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Gold/Mining/Energy : Platinum Group Metals (PGMs) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Bob Howarth who wrote (397)6/12/2000 1:51:00 PM
From: Ptaskmaster  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 529
 
In a more perfect world I'd rather see a US and Canada based, and listed, entity comprised of PDL and SWC. It would spend a few years ironing out kinks in mining, smelting, refining and marketing pgms in North America, explore and obtain control of prospective pgm properties (and juniors) in North and South America, Australia and New Zealand,and be poised to explore and produce from Antarctica in a couple of decades.

It would be the only pure, vertically integrated pgm mining vehicle cleanly trading on both US and TSE exchanges, and would have no country risk. It would likely serve as an equity tracking vehicle for pgm supply/demand - driven prices. When, not if, South Africa stumbles, Russia implodes, and the US and Canadian government administrations realize that pges are in fact strategic metals, such a company would fly....

In that perfect world....

Ptask




To: Bob Howarth who wrote (397)6/20/2000 8:39:00 PM
From: Jordan Electron  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 529
 
Maybe large reserves of Pt are not needed.
Popular Science July 2000 mentions hydrogen
fuel cells made of pure nickel sponge instead
of platinum alloy, from a joint venture of Texaco
and Energy Conversion Devices. No feedback
from the inventors yet.