While we waitIt has been ages since we have seen a meaningful drill program. I decided to go back and refresh myself on past drill results at La Cigarra. I highlighted some of these results below. The deposit is set up nicely for early stage mining (whenever it eventually goes into production). Quite often, the success of a mine if heavily dependent on early stage production. A new mine needs to achieve commercial production smoothly and within a reasonable timeframe, needs to meet debt convenant requirements and needs to achieve positive cash flow status to begin servicing debt. Any significant breakdowns at the early stages of mine startup could put the mine at risk.
La Cigarra is well structured for early stage mining success, in my opinion. La Cigarra is top heavy (bulk tonnage) deposit. It has a lot of excellent drilled intersections that are near surface. Some of the best grades and widest intercepts are somewhat near surface. La Cigarra is also a very controlled (predictable) deposit and well positioned for open pit.
Hopefully they will be in a position to launch the new drill program in the not too distant future. In the map below, the green dots represent places to be drilled in this upcoming program plus future programs.
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It`s sad for all tenured Northair investors that management of Northair couldn`t do enough to offset the relentless Pinetree/Inwentash selling pressures over the past 1.5 years (going through 15+ million shares) - the Condire Group tried the best they could to buy up some of these dumped shares. Condire also subscribed to the company`s PP to provide financial support. Northair`s share price has gone from $1.00 (at the height in 2011) to a pathetic $.05 per share now. La Cigarra is such an excellent asset. There is no way it should be trading at anywhere near $.05 ($7.5 million market cap), even in a difficult (suppressed and highly controlled) paper silver price market.
Tenured Northair investors have been hammered hard. Hopefully these folks don`t get squeezed out (with massive losses) before the recovery begins. The last 4 years have been a nightmare for everyone in the space. The depressed silver environment is now in the early parts of the 5th year. New people buying in at these levels will make exponential returns once the situation turns. Hopefully tenured investors will have a chance to participate also.
Northair was incorrectly thrown out with the bathwater.
Some of the past drill results at La Cigarra:
San Gregorio Zone
* 80.45m of 123.5 g/t Silver (includes 4.85m of 559.7 g/t Ag)
* 109.9m of 51.3 g/t Ag (includes 51.85m of 81.7 g/t Ag)
* 7.35m of 148.6 g/t Ag
* 53.70 of 87.1 g/t Ag (22.65m of 175.5 g/t Ag)
* 127.55m of 84.6 g/t Ag (includes 20.50m of 328.0 g/t Ag and 4.35m of 278.6 g/t Ag)
* 95.5m of 77.4 g/t Ag (includes 15.60m of 157.6 g/t Ag)
* 136.7m of 80.4 g/t Ag (includes 9.35m of 628.7 g/t Ag and 20.65m of 158.3 g/t Ag)
* 51.45m of 85.7 g/t Ag (includes 13.70m of 239.7 g/t Ag)
* 82.85m of 62.8 g/t Ag (includes 58.40m of 82.6 g/t Ag)
* 51.00m of 52.2 g/t Ag
* 8.20m of 242.9 g/t Ag
* 33.75m of 101.1 g/t Ag
* 16.45m of 127.4 g/t Ag (includes 7.60m of 230.0 g/t Ag)
* 52.25m of 167.0 g/t Ag (includes 34.75m of 241.2 g/t Ag)
* 56.00m of 105.7 g/t Ag (includes 20.90m of 241.0 g/t Ag)
* 39.90m of 52.1 g/t Ag (includes 14.50m of 288.2 g/t Ag)
* 38.90m of 88.2 g/t Ag (includes 17.90m of 170.4 g/t Ag)
* 6.50m of 765.0 g/t Ag
* 8.00m of 178.0 g/t Ag
* 24.20m of 150.9 g/t Ag (includes 10.50m of 317.9 g/t Ag)
* 23.45m of 138.3 g/t Ag
* 115.83m of 58.9 g/t Ag (includes 28.95m of 142.1 g/t Ag and 7.62m of 142.7 g/t)
Las Carolinas Zone
* 60.80m of 114.8 g/t Ag (includes 22.10m of 261.7 g/t Ag and 14.60m of 382.3 g/t Ag)
* 53.3m of 55.5 g/t Ag (includes 15.20m of 134.6 g/t Ag)
* 16.50m of 242.1 g/t Ag
* 23.65m of 82.5 g/t Ag (includes 10.65m of 163.7 g/t Ag)
* 22.95m of 84.9 g/t Ag (includes12.35m of 146.0 g/t Ag)
* 50.15m of 69.4 g/t Ag (includes 35.00m of 91.8 g/t Ag)
* 63.05m of 50.3 g/t Ag (includes 17.25m of 155.2 g/t Ag)
* 40.80m of 52.7 g/t Ag (includes 18.80m of 98.3 g/t Ag)
* 26.00m of 59.9 g/t Ag (includes 13.30m of 106.1 g/t Ag)
* 63.70m of 76.2 g/t Ag (includes 13.40m of 174.3 g/t Ag)
* 45.90m of 90.5 g/t Ag (includes 17.5m of 181.2 g/t Ag)
* 66.80m of 80.2 g/t Ag (includes 10.40m of 336.1 g/t Ag)
* 14.80m of 147.7 g/t Ag
* 59.20m of 54.4 g/t Ag (includes 15.90m of 164.0 g/t Ag)
* 13.10m of 162.5 g/t Ag
* 10.00m of 173.1 g/t Ag
* 13.72m of 61.7 g/t Ag (includes 13.72m of 138.7 g/t Ag)