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North American Gem TSX-V: NAG is Suppling Premium Quality Coal to Semiconductor Industry
by Allen Alper
Despite its name, North American Gem’s main focus right now is coal, particularly Blue Gem coal. President and Director Charles Desjardins, who has been in the resource business since the early 1980s, describes how he got involved: “North American Gem was a company that our group took over from a Calgary group. It came to us because it needed somebody that could finance it properly.”
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Canada Lithium is Betting on an Electric Future
by Allen Alper and Aaron Hoos
Smart investors pay attention to social and economic trends and make investments based on where they see consumer attitudes shifting. One area that is getting more and more attention, both at the government level and the consumer level, is the electric car.
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Copper, Gold, Uranium, Molybdenum: Polar Star Mining: Excelling in Chile
by Allen Alper Jr. and Aaron Hoos
While a lot of the companies we interview here were often started by people who have only ever worked in the mining industry as geologists, it's interesting to get a different perspective from time to time.
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Exciting Times for Levon Resources: Gold, Silver, Lead, Molybdenum and Zinc!
by Dr Allen M. Alper and Bryan Martin
For more than 20 years Ron Tremblay had been exclusively involved in mining finance. So when he was approached three-and-a-half years ago by Vancouver-based junior Levon Resources Ltd to oversee operations, it didn’t take long for the now-president and CEO to make what has become a pivotal venture into mineral exploration.
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Source Exploration: Exploring and Redeveloping Historic Silver Mine in Mexico
by Allen M. Alper Jr and Bryan Martin
For a junior company seeking silver to enrich its portfolio, Mexico is not only an extremely practical choice given its bounteous history, but also, logistically speaking, a very advisable decision. Brian E. Robertson couldn’t agree more.
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Numerous 100-Percent-Owned Properties, Financially Independent, Diversified and Making Innovations in Eco-Friendly Minerals Applications
by Dr. Allen Alper and Bryan Martin
The last time Metalsnews.com spoke with the ever-ebullient Jack Stoch, President and CEO of Quebec-based Globex Mining Enterprises Inc., his domain included 85 projects, all of which featured elements spanning a vast stretch across the periodic chart. October saw Globex celebrate a milestone of 60 years in the exploration and mining sphere.
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Advanced Explorations Inc.: Aiming to Become the Lowest Cost Iron Producer
by Dr. Allen Alper and Bryan Martin
Despite an anxious market bearing witness to the disorienting price seesaw of iron ore over the last few years, a strong insistence on steel in China appears to be positively affecting demand for the stock exchange’s second largest commodity.
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Oroco Resources Moving Towards Production
by Dr. Allen M. Alper and Mindy Matter
We had a few moments to catch up with Adam Smith, the Business Development Director of Oroco Resource Corporation recently.
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Globex Mining Enterprises : a very large North American portfolio of advanced properties with gold, copper, zinc, silver, uranium, platinum, palladium, magnesium and talc potential
by Dr. Allen M. Alper and Bryan Martin
Jack Stoch has very rare abilities and geological and business background that has enabled Globex to have a very successful approach of discovering and acquiring a vast amount of diversified valuable properties and developing them for licensing or partnership.
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Avalon Rare Metals Inc.: Advancing Green Energy Technology
by Dr. Allen M. Alper and Jill Cueni-Cohen
 Metalsnews.com interviewed Don Bubar in Calgary. He has a very strong background in geological exploration and has assembled an excellent team of employees, management, board and consultants to explore and develop one of the largest and richest potential new sources of rare earth elements in the world.
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Phil Vinet Talks About Red Lake Gold District at PDAC 2009
by Allen Alper Jr.
This is Al Alper Jr. with Metals News. I'm here with Phil Vinet, Mayor of Red Lake, Ontario, Canada. Could you give us a little background on Red Lake and its history, Phil?
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Western Troy Capital Resources Positioned in Moly, Copper, and Gold
by Dr. Allen Alper and Bryan Martin
Western Troy Capital Resources, a mineral exploration company based in Canada, keeps itself pretty busy these days with its advanced stage MacLeod Lake Copper/Molybdenum Project and most recently the company has staked a number of promising new properties in Quebec.
