Although it won't gain anywhere close to North Peak Resources (TSXV: NPR) in early 2022, SPC Nickel (TSXV: SPC) from its current price of $0.10 per share could become our second largest gainer of early 2022. We consider SPC to be the world's #1 most undervalued battery metals pure play. SPC's flagship AER-KIDD nickel project is located in the world-class Sudbury mining district of Ontario directly in between and on trend with the two most valuable high-grade nickel deposits in the region: Vale (VALE)'s Totten Mine and KGHM (KGHPF)'s Victoria Mine.
VALE is the world's largest nickel producer with a current market cap of $68.4 BILLION. VALE's directly adjacent Totten Mine launched production in February 2014 after VALE invested $760 million to develop the mine over a period of seven years making it one of six producing mines that VALE owns in the Sudbury region. VALE's Sudbury operations produce 65,000 metric tons of nickel per year worth $1.3 BILLION at nickel's current price of $20,000 per metric ton. VALE's Totten Mine has the company's highest-grade ore out of their six Sudbury mines with probable reserves of 7.897 million tonnes grading 1.47% nickel, 2.07% copper, 2.1 g/t palladium, 2.1 g/t platinum, 0.8 g/t gold, and 0.04% cobalt.
KGHPF is the world's second largest silver producer and a major producer of copper and nickel with a current market cap of $7.21 BILLION. KGHPF's directly adjacent Victoria Mine is currently under development and considered by the company to be its #1 most important investment outside of Poland. KGHPF's decision to move forward with developing the Victoria Mine was made in 2015 by Derek White who was President/CEO of their KGHM International division, but later stepped down to become President/CEO of NIA's Ascot Resources (TSX: AOT), which following NIA's October 31, 2019, suggestion has seen its market cap increase 3.52X higher to $458 million. KGHPF's Victoria Mine has an inferred resource of 13.081 million tonnes grading 2.76% nickel, 2.64% copper, 4.45 g/t palladium, 3.08 g/t platinum, 0.97 g/t gold, 14.4 g/t silver, and 0.06% cobalt.
Mineralization was first discovered on SPC's AER-KIDD nickel property in the late 1880's and near-surface mining from three different zones occurred periodically from 1916 to 1968. AER-KIDD remains virtually untested at depth, but both VALE and KGHPF at their directly adjacent nickel mines have successfully made deep discoveries at 1,000-1,500m below surface that are approximately 10X larger than their near-surface discoveries! SPC believes AER-KIDD has excellent potential to host a significant Ni-Cu-PGM deposit comparable to VALE's Totten deposit and KGHPF's Victoria deposit.
SPC's market cap at $0.10 per share is an insanely low $10.22 million and the company has $5.364 million in cash and no debt for an enterprise value of only $4.856 million.
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