Silver Stock Report #51 - RevealingFraud.com

Silver Stocks–Comparative Valuations
Weekly Report # 51
by Jason Hommel
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Friday, Sept 17th, 2004

A day’s wage used to be a silver dime, a silver quarter, or maybe a silver dollar. A silver dime today costs about 45 cents, at $6.20/oz. for silver. About 900 million oz. of silver are consumed annually, and just under 600 million ounces mined annually. Oddly, there is is seven times as much refined gold as silver… Buy real silver, it is scarce, real wealth, and cannot go to zero value. By the time paper money fails mankind once again, as it always does, any silver dime you can lay your hands on will probably be worth more than what $100 to $200 will buy you today.

This week’s report lists the market capitalizations for 86 silver stocks. There are 31 silver stocks that list reserves, resources (and exploration potential) which I calculate by using my “ounce in the ground” formula. There are 54 explorers. There are about 30additional “silver” stocks with incomplete information. This report goes out now to over 11,700 investors each week.  Additions & Changes from last week are in bold.

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[Profiles of Explorers]
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[Archive of about 40 of my past essays]
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Kitco reports silver at $6.23/oz. as of Friday, 2:06 PM West Coast US, which was used to calculate the following figures. The CAN $ / US $ conversion factor is .7708. I will use .77 for ease.

How to read the table below:
Stock Symbol that works at Yahoo! Finance (Company name) / The number that follows the company name, below, represents the company’s resources, divided by the market cap as denominated in silver; thus, it is the number of silver oz. “in ground” that you gain title to when you trade away one ounce of silver to buy 1 oz. of silver’s worth of stock. The number is the expression of leverage that silver stocks can give you, the higher the number, the better. / Next, I list the valuation price change since last week (and stock dilution, and resource changes, if any) as up/down or even. / Finally, there are additional comments (EXPT is “exploration potential”)

Company names in bold have summaries below with updated information since last week. Click on the name to see the summary below.

This first list are the companies with information about reserves/resources/exploration potential. The list is ordered/ranked based on the resource picture. The most expensive (with the fewest silver resources given their market cap) are listed first.

ABX (BARRICK) 1.0 even –producer, hedger (15? mil oz. gold hedged, 3 yrs production)
IPOAF.PK (INDUSTL PENOLES) 1.6 up –producer, mostly family owned, hedged?
CDE (COEUR D’ALENE) 2.3 even –producer, (also gold) in debt, produces at a loss.
SIL (APEX SILVER) 3.1 down –zinc bonus, low grades, cash rich–$345 million! in debt
FSR.TO FSLVF.PK (FIRST SILVER) 4.7 down –producer, (not profitable ’03 3rd q.) unhedged
PAAS (PAN AMERICAN SILVER) 5.3 down –producer, debt free, is creating a ‘no hedging’ policy
KBR.TO KBRRF.PK (KIMBER RSCS) 5.0 down –one property, high grades, with exploration potential.
MFN MFL.TO (MINEFINDERS) 5.0 down –significant gold bonus, $35 mil cash on hand.
WTZ WTC.TO (WESTERN SILVER) 5.0 up — (17 EXPT) large mine development cost. copper & zinc bonus
GRS GAM.TO (GAMMON LAKE) 6.4 down –producer, owns 26% of Mexgold added resources
CFTN.PK (CLIFTON MINING) 6.2 down — (150 EXPT) (order their colloidal silver now online 10% off)
SSRI SSO.V (SILVER STANDARD) 7.4 even –large company, many properties, owns silver bullion
* TM.V TUMIF.OB (TUMI RSCS) 8.7 down — (17 EXPT) recent bonanza grade silver discovery
* PLE.V (PLEXMAR RES INC) 8.3 down (up to 20 EXPT?)–just acquired options on 2 new projects
ORM.V OREXF.PK (OREMEX RES) 7 up (28 EXPT) —20 oz. of silver/T over 292 feet!
* CZN.TO CZICF.PK (CDN ZINC) 10.6 down –large zinc bonus, high grades, low start up costs, great EXPT
SHSH.PK (SHOSHONE SILVER) 10.8 down –leased properties; need payments; in Cour d’Alene
SRLM.PK (STERLING MINING) 12.5 even –(30 EXPT) acquired the Sunshine in Cour d’Alene
FAN.TO FRLLF.PK (FARALLON RSCS) 13.9 up –(24 EXPT) low grades, silver 1/3; also gold & zinc bonus.
* IMR.V IMXPF.OB (IMA EXPL) 14.1 up –(56 EXPT) in Argentina 83 oz. of silver/T over 35 meters!
CHD.V CHDSF.PK (CHARIOT RSCS) 16.8 down –explorer, with inferred resources
RDV.TO RDFVF.PK (REDCORP VEN) 19.6 down –60% gold bonus
GGC.V GGCRF.PK (GENCO RECS) 22.8 down –producer in Mex. Plans to expand and acquire
HDA.V (HUSIF.PK) (HULDRA SILVER) 20.8 down –very tiny, zinc bonus, low start up costs.
* MGN (MINES MGMT) 22.2 down –60% copper bonus (low grades), start up cost ~ $250 mil
* SVL.V STVZF.PK (SILVERCREST) 22.6 down –(Silver in Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala)
* EXR.V EXPTF.PK (EXPATRIATE) 24 down –large zinc bonus 60% zinc, 25% silver (got out Atna)
* ABI.V ABMBF.PK (ABCOURT MINES) 26.5 down –large zinc & small gold bonus, + existing infrastructure
* ASM.V ASGMF.PK (AVINO SILVER) 39.6 down –will own 100% of the Avino mine +4 other silver props.
* CSG.TO CSGLF.PK (CAPSTONE GOLD) 37.7 down (139 EXPT) (In Mexico, resources are historical)

