While many investors are fond of bowing down to market fluctuations as gospel, the mostly unspoken truth is that rebounding stocks, as well as those in precipitous downfalls, require supporting facts for these fluctuations to qualify as rational.
In other words, a stock’s spike up or down speaks to its underlying company’s valuation only if there’s evidence for it.
In its absence, the market’s bipolar tendencies might be offering you a discount to build a position, or overvaluation to make a profitable exit.
In its presence, you’re the beneficiary of a data-driven investment thesis and can begin to hash out expectations in terms of time horizon and expected return.
In the newest edition of Stockhouse’s Weekly Market Movers, I’ll analyze a pair of rebounding mining stocks supported by operations that seem to have what it takes to ramp up momentum moving forward.
Atlas Salt
Our first rebounding stock, Atlas Salt, market capitalization C$47.67 million, is developing the Great Atlantic salt project in Newfoundland, which is positioned to be Canada’s next salt mine.
The feasibility-stage project holds an estimated post-tax net present value of C$553 million, offering the potential for a 34-year operating life extracting about 84.5 million tons of salt in probable reserves, in addition to resources of 368 million tons indicated and 827 million tons inferred.
According to Atlas Salt’s investor presentation for June 2025, the price of U.S. rock salt imports has more than doubled since 2000 to over US$65 per ton, with North America importing about a quarter of its salt annually, granting the company plenty of room to capitalize on the ongoing trend of onshoring critical material supply chains.
At total capital costs of C$1.1 billion, with a payback period of only 5 years, Great Atlantic is rapidly advancing towards production through permitting and an updated feasibility study to further validate project economics for investors and offtake partners. An initial non-binding memorandum of understanding with Scotwood Industries targets distribution of 1.25 to 1.50 million tons of salt products per year.
Atlas Salt stock (TSXV:SALT), in turn, has bounced back by 36.11 per cent from its year-to-date low, largely driven by the upcoming feasibility study and the hiring of a new CEO and CFO that bring ample experience with major miners and financial institutions.
I think a handful of priorities in 2025 are likely to keep pushing the stock up and to the right, including advancing regulatory compliance, geotechnical and hydrological site evaluation, potential production expansion, as well as the conversion of a pipeline of strategic partnerships into initial revenue.
Nolan Peterson, Atlas Salt’s CEO, spoke with Stockhouse’s Lyndsay Malchuk about the new feasibility study, which is expected in Q3 2025. Watch the interview here.
Kootenay Silver
Our second rebounding stock, Kootenay Silver, market capitalization C$74.89 million, is a mineral explorer that controls one of the largest junior silver portfolios in Mexico, which Visual Capitalist ranks as the world’s top silver-producing country. The company’s portfolio is highlighted by:
- Its flagship Columba project, housing a maiden resource estimated at 54.1 million ounces in silver resources inferred.
- The Promontorio-La Negra and La Cigarra properties, representing a collective 214.2 million ounces of silver equivalent measured and indicated and 54.9 million ounces of silver equivalent inferred.
At prices as of June 20, these properties are sitting on more than US$11.6 billion in silver in the ground combined, a sum on a completely different plane of existence versus the company’s micro market capitalization.
And with Kootenay stock up by only 2.56 per cent year-over-year, heavily trailing silver’s 20 per cent gain, you wouldn’t exactly intuit the company’s multi-billion-dollar potential, or the fact that its operations are well-equipped to close this valuation-resource gap in a significant way. Key drivers behind this thesis include:
- A leadership team with success developing early-stage mining projects into acquisition-worthy targets.
- A C$17.4 million bought-deal offering with Research Capital expected to close on June 25 to further advance Columba, with funds going towards an ongoing 50,000-metre drilling program that has yielded numerous intercepts in the thousands of grams of silver per ton (g/t) with numerous high-grade targets still to be explored.
- An abundance of targets on its secondary properties waiting in the wings to add fuel to a bid for a stock price re-rating.
- An approximately 5 per cent investment from Canadian Mining Hall of Fame member Eric Sprott doesn’t hurt either, in terms of differentiating the company from competitors when it comes to future capital raises.
Over the past month-and-a-half, the market has been showing early signs of recognizing the value proposition we’re laying out, with Kootenay stock (TSXV:KTN) adding more than 30 per cent over the period propelled by Columba’s maiden resource, as well as a highlight intercept of 7,360 g/t silver and 30.57 per cent lead-zinc announced in early May.
With exploration capital nearly in hand, look for positive news flow over the summer to continue fostering this upward trend and building awareness of Kootenay’s major status among junior silver miners.
James McDonald, Kootenay Silver’s president and CEO, joined Coreena Robertson to comment on Columba’s maiden resource estimate. Watch the interview here.
Thanks for reading! I’ll see you next week for a new edition of Stockhouse’s Weekly Market Movers. Here’s the most recent article, in case you missed it.
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