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The Resource Investor Featured Company:
Aurizon Mines Ltd.
 Production at Joanna Could Boost Aurizon’s Gold Production by 60% in 2013; Synergies with Casa Berardi Operations Expected to Reduce Mining Costs
With gold touching the US$1000 mark, and Aurizon being a producer of over 150,000 ounces of gold annually, this Company is poised to take advantage, as it generates a healthy $50-70-million in annual cash flow, and operates in the Abitibi Gold Belt region of northwest Quebec, one of the richest gold and base metal regions of the world...READ MORE |
The Resource Investor Featured Company:
 International PBX Ventures Ltd.
Study Points to Millions, Perhaps a Billion+ in Economic Value at Massive Copaquire Copper-Moly-Rhenium Project
Company Well Positioned to Market It’s Chilean Property to Majors
Buoyed by an independent report that conservatively projects a cumulative net production cash flow of nearly $70 million and a resource value of $275 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:
Teryl Resources Inc.
 Teryl Resources and Kinross Gold Gil JV On Track To Develop Significant New Gold Results in 2010; 2009 Drilling Data to Update Resource Calculation, Identify Targets for 2010 Drilling Program
Teryl Resources Corp. is in great shape these days – a major mining company wants to buy Teryl’s interest in the Gil Gold Property in Alaska, and drill results from the 2009 Exploration Program were very encouraging. The Gil Joint Venture lies just a short six miles from Kinross Gold’s Fort Knox Mine, the largest producing gold mine in Alaska. However, the mine’s deposit is running low on mineable material and Kinross must find new ore to feed its 50,000 tpd mill..READ MORE |
The Resource Investor Featured Company:
 United Mines Inc.
United Mines Developing Silver, Gold and Copper Projects in Historic Arizona Mining Districts; Fully-Permitted Twin Processing Plants To Jump-Start Production Cash Flow... While United Mines Inc. may be one of the newest junior mining companies to go public in the U.S., the company has several significant legs up on its sector siblings: a rich and diverse mining history dating back to the Conquistadors, a potentially rich portfolio of gold, silver and copper properties in America’s southwest, stockpiled material containing up to 500,000 oz. of silver ready to process, and a fully permitted twin plant soon to go online...READ MORE |
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THE RESOURCE INVESTOR
 Precious Trio: Gold, Platinum, and Silver All Will Shine -- Stephen Leeb, The Complete Investor -- "We’ve long trumpeted gold as our top overall investment pick. But this doesn’t mean you should ignore those other precious metals, platinum and silver – which during periods of inflation and economic growth will likely outshine even the Midas metal."
Gold, Silver, Oil: Outstanding Winners in 2009 -- Mary Anne & Pamela Aden, The Aden Forecast -- "What a year 2009 has been, filled with twists and turns, some surprises, thrills, excitement, history and some disappointments too, all topped off with gold skyrocketing in its biggest monthly rise in a decade."
Platinum Market Forecast To Be In Surplus By 140,000 Ounces In 2009 -- Johnson Matthey Platinum 2009 Interim Review.
How to Participate in the Gold Market -- David Chapman, Investor’s Digest of Canada: “With gold now firmly through US$1,000 an ounce, a review is in order of the various methods of investing in gold (and silver) bullion, stocks and ETFs."
Featured Companies: United Mines Inc., Lucas Energy Inc. |
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The Resource Investor Featured Company:
 Lucas Energy Inc.
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:
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 |
The Resource Investor Featured Company:
 Ireland Inc.
New Gold Discovery Reported by Ireland; Drill Programs Planned at Columbus, Red Mountain Projects;
Ireland Inc., a minerals exploration and development company focused on the discovery and extraction of precious metals from mineral deposits in the Southwestern United States, recently announced that results from its technical program have indicated a new gold discovery at its Columbus Project located in Esmeralda County, Nevada. Ireland has received assay results from independent consultants McEwen Geological LLC of Arvada, Colorado from 39 holes drilled in 2008. The 2008 drill program was designed to test mineralized targets identified by Ireland’s previous exploration work... READ MORE |
The Resource Investor Featured Company:
 Paramount Gold & Silver Corp.
Amasses District-Scale Gold/Silver Property in Mexico’s Sierra Madre; Discovery of New Gold-Rich Bulk-Mineable-Style Deposit Has Potential for 2 Million Ounces of Gold... The famed “treasure” of Mexico’s Sierra Madre Mountains is much more than a legend as evidenced by a plethora of producing gold mines and most recently the discovery of a significant new gold mineralization zone by Paramount Gold & Silver Corp. In just a few years, Paramount Gold very deliberately and systematically accumulated a district-sized chunk of some of the richest mining ground in Mexico. The company now controls more than 540 square miles (140,000 hectares) in the midst of the Sierra Madre gold-silver belt in Chihuahua, Mexico... READ MORE |
The Resource Investor Featured Company:
 San Gold Corporation
San Gold’s Rice Lake
Gold Discoveries Just Keep On Coming and Coming
Developing New High-Grade Gold Deposits with Low Operating Costs... When looking for a “pure gold play”, there isn’t a much better candidate than San Gold Corporation. The company’s highly seasoned management team does not waste time hedging its bet on gold – it gets right down to business and digs the stuff up. With two producing mines, a raft of new gold discoveries, and growing control of what can only be described as a significant new gold district, San Gold is the essence of a successful gold mining company...READ MORE |
The Resource Investor Featured Company:
Atna Resources Ltd.
