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“It Stops Viruses!” Matt Badiali teases that we can “Cash in on the Massive Profit Potential of This Miraculous Green Rock”

What's Real Wealth Strategist teasing with their special report, "THE ULTIMATE ANTI-ELEMENT: How This Green Rock Will Transform the World and Could Make You Incredibly Rich."

Today we’re looking for yet another “magic metal” stock, this time it’s teased by Matt Badiali for his Real Wealth Strategist newsletter over at Banyan Hill… and it’s all about this magical “green rock” that has some kind of virus-killing power, so the marketers are really highlighting the COVID-19 angle. Here’s a little of the lead-in from an email that I got pointing to the ad:

“So every time a person coughs, sneezes or uses the bathroom and doesn’t wash their hands — every single object that person touches becomes contaminated with their germs.

“But all that could change very soon because the surfaces made of this material stop the spread of these viruses, and it could provide you with the chance to turn a small stake into $4,000 or more….

“And right now, new coatings made from this miraculous material are starting to cover the most germ-coated surfaces we come into contact with each day.

“It’s starting to show up in our hospitals, doctors’ offices, schools and gyms, daycare centers, restaurants, airports and subways and even in our own homes.

“And it could make you rich as well, because the company sitting on the ‘mother lode’ of this green rock could provide early investors with the fortune of a lifetime.”

On it’s face that’s clearly just a “buy copper” idea, though the word copper doesn’t actually come up in the presentation — and yes, copper is a pretty powerful killer of bacteria and viruses, which has been known for centuries — ancient cultures used it in part to fight rot and infection, and we see stories about the power of copper every time there’s a scary infection going around. The novel coronavirus we’re all worried about right now only lives for a couple hours on copper, while it can survive for a day or more on lots of other hard surfaces, and there have been long-running studies that urge hospitals to use more copper in their facilities to help reduce the rate of spread of all kinds of infections.

And no, it doesn’t have to be pure copper — alloys work, too. There are different experiments to add nanoparticles of copper to hospital gowns or masks, and plenty of companies trying to sell brass (mostly copper and zinc) or bronze (copper and tin) fixtures as “virus killers.” The impact isn’t so powerful that hospitals have made the huge financial commitment to rip out their stainless steel and plastic fixtures or coat everything with copper, but some new hospital construction in recent years has started to include functionally meaningful amounts of copper.

In many ways, in fact, it seems that our culture has adopted the clean look of stainless steel over the actual sanitizing power of copper (which looks much less clean, thanks to easy oxidization to get that green sheen, but remains strongly antibacterial and antimicrobial even if it’s tarnished). I’m sure there’s a metaphor in there somewhere, and it probably involves the Kardashians.

But anyway, that spiel leads us into Matt Badiali’s ad about these critical “antimicrobial alloys” that “stop viruses”… here’s a little taste of the spiel:

“And while most people would likely overlook this material on the periodic table of elements…

Make no mistake…

“The powerful ANTI-viral, ANTI-bacterial, ANTI-fungal, ANTI-parasitic, ANTI-cancer, ANTI-seizure, ANTI-ulcer and ANTI-inflammatory properties of this powerful mineral make it what I call the perfect ‘ANTI-ELEMENT.’

“And mark my words when I tell you:

“This anti-element will transform the face of modern medicine and life as we know it, in the months to come…

“As it sets off a massive bull market that could hand fast-acting folks the FORTUNE of a lifetime.”

And he does, to be fair, also talk about the big areas of current consumption of copper — of which health-related consumption is almost a rounding error. Something like 80-90% of copper is used for building construction, transportation and electrical goods, and that’s almost entirely because of the need for copper pipes and wiring — so big infrastructure demand and construction projects have been a primary driver of copper demand for decades, and the massive growth in China over the past 15-20 years has been a major driver of copper prices. A typical car has 50-100 pounds of copper in it, mostly wire, and an electric car, with large electric motors, might have 200 lbs or more (and a battery-powered bus could use more than 800 lbs of copper)… which means cars are starting to catch up to homes (a typical single-family home in the US consumes more than 400 lbs of copper).

That direct connection to building and economic activity, by the way, and the notion that copper prices could therefore predict global GDP trends, is why traders started referring to the commodity as “Dr. Copper” (the PhD being in economics, though I imagine we’ll start to see some medical “Dr. Copper” references as well before too long).

