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A mine named Betty French
rare metals: She found them half a century ago
Paul Luke, The Province
Published: Sunday, December 02, 2007
On a spring day in the 1950s, Betty French was checking a beaver trap near the village of Blue River when she spotted a volcanic rock that looked out of place.
The young prospector decided to try to trace the rock back to the outcrop from where it had likely rolled down to the banks of the North Thompson.
She climbed a steep patch, eyes swivelling over the ground, and spotted the rock's home. It was a carbonatite -- a rare volcanic body that can host a slew of valuable metals, including tantalum and niobium.
She walked more than 11 kilometres back to the log cabin at her parents' homestead and told her prospector father, Orrin, about her find. She then staked the property.
Half a century and several owners later, Vancouver-based Commerce Resources has been busting a gut to turn French's old claim -- now known as the Upper Fir -- into B.C.'s first niobium-tantalum mine.
Commerce has several big steps yet to take, including a feasibility study and eco-permitting, but hopes to have an open-pit mine producing the rare metals by 2010.
The company wants to call it the Betty French mine.
The potential mine's namesake, now 84 and living in a Merritt seniors' complex, reacts with terse wit to news of these plans.
"Nice of them," she says with a dry chuckle. "Go down in history."
Mining companies are scouring B.C. in a bid to find niobium, a rare and highly prized metal used to make specialized steels.
If the metal's strong prices hold up, B.C. may turn out to be one of the few places in the world to have commercial quantities of niobium.
Vancouver-based Taseko Mines announced last month that it has bought the Aley niobium project 140 kilometres north of Mackenzie from a private company for an undisclosed price.
Why would a company known for its Gibraltar copper-molybdenum mine take a flyer on a little-known industrial mineral?
Taseko CEO Russ Hallbauer says global demand is growing at five to eight per cent a year.
Hallbauer had looked at another niobium property in central Africa but decided buying one in his politically stable back yard made more sense.
World production is dominated by three producers -- two of which are Brazilian. The third is Iamgold's Niobec Mine in Quebec -- which, incidentally, Hallbauer's late father, Robert, built in the mid-1970s during his career at Teck Corp.
Taseko is putting together a drilling program for Aley for 2008.
"We're not going to go slow on this," Hallbauer says. "We think it's probably one of the best niobium properties in North America because of its apparent grade."
In September and October, Vancouver-based Rocher Deboule Minerals acquired two adjacent
niobium properties six kilometres northeast of Manson Creek in north-central B.C.
Rocher Deboule president Larry Reaugh says the properties are a key part of his strategy of compiling a basket of commodities used in steel making -- niobium, manganese and fluorite.
Driving the interest in B.C. niobium is the mineral's lofty price -- and a shortage of late-stage projects around the world ready to fill growing demand.
Niobium currently fetches $26-$27 US a pound, up sharply from $8.75 at the start of 2007, Reaugh says.
"I expect niobium to stay quite strong until about 2015. By that time there should be enough new production that comes on to stabilize the price," Reaugh says. "After this production comes on, it could go down to about $15 US a pound."
Commerce Resources began drilling its Blue River tantalum-niobium property in 2001, bringing it further down the road to production than either of its hard-rock peers.
Bullish on Blue River's prospects, the company doubled the size of the property last month by staking another 95 claims.
It has, so far, identified 14 carbonatites on the entire property.
Commerce is focusing development efforts on the property's Upper Fir deposit. Next year, it has earmarked $5 million for field work at Blue River, which is blessed with a multi-pronged infrastructure of rail, power and road.
"This deposit is unique because it's comparable to a world-class niobium deposit, except that it has high-grade tantalum," Commerce spokesman Chris Grove says.
"We have always considered this project to be driven by the tantalum values, but with the rise of niobium's price, the value proposition has shifted."
Commerce's luck with the Upper Fir deposit has been better than Betty French's.
At first, she thought the niobium and tantalum on her claim would yield a mine, but those to whom she optioned her ground felt otherwise.
French, who was as handy with a rifle as she was with a beaver trap, never made much money from a lifetime of on-and-off prospecting.
The homesteading, trapping and mineral-hunting lifestyle was its own reward, she says.
"It was a hard life," she says. "You had to be tough to live in that country."
pluke@png.canwest.com
GREEK ROOTS
Niobium and tantalum have a bright future and the darkest of names.
Niobium, also known as
columbium, is named for Niobe, an ancient Greek whose 14 children were killed by the gods to punish her arrogance.
Niobium is used to make high-strength steels needed for pipelines, cars and bridges. It's also used in jewelry, jet turbines, super-conductors and other high-tech
applications.
