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To: goldsheet who wrote (58772)	9/23/2000 2:55:44 PM
From: Chuca Marsh	Respond to of 116779

As to SWC, I went to their slide show and find Pages 21 thru 26 especially telling. On page 26 the 5 years that you mention can be easily seen in any 5 year past. So, if history repeats itself and it fairly well doesn't in this day in age; the constant demand of both AUTO and JEWLERY in the chart is meaningless because of the growth of all other, ie PGMs in Computers and Fuel Cells. media.corporate-ir.net media.corporate-ir.net media.corporate-ir.net media.corporate-ir.net media.corporate-ir.net media.corporate-ir.net The NEW AMERICA and WORLD of FUEL CELL TECH: (( also a good read link on PD uses )) ragingbull.altavista.com "".. ARTICLE:: ..//.."" In addition, the Russian palladium industry is tightly controlled by the state: All sales must be approved by presidential decree, and all information on production, stocks or exports is deemed classified. In the same reorganization, the Finance Ministry also assumed control over the country’s platinum and diamond industries. Information on these industries is classified as well. While Russia is a major player in these markets - it provides 20 percent of world platinum supplies, for example - the near-monopolistic control it holds over palladium is exceptional. Unlike diamonds and platinum, palladium has no aesthetic value, but it’s become crucial to modern economies, with a range of uses that dwarfs the importance of the jewelry market. Palladium’s high conductivity makes it a material of choice in a wide array of high-technology goods such as cellular phones and laptop computers, but what makes it truly valuable is its effectiveness as a chemical catalyst. Palladium has replaced platinum as the preferred catalyst in catalytic converters, which reduce motor vehicles’ output of pollutants. Although palladium costs roughly twice as much as platinum by weight, palladium-based converters require less metal, making the older platinum-based technology less economical. In the United States and other developed markets with stringent auto-emissions standards, almost every new car sold incorporates palladium as a key component. Palladium is also the primary catalyst used in fuel cells, a new technology that could revolutionize the electric power industry over the next few years. Fuel cells are a type of portable, environmentally-clean power generator similar to a reusable high-voltage battery. They can be installed in homes, businesses or cars - making their users largely independent from the petroleum market - and should enter the mass market in 2003. As a result of its increasing practical value, global demand for palladium in 1999 more than doubled from 1998 with no corresponding increase in supply, causing stockpiles to be sold down to bare-bones levels...//..""..//..it goes ON Chuca-Chucka, I think that PRICE will not be at the top in a NEWTECH way, in that same framwork in 5 to 10 years we might have a NANOTECH Shift in supply side economics that will change things with increased augmentaion of PGM supplies via atom by atom replacement technologies, which is the monkey wrench in any chart or equation. All bets would be off then IF and WHEN new supplies are found; dare I say, LOCATED. An example of a new OLD discovery that may one day come on line rather than dorment: auctionbuy.com auctionbuy.com auctionbuy.com ( Main Arizona Site which never found PT in bulk tonnages over a few years of workings) But at least we helped the Forest Fires of the Wild West this year with donation of land for a Helio Port and Fire Station in Arizona that sorely needs it in a Northern Kingman Arizona Fire District: albums.photopoint.com 5 year plan on trucking: ( no we didn't have anything but BF Goodrich and a slice by a piece of metal ) img15.webshots.com In the last couple years it was itemized and classified by Hardrock Johnson( see site page title of the REEF Style Mineralizations in Nevada) of Trend Mining: trendmining.com New PGM guys will pop up on ocassion, mark those words. Scaracity is the true defination of economy. Demand not withstanding supply side, and the converse of the inverse relationship. SM- Original Thought. Chuckauriginal