Resource Investor Featured Company:
BacTech Mining Corporation
 BacTech Offers Investors Multiple Value: Proprietary Reclamation Technology and Asset-Rich Exploration and Mining Properties. Advancing Plans to Split into IndependentGold Mining and Clean Technology Companies. Following the split, investors can continue to hold both stocks, or can sell one set to concentrate their investment in either direct mining or cleantech reclamation of previous mining sites... READ MORE |
Resource Investor Featured Company:
U.S. Silver Corporation
 85% Silver Production Makes
Idaho-based U.S. Silver A Virtually Pure Silver Play; Galena Mine in Idaho’s Historic Silver Valley is Second-Largest Producing Silver Mine in U.S.
This is a company that derives over 85% of its revenue from the production of silver. Also, it is a company with no debt, no royalties that must be paid out of profits and no long-term hedging... READ MORE |
The Resource Investor Company Profile
SLAM Exploration Ltd.
 Slam Exploration Aggressively Exploring for Gold, Silver, Base Metals in Ontario and New Brunswick -- SLAM Exploration Ltd. (SXL on TSX-V) recently hit gold with a drilling intercept grading 64.1 g/t gold over 1.0 m (1.87 oz/ton over 3.3 ft) on its Miminiska property in Ontario. |
The Resource Investor Featured Company:
Teryl Resources Inc.
 Teryl Resources and Kinross Gold Gil JV 2010 Drilling Developing New Gold Results ; Initial assay results yield up to 1.99 gpt gold, 0.0581 opt gold over 30 foot width ...Teryl Resources Corp. is in great shape these days – is in great shape these days – a major mining company offered to buy Teryl’s interest in the Gil Gold Property in Alaska in 2009, encouraging reports of drill results from the 2009 Exploration Program, and – most recently – initial assay results on the Gil that appear to confirm gold mineralization...READ MORE |
The Resource Investor Featured Company:
Aurizon Mines Ltd.
 Aurizon’s First Quarter 2010: In Line with Expectations, Encouraged by Exploration -- The first quarter of 2010 was in line with expectations for Aurizon and was highlighted by gold production of 35,188 ounces and cash flow from operations of $9.2 million. Aurizon holds multiple properties and one operating mine in northwest Quebec’s prolific Abitibi Gold Belt, one of the world's richest gold and base metal regions. ....READ MORE |
The Resource Investor Featured Company:
 Lucas Energy Inc.
Texas-based Lucas Energy Building a Different Kind of Public Oil & Gas Company; Avoids Exploration Risk by Acquiring Properties, Abandoned and Shut-in Wells in Proven and Producing Oil Fields... Lucas Energy, Inc. is producing oil – and significant revenues – not by exploring for new sources of oil, but rather by extracting oil from refurbished oil wells that were previously under-performing, shut-in or plugged and abandoned due to low commodity prices in the early 1990s.
This Texas-based independent oil and gas company’s management team has created a business strategy that minimizes risk and investor capital in a business usually fraught with risk... READ MORE |
The Resource Investor Featured Company:
 International PBX Ventures Ltd.
International PBX Ventures Targeting Source of Copper with Deep Penetration IP Survey -- Buoyed by an independent report that conservatively projects a cumulative net production cash flow of nearly $70 million and a resource value of $189 million, International PBX Ventures Ltd. has more than proved the viability of its massive copper-molybdenum Copaquire Project in northern Chile...READ MORE |
The Resource Investor Featured Company:
 San Gold Corporation
SAN GOLD: Exploration on the Grid
Shears and pathway trends reveal Rice Lake as a system of interconnected veins... San Gold owns 12,000 hectares of mining claims along the Rice Lake Greenstone Belt of southeast Manitoba; has established multiple high-grade deposits in close proximity to the company’s mill; has an extremely successful exploration program; is fully permitted; has highly developed infrastructure; and employs skilled personnel led by an experienced team of mine builders...READ MORE |
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Rare Earth Metals - Will The Next Boom Start Here?
Most of these elements have names you can't pronounce; nonetheless, demand for them grows with our appetite for high-tech gadgets |
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THE RESOURCE INVESTOR
 Gulf Troubles Spill Across Multiple Energy-Related Sectors -- George Putnam, III, The Turnaround Letter -- "Is the problem at Deepwater Horizon really serious? Of course. But has the market overeacted to it? We think that is quite likely."
Gold & Silver Could Rescue the World --
By James Dines, The Dines Letter -- " We sense a growing worldwide unease, that many people might not fully articulate, toward the spending and debts of their governments. ."
Global Mining Trends -- Behre Dolbear & Co., Inc., minerals industry advisors, publish a weekly E-newsletter for the mining industry covering a broad range of commodities including base and precious metals, coal, industrial minerals, diamonds, ferrous metals, and construction materials from a variety of sources.
A Sterling Year for Silver -- Strong investor demand and a recovery in industrial demand during the course of the year were key factors in a strong performance for silver prices in 2009, according to World Silver Survey 2010, published by the Silver Institute.
