Pescod 10/26/10
posted on
Oct 26, 2010 10:17PM
ATHABASCA BASIN: WHERE GRADE IS KING!
HATHOR EXPLORATION (V-HAT) $2.63 +0.31
Okay, we take back that comment about Hathor Explorations
being a dog back when! That goes back a couple of weeks when uranium was starting to move as we noticed uranium prices edging up from a plateau at $40 to $49 and $50, but one story, Hathor, considered by many analysts the premier play in the sector had done just about nothing. All of a sudden, the chart tells you that things are suddenly changing as Hathor responds as a speculator would have hoped for some time ago. Not a dog anymore...maybe a nice puppy, but if some of the analysts are right, expecting $60 and $70 uranium down the road as so many more nuclear reactors come on stream around the world, particularly in China, the sector is starting to attract more attention. Meanwhile, drilling results just released by Hathor also didn’t create much of a stir in the markets but now the market seems to be catching up as well. In the Hard Rock Analyst, the Coffin Brothers write,
Hathor just put out a stunning drill hole from the Roughrider East zone – 7.7% U3O8 over 63.5 metres that included 24.3% U3O8 over 17.5 metres. This confirms the importance of this new zone to the overall scope of the Mideast Northwest project, and puts a 50 million pound potential on the table. It’s logical to assume this is the strongest of the holes from the summer program, and it will now be a matter of seeing what can be added to it. HAT had already announced that it has started a drill program at the separate Russell Lake project that is in the middle of the productive part of the Athabasca basin. If the current up tick of interest in the uranium space continues, HAT should be one of the juniors leading the charge.” Meanwhile, Canaccord analyst Eric Zaunscherb chimes in, writing: “Spectacular Intersection Confirming our Model; Maintaining C$4.50 target and Speculative Buy Rating.” Zaunscherb writes, “Rated SPECULATIVE BUY for exposure to one of the most important high-grade uranium discoveries in the past decade. Release of assay results from Hole MWNE-10-648, the best to-date on the project, is confirming our modeling. The hole delivered 63.5 metres grading 7.75% U3O8 in the heart of the Roughrider East zone on the 90%-owned Midwest NorthEast project, Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan. Hathor Exploration Hathor’s share price has appreciated 27% since the beginning of October, or 55% since the beginning of July, but… • We expect strong news flow as Hathor delivers assays from the summer Midwest NE program, assays from the
Russell Lake project, a Roughrider zone resource update, and an initial Roughrider East zone resource. • Momentum is building in junior uranium equities as the spot price passes through US$50/lb.
C$4.50 target delivers 105% projected return: Our mine model is based on a conceptual 49 million lb resource, valued using a cash flow analysis discounted at 10%.