Silver Tiger Metals – Exploration and Development Update Building Towards A PFS At The El Tigre Silver-Gold Project
Glenn Jessome, President and CEO of Silver Tiger Metals (TSX.V:SLVR – OTCQX:SLVTF) joins us for an exploration and development update with work building towards a Pre-Feasibility Study (PFS) on the open-pit mine at the El Tigre Silver-Gold Project in Mexico.
We start by recapping the PEA put out the latter part of last year with those key financial numbers such as NPV, IRR and initial and sustaining capital costs, and how he expects the trends to develop now moving into the PFS. There has been a lot of drilling done to move categories from inferred into indicated, as well as metallurgical testing, preliminary engineering work, permitting, and social licensing. We also discuss the sensitivities to both lower and higher silver and gold prices, and just how robust the initial economics look, at anywhere close to today’s metals prices.
Glenn expands on the bigger picture vision for the company, and how the open pit resource on the oxide and stockwork is just the beginning, and then how the fully permitted underground component fits into the longer-term growth plans for the Company. There will be an initial Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA) on the underground mining slated to be released in the middle of next year.
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- In full disclosure, Shad is a shareholder of Silver Tiger Metals at the time of this recording.
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It’s an interesting question, and one that I’ve also asked Glenn at a conference before. The underground is very high-grade silver and will likely have decades of mine life, but it will be a much larger capex than the open pit. There will be a PEA out on the underground mine in the middle of next year that should be an early indicator that it can stand on it’s own 2 feet.
While they likely could just make a go of the underground as a stand-alone project, they’ll have an easier time raising that capex, and a better cost of capital overall from lenders, if they can get the open-pit going first and start generating revenues from production from the easier to process oxides.
Glenn doesn’t seem concerned about the eventuality of getting the open-pit permits on a brownfields disturbed site.
Curious if currently permitted underground operation would be economically viable if worst case scenario open pit mining ban were put in place?