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Thompson Creek Metals: Their Moly Focus is their Strength… And There's More to Come
by Allen M. Alper Jr. and Aaron Hoos
 Some companies pursue a diversified approach and broaden their skill-set while minimizing their risks. Other companies go in the opposite direction, focusing solely on a single target, which gives them other advantages and mitigates other risks. Thompson Creek Metals Company (NYSE: TC, TSX: TCM) pursues the latter strategy and investors who are excited about the burgeoning opportunities in the molybdenum market will love this company's focus.
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Moly Mines: Molybdenum, Copper, Iron: Profiting from China's Rapid Growth
by Allen M. Alper Jr and Aaron Hoos
Investors everywhere love robust, growing economies. That's because a growing economy is building and people are buying. And a growing economy like China has an extra benefit: It's a country with a huge landmass and a lot of people and it desperately needs infrastructure – roads, power, buildings, etc. So, smart investors are watching China and buying infrastructure-related investments in order to profit from that growth.
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Exciting Times for Levon Resources: Gold, Silver, Lead, Molybdenum and Zinc!
by Dr Allen M. Alper and Bryan Martin
For more than 20 years Ron Tremblay had been exclusively involved in mining finance. So when he was approached three-and-a-half years ago by Vancouver-based junior Levon Resources Ltd to oversee operations, it didn’t take long for the now-president and CEO to make what has become a pivotal venture into mineral exploration.
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Avanti Mining focuses on Molybdenum: An Experienced Gold Manager Turns His Attention to Molybdenum
by Allen Alper Jr. and Aaron Hoos
Gold, silver, uranium, and other metals often get glamorous headlines and a dedicated following who will invest in them and swear by them through thick and thin.
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The Waterfront Mining Group: Molybdenum, Nickel, Copper, Cobalt, Platinum, Palladium and Silver
by Dr. Allen Alper and Mindy Matter
With five publicly traded companies, and numerous deposit projects, The Waterfront Mining Group is poised to make a sizable impact in the metals industry in the years ahead
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Riches in the Mountains of Mexico-Tony Rovira of Azure Minerals
by Dr. Allen Alper and Jill Cueni-Cohen
 At PDAC 2009 we had the opportunity to talk to Tony Rovira founder of Azure Minerals in the Sierra Madre Occidental Range in northwestern Mexico. He has a great reputation as one of the discoverers of the huge Cosmos nickel deposits for Jubilee Mines in Western Australia.
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Avalon Rare Metals Inc.: Advancing Green Energy Technology
by Dr. Allen M. Alper and Jill Cueni-Cohen
 Metalsnews.com interviewed Don Bubar in Calgary. He has a very strong background in geological exploration and has assembled an excellent team of employees, management, board and consultants to explore and develop one of the largest and richest potential new sources of rare earth elements in the world.
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Dr. Allen M. Alper Interviews Chris Herald, President and CEO of Solitario Exploration at the 2009 Cambridge Vancouver Show
by Dr. Allen M. Alper
This is Al Alper talking with Christopher Herald, who's president and CEO of Solitario Exploration & Royalty Corp.
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Mexivada: Gold-Silver, Uranium, Molybdenum and Diamonds in Nevada, Mexico and Africa
by Dr. Allen M. Alper and Bryan Martin
Since 2005, Mexivada Mining Corporation has built a genuine name for itself on the international precious minerals scene as a junior exploration and mining company.
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Thomas Patton, President & CEO Quaterra Resources Inc. Discovering New North American Mines – Copper, Uranium, Gold, Silver, Molybdenum
by Dr. Allen Alper and Jill Cueni-Cohen
When it comes to making significant mineral discoveries in North America, Quaterra Resources Inc. is on the cutting edge. We caught up with Quaterra’s President & CEO Dr. Thomas Patton to get the inside scoop on this exciting junior’s current projects and outlook.
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Interviews with Exhibitors at the PM 2008 World Conference Washington DC
by Dr. Allen M. Alper, Editor-in-Chief, Metals News
Diversification is the key
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Great Western Minerals Poised for Rare Opportunity
by Dr. Allen Alper and Alison Conte
Interview with Gary Billingsley, Chairman, and Jim Engdahl, CEO, of Great Western Minerals
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Adriana Accessing Brazil’s Vast Iron Ore Reserves
by Dr. Allen M. Alper and Bryan Martin
 Mike Beley and Rick Barclay are brilliant business partners. The two exploration veterans have a wealth of experience as evidenced in Metals News’ recent interview with them.
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Mega Uranium – Leading the nuclear power renaissance
by Andrew Alper, Dr. Allen Alper and Jill Cueni-Cohen
Clean, secure and cost-effective: Nuclear power is in high demand as one of the most important sources of energy in the world.
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Galway Accelerates Advanced Projects
by Dr. Allen M. Alper and Alison J. Conte
When your mining projects focus on metals that have seen price surges of 400 to 500 percent in recent years, investors are apt to take notice.
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Copper, Gold, Uranium, Molybdenum: Polar Star Mining: Excelling in Chile
by Allen Alper Jr. and Aaron Hoos
While a lot of the companies we interview here were often started by people who have only ever worked in the mining industry as geologists, it's interesting to get a different perspective from time to time.
