rankingranking changes all the time. its dynamic with the share price. when AZM was trading between $1.75-$2.00 they were NUMBER ONE. Obviously now that they trade at $4.80 they drop out of the running since they have already made a great run (although mostly on its uranium properties).
Obviosuly, Goldcorp has the mine, but they are $32 a share so who the heck is going to buy Goldcorp to flip it for a few dollars? (not me anyways). So I don't even include them in the ranking of choice companies to buy.
That leaves GZZ, EVR, ER, SOI, and BFD.
The largest landowners are EVR and SOI. GZZ bought its way into the play with a couple options from GZZ and added a few blocks of their own. BFD has a small position and has almost killed the property now with 2 drill programs that have turned up non-economic results. They are dead last on my list.
Some of the remaining companies (ER, EVR, GZZ and SOI) have other things going on, but for this purpose lets concentrate on their Opinica value.
EVR has started to drill already and found success. Inex looks so-so but the Claude (1.4g/t Au over 12 meters) - Manuel (12g/t Au over 4.6 meters) corridor looks like a hot spot and they intend to get the drill working again on this in a couple weeks. They also have huge potential on their other properties in the area they haven't gotten to yet (wildcat 7 looks good and so does the Opinica North B block).
ER has been more methodical, and has elected to take thousands of soil samples to identify 'hot spots' then moved a trench in and would have had some pretty yummy results to release (in my opinion) but the winter season came to quick for them and covered all but 2 of the trenches with snow before they could channel them. Consequently, only one area was discovered (1.5g/t Au over 16 meters at JT) prior to winter setting in. They are likely going to sit tight now until the winter is over, then get in as soon as they can to sample the other 15 or so trenches. I am excited to hear what they get in trenches 1A, 1G, 2A, 2E, 2F, 4A and 6A especially. These trenches all lie over strong arsenic/gold soil anomalies.
GZZ concentrated most of their efforts to date on the Cheechoo A block next to BFD. They have found some gold and copper in place and the property is now drill ready, but i like this property the least. They have just begun exploring Cheechoo B and after a first pass have come up with 3 new gold showings. One of them (Marchand - 12g/t Au grab) looks pretty good and they have followed the structure for about 400 meters.
SOI has just started ground work on Kukames and have located a 7km long mineralized corridor grading up to 3.8g/t Au. Their are atleast 5 or 6 other areas on this large property that have gold in soil trends. Some of the largest in the whole camp are within this block (or on GZZ claims that they have staked around).
For sheer exploration potential, size of land holdings, number of unexplored targets, and market cap value i would rank these juniors as such:
1) SOI
2) GZZ
3) EVR
4) ER
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