* = I own shares

Next list: Exploration companies or producers with limited information on resources. This list is in order (roughly) by market cap, the highest market cap companies are listed first.

HL (HECLA MINING CO) –A PRODUCER (gold bonus) cash rich.
MGR.V MGRSF.PK (MEXGOLD RSCS) — bonanza grade discovery on Jan 13th, 2004
CDU.V CUEAF.PK (CARDERO RSCS) –silver and iron explorer
AOT.V ASOLF.PK (ASCOT RSCS) — owns percentage of Cardero, CDU.V
* OTMN.PK (O.T. MINING) very large exploration potential
SPM.V SMNPF.PK (SCORPIO MINING)
* FCO.TO FCACF.PK (FORMATION CAPTL) Cobolt (and Sunshine silver refinery)
TVI.TO TVIPF.PK (TVI PACIFIC) –A PRODUCER of a dore silver bar 96% silver, 4% gold
* NPG.V NVPGF.PK (NEVADA PAC GOLD) Large “exploration potential” (owns 1 silver & 10 gold properties)
* MMGG.OB (METALLINE MINE) –zinc/silver (historic high grade silver) (low cost revolutionary oxide zinc process)
MCAJF.PK (MACMIN LTD)
* FR.V FMJRF.PK (FIRST MAJESTIC) –A PRODUCER Modernized a former producer. Acquiring properties.
ECU.V ECUXF.PK (ECU SILVER MINI) –A PRODUCER 50% gold bonus
BZA.V ABZGF.PK (AMER BONANZA)

This next list has silver exploration companies with market caps under about $30 million
(Market cap = total number of shares fully diluted, times the share price. It’s what the company is “worth” in the market place, given the stock price, and is one of the important numbers I calculate each week in these lists.)

IAU.TO ITDXF.PK (INTREPID MINRLS) “exploration potential”
MAI.V MNEAF.OB (MINERA ANDES) (gold bonus)
* EDR.V EDRGF.PK (ENDEAVOUR SILVER) A PRODUCER
CAUCF.PK (CALEDON RES)
* CBE.V CBEFF.PK (CABO MINING) –Historic Silver and Cobalt district
SDR.V SDURF.PK (STROUD RSCS) (partners with Amerix) –in Mexico
APM.V (Amerix Precious Metals Corp)(partners with Stroud) –in Mexico
QTA.V QURAF.PK (QUATERRA RES)
PXI.V PNXPF.PK (Planet Exploration Inc.)

This next list has silver exploration companies with market caps under about $15 million

NJMC.OB (NEW JERSEY MIN)
EPZ.V ESPZF.PK (ESPERANZA SILVR)
MAG.V MSLRF.PK (MAG SILVER)
EXN.V EXLLF.PK (EXCELLON RSCS)
SRY.V (STINGRAY RSCS)
* KG.V KDKGF.PK (KLONDIKE GOLD)
SML.V SMLZF.PK (STEALTH MNRLS)
DNI.V DMNKF.PK (DUMONT NICKEL) – exploring Clifton Mining’s property
* KRE.V KREKF.PK (KENRICH ESKAY)
BCM.V BCEKF.PK (BEAR CRK MINING)
* CMA.V CRMXF.OB (CREAM MINERALS) Low grade, large “exploration potential”
CHMN.PK (CHESTER MINING)
MMG.V MMEEF.PK (MCMILLAN GOLD)
GPR.V GPRLF.PK (GREAT PANTHER)

This next list has silver exploration companies with market caps under about $7 million dollars:

ROK.V ROCAF.PK (ROCA MINES INC)
EGD.V EGDMF.PK (ENERGOLD MINING)
GNG.V GGTHF.PK (GOLDEN GOLIATH) –Historic silver district in Mexico
LEG.V LEGCF.PK (LATEEGRA RSCS)
TBLC.PK (TIMBERLINE RES)
TUO.V TEUTF.PK (TEUTON RES)

This next list has silver exploration companies with market caps under about $4 million dollars: (The real “penny stocks” are those with the smallest market caps, not the lowest share price!)

