Coffee with Samso: The rubber stamping of the new copper giant - Hot Chili

The anxious wait for shareholders of Hot Chili Ltd (ASX:HCH) to make the next step of the company's journey has arrived. There has been a lot of chat in the last couple of months as the company goes through this new building phase. Recently the stakeholders of Hot Chili have been experiencing bouts of confusion, frustration and generally desperately seeking information.  I think this episode of Coffee with Samso delves into all these questions. At the conclusion of the conversation, I cannot help but think that this company has so much more value than what the market is valuing it at the moment. This placement was about providing a very strong rubber stamp from the Australian Institutional investors. It was about the setting up of our register and starting to reconstruct that with an Institutional element. Christian systematically paints some colour into the following points: Corporate fund raising Composition of the incoming money Positioning the company as the sole copper ASX company with a Tier-1 project How is the funding de-risking the project The upsides of Cortadera-like satellite projects Increasing the Costa Fuego resource in magnitudes making Hot Chili a GLOBAL PLAYER Upcoming corporate activities that will allow International access to the company. Ultimately, I feel that this is one of the best Coffee with Samso that we have done together and a perfect manner to end a tumultuous year for the company and the copper-gold sector. This conversation sets the tone for a very promising 2021 for all stakeholders of the company. Podcast: About Hot Chili Hot Chili is an ASX-listed copper explorer and developer with an exciting portfolio of projects at low altitude in Region III on the coastal range of Chile. The company is developing a central copper hub named Costa Fuego, which combines all three of its projects (Cortadera, Productora and San Antonio) into what is considered to be one of the most desirable copper development locations in the world. With a combined mineral resource base of 2.9Mt copper, 2.7Moz gold, 9.9Moz silver and 64Kt molybdenum, the addition of the maiden Cortadera mineral resource ranks Costa Fuego amongst the largest copper mineral resources along the Chilean coastal range. Cortadera Copper Project Cortadera’s maiden resource positions Hot Chili with the largest copper mineral resource and one of the largest gold mineral resources for an ASX-listed emerging company. The Cortadera maiden resource of 451Mt at 0.46% copper equivalent (CuEq) takes the total MRE for Costa Fuego (Cortadera, Productora & El Fuego) to 724Mt at 0.48% CuEq for 2.9Mt copper, 2.7Moz gold, 9.9Moz Silver and 64kt molybdenum. Cortadera also contains a higher-grade component of 104Mt at 0.74% CuEq, and this has strong potential to continue growing rapidly with further drilling. For further information on the Cortadera Maiden Resource please click on this link ASX Release - Maiden Resource at Cortadera. Hot Chili’s combined Costa Fuego project now ranks as one of the world’s largest low-altitude, clean concentrate (no arsenic), copper-gold mineral resources not controlled by a major mining company, in what is considered to be one of the most desirable copper development locations in the world. Importantly, Cortadera lies 14km from the Company’s large-scale Productora copper development and adjacent to the high-grade El Fuego satellite copper projects. In February 2019, Hot Chili announced the execution of a formal option agreement to acquire a 100% interest in Cortadera. Since announcing the deal, Hot Chili has delivered six of the world’s best copper-gold porphyry drill results from Cuerpo 3 (the largest of the four porphyries discovered to date), confirming Cortadera as one of the most significant copper-gold discoveries of the past decade in Chile. Location map of the Cortadera Copper Project. Productora Copper Project Productora is one of the best located large-scale copper developments globally (coastal range of Chile, low altitude, infrastructure rich, low capital intensity). Mineral resources already stand at 1.5Mt copper and 1Moz gold, with an ore reserve of 167Mt established which underpins long life, bulk open-pit production, over a 10-year mine life, with first eight years production averaging 66kt copper and 25koz gold annually. Productora is 100% owned by a Chilean incorporated company Sociedad Minera El Aguila SpA (SMEA). SMEA is a joint venture company, 80% owned by Sociedad Minera El Corazón Limitada (a 100% subsidiary of Hot Chili Limited), and 20%-owned by CMP Productora (a 100% subsidiary of Compañía Minera del Pacífico SA (CMP). Location map of the Productora Copper Project. El Fuego Copper Project To achieve the company’s expanded growth strategy, Hot Chili has executed agreements to secure majority interest in two of the region’s highest grade and most substantial underground mines - San Antonio and Valentina, collectively known as El Fuego. El Fuego is 20km east of Productora, where the company has completed a first-pass 5,000m drilling program across two consolidated high-grade copper mines (San Antonio and Valentina), which had seen little previous modern exploration owing to their private ownership for over 50 years. The majority of drilling was directed towards San Antonio which had reportedly produced approximately 2M tonnes grading 2% copper and 0.3 g/t gold and 17 g/t silver from shallow depths since mining commenced in 1964. Location map of the El Fuego Copper Project. Selected significant results: 9m grading 2.0% copper from 132m down-hole depth, 6m grading 2.1% copper from 65m down-hole depth, 19m grading 2.0% copper from 61m down-hole depth (including 11m grading 2.4% copper), 15m grading 1.7% copper from 80m down-hole depth, 10m grading 1.6% copper from 58m down-hole depth (including 4m grading 2.7% copper), 5m grading 2.5% copper from 31m down-hole depth (including 2m grading 4.3% copper). Successful first-pass drilling at El Fuego has highlighted a shallow copper deposit which will add further scale to Hot Chili’s targeted high-grade resource inventory. About Christian Easterday Christian Easterday is a geologist with more than 20 years of experience in the mineral exploration and mining industry. He holds an honours degree in geology from the University of Western Australia, a Masters degree in Mineral Economics from Curtin University of Technology and a Masters degree in Business Administration from Curtin’s Graduate School of Business. Easterday has held several senior positions and exploration management roles with top-tier gold companies including Placer Dome, Hill 50 Gold and Harmony Gold, specialising in structural geology, resource development and mineral economic valuation. For the past eight years, he has been involved in various aspects of project negotiation. This work has involved negotiations and valuations covering gold, copper, uranium, iron ore, nickel and tantalum resource projects in Australia and overseas. Easterday is a member of The Australian Institute of Geoscientists. 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