The Northern Miner August 15 2016 Issue

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BALMORAL RESOURCES Adds to land position in the Abitibi / 3

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Boosts gold stream from Vale’s Salobo / 16

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Odin Mining to buy Ecuador Gold and Copper ECUADOR

| Both juniors comfortable with the improving mining jurisdiction

Sandstorm CEO discusses impact of rising gold prices STREAMING

| Company has US$110M in capital BY MATTHEW KEEVIL mkeevil@northernminer.com VANCOUVER

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or streaming financiers like Sandstorm Gold (TSX: SSL; NYSE-MKT: SAND), this year’s rising precious metal prices are a double-edged sword. The company’s existing streams, royalties and equity holdings have become more valuable, but closing deals has become more competitive, as reborn equity markets offer mining companies alternative capital. On Aug. 3, Sandstorm reported its second-quarter results, which are headlined by operating cash flow of nearly US$9 million and net income of US$5.2 million. The company reported gold-equivalent sales of 12,500 oz., at average cash costs of US$261 per attributable See SANDSTORM / 2 PM40069240

Inspecting drill collars at the Santa Barbara gold-copper prospect, part of Ecuador Gold and Copper’s Condor property in Ecuador, from left (in orange vests): Marshall Koval, Odin Mining’s president and CEO, and Odin directors John Youle and Diego Benalcazar.   ODIN MINING BY TRISH SAYWELL tsaywell@northernminer.com

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n a friendly all-share deal that knits together assets in southern Ecuador, Odin Mining and Exploration (TSXV: ODN), a junior that counts mining entrepreneur Ross Beaty as its largest shareholder, is acquiring Ecuador Gold and Copper (TSXV: EGX), whose Condor project contains millions of ounces of gold and is just 25 km south of Lundin Gold’s (TSX: LUG: US-OTC: LUG) Fruta del Norte project, one of the largest and highest grade undeveloped gold projects in the world. Ecuador Gold and Copper’s concessions in southeastern Ecuador — containing six deposits — are also situated 50 km south of the Mirador copper-gold project, one of the few new sizeable copper

“WE’RE REALLY GOOD AT PORPHYRY COPPER DEPOSITS, AND THE FACT THAT THERE ARE PORPHYRY TARGETS MEANS WE’RE REALLY COMFORTABLE WITH THE GEOLOGY.” MARSHALL KOVAL PRESIDENT AND CEO, ODIN MINING

projects in the world nearing production. Mirador, formerly owned by EcuaCorriente, is now owned by a China’s CRCC-Tongguan Investment, a joint venture between Tongling Nonferrous Metals Group and China Railway Construction Corporation. Over the last two decades, US$50 million has been spent on exploration across Ecuador Gold and Copper’s 82.8 sq. km property, says Heye Daun, the company’s president and CEO, who joined the management team about a year ago “to breathe

new life and fresh vision into the company, restart exploration work and find a strategic partner,” which has culminated in the transaction with Odin Mining. “We have proved up 8 million oz. gold resources but now, in order to take them to the next level, we need a partner with serious technical and financial capacity, and we found that with Odin Mining,” he says in an interview, noting that Odin’s management team stems from Beaty’s Lumina Copper group of companies. “Odin has the Lu-

mina expertise — as well as the financial capacity and technical ability — that’s going to be brought to bear on these projects, and that’s what these projects need. That’s the rationale for this deal.” Condor’s flagship asset, Santa Barbara, is a gold-copper porphyry deposit that contains most of the resources that have been defined so far at the project. In addition to Santa Barbara, Condor hosts copper-molybdenum porphyry mineralization at the El Hito deposit; intermediate sulphidation epithermal gold-bearing diatremes, volcaniclastics and breccia bodies at the Los Cuyes, Emma and Soledad deposits; and the intermediate sulphidation, narrow-vein epithermal system in the Chinapintza deposit, north of Santa Barbara. (Chinapintza was discovered by TVX Gold, a mining company See ECUADOR / 2

CAMECO: CUTS PRODUCTION AMID WEAK URANIUM PRICES / 11

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