* = I own shares.
There are expanded profiles on each company, way below. But before I get to that, let me discuss my methodology, and the problems with it.

See the number above, listed after each company in the first list? That number represents the number of silver ounces in the ground that you get when you buy an ounce of silver’s worth of stock. The number treats all reported ounces in the ground as equal, however, they are NOT EQUAL. Some ounces in the ground are more certain and others are more speculative. Some are higher grades, some are lower grades. Some have been well drilled, others have less drill results. They range from most certain to least certain such as: “proven & probable reserves,” and then, “measured, indicated, or inferred resources.” A reserve has a feasibility study produced for it. A resource, does not.

Here’s the math on how I calculate that one number. First, I get a market cap by multiplying the fully diluted shares (which bullishly assumes all options and warrants will be exercised and converted into outstanding shares) by the share price in U.S. dollars. Next, I divide that by the silver price, so the market cap is denominated in terms of silver ounces. Then, I divide the ounces in the ground by the market cap as denominated in silver. This produces the single number of how many ounces of silver in the ground you are buying when you give up one ounce of silver in your hand, for shares of stock, instead. This way, you can not only compare silver stocks to each other, you can compare them to silver directly. This also helps people in other nations, using other currencies, to value these companies.

This valuation does not include zinc, or copper, or lead, but it does include gold at a 1:10 ratio of gold:silver. At goldsheetlinks.com, they add 100% of proven & probable reserves, but only 70% of measured & indicated resources, and only 50% of inferred resources. I don’t do that. I count them as all the same.

I believe that the two most important numbers that a silver mining company can report are the resources in the ground, and the number of their fully diluted shares. Of course, there is much more to a mining company than that, but without those numbers, it is extremely difficult to even start an evaluation. This report highlights those key numbers, where possible. If you think those numbers are also important, please email the executives of the mining companies you own, and ask them to make sure their numbers are clearly published at their websites.

Problems with my methodology: My methodology assumes that the more ounces in the ground, is, in theory, best, given that I expect much higher silver prices. However, unless the price of silver really moves much higher, my methodology may not be the best one. If silver does really move up very high in value as compared to today, then I expect my methodology to be one of the best predictors of rising stock values, because more ounces in the ground mean more leverage to rising silver prices. However, the companies with greater leverage to the upside usually also tend to have greater leverage to the downside, and thus, tend to be more volitile.

Other factors to consider that the single number produced by my methodology does not: A resource calculation number does not tell you the entire picture about a company. The resource calculation number is designed as a starting place for further research. Other very important considerations are as follows: How much existing mining infrastructure is in place? The more the better, so think of it as a “bonus”. How much cash does the comapany have on hand, and what is their burn rate? What is the management’s attitude towards money, silver, hedging, debt, and dilution? This is why I list “additional comments” in the company profiles, below.

I don’t consider grade to be too important (although I list it when I can), because I consider the cost to mine to be the more important consideration. The “cost to mine” is determined in a feasibility study, which is the last thing produced before trying to raise money for final construction of a mine. And usually, they cannot even count silver as a resource unless it is at least somewhat feasable to mine at today’s prices for silver. And this is why I count all the ounces as the same. If a low grade ore can be mined more cheaply, and if a higher grade ore costs more to extract, and if it has to be somewhat economically feasible even at these low silver prices to be counted, it balances out quite nicely.

My methodology is the natural result of my study of the silver market and my religious views. To read about my religious views, see my other web site, bibleprophesy.org There are two essays near the top of the page that explain why I believe the entire world will return to using gold and silver as money again before the end times. See Ezekiel 38. Also, see my essay: Biblical Guidelines for Managing your Money

See my June 18, 2004 article: I’m insanely bullish on silver.

To quickly “tab” down to the company you are interested in, note the symbol. Then hit “control-F” to “FIND” the symbol below.
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WEEKLY COMMENTARY (All new in this section):

I’m getting married tomorrow, September 18th, to my lovely bride to be, Shanna. I love my fiancee, and I’ve been a man in love all this past year. She has been an inspiration to me. I’ve been a man in love all this past year. Shanna has been an inspiration to me. Without her, I don’t know if I would have had the dedication to work so hard to write each week and do all the hard work of producing my weekly stock report. She is such a hard worker, so selfless, such an example. I felt that I should work at least as hard as her, and I feel like I work only a fraction as hard. Mostly, I just read, look at stock quotes, talk on the phone now and then, and occasionally write… and now share with others as much as I know to help people, as Shanna helps people. I love her so much, and she helps me to love all of you.

