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I think this news is just the beginning of good things to come. They don’t hire this type of talent if things are not moving forward with a partner.
Northern Dynasty announces hiring of senior technical leadership for Alaska’s Pebble Project
Senior VP Engineering & Project Director Stephen Hodgson and VP Permitting James Fueg join Pebble team
October 12, 2017
October 12, 2017 Vancouver– Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. (TSX: NDM; NYSE MKT: NAK) ("Northern Dynasty" or the "Company") announced today that the Pebble Limited Partnership (“Pebble Partnership” or “PLP”) has filled two senior technical positions to lead engineering design and regulatory permitting for southwest Alaska’s Pebble Project.
Senior Vice President of Engineering and Project Director Stephen Hodgson (P. Eng.) will lead Pebble’s engineering and project development team, with responsibility for all aspects of project design, engineering and financial studies and regulatory compliance. He will be supported by Vice President of Permitting James Fueg (PMP, CPG), who assumes responsibility for all aspects of the project’s regulatory permitting team and process, including management of environmental and socioeconomic studies, liaison with federal and state agencies and active management of Pebble’s forthcoming Environmental Impact Statement (“EIS”) process under the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”).
“I couldn’t be more pleased with the technical leadership we have assembled to finalize our permit applications and lead Pebble into and through the NEPA and EIS permitting process beginning later this year,” said Pebble Partnership CEO Tom Collier. “In Stephen and James, not only do we gain decades of experience working with the world’s leading mining companies on many of the most significant projects around the globe, we benefit from their long-standing experience in Alaska.
“We now have a dedicated leadership team in place in Anchorage that is not only committed to the financial and permitting success of the Pebble Project, but one that shares Alaskans’ interests in ensuring our project protects clean water, healthy fisheries and traditional ways of life, while making a profound positive contribution to the people and economies of the region and the state.”
Stephen Hodgson is a professional engineer with more than 40 years of experience in consulting, project management, feasibility-level design and implementation, and mine operations at some of the most significant mineral development projects in the world – including the Pine Point zinc mine in northern Canada, the Red Dog zinc mine in Alaska, Antamina in Peru, and the Oyu Tolgoi project in Mongolia. Hodgson has led the engineering group at Northern Dynasty and Hunter Dickinson Inc. since 2005, has played a central role on the engineering team for Pebble for more than a decade, and was part of the Cominco team that evaluated the Pebble deposit in the early 1990s.
James Fueg is a geologist and a geophysicist with more than 25 years of experience in mineral exploration and resource development, including more than 20 years working in Alaska. He was most recently seconded from Barrick Gold Corporation to serve as Technical Services Manager for the Donlin Gold Project in western Alaska, where he played a leadership role managing the EIS and NEPA permitting process for a project expected to receive a final Record of Decision in 2018.
“We have a great deal of confidence in both the technical capabilities of the project’s leadership team and their commitment to the project and to the State of Alaska,” NDM President & CEO Ron Thiessen said. “These are major pieces of the first-class team we are assembling to lead this world-class project into permitting.”
About Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd.
Northern Dynasty is a mineral exploration and development company based in Vancouver, Canada. Northern Dynasty's principal asset, owned through its wholly-owned Alaska-based US subsidiary Pebble Limited Partnership and other wholly-owned subsidiaries, is a 100% interest in a contiguous block of 2,402 mineral claims in southwest Alaska, including the Pebble deposit. The Pebble Partnership is the proponent of the Pebble Project, an initiative to develop one of the world's most important mineral resources.
For further details on Northern Dynasty and the Pebble Project, please visit the Company's website at www.northerndynasty.com or contact Investor services at (604) 684-6365 or within North America at 1-800-667-2114. Review Canadian public filings at www.sedar.com and US public filings at www.sec.gov.
Ronald W. Thiessen
President & CEO
Canadian Media Contact:
Ian Hamilton
DFH Public Affairs
(416) 206-0118 x.222 US Media Contact:
Dan Gagnier
Gagnier Communications
(646) 569-5897
Forward Looking Information and other Cautionary Factors
This release includes certain statements that may be deemed "forward-looking statements". All statements in this release, other than statements of historical facts, that address exploration drilling, exploitation activities and events or developments that the Company expects are forward-looking statements. Although the Company believes the expectations expressed in its forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, such statements should not be in any way construed as guarantees of the ultimate size, quality or commercial feasibility of the Pebble Project or of the Company's future performance or the outcome of litigation.