But anyway, is there something magical about this “green rock” that’s new today?

No, not really. We’ll see more coverage about it now that we’re afraid of viruses, and it’s certainly possible that the studies of copper’s impact on infection spread will lead to hospitals and other construction projects incorporating more copper in touch points… but it’s still just regular old copper, there’s not a magical new alloy or technology being discovered, this is the same commodity that humans have been mining for longer than any other metal.

So yes, what we’ve got here is just a teaser pitch for a mining company — or, actually, for four of them, though the focus is mostly on one. Here’s how Badiali’s tease gets into it:

“You see, there is a giant mine located on a remote island in Indonesia. And it holds a massive amount of this green rock. This one mine holds 1.8 billion metric tons of material full of it.

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“And that’s just one of this company’s mines. In total, this company owns an enormous amount this anti-element….

“Right now, you have the chance to grab a stake in one company that is sitting on top of this massive deposit….

“A small stake that could turn into a massive fortune in the months and years ahead.”

And we get some past examples that showed mining stocks soaring when the value of the commodity they produce went up, or when big discoveries were made, which helps to fuel his promise that there could be massive gains ahead for this one…

“If the price of this green rock moves like I think it will, we could make hundreds of percent on this one stock.

“For instance, when demand soared for this material in from 2002 to 2007, the price jumped 420% sending the stock for this company soaring by 926%.”

He also implies that COVID-19 will be the cause of this next surge…

“And with increased demand from the recent pandemic … it could send the market soaring higher and faster than any time in history.

“That’s why I’ve pinpointed the ONE company that you’ll want to own shares in right now…

“Just a small stake could make you a ton of money in the coming months….

“The demand from the medical and public health industries alone could send shares of this company through the roof.

“That’s because the contents of this green rock could single-handedly stop the spread of almost every transmittable disease known to man.”

I think most experts would say “slow,” not “stop”… but sure perhaps some more demand will emerge. I’ll be surprised if demand shifts rapidly enough to make “virus fighting” a more important factor than global “construction” or “vehicle electrification” in driving demand for copper higher.

He does cite some numbers…

Bloomberg Markets reports that the public health applications alone could see the demand for this material grow by as much as 1 million tons — per year — over the next 20 years.

“With over 4.5 billion tons of reserves at its mine, this company can quite literally meet the market demand for decades to come.”

That would be a measurable impact, to be sure, but global copper production from mines (not counting recycling) is already about 21 million tonnes a year. And demand in general is rising, the copper.org folks think electric vehicles will increase copper demand by about 1.7 million tonnes a year over the next several years. Whether other sources of demand will fall or rise to offset or leverage that demand growth probably depends more on just general industrialization and economic growth around the world, particularly continuing urbanization and growth in China.

So what’s Badiali’s particular pick in this area? One more tantalizing bit to share…

“… it reminds me of an investment I made in a Canadian gold mining company called Kaminak.

“It delivered 4,400% in peak gains in less than two years.

“That’s enough to turn a $10,000 account into $450,000.”

So that’s clearly Freeport-McMoran (FCX), which is indeed the first ticker that would jump out of any Wall Street trader’s mouth if someone asks them “how do I buy copper?”

They own the goliath Grasberg mining complex in Indonesia, which I think is still the largest mine in the world, and lots of other large gold and copper mines. The stock has been a big depressed for years, both because of faltering copper prices with slackening Chinese demand and because of their near-constant disputes with the Indonesian government, but among large companies it’s hard to argue that anyone is more directly exposed to copper prices than Freeport-McMoran… except perhaps for Southern Copper (SCCO), which is even larger, is less beaten-down in recent years, and has its operations primarily in Peru and Mexico (every global mining company deals with localized operating risks to some degree, but SCCO hasn’t faced anything on the scale of Freeport’s political/labor issues in Indonesia).

And just to be clear, that “reminds me of Kaminak” bit is a ridiculous comparison — he’s comparing Kaminak Gold, which was a junior exploration company in the Yukon and soared from a few pennies to three dollars on the strength of their massive discovery of the Coffee Project (and was later sold at a nice premium to Goldcorp), to an established global mining firm. Freeport-McMoran is definitely not going to have a 1,000% run on a big discovery like Kaminak did, though I imagine it will continue to be nicely levered to copper… and if this Grasberg dispute is finally behind them, maybe they’ll be more levered than others thanks to their generally lower current valuation.

