{"id":5055,"date":"2025-11-12T16:35:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T21:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/?p=5055"},"modified":"2025-11-13T21:45:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T02:45:04","slug":"contango-ore-new-all-time-highs-coming-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/technicals\/contango-ore-new-all-time-highs-coming-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"CTGO Gains 5.35% to $24.02 and New All-Time Highs Coming Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:1.6; color:#000;\">\n  <p><strong>Contango ORE (CTGO) <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\">gained by 5.35%<\/span><\/strong> today to \n    <strong>$24.02 per share<\/strong> and <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\"><strong>new 52-week highs<\/strong><\/span> \n    of <strong><span style=\"color:#27ae60;\">above<\/span> $26.88 per share<\/strong> are coming followed by \n    <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\"><strong>new all-time highs<\/strong><\/span> of \n    <strong><span style=\"color:#27ae60;\">above<\/span> $33.67 per share<\/strong>.\n  <\/p>\n\n  <p style=\"text-align:center;\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ctgo2402.jpg\" \n         alt=\"CTGO chart\" \n         style=\"max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px;\">\n  <\/p>\n\n  <p>One year from now compare the trailing twelve-month performance of <strong>Contango ORE (CTGO)<\/strong> vs. \n    <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\"><strong>all producing<\/strong><\/span> \n    <span style=\"color:#f1c40f;\"><strong>gold miners<\/strong><\/span> and look at what company is \n    <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\"><strong>#1<\/strong><\/span>.\n  <\/p>\n\n  <p>Here are the terms of <strong>CTGO\u2019s 2021 <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\">purchase agreement<\/span><\/strong> \n    of <strong>Lucky Shot<\/strong>:\n  <\/p>\n\n  <p><strong>CTGO<\/strong> paid an initial $5 million in cash plus a $6.25 million promissory note \n    which it has already paid off in cash = $11.25 million.\n  <\/p>\n\n  <p>Importantly, there are some future milestone payments:<\/p>\n\n  <h2 style=\"font-size:16px; margin-top:20px;\">Contingent milestone payments (performance-based)<\/h2>\n\n  <p>There are two potential milestone tiers tied to \n    <strong>gold resource or production thresholds<\/strong>:\n  <\/p>\n\n  <div style=\"overflow-x:auto; margin:10px 0;\">\n    <table style=\"width:100%; border-collapse:collapse; min-width:600px;\">\n      <thead style=\"background:#f9f9f9;\">\n        <tr>\n          <th style=\"border:1px solid #ddd; padding:8px;\">Milestone<\/th>\n          <th style=\"border:1px solid #ddd; padding:8px;\">Trigger (either\/or)<\/th>\n          <th style=\"border:1px solid #ddd; padding:8px;\">Cash Payment<\/th>\n          <th style=\"border:1px solid #ddd; padding:8px;\">Shares Payment<\/th>\n          <th style=\"border:1px solid #ddd; padding:8px;\">Total Value (nominal)<\/th>\n        <\/tr>\n      <\/thead>\n      <tbody>\n        <tr>\n          <td style=\"border:1px solid #ddd; padding:8px;\"><strong>Milestone 1<\/strong><\/td>\n          <td style=\"border:1px solid #ddd; padding:8px;\">\u2265 500,000 oz gold resource <strong>OR<\/strong> 30,000 oz cumulative gold production (Ag counted 65:1)<\/td>\n          <td style=\"border:1px solid #ddd; padding:8px;\"><strong>US $5 million<\/strong><\/td>\n          <td style=\"border:1px solid #ddd; padding:8px;\"><strong>US $3.75 million<\/strong> (in CTGO shares, based on 30-day VWAP)<\/td>\n          <td style=\"border:1px solid #ddd; padding:8px;\"><strong>US $8.75 million<\/strong><\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n          <td style=\"border:1px solid #ddd; padding:8px;\"><strong>Milestone 2<\/strong><\/td>\n          <td style=\"border:1px solid #ddd; padding:8px;\">\u2265 1,000,000 oz gold resource <strong>OR<\/strong> 60,000 oz cumulative gold production (Ag counted 65:1)<\/td>\n          <td style=\"border:1px solid #ddd; padding:8px;\"><strong>US $5 million<\/strong><\/td>\n          <td style=\"border:1px solid #ddd; padding:8px;\"><strong>US $5 million<\/strong> (in CTGO shares, based on 30-day VWAP)<\/td>\n          <td style=\"border:1px solid #ddd; padding:8px;\"><strong>US $10 million<\/strong><\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr style=\"background:#f9f9f9;\">\n          <td style=\"border:1px solid #ddd; padding:8px;\"><strong>Subtotal (if both achieved)<\/strong><\/td>\n          <td style=\"border:1px solid #ddd; padding:8px;\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n          <td style=\"border:1px solid #ddd; padding:8px;\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n          <td style=\"border:1px solid #ddd; padding:8px;\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n          <td style=\"border:1px solid #ddd; padding:8px;\"><strong>US $18.75 million<\/strong><\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n      <\/tbody>\n    <\/table>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <p><strong>What we would do is perfectly define a \n    <span style=\"color:#f1c40f;\">495,000 oz<\/span> gold resource this winter and pay the $18.75 million in future milestones \n    out of Lucky Shot\u2019s future <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\">production<\/span> because by then CTGO\u2019s market cap \n    will be at least <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\">$1\u2013$2 billion<\/span>.\n  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n  <p style=\"font-size:12px; font-style:italic; color:#555; margin-top:20px;\">\n    Past performance is not an indicator of future returns. NIA is not an investment advisor and does not provide investment advice. \n    Always do your own research and make your own investment decisions. NIA has received compensation from CTGO of US$80,000 cash \n    for ten months of coverage. NIA\u2019s President has purchased 2,000 shares of CTGO in the open market and intends to buy more shares. \n    This message is for informational and educational purposes only and does not provide investment advice.\n  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contango ORE (CTGO) gained by 5.35% today to $24.02 per share and new 52-week highs of above $26.88 per share are coming followed by new all-time highs of above $33.67 per share. One year from now compare the trailing twelve-month performance of Contango ORE (CTGO) vs. all producing gold miners and look at what company [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5057,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,9,49,17,24],"class_list":["post-5055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technicals","tag-copper","tag-ctgo","tag-gold","tag-lead","tag-silver","tag-zinc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5055","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=5055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5058,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5055\/revisions\/5058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}