The All Ordinaries Gold Sub-Index (comprising 24 gold stocks) is up 15.44% YTD, a massive 40.1% over the past 12 months, and 27% over the past 5 years
Gold miners begin rolling out FY23 results
Standout small caps of the week: Titan Minerals, Iceni Gold
Our Gold Digger column wraps all the news driving ASX stocks with exposure to precious metals.
Gold continues to slide, extending the downtrend that started in May after the market peaked at US$2030/oz.
Despite that 5% correction to ~US$1916/oz currently, gold is still up 8% over the last 12 months, and 51% over the last 5 years.
That is reflected in the All Ordinaries Gold Sub-Index (comprising 23 ASX gold stocks, and one from the TSX) which is up 15.44% YTD, a massive 40.1% over the past 12 months, and 27% over the past 5 years.
That compares very favourably against the All Ords, which is up 1.7% (YTD), 6.1% (12 month), and 14.2% (5 years). The ASX 200 is up 1.5%, 6% and 12.5% over the same periods.
Here’s a chart showing All Ordinaries Gold Sub-Index outperformance over time:
It pulled 458,000oz out of the Duketon operations in WA and its 30% share of the Tropicana JV, which comes in around the lower end of its 450,000-500,000oz guidance range.
Cash is up $39m as well.
Towards the upper end of guidance was Westgold Resources (ASX:WGX), which delivered 257,116oz at costs anticipated to be in the middle of its $1900-2100/oz AISC range.
Westgold finished FY23 with $192m in the bank after a $24m cash build in the June quarter, up from $190m a year earlier.
A record sales result of 83,540oz powered Silver Lake (ASX:SLR) to a 3% year on year lift in sold ounces to 260,370oz for FY23.
All in sustaining costs are also expected to drop, falling to the lowest level of the year to help SLR hit its $1950-2050/oz guidance range for the year.
That translated to a cash build from $268m to $331m, with the Mt Monger and Deflector operations the standouts.
Consistent performer Alkane Resources (ASX:ALK) meanwhile delivered 70,253oz from its Tomingley mine in NSW for FY23, towards the upper end of its upgraded 65,000-73,000oz guidance range.
It expects costs in the middle of its $1550-1650/oz range.
The company, which is also the owner of the large Boda porphyry discovery in the Lachlan Fold Belt, finished the quarter with $107.2m of cash, bullion and listed investments.
Tietto Minerals (ASX:TIE) shares rose as the freshly minted miner announced it had produced 15,592oz of gold at its new Abujar mine in Cote d’Ivoire, hitting commercial production in the June quarter.
The mine is forecast to ramp up to 105,000-120,000oz at all in sustaining costs of between US$875-975/oz for the second half of 2023.
In WA, Calidus Resources (ASX:CAI) announced it had hit the lower end of six-month guidance for the Warrawoona mine in the Pilbara.
Calidus turned out 31,364oz for the second half of FY23 at an expected $2000-2250/oz AISC.
Red 5 (ASX:RED) has ironed out some of the kinks at King of the Hills, generating 61,705oz for the three months to June 30 and 102,572oz for the half year, towards the top end of its half-year guidance of 90,000-105,000oz.
RED expects all in sustaining costs to be within its $1750-1950/oz guidance range when it reports its financials on July 27.
And fellow fledgling miner Bellevue Gold (ASX:BGL) reported it had a pathway to early cashflows.
Having recently acquired the Gwalia gold mine from St Barbara (ASX:SBM), Finlayson’s Genesis Minerals (ASX:GMD) will use the underfed mill to process around 100,000t of dirt grading 3g/t from Bellevue’s Vanguard open pit.
It will come ahead of the commissioning of Bellevue’s own plant onsite in the December quarter.
TIE, CAI, RED, BGL share price charts
Winners & Losers
Here’s how the ASX-listed precious metals stocks are performing this week:
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TTM unveiled a monster 3.1Moz gold, 22Moz silver maiden resource at the Dynasty project in Ecuador.
That includes a significant high-grade component — 17.3Mt @ 3.77g/t gold, 24.0g/t silver for a contained 2.09Moz gold and 13.33Moz silver.
Over half the resources, positioned along a 9km long corridor, are less than 100m from surface. With less than half the system tested more drilling to add ounces will commence in the coming months, the company says.
“Titan aspires to emulate the success of Lundin Gold Inc. (TSX:LUG) and their world-class Fruta del Norte Gold Project in southeast Ecuador, an epithermal gold-silver intermediate sulphidation system with many similarities to Dynasty and containing Mineral Resources of 9.81 Moz gold and 15.0 Moz silver,” TTM CEO Melanie Leighton says.
“Touted as one of the highest grade, lowest cost mines in the world, Fruta del Norte commenced operation in 2019, and in 2022 total revenue was $841 million.”
TTM acquired Dynasty early 2020 following a bruising 18-month ‘David and Goliath’ battle with Zhaojin Mining; a $30bn, +650,000ozpa Chinese gold producer which also wanted the asset.
Noted nugget finder ICL has identified a new +500m long gold target at the flagship 14 Mile Well project in WA, with rock chip sampling returning a highlight 57.6/t Au.
The target sits along the contact of the ‘Monument Granite’ which has similar prospectivity to nearby granite associated gold deposits like Puzzle, Puzzle North (Genesis Minerals) and Granny Smith (Gold Fields Australia), all within the Laverton-Leonora district.
ICL controls 25km of prospective Monument Granite contact, it says.
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