Assumptions used by the Company to develop forward-looking statements include the following: the Pebble Project will obtain all required environmental and other permits and all land use and other licenses, studies and development of the Pebble Project will continue to be positive, and no geological or technical problems will occur. The likelihood of future mining at the Pebble Project is subject to a large number of risks and will require achievement of a number of technical, economic and legal objectives, including obtaining necessary mining and construction permits, approvals, licenses and title on a timely basis and delays due to third party opposition, changes in government policies regarding mining and natural resource exploration and exploitation, the final outcome of any litigation, completion of pre-feasibility and final feasibility studies, preparation of all necessary engineering for surface or underground mining and processing facilities as well as receipt of significant additional financing to fund these objectives as well as funding mine construction. Such funding may not be available to the Company on acceptable terms or on any terms at all. There is no known ore at the Pebble Project and there is no assurance that the mineralization at the Pebble Project will ever be classified as ore. The need for compliance with extensive environmental and socio-economic rules and practices and the requirement for the Company to obtain government permitting can cause a delay or even abandonment of a mineral project. The Company is also subject to the specific risks inherent in the mining business as well as general economic and business conditions. For more information on the Company, Investors should review the Company's filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and its home jurisdiction filings that are available at www.sedar.com
You're not alone in that dream!!
GLTA
I am looking for a slow steady rise of the share price into news of a partnership
Please don’t expect it to go straight up
That would only happen in my dreams
Good luck here
I read the CNN piece that this seeking Alpha article is responding to. The piece is very biased it just came out today. It's all misleading information, really misstated stuff. It's almost laughable. Clearly a hit piece.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/10/politics/bristol-bay-salmon-invs/index.html
After hours $2.04's are still rolling in. Good volume today, Maybe Thiessen really is going to announce the partnership this month. He'll be a daisy if he does.
Too bad his other public mining companies arent doing so good
The Fools are fooled again. Now lets look at the technicals, specifically the moving averages. Well they are all in Bull mode and have been that way since Aug 21 when the 13 EMA crossed above the 34 EMA on a daily chart. But the really exciting cross is about to happen in about a week when the 50 DMA will cross above the 200 DMA and we all know what that cross is and it is GOLDEN. The small cup and handle over the last few days is about to breakout.
The technical averages tell the tale but are fiercely being fought by the shorts who will eventually collapse their positions and then the rockets will propel the share price to its rightful positioning.
Can you say Multi-Bagger !
Get on board NOW!
glta longs
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About: Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd (NAK)
Otto Capital
Otto Capital
Long only, Deep Value
(19 followers)
Summary
Credible and aligned management team has been stating that Northern Dynasty (NAK) is close to reaching a partner agreement.
They have already earned the right to normal course permitting with the EPA settlement.
Partner event will materially de-risk the project, which could mean multiple times the current market capitalization.
Northern Dynasty Minerals (NYSEMKT:NAK) has awaken from 4 years of deep sleep caused by the preemptive veto from the Environmental Protective Agency. Many other pieces explain the history leading to this moment, so I will focus on the most recent developments and some of the subtleties of the rhetoric.
Starting with settlement reached by Northern Dynasty Minerals with the EPA on May 12, 2017, the company effectively earned the right to take the Pebble Mine through the normal permitting process. The obvious significance here is that the settlement has cleared the road for partners to be brought back to the table to support the CAPEX on developing Pebble. However, it also shows that management of NAK is resilient and has the correct mindset of looking to win the long war (getting Pebble operational) rather than the short-term battles and worries.
Imagine being in the shoes of Mr. Thiessen or Mr. Collier for half a decade where your only agenda is to fight a battle where the rules have been changed in favor of the other side, with the real possibility of your cause simply disappearing under bureaucracy and red tape. Obviously new EPA administration played a key role here (albeit Mr. Collier did mention that they had reached an agreement with the Obama EPA as well), but they plowed ahead nevertheless. Kudos to the management team for their grit during this process!
Then, listening to the opposition for the last 4-6 years without much capital (political or financial) to fight back, they unveil last week a new mining design (link above) that addresses the vast majority of the complaints, in what seems like an important compromise, at least in the initial phase, compared to the Pebble potential.
The point here is, the current management team will do whatever is necessary to see that Pebble goes through permitting and gets approved! They’ve been at it for more than a decade and are at the final innings now.
