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Norseman Silver Inc. (NOC:TSX.V; NOCSF:OTCQB): In the process of completing a CA$1.5mm raise, tax-loss selling stragglers have been selling stock after seeing it gap up to CA$0.165 two short weeks ago after announcing the acquisition of the Caballos Copper Project in Chile.

I have spoken to V.P. Exploration Merlin Marr-Johnson in London about the deal, and any time a chap with Merlin's credentials opens with the phrase: "Go BIG or stay home," it immediately catches my attention.

Not to excessively pound tables on the topic, but 2024 is going to be the year that copper dominates the junior exploration and development space. Of all the shortages that have been bandied about since 2020, only uranium and copper have legs. Of the two, uranium juniors have had an excellent 2023 (as has my pick of Cameco Corp. (CCO:TSX; CCJ:NYSE) right after their last earnings report), but the copper juniors have not.

Well, perhaps that is not entirely true. A little penny dreadful called Hercules Silver Corp. (BIG:TSXV) was well ensconced in marketing their well-promoted Hercules Silver property while assuming that the #silversqueeze gang would be all over them when along came hole # HER-23-05 drilled to a depth below the known silver deposits and lo-and-behold, they hit 185 meters of .84% copper with 139 g/t silver and the stock exploded from $.20 to a high of $1.62.

A little firm called Barrick Gold Corp. (ABX:TSX; GOLD:NYSE) bought a boatload of stock at CA$1.10 and today owns a notional 15.03% in the company.

Two things you can take to the bank: Barrick did not BIG for the silver, and Hercules Silver will soon have a name change to "Hercules Copper."

Copper in 2024. . . 


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