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Marston Webb’s GOLD & SILVER Notes and Quotes
by Marston Webb
A monthly review of published articles, reports, and research on gold and silver
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Marston Webb’s Gold & Silver Notes and Quotes
by Marston Webb
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Balmoral Resources (TSX:V:BAR) Focuses on Gold Exploration in the Gold Rich Detour Lake Region
by Dr. Allen M. Alper
Balmoral Resources, founded in November of 2010, has already made several significant new gold discoveries in Quebec's historic Detour Lake Belt.
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Sacre-Coeur Minerals (SCM.V/S5N.F – TSX & Frankfurt) Advances Million Mountain in Guyana's Gold Mining Centers
by Dr. Allen M. Alper
Sacre-Coeur Minerals, a Vancouver based exploration and development company, is focusing on developing the Million Mountain Property in Guyana.
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Brian Kirwin of American Bonanza Gold Corp $TSX:BZA Plans Gold Production in 2011
by Allen Alper
American Bonanza (TSX: BZA) is an emerging gold producer whose property, projections, and business plan look quite compelling for investors.
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PDAC 2011
by Allen Alper and Jeff Senior
With the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada’s next Toronto show set for 6-9 March 2011, we caught up with Joe Hinzer to find out what’s on the agenda.
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As Copper Surges Crazy Horse Resources is Knocking at the Door of China
by Dr. Allen Alper and Aaron Hoos
Since Asian countries are experiencing an economic boom, there is a huge demand for commodities to build infrastructure to keep up. Investors know this and are investing accordingly, not only in commodities themselves but also in companies that are closely tied to commodities.
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Leadership Spotlight: Rob McEwen
by Dr. Allen Alper and Aaron Hoos
Rob McEwen, a leader in the mining industry, has shaped the current business climate for mining gold and silver in North America and beyond. He is the founder and former chairman of Goldcorp, a senior producing gold company that calls itself the lowest cost, fasting growing gold company.
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From Gold Pan to Gold Mine: How Sutter Gold Got Started and Where it’s Headed
by Allen Alper and Aaron Hoos
Sutter Gold Mining Inc. (TSX-V: SGM) has an interesting story that these kinds of investors will love. In some ways, Sutter Gold Mining’s current success began in part with Matt Collins (the COO of Sutter Gold Mining), panning for gold.
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Hecla Mining Company, Largest USA Silver Producer: Mining, Exploring, Developing
by Allen Alper Jr. and Jeff Senior
“The first thing is to be happy to have it here in our backyard. When I look at the conference, the thing that strikes me is the new companies that are now starting to do exploration in silver. That’s a great thing because, basically for 25 years, there was no exploration done for silver. Unlike gold, which has had this continuous investment in exploration, there has been, to all intents and purposes, zero in the silver industry.”
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Golden Phoenix Minerals: Royalty Mining In The Americas
by Allen Alper Jr. and Jeff Senior
CEO and Director Thomas Klein joined Golden Phoenix when it got into financial difficulties in the fall of 2008 due to the price of molybdenum crashing from $40 to below $10. The company has been running for around twelve years and had previously brought two mines into production for a period of time — the Ashdown Mine and the Mineral Ridge project, both in Nevada.
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Ormonde Mining: An Emerging Tungsten Producer
by Allen Alper and Jeff Senior
At the recent ITIA meeting, we caught up with the company’s Chief Operating Officer Steve Nicol and Executive Chairman Mike Donoghue to find out the latest developments. Although an Irish company, Ormonde Mining’s operations are centered in Spain.
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Mawson Resources High Grade Gold and Uranium Finland, Sweden Plus Gold and Copper in Peru
by Dr. Allen Alper and Jeff Senior
President and CEO Michael Hudson is a geologist who has spent the last twenty years looking for metals around the world. “It’s my passion,” he comments. “It’s what we exploration geologists love to do.”
