A GEM in Canada, Pele Mountain Returns to the “Uranium Capital of the World”

By: Peter Spina, Founder UraniumSeek.com

-- Posted Wednesday, September 19 2007 | Digg This Article | Discuss This Article - Comments:

There is a great global hunt for new uranium discoveries. Hundreds of exploration companies are on the march throughout the world staking claims, sinking drills into the ground, analyzing rock and are all hopeful of the assay results.  The great uranium grab continues with the price remaining strong near $100/lb, after the long overdue correction. The resulting reaction was a sharp decline in most uranium stocks. Some of these investments deserved their price haircut with lofty valuations. Others were never fairly valued and consequently provide investors with an excellent opportunity at this time.

Varied forecasts for uranium still hold prospects for another run back to $150/lb or higher. Should prices just stabilize after this pullback; a $100/lb price will create some enormous profits for the first group of companies to bring in new mine supply. Once the highly imbalanced and growing demand worldwide is satisfied, the U₃O₈ price may begin to ease. After this period, the lowest risk-reward profits will have been made. How many years until this event occurs is debatable, but until such time, one of my most favored advanced-staged uranium properties continues to remain under the radar screens despite their 33 million pounds of uranium, in addition to their other ‘gems’.

When I take a look around the uranium field, I have come across several potential investment choices. Some with interesting properties and others with strong cash flow models.  In the more speculative investment class where large fortunes have been created before, the exploration activity is at historic levels. There should be a period upcoming with multiple discoveries of mineable deposits that will generate a buzz among this sector-class. Should there be a major discovery then expect speculative capital to flood the sector. Yet investors need not to take on unnecessary risks when there are investment choices that are well-advanced in their exploration programs and are trading at low market valuations.

Key Highlights:

• Excellent Leverage to Uranium
• Uranium NI 43-101 Resources: 33.05 million lbs
• Scoping Study Out Shortly
• Stock Symbol: TSX-V: GEM
• Shares: 72M | Fully Diluted: 81.2M ($6.5M Cash on Exercise)
• $4M in Cash | No Debt
• 12 Month Price Target: $2+

Pele Mountain Resources is a Canadian-based company which I have invested and followed for many years. In late 2006, the company’s exploration portfolio took on a major addition – the largest prospect addition yet to their project mix. What became immediately attractive to me when the news broke were the location, the size, the potential, and the leverage of the property. To top it off, uranium was still under $50/lb and about to accelerate its move to and past the $100 mark.

This past June, I went to investigate Pele’s new uranium property in Ontario. I spent some time with Pele’s management team in Toronto and proceeded to Elliot Lake. For those who are unfamiliar with Elliot Lake, one only needs to know this significant uranium fact: Between 1955 to 1989, this “uranium capital of the world” produced over 300 million pounds – at one point home to 11 mines and over 25,000 miners!  There is no better place to add value than a past producing area.

Covering over 20,000 acres, adjacent to several past producing uranium mines, Pele’s uranium property consists of 447 mining claims. Oh yes, add the benefit of extensive past data, 100% project ownership and a 43-101 compliant reserves and then you have my attention. What does this all mean?

This past January, Scott Wilson Roscoe Postle Associates Inc. released a NI 43-101 compliant report estimating that the deposit contains 30.05 million tonnes grading 0.05-percent U₃O₈, for a total inferred resource of 33.05-million pounds U₃O₈, and an additional potential mineral deposit of 25 to 30 million tonnes at grades ranging from 0.04 to 0.05 percent U₃O₈. When looking at the property on the ground and the data provided by past drilling programs, the potential for a 100+ million pounds deposit is quite possible.

What makes the story even more exciting than the large uranium deposit is the rare earth metals found with it. Drilling at the property has confirmed that for every pound of uranium, a few pounds of Rare Earth Elements (“REO”) are also situated with the uranium. As stated in a press release earlier this year:

“As noted in prior press releases, Scott Wilson RPA is investigating the technical and economic viability of REO recovery as a means of increasing revenues at Elliot Lake. REOs are critical components in many high-tech applications including hybrid motor vehicles, flat screen monitors, and high-power magnets. Although demand for REOs is growing rapidly, over 90-percent of their supply is controlled by China, which has recently imposed tariffs on their export.”

There are upwards of 500 uranium companies available to investors in the US and Canada. Many are just pure exploration plays with just prospective land packages, no compliant resource base. They have a lot of work to do and many will come up empty handed in their expensive quest to find a sizeable uranium deposit. Pele already has a deposit in a past producing uranium district which should be economically mineable at current prices.

The lower grade uranium ore does require firm uranium prices but with Pele advancing the project, they should be within 3 to 5 years in production. This is within my projected timeframe of strong uranium prices and one must also consider the possibility for the company to lock uranium sales in even before production commences. The project also provides investors with terrific leverage to the uranium price. Hypothetically speaking, should the production cost be $55/lb and with uranium trading at $85/lb, then the profit in this scenario equates to $30/lb. Now should the uranium price move to $145/lb, then the profit margin grows to $90/lb – or a triple in profits!

As well, such a timeframe puts them in the class of companies that have a genuine potential to make investors a strong return on their investments. Advanced stage exploration companies like Pele have a much higher prospect to advance their projects into production.  Investors in the mining arena know that mines today can take several years or more to move into production. This provides Pele with a huge head start and thus minimizes the risk. When comparing the company to their peer group – the advanced uranium exploration companies - Pele continues to trade at just a fraction of group valuations!

In the coming few weeks, Pele will be releasing their anticipated Scoping Study. It will provide investors with an update on the project:

 - September, 2007

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