Saturday, March 31, 2007




Jim Rogers talking about Chinese stocks, the outlook for agricultural commodity prices, U.S. and Asian economies, and his investment strategy. (Source: Bloomberg)

mms://media2.bloomberg.com/cache/vB6N8K4_nAIs.asf

00:00 China government measures to cool growth
01:28 "Incipient bubble" developing in China stocks
03:37 Factors driving investment in China stocks
04:29 "I'd be looking" at agricultural commodities
05:33 Outlook for sugar, corn, cotton and soybeans
06:36 Diversification of China's currency reserves
07:59 Decline in farm land planted with wheat
08:44 "The U.S. is already in recession."; dollar
10:07 Oil, metals prices; Asia, U.S. "decoupling"
12:12 Asian economies "now have their own dynamic"
13:12 Japan economy; Vietnam; U.S. politics
16:57 Rogers's plan to move to Asia

Super Cute....

Friday, March 30, 2007

2007 Foxwoods Poker Classic

If anyone wants to follow the proceedings at the 2007 Foxwoods Poker Classic, goto www.pokerwire.com Not only does the site update chip counts every couple of minutes but it also has video interviews with players. Check it out...
In other news....i cashed out my remaining $75 from neteller after their STOOPID announcement banning canadian players. So no more real money online poker for me......

An interesting Paradox

Two people i highly regard and follow closely have two very conflicting opinions (albeit near term) on the price of Gold. One guy, John Embry, the Chief Investment Strategist at Sprott Asset Management beleives that gold has reached a new plateau and will likely never fall below $600 per ounce again and that its upside potential is at least several multiples of $600. On the other hand, Carl Futia, whose blog you'll find as a link on the right hand column, is calling for gold to decline to levels below $600. I hold Carl in high regard and read his predictions everyday before i do anything because he is on the money more times than not. Conversely, Embry's remarks also hold some merit because he contends and provides proof that central banks around the world do not have the amount of gold they claim to own and certainly not enough to meet demand, he also beleives that paper money is being debased around the world and hence the flight to gold. Carl on the other hand relies on contrary opinion and box thoery to predict prices and patterns and sees that at the $670-$690 range, gold has reached the upper part of the 550-730 trading range of the past 9 months, that gold traders are overwhelming short term bullish and finally that at the $670-$690 level the market encounters strong resistance. Another technical analyst, Merv Burak is also apprehensive in his commentary regarding the short and intermediate term price movement of gold and you can find his article over here -http://www.kitco.com/ind/Burak/mar262007.html
So, would anyone like to sway me in either the bull or bear camp (short term) as i am split down the middle. Longer term i tend to beleive that the price of gold will rise.

Link to John Embry's article:
www.beearly.com/pdfFiles/investors_digest_mar_30_2007.pdf

Link to Carl Futia's post:http://carlfutia.blogspot.com/2007/02/gld-and-april-gold.html

Melkior Resources (mkr: tsxv)


Number of shares outstanding(January 2007):
Issued: 60,510, 704
Options: 3,150,000
Warrants: 6,633,871
Fully Diluted: 70,294,575
MarketCap: 70,294,575 * 0.45= 31,632,558

Properties:
Melkior has 6 properties, all in Ontario,and Quebec,Canada.
West Timmins (Gold): a 100% owned gold exploration project 5km west of Lake Shore Gold. Recent exploration by Melkior has located several gold zones including a 280 G/T Gold grab sample.
Otish Mountains (Diamonds and Uranium): A large land package (close to 40,000 hectares) with uranium showings under joint venture with Santoy Resources. Five kimberlite targets ready for followup. Joint venture with Majescor and purchase of Marc-Andre Uranium occurrence which will be drilled in summer 2007.
(Raglan)Kenty-Delta Ungava (Nickel Copper): 49% Melkior:51% Xstrata
Has a non-compliant 43-101 resource estimate taken from the Falconbridge 1999 annual report (817,600 Metric tonnes, 3.05% Nickel, 1.26% Copper, 0.222 G/T Gold, 1.007 G/T Platinum, 1.647 G/T Palladium).
Launay gold property in North Western Quebec: In 1980's, a significant discovery was made on property. 1 Hole ran 69 feet of .124 ounces of gold. Another hole ran 50 feet of .121 ounces of gold. ANother hole ran 91 feet of .122 ounces of gold. These are very wide intersections and very interesting from an economic viewpoint. Follow up drilling suggested that there is faulting and that the zone might have been cut off. However, at the time there was a resource calculated of a couple hundred thousand ounces of potentially minable resource.

