Co. Draws Even Closer To Discovering a Big Gold Deposit in Nevada
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If ever a mining company can be said to be "in the right place at the right time" Westward Gold Inc. (WG:CSE; WGLIF:OTCMKTS) takes the cake.

The company has consolidated a very high potential Carlin style land package in the heart of the Battle Mountain — Eureka / Cortez Gold Trend in Nevada with a crack team of very experienced and accomplished geologists who believe they have defined the location of the "Motherlode" of the project — and this at a time when gold is in a robust and accelerating bull market.

Nevada is a very good place to look for gold.

Westward's technical team has a history of major discovery successes.

An advantage of the 5,500-hectare land package, which is comprised of three properties (four if you add in the East Saddle extension acquired in April of this year) — Toiyabe, Turquoise Canyon, and East Saddle — is that they are contiguous, meaning that they butt each other and thus for practical purposes can be considered to be one property.

This is very important because Westward's geological team has determined that the Motherlode lies in the so-called Campfire Target that straddles the three properties. This is why it has never been drilled — it straddled three properties with different owners.

The solution? Buy or gain control of all three (four) and then you can go ahead and drill it without reservation (no pun intended), and that is exactly what they plan to do.

The map on the following slide from the company's November 2024 investor deck shows the land areas comprising the property and how they fit together neatly to form one large project.

It is certainly helpful that the company has acquired and consolidated these contiguous properties given that its highly experienced geological team has determined that the motherlode is situated in the Campfire target, which straddles their boundaries.

Toiyabe Hills is a district scale project and on the following slide we can see how it is the dominant land position in the area.

In addition to the Toiyabe Hills Project Westward, also acquired in 2022, the Coyote and Rossi projects further up the Carlin Trend, which are 100% owned by the company and 9 square km in extent.

The 2024 Field Season has been unlocking new targets.

See the company's investor deck for more details on the geology of the properties.

The last slide from the deck shows the capitalization of the company. On it we see that of the 117 million shares out (189.4 million fully diluted), Management and large stakeholders have about 34% of them with the balance of 66% being in the hands of HNW (high net worth) individuals and retail investors.

The charts for Westward Gold present a classic strongly bullish setup, and while even the most promising setup doesn't always deliver simply because, on occasion, unexpected developments can "come out of left field," what they certainly do indicate is a high probability of a positive outcome — that is to say, in this case, a major bull market getting underway soon.

On the 5-year chart, we can see how, after peaking at about CA$0.33 in 2021, Westward went into a severe bear market that took it all the way down to just 5 cents by the time it hit bottom in the Fall of 2022. Thereafter a giant Double Bottom base pattern formed with the price retracing back to the 5 cent level again as recently as this past September.

What is remarkable on this chart is the steady upward march of the Accumulation line that began as far back as late 2021. with it continuing to make new highs despite the price plumbing the lows.

While this doesn't guarantee that the stock will perform — it hasn't had any positive effect on the price so far — it is a sign of internal strength despite the low price that increases the probability of a bull market gaining traction and the more pronounced this positive divergence, the more likely it is that a new bull market will begin, and self-evidently it is very pronounced here. The good news for investors thinking of buying the stock here is that there is still everything to go for because the stock is still not far off the lows of the Double Bottom.

Zooming in via the 30-month chart enables us to see that the sharp rally out of the first low of the Double Bottom was followed by a reversal into the curved downtrend shown that dragged on for 17 months and brought the price back down to Double Bottom at 5 cents in September with the earlier low.

We can also see on this chart that downside momentum (MACD) has been steadily dropping out all this year to the point that it is on the point of turning positive. It is thus interesting to observe that the price has been attempting to break out of the downtrend in recent weeks and is on the point of doing it with its chances of succeeding increasing as a bullish cross of the moving averages looks imminent. The first target, if it gets moving from here as expected, is the band of resistance approaching 12 cents.

Zooming in even more using a 6-month chart, I noticed several additional points to observe. The first is that in recent weeks, the price appears to have been consolidating its advance out of the September lows in a rectangular trading range, with almost all of the volume since mid-September being upside volume that has driven the Accumulation line higher and higher.

This is very bullish and suggests that the pattern will resolve soon with another upleg. The minor reaction of the past week or two has brought it back to a very good entry point near to the support at the lower boundary of the range and renewed advance from here will quickly result in a cross of the moving averages which are already swinging into bullish alignment. So all in all, this looks like a very positive setup indeed, on all three of the charts that we have looked at here.

The unequivocal conclusion is that Westward Gold is rated a Strong Buy here for all time horizons.

Westward Gold's website.

Westward Gold Inc. (WG:CSE; WGLIF:OTCMKTS) closed for trading at CA$0.075, US$0.55 on December 3, 2024.