how to benefit from australia’s gold mining renaissance by barry dawes, paradigmn securities
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Barry DawesB Sc FAusIMM(CP) MSAA MSEG
Head of Resources
Paradigm Securities
Australia’s Gold Sector Renaissance
How to play it
Mines and Money
Sydney 16 -17 October 2012
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Australia’s Gold Renaissance
• High gold prices have boosted gold output• Exploration expenditures recovering• Entrepreneurial sector active again • Substantial earnings and dividend boosts • Operational gains not reflected in market• Sector underowned and undervalued• Expect major upward rerating
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Australia’s Gold Renaissance
• High gold prices have boosted gold output
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Australian Gold Mine Production (tonnes)
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Contribution by State (tonnes)
Source:ABARE Paradigm
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Australia’s Gold Renaissance
• High gold prices have boosted gold output• Exploration expenditures recovering• Entrepreneurial sector active again
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Australian Gold Exploration (A$m annualised)
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Australia’s Gold Regions
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Australian Gold’s Many Regions
• WA Yilgarn Achaean Greenstone biggest• NSW Lachlan Fold Belt next ranked• Queensland epithermals and porphyries D• Rise of Tanamai & revival of Tennant Ck• WA’s Ashburton, Gascoyne and Pilbara
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Significance of Yilgarn Craton
• Produces ~7% world gold • Some of world’s great mines• Major infrastructure and services centre• Focus of technical innovation• Continual appraisal of resources• Brownfields developments• Deeper drilling brings extensions
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Yilgarn Archean Greenstone Belt
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Exploration Deepened
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Gascoyne Belt
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Central Tanami
Source: Tanami Gold
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Gold Sector Outlook• Gold price to exceed US$2000/oz, then $5000• Global mines supply beginning to rise slowly• But Australian gold to rise 50% to >390t by FY16• Development and exploration upside • Global gold sector equities very cheap• Sector is globally underowned• Earnings and dividends to rise sharply• Only early stages of major bull market!!
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US$ Gold Sector Outlook
• North America biggest markets
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US$ Gold Price 1800- 2012
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Long Term Gold Price
Source: Eric de Groot
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30 year US$ Gold Price
Source: Stockcharts
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Very Long Term US Gold Stocks
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Long Term US Gold Shares
Source: Stcokcharts
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Gold Stocks vs Gold -1985-2012
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XAU vs S&P 500
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Australian Gold Sector
• Severely undervalued
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A$ Gold Price
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Long Term ASX 300 Gold Index
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ASX Gold IndexCorrections from Most Recent Index High
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ASX 300 Gold Index Vs A$ Gold
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A$ vs US$ 1913 - 2012
Source: Thechartstore.com
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Monthly A$ vs US Gold Index (XAU)
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Market Sentiment• Excessive global fear shuns equities• Market ignores value• Herd mentality prevails• Safe havens of bonds and cash overdone• Fear has been > greed; but FOMO lurking• Extraordinary value abounds
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Sentiment ignores value
• Sentiment driving markets• Two decades of indifference to make up• Institutional investors ignorant of sector• Retail investors lose speculative juices• Cash mountain to pour into market
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Household Assets
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ASX 300 (mthly close) vs Australian Bank Deposits (A$bn)
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Pessimism before OptimismEveryone knows about :-• Europe debacle• China Slowdown• US Great Recession…but..
Massive discounts and cash mountains only occur at early
stages of bull markets!!
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Gold Sector Market Psychology
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US Equities Testing Resistance
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Australian Gold Mining Industry• Current renaissance only in its infancy• Major companies provide bulk of output• Junior sector gold production surging• Industry still fragmented• Capital management restrained• Carried forward tax losses limit franking• Emphasis on adding oz rather than $$
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Challenges for Gold Industry• Capital management maturity • Focus on NPV and IRR• Containment of costs• Increase dividend payments• Consolidation and growth• Encourage new entrants• Step up greenfield exploration
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NPV Mining – Focus on IRR
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Gold Mine 28% NPV increase
Base Case Optimised Case
Source: Whittle Consulting
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How to play gold equities
• First, 100s stocks to choose from• Second, diversified multistock portfolio• Core position in leaders• Spread of second liners• Broad basket of numerous smaller stocks• Invest for the cycle not a 10% trade• See Paradigm Securities!!
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Conclusions• Gold to regain currency role• Gold prices to rise and be strong for years • Gold equities to again provide generational returns • Capital flows between sectors critical to outlook • Vast capital requirement in new large and small projects • Earnings and dividends to be remarkable• A$ to be very strong• Expect a major Australian Mining Boom
The `Optimism’ leg now underway!
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Wave Market Psychology
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Wave Market Psychology
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Disbelief
Optimism
Pessimism
Opportunity
Euphoria
Sir John Templeton: “Bull markets are born on pessimism, grow on scepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria. The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy and the time of maximum optimism is the best time to sell”