{"id":5646,"date":"2025-12-12T18:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T23:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/?p=5646"},"modified":"2025-12-12T18:14:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T23:14:20","slug":"nia-warned-about-frank-giustra-argenta-silver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/articles\/nia-warned-about-frank-giustra-argenta-silver\/","title":{"rendered":"NIA Warned About Frank Giustra&#8217;s Argenta Silver"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:1.55; color:#111;\">\n\n  <p style=\"margin:0 0 12px 0;\">\n    <strong style=\"font-size:18px; font-weight:bold;\">\n      Update: Our August 31 <span style=\"color:#e74c3c;\">Warning<\/span> on Argenta Silver vs. Minaurum Was\n      <span style=\"color:#2980b9;\">Correct<\/span>\n    <\/strong>\n  <\/p>\n\n  <p style=\"margin:0 0 12px 0;\">\n    On <strong>August 31<\/strong>, NIA issued a\n    <span style=\"color:#e74c3c;\"><strong>cautionary<\/strong><\/span> alert regarding\n    <strong>Frank Giustra&rsquo;s Argenta Silver (TSXV: AGAG)<\/strong>, explaining why we believed\n    <strong>Minaurum Gold (TSXV: MGG)<\/strong> offered a\n    <strong>\n      <span style=\"color:#2980b9;\">far superior<\/span>\n      <span style=\"color:#e74c3c;\">risk<\/span>&#8211;<span style=\"color:#27ae60;\">reward<\/span>\n      profile\n    <\/strong>.\n  <\/p>\n\n  <p style=\"margin:0 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\"\n      src=\"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/argentasilvervsminaurum.jpg\"\n      alt=\"\"\n      style=\"max-width:100%; width:100%; height:auto; display:block; margin:0 auto; border-radius:6px;\"\n    >\n  <\/p>\n\n  <p style=\"margin:0 0 10px 0;\">\n    <strong>The chart above shows what has happened since our warning:<\/strong>\n  <\/p>\n\n  <p style=\"margin:0 0 12px 0;\">\n    <strong>Minaurum Gold (TSXV: MGG):<\/strong>\n    <strong><span style=\"color:#27ae60;\">+29.51%<\/span><\/strong><br>\n    <strong>Argenta Silver (TSXV: AGAG):<\/strong>\n    <strong><span style=\"color:#e74c3c;\">-11.49%<\/span><\/strong><br>\n    <strong>Performance gap:<\/strong>\n    <strong><span style=\"color:#2980b9;\">~41 percentage points<\/span><\/strong>\n  <\/p>\n\n  <p style=\"margin:0 0 12px 0;\">\n    This divergence is not random: it reflects the\n    <strong>fundamental differences<\/strong> we highlighted in our August 31 analysis\n    (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/articles\/thoughts-on-argenta-silver-tsxv-agag\/\"><strong>click here<\/strong><\/a>\n    to read <strong>NIA&#8217;s August 31st <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\">alert<\/span><\/strong>).\n  <\/p>\n\n  <p style=\"margin:0 0 8px 0;\">\n    <strong style=\"color:#2980b9;\">Why the market is starting to agree with our analysis:<\/strong>\n  <\/p>\n\n  <ul style=\"margin:0 0 12px 22px; padding:0;\">\n    <li style=\"margin:0 0 8px 0;\">\n      <strong>Giustra has done some world-class deals<\/strong>\u2026 but he has also been involved with more\n      <strong>promotional<\/strong> type of plays.\n    <\/li>\n    <li style=\"margin:0 0 8px 0;\">\n      A real example was <strong>Los Filos<\/strong> in Mexico (later sold to\n      <strong>Equinox Gold<\/strong>), which became one of the\n      <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\"><strong>largest<\/strong><\/span>\n      <span style=\"color:#f1c40f;\"><strong>gold mines<\/strong><\/span> in Mexico.\n      <strong>Los Filos<\/strong> was originally\n      <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\"><strong>discovered<\/strong><\/span> by\n      <strong>David M. Jones<\/strong>, co-founder of\n      <strong>Minaurum Gold (TSXV: MGG)<\/strong>.\n    <\/li>\n    <li style=\"margin:0 0 8px 0;\">\n      By contrast, <strong>Argenta&rsquo;s El Quevar<\/strong> has\n      <span style=\"color:#e74c3c;\"><strong>raised red flags<\/strong><\/span>:\n      <strong>complex sulphosalt mineralogy<\/strong> and reported impurities like\n      <strong>arsenic, antimony, and bismuth<\/strong>, which can lead to\n      <strong>smelter penalties<\/strong> and recovery challenges.\n    <\/li>\n  <\/ul>\n\n  <p style=\"margin:0 0 8px 0;\">\n    <strong style=\"color:#2980b9;\">Why Minaurum continues to separate itself:<\/strong>\n  <\/p>\n\n  <ul style=\"margin:0 0 14px 22px; padding:0;\">\n    <li style=\"margin:0 0 8px 0;\">\n      Metallurgical recoveries of up to\n      <strong><span style=\"color:#27ae60;\">94%<\/span> silver<\/strong> and\n      <strong><span style=\"color:#27ae60;\">96%<\/span> gold<\/strong>.\n    <\/li>\n    <li style=\"margin:0 0 8px 0;\">\n      <strong>Minaurum&rsquo;s <span style=\"color:#2980b9;\">flagship<\/span> Alamos Silver Project<\/strong>\n      is <span style=\"color:#2980b9;\"><strong>fully permitted<\/strong><\/span>.\n    <\/li>\n    <li style=\"margin:0 0 8px 0;\">\n      Minaurum signed <strong>29-year extendable ejido agreements<\/strong> covering\n      <strong>100%<\/strong> of the core project area with\n      <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\"><strong>unanimous approval<\/strong><\/span>.\n    <\/li>\n  <\/ul>\n\n  <div style=\"margin:14px 0 0 0; padding:12px; border-left:4px solid #f1c40f; background:#fff8e1;\">\n    <p style=\"margin:0;\">\n      <strong>Bottom line:<\/strong> Our August 31 warning wasn&rsquo;t about personalities: it was\n      about <strong>economics, metallurgy, permitting, and realism<\/strong>.\n    <\/p>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <p style=\"margin:12px 0 0 0; font-size:12px; line-height:1.5; color:#444;\">\n    <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 is receiving compensation from MGG of US$100,000 cash for a twelve-month marketing contract and previously received US$60,000 cash for past marketing contracts which have since expired. This message is meant for informational and educational purposes only and does not provide investment advice.<\/em>\n  <\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: Our August 31 Warning on Argenta Silver vs. Minaurum Was Correct On August 31, NIA issued a cautionary alert regarding Frank Giustra&rsquo;s Argenta Silver (TSXV: AGAG), explaining why we believed Minaurum Gold (TSXV: MGG) offered a far superior risk&#8211;reward profile . The chart above shows what has happened since our warning: Minaurum Gold (TSXV: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[163,9,84,17],"class_list":["post-5646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","tag-agag","tag-gold","tag-mgg","tag-silver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5646","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=5646"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5654,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5646\/revisions\/5654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}