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Eastmain Resources Systematically Developing Large Gold Resources in Quebec
by Dr. Allen Alper, Allen Alper Jr. and Bryan Martin
For Eastmain Resources Ltd., the Toronto-based junior with a proven track record of excellence, a summer of diligent hard work has inevitably given way to basking in autumn’s golden hue, a color that can be said to directly reflect the bright future of this ever-promising exploration company.
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Philippine Metals Inc. Moves Forward with Taurus Copper and Gold Project
by Allen Alper Jr.
We recently had the opportunity to speak once again with Marshall Farris, President and Director of Philippine Metals Inc. (TSXV: PHI, Frankfurt: PM7*), a discovery, exploration and development company focused on highly-prospective copper and copper-gold deposits in the Philippines.
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Goldrush Resources Ltd. (TSXV-GOD) :Discovering and Developing Economic Gold Deposits in Burkina Faso, West Africa.
by Dr. Allen M. Alper
Goldrush Resources Ltd. holds 12 permits in Burkina Faso, one of the hottest gold exploration areas in the world. With 4 drill projects, which are either underway or about to begin, Len Brownlie, President and CEO, Goldrush Resources Ltd., thinks the current low price of the stock provides an excellent buying opportunity for investors to purchase before their drilling campaign gets fully underway. “With the current stock price at around 12 cents, there’s not much you can lose,” says Mr. Brownlie
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Fire River Gold - Developing Multi-pronged profits at Nixon Fork
by Dr. Allen M. Alper
"We're very high grade, a low tonnage operation," says Richard Goodwin, President and COO of Fire River Gold (TSX.V-FAU). He's talking about his company's Nixon Fork gold mine which is situated just over 300 kilometers Northwest of Anchorage in Alaska.
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Trade Winds Ventures Inc (TSX-V:TWD) on Target at Detour Lake: Exploring and Developing their Large Gold Deposit
by Dr. Allen M. Alper
"We've got an awful lot of knowledge coming from what's happened next door to Detour Gold so our challenges are probably less difficult for us to face than maybe if we were out in the middle of nowhere doing this initially," admits Ian Lambert, President and CEO of Toronto-based Trade Winds Ventures Inc (TSX-V:TWD). Ian's been with Trade Winds for 21 years.
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Trade Winds Resources Gold Properties Continues to Soar
by Allen M. Alper Jr.
In a previous article, we discussed how Trade Winds Ventures has managed the Block A property. In this follow up article, Ian Lambert, CEO of Trade Winds offers an update on the progress of the gold find and their overall business objectives.
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First Majestic Silver Corp. Building a Senior Silver Producing Mining Company
by Allen Alper and Jeff Senior
Keith Neumeyer began his professional career in the financial industry. He started in the brokerage business in 1983 and worked for three of Canada’s largest brokerage firms before making a career change when the crash of 1987 decimated the financial markets.
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Thomas Morris, Northern Superior Resources. A new major gold district at Ti-pa-haa-kaa-ning in Ontario.
by Dr. Allen Alper
"A lot of the next finds are going to be under the dirt," says Thomas Morris, President, CEO and Director of Ontario-based Northern Superior Resources.
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Lydian International
by Allen Alper and Jeff Senior
According to Lydian’s President and CEO Tim Coughlan, what makes the firm different is that it started as a concept play that turned into a company rather than being a company that was founded from a particular project. With a background as a geologist, he’s spent most of his career as an industry consultant and has tended to specialize in ‘target generation’, which is basically regional exploration.
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Anthony O’Sullivan: Nautilus Minerals’ Mining Massive Sulfides at the Seafloor for high grade copper, gold, zinc and silver Resource
by Dr. Allen M, Alper and Bryan Martin
We spoke to Anthony O’Sullivan, chief operating officer of Nautilus Minerals Inc ("Nautilus") He has over 20 years of industry experience, 15 of which were with BHP Billiton. He explained that Nautilus is using technology developed by the offshore oil and gas industry to tap vast offshore resources.