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Gold, Platinum, Diamonds and Volcanic Massive Sulphide (VMS) Deposits, a Future Possibility for Barker Minerals
by Dr. Allen M. Alper and Aaron Hoos
A hunting trip in 1993 led to Louis Doyle finding coarse placer gold at the end of a culvert. The result was an end to a career in the mutual fund business and the formation of Barker Minerals, of which he is now President and CEO.
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Gold, Molybdenum, Manganese and Magnesium - Larry Reaugh Shares his Expertise with Metals News
by Dr. Allen M. Alper
Back in late 2008, when doom and gloom were everywhere, Larry Reaugh was upbeat about the mining industry, predicting everything would start to pick up. He was proved right, with metal prices soon on the rise, so we went to seek out his latest views on the situation.
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Numerous 100-Percent-Owned Properties, Financially Independent, Diversified and Making Innovations in Eco-Friendly Minerals Applications
by Dr. Allen Alper and Bryan Martin
The last time Metalsnews.com spoke with the ever-ebullient Jack Stoch, President and CEO of Quebec-based Globex Mining Enterprises Inc., his domain included 85 projects, all of which featured elements spanning a vast stretch across the periodic chart. October saw Globex celebrate a milestone of 60 years in the exploration and mining sphere.
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Oroco Resources Moving Towards Production
by Dr. Allen M. Alper and Mindy Matter
We had a few moments to catch up with Adam Smith, the Business Development Director of Oroco Resource Corporation recently.
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Globex Mining Enterprises : a very large North American portfolio of advanced properties with gold, copper, zinc, silver, uranium, platinum, palladium, magnesium and talc potential
by Dr. Allen M. Alper and Bryan Martin
Jack Stoch has very rare abilities and geological and business background that has enabled Globex to have a very successful approach of discovering and acquiring a vast amount of diversified valuable properties and developing them for licensing or partnership.
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Goldbrook Partners with Jilin Jien of China for Nickel Exploration
by Dr. Allen Alper and Alison J. Conte
In the last decade, China’s manufacturing and building boom spurred a demand for nickel, about 25 percent of the global demand for this metal.
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Western Troy Capital Resources Positioned in Moly, Copper, and Gold
by Dr. Allen Alper and Bryan Martin
Western Troy Capital Resources, a mineral exploration company based in Canada, keeps itself pretty busy these days with its advanced stage MacLeod Lake Copper/Molybdenum Project and most recently the company has staked a number of promising new properties in Quebec.
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Moly Mines Ready for Market Upturn
by Dr. Allen Alper and Alison Conte
We interviewed Derek Fisher, managing director of Moly Mines Limited, (ASX and TSX listed), at the Cambridge Vancouver Investment Conference. We are extremely impressed with the knowledge and background of Dr. Fisher and his team. He told us how the firm is focusing its efforts on the Spinifex Ridge molybdenum project in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
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Terry Tucker, President and CEO of StrataGold Corporation
by Dr. Allen M. Alper and Jill Cueni-Cohen
We recently touched base with Terry Tucker, President and CEO of StrataGold Corporation, and his manager of Investor Communications, Vanessa Pickering, to talk about the happenings at this promising junior exploration company.
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Larry Reaugh, president and CEO of Rocher Deboule
A Visionary in the Mining Industry
by Dr. Allen M. Alper and Jill Cueni-Cohen
When it comes
to investing in metals, most people think of gold and silver… but manganese?
Think again! Manganese is the fourth most heavily consumed metal – after iron,
aluminum and copper – but the vital importance of manganese ferroalloys, to a
number of industries, is creating an impressive bull market for savvy
investors.
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PDAC 2008 Toronto
by Allen M. Alper Jr., Dr. Allen M. Alper Sr. and Andrew M. Alper
 Phots from the PDAC international convention and trade show in Toronto, March 2-5, 2008.
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The World Money Show in Orlando at the Gaylord Palm Resort
by Dr. Allen M. Alper, Editor-in-Chief, Metals News
The World Money Show in Orlando was a great place for investors to meet a huge variety of company experts, global media, world-class companies, software creators, and country representatives.
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Nuinsco and Victory Nickel Demonstrate the Power of Diversity
by Dr. Allen Alper and Alison Conte
It is 9,056 kilometers between Nuinsco Resources’ Diabase Peninsula uranium project in Saskatchewan’s Athabasca Basin and northeastern Turkey where it is a 50 percent partner with Xstrata Copper on the Berta copper porphyry project.
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Commerce Resources - the next Canadian Tantalum and Niobium Mine
by Dr Allen M. Alper
 For the past few years, I have been following the developments of Commerce Resources with great interest. Commerce Resources is developing the largest new tantalum and niobium resource in Canada. I have had many conversations with Dave Hodge and his staff.
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Experts Corner
Banking with Metals
by Allen M. Alper
 It’s rare to find a bank at a metals conference, but at the New York Hard Assets Investment Conference, we came across Kristin Kuchem, the Assistant Vice President with EverBank, and we discovered a very interesting connection between this unique institution and the world of metals.
