BUY

Fiji is an interesting place. They have raised $85 Million last year when it was tough. If they get this thing going it will build up confidence. They are putting a relatively small scale gold mine into production while doing exploration. They should eventually get bought out.

STRONG BUY

This is in the Dominican Republic. They just published a pre-feasibility study. They have a big producer as a partner in this. They are exploring for even bigger and better discoveries. It deserves to be put into production at current commodity prices.

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Markets. Something really big is underway. We are going back to a 90s style funding culture of exploration and discovery. In the last month the shift has brought it back home to him when companies started reviving projects that did not work in the past. They are now doing brute force drilling and not only hoping to hit something, but gathering a lot of geological data.

PAST TOP PICK

(Top Pick Mar 7/16, Up 135.48%) He thinks it is going to go a lot further in the next couple of months when we hear they have the mine lease. They are putting only a fraction of the deposit into production because demand has to develop. Any user needs reliable supply. These discoveries in Australia are a game changer. This market could explode.

PAST TOP PICK

(Top Pick Mar 7/16, Up 411.83%) The manganese content was 1.3%, which is not a show stopper. A short selling syndicate attacked the company. The story was withdrawn the next day.

PAST TOP PICK

(Top Pick Mar 7/16, Up 40.74%) It has been a disappointment. They did not raise the capital they wanted. They are going to do some more drilling. It is one of the best diamond discoveries in the last 6 years. There is no caribou migration problem in this area of Baffin Island.

BUY

It is a small scale producer in Ecuador. They worked with the government to change the rules. Thumbs up on Ecuador.

BUY

He likes the story for what they accomplished. They rethought skinny veins as an open pit project.

BUY

It is one of these small scale miners with projects scattered. He thinks they will not be around much longer and will be absorbed by someone at a premium.

WATCH

When the rare earth bubble took off, they deployed the drills into the area and found substantial rare earth deposits. It has a meaningful heavy component to it, but the commodity price is back down again. Once China shuts down illegal mining, you will see the price of rare earths coming back up.

TOP PICK

We are about to enter a really good age with Scandium as we learn to combine it with aluminum. This orphan company that was shunned is about to launch into a different realm where American investors come and take over future funding of this company.

TOP PICK

They acquired adventure gold. They are re-drilling a depleted old mine and finding new zones. They reported a find this morning. It has lots of cash and not a lot of stock out. (Analysts’ target: $2.15).

TOP PICK

Zinc in Utah. This could go into production by itself. We could see this thing scale bigger in terms of tonnage. There is a lot more to be found. It is in an area where there are reduced environmental objection, just south of the Military testing grounds over the Salt Flats.

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Mining. He is pretty positive on the metal sector, gold prices, etc. Generally speaking, gold prices are inversely correlated with the US$, and the world’s confidence in America. We are seeing a slowly improving economy in the US and are probably going to see interest rates bumped up again. Those are both negative for gold. But the flip side of that is Trump and his administration. We are dealing with someone unstable, and the team behind him is certainly inexperienced. He is concerned that they are not going to be able to react and deal with a major global crisis, or black swan of some sort. Feels that is what is holding up gold prices even though other things would suggest that it goes down. On a more positive note, major mining companies are not finding enough gold to replace what they are mining, their reserves are depleting. They’ve cut exploration dramatically and are not finding new deposits. The place to be right now is in the very junior exploration sector with good people and legitimate projects, and that is going to do really well this coming year.

DON'T BUY

This has the Pebble deposit which has about 90 million ounces of resources, and copper to match that. It has been promoted pretty heavily as the Trump gold play, with the idea that with deregulation being easier, it will be permitted. You need to be aware that these mega projects are in the middle of nowhere in Alaska, the headwaters of the largest Salmon fisheries in North America. A difficult place to build a tailings facility. The CapX needed is $8-$12 billion. It has to include a deep-water port, a pipeline, energy, a road, plus all the infrastructure on-site. There is not enough detailed work done on this to make an assessment to decide if this is really economic or not.