, has a NPV of 1,12 billA$ and an IRR of 37%.

This is a large project, and it´s based on one of the top 3/4 hard rock deposits worldwide in terms of size, at excellent grades. The company will incorprate a potential doubling of size into the final feasibility study, which should be finished by the end of 2021. A scoping study, to produce not only lithium spodumene, but lithium hydroxide, will also be conducted.I think this project is large enough to be of interest to the big boys!

Via Liontown, investors also have exposure to exploration for a Julimar (Chalice ) look-a-like, called Moora. I think LTR can still go quite a bit higher from here - and very much so in comparison to Piedmont! My fund stays a happy holder here! This is a worldclass project, in terms of size, costs and general quality!

Strike - and another, very exciting announcement: The company secured up to 28 mill A$ in project financing from Macquarie Bank, at “very competitive terms”. I can only guess - 6%?? On top of that, Macquarie receives 35 Mill 29ct-options 2022! Effectively, this equals small dilution of existing holders, at a premium - and of the 28 Mill A$ in debt, about 10 mill A$ can be repaid from the potential issue of new shares at 29ct. This is a great step forward for Strike, which is now fully financed for the important wells West Erregulla 3, 4 and 5, which are to finished by about mid-year 2021 - perhaps a little earlier, as well as for the ordering of some long lead items for the production facility.

The financing also shows the extreme confidence in the project by the financier! I guess STX might have moved through 30ct today, if not for the fact, that Warrego is suspended today for a placement ( to finance it´s part of the next 3 wells ). Investors can effectively buy into the same project via Warrego, which is a 50% partner in West Erregulla, and - while not being the operator , it is is priced substantially lower than Strike.

Should the next two wells deliver to expectations - which is highly probable - Strike will prove cheap, and Warrego very cheap, based on West Erregulla! I am continuing to hold a maximum-position in STX, and a smaller one in WGO! Strike has the added potential from it´s Southern acreage as well.

Have a nice weekend!

WS

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General - Strike/Warrego - St.Barbara - Bellevue

Good afternoon

Equities continue their race, undeterred by all the lamento surrounding the election, the debate or Trump´s behaviour. It seems that Biden is increasing his lead in the polls….Trump answering with his Twitter account like a man on steroids! Gold is up by a few $ - despite a strengthening US$ - base metals are mixed ( copper slightly down after strong move up yesterday, and nickel/zinc stronger )

Some very bad corona-numbers from Europe ( France adding 18.000 cases, Germany more than 4.000, UK 14.000 ) and the US ( 50.000 ), while Australia is adding only between 15-and 30 ( yes! ) new cases/day!

Initial Jobless Claims in the US only down fractionally….

The Top1% of Americans have a combined net worth of 34 trillion, while the poorest 50% have a net worth of 2.08 trillion! Amazing and not good. These numbers are less pronounced, but similar in most countries. The question arises, for how much longer the top 1% can eat their 500g-steak in piece! Capitalism has to find an answer t this pressing problem , before it´s too late!

BWM sold 55.000 EV´s last Quarter - big and rising number, certainly helped by subsidies. China car sales fr all German automotive companies have been very strong, rising by about 20% !!

Strike / Warrego - have executed a binding Heads of Agreement for joint development of West Erregulla, including marketing. They have also agreed on increased capacity of 80 TJ/ gas per day. This is more important, than it looks at first glance! So many JV´s have failed, because the partners did nt get on with each other - and often with harsh, financial implications. The partners initially have had a very difficult relationship, but that has changed over the last few month - partially because oof new people involved on the WGO-side. Drilling of the well is continuing. I am hearing the opinion, that the current well has a chance of 60-70% success, while the next one 90% ( due to drill location ). In any case, there should be gas - the question is, how much. We will need to wait another few weeks for indications/results.

Bellevue - yet another strong round of drilling results! BGL disovered a new lode, with results of 4.6m with 14g/1.9m with 58g/2.3m with 27g and so on , over 450 m of strike length - so this might well be meaningful fr the next resource update in a few month time. East of Deacon Star, two very deep hles discoverd what might turn into a secnd new lode. The company plans to spend another 35 mill over the next 15 month on exploration. Development to access the old shaft system, to enable drilling from underground, is also making very good progress. The stock is not that cheap - but exploration cntinues to deliver, and the highly aquisitive NST/SAR camp is in easy trucking distance!

St Barbara - produced 73.000 oz last Quarter, vs 108.600 in the previous Quarter. That´s pretty shocking …Gwalia only produced 22.600 oz, destructed by a fall of ground in 1600m depth. But this had been announced before, and still, the numbers were lower than estimated. The company still claims, that they can make up fr it in the current Quarter - but obviously, this remains to be seen and have my doubts!

Have a nice evening

WS

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