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David Morgan Creator of the Silver-Investor.com
by Dr. Allen M. Alper and Jeff Senior
 As creator of the Silver-Investor.com website and publisher of The Morgan Report, David Morgan is considered an authority on the silver market in particular and other precious metals in general. So, we took the opportunity to seek his views on the current state of play and future trends
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Rare Earths The GAO Report – Mapping the Road Not Taken
by Christopher Ecclestone - Hallgarten & Company Metals Review
After a brief lull in the gunfire in the battle over Rare Earths the heavy artillery is now being drawn into position and a big shell has just gone whizzing over the marketplace in the form of the GAO’s long awaited report on US dependency on Rare Earths. The real barrage is yet to come with the Molycorp IPO set to ride the resurgent chatter in the sector and the politicians will begin to wade in and see how Rare Earth can be turned into pork with some Washington alchemy.
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Peter Grandich Delivers Thoughtful Insight On Gold, Investing, and the Financial Apocalypse
by Allen Alper Jr.
Investors hear a lot of messages from investing gurus. Some are insightful, some are interesting, and some are downright depressing. It takes just one good, high-quality guru to cut through the clutter and deliver plain-spoken insight, and when it's done with a little humor and a healthy dose of "that makes perfect sense", so much the better.
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Thom Calandra, Ticker Ticker Trax: Optioning Colombia gold & copper
by Dr. Allen Alper of Metals News
 We sat a spell in Vancouver, Canada, with Thom Calandra, investor and writer. Thom is the journalist who started CBS MarketWatch and MarketWatch.com – now part of the Dow Jones-News Corp. family. Thom (by the way, folks -- as friendly and helpful as ever – some five years post-MarketWatch), and his California family of four profited handsomely from the $518 million sale of MarketWatch to Dow Jones in 2005.
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Jon Nadler: An Investment Superstar. Interviewed by Allen Alper Jr.
by Allen Alper Jr. and Aaron Hoos
 Investors often want to know what the best bet is, and at the Montreal Cambridge House Investment Conference, we got the rare chance to sit down with John Nadler of KITCO.
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Who are the real top-performing companies in the metals industry today?
by Thom Calandra
 Thom Calandra of Ticker Trax has been following natural resources since 1991 and shares his thoughts on the current metals market trends. He is the co-founder of CBS MarketWatch and is well known among geologists, prospectors and merchant bankers
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Fundamental View On Metal Markets - Part IV - ARE SPECIALTY METALS NEXT IN SUPER CYCLE?
by Larry W. Reaugh
 In the past few months we have seen how the rising pre-cious and base metal prices have positively affected the future of several well known mining companies. Some of these companies were scrambling to save themselves as profits disappeared and unsustainable debt dragged them down. It appeared as if they would be seeking bankruptcy protection.
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Model Mining Portfolio: Performance Review
by Christopher Ecclestone
 Christopher Ecclestone - Portfolio Manager: since 2003 has been a principal at Hallgarten & Company where he has had the roles of equity strategist, analyst and asset manager. Prior to that he was the head of research at an economic think-tank in New Jersey which he had joined in 2001. He was the head of research at the esteemed Argentine equity research house, Buenos Aires Trust Company, from 1991 until 2001. This latter firm pioneered in-depth locally-generated investment analysis in this hitherto undiscovered market.
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Dr Allen M. Alper Interviews Philip Klapwijk, GFMS
by Dr Allen M. Alper
 Executive Chairman Philip Klapwijk appears regularly at international conferences and seminars, and his articles have been widely published. All the company’s analysts travel regularly and extensively to stay in touch with GFMS' unrivalled network of contacts and sources of information around the world.
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Gold Leading The Way On Recovery In All Metals
by Larry W. Reaugh
In my articles of December 9, 2008 and February 13, 2009 I stated that gold would lead the way out of the current metal recession. On February 13, 2009 I stated that bought-deal gold financings were beginning to proliferate in the past few weeks.
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USA’s Strategic Metal # 1 Manganese
by Ken Reser
 Back in 1987 the American government classified a number of metals that were and still are considered strategic war & economically important metals. At that time as today, Manganese was in one of the top spots. But surprisingly many knew long before then about the relativity of Manganese availability to productivity in many sectors of military security and steel production as well as many other modern day uses.
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Worldwide Depression - Think Again!
by Ken Reser
 World-wide depression? Maybe for those over-leveraged in the auto industry, housing, and other fixed assets with huge debt loads but definitely not for those involved in world-wide industrial projects from what I read & see happening.
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Fundamental View on Metal Markets Part II
by Larry W. Reaugh
As a follow up to my resource industry and market
review of December 9, 2008 ‘Fundamental
View on Metal Markets’ let’s review a synopsis of
that letter before proceeding to how corporate debt
and high grading is affecting the supply of metal
commodities today.
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Andrew Alper Interviews Thom Calandra
by Andrew Alper
We’re interviewing Thom Calandra of TICKER TRAX BY THOM CALANDRA, OR TICKER TRAX at The Cambridge House Investment Resource Conference 2009 in Vancouver.
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