BMR week in review
Currie Rose Resources (CUI, TSX-V)
The Currie Rose drill is turning in Tanzania, so a summer of interesting action in CUI can be expected…the stock gained a penny-and-a-half last week to 18 cents and got as high as 19.5 cents last Tuesday when news hit the wire that the company has already completed 3 holes at one of its Mabale Hills projects (Sisu River)…CUI‘s first-ever drill program at Sisu River late last year gave reason for encouragement but this time around the plan is to push the holes a little deeper (150 metres or more) in hopes of cutting wider intersections and higher grade…reading between the lines of last Tuesday’s news release, it’s possible the geologists liked what they saw in the first three holes as 506 samples were delivered to a nearby lab for assaying and drilling continued…after more holes are completed at Sisu River, the rig will move about 6 kilometres to the southwest to test targets at Mwamazengo…geochemical analysis has outlined a continuous anomaly over a few hundred metres that runs parallel to the west of a previously reported discovery at Mwamazengo where drill results included notable high-grade intercepts such as 34 metres grading 3.60 grams per tonne gold, 12 metres grading 9.11 g/t Au, 63 metres grading 2.59 g/t Au and 31 metres grading 5.97 g/t Au…Dhahabu, another promising target at Mabale Hills, will be tested in the near future as well…we’re most excited, however, about the Sekenke Project which has “blue sky” written all over it…Sekenke is why we decided to start following CUI when it was trading around a dime last fall…results from satellite imagery provide additional evidence that Sekenke is a highly intriguing geological target and part of the same northwest trending structure that hosts Canaco’s (CAN, TSX-V) Handeni Project…satellite imagery has also shown that the structures at Sekenke are coincident with a strong alteration envelope…what’s unique about this project is that it surrounds and runs in between two former high grade Gold mines including Tanzania’s original producer…this greatly increases the chances of a discovery as it’s unlikely the former mines were fully exploited or explored as techniques a century ago in this industry obviously weren’t what they are today…CUI has a terrific chance to hit it big at Sekenke and we also wouldn’t be surprised if the company takes a shot at acquiring the former Sekenke Mine…that’s speculation on our part but it makes sense from a strategic point of view…pre-drilling exploration work continues at Sekenke to pinpoint the best targets…technically, the stock’s rising 300-day moving average (SMA), currently at 16 cents, has provided rock-solid support throughout the year…CUI’s chart is quite favorable in our view and suggests a breakout above resistance in the low 20's is only a question of when, not if…the 100-day SMA has flattened out since late May and the sure sign of a major reversal is when this turns decisively to the upside…while its Tanzanian properties are the market’s major focus, Currie Rose could also benefit over the summer from continued good exploration news out of Trueclaim Exploration (TRM, TSX-V) which is currently conducting an 8,000 metre drill program at the Scadding Gold Property near Sudbury…Trueclaim, which continues to release encouraging assay results, has earned a 51% interest in Scadding and can acquire a full 100% interest by completing a feasibility study, paying $2 million to Currie Rose, and giving Currie Rose a 3% net smelter royalty…CUI announced a joint-venture deal January 25 with Australian-based Liontown Resources for Currie’s Jubilee Reef GoldProject in Tanzania…CUI’s focus is on the Sekenke and Mabale Hills Projects, so finding a partner for Jubilee Reef made sense…the deal commits Liontown to at least 5,000 metres of drilling at the property this year which will giveCurrie Rose a minimum of 23,000 metres of drilling at all of its properties in 2011…while Currie Rose has had its market cap shaved by more than half, from a high of nearly $40 million late last year to the current $16 million, what hasn’t changed is the quality of this company’s project portfolio which remains as high as ever…Currie Rose has all the cash it needs ($2 million) to complete an initial major round of drilling (10,000 metres) in Tanzania this summer, so there will not be any dilution of the stock at current levels as confirmed by President and CEO Harold Smith…
Adventure Gold (AGE, TSX-V)