Silver Producers Enter Profitable Phase
The latest quarterly (Q2, ended June 30, 2010) results from a number of silver producers confirm that they are now entering a phase of sustainable profits. |
Silver, Two of Seven
Richard Mills, Ahead of the Herd: Silver and silver junior precious metal company's should be on every investor's radar screen. |
The Real Story of the Rise of the Price of Gold
Gold prices have been rising to fill the void left by battered currencies, says this Canadian analyst, who ponders how investors can benefit. |
The Dines Letter's September Seasonalities
James Dines: September has more monthly declines than any other month; a favorable month for gold shares. |
Natixis Commodity Markets' Third Quarter Metals Review
Base Metals: Is The Bad News Behind Us Yet?
Gold Set To Underperform In 2011 |
Gold's Big Picture: Second Phase of Bull Market
By Mary Anne and Pamela Aden, The Aden Forecast
Gold tends to be a cyclical market and while it can be very volatile, it's also orderly |
Highs & Lows, Ups & Downs
Have We Seen The Gold & Silver Highs and Lows for 2010 already?
By Franklin Sanders, The Moneychanger
The shortcoming of statistics, of course, is that is presupposes a world run by random chance, when in fact the world is not governed by chance, as is easily proven. |
Gold's Next Big Leg Up
Much higher prices within 5 years
By Stephen Leeb, The Complete Investor
Yes, gold has had a great run - but there's no reason to think it's going to end any time soon. Don't call us crazy for thinking gold could top $5,000 within the next half decade. |
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| Atna Resources Reports Second Quarter 2010 Results |
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-- Aurizon Intersects 42.1 Grams Of Gold Per Tonne Over 21.5 Metres Along The 123 Zone At The Casa Berardi Mine
-- Aurizon Reports Second Quarter 2010 Results |
-- BacTech Appoints Director for Goldco
-- BacTech Closes Private Placement
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-- Endeavour Silver Identifies Three New Silver Veins, Acquires Three New Mining Properties in Guanacevi Silver District, Durango State, Mexico
-- Endeavour Silver Reports Higher EBITDA, Cash-flow, Revenues in Q2, 2010; Silver Production Up 41%, Cash Costs Down 15% Compared to Q2, 2009 |
-- Energizer Resources Releases Assay Results, Drills 1.17% V2O5 Over 84 Metres on Green Giant Vanadium Project, Madagascar
-- Energizer Completes Successful 2010 Drill Program on Green Giant Vanadium Project in Madagascar; Provides Metallurgy Update |
-- Inter-Citic Releases Drill Hole Results From New Zone at Dachang Gold Project
-- Inter-Citic Reports Updated NI 43-101 Compliant Mineral Resource Estimate for Its Dachang Gold Project |
-- Lucas Energy Announces Closing Third Part of Eagle Ford Joint Venture With Hilcorp Energy I, L.P.
-- Lucas Energy Announces Completion of Stoeltje No.2 Well |
| Mines Management Announces Second Quarter Financial and Operating Results |
| PBX Completes Non-Brokered Private Placement |
-- Rye Patch Reports 504 g/t Au from Metallic Screen Assays at Wilco
-- Rye Patch Gold Identifies New Gold Target Along The Oreana Trend |
-- San Gold Q2 Results: Continuing exploration success and improved operating results
-- San Gold Drills New High Grade Discovery at Emperor Zone |
-- SLAM Issues Tender to Drill Bonanza Gold Deposit
-- SLAM and Beatrix Announce Additional Gold Intervals |
-- Teryl Resources Acquires an Option on Mineral Claims in Alaska
-- Teryl Resources Announces Additional Assay Results on the gil Joint Venture Gold Property in Alaska |
| United Mines, Inc. Declares Second Quarter Stock Dividend Payment for 2010 |
-- U.S. Silver Reports Second Quarter 2010 Results
-- U.S. Silver Announces Q2 2010 Production |
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Stans Energy: A Rare Earth Elements Company to Watch
Rare earth elements continue to garner a lot of investor attention within a junior mining sector. |
The Federal Hegemon
The following commentary was presented by David Bond, Silverminers.com, before an EPA "informational meeting" 4 Aug. More than 200 showed up to protest the agency's latest scheme to occupy the Coeur d'Alene Mining District for the next 100 years. |
Gold's on the cusp of a parabolic move up
We are on the cusp of a parabolic move in the price of gold underwritten by physical shortages. Central banks can no longer supply the amount needed to balance supply and demand while mine production continues to stagnate at best. |
Gold Movements Suspect
There were unusual movements of COMEX gold inventories on July 28 and July 30 that 1) coincidentally roughly equaled what was needed for the sellers of contracts to meet delivery requirements, and 2) may indicate that unusually large quantities of COMEX gold will be withdrawn by the end of August. |
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 |
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 |