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NovaGold Resources: Objective is to Become a Low Cost, Million Ounce a Year Gold Producer
by Dr. Allen Alper and Jeff Senior
“We’re not in production yet but our objective is to become a low cost, million ounce a year gold producer. And we’ll get there by putting our two core projects into production. We own 50% of the big Donlin Creek deposit up in Alaska. It’s got 40 million ounces of gold all told, so it’s really one of the largest undeveloped gold deposits in the world. And we’ve also got a 50% interest at the big Galore Creek copper-gold-silver deposit in British Columbia, Canada.”
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Hard Assets Investment Conference
by Allen Alper and Jeff Senior
After the conclusion of the Hard Assets Investment Conference in San Francisco on 21-22 November, we spoke to Summit Business Media’s Jonathan Moore. As Senior Vice President and Managing Director of their Events Division, he’s in as good a position as anybody to give an impression of the event. And overall, he was well satisfied.
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Estrella Gold Applies Global Lessons to Build Gold Value in Peru
by Dr. Allen Alper
Peru has a storied past in precious metals. How does it continue to produce rich mineral finds today? Estrella Gold Corporation shows how it applies modern methods and talent to pursue new discoveries in Peru.
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Tasman Metals Ltd: The Rare Earth Element Exploration Company in Scandinavia
by Dr Allen Alper and Jeff Senior
Tasman is an international mix as a Canadian mineral exploration and development company that was formed by two Australians and is focused exclusively on Scandinavia.
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Eagle Hill Exploration: Quebec’s Big Golden Play
by Dr. Allen Alper and Aaron Hoos
When investors look for junior exploration companies, their expectations are set a little lower. They don’t expect big plays. They don’t expect a lot of discoveries. These investors are taking a risk and hoping to see some interesting discoveries.
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Midlands Minerals Focused on Growing Gold Assets in Ghana and Tanzania
by Allen Alper and Bryan Martin
Midlands Minerals is a lively, very interesting junior company primarily focused on broadening its resources in the politically stable countries of Ghana and Tanzania, the second and third largest gold producers in Africa respectively.
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Stan Bharti Leader of Forbes & Manhattan
by Dr. Allen Alper and Jeff Senior
A leading private merchant bank that mainly manages junior resource companies to create shareholder value, Forbes & Manhattan has founded and managed many public and private enterprises. It employs geologists and mining engineers as well as financial professionals and lawyers so it can focus on the global resources sector.
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Experts Corner
Resource Opportunities
by Allen Alper and Jeff Senior
 As editor of the Resource Opportunities financial newsletter, Lawrence Roulston claims average mining stock gains in excess of 560% during the period 2008-2011 with more than 25 companies that he's tipped increasing in value more than ten-fold. So we caught up with him after his talk at the San Francisco Hard Assets Conference to see what his thoughts are.
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Rare Earths Panel Explores Prices, Supply and Demand, and Investors Opportunities
by Allen Alper and Aaron Hoos
One of the events at the summit was a panel entitled "The Rare Earth Think Tank". Mickey Fulp, founder of the Mercenary Geologist, moderated the discussion and he was joined by Anthony Alfidi (of Alfidi Capital), John Thomas (the Mad Hedge Fund Trader), and Jeb Handwerger (of Gold Stock Trades). Some of these experts, themselves, own an interest in some of these companies.
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Greg McCoach Recommends Gold and Silver
by Allen Alper
 Greg McCoach, author of The Mining Speculator, warns that markets worldwide are going to have problems, including our junior mining stocks for awhile. Mr. McCoach sees the sovereign debt problems in Europe and the implosion of these derivatives and credit default swaps with MF Global as signs that things are going to get worse before they get better. “It’s like 2008 times 10 and it’s underway right now,” he says. However, Mr. McCoach says junior mining companies will provide opportunities for investors to find value and to come out ahead. He predicts a dramatic rise in prices for gold and silver. “This will be the next run to the newest highs. Gold will be well over $2000. I expect silver to be well over $50 going towards $60 and $70 an ounce,” he exclaims.
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M.J. Loiselle Offers Astute Economic Advice to Investors at Cambridge House Montreal Investment Conference
by M.J. Loiselle MJ Economics
 M.J. Loiselle, author of MJ Economics, was a featured speaker at the Cambridge House Montreal Investment Conference and offered attendees advice on option investing.
