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Bullboard - Stock Discussion Forum EarthLabs Inc V.SPOT

Alternate Symbol(s):  SPOFF

EarthLabs Inc. is a mining investment, technology, and media company. It provides strategic leverage to the metals and mining sector through investments, royalties and a full suite of data-driven media software-as-a-service tools and services, including CEO.CA, The Northern Miner, MINING.COM, Canadian Mining Journal and DigiGeoData. Its Financial Technology Division (FTD) business vertical... see more

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EarthLabs Inc > Speculation on future business operations
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Post by CamPie on Nov 17, 2020 2:47pm

Speculation on future business operations

If I may be so bold as to speculate on where this company can be taken.

Should the big data machine learning pan out to be more efficient and effective than traditional methods, there are some pretty exciting possibilities.

SPOT should have access to more information than any one explorer. I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility that they branch into exploration themselves after they feel the data is there and the price is right.

Possible scenario:
They are hried to perform their analysis on a set of properties owned by differnt companies in the same region. They combine their data to speculate on deposits outside of these owned regions and or regions owned by struggling companies. They can buy/form a joint venture for cheap and expand the resource base from there.

The major difference from other junior explorer companies is that they already have a revenue stream to cover the exploration costs. Instead of having to do frequent financing, they can just do it on their own terms.
Once enough resource has been established they can sell it to a developer and use the gains to do it again.

I don't expect them to branch out into this line of business anytime soon, but it does seem to fit in the natural progression of things.
Comment by HenoftheWoods on Nov 17, 2020 2:59pm
Very interesting contribution CamPie.  Personally, I would prefer they sell this information to the highest bidder (willing to include royalties, smelter rights, etc.). I like the big margins they could get off of such business. I don't like the cap-ex they would need to pull off a mine.
Comment by BCdude on Nov 17, 2020 4:13pm
I might be misremembering this, but I think I recall reading somewhere that SPOT might consider staking land positions in prospective districts if their AI shows a reason to. Again, from (hopefully accurate) memory, their plan would be to JV the land position rather than spend money to drill it themselves. Basically, they could offer the brains and the tech for a percentage cut and/or royalty, and ...more  
Comment by igold8 on Nov 17, 2020 4:59pm
A couple things check out the XCorp AI news from last Wednesday evening around unlocking value already in the company on this front  and take a look at the biggest shareholder Palisades Goldcorp with 17%, website, experience and strategy is simply spectacular ! Co-founder C. Kettel is also co-founder of SPOT! with such a tight float and heavyweight shareholders in addition E Sprott R McEwen ...more  
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