Tantalus, a no-good spawn of Zeus, was said to be guilty of cannibalism and human sacrifice. He was condemned to stand in a pool of water beneath a fruit tree with low-hanging branches. When Tantalus reached for a fruit, the branches retreated out of reach. When he bent to drink, the water likewise receded.
The spot price of tantalum concentrate has typically been in the $25- to $30-US-a-pound range. Recently, it has risen to as high as about $45 US a pound.
Analysts expect that growing demand for tantalum
capacitors in cellphones, computers and in super alloys for jet engines will keep prices high in the short to medium term.
Quelle: http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/money/...-8653fa749586&p=2
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Dies ist keine Kaufaufforderung!
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kann mir bitte jemand einen Link für die Börse in Toronto reinstellen, sodass ich die Kurse dort beobachten kann.
Vielen Dank.
Links: http://www.stockhouse.com/comp_info.asp?symbol=CCE&table=LIST
Warum soll´s losgehen ?
Man müßte mal den Knecht Ruprecht bemühen !
Wichtig wäre, dass jetzt ENDLICH MAL DIE FEHLENDEN BEs kommen und die SGS ANALYSEN. Ausserdem wurde eine SCOPING STUDY FÜR ENDE 07 versprochen ... soll ich weitemachen :-()
Anyway, ich bleibe dabei, denn die story ist wirklich fantastisch ... zu fantastisch? Time will tell ...
Eventhough it sucks ... stay long stay strong :-()
http://camden.yourguide.c om.au/news/local/general/ bones-grown-in-metal/1099 268.html
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| Boardmail an "daxcrash2000" |
Wertpapier: Commerce Resources |
Hello Markus:
Thank you for your email and I apologize for not responding sooner -
I was in Toronto for one day of meetings which went very well.
The remaining holes from the Upper Fir and the rest of the soil samples
that we collected during this summer are still in process at Acme labs
in Vancouver and yes we are frustrated with how long it is taking for
them to be done!
In regards the Eldor we do have partial assays back from the program but
are just waiting now for the full amount before we release anything that
is not complete. We want to present the most complete assays at one time
and since we already have most I hope that the rest will not be coming
in very shortly.
The drilling at Switch Creek will be discussed very shortly as well.
And the work at SGS continues. Again and the same as Acme labs, SGS is
very busy and therefore very slow.
When there is news pending it is not feasible for management to
stabilize the share price although these markets and the effect on
Commerce is very frustrating as well.
The directors may have sold a tiny amount of stock over the last 3
months but it is not because anything is wrong - and the directors,
although they do buy and sell, which they do to moderate the excesses of
the market (the highs and the lows) the directors are always net buyers
over the greater time period.
Cormark have many different clients and they have been on the buy side
and the sell side too. This is most likely Cormark following the
directions of different clients who have their own needs.
As well we may be looking at a Cormark report which would be great.
And so finally ABSOLUTELY nothing is changed for Commerce - everything
is still incredibly good - and we are very frustrated with the delays
that have become commonplace within the industry.
And then to take a global outlook on the markets let me say that
although most news in the Western World is mixed or negative, if you
just look at the news coming out from the rest of the planet, most of it
is extremely good - Boasteel(China) working on an offer to buy Rio Tinto
that is apparently in the range of $200 Billion, huge positivity in
Russia with Basic Element for one company, Bombardier in Canada doing a
deal with a Russian train builder etc.
And so these are days when as we wait for the assays to come back it is
important to remember the fundamentals of Commerce - that we have the
richest tantalum deposit on the planet WITH a credit of niobium of at
least 3 pounds per ton, and that we have shown that we can produce this
high purity tantalum/niobium concentrate at the lowest cost.
There are going to be very good days ahead.
I hope that I have answered your questions and look forward to any
others that you may have.
All the best,
Chris Grove
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| Boardmail an "daxcrash2000" |
Wertpapier: Commerce Resources |
E-Mail von Chris Crove 07.12.07:
"Thank you for your email and I am happy to answer all of your questions.
Dave Hodge will be flying back from Almaty, Kazakhstan on next Thursday
- leaving KZ at 2:45 am, into Frankfurt for 8:00am and then will be
getting on a connector for Zurich.
Dave will then do the second to last presentation at the IRC and I think
it is at 4:00pm.
I though will be not going this year. In regards news, I cannot speak to
what Dave may accomplish in Kazakhstan, but I do hope that we are ableto have news out from our office by that time - this would most likely be news about the results from the Eldor(Quebec) and/or the final drill results from the Upper Fir.
In regards the interests of Ulba Metallurgical acquiring an equity
position in Commerce - the reason that Dave has been invited to
Kazakhstan - I can add that they are not the only processors of tantalum and niobium that have made these interest known to us. Just yesterday I spoke to a representative of a Chinese processor who expressed an interest to buy 5% of CCE and were looking to me for guidance in how to do that.
