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Gold/Mining/Energy
Maracote International Resources (VSE: MCE)
An SI Board Since November 1998
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339 3 0 MCE
Emcee:  chevalier Type:  Unmoderated
Here is a company that I only recently took a look at that I believe warrants immediate attention. For those that do not recognize the name you may remember it as Cherry Lane Fashion (CFG). The name was changed earlier in 1998 to reflect the direction that the company is embarking on, namely mineral exploration. Before discussing the merits of the companies assets, I believe its important to begin with the people behind the deal.
This is one aspect in which the company is stacked with thoroughbreds. Nell Dragovan is a proven winner as is evident in her influential hand in the Hemlo Gold discovery with Corona. Her husband , Chet Idziszek, was also involved in this play. As well Chet was the chief geologist at the Eskay Creek discovery. Not a bad pair to have on board. Dan Matthews, along with the above mentioned is involved in Madison Enterprises. Also I believe he some sort of tie-in with a publishing company out of Florida that puts out investment newsletters. Promotion is not going to be a problem here.
Another important person on the board is Abdullah Basodan who is president of the privately owned Nimir Petroleum Co. This is an international oil company with billions in assets. The rumour mill has it that some of the excellent junior properties under Nimir's control will be vended into MCE in the not too distant future.
Douglas J Brown (Director of a Swiss Security firm) and James Stewart round out the board of directors.
The flagship properties which are located in Peru are a 65%/45% J/V with Ulysses Gold (URI). They are called the Leoncocha and Halley Properties and neither have ever seen a drill put to them. However mining did occur on them 50 years ago and some adits are still in shape. Here are the sampling results that are on record:

Locations Continuous Chip gold (g/t)
Sample Meters

Quilca Breccia; Open Cut 6 17.62


Quilca Breccia; Open Cut 13.90 4.38


Quilca Breccia; Open Cut 24.90 3.11


Quilca Breccia; Galeria 3739 10.20 3.72


Quilca Breccia; Galeria 3739 43.05 5.78


Quilca Breccia; Upper Adits 10.75 5.03


Quilca Breccia; Galeria 3781 6 3.59

Obviously this is a very prospective target and warrants drilling. A drill campaign is about to start.
The property lies about 8 hours from Cusco, Peru which is the access town to the legendary Inca city, Machu Pichu (sp?). The exploration target Quilca Breccia has an exposed dimension of 150m x 160 m with a vertical extent of 85 m minimum. There are many other targets on the property. The potential here overall is for a multi-million tonne bulk tonnable deposit with average grades similar to the ones above.
At first glance the share structure doesn't seem great with 32 million on a fully diluted basis. However, insiders control most of the float. Between Dan, Nell and Chet they have roughly 9 million shares and also took down almost the entire 4.8 million unit private placement at $0.16. With other directors management controls roughly 22.5 million of the 32 million f/d shares. Including friends and family one could assume that 25 million or even more of the F/D stock is in their control. One can say that they put their money where their mouths are.
Cash on hand is well over $2 million or so and if everything is exercised then it will put another $3.4 million in the bank.

This company deserves attention at the moment as it has made a significant technical breakout on the charts when it broke $0.60 on volume. The web address is maracote.com
I open the floor for discussion here now



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339I know exactly what you mean.Will keep a close eye on it.The Osprey-2/14/2001
338My position is small as well but the point here is that this group is scum. Alwacharred-2/14/2001
337OK will keep a close eye on them and do a little research into them as well.I haThe Osprey-2/14/2001
336You have to be careful with this group. They are liars and thieves. I will not icharred-2/12/2001
335Very astute charred.I tend to agree.The shareholder in these .16 financings alwaThe Osprey-2/12/2001
334They really screwed the shareholder. Then they call themselves businessmen. I cacharred-2/10/2001
333Maracote not to proceed with acquisition MarWalter Kalin-2/6/2001
332 OT :burp: Hell, he can buy me beer I just gave him 30k in business. Opps, tNatedog-5/26/2000
331 OT shoulda known you were in TMG ...... drink up, you hoserMr.Manners-5/26/2000
330 YOU of all people probably just like the word booze! I had 3 beers at lunch, Natedog-5/26/2000
329 OT <i>Hey, this is cool. I get to use one of my favorite words</i>Mr.Manners-5/26/2000
328 You just gave me an idea. Bamboozlers.com ;-) laughing so hard its hurting.Natedog-5/26/2000
327 exactly - MCE clowns = bamboozlers!eomrdww-5/26/2000
326 Hey, this is cool. I get to use one of my favorite words. <b>Bamboozled&Natedog-5/26/2000
325 This group are scum. This remains halted after 3 months. One insider sold his echarred-5/25/2000
324 the goats at MCE say that they are still workingout the details on the 'deardww-5/25/2000
323 Yup!~ The subject is moat, I mean goat!Natedog-5/25/2000
322 LOL......Ya right.This same scenario is being played out daily by these mining The Osprey-5/25/2000
321 Nothing like a good ending.. I hate reading the last page first!Natedog-5/25/2000
320 I hear ya.When I was talking with them last it was a matter of fact type thing.The Osprey-5/25/2000
319 The difference is that "once a scam of spam" well you know the rest. Natedog-5/25/2000
318 Typical.Looks like the VSE is up to its eyeballs in these mining company reversThe Osprey-5/25/2000
317 Maracote remains halted MaNatedog-5/25/2000
316 I just got off the phone with Jeff Cox a director and this is to remain haled fThe Osprey-2/22/2000
315 Well our company had nothing two weeks ago. With this at least there is somethicharred-2/20/2000
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