The company does indicate, in their recent COVID update presentation, that they expect to be very levered to copper pices next year — if gold remains at $1,600 an ounce or more, their EBITDA should double from 2020 from $2.1 billion to $4 billion… and if copper rises from their current $2.30/lb estimate to $2.85/lb, that might jump to $6 billion (copper has already bounced back some, it was at $2.85 before COVID hit China, bottomed at about $2.05, and is back to $2.55 or so now). Freeport has a market cap of $16 billion and an enterprise value (including debt) of $32 billion, so if copper really surges we could see that EV/EBITDA valuation drop to 5-6X, or perhaps lower if copper soars back to the China-driven 2011 highs of over $4/lb (keeping in mind, of course, that copper traded between 50 cents-$1.50/lb for 30-40 years before the explosion in Chinese demand in the 2000s).

They are the first company most people would bring to mind when it comes to copper, and that kind of investor branding can be important, they have more than 30 years of copper reserves and very meaningful gold production, and they’ve got an improved diversification these days with only about a third of those reserves in Indonesia. They carry a lot of debt and they are focused on liquidity during the crisis, so a few things are likely to be delayed (including the new smelter that Indonesia has required them to build to move more “value add” to the country, instead of just exporting most of their ore). I agree that copper is likely to rise in price over the next decade, if only because low prices for the past few years have discouraged new mine building and the global transportation fleet is becoming more electrified, but it’s also important to note that even global leaders in core commodities have a hard time escaping the general tendency of mining to be an awful long term investment. This is the total return chart for Freeport-McMoran going back about 25 years…

FCX Total Return Price Chart

There are some signs of hope in there, with jumps during the China-driven commodity boom from 2007-2012 or so (and some gold runs in there as well), but that’s a pretty ugly return over that long a time period — this is what just “owning the market” in the S&P 500 would have given you, by comparison:

FCX Total Return Price Chart

And, as promised, Badiali also hints at a few other ideas… I’ll run through those a little more quickly… clues, please!

“The first company is headquartered in Toronto, Canada. It could help you maximize the profit potential during this green rock’s surge phase.

“The company’s six mines are located on three continents. While it mines other metals, over 64% of its metal sales are from the green rock. And it plans to increase production by over 10% per year through 2022.”

This one, sez the Thinkolator, must be Lundin Mining (LUN.TO, LUNMF OTC in the US), which has at times owned six mines but actually has just five operating mines right now, from giant copper/gold mines Candelaria and Chapada in South America to somewhat smaller ones like Eagle (US), Neves-Corvo (Portugal) and Zinkgruvan (Sweden) that also produce meaningful copper but add zinc and nickel to the mix (they’ve bought and sold a bunch of properties as they’ve grown over the past 15 years, a dozen years ago they were primarily operating smaller European mines but most of those were either closed or sold over the past decade and the copper focus is really on South America now, thanks to the purchase of Candelaria from Freeport in 2014 and Chapada from Yamana in 2019).

That’s a pretty close to a match for HudBay (HBM) as well, a stock Badiali has teased in the past. HudBay is trying to pivot more to gold, partly by transitioning their large Lalor mine to focus more on the gold protential, but even with that it will still be getting more than half of its revenue from copper in 2022.

Lundin gave a virtual presentation to a J.P. Morgan conference just today, so you can see their updated investor slide deck here. The Lundin family has long been involved in building up and acquiring mining properties, and also controls Lundin Gold (LUG.TO), which is a completely separate company whose primary asset is the Fruta Del Norte gold mine in Ecuador.

Next?

“The second company makes its home in Vancouver, Canada.

“However, its mines are located far away, in Africa … with three “trophy” deposits. Volumes of this green rock are so rich, one trophy mine could produce well over 20 million tons of this coveted material.

“Its second holds another 27 million tons … and the exploration of the area is still ongoing.

“As a trained geologist, I’d bet money that the company finds even more of this miraculous substance here.

“These two trophy mines alone will position this company as a major player for meeting the demand for this green rock for years to come.”

That must be Ivanhoe Mines (IVN.TO, IVPAF OTC in the US), which is run by brilliant billionaire Robert Friedland but faces the constant political risk of the fact that most of their assets are in the Democratic Republic of the Congo… which is why the stock is and has ever been very cheap compared to other large mining projects. Their big copper project is Kamoa-Kakula in the DRC, which is being built quickly, though their more advanced project is Platreef in South Africa, which is primarily focused on platinum group metals. If you want to get some “old time religion” feeling about copper and the green economy and the huge potential of Ivanhoe, just check out the “Revenge of the Miners” presentation Friedland prepared for PDAC in March.

