- Billionaire investor Eric Sprott has allowed 87,500 common share purchase warrants for Silver Sands Resources to expire unexercised
- The stock is attractive thanks to its flagship project’s proximity to York Harbour Metals’ highly prospective York Harbour project
- Silver Sands Resources is a Canada-based mineral exploration company focused on economic precious and base metal properties in mining-friendly jurisdictions
- Silver Sands Resources stock has given back 45 per cent year-over-year and 89 per cent since December 2019
Billionaire investor Eric Sprott has allowed 87,500 common share purchase warrants for Silver Sands Resources (CSE:SAND) to expire unexercised.
The expiry resulted in a 5.7 per cent reduction in his investment on a partially diluted basis since the date of the last early warning report. The drop trimmed Sprott’s stake to below 10 per cent, meaning he and 2176423 Ontario Ltd., the corporation where he holds the shares, ceased to be insiders of Silver Sands Resources.
Prior to the warrant expiry, Sprott owned 875,000 Silver Sands shares and 87,500 warrants, representing 6.1 per cent of outstanding shares on a non-diluted basis and 6.6 per cent on a partially diluted basis. After the expiry, he now owns 875,000 shares, or 6.1 per cent of outstanding shares on a non-diluted basis.
Why does Eric Sprott own stock in Silver Sands Resources?
From Sprott’s perspective, Silver Sands Resources offers clear reasons for prospectivity thanks to its flagship asset’s proximity to York Harbour Metals (TSXV:YORK), which he also owns stock in, and its eponymous copper-zinc-silver project.
The York Harbour project, 27 kilometres west of Corner Brook, Newfoundland, is home to significant semi-massive to massive volcanogenic sulfide mineralization, including lenses from 1 to 26 metres wide over 600 m of strike length, and new copper-zinc mineralization to the west and south still to be explored.
Company drill highlights include:
- 2.70 per cent copper, 9.04 per cent zinc, 17.78 g/t silver, 164 g/t cobalt and 0.15 g/t gold over 25 m
- 1.69 per cent copper, 0.13 per cent zinc, 1.43 g/t silver and 125.14 g/t cobalt over 9.51 m
Silver Sands’ 6,400-hectare Corner Pocket copper-zinc-silver sulfide project resides 25 km from Corner Brook, and is contiguous to the west, east and south of the York Harbour project. Corner Pocket has seen limited exploration, but benefits from undocumented reports of significant gossans and a high potential of mineral extensions from York Harbour claim blocks, according to Silver Sands’ official website.
Silver Sands Resources is a Canada-based mineral exploration company focused on economic precious and base metal properties in mining-friendly jurisdictions.
Silver Sands Resources (CSE:SAND) opened unchanged, trading at C$0.11 per share. The stock has given back 45 per cent year-over-year and 89 per cent since December 2019.
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