Molybdenum: Market outlook to 2014
Featured Companies: Endeavour Silver Corp., Tantalus Rare Earths AG, Lucas Energy, Inc., Teryl Resources Corp., International PBX Ventures Ltd. |
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Silver Market Update
"While silver is certainly in position to break out to new highs, which would be expected to lead to a substantial advance, its chart at this time should certainly give cause for concern to the more cautious and prudent investor," says technical analyst, Clive Maund. |
The Fear Trade Is In
Introduction to Global X Silver Miners ETF
Sean Rakhimov thinks the fund (and its underlying index) provides a reasonable representation of the global silver miners sector. |
Reasons To Own Gold
John Embry, Sprott Asset Management expects gold to trade at several multiples of the current price before this bull market breathes its last breath. Here are his 17 reasons to own gold
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China's Energy Giants Go Where Others Fear to Tread
CNOOC and PetroChina have used the global crisis to amass reserves, says Genia Turanova, The Complete Investor. |
Resource Investor Featured Company:
Inter-Citic Minerals Inc.
 Inter-Citic Minerals Exploring One of the Largest Undeveloped Gold Resources in China; Armed with a 2.85 Million Oz. Gold Resource, China’s Largest Gold Producer as an Investor, and $20 Million in the Bank, Inter-Citic Is Moving from Exploration to Production in World’s Largest Gold Market...READ MORE |
Resource Investor Featured Company:
 Rye Patch Gold Corp.
Rye Patch Aggressively Seeking Trend-Scale Exploration Opportunities in Mineral-Rich Nevada; Goal is to Build 10 Million Ounce Gold/Silver Resource at Multiple Properties. The company is in the midst of building a sizeable inventory of gold and silver resources and is on an aggressive hunt to add at least one additional large-scale mineral property to its portfolio by year end. ...READ MORE |
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The Chinese Platinum Jewellery Market
Strong consumer demand, healthy manufacturing output, and stock-building of raw materials and finished pieces all contributed to a record performance by the Chinese platinum jewellery market in 2009.
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The Resource Investor Featured Company:
Atna Resources Ltd.
 Production at Briggs Accelerating
Positive Cash Flow Expected in 2010; Construction to Start at Reward Mine; Strong Joint Venture Partners Advance Broad Project Portfolio. A strong and deeply layered portfolio including a producing gold mine, advanced development stage projects and exploration joint ventures in the American west is clear evidence of the success of the long-range vision of Atna Resources Ltd. That portfolio is led by Atna’s flagship producing Briggs Gold Mine in California, its advanced development-stage Reward Gold Project in Nevada, the strong Columbia gold exploration project , and the Pinson joint venture gold project with Barrick... READ MORE |
The Resource Investor Featured Company:
Aura Silver Resources Inc.
 Aura Silver to Target Four Mineral Rich Properties in 2010
Company Increases Stake in Taviche District. Aura Silver’s ambitious drill program in the Taviche district of Mexico is underway and the permitting process for its Greyhound Project in Nunavut is in process. Both programs should see reports of drilling during the second and third quarters of 2010... READ MORE |
The Resource Investor Featured Company:
Endeavour Silver Corp.
 Mexico-Based Endeavour Silver on Aggressive March to Become Mid-Tier Silver Producer; 2009 a Banner Year as Company Posts Record Financial and Operating Results. Endeavour Silver Corp. is aggressively staying true to its name, producing growing amounts of silver at two operating mines in Mexico, actively acquiring and exploring land surrounding those mines, and now embarking on a serious hunt for similarly advanced silver properties in the Western Hemisphere...READ MORE |
The Resource Investor Featured Company:
 Tantalus Rare Earths AG
Tantalus Project in Madagascar Challenges Chinese Monopoly in High-Tech, Green Technology Metals; Historic Data Supports $1.5 Billion Minimum Value for Rare Earths Deposit. Tantalus Rare Earths AG has targeted an extremely large competitor – China – in its effort to become a significant world supplier of rare earth elements – metals that are vital in the production of such modern high-tech devices as superconductors, specialized magnets, wind turbines, lasers, refining catalysts, cell phones, hybrid car batteries and guided missiles, to name just a few.....READ MORE |
The Resource Investor Featured Company:
 United Mines Inc.
To Pay Dividends, Targets Asian Markets, Pursuing Listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
Company Developing Silver, Gold and Copper Projects in Historic Arizona Mining Districts... United Mines, Inc. is developing its 100%-owned silver, gold and copper exploration projects encompassing nearly 4,000 acres in an historically mineral-rich area of southwestern Arizona. The company currently holds six advanced-stage exploration projects, including two silver, three gold and one copper property, as well as several high-quality, early-stage silver, gold and copper exploration projects. The La Colorada twin plant facility, with gravity float & a heap leach processing systems, fully permitted by the BLM & ADEQ, will enable the company to jump-start production while developing resources through future exploration...READ MORE |
The Resource Investor Featured Company:
Energizer Resources Inc.
 Green Giant Project Could Be the World’s Largest, Low-Cost, Single Source of Vanadium; Drill results continue to validate potential of Madagascar deposit... Energizer Resources (formerly Uranium Star Corp.) is tightly focused on an ambitious goal – to define and develop the largest, low cost, single source of vanadium in the world. Energizer Resources controls a 194 square kilometer property in an area where international mining companies are investing billions of dollars. Over the next 18-24 months, Energizer Resources plans to spend $10 million to conduct environmental, geotechnical, metallurgical and marketing studies, and complete a pre-feasibility study.... READ MORE |