I’ll just reiterate what I’ve said many times about Ivanhoe: if you can handle the DRC risk, this is a relatively cheap way to get a piece of one of the world’s biggest and highest-grade copper mines, with a big low-cost platinum/palladium mine thrown in as a bonus.

And one more…

“And the third company that could hand you triple-digit gains is a diversified mining company also headquartered in Vancouver.

“And what I especially like about this powerhouse company is that it has its hands in EVERYTHING. It’s Canada’s largest diversified mining company.

“It mines metals and other resources that include everything from crude oil and coal, to natural gas and precious metals.

“As the price of this green rock shoots to the moon over the next year or two, this company’s shares could go even higher — giving fast-acting investors the chance for massive triple-digit gains.”

That must be Teck Resources (TECK), which is depressed not primarily because of copper (though they do have several operating copper mines in the Americas), but because coal (mostly metallurgical coal) has been their most important product, and because they’ve also got some exposure to production from the oil sands in Alberta. They have a new investor presentation up this week for a conference as well — and that points to copper being the driver of their growth strategy, so that’s interesting, and is led by the development of their QB2 mine in Chile (they’ve been touted in the past, along with HudBay, as a zinc play, too… though zinc has faltered with dropping steel demand).

Teck has had essentially the same ride as Freeport-McMoran over the past 20 years, with a bit more leverage built in because they started out a lot smaller. It’s been all about that emergence of the China commodity boom, then the volatility brought by the 2008 crash and the 2015 near-recession…

TECK Total Return Price Chart

But if you want to look at it more positively, here’s the return for this whole list of four (TECK in blue, FCX in orange, Ivanhoe in red, Lundin in green, S&P 500 in purple) starting from January 1, 2016, when almost every commodity stock bottomed out:

TECK Total Return Price Chart

Those are all reasonable large mining companies that any investor in the space might consider, with pretty solid assets and strong potential in a world (should it come) of rising copper prices. Personally, I tend to prefer to invest in mining mostly through royalties — so although royalty investments in gold and silver are far more common I do get some exposure to these kinds of projects through Sandstorm Gold (SAND) and Altius Minerals (ALS.TO, ATUSF), both of which have exposure to Lundin’s Chapada mine thanks to deals that were made to finance Chapada’s growth about five years ago, when it was still owned by Yamana (Sandstorm also owns 30% of Hod Maden, a very high grade gold and copper project in Turkey that is still in “feasibility study” stage and won’t contribute for at least a few years). Franco-Nevada (FNV) also has a big royalty on Candelaria, for whatever that’s worth, though I shouldn’t overstate the impact of copper on these companies — in the case of Sandstorm and Franco-Nevada, their gold portfolios dominate and copper is not a big driver… copper royalties do bring in roughly a third of revenue for Altius, and about 10% for Royal Gold (RGLD).

That hasn’t protected me all that much from the weak performance of miners, mostly because Altius, which is building a base metals royalty company, has struggled to attract a valuation worthy of a royalty business (largely because of a writedown of their poorly-timed coal royalty acquisitions in Alberta), but since good royalty companies manage their assets much better than the average miner, and they have much less downside risk, it does mean I can leave the “cycle surfing” to others and not try (and probably fail) to pick tops and bottoms in commodity prices (Altius has disappointed for many years, but not fallen nearly as much as Ivanhoe, Freeport et al when copper prices collapsed). Picking the best miners at the best times, should you have the skill to do that, would be far more lucrative than just holding and adding to royalty positions.

This group should all do well if copper prices surge, my guess is that Freeport would probably be the first to get big institutional investor attention, and it has been (arguably) the worst-performing large cap stock in the copper mining space for a while so FCX could have some leverage if sentiment improves about their operations… but Ivanhoe likely has the most obviously dramatic upside potential (and that comes from the easing of their “DRC political risk discount” if sentiment changes about that country, not really from commodity price shifts). There’s also a pretty easy generic bet you can make on this trend if you don’t like stock picking, Global X offers the Copper Miners ETF (COPX) — it’s very small with only $60 million in assets, so might not be around forever if copper turns down for much longer, but at the moment the top four holdings of which are Ivanhoe, Teck, Freeport and Southern Copper (Lundin’s in there, too, as are Glencore (GLNCY), Vedanta (VEDL), First Quantum (FM.TO), Ero Copper (ERO.TO), Turquoise Hill (TRQ) in Mongolia, Hudbay and a few others that might sound familiar, including a couple juniors).

