(From (a) worst offender.) Request to thread readers, lurkers, and posters. As a diversion, and possibly to uphold the constitution of the thread, (thread means the site you are reading), could you possibly experimentally try this? (It absolutely will not hurt, is a bit of fun, and is dead easy to do. Plus it might turn out to be interesting and even profitable). Find out about a mining company exploring here or abroad, research them briefly by reading the last two or three of their new articles at their website, assess them for your take on their interest and economic value, i.e. they drilled and found interesting gold, copper, other base metal or raised more than 2 million in a PP, are acquiring a promising property, merging with another company, or arrived at a resource calculation etc.. Now just cut and paste the first two or three paragraphs, the hilites or intro and explanation of the most interesting news item, and a one line lead-in above that saying why you find it interesting. Don't worry about thread clogging or having to be absolutely right etc.. we could use your sincere input and need some discussion topics these days. If nobody answers or some boo, don't sweat it. Please try to stay away from pink sheet trash, and be careful about bulletin board 500 million share wonders. Other than that any drill hole with discovery written on it or other such interest is fair game. If you don't feel like an analyst, its all right. Being wrong is not a crime, and most commentators on this thread are more wrong than right most of the time. What we need here more than anything is interested community conflab about real mining news, and not just high blown opinion about the world, its politics or gold stamped exploration plays by the in crowd. I have posted any number of good interesting plays (and with 40 years of investing and mining experience, I would think I know a mining play from day old bubblegum..) and not seen on soupcon of comment often. All kinds of witty posters talk about their portfolios in an erudite fashion and do one liners about plays and companies with no lead in, or fill info to let the person know what is what. We have quite a bit of cryptic conversation going on between the in crowd, but precious little invite to people to question or comment.
If you do you own comment, then name the stock fully, give their exchange and symbol, the country they explore in, shares out, stock price and a one liner about why you find them economically interesting. All that background info can be found at their website under the heading "investors" or "corporate" some may find this redundant, and tiresome, but you never got Cronkite saying "They shot a president today, you saw it on the news, well he is dead. And now our roving reporter talks about a lady who has her cat, Tabitha, stuck upside down in her neighbour's apple tree. We go there now." Generally he tended to tell you who got shot, where, when, and stuck with the story. This newscaster approach requires more fill but might serve to get more research, comment etc..
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An example might be: Goldsource Coal, GXS.v, last at 1.30, shares out 21 million, has news of new intersect of over 60 metres coal at its Border project in Saskatchewan, Canada. (as if we need to be told, but a great many people would not know where Quito was..) After a long period of drilling and announcing, at one time hitting about 18 bucks a shares, they are still coming out with economic intercepts, lending the credence that they might soon have a resource worth reckoning with.
If one wonders how to find companies just go to google, enter the company name, spelt more or less right, add their three or four letter symbol, and put the word "mining" and/or "gold" or their sought metal after that.. and 99% of the time the company's website will turn up in the first 10 links regurgitated! googing "Ventana, VEN gold, mining turns up the VEN website as the first link in about 3 seconds.
try these sites for info,
goodhttp://www.gold-eagle.com/
For an African site, it is surprisingly up to day and informative about mining background worldwide - Mbendi mbendi.com
The old mining site with very compressed data for free. rather expensive background on deposits and geology.
infomine.com
kitco.com -- according to them, gold is falling on weak global demand, i.e. it is up 46 dollars. Kitco is, for a gold site, rather depressing and topsy turvy in its perspective. You don't always want james dines chearleading, but really, kitco, what is it about a rise of 46 dollars and a 955 price that equates to "weak gold"? I is iggorunt.
Shirely Gilson of Cobalt, Ontario has this simple site canadianminingnews.com
Canada newswire - a leading info service
newswire.ca
Want email spam right to your door every day? - newswire.ca
marketwire - you can get free info mailed in a timely fashion
marketwire.com
The grandaddy site for news, quotes, charts, and commentary for CDN mining - fairly cheap per month. an old standby -
stockwatch.com
mining hall of fame terrific mining lore who did what and when - mining.ca |
