Investor Perception
Quimbaya Gold’s strategic give attention to Colombia gives a compelling alternative for gold exploration in a prolific, but underexplored area supported by a positive allowing surroundings. The upside potential is worthy of examination by any savvy investor.
Overview
Quimbaya Gold (CSE:QIM) is a junior gold exploration firm targeted on its high-grade gold tasks in Colombia. The corporate’s portfolio spans 59,057 hectares throughout three extremely potential areas within the Antioquia mining district. This area is liable for roughly 50 p.c of Colombia’s complete gold manufacturing, equal to round 1 million ounces (Moz) yearly.
Positioned proper subsequent to Aris Mining’s (TSX:ARIS) Segovia mine, Quimbaya leverages its proximity to established infrastructure and gold-rich geological formations. With Colombia being one of the underexplored but high mining jurisdictions in South America, Quimbaya’s tasks are uniquely poised for vital discoveries.
Quimbaya’s tasks profit from Colombia’s favorable allowing surroundings, enabling quicker transitions from discovery to manufacturing, in comparison with its world friends. Quimbaya’s technique focuses on worth creation by new discoveries and monetizing them by way of strategic transactions, together with joint ventures and operational contracts.
Quimbaya has established a significant partnership with Independence Drilling, Colombia’s largest drilling firm with over 40 years of expertise. The settlement secures 100,000 meters of drilling over 5 years, with Independence Drilling accepting a part of its cost in Quimbaya shares. This revolutionary construction demonstrates sturdy confidence in Quimbaya’s tasks, guaranteeing cost-effective and environment friendly drilling operations.
The corporate’s administration group brings intensive and deep experience in exploration in Colombia, company finance and venture improvement. Quimbaya trades on a number of exchanges: CSE (QIM), OTCQB (QIMGF), and FSE (K05).
Tahami Challenge (Flagship)
The Tahami venture is positioned in Segovia, Antioquia, adjoining to Aris Mining’s Segovia mine, one of many highest-grade gold mines on the earth. Spanning 17,087 hectares, Tahami’s geology options mesothermal veins with a number of mineralization occasions underlain by Precambrian metamorphic rocks consolidated inside the San Lucas Gneiss unit.
A number of vein techniques from Aris Mining’s Segovia venture, together with the Sandra Ok and El Silencio veins, prolong in direction of Quimbaya’s tenements. Each the Sandra Ok and El Silencio veins align with structural orientations of identified high-grade deposits. The venture additionally boasts greater than 25 historic artisanal mines, underscoring its prospectively.
Quimbaya’s exploration plan for Tahami entails leveraging superior geochemical and geophysical surveys to generate drill targets. These efforts will likely be complemented by fashionable 3D geological modelling and an preliminary drilling marketing campaign to check high-grade zones. The mixing of historic knowledge and cutting-edge know-how positions Tahami as a major asset for discovery. The preliminary drilling marketing campaign is anticipated to begin by late Q2 of 2025 and can prioritize the high-grade targets recognized in preliminary exploration work.
Positioned in Abejorral, Antioquia, 80 kilometers south of Medellín, the Maitamac venture spans 33,223 hectares and gives glorious highway entry. This rising gold metallogenic district options mesothermal veins and potential porphyry gold-copper techniques.
Preliminary floor rock samples have reported gold grades of as much as 3.2 g/t, with stream sediments revealing over 1 g/t gold. Recognized as a promising district by the Colombian Geological Companies, Maitamac is positioned alongside the previous producing ABE venture and structural hall which has produced mined shoots averaging 26 g/t gold.
Group
Alexandre P. Boivin – CEO & Director
Alexandre Boivin is an entrepreneur with greater than 10 years of expertise in company finance and Colombian mining. By means of his intensive expertise within the mining business, company finance, capital markets and enterprise improvement, Boivin has been instrumental in managing and funding early-stage firms by a community of companions and traders immersed within the capital markets. Beneath his management, Quimbaya Gold has secured vital investments to advance its exploration tasks. His dedication to the corporate’s development is additional demonstrated by his substantial shareholding in Quimbaya Gold.