Ok, but what about valuation? There are all kinds of estimates out there, ranging from $0 per share from the short piece by Kerrisdale Capital Management to an estimate for a fully operational mine based on in situ value of the minerals of ~ $70 per share, so clearly there is no consent.
Breaking it by pieces:
Kerrisdale released their report on Feb 14th, 2017, when shares of NAK traded at $3.30. Their main claim was not related to permitting, but to the viability of extracting the minerals, which they believed meant no one would put money in NAK to develop the site so The End. Shares collapsed to $1.05 in the following weeks.
Mike Kozak, from Cantor Fitzgerald published a detailed report on June 5th, 2017 where he thoroughly described the situation that Pebble is in, provides very useful background since November 2001 and goes on to model what a potential Joint Venture (JV) could look like for Northern Dynasty.
Using comparable deals he draws a parallel for what a deal could look like, he arrives at a 52-week target price of $3.75/share of NAK (look up the report for the calculation). He goes on to say:
Excellent Asymmetric Trade Short-Term: At current share price levels, Northern Dynasty is not “pricing in” any potential for a JV partner, and in the event that a deal is struck similar to the original Anglo earn-in, the upside potential in Northern Dynasty is massive. We believe potential JV partners are lined up, and a deal will be completed in the short-term. As a result, we view NAK/NDM as an excellent asymmetric risk-reward trade.
Northern Dynasty presents the following logic regarding valuation (page 25 of the Corporate Presentation), based on Contained Metal:
NAK September 2017 – Share Price $1.55, $0.57 /lb of copper, $8 /oz of gold
Developer Average – Equivalent Share Price $12.1, $1.4 /lb of copper, $43 /oz of gold
Producer Average – Equivalent Share Price $71, $18.4 /lb of copper, $107 /oz of gold
At the Denver Gold Forum that took place on September 26, 2017, Mr. Thiessen remarked (around minute 15 of his speech):
The value proposition, embarrassingly, Pebble, Northern Dynasty, can be seen trading market cap wise… at $8/oz of measured and indicated contained gold, and the developer average, where we truly should be, at a minimum, is $43/oz. Or at $0.57/ lb of contained copper, compared to developer average of almost 3 times that.
Then he goes on:
The reality is, if you look at the producer average, there is the real opportunity, if this asset was owned by one of the major producers the valuation would be much higher.
Today (October 9, 2017) Northern Dynasty shares are hovering around $1.90, which leads one’s reasoning to the idea that the market continues to think a JV partner will not present itself. Despite many mentions by Mr. Thiessen and Mr. Collier that management and advisors are nearing a deal with a potential consortium of large miners, current valuation is calling it a bluff.
This is the same management team that risked their careers for over a decade to develop this site and fight the EPA on their overstepping of Northern Dynasty’s legal rights. The same team that has gone to length to adapt the project so that the local communities in Alaska would support it as a development tool for the region. The same guys that have gone on record saying they are embarrassed by where their company trades versus to where it would trade if a major mining partner would come on board.
With this backdrop, it seems like Kerrisdale’s report continues to bring doubt to the table (despite very significant improvement in all fronts since early in the year) as shares are 45% below where they traded prior to the report.
It also seems, that despite a very comprehensive and well written report, Cantor is thinking about where a deal could get done, not what could happen to shares after that deal. If the Developer Average, using public market comparables is $12.1/share and for that NAK needs a partner with deep pockets and fair permitting rights (which it already has), then it seems that if they get a JV at $3.75 share, the derisking of the project takes it to a completely different place in terms of value.
Mixing it all in, Northern Dynasty is a case of credible management, which has aligned incentives with shareholders (they own ~8% of the asset) that is speaking loud and clear about a consortium being close to getting done, which alone should be valued at about $3.75 /share (97% upside) and that along with the right to engage in permitting, can take prices north of $12, based on publicly listed comparable companies (530% upside). Northern Dynasty Minerals shares are massively undervalued at $1.9.
Disclosure: I am/we are long NAK.
I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it. I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.
Northern Dynasty Is Massively Undervalued $NAK
http://www.seekingalpha.com/article/4112865
$16.50 within three trading days after announcement.
Any predictions on stock price after partnership?