(Shanna will be travelling with me to Idaho and Toronto, so a few of you will be able to meet her soon.) We both attended the gold show in New York this summer, and we got to see keynote speaker Bill Bonner.

Poor Bill Bonner at the http://www.dailyreckoning.com/. People kept accusing him earlier this week that his attitude and outlook is so gloomy.

I’m no doom and gloomer. (After all, I’m getting married!) I believe the future for America and the world couldn’t be brighter, only because today it is so dark. Today, I feel we are living in the economic dark ages compared to how great the future will be. And why will the future be so wonderful compared to today? Today, fraud is everywhere and permeates nearly all of society. But that fraud (of paper money) is unsustainable, and silver will be used as money again.

For more on these topics, see:
Major Frauds of the U.S. Monetary System – 26 February 2004
Rising Gold Prices Will Help The Economy – 02 December 2003

The guys over at the Daily Reckoning (and their advertisers) also have trouble with basic math. One ad claims:

In fact, from its inception in November 2000 to July 2004, my VIP trading service has generated total gains of 3,684%!

That comes out to more than 1,053% every year!No, it does not! I know, because I actually have had gains of about 1000% in the last couple years, and I know if I did that next year, and the next, for three years straight, my total gains would be staggering! A 1000% gain is like a ten fold gain, meaning, $100,000 becomes $1,000,000, in the first year. Do it again, and you have $10 million. A third time, and you have $100 million! Total gains of 1000% each year over three years would be: 1000 fold gains, which would be a gain of about 100,000%. (Actually, 99,900%, not about 3000%!). Therefore, the guys over at the Daily Reckoning must be total rookie investors, dealing with very small sums of money, or they have just started investing only a few years ago, or they have never actually seen returns like they claim. Well, the guy running his VIP service may have had a total 3684% gain in his own portfolio, but his readers, I assure you, have not. I know because as soon as you “advise” someone else to buy a stock after you buy it, the next guy generally has to buy it at a higher and higher price, meaning that their gains are much smaller than yours, who got there first. This is why I so hate to tell other people so precisely what to do, and is why my report is so long. You have to figure out what is best for yourself, on the day you decide to buy, and only you can make the best decision. Even if I were to know, exactly, the best stock to buy, as soon as I told 3000 people about it, and as soon as they begin to buy, and as soon as the price changes, it may well no longer be the best buy!

I only feel justified in writing occasionally about specific companies, because I keep track of such a large list of silver stocks, and I can justly tell people, and point out to them, that there are many alternatives to consider and choose from!

But let me get back to why I’m so optimistic about the benefits of the “economic crash” of the dollar!

When the fraud of the dollar is destroyed, and bankruptcies sweep the nation, the buildings will not be destroyed, the houses will not go away, the people will not die or be injured. Homes and commercial property will just get cheaper, and ownership will change, taxes will go down, government tyranny will be greatly reduced, freeloaders will have to work, high-paying mining jobs will be plentiful, and all of this will be better for society as a whole.

Poor Bob Chapman of internationalforecastor.com, he’s regularly worried about immigration, imagining that it is an evil plot to destroy the U.S.

I’m not worried about immigration. The immigrants are not destroying our way of life. Immigrants prove that even here, in the U.S., as bad as things may be, things are not as bad as people may imagine. Immigrants prove this is a better place than other places, and if this nation, now, is the best place there is, as rotten and as corrupted as it is, then the future is bright indeed!

Immigrants cannot destroy a “way of life” that is based upon Christianity. Immigrants prove that the flame of Christianity in the U.S. is burning brightly, even though it may be dim compared to how it could be, for example, if all the Christians of this nation were champions of “just weights and measures” and denounced frauds such as the dollar! Christians are supposed to preach to the world, and here we have the world streaming towards us! What an easy way to evangelize! It is much easier to convert the heathens if they are coming to our land, than to have to travel to theirs! In fact, I believe that many of the immigrants from Mexico are better Christians than people born in the USA! I know, as I’ve hired many of them before. The immigrants have a better work ethic, and will take the jobs of bus-boy and dishwasher, and are often up to twice as productive and as effective as most people born here.

So, let it be known that the most bullish silver writer of them all, that’s me, is not all about doom and gloom. The future is bright, and the economic outlook for the future is great!

Silver today is totally ignored by people. Investor interest could not be lower, and I could not be happier as a silver investor. This proves we are at “rock bottom” here at $6.25/oz. How much lower can the price go if investors have already exited the sector? And if this is a bottom, then the prospects look GREAT for silver investors. After all, in the spring of 2003, silver was at $4.15 or so, and now at $6.25, we are up about 50%! Can you earn 50% in any bonds these days? No? You mean we have solid proof that silver is a better investment than bonds, with a track record of a year and a half now? Oh boy, can you see why I’m so excited? Because this trend can only continue, especially given the supply and demand numbers, and virtually zero investment demand!