Management Pedigree:
President: Jens Hansen(P.Eng): Professional Engineer (Geophysics) with over 30 years experience in the mining and exploration industry with a focus on building junior companies. Previously, employed by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited at the Chalk River nuclear research laboratory and Geoterrex Ltd. President of Melkior Resources Inc and President of Beaufield Resources Inc.

Chairman and Director: Florent Baril(P.Eng):is a Canadian mining industry veteran who operates his own consulting firm specializing in ore processing development, mill design, mill construction and the evaluation of mineral deposits in Canada and internationally.

Director: Norman Farrell (B.Sc.): Founder of Melkior Resources Inc. From 1993 he was president of Forexport Inc, a wholly owned subsidiary of Le Groupe Forex Inc, a public company and one of Canada`s leading Oriented Strand Board(OSB) manufacturer , taken over in 1999 by the multinational forest industry company Louisiana Pacific Corp.

Director: Alan Lee Barker, M.Sc.(Applied), P.Eng., P.Geol.: With over 35 years of experience in the mining industry, Alan Lee Barker is currently president and CEO of Sparton Resources. Since 1991, Mr. Barker has been closely involved in the exploration, discovery, evaluation, and development programs of several significant diamond deposits in Canada's Northwest Territories, South Africa, Angola, and parts of South America. He supervised the initial exploration program on the Diavik Project near Lac de Gras in the Northwest Territories which led to the discovery of over fifty kimberlite bodies.

John Embry, portfolio manager of the Sprott Gold and Precious Metals Fund owns 1.29 million shares purchased in a private placement.
Jens Hansen owns a major chunk of the company himself (between 7-8%).

Do not forget to visit http://www.melkior.com/for additional information and audio commentary from Jens Hansen and John Embry

Thursday, March 29, 2007

Summary of Centram Exploration


Centram Exploration (CNA-H.V)
Price: C$1.03
Shares Oustanding: 22,470,562
Shares Oustanding after $5 Million Private Placement: 22,470,562 + 12,500,000 = 34,970,562
Market Cap: 34,970,562 * 1.03 = 36,019,678 (36 million)
Cash: Will have $5 million after current financing
Management Pedigree
David Mosher, a director of Centram, led the exploration team that discovered
the Jabiluka deposit, Australia's largest uranium ore body, which is worth upwards of 10 billion Australian Dollars. Mosher is also President and CEO of High River Gold Mines, an emerging gold producer with a $500 million marketcap. Mr. Mosher is a director of joint ASX and TSX listed Equinox Minerals Limited (TSX/ASX:EQN) and a co-founder and director of Intrepid Mines Limited (TSX/ASX:IAU).
Donald Whalen, another director with centram is also the executive chairman of High River Gold Mines.He is also Chairman of the Canada Eurasia Russia Business Association and Co-Chair of the Canada Russia Business Council.
Richard Mark, the President and Ceo of Centram Exploration has over 18 years experience in the public market place. He is involved in senior management postions in a number of junior mining companies such as VMS Ventures Inc and Harvest Gold Corporation.
John A. Roozendaal, another director at Centram, is a geologist and also sits on the boards of VMS Ventures Inc, Harvest Gold Corporation and Thelon Ventures.

News Release: Centram is paying 8 million dollars (i think its in Australian dollars) to earn 50% of Crossland Uranium Mines uranium projects(Chilling and Charley Creek in the Northern Territories of Australia and Kalabity in South Australia. The two companies will also establish a 50:50 joint venture to explore
for uranium outside of Australia. Each party will contribute $2 million to establish the joint venture company. Crossland’s uranium tenement package covers extensive areas in the Northern Territory and South Australia – three project areas with eight separate titles covering 2675 square kilometres. The Chilling and Charley Creek (NT) and Kalabity (SA) projects all contain known uranium occurrences and have the potential for early discovery of viable deposits.

