Gold and Copper Private Placement: A New Prime Window

We already have a 350% gain in one tiny South American gold-and-copper explorer. Now we’re getting another chance to finance it — with warrants attached.

Gold has reclaimed its breakout level.

After surging above $5,000 earlier this year and then enduring a sharp correction, gold held near $4,000, turned higher, and has now broken back above $4,500.

As I write, it’s trading around $4,640.

That’s more than double where gold traded just two years ago — and nearly triple its 2022 lows.

But gold isn’t the only metal breaking out.

Copper is now trading around $6.70 per pound, near its all-time highs.

The long-term uptrend is unmistakable.

New mines take years — often decades — to discover, permit, finance, and construct.

Meanwhile, demand continues to rise from power grids, electric vehicles, renewable energy, data centers, defense systems, and the broader electrification of the global economy.

Gold and copper are two of the most important metals in the world.

And right now, both are telling us the same thing:

The world needs more metal than the existing mining industry can easily supply.

That creates an enormous opportunity.

But only if you know where to look.

The Index Is Hiding the Real Opportunity

The S&P/TSX Global Gold Index (TTGD) has risen roughly 264% over the period shown in the chart below.

Gold itself is up approximately 155%.

Copper has gained about 55%.

Yet the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index (JX) — the benchmark containing many of the small exploration companies responsible for finding tomorrow’s mines — is up just 13%.

Look at that gap.

Gold stocks have dramatically outperformed gold.

But the broader junior market has barely moved.

The individual charts make the divergence even clearer.

The Global Gold Index has recovered sharply and is challenging its previous high:

Meanwhile, the Venture Composite is only now attempting to break out of the downtrend that began earlier this year:

That doesn’t mean every junior mining stock is about to soar.

Far from it.

The Venture Exchange is littered with poorly financed companies, weak projects, bloated share structures, and management teams that are much better at promoting stocks than discovering mines.

You can’t simply buy every explorer and expect to get rich.

But this is precisely the kind of market where selective investors can make fortunes.

Gold is above $4,600.

Copper is near record highs.

The large gold stocks have already demonstrated how much leverage miners can provide when metal prices rise.

And hundreds of smaller explorers are still waiting for capital to notice them.

That is the setup.

Now comes the entry.

How We Add Another Layer of Leverage

Most investors buy mining stocks through a regular brokerage account.

They wait for a discovery to be announced, read the press release, pull up the ticker, and buy shares in the open market.

By then, the stock may already be up 50%, 100%, or more.

We often approach it differently.

We finance select companies through private placements before the next drilling program, acquisition, discovery, or corporate milestone is fully reflected in the stock.

That can give us two advantages.

The first is the financing price.

Private placements are frequently completed at an attractive price because the company needs capital to advance its project. We provide that capital directly to the company and receive newly issued shares, which the exchange allows to be priced at discount to the current market price.

The second advantage is even more powerful: Warrants.

A warrant gives us the right — but not the obligation — to buy another share at a predetermined price for a set period.

If the company disappoints and the stock never rises above the exercise price, we don’t have to exercise it.

But if the company succeeds and the share price takes off, the warrant allows us to buy more shares at the old locked-in price.

We don’t have to commit that additional capital upfront.

That gives us another layer of upside without increasing the amount initially put at risk.

It’s one of the closest things you’ll find to built-in leverage in the stock market.

And it has played an enormous role in our results.

Our current open Private Placement Intel portfolio shows an average gain of 295.7% across its priced positions.

One placement in PMET Resources — formerly Patriot Battery Metals — is currently up 3,212.5%. The warrants we later exercised are up another 2,020%.

Our first Q2 Metals placement is up 2,244%.

A second Q2 placement is up 1,072%. The warrants from that financing, which we recently exercised at C$0.50, are already up 486%.

One of our Hannan Metals placements is up 800%.

And we recently closed the remainder of our Bravo Mining position for a 681% gain.

Our closed-position record has produced a positive average in every calendar year since 2021 — including an average gain of 211.9% on the positions closed so far in 2026.

That doesn’t happen because every company succeeds.

They don’t.

It happens because the structure of these investments allows a few major winners to overwhelm the inevitable losers.

Discounted or attractive entry prices give us room.

Warrants give us leverage.

And access lets us enter before most investors know the opportunity exists.

That brief period — after we see the opportunity but before the wider market recognizes it — is what I call a “Prime Window.”

And a new one is about to open.

Our First Prime Window Produced a 350% Gain

In January 2025, we participated in the private placement of a tiny South American gold-and-copper explorer.

I’m not going to reveal its name here.

That information is reserved for members of Private Placement Intel — and announcing it publicly would defeat the purpose of getting into the financing before the crowd arrives.

But I can tell you what happened.

We bought shares at C$0.06.

Each share came with a full warrant allowing us to buy another share at C$0.10 for two years.

The stock is now trading around C$0.27.

That puts our original shares up 350%.

And the warrants give us the right to buy additional C$0.27 shares for just C$0.10 apiece.

Consider what that means on a hypothetical C$10,000 investment…

At C$0.06, C$10,000 purchased approximately 166,667 shares.

Those shares would now be worth about C$45,000.

But the investor also received 166,667 warrants.

Those warrants provide the right to buy another C$45,000 worth of shares for C$16,667 — a spread of more than C$28,000 at the current market price.

So on a C$26,667 total outlay, you’re currently sitting on a C$90,000 position. 

That is the power of getting the entry and the structure right.

The shares delivered the first gain. The warrants preserved a second source of upside.

And now this same company is returning to the private market to fund its next stage of growth.

Gold is trading above $4,600.

Copper is near record highs.

The company has advanced since our original investment.

And we’re being offered another opportunity to participate — with warrants attached once again.

In other words, a second Prime Window is opening.

Before the Public Announcement

Private placements do not remain open indefinitely.

The best financings can fill quickly, sometimes before the broader market even understands what is happening.

Then the company issues a press release about the financing.

That is when most public investors learn about it.

But by that point, every share and warrant may already be spoken for.

I’ve spent nearly two decades building the relationships that bring these opportunities across my desk.

I’ve personally invested millions of dollars through private placements.

And when I find a financing I’m willing to participate in myself, members of Private Placement Intel get the opportunity to review it and potentially invest alongside me on the same terms.

That is what is happening now.

A tiny South American explorer gives us direct exposure to both gold and copper at a moment when both metals are breaking out.

Our original placement is already up 350%.

The warrants from that financing are deep in the money.

And a new financing is preparing to open.

I recently recorded a presentation explaining exactly how these Prime Windows work, why private placements can provide an advantage unavailable through an ordinary brokerage account, and how qualified investors can get access to our next deal.

If you qualify as an accredited investor — and you want the chance to participate before this new Prime Window closes — I urge you to watch it now.

The metals are moving.

The junior market is beginning to wake up.

And our next Prime Window is about to open.

Call it like you see it,

Nick Hodge
Publisher, Bizarro World