I believe silver’s price rise will accelerate to gains much better than 50% per year (after all, to reach $8.40 was a gain of 100%). Yet silver investors are now lackluster? Do they have any idea where 50% gains per year would take us in ten years? Please note, I’m far more bullish than these numbers.

$6.50 for 2004 x 1.5 =
$9.75 for 2005 x 1.5 =
$14.6 for 2006 x 1.5 =
$21.9 for 2007 x 1.5 =
$32.9 for 2008 x 1.5 =
$49.3 for 2009 x 1.5 =
$74 for 2010 x 1.5 =
$111 for 2011 x 1.5 =
$167 for 2012 x 1.5 =
$250 for 2013 x 1.5 =
$375 for 2014

The problem is that most traders these days have investment memories and of about 2 months to 2 weeks or even a day or less! Where are the long term planners? Where are the long term investors? Where are the long term thinkers? Probably holding on to their silver stocks no matter what price may come, which is why we see spreads of 25% sometimes!

I produce this report once a week, and even that feels like it is too often. How many times can I write about the fundamentals that do not really change? But the stock prices change, and it’s good to keep up with the company press releases, and there are new readers each week.

By Thursday evening this week, there were two really great drill results reported. One by Metalline Mining (MMGG.OB) and another by IMA Resources (IMR.V). Click on the symbols to go to their company profiles, and news reports. Metalline’s stock price moved up 15% the day of their release, and so did the stock of IMA Resources. But the second day for both stocks, trading volumes dried up, and prices were flat.
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Bill Murphy of GATA this week was wondering why the establishment (big gold companies) will not recognize that there is a conspiracy in the gold market. The complaint is that the excellent Sprott report by John Embry is being ignored or dismissed. I wonder if Bill Murphy understands the nature and extent of the conspiracy. Doesn’t he realize that the establishment IS the conspiracy? Or that most people who are unaware of it must, of necessity, be deceived by the conspiracy, which is the whole point of the conspiracy? The following are quotes on this conspiracy that I have read many times in the past, but just this week I found them compiled all into one place. (More specifically, my fiancee, Shanna, found them, and printed out the page, and asked me to read these quotes to her. Don’t you see why I love her so much?) Afterwards, I will share my thoughts on these quotes.

Source: http://www.sovereignfellowship.com/tos.php?sec=43

“Permit me to issue and control the money of the nation and I care not who makes its laws.” -Mayer Amsched Rothchild, a prominent European banker in the eighteenth century

“If the American people ever allow the banks to control issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers occupied.” -Thomas Jefferson

“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.” -Thomas Jefferson

“The One World Government leaders and their ever close bankers have now acquired full control of the money and credit machinery of the U.S. via the creation of the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank.” -Curtis Dall, from My Exploited Father-in-Law, He was Franklin D. Roosevelt’s son-in-law.

“Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men’s views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the Field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.” -President Woodrow Wilson, 1913

“This Federal Reserve Act establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President (Wilson) signs this bill the invisible government of the Monetary Power will be legalized.” -Hon. Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr., Dec. 23, 1913

“We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the civilized world. We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominate men. I have unwittingly betrayed my country.” -President Woodrow Wilson, 1916

“In March, 1915, the J.P. Morgan interests, the steel, shipbuilding, and powder interest, and their subsidiary organizations, got together 12 men high up in the newspaper world and employed them to select the most influential newspapers in the United States and sufficient number of them to control generally the policy of the daily press… They found it was only necessary to purchase the control of 25 of the greatest papers… An agreement was reached; the policy of the papers was bought, to be paid for by the month; an editor was furnished for each paper to properly supervise and edit information regarding the questions of preparedness, militarism, financial policies, and other things of national and international nature considered vital to the interests of the purchasers.” -U.S. Congressman Oscar Callaway, 1917

“The real menace of our republic is this invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy length over city, state and nation. Like the octopus of real life, it operates under cover of a self created screen… At the head of this octopus are the Rockefeller Standard Oil interests and a small group of powerful banking houses generally referred to as international bankers. The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run the United States government for their own selfish purposes. They practically control both political parties.” -New York City Mayor John F. Hylan, 1922

“From the days of Sparticus, Wieskhopf, Karl Marx, Trotsky, Rosa Luxemberg, and Emma Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing. This conspiracy played a definite recognizable role in the tragedy of the French revolution. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the 19th century. And now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their head and have become the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.” -Winston Churchill, l922.