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Moly Mines Ready for Market Upturn
by Dr. Allen Alper and Alison Conte
We interviewed Derek Fisher, managing director of Moly Mines Limited, (ASX and TSX listed), at the Cambridge Vancouver Investment Conference. We are extremely impressed with the knowledge and background of Dr. Fisher and his team. He told us how the firm is focusing its efforts on the Spinifex Ridge molybdenum project in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
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Adriana Resources: The New Player in Iron Ore
by Dr. Allen M. Alper and Bryan Martin
 
Michael Beley and Richard Barclay are one of the most successful partners in the mining business. They have created billion dollar mining companies. We were fascinated to learn of the progress they have made in developing Adriana Resources into “The New Player in Iron Ore”
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LatAm Mining Congress 2009
by Metals News
The LatAm Mining Congress 2009 will take place June 29 – July 1, 2009 at The Biltmore, Coral Gables, FL.
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Malaga Inc is a Niche Tungsten Player with Burgeoning Opportunities
by Allen M. Alper and Aaron Hoos
There's something really compelling about a niche player who is completely focused on one opportunity. In some cases, it can be daring (and even risky) but when fate works in their favor, it's an exciting and even profitable opportunity.
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Thompson Creek Metals: Their Moly Focus is their Strength… And There's More to Come
by Allen M. Alper Jr. and Aaron Hoos
 Some companies pursue a diversified approach and broaden their skill-set while minimizing their risks. Other companies go in the opposite direction, focusing solely on a single target, which gives them other advantages and mitigates other risks. Thompson Creek Metals Company (NYSE: TC, TSX: TCM) pursues the latter strategy and investors who are excited about the burgeoning opportunities in the molybdenum market will love this company's focus.
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Moly Mines: Molybdenum, Copper, Iron: Profiting from China's Rapid Growth
by Allen M. Alper Jr and Aaron Hoos
Investors everywhere love robust, growing economies. That's because a growing economy is building and people are buying. And a growing economy like China has an extra benefit: It's a country with a huge landmass and a lot of people and it desperately needs infrastructure – roads, power, buildings, etc. So, smart investors are watching China and buying infrastructure-related investments in order to profit from that growth.
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Gold, Molybdenum, Manganese and Magnesium - Larry Reaugh Shares his Expertise with Metals News
by Dr. Allen M. Alper
Back in late 2008, when doom and gloom were everywhere, Larry Reaugh was upbeat about the mining industry, predicting everything would start to pick up. He was proved right, with metal prices soon on the rise, so we went to seek out his latest views on the situation.
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Avanti Mining focuses on Molybdenum: An Experienced Gold Manager Turns His Attention to Molybdenum
by Allen Alper Jr. and Aaron Hoos
Gold, silver, uranium, and other metals often get glamorous headlines and a dedicated following who will invest in them and swear by them through thick and thin.
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Great Western Minerals: Innovators and Rare Earth Producers
by Dr. Allen Alper and Aaron Hoos
When it comes to investing in compelling opportunities, investors sometimes look for first movers and innovators as exciting additions to their portfolio. Innovators are forward-looking opportunists who create strategic alliances and develop groundbreaking business models to grow their businesses and become successful.
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The Waterfront Mining Group: Molybdenum, Nickel, Copper, Cobalt, Platinum, Palladium and Silver
by Dr. Allen Alper and Mindy Matter
With five publicly traded companies, and numerous deposit projects, The Waterfront Mining Group is poised to make a sizable impact in the metals industry in the years ahead
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Riches in the Mountains of Mexico-Tony Rovira of Azure Minerals
by Dr. Allen Alper and Jill Cueni-Cohen
 At PDAC 2009 we had the opportunity to talk to Tony Rovira founder of Azure Minerals in the Sierra Madre Occidental Range in northwestern Mexico. He has a great reputation as one of the discoverers of the huge Cosmos nickel deposits for Jubilee Mines in Western Australia.
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PREMIER GOLD MINES: Discovering and Developing Gold Deposits in the Superior Province of Canada
by Dr. Allen M. Alper and Graeme Lamb
Recently we had an opportunity to talk with Stephen McGibbon P.Geo., who is the Executive Vice-President and COO (Chief Operating Officer) of Premier Gold Mines Ltd.
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Goldbrook Partners with Jilin Jien of China for Nickel Exploration
by Dr. Allen Alper and Alison J. Conte
In the last decade, China’s manufacturing and building boom spurred a demand for nickel, about 25 percent of the global demand for this metal.
