RE:RE:RE:RE:Sprott Mining Inc. - Likely NFG Acquirer....?Retiredgeo wrote: Think white collar instead of blue collar. Sprott mining is in the same business as Crescat Capital and Palisades. It provides seed money and advice. It buys and sells. It facilitates and probably disrupts as well. It does not mine. It lets others do that.
Eric is the "beneficial owner" of Sprott mining, meaning, it his personal corporation for his personal benefit. Depending on how he moves things around Sprott mining might already own 31% of NFG. Eventually, it will own 51%. He will still need a third party to do the actual mining.
You could be right Retired. All I know about Sprott Mining Inc. is what I read on their website.
However, one difference I did notice between Palisades / Crescat and Sprott Mining is:
The Palisades' website makes it clear they are simply investors in numerous publicly-traded companies' common shares and/or hold warrants and/or options with these publicly-traded companies. e.g., NFG, LAB, NKG, SPOT, etc.
According to their website, Crescat appears to be a kind of mutual fund company (Hedge Funds, Precious Metals Funds) which also suggests they go long or short on different publicly-traded companies and employ other strategies a typical hedge fund would enact to mitigate risk, but like Palisades, not take whole publicly-traded companies private.
Coveresely, Sprott Mining specifically states that their goal is to acquire, build, and manage producing mining assets. To me, "acquire" means buy out whole companies, and "build and manage" means hiring the contractors, engineers, sourcing the building materials, etc. to build mines - basically overseeing the mining operations like any other gold producer would, but as a private company, not a publicly-traded one like ABX, AEM, or NGT. Further, the way I interpret things anyway, if Sprott Mining instead stated they "Invest in" instead of "Acquire", it would imply simply purchasing common shares of varous publicly-traded companies, like Palisades does for example.
I googled Sprott Mining and could not find any additional information on it, so what Sprott Mining states on their website is all I have to go on. Also, the Sprott Mining website has "(c) 2021" indicated at the bottom of their single web page, so it looks like this is a relatively new company. This, combined with the fact that it's a private company and thus won't be traded on public exchanges, and Eric Sprott already owns common shares either in his own name and already has a privately owned numbered company which he uses to buy common shares of publicy-traded companies makes me wonder why he would need another one that will do the same thing...?
Again, you could be right about this as the Sprott Mining website is not clear on this point.
I guess time will tell......