This is just one of the things that we are working on here.
Thank you again and I look forward to any other questions that you may have.
All the best,
Chris Grove"
Weekendbeschäftigung..
Über Tantal und Niob:
http://www.ulba.kz/eng/umz3.htm
Mittlerweile bin ich eher davon überzeugt, dass der intakte Abwärtskanal erst dann verlassen wird , wenn gute news kommen und nicht nur Absichtserklärungen gemischt mit "Reiseberichten".
((Bitte erzählt mir nicht die guten news wären im Kurs schon eingepreist ;-) ))
ausserdem hat starck sich für gippsland entschieden (10 year contract), aber auch die haben bisher nicht davon profitiert :-() .... siehe artikel http://beta.stockhouse.com/Bullboards/...=&t=&m=17584345&l=0&pd=0&r=0
.... allerdings bestätigen die Can's die Sache mit Kazakhstan ... aber whatever, wenn nicht bald mal das mgmt den sp stabilisiert, aber danach sieht es ja nicht aus, denn die beiden mails 2639 & 2340 sind mehr als unstimmig was einen baldigen news release angeht ....
aus dem Nachbarthread W:O Tax-Selling -
Noch gut eine Woche, dann ist es geschafft!!!
- Nachkauf des First Junior Zertifikates (LS1JEX) Tax-Selling - Noch gut eine Woche, dann ist es geschafft!!! - Viele Investoren fragen sich warum gerade jetzt die Rohstoffwerte so massiv unter Druck stehen, obwohl doch die Rahmenbedingungen sehr gut sind. Nun, ein Grund für diesen Zustand, ist die alljährliche „Tax-Selling“ Saison. Was ist „Tax-Selling“? Wir haben dies bereits letzte Woche beim Panoro Bericht kurz beschrieben. Es werden aus steuerlichen Gründen Aktien verkauft, um Gewinne aus einer Position, gegen Verluste aus anderen Positionen gegen zurechnen. Im Gegensatz zu Europa (Österreich und derzeit noch Deutschland), sind in Nordamerika die Gewinne aus Aktienpositionen immer steuerpflichtig. Daher werden nicht nur Verlustpositionen verkauft, sondern auch gleichzeitig noch Gewinnpositionen liquidiert um die Gewinne daraus steuerfrei zu lukrieren. Warum trifft es uns heuer besonders hart?! Das liegt vor allem an dem sehr guten ersten Halbjahr. Hier sind die Aktienkurse ja massiv angestiegen. Viele Investoren und Anleger haben daher Positionen verkauft bzw. teilverkauft und saßen auf Kursgewinnen, die sie jetzt durch Verkäufe von Verlustpositionen wieder ausgeglichen haben. Positive Effekte im Jänner! Der jetzt negative Effekt, kehrt sich jedoch im Jänner wieder um, denn in Kanada zum Beispiel müssen die Anleger 30 Tage warten, bevor sie, die zuvor verkauften Aktien wieder rückkaufen können. Es stellt sich aber die Frage, ob jeder Anleger oder Investor wieder die gleichen Aktien zurückkauft, oder ob er doch andere Aktien erwirbt, die zuvor durch das „Tax-Selling“ auf ein sehr tiefes Niveau gedrückt wurden. Derzeit finden Sie sehr viele Aktien, die deutlich unterbewertet sind. Auf welche Aktien sollten Sie sich daher konzentrieren: - Mehrprojektcompanys - Near–Term Produzenten (wenn möglich bis 2010-2012) oder Small-/Mid-Size Produzenten - Unternehmen, mit bereits einer Ressourcenschätzung - Aktien-Kurs sollte unter dem Kurs der letzten Finanzierungsrunde sein Das gute an diesem „Tax-Selling“ sind vor allem zwei Dinge: Es läuft diese Woche aus!!! Es gab selten so viele gute Explorationsunternehmen so billig wie jetzt Jeder, der daher noch nach guten Rohstoffunternehmen sucht, findet diese derzeit zu wahren Schnäppchenpreisen.
Obwohl, in Kanada soll es ja so was wie Winterschlaf geben.
Schaun wa mal.
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| Boardmail an "Harleyman500" |
Wertpapier: Commerce Resources |
Ich habe im Spätsommer hier mal einen Joke gemacht und gesagt, der Hodge kann uns garnicht leimen, weil er viele seriöse canadische Investoren an Bord geholt hat- ausser er hat einen sicheren Platz auf den Cayman - Inseln.
Inzwischen bin ich mir nicht mehr so sicher, dass das ein Scherz war...:-)