Monday, December 23, 2013

Seeking Alpha: Alacer Gold Looks Like A Low-Cost Miner That Nobody Wants To Love

The history of Alacer Gold (OTCPK:ALIAF) (ASR.TO) hasn't been a conventional one. Once a junior gold company focused solely on Turkey and known as Anatolia Minerals, Alacer came out of a merger of Anatolia and Avoca Resources in 2011 that added assets in Australia. Recently the company sold its Australian assets and has essentially become Anatolia all over again - a company with a very low-cost producing gold mine in Turkey, but one with very limited conventional production life left.

Alacer does have some worthwhile exploration assets in Turkey (which it owns through a 50/50 joint venture), as well as follow-on expansion potential at the core Copler mine. The real key, though, is moving forward with a plan to process sulfides - a move that would unlock more than 60% of the company's measured and indicated resources. With declining gold prices making investors and analysts exceptionally nervous in general, and an uncertain path forward with the sulfide process making them specifically nervous about Alacer, there could be some real value here.

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Alacer Gold Looks Like A Low-Cost Miner That Nobody Wants To Love

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