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Lafleur Minerals: One of the Few Developers With a Real Financing Path, a Mill, and Near-Term Production

Trading at under 1x forward FCF at steady state, with near-term production and non-dilutive financing optionality

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Eligian Research
Jul 02, 2026
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Most junior gold developers face a choice: prove the resource, or secure the processing infrastructure. The company in this report has both and it acquired the processing infrastructure for less than the cost of a Vancouver condo.

Here is what the market has not yet priced in:

  • A fully permitted gold mill with a C$70M replacement value, acquired for C$1M out of bankruptcy

  • A bulk sample already on site and a first gold pour targeted before year-end

  • A non-binding prepayment facility with Trafigura, structured with no equity dilution, no hedging, and repayment in gold

  • A bought deal closed at a 100%+ premium to the prevailing share price, upsized twice in the same week

  • Over 50% of shares in management hands, with a consistent SEDI record of open-market buying and no meaningful distribution

  • A VP Exploration who spent over 30 years building gold companies in this exact district and chose to join anyway

  • An enterprise value that implies the market is paying essentially nothing for any of it

This is not a compounder. It is not a slow-burn royalty. It is a binary execution story in a world-class district at a price that prices in near-total failure. The full report including the FCF model, scenario analysis, kill list, and our precise view on what happens to the share price if the next two catalysts land can be read below.

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