Exploration Strategy: Crossland’s priority exploration target is the Chilling project in the Northern Territory, where the company is targeting the style of uranium deposit found at the Ranger mine and the Jabiluka deposits, known as ‘unconformity-related uranium deposits (URD)’. This deposit style also supported uranium production from Rum Jungle, 40km to the north of Chilling, in the 1950s.
“Crossland sees the possibility that the Chilling project area is the western mirror image of the Alligator Rivers Uranium Field which contains deposits such as Jabiluka, Ranger, and Koongarra on the east side of the Pine Creek Orogen,” according to executive director, Mr Geoff Eupene.
Mr Eupene continued: “Crossland’s holdings in the Chilling project cover a similar geological setting and are large enough to include the entire Jabiluka-Ranger-Koongarra corridor that has production and reserves that exceed 300,000 tonnes of U3O8,”.

The Uranium Expert's Report for the prospectus points out that and that there are several known uranium occurrences, including secondary uranium mineralisation with values up to 0.395% U3O8 at the CHilling property.

Previous exploration has located values of up to 0.228% U3O8 at the Charley Creek Property, in association with secondary uranium mineralisation hosted in the granite.

Some of the phases of the granitoids reach ore grades, such as at the KR4 prospect at Kalabity, where specimen values of up to 4.72% U3O8 have been reported.

Please Visit http://www.crosslanduranium.com.au/ for more information.

In Summary:
Centram is an undiscovered junior uranium company focused on exploration in Australia with an experienced management team, tiny marketcap, just waiting to be noticed.
P.S. They will be presenting at the Uranium Stock Summit (April 9-10th) which is sponsored by the Casey Group

Updates on a few Stocks...and Sprott Asset Management

So i sold Torch River Resources at $0.50 ...as i had bought it at $0.19 for a nice profit and because the movement in the share price was based on no news. I then saw Zeroes and Ones(zros)..rocket to $1.92 from the $0.36 i bought it at...and correct back to around the $1.05 level which is where it at right now. This stock can be a traders best friend as it moves up and down 5-7% daily. I still have all my zros shares. The stock is currently profiled at StockLemon.com as a scam..but i beleive in its product..from what i've read about it...and plan to hold a while longer. Two days ago i purchased shares of Centram Exploration ...a uranium junior on a tip from a highly regarded source.
On a side note, i would like to suggest to anyone who reads this blog to somehow create a tracker that tracks the private placements done by SPrott Asset Management, a highly regarded mutual and hedge fund company in Canada that invests in mostly micro and junior companies in the energy, metals and even technology sector with a high degree of success. By success i solely mean, that minutes after a junior company announces that Sprott Asset Management has invested in them...their shares immediately rise upwards of 15%..sometimes close to 50%. So, the plan is...is find a tracker that tracks these news releases as soon as they are released to capture that quick...15-50% gain. To give people a headstart...from what i could find Sprott Asset Management has recently done financings in Galway Resources, Roca Mines and Western Troy Capital Resources.
Sprott in also in the process of setting up a Molybdenum Fund like the Uranium Participation Fund that they already have...and there is a high likelihood that many of their upcoming private placements will be in junior Moly companies whose shares they might need to comprise the fund.

Saturday, March 10, 2007

HelloGoodbye - Here In Your Arms

Thursday, March 01, 2007

To end...some light, catchy, addictive fun...

Mika--Grace Kelly

Boone Pickens

On offshore drilling rigs..prediction on oil prices..largest holdings in his funds (Suncor, Valero)..etc
mms://media2.bloomberg.com/cache/vAs9OwKx6xEA.asf

Jim Rogers on the 9% drop in Chinese Stocks (Courtesy CNBC)

Rogers has been a bull on the China story for quite a while now and he essentially is not concerned with the slide as he says..the market had not had a 5-10% correction for a long time and he says that there could very well be more pain to follow in the US markets. He picks agricultural commodities (sugar, cotton, coffee) as the place to be and recommends raising cash, selling short or putting money into foreign currencies to protect oneself against the US dollar falling.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=192652858