There’s a bear market in junior mining stocks today.
Investors are afraid and that overshadows everything. It’s making great projects cheaper and it overshadows some great new discoveries.
You need look no further than the market’s response to good news lately. Take Vizsla Silver Corp.'s (VZLA:NYSE American) latest press release for example.
On Monday, June 21st, the company announced a drill hole of 1,030 grams per ton silver equivalent over 20.45 meters. That’s fantastic news and should have prompted a jump in the share price. Here’s what the stock did (image on the left).
Another example is Arizona Sonoran Copper Co. Inc. (ASCU:TSX), which announced hitting 1.32% copper over 479 feet on June 23rd. The press release was excellent…and investors greeted that news with selling as well.
In both cases, the results created real value for the shareholders. And in a rational market, the announced results for both of those companies would result in higher share prices.
But today, we have a “risk-off” market. And good news receives higher selling volumes. Owners use any news to dump shares and run.
That put huge downward pressure on prices across the junior mining sector. But it creates an opportunity for investors who understand the cyclicality of natural resource markets.
And while current shareholders bemoan this situation, the rest of us should be licking our chops. Because some exciting projects just keep getting cheaper and less risky, from a price perspective.
Take this little exploration company Cross River Ventures Corp. (CRVC:CSE; CSRVF:OTC; C6R:FWB) in Ontario, for example.
Back in March 2022, I wrote about several exciting gold projects in the Red Lake Region of Ontario. Called “The Nevada of the North,” Red Lake is a current darling of major gold companies looking for new projects.
In the essay, I pointed to two tiny companies preparing to drill…and one of them paid off. As I mentioned in that essay, Cross River Ventures Corp ran its first drill campaign on its McVicar project this past winter. The results were better than expected. The program hit high-grade gold in its maiden drill program at the Bear Head zone.
The high-grade gold in BH-02 appears to be part of a vertically plunging structure, as you can see below.
This structure outcrops on surface and carried gold in holes BH-03 and BH-02. In BH-02, the core held visible gold:
This is tremendous results for such a tiny company. And it’s a brand new, grassroots gold discovery in Red Lake.
The company released the news on June 16th that it hit 41.1 g/t gold over 0.5 m with visible gold in the core. That’s an excellent result for the very first drill program.
And, as expected, the market sold the company off, as you can see below.
Cross River is a tiny company. And in a normal market, the Bear Head Zone discovery would have sent shares soaring higher.
But this market is brutal. And that gives us a chance to pick up shares at a deep discount.
Cross River Ventures holds a highly prospective 11,500-hectare project on the Lang Lake greenstone belt, just east of Red Lake. The rocks looked like a fantastic area to explore. But now they have a high-grade gold discovery on their first set of holes. And are currently waiting for the rest of their drilling results to come in.
It’s the kind of exploration story often swallowed by the shock of a bear market.
A tiny company finds high-grade gold, and no one noticed. That’s why I’m telling you now. The story is great, the stock is cheap, and the rocks are exciting.
Cross River Ventures is one to keep an eye on.
Reach Matt Badiali at www.mangroveinvestor.com.
Matt Badiali is the founder and CEO of Mangrove Investor Media, an independent investment research publisher. He is a geologist by education, an investment analyst by profession, and a writer by nature. He began researching and writing about natural resource investments in 2004. His research appeared in Bloomberg, Barron’s, The Wall Street Journal, and Forbes. He’s an avid surfer, boater, and fisherman. You can find him at www.mangroveinvestor.com.
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