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Freewest Resources: North American Outstanding Chromite Discovery
by Dr. Allen Alper and Bryan Martin
Mac Watson is a firm believer in making your own luck. For 45 years he has pioneered incredibly successful expeditions that have lead to the discovery of significant deposits of gold, coal and base metals throughout eastern Canada.
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Mexivada: Gold-Silver, Uranium, Molybdenum and Diamonds in Nevada, Mexico and Africa
by Dr. Allen M. Alper and Bryan Martin
Since 2005, Mexivada Mining Corporation has built a genuine name for itself on the international precious minerals scene as a junior exploration and mining company.
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Great Western Minerals Mines and Markets Rare Elements
by Dr. Allen Alper and Alison J. Conte
Since we last spoke with Gary Billingsley, Executive Chairman of Great Western Minerals,
in May 2008, his company has continued to expand on their mine-to-market business strategy
with the acquisition of another production facility, an option to recommission a former rare
earth mine in South Africa, and a new heavy rare earth property in New Brunswick.
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Thomas Patton, President & CEO Quaterra Resources Inc. Discovering New North American Mines – Copper, Uranium, Gold, Silver, Molybdenum
by Dr. Allen Alper and Jill Cueni-Cohen
When it comes to making significant mineral discoveries in North America, Quaterra Resources Inc. is on the cutting edge. We caught up with Quaterra’s President & CEO Dr. Thomas Patton to get the inside scoop on this exciting junior’s current projects and outlook.
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Interview with Warren Bates, Vice President, Exploration for PDX Resources Inc. and Pelangio Exploration Inc.
by Dr. Allen Alper and Jill Cueni-Cohen
Dating all the way back to the 1930’s, Pelangio Mines Inc. was a pioneer in the mining and exploration industry. On September 6, 2008, the legacy of founder Maurice Hibbard was split into two companies: Pelangio Mines was renamed PDX Resources (“PDX”) and holds Pelangio Mines’ interest in Detour Gold Corporation (“Detour”), and Pelangio Exploration (“PX”) was incorporated to hold Pelangio Mines’ exploration assets.
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TTM RESOURCES INC. ACQUIRES NEW CLAIMS ADJACENT TO CHU MOLYBDENUM PROPERTY
Vancouver, B.C. - (MetalsNews.com, August 31, 2010) – TTM Resources Inc. (the “Company”) announced that it has entered into Purchase Agreements with two vendors to acquire eight additional mineral claims adjacent to the Company’s Chu molybdenum property in northern British Columbia. The claims expand the area of the Chu property by approximately 1,970 hectares. |
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Experts Corner
A Report From The Rare Earths Conference In Beijing
by Jack Lifton
I am in Beijing, where I am attending and have spoken at the 2010 China Rare Earth Summit, part of the 6th International Conference on Rare Earth Development and Application, run by the Chinese Society of Rare Earths. I was honored to be one of only three American guest speakers.
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President Obama Backs U.S. Lithium Developers
by Marc Davis, www.BNWnews.ca
 The environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has served as an unnerving wake-up call for the industrialized world to confront its addiction to fossilized fuels. And it’s now providing President Obama and other G20 leaders with all the political impetus they need to usher-in a new era of eco-vehicles. Ones that are far more reliant on cheap battery-fueled electrical power than on high-priced petroleum.
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Financing Trends. Trouble in Paradise.
by Christopher Ecclestone, Hailgarten
Investors’ interest has revived in the mining space since the slump of 2008/9 but it is not what it was.
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Exciting Economic News For Low Grade U.S. Manganese Deposits
by Ken Reser
A new report submitted by Kemetco Research Inc. on behalf of American Manganese Inc. http://www.americanmanganeseinc.com/ and partially funded by the National Research Council of Canada, should at some point have major reverberations thru-out the Manganese Mining sector, especially in the USA. Most notably for those mining companies with lower grade Mn deposits once deemed marginally economic.
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Rare Earths The GAO Report – Mapping the Road Not Taken
by Christopher Ecclestone - Hallgarten & Company Metals Review
After a brief lull in the gunfire in the battle over Rare Earths the heavy artillery is now being drawn into position and a big shell has just gone whizzing over the marketplace in the form of the GAO’s long awaited report on US dependency on Rare Earths. The real barrage is yet to come with the Molycorp IPO set to ride the resurgent chatter in the sector and the politicians will begin to wade in and see how Rare Earth can be turned into pork with some Washington alchemy.