Olivier Berthiaume – CFO & Director
Olivier Berthiaume is an accountant with over 12 years of expertise working with early-stage firms within the Canadian markets. He holds a Bachelor of Enterprise Administration from HEC Montreal and makes a speciality of private-to-public market transactions, compliance, company governance, and company development methods. Berthiaume has held varied director and officer positions in junior mining firms.
Ricardo Sierra – Exploration Supervisor
Ricardo Sierra is knowledgeable financial Geologist with over 18 years of exploration expertise in Colombia-Chile-Cuba-Brazil in orogenic, mesothermal, porphyry kind deposits, epithermal techniques, and stratabound. Sierra began his profession with ANGLO AMERICAN as an exploration geologist in greenfield and brownfield exploration, supervising diamond drilling on their Colombian properties. His information in vein techniques, important in understanding mineralization processes, was honed whereas exploration superintendent with Continental Gold (now Zijin Mining Group) on their Buritica (Antioquia) deposit, additionally of their regional exploration (Choco, Nariño, Cauca, Antioquia). Sierra graduated in 2007 as a geologist from Universidad de Caldas (Colombia). He’s a member of the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (MAusIMM) and is a certified particular person (QP) as outlined by Nationwide Instrument 43-101, additionally he’s a Competent Particular person (CP) of Comision Colombiana de Recursos y Reservas Mineras (CCRR).
Dr. Stewart Redwood – Senior Technical Advisor
Stewart Redwood is a distinguished geological advisor with greater than 40 years of expertise in mineral exploration and financial geology, specializing in epithermal, porphyry and skarn deposits, significantly in Latin America and the Caribbean. His notable achievements embrace vital discoveries, together with the San Cristobal silver-zinc deposit in Bolivia, the Romero gold-copper deposit within the Dominican Republic, and the Antamina copper-zinc venture in Peru, acknowledged because the world’s largest copper skarn deposit. All through his profession, Redwood has held key positions in outstanding mining and exploration firms, together with as chief geologist Latin America for AngloGold Ashanti, founder president and CEO of GoldQuest Mining, and VP exploration of Colombia Goldfields (which merged with Gran Colombia Gold). He has been instrumental within the success of Gran Colombia Gold’s Marmato venture (now owned by Aris Mining), at the moment an 8.8 Moz deposit within the development stage.
Nicolas Lopez Villegas – Technical Advisor
A Colombian native, with over 28 years of expertise targeted within the mining district of Antioquia, at the moment the CEO of MINING BRAIN SAS, Nicolas Lopez, leads this consulting firm advising on the implementation, improvement of sustainable mining tasks throughout Colombia. Previous to the institution of his consultancy follow, Lopez spent 12 years as Colombia & Nicaragua’s nation supervisor for IAMGOLD, having devoted the earlier 10 years with MINEROS SA as head of exploration & geology. Villegas performed a pivotal position in main discoveries, together with the primary porphyry copper-gold deposit within the Colombian center Cauca belt, often known as Titiribi. a considerably wealthy gold-copper geological area. As a seasoned govt in gold exploration, Villegas holds a geology diploma from Universidad de Caldas (Colombia), a Governance in Oil & Mining diploma from Oxford College (UK) and he’s a Certified Particular person (QP).
Terence Ortslan – Advisor
Terence Ortslan is a seasoned useful resource govt with over 40 years of expertise, having served in advisory capacities throughout the mining, metals, and fertilizer sectors. He supplies steerage on funding and technical points of the business, in addition to strategic and coverage recommendation tailor-made to mining firms. Moreover, Ortslan advises monetary establishments on funding selections, gives route to worldwide business organizations, and consults with governments on fiscal and industrial laws. He additionally helps universities in enhancing their instructional requirements and assists firms with decision-making, boardroom management, shareholder worth enhancement, and strengthening ES parameters. Ortslan holds a Bachelor of Engineering & Utilized Geophysics and an MBA from McGill College.