 Atna Resources Poises Itself for Growth in 2010; Company Completes Innovative, Non-dilutive financing. Atna Resources Ltd. has gained the trust by its shareholders by sticking to its word and avoiding dilution of its capital structure. The Company completed an innovative Gold Bond financing in late 2009, adding approximately US $13.5 million to its treasury net of expenses. This financing will allow the company to begin development of its second gold mine, the permitted Reward gold property located near Beatty, NV. Although the Company may resort to the use of equity for financing at some opportune time in the future, its focus has been to finance its projects from assets sales, creative debt financing, as well as the use of cash flow from operations.... READ MORE |
The Resource Investor Featured Company:
Rye Patch Gold Corp.
 Rye Patch Positioned on Major Nevada Gold Trends; Company is Building Significant Resource at Multiple Properties... Developing multiple prime properties in gold-rich Nevada may be an explorer’s dream, but Rye Patch Gold Corp. has taken that dream a step beyond by becoming the dominant landholder on a new gold trend that promises to deliver millions of ounces of gold and silver to the company’s burgeoning treasure chest, and is positioning itself as the only junior explorer to hold a majority interest in a gold deposit on the Nevada’s prolific Carlin gold trend..... READ MORE |
Precious Trio: Gold, Platinum, and Silver All Will Shine
By Stephen Leeb, The Complete Investor
We've long trumpeted gold as our top overall investment pick. But this doesn't mean you should ignore those other precious metals, platinum and silver - which during periods of inflation and economic growth will likely outshine even the Midas metal. |
The Fractional Reserve Aspects of Gold ETFs
By James Turk, Free Gold Money Report
Depositor flights to safety appear most frequently during the economic 'bust' that inevitably follows the 'boom' induced by excessive bank lending -- bank lending made possible through the reckless practice of maintaining only fractional reserves. |
2009: A Good Year
By Mary Anne & Pamela Aden, The Aden Forecast
What a year 2009 has been, filled with twists and turns, some surprises, thrills, excitement, history and some disappointments too, all topped off with gold skyrocketing in its biggest monthly rise in a decade. |
The Dines Letter's Seasonalities for January
James Dines, The Dines Letter: The "January Barometer," the entire month of January has gained prominence as one of the market's foremost bellwethers. Briefly, whichever direction markets go the entire month of January often points to the direction of the entire year. January is usually a bullish month for gold and silver shares, but if DISSA declines in January that would be a serious negative factor for silver-mining shares for all of 2010 |
Johnson Matthey Platinum 2009 Interim Review:
Platinum Market Forecast To Be In Surplus
By 140,000 Ounces In 2009.
Net global platinum demand is forecast to decrease by 4.4 per cent to 5.92 million ounces in 2009, according to Johnson Matthey's "Platinum 2009 Interim Review". Platinum supplies are expected to increase by 110,000 ounces to 6.06 million ounces despite a fall in underlying mine production. As a result, the platinum market is forecast to be in surplus by 140,000 oz in 2009. |
Henning: Musings of a Stock Market Curmudgeon
Rule One...The old epoch is evaporating. So how does the savvy player position himself to make money? Answer: Simply follow rule one: Truth is the ebb and flow of money to the absolute exclusion of all other factors. Rule two: Never forget rule one |
Gold: What's the Best Way?
Philip Springer has strongly recommended for a long time that you own gold in your investment portfolio. But how should you buy it? |
How to Participate in the Gold Market
With gold now firmly through US$1,000 an ounce, David Chapman, reviews the various methods of investing in gold (and silver) bullion, stocks and ETFs |
Base Metal Price Outlook to 2010
Natixis Commodity Markets' Fourth Quarter Metals Review for Aluminum, Copper, Lead, Nickel, Tin and Zinc |
World Silver Production 2009
Dr. Thomas Chaize: Silver and its uses. A brief look at the major producers of silver in the world. |
A Little Stock With A Great Big Story To Tell
James Rapholz, Economic Advice: Exploration over the past year has shown clear evidence that Uranium Star's Green Giant Project in southern Madagascar contains a massive vanadium deposit that easily could be valued in the multibillions of dollars. |
Vanadium: The Element that Could Change the World
The future will be batter powered. The best battery will win. Vanadium makes the best batteries. Uranium Star's Green Giant Project will bring sureness of supply and sureness of price for vanadium |
The U.S. Dollar's Demise Is Sealed
Patrick Heller, Liberty's Outlook, has come to the conclusion that the longest, the US dollar might survive will be 2018. But I think it will fail much sooner as the general public sees a growing number of other countries abandoning the US dollar and assets valued in the dollar. |
The Next Major Rise in Gold Has Begun
There are several pressures building up that will result in the price of gold rising above $1,000 to stay and probably reach at least $1,200 in the near future. The groundwork for this price breakout has already been laid. Some smart buyers have already pushed up the price of gold. That means that the next major rise in the price of gold has already begun. |
How to Sell Restricted Canadian Stock in the U.S. -
A 4-Minute Briefing
Timothy Major and Tom Wobker: Pennaluna & Company |
The Outlook for Zinc to 2011
GFMS Metals Consulting projects a 4.3% decline in zinc global mine output in 2009, followed by relatively modest gains in 2010 and 2011. |
Ecology and Environment Thrives By Going Green
If water is the gold of the 21st century then it will have a green tinge to it. Ecology and Environment, Inc. provides a variety of solutions to climate change and other environmental issues. EEI is well positioned to address the environmental priorities of the new Obama administration and the world. |
Wind, Water and Sun Beat Other Energy Alternatives
By Louis Bergeron
The best ways to improve energy security, mitigate global warming and reduce the number of deaths caused by air pollution are blowing in the wind and rippling in the water, not growing on prairies or glowing inside nuclear power plants, says Mark Z. Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University. |
