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Junior miners suffer financing drought | CanadianBusiness.com

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80% of Canadian mining companies are struggling to raise capital – PDACJunior miners suffer financing drought By Matthew McClearn  | September 20, 2012

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(Photo: John Lehmann/Canadian Press)
Junior mining companies, for which Vancouver is a global hub, tend to swing to extremes. Buoyed by a commodities supercycle, a year ago even sketchier explorers could obtain financing on favourable terms. Today the entire sector is parched for capital as continuing turmoil in Europe and risk aversion throttle equity and debt markets. The Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada estimates 80% of Canadian mining companies are struggling to raise capital.
“Some juniors are still trying to raise money in the market, but at a reduced share price,” says Gavin Dirom, president and CEO of the Association for Mineral Exploration British Columbia. “Others have been able to build up enough resources in the prior year or two and weather the storm. Some are reducing the scope of work and trimming budgets.”
Junior miners seldom can rely on banks to see them through tough times. They instead traditionally turn to resource-centered mutual funds, strong-stomached private investors and boutique investment banks. This time companies are said to be turning to other sources, too, like Asian sovereign wealth funds.
The Halifax-based Metals Economics Group sees no relief this year. Analyst Justin Desrochers says that given the recent lull in bad news from Europe and the U.S., he sees light at the end of the tunnel. But it may not come soon enough. “A lot of juniors will try to raise money at the end of a calendar year when they have their exploration results from the summer in hand,” he says. “I don’t know if that’s going to happen this year.”

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