The Globe and Mail reports iThe Globe and Mail reports in its Thursday, April 6, edition that Canaccord Genuity analyst Michael Fairbairn is sticking with his "speculative buy" call for i-80 Gold. The Globe's David Leeder writes in the Eye On Equities column that Mr. Fairbairn, however, gave his share target a boost to $6 from $5. Analysts on average target the shares at $5.18. Mr. Fairbairn sees a path for i-80 Gold to "bootstrap production, growing into a Nevada-focused intermediate producer with reasonable external funding needs." Mr. Fairbairn says in a note: "We continue to like i-80 for its 100-per-cent Nevada-based asset portfolio (a top mining jurisdiction per the Fraser Institute), its deeply experienced [and] Nevada-focused management team. ... i-80 Gold had planned to refurbish the Lone Tree autoclave and have three sulfide deposits (Granite Creek, Ruby Hill, and McCoy-Cove) feed the central hub. However, in mid-2022, i-80 Gold made a major base metals discovery at Ruby Hill, and in November, the company released a scoping study analyzing the potential restart of the existing leach circuit at Ruby Hill to process oxide ore and/or convert the oxide plant to a 740tpd base metal flotation facility."