“We are at present working discreetly with all our might to wrest this mysterious force called sovereignty out of the clutches of the local nation states of the world.” -Professor Arnold Toynbee, l931 Institute for the Study of International Affairs.

“For a long time I felt that FDR had developed many thoughts and ideas that were his own to benefit this country, the United States. But, he didn’t. Most of his thoughts, his political ammunition, as it were, were carefully manufactured for him in advanced by the Council on Foreign Relations One World Money group. Brilliantly, with great gusto, like a fine piece of artillery, he exploded that prepared “ammunition” in the middle of an unsuspecting target, the American people, and thus paid off and returned his internationalist political support….
“The UN is but a long range, international banking apparatus nearly set up for financial and economic profit by a small group of powerful One World Revolutionaries, hungry for profit and power… The depression was the calculated ‘shearing’ of the public by the World Money powers, triggered by the planned sudden shortage of supply of call money in the New York money market… The One World Government leaders and their ever close bankers have now acquired full control of the money and credit machinery of the U.S. via the creation of the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank.” -Curtis Dall, from My Exploited Father-in-Law

“The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson.” -letter to Colonel House by Franklin D. Roosevelt, November 21st, l933

“Fifty men have run America, and that’s a high figure.” -Joseph Kennedy, July 26th, l936 New York Times.

“We shall have world government whether or not you like it by conquest or consent.” -James Warburg member Council on Foreign Relations speaking before Senate Foreign Relations Committee on February 17th , l950

“The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.” -Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, 1952

“Today the path of total dictatorship in the United States can be laid by strictly legal means, unseen and unheard by the Congress, the President, or the people. Outwardly we have a Constitutional government. We have operating within our government and political system, another body representing another form of government a bureaucratic elite.” -Senator William Jenner, 1954

“The most powerful clique in these (CFR) groups have one objective in common they want to bring about the surrender of the sovereignty and the national independence of the U.S. They want to end national boundaries and racial and ethnic loyalties supposedly to increase business and ensure world peace. What they strive for would inevitably lead to dictatorship and loss of freedoms by the people. The CFR was founded for ‘the purpose of promoting disarmament and submergence of U.S. sovereignty and national independence into an all powerful one world government.'” -Harpers magazine, l958

“The case for government by elites is irrefutable.” -Senator William Fulbright, Former chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 1963

“The Trilateral Commission is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the political government of the United States. The Trilateral Commission represents a skillful, coordinated effort to seize control and consolidate the four centers of power political, monetary, intellectual and ecclesiastical. What the Trilateral Commission intends is to create a worldwide economic power superior to the political governments of the nation states involved. As managers and creators of the system they will rule the future.” -Senator Barry Goldwater l964 from his book: With No Apologies

“The powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements, arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences. The apex of the system was the Bank for International Settlements in Basle, Switzerland; a private bank owned and controlled by the worlds’ central banks, which were themselves, private corporations. The growth of financial capitalism made possible a centralization of world economic control and use of this power for the direct benefit of financiers and the indirect injury of all other economic groups.” -Tragedy and Hope: A History of The World in Our Time 1966, Professor Carroll Quigley, Georgetown University.

“The Council on Foreign Relations is “the establishment.” Not only does it have influence and power in key decision making positions at the highest levels of government to apply pressure from above, but it also announces and uses individuals and groups to bring pressure from below, to justify the high level decisions for converting the U.S. from a sovereign Constitutional Republic into a servile member state of a one world dictatorship.” -Congressman John Rarick 1971

“The New World Order will have to be built from the bottom up rather than from the top down…but in the end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece will accomplish much more than the old fashioned frontal assault.” -Council on Foreign Relations member Richard Gardner, l974

“The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one-world government combining super capitalism and Communism under the same tent; all under their control… Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent.” -Congressman Larry P. McDonald, 1976

“I never thought the Federal Reserve System would prove such a failure. The country is in a state of irretrievable bankruptcy.” -Senator Carter Glass 1983

“We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the work is now much more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.” -David Rockefeller, founder of the Trilateral Commission, address to The Trilateral Commission, June, 1991.

“In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn’t such a great idea after all.” -Strobe Talbott, Clinton’s Deputy Secretary of State, Time Magazine, July 20th, l992.

And for those people who really have trouble believing there is a conspiracy, see here:
http://www.freedomunderground.org/memoryhole/pentagon121.swf
shocking video (approx 5 minutes) analyzing Pentagon attack. Where is the Boeing?

The video mentions several cameras that should have tapes of the plane hitting the building. All videos have been confiscated by the FBI, some within minutes of the attack, and have never been released. Why not? What is the purpose to keep this information from the American public? Is it to discredit the presidency? Is it to take away our freedoms?

