{"id":3797,"date":"2025-09-26T11:57:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T15:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/?p=3797"},"modified":"2025-09-26T11:57:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T15:57:30","slug":"most-value-is-created-early-in-deal-making-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/articles\/most-value-is-created-early-in-deal-making-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Value Is Created Early in Deal Making Process"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;\">In hindsight we probably should have suggested <strong>Highlander Silver (TSX: HSLV)<\/strong> at <strong>$0.50 per share<\/strong> instead of waiting until <strong>$1.40 per share<\/strong> because most value is created by the actual deal making process. This is why with <strong>Total Metals (TSXV: TT)<\/strong> we are suggesting it to you early before their deal to <strong><span style=\"color:#27ae60;\">acquire<\/span> High Lake<\/strong> and <strong>West Hawk Lake<\/strong> is complete.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;\">Most of the <strong>estimated Mineral Resource tonnage<\/strong> related to the <strong>High Lake Deposit<\/strong> is contained in three stacked zones within a 75-metre-wide corridor starting at surface and covering an area of 420 metres vertical by 220 metres long. The true thickness of the High Lake zones varies from 1.2 to 9.0 metres.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;\">There is a 43-101 resource estimate at <strong>High Lake <\/strong>of an indicated <span style=\"color:#f1c40f;\"><strong>45,800 oz gold<\/strong><\/span> grading <strong><span style=\"background-color:#f1c40f;\">9.38 g\/t<\/span><\/strong> and an inferred <strong><span style=\"color:#f1c40f;\">96,200 oz gold<\/span><\/strong> grading <strong><span style=\"background-color:#f1c40f;\">10.43 g\/t<\/span><\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;\">So not quite as high grade as <strong>Highlander Silver&#39;s historical resource<\/strong> of <span style=\"color:#f1c40f;\"><strong>348,000 oz<\/strong><\/span> grading <strong><span style=\"background-color:#f1c40f;\">22.4 g\/t<\/span> <\/strong>but still very good.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"861\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/mineralresource-1024x861.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3798\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/mineralresource-1024x861.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/mineralresource-300x252.png 300w, https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/mineralresource-768x646.png 768w, https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/mineralresource.png 1452w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p data-end=\"3935\" data-start=\"3638\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;\"><em>Past performance is not an indicator of future returns. NIA is not an investment advisor and does not provide investment advice. Always do your own research and make your own investment decisions. NIA&rsquo;s President has purchased 125,000 shares of HSLV and can buy or sell shares at any time. NIA has received compensation from TT of US$100,000 cash for a twelve-month marketing contract. This message is meant for informational and educational purposes only and does not provide investment advice.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In hindsight we probably should have suggested Highlander Silver (TSX: HSLV) at $0.50 per share instead of waiting until $1.40 per share because most value is created by the actual deal making process. This is why with Total Metals (TSXV: TT) we are suggesting it to you early before their deal to acquire High Lake [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9,16,17,186],"class_list":["post-3797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","tag-gold","tag-hslv","tag-silver","tag-tt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3800,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797\/revisions\/3800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}