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U.S. Allows China To Dominate World Supply Chain of Manganese & Magnesium
by Ken Reser
 Over the last few months we have heard and read constantly about China controlling the world’s Rare Earth supply chain and rightly so. It’s about time that someone spoke up before it becomes a critical issue. It is also just as important that we pay close attention to the reality that there are also two other metals very critical and strategic to the N American industrial base as well as the Defense industry. Two metals of which China holds huge world dominance over in terms of production and/or export of, and those key metals are Manganese (Electrolytic Manganese Metal; EMM) and Magnesium.
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Lithium ABC’s
by Richard (Rick) Mills, Ahead of the Herd
The Puna plateau sits at an elevation of 4,000m, stretches for 1800 km along the Central Andes and attains a width of 350–400 km. The Puna covers a portion of Argentina, Chile and Bolivia and hosts an estimated 70 - 80% of global lithium brine reserves.
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Thom Calandra, Ticker Ticker Trax: Optioning Colombia gold & copper
by Dr. Allen Alper of Metals News
 We sat a spell in Vancouver, Canada, with Thom Calandra, investor and writer. Thom is the journalist who started CBS MarketWatch and MarketWatch.com – now part of the Dow Jones-News Corp. family. Thom (by the way, folks -- as friendly and helpful as ever – some five years post-MarketWatch), and his California family of four profited handsomely from the $518 million sale of MarketWatch to Dow Jones in 2005.
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Aptium Global, Inc. helps identify, qualify, and implement new metals suppliers
by Dr. Allen Alper
 Lisa Reisman, co-founder Aptium Global, Inc. If you’re a manufacturing company looking for a viable metal supply solution, then Aptium Global, Inc. has the answer. Lisa Reisman, co-founder, tells us more about her company and what they have to offer.
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RARE EARTHS PRE-CURSER TO OTHER METAL SHORTAGES DOMINATED BY CHINA PRODUCTION?
by Larry W. Reaugh
Currently, the metal markets are correcting as most pundits are calling for a bubble collapse in all commodities. The prices of metals both precious and base moved up rapidly throughout 2009 resulting in rapid gains as follows:
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Buying a House – A Risky Proposition?
by Axel Merk
 After renting four homes in the San Francisco Bay Area this decade, I bought a house last month. I had been a long-time advocate of renting rather than buying, so what drove me to buy a house now? Has the time come to buy a house as an inflation hedge? Buying a house should be a matter of risk, not price.
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Who are the real top-performing companies in the metals industry today?
by Thom Calandra
 Thom Calandra of Ticker Trax has been following natural resources since 1991 and shares his thoughts on the current metals market trends. He is the co-founder of CBS MarketWatch and is well known among geologists, prospectors and merchant bankers
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Cheerful Prognosis for Dr. Copper
by Peter Campbell
 Even if emerging economies' demands for copper were to falter, Jennings Capital Inc. Mining Research Analyst Peter Campbell sees plenty of polish on copper ahead. One big reason: Even a gradual climb out of recession will prompt North American and European manufacturers to replenish inventories as they begin restoring production to pre-crash levels. As for the copper companies themselves, he tells The Gold Report that some of the best bets lie with emerging producers that are prepared to augment diminishing supplies with new finds. Peter has his sights set on iron ore, nickel, aluminum and other base metals, too, but he calls copper "the best and clearest way by far" of participating in the evolving economic story.
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Fundamental View On Metal Markets - Part IV - ARE SPECIALTY METALS NEXT IN SUPER CYCLE?
by Larry W. Reaugh
 In the past few months we have seen how the rising pre-cious and base metal prices have positively affected the future of several well known mining companies. Some of these companies were scrambling to save themselves as profits disappeared and unsustainable debt dragged them down. It appeared as if they would be seeking bankruptcy protection.
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Model Mining Portfolio: Monetising our accumulated calls
by Christopher Ecclestone
 Policy error is piled upon policy error as the decadence of the Greenspan years is followed by the total abandonment of monetary policy under his acolyte Bernanke. Reflation is the name of the game but inflation might very well be the eventual outcome of running the printing presses to drown the economic woes in a sea of money
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