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CUU own 25% Schaft Creek: proven/probable min. reserves/940.8m tonnes = 0.27% copper, 0.19 g/t gold, 0.018% moly and 1.72 g/t silver containing: 5.6b lbs copper, 5.8m ounces gold, 363.5m lbs moly and 51.7m ounces silver; (Recoverable CuEq 0.46%)

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Message: QB2 is nice...

... but Schaft Creek is better!

Assuming both mines have the same cost to operate:

QB2 is around 500Mlbs CuEq LOM

  • 500Mlbs x $3.15 US x 60% (Teck's ownership) = 945M USD of revenues

Schaft Creek is around 400Mlbs CuEq LOM

  • 400M x $3.15 US x 75% (Teck's ownership) = 945M USD of revenues

At this point, both are similar for Teck, so if they put QB2 in production, Schaft Creek should be a no brainer. 

  • Capex is lower
  • They have a bunch of tax credits available for Canada
  • On top of that, I believe Schaft Creek will be cheaper to operate.

Teck could also easily increase their Schaft Creek ownership to 100% which would give them revenues of 1,260M USD vs. 945M USD for QB2.  That's over 300M USD more revenue per year!

Therefore, if I'd be Teck, I would:

  1. Buy Copper Fox (Schaft Creek) with Teck shares
  2. Keep 100% of Schaft Creek, finance the maximum with debt and the remaining by streaming some gold for a couple of years. 

There's no need for a silent partner with gold at $2000 US.  Gold streams above $1000us/oz are possible these days.  Come on Teck, get it done!

MoneyK

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