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To: pocotrader who wrote (45735)	7/26/2007 11:29:40 PM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 78431

I will perfect my own race of atomic supermen and we will rule the world. Fertilizer will no longer be necessary, as man will run on pure solarium. Are you talking potash? Super phosphate? Sherrit used to be a fertilizer stock. I don't know their extent now. They have turned back to nick-hell. And they intend to rule the world. I don't know any junior bullshit/horse manure stocks. Fertilizers requires go beeg, or go home senor. I always thot that there was no shortage of super phosphate and for the foreseeable future there never would be. In other words all those guys in Florida and Carolina were a drug on the market with pollution problems. Canada used to have all sorts of apatite mining with upgrade sulfuric plants here and there. The centralization of sulfuric around the sour gas industry and the phasing in of the fish beds in the states as the primary phosphate souce changed all that. Texas gulf was a big super phosphate stock and tried to bring it into Ontario, but Ontario Northland killed that deal for good. (Demanded 25 cents a ton mile for super phosphate product leaving Timmins...) Good bye 10,000 jobs in Timmins. Nice effin gyze. Shoulda hanged the bastards... living off government largesse and overcharging every poor bastard who tried to make a living. Our politicians are brain dead. If TG was smart they would have opened up the Albany to the Sea put a port east of Moosonee where te water was deep enough and perhaps a container port on the Islands in Hud Bay. Or bought Ontario Northland.. as it was making money ostensibly. Nitrates are another thing. Need energy for that. I guess prices are rising. Big phosphate deposit west of Timmins. Has niobium in it. The Cargill. ECONOMIC FACTORS TYPICAL GRADE AND TONNAGE: Araxa deposit contains 300 million tonnes grading 3% Nb2O5; Cargill deposit consists of 60 million tonnes at 20% P2O5; Niobec deposit hosts 19 million tonnes grading 0.66 % Nb2O5; Aley has extensive zones exceeding 0.66% Nb2O5 and locally exceeding 2%. ECONOMIC LIMITATIONS: Competitive markets are established for most of the commodities associated with carbonatites. In 1996, the world consumption was estimated at 22 700 tonnes of Nb2O5. Araxa mine, the largest single source of Nb2O5 in 1996, produced 18 300 tonnes of concentrate which was largely reduced into standard ferro-niobium. Brazil’s second largest producer, Catalao, produced 3 600 tonnes of ferroniobium The largest North American producer is Niobec Mine which produced 3 322 tonnes of Nb2O5 which was also reduced to ferro-niobium. At the end of 1996 standard grade ferro-niobium sold at $US 15.2/kg, vacuum grade at $US 37.5/kg, nickel-niobium at US$ 39.7 - 55.1/kg of contained niobium. Demand for REE in 1996 was estimated at 65,000 tonnes/year contained rare earth oxides or US$ 650 million. Currently China accounts for nearly half of the world production due largely to heavy discounting, USA is the second largest producer. Separated rare earths account for 30% of the market by volume but 75% by value. Tantalum primary production for 1996 was estimated at 100.1 tonnes of Ta2O5 contained in tantalum-bearing tin slags (principally from smelters in Brazil, Thailand and Malaysia) and 426.0 tonnes of Ta2O5 in tantalite or other minerals. END USES: Rare Earths - mainly as a catalyst in oil refining, catalytic converters, glass industry, coloring agents, fiber optics, TV tubes, permanent magnets, high strength alloys and synthetic minerals for laser applications. Phosphate: fertilizers, phosphorus, and phosphoric acid. Sr: Color TV screens, pyrotechnics and magnets. Nb: carbon stabilizer in stainless steel, niobium carbide used in cutting tools, Nb-containing temperature-resistant steel used in turbines, Nb-base alloys in reactors, super alloys for military and aerospace applications. Tantalum: in corrosion-resistant alloys; implanted prosthesis; nuclear reactors and electronic industry. Carbonates may be used in local portland cement industries. Vermiculite is exfoliated and used in agriculture, insulation, as lightweight aggregate, and other construction materials.