That’s just my take on mining, though, and a quick look at the four “green rock” stocks Badiali is teasing as plays on copper… it’s your money, so you get to choose how to invest. Would you like more exposure to “Dr. Copper?” See great gains ahead as renewable energy and electrification boost demand, or some shocking new demand from COVID fighting? Or are you worried about being in a recession or down cycle and the possibility that copper could fall again? Prefer these particular miners, or some different ones? Please let us know with a comment below.

P.S. I should note that, as Banyan Hill has typically done in recent years, they’re a little sneaky with the “autorenew” and “bonus subscription” stuff that they add to the loooong order form — so although they do claim to offer the standard subscription for the “on sale” price of $47, they say in much smaller print that they’ll include a “free trial” of Alpha Investor Report, the unrelated newsletter by Charles Mizrahi, and that both of those newsletters will autorenew at whatever their then-current price might be (on a staggered schedule, since Alpha Investor Report is free for three months). So as of today with the pricing they publicize, what you think of as a $47 commitment would add on a autorenew in three months for $97 and then autorenew both letters for $194/year thereafter.

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povhq1
June 8, 2020 4:32 pm

Good analysis as usual. IMHO, given the real possibility of a global slowdown/recession, investing in ANY raw resources at this time seems premature. Just sayin’

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Atari Silverlake
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June 8, 2020 4:36 pm

Thank you for the great research. Copper certainly poses an opportunity from a pricing perspective and it wasn’t clear to me that buying futures was the way to go.

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June 8, 2020 4:57 pm

There is a lot here, but I can only comment on a few things. First, FCX. Their concentrates already go to China. They actually own half or less of the Indo asset. If the prices of copper and gold go up, Indo will take the rest. Either way, China gets the copper. The smelter is a pipe dream. FCX should sell out and concentrate on their other assets. Their management record is poor. First Quantum would be a better choice. Their cons go to China, too, but Panama is already under the Chinese umbrella and Panama probably won’t bite the hand that feeds them. After all, China runs the canal. Another huge deposit if you’re interested is Pebble in Alaska. It will be developed. Northern Dy-nasty controls it. Copper usage is a question. Yes, it has been used for pipes in houses and most other buildings, but PEX is being substituted now. There’s no need for electric cars. The ICE is very efficient, carbon dioxide is not a problem, and there is a lot of oil in the world. We’re not running out. Lastly, silver is , as far as I know, better at killing germs than copper. Am I right, Doc? BTW, Friedland is a crook who walked away from a major pollution problem in Colorado.

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JayBee1
June 8, 2020 6:27 pm
Reply to  Carl M Welch

Carl M Welch must be a pseudonym. Your real name is Clifford C. Clavin, Jr. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Clavin

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Carl M Welch
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Carl M Welch
June 8, 2020 7:30 pm
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I am not Clifford Clavin. I must be one of the few people who use their real name on the Internet. What is your real name?

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deb109
June 8, 2020 5:00 pm

Great job as usual, Travis, but the first time you mention Freeport-McMoran, you give its ticker as FMX which is wrong, but later in the article you have it correctly shown as FCX. You might want to change that first reference. I have owned FCX for at least 10 years and am still under water due to the long-ago collapse in copper prices. I have stubbornly held on and even bought a couple more shares near the bottom to reduce my cost per share, because I like the company and I know how important copper is. I am finally within .21 per share of breaking even so hopefully this tease will take me up to positive territory. Thanks for all you do.

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Michael Jorrin, "Doc Gumshoe"
June 8, 2020 5:36 pm

I spray my roses once a week with a fungicide whose active ingredient is copper. It works pretty well, although the black spot comes back. But making hospital door knobs and bathroom fixtures out of copper would likely not work. Copper tarnishes super fast & would have to be wiped clean regularly to keep it looking anywhere near decent. Brass doorknobs and fixtures are usually coated with a lacquer finish, which would nullify the sanitizing effect of copper. I would say don’t bet on it.