Many men, when confronted with such hard-hitting truths as above, don’t know what to think, or they run away from it. But I believe in the Bible. And I think I understand the Bible very well, having studied and discussed bible prophecy for several years at bibleprophesy.org. My understanding of prophecy supports that there will be a world government before the return of Jesus.

I believe the world will return to using gold and silver coin as money, within my lifetime, perhaps 10 years or less.

The following are my scriptural reasons why the world will return to using gold and silver coin as money, as global currencies, for a global government:

First, Ezekiel 38-39 says that Israel will be wealthy in gold and silver before the end times attack by the nation from the north. Israel’s wealth is the cause for the invasion, and Israel is also at peace prior to the invasion. If the world uses gold and silver as money, it will bring both wealth and peace to Israel, which are the necessary conditions prior to the end time invasion. Since those conditions do not exist today (Israel is not at peace, and is not wealthy enough in gold and silver), then the return of Jesus is not going to happen until after they do.

Second, regarding Revelation 17-18, I believe there will be a one-world government, run by ten kings in control over ten regions. This government is to be ruled by the harlot woman, which is Jerusalem, or Israel, who will be destroyed by the ten kings before handing over power to the next world kingdom, the antichrist’s eighth beast. I don’t see how a world government would be possible without returning the world to using gold and silver as money.

Third, I’ve read stories of ex-illuminati, that say the plan is to destroy the currencies of the nations in order to bring them under the control, and prevent their power to resist, the coming new world order, or one world government.

Fourth, there is a work called the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion”. Forgery or not, the plan outlined within the work is a plan to bring about world government, and doing so with a depression and final revaluation upwards of gold and silver to break the backs of the nations.

Fifth, the Bible says in Daniel 11-12 that in the last days, that knowledge will increase. The dollar is a lie backed by fraud. As knowledge increases, all fiat currencies are doomed. Knowledge is increasing through the internet as never before.

Sixth, the Bible’s description of life before the end time of the Lord’s return is one of relative prosperity. People will be “marrying and giving in marriage, and taking no note” as described in Matt 24.

Seventh, the antichrist’s economic system in Revelation 13, the mark of the beast system, is one of total control; it is “anti gold”. In order to bring about an anti-gold system that would condemn all of mankind, then mankind must experience a prosperous pro-gold system right before it, and leading up to it. A pro-gold system that will bring wealth to Israel will cause a backlash against the gold system, especially if the antichrist blames Armageddon on Israel’s accumulation of gold. Thus, gold will be slandered, and the antichrist’s solution will be his “no gold” mark of the beast system. And thus, gold must be used as money, successfully, the world over, in a world government, prior to the end of the world.

Eighth, the antichrist’s system is the eighth beast of Rev 17-18. Prior to his rule, is the seventh beast. The seventh beast turns on Israel, and then gives up control to the antichrist. Thus, there are two world kingdoms, one that comes after the other. The 7th kingdom comes before the rapture and the tribulation, and uses a world gold standard. The 8th kingdom, the antichrist’s comes next, and uses no gold. And that will be followed by Christ’s kingdom.

Ninth, the plan for world government, as I have read it, is to divide the globe into ten regions, each with a president. This is the exact description in Revelation 17-18, a global government of ten kings.

Now, regarding governments, and this world economic system to come, the Bible is quite specific. First, Daniel 4 and Romans 13 says that God puts governments in place, that God rules in the kingdom of men. Well, if God rules governments and puts them in place, we are not called to fight against them. We just need to obey God above the government, without fearing government. Second, regarding the great whore who controls the governments, we are called to “come out of her”. So we need to avoid usury, and avoid debt. But regarding the antichrist’s 8th beast system, believers will fight against it.

Now, I honestly believe that the 7th beast world government to come, that will be put in place by the power of God, and must come to pass in order for Bible prophecy to be fulfilled, will be much better than today.

Do you know of a distinguishing feature of all world governments that have ever existed in the past? They all used gold and silver as money! Therefore, consider how likely it will be that the next world government will use gold and silver as money!

As I’ve said before, I believe trade will increase, regulation will decrease, taxes will decrease, and I think the world will be extremely prosperous, and actually quite happy. This will make gospel preaching much easier in some ways, but harder in other ways. People don’t tend to seek God when they are happy and prosperous, but only when hard times come. And thus, the worldwide economic prosperity that will precede the Lord’s return will really put people to sleep, spiritually.

Now, if we obey God, and avoid debt, and avoid usury, and avoid false weights and measures, and if we own silver, then we will be among the most prosperous of all when national paper currencies are destroyed. Thus, we will be most able to minister and help other people in their greatest time of need, during the transition to world government, which may be an economically painful and abrupt transition.
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WONDERFUL NEWS!

PAAS CEO Ross Beaty called me today to acknowledge my marketing efforts, saying that he has read my report and company profile of PAAS, and in response, the company will soon do two things. First, develop a no hedging policy. Second, they have an agenda to discuss holding some cash in the form of silver bullion. See the company profile below for more information.

