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The Quick Take

  • Red Cloud initiated coverage on Libero Copper and Gold, its favorite copper explorer, with a Buy rating and a CA$1.40 per share target price.
  • Red Cloud ranks Libero Buy because it offers investors exposure to a pipeline of porphyry copper projects and has an existing resource, reported mining analyst Taylor Combaluzier in a Jan. 9 research note.
  • Libero is significantly undervalued, trading at a sizable discount to its peers.
  • The copper company's projects are:
    • Mocoa, in Colombia, with a large existing resource and offering big upside.
    • Big Bulk and Big Red, in British Columbia's Golden Triangle, each of which could result in an economic discovery as 2021 drill results showed a mineralized system present at both.
    • Esperanza in Argentina's prolific Huachi Mining district, which could be another Filo del Sol project.
  • Mocoa's existing Inferred resource consists of 4,600,000,000 pounds of copper 511,000,000 pounds of molybdenum.
  • Libero plans to carry out drill programs at all four projects this year.
  • With CA$14.8 million on the balance sheet, the explorer is fully funded through 2022.
  • The company's management team has experience in developing world-class copper deposits.
  • Libero shareholders include Anglo Asian Mining (19.9%), B2Gold (4.3%), Sprott Asset Management (3.3%), and U.S. Global Investors (2%).

This year, Libero Copper and Gold Corp. (LBC:TSX.V:, LBCMF:OTCQB) intends to advance all four of its copper projects via drilling, reported Red Cloud Securities analyst Taylor Combaluzier.

A rig is now being mobilized to Mocoa for the upcoming 5,000 meter (5,000m) expansion drill campaign.

"We firmly believe Mocoa is a hidden gem in Libero's portfolio," Combaluzier wrote, adding the project's current inferred resource is 636,000,000 tons of 0.45% copper equivalent, using a 0.25% grade cutoff. "We believe drilling success that allows Libero to expand the resource or upgrade the existing Inferred resources to a higher classification level could potentially help push the stock higher."

The analyst noted that Mocoa is located in a mining-friendly jurisdiction that wants to become the world's third largest copper producer and, thus, play a key role in the global transition to green energy. This is advantageous to Libero.

Combaluzier pointed out that the explorer's projects Argentina and British Columbia offer "vast exploration potential." As such, Libero plans to drill 5,000m at Esperanza this year to confirm the depth and size of the target there. The explorer is waiting to receive the necessary drill permits, which are expected in Q1/22. Drill campaigns at Big Red and Big Bulk also are schedule to take place in 2022, starting in July.

Overall with its copper assets, Libero is well-positioned, Combaluzier purported, to capitalize on the future demand for copper, by the world and by the mining majors, driven by the global shift toward electric vehicle and green energy use.

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