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Kitco Metals Inc., headquartered in Montreal and has 30+ years of experience in the Precious Metals business.
Kitco Gold quotes and news headlines
Kitco Silver quotes and news headlines
Google News Search on 43-101
NI 43-101, is a national instrument for the “Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects” with the Canadian Securities Administrators. The NI is a strict guideline for how public Canadian companies can disclose scientific and technical information about mineral projects. Disclosures include press releases, presentations, oral comments, and websites. Learn more about NI 43-101 at Wikipedia here.
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Why 43-101?
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Why focus on companies using 43-101 to report their mining results?
The Canadian mining industry has had its share of speculative mining promoters in the past 100 or so years. Perhaps its greatest "failing" was the Bre-X scandel that has only recently finished in the courts after near 10 years.
The Bre-X scam was caught by a solid miner going in and doing confirmation drilling and finding nothing. It is very like that the Bre-X scam caused the Canadian Securities Administrators to set the 43-101 standard for reporting to avoid future problems. And many believe, including goldMinerPulse.com, that the 43-101 standard has provided some visibility into the true value of a junior miner. Let the drill speak!!
What about early stage opportunities before 43-101 results are available?
Checking the people involved in new mining ventures is probably a very good way sort of good opportunities from the perhaps more risky ventures. The INFO TSX Venture Start page is excellent starting point. Search the principles in the new mining venture and see what other mining ventures they were involved with previously. The past failures of the principles may be a good indicator of future venture performance -- just like an excellent place to find a gold mine is by looking near an existing gold mine.
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Links Watch list
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A very short list of links to useful sites and blogs following precious metals.
THEODORE BUTLER SILVER ARCHIVES -- weekly commentary on the silver trade market. Here is a sample from a March 2008 commentary:
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...But there was no surprise for the most important pattern in the silver COT, namely, the concentrated short positions of the largest 4 and 8 traders. Once again, each set new records, as the big shorts sold into the rally. The big 4 are now net short 62,229 contracts, or over 311 million ounces. That’s the equivalent of more than 177 days of world mine production. The eight largest traders are now net short 79,042 contracts, or more than 395 million ounces, or more than 225 days equivalent production. ...
Seeking Alpha -- community site collecting stock market opinion and analysis. Coverage includes gold, silver and other metals. Excellent source for conference call transcripts. Direct links: Gold ETF, Silver ETF and conference call transcripts. Here is an example quote from a commentary on Silver from March 4:
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...Silver is rocketing, the silver shorts are sweating profusely and silver continues to outperform gold as the next big silver spike begins to take shape.
The main question now is at what price will you exit your silver position? Readers have queried me for my view on the matter but plainly no one knows to the dollar at what price silver will form a major top in the months ahead. Some will get it right but there will be more luck than judgment about such price prophecies.
At times like these, the venerable record of $50 is looked upon as an obvious target, whilst others state the inflation adjusted measure of $135. Other investors perceive a paradigm shift and see higher prices even than these with $200 for some reason being mentioned more than once. Others seeing a hyperinflationary apocalypse suggest that the price of silver will become meaningless as the dollar vaporizes before our eyes. People like to work with solid numbers, especially ones that are rounded off to the nearest tens or hundreds. [rl predictingTheSilverTop]
Bloomberg.com Commodities -- the New York view on commodities.
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Information site links for some of the Gold/Silver Majors
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