Kirkland Lake

is also my largest holding. My first shares were acquired in Feb 2016 when I received 90 in the takeover of St Andrew Goldfields, which had just started production on the Taylor mine. I think KL was trading at a CAD $6 handle then (they are now CAD$57)

I mention this since it was a share purchase and St Andrew shareholders got 29% of the combined company very similar to the current 27% for Detour Lake shareholders. Both takeovers also involve operations in the geographic region of KL's Canadian operation in the Abitibi greenstone belt.

So I've been looking at Detour (mostly because I have difficulty understanding the book announcing the special meeting for Kirkland voting). Detour has a very informative website that I hope will be maintained. Basic annual operations are available: https://www.detourgold.com/operations/detour-lake-mine/default.aspx and it's very easy to produce charts. https://apps.indigotools.com/IR/IAC/?Ticker=DGC&Exchange=TSX# for example quarterly gold production.

Interestingly I found a very useful write up by Franco Nevada which has a 2% NSR on the Detour Lake mine. Apparently the revised mine plan, which extends the life of mine, is also expected to reduce output in 2019 and 2020, while the West Detour project (mine) is expected to complete permitting by 2025. https://www.franco-nevada.com/our-assets/assets-list/canada/detour-lake/...

We already know KL management are excellent operators and while the reduction in Detour production may impact share pricing in the near term I expect the stock to show excellent values within intermediate term of 2-4 years, irrespective of gold price.

Does anyone know the total number of outstanding shares their will be if the deal goes through? Thanks in advance

KL share price has been stuck in the mud to down 20% since the first discussion of the Detour merger. In one of Eric Sprott's discussion he was asked when would Detour's numbers be mixed in with KL's to which Eric said imediately.

KL is estimated to report earnings around Feb 19th with I assume Detour thrown in. It will be interesting to see how the market will react. Eric also said a while back smething like 40% of KL stock was being shorted and watching pricing it sure seems that way as KL is battling the anti PM sector crowd on its own front.

Most of the miners are rallying today while KL is down 1%. I do hope after 4th qtr earnings when the miners reports show a good upside the institutional money comes flowing in and if silver increases also maybe we will finally get more positive share prices as it should be 3 to 4 times the movement of the metals. With that in mind we have some ground to make up also.

https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights/blog/mining...

Wrong link above.

https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights/trending/T-...

Hi Craig, would you stil buy Kirkland Lake shares? The price today is 48 dollars!

Thanks

Alex

Strong bounce today (~4%) after 5 red candles all last week. Maybe the $36 chance to buy is disappearing. FWIW, I added a few at $37.50 last week in addition to my March $40 calls that I got as it sank below $39.

Alex, I bought after KL went under CAD$50, it has a chance to close above that in a day or two.

Was my biggest holding for a year or two. Began taking profits around $48 and moved sales overtime to DFMTF, DSVMF, ELYGF, GLVMF, PGEZF, IRVRF, LOMLF,MAKOF, MMNGF, MAIFF, NSHRF, SMDZF, VIZSF. I also used some Great Bear, Silver Crest and Novo profits but kept core positions in those.

The point being, rather than hold onto my good profits in KL and keep waiting for the"real bull market" in PMs, I decided to compound my KL earnings. I also used some of KL and AG earnings over time to pay taxes which makes the tax impact less in my mind if I pay them with some earnings.

Selling KL seemed like a wrong decision at the time, but many of those I bought have made good earnings while KL tanked. I am hoping the new ones go up more than KL when Jamie Dimon goes to jail and the "real PM" rally starts.