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Jon Nadler Talks about Silver's Cloudy Lining
by Allen Alper Jr.
 Jon Nadler, Senior Metals Analyst, Kitco Bullion Dealers, is bearish on silver prices. In his talk at the San Francisco Hard Assets Investment Conference, he provided lots of data to back up his position. Mr. Nadler applied the basic laws of supply and demand mentioning that a decrease in demand for silver and a current surplus points to a decrease in price. He’s not totally against silver though; he just says if you do invest in silver, “Do it in addition to a core position in gold.”
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Jonathan Moore Assesses the Successful San Francisco Hard Assets Conference
by Allen Alper Jr. and Aaron Hoos
While at this year's San Francisco Hard Assets conference, we caught up with Jonathan Moore, Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Event Division, who puts together this show. We asked him to tell us a bit more about this show (especially for readers who were unable to attend but are thinking about attending in the future), and to tell us what he has planned for future shows.
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The Creature that is the Federal Reserve
by Allen Alper Jr.
 Jay Taylor talked about government monetary policy and the Federal Reserve at the recent San Francisco Hard Assets Investment Conference. The Federal Reserve’s stated purpose is to maintain stable prices and full employment; however, Mr. Taylor talked about the ownership of the Federal Reserve by the big banks and their more self-serving goals. Looking at monetary policy at the time of the Great Depression, Mr. Taylor doesn’t see a lot of difference from today’s.
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Thom Calandra Encourages Readers to Look Farther over the Horizon
by Allen Alper Jr.
 At the recent San Francisco Hard Assets Investment Conference, attendees heard about a lot of different opportunities. And one presenter, Thom Calandra, told the attendees about Africa.
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Tom O'Brien shares his mixed outlook on the economy
by Allen Alper
 During this past San Francisco Hard Assets Investment Conference, we met up with Tom O'Brien, a market expert who was also a speaker at the show. Mr. O'Brien is the CEO of Tiger Financial and the host of the nationally syndicated radio program "The Tom O'Brien Show".
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Jeff Berwick
by Allen Alper Jr.
Someone with strong anarchist beliefs might not be the sort of person you'd expect to be speaking at the Hard Assets Convention in San Francisco. However, Jeff Berwick contributes frequently to these sorts of events and there are several reasons for this.
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John Thomas Shares some Surprising Ideas about Gold, China, and Market Volatility
by Allen Alper and Aaron Hoos
At the recent San Francisco Hard Assets Conference, we met up with one of the speakers – John Thomas – who is the founder of "the Mad Hedge Fund Trader". We started by asking him about his speech at the conference and that led into a discussion of markets and trading.
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Adrian Day Says NOW Is the Time to Buy
by Allen Alper and Aaron Hoos
 At the recent San Francisco Hard Assets Convention, we spoke with Adrian Day of Adrian Day Asset Management (a company that offers individual managed accounts for clients) about his take on the market and what he's looking at right now. As usual, Mr. Day gave us some great investing ideas in the resource sector (and outside of it) as well as some tips to trade in this uncertain market.
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The Markets Might Be Beaten up, but That's Good News for Mickey Fulp
by Dr. Allen Alper and Aaron Hoos
 Recently, at the San Francisco Hard Assets Convention, we spoke to Mercenary Geologist Mickey Fulp whose contrarian ideas should inspire investors to take advantage of the opportunities in today's market.
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John Kaiser shares economic insights about America, China, and the global economy
by Allen Alper Jr. and Aaron Hoos
 We met up with John Kaiser of Kaiser Research at the Cambridge House International's Montreal Investment Conference. He provided some fascinating insight to help investors understand what is going on in the market today and what is likely to happen in the years to come.
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Ahead of the Herd with NioGold Mining
by Richard (Rick) Mills / Ahead of the herd
 Today I’m talking with Rock Lefrancois, P.Geo., President and Chief Operating Officer for NioGold Mining Corp TSX.V – NOX
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