In a Dec. 17 analysis be aware, BMO Capital Markets analyst Andrew Mikitchook reported that Pretium Resources Inc. (PVG:TSX; PVG:NYSE) made a brand new discovery on the Hanging Glacier zone, which is 4 kilometers northwest of its Brucejack mine in British Columbia.

“Though nonetheless early, the constant mineralization over broad intervals at shallow depths is encouraging and highlights the exploration leverage round Brucejack as a district,” Mikitchook wrote.

The analyst reviewed the outcomes of 2020 drilling in Hanging Glacier, which examined soil anomalies and adopted up on mineralization encountered in 2015.

Drilling at North Hanging Glacier encountered mineralization with grades and thicknesses corresponding to these of the ore now being mined at Brucejack. Particularly, a 100-meter (100m) stepout from a earlier gap, intersected 1.3 grams per ton (1.3 g/t) gold over 101m, together with 0.68 g/t gold over 10.5m, together with 2.1 g/t gold over 102m, together with 9.55 g/t gold over 13m.

At South Hanging Glacier, the drill bit hit broad intervals of low-grade gold plus a shorter intercept in an epithermal-style vein: 8.97 g/t gold and 5,150 g/t silver over 1m.

About 30 kilometers east-southeast of Hanging Glacier is the Koopa zone. Drill outcomes from there returned 0.94 g/t gold over 1.5m and 1,675 g/t silver, 2.72% lead and seven.23% zinc over 1.1m.

“These outcomes spotlight the exploration potential regionally to Brucejack that, in our opinion, is broadly undervalued by the market,” commented Mikitchook.

Subsequent yr, the analyst identified, Pretium plans 195,000m of drilling to embody three varieties: definition (40%), in useful resource and sustaining (20%) and useful resource growth (40%). Of the entire, 10,000m will likely be drilled within the Hanging Glacier zone in mild of the 2020 outcomes. One other 8,000m are slated to check for added targets close to the Brucejack mine and to increase the mineralization across the identical.

BMO has an Outperform ranking and a CA$18.50 per share goal worth on Pretium. The inventory is buying and selling now at about CA$14.53 per share.

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