This company has to be close to finalizing some partners agreement
Originally September announcement
Could be any day now
People selling today are Fools, aka Motley Fools, aka Fake News. Why do you think they call the place Motley "Fool"? They put out a hit piece saying there probably will be a partnership as all they can do is spew the same old information to provide a different tone to scare away investors. I'm sure they are short the stock. I learned a long time ago that the pen is mightier than the sword and the Fools are aware of that and use their dubious platform to try and enrich themselves.
So what if the partnership or consortium isn't the powerhouse the mine potential has from a resource prospective. NAK has done a good job managing the project to the expectations of the opposition and especially the EPA in order to bring the project on line. This project will happen through the darkness of the tunnel with the light shining at the end. And it is not a freight train but massive wealth to be achieved. Stay on the dark path and end up in paradise.
So what if the buyout is not worth 15 or 20 dollars a share but I can tell you one thing. It is definitively worth a lot more than $2 ish.
Sell with the fools or wait and be rewarded, I think the pps will be north of 8 or 9. That's good enough for me.
BTW - The naked shorts are stepping up their game but it to will fail.
glta longs
Well they'd better get a move on cause NAK has a quarter to report on and past months numbers are showing a loss. Bribing all of those tribes takes cash. If they dont announce the partnership before trick or treat, somebodys gonna get a scalp'm
NAK broke the $2.00's this morning, reached $2.08 to be exact
Looks like again no break 2 u$; soon below 1,90 ....traders sell again
Oh ya!?, when is that happening? This week you say
I’d like to see a slow and steady share price rise as institutions
Crowd out retail
That’s goes until we get the partnership press release
Good luck
Nope. My order was a sell at market when the bid x ask was at 1.81 x 1.82.
I have read the article. Appears to me that he doesn't want to "go on record" as a supporter. Doesn't mean that it won't happen under his watch. You should know how politicians work. If there's revenue to be had they will have it.
Next week their will be short guts all over the trading floor.
You must have been selling at the ask
Get in, sit back and watch her squeeze!
It took 81 partial fills to complete my 50K share sell on Thursday. I have never seen anything like that in all my years of investing. 81 partials! Are you kidding me? Strange...
Seeking Alpha says with first mine size picked announcement could come at any time.
NAKs short report;
http://shortsqueeze.com/?symbol=NAK&submit=Short+Quote%E2%84%A2
Agreed,but I believe they would not release any info on partnerships until
the final consortium is established if that is the case.
Remember the partnership does not mean just 1. They could pursue others in different parts of the caldera . Anglo, Rio etc.
Nor before 15th,
Not a chance IMO
North of $5, and that's being moderate
Has anyone an idea where the pps might be in the short term after the
partnership announcement?
3.00 - 4.00 ???
NAK getting over $2 will be where the real fun starts. Almost there AH already.
Partnership announcement as early as this weekend.
Where is the trading halt???
Friday’s aren`t good....we will see
Might have an announcement after hours. Watching the rats jump ship and laughing st $ 1.20. Comments.
I placed a 50K share buy order at $1.72 early this morning. Low of day is $1.72; unfortunately, I did not get filled. Would have made for a nice 1 day flip! Oh well...my core shares are loving today's run and are ready for the REAL run to begin!
Partnership announcement by the end of October now!
I sold at $1.85 a little while ago, clearing $7k for the third time. Reloaded in the low $1.70's. NAK is a trader, always will be, hoping for a double when the partnership news takes hold.
Not a short, never have been, those conspiracy theories cropped up in someone elses head
Would make a bet, I takes longer
I'm gonna say this only ONCE today wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee lol enjoy the ride
I've been perusing some of these posts, and it is clearly obvious that many of them are cut and paste. They are using the same language over and over again and I guess the EPA is not screening them out. Probably because they're overwhelmed by the numbers. It's clearly an attack by the opposition.
Bias alert! Well this is incredible. As I mentioned in an earlier post clearly there is a large group of people spamming the EPA website. Several weeks ago there was over (just) 7000 comments, now there are over 185,000 .....and growing!!
That's not even possible! Clearly there is an effort to accelerate spamming to the EPA comments website. I can't believe it, that number is just unbelievable to me
https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=EPA-R10-OW-2017-0369-0001
I've been saying it for a whilenow. Anyone with a brain can see partnership news is IMMINENT! Buckle your seat belts folks. The flight may be delayed but it's getting ready for take off.
Let's go NAK! (HOD 1.84)
„Year end“......
In a few days....
Great post. Thanks for that!
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