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larkn1412
June 8, 2020 9:02 pm

never ceases to amaze me the way these publishers ( being kind to them in my choice of words) try and dress up opportunities with some magic application that will result in the world of Copper going short… antimicrobial surfaces have been around for ages and Copper isn’t the best in that area.. Silver is…. The only cost effective way is to convert the particles to nano size and be sure they exfoliate through the structures mass…. in other words a little bit goes a long long long way … name your coating, plastics ( both thermoset and thermoplastic) , paint, inks, ceramics, elastomers etc etc can all be duped with a sprinkle of Silver nano composite and bingo your surface is antimicrobial . Sure Copper has good efficacy in its microbial effect but it aint going to trigger any mainstream avalanche of copper demand ….

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June 8, 2020 10:41 pm
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Monty is absolutely correct re: Silver. Silver coatings of Nano thicknesses has been used for years. Even in H2O filters. Silver Media. Ironically, Silver was not mentiioned in any of the mining Stocks.

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sdfarmer41
sdfarmer41
June 8, 2020 10:27 pm

I brought FCX the last Friday in May for $8.77 based on Matt’s recommendation. Up about 18%. I keep a tight stop in this market. I do like your analysid.

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krkingsley
June 9, 2020 2:55 pm

Your Newsletter is almost worth it’s weight in gold, but at least for saving me from the losses of so many offers out there that all seem to be around $2K to get into.

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laketangler
June 9, 2020 5:52 pm

You might want to check out Polymet Mining (PLM). It jumped from .285 a share yesterday to .48 a share today

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GeneH
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June 9, 2020 7:05 pm

Teck was a good bet until they chose to buy into the coal business. That was a disaster for them.
What was interesting was their many options to acquire control of various precious metal/copper
projects which were in the exploration stage.

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December 2, 2020 12:40 am

I don’t know if posting to an older article gets seen by anybody, but I wanted to add some new information (to me, anyway) regarding ATUSF. The company has been steadily investing in future royalty and ownership streams, which is what the story has been all along. What I learned about recently was their new arrangement with Apollo. The company set up a captive subsidiary some time ago to invest in a relatively new trend, and held a “town hall” meeting with a financial PR firm to explain what they are doing. In a similar vein to the development of cell tower REITS, there is a future flood of renewable projects, solar and wind, that will pass IRS muster to create a new class of REITS. We live in a yield starved world where there is plenty of investment capital available for a sound investment case (IIPR, e.g.) There are many companies in the US engaged in this development of renewable projects (including, according to one slide, Bershire Hathaway). The largest developer is NextEra Energy, the former Fla Power and Light. Because new proposals include “storage” (batteries of some sort), these projects can overcome intermittency issues which promises higher returns. Altius sees enormous opportunity, but also recognizes their capital base is small. So they looked around for a strategy that suited them and ultimately signed a deal with Apollo. They had already invested $66mm before Apollo, and the latter agreed to fund $80mm more, at which time they would own 50% of the JV with Altius. The investments are royalty structures where the payback return comes from an ongoing royalty stream from the operating renewable project, rather than interest earned in a conventional financing arrangement. Once Apollo has put up their $80mm, all future investments will be a 50/50 share between ATUSF and Apollo. The arrangement gives Altius greater deal exposure through Apollo’s contacts, but they still will need to come up with their 50% cash share of future project investments. Among the options Altius is considering is a spin out of this renewable specific subsidiary into a stand-alone entity, which of course Altius would be the major owner. Because the market currently values these renewable exposure much richer than their bread and butter base and precious metals and potash operations, they could tap a lower cost of capital to fund these future investments. The decision could be something else, but this seemed to be a structure they are seriously considering. They suggested Apollo would be done committing their incremental $80 in the near term, i.e. 1Q 2021. Thus they have to get this figured out relatively quickly. If this is the route they chose to follow, this could shake the tree as far as people having a reason to review the Altius story, and could be a catalyst for the stock which, as we all know, has done nothing for a long time, despite continuing to build value via developing investments. In addition, some other recent news concerned the incremental development of an iron ore project in Newfoundland. They say the quality of the iron ore from this particular region is unique in its metallurgy vs other iron ore, giving it a premium price. I need to do more work to understand this claim. It is the arrangement with Apollo and the growth opportunity presented in the coming surge of renewable development that makes this extremely intriguing.

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