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Gold/Mining/Energy : Precious and Base Metal Investing
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To: Claude Cormier who wrote (24674)11/29/2003 8:51:42 AM
From: E. Charters  Read Replies (3) of 39344
 
High risk, high reward.

the main causitive areas of risk failure in mining exploration have been recently defined by financial analysts. They are, (not necessarily in order of importance.)

1. Incompetence in grade determination by investigative personnel.
2. Incompetence in structural deterimination by investigative personnel.
3. poor target selection by investigative personnel.
4. poor budgeting and money disbursement planning
5. poor technical methods of exploration by investigative personnel
(poor interpretation competence for targeting data i.e. geophysics, core analysis)
6. poor target scaling for nature of company's financial capabilities.
7. poor defrayal of risk/uncertainty in lack of multiple target/property selection.
8. excessive expenses in acquisition of property
9. bad timing with reference to market cycles.
10. government interference in sector and environmental policies
11. government policies with respect to investment
12. social unrest and community opposition to development projects
13. changes to taxation policy regarding industry sector in production, and investor income.
14. lack of integrity of partners, corporate people, field personnel, land owners (Bre-X)
15. sector market cycle variability
16. interest rate effects with respect to broader market.
17. goverment corruption
18. infrastructure weaknesses in area of projects
19. competition from industry players. (including espionage and interference)
20. lack of support for target projects in brokerage community.
21. incompetence in project viability assessment amongst brokerage community.
22. bad planning with respect to metal price cycles/metal price cycle variability
23. bad luck

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