This is a big win for all silver investors, and in particular, for shareholders of PAAS. CEO’s do care about shareholders. Shareholders just need to make their concerns known to the CEO’s. If you do nothing, and demand nothing, what can you expect? If you demand positive change, it will occur, in time.

For a long time, in my profile on PAAS, I wrote something like the following, and it looks like PAAS now fully understands.

What if your silver company decides to lock in silver prices at $8, and hedge years of production to “protect the shareholders and provide exposure to the high $8/oz. price,” only to watch silver prices head past $25 and past $50/oz? Your stock could get wiped out in bankruptcy, and your investment could go to zero value! This is the danger of stocks! Your investment is subject to the whims of management!

In my opinion, it is never prudent to finance a mine through hedging, and locking in a dollar price for the silver or gold.

In my opinion, hedging prudence depends entirely on the price level to which silver will rise as denominated in dollars. Since I believe the potential is for silver to cross over $2000 to $4000 per ounce (on the way to infinity) in a monetary collapse, I would never hedge silver and never lock in a dollar price for long term production. If a company will, it goes to show that they don’t view silver as money, which is a counterproductive management philosophy for a shareholder who intends to invest in the company for the exposure to rising silver prices.

My opinion is that it is NEVER prudent to go into debt, or lock in silver prices to finance a mine. If a silver company cannot raise capital on the markets by issuing shares, then they should not be financing new mine construction. If the market will not support new mine construction, then the market does not need more silver. Mining companies should learn to trust the free market process, and avoid debt.
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Kenrich-Eskay this week started advertising at gold-eagle.com. That may help the share price. There are many other silver stocks that are now advertising at gold-eagle.com: Endeavour Silver, Nevada Pacific Gold, Expatriate Resources…

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I removed Admiral Bay from this report, “Admiral Bay announces that it has suspended joint venture with Minera San Jorge at Monte Del Favor in Mexico”
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There are a few links I’d like to share that I found at a search engine that are linking to goldismoney.com:
LINKS
–the link page above is very interesting. It’s a very professional-looking site for “Pro Capital Private Banking”. The most interesting thing about it is the five links for Argentina, near the top. Further down, my site is listed under “Mining & Metals” with the description of gold. Most interesting is the fact that Argentina recently purchased 40 tonnes of gold. I wonder if any Argentine officials, or if any Argentine policy makers have read my reports.

Elite Trader’s Toolbox – All necessary tools, links, and information for the active forex trader
–The Elite Trader’s Toolbox also links to goldismoney.com, along with other gold resources.

SILVER TRADING COMPANY LINKS
At the link above, the site has a recommendation: “Read Jason’s weekly report on silver mining and exploration companys“

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To read about my religious views, see my other web site, bibleprophesy.org There are two essays near the top of the page that explain why I believe the entire world will return to using gold and silver as money again before the end times. See Ezekiel 38. Also, see my essay: Biblical Guidelines for Managing your Money
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I will be speaking in Idaho at the Silver Summit in September 23-24
Specifically: Thursday, Sept 23rd at 10:00AM, for one hour (maybe more) planned to be in the Idaho Room, North
(No extra cost, no pre-registration. I don’t do futures contracts! So, it’s first come, first served–like silver itself, and like private placements. Get there early if you think it will be busy. I can’t tell what kind of crowd there will be. When I spoke in Vancouver in June, about 10-15 people had to stand.)
http://www.silverminers.org/summit/index.html

I will be speaking in Toronto at the Cambridge Gold Show on October 3-4.
http://www.goldshow.ca/

Toronto schedule:
SUNDAY, Oct. 3
10:30-11:00 Workshops – 1/Bishop2/Hommel 3/

MONDAY, Oct. 4
1:00 Panel – Stock Picks/E. Coffin, MCRoulston/Taylor/Hommel/Turk

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2 Silver Stock Funds

1. Richard Greene, thundercapital.com $100,000 minimum, 2 year hold, sophisticated/accredited investors only. Will use margin, and/or short sell.

2. Philip Judge or Simon Heapes, anglofareast.com Less than $5000 minimum? No margin or shortselling.

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General Commentary on Silver (slightly modified from last week):

Now, I think it’s time that the silver community started a letter writing campaign to the editors of newspapers around the world, to tell them about silver.

Here is a sample letter:

May 21, 2004

Dear Editor,

I’m a silver investor. I believe paper money is fraudulent. There is over 30 trillion dollars, U.S., worth of bonds in the world, but less than 2 trillion dollars worth of gold, according to gold.org.

As of April, 2004, the size of M3, the money in U.S. banks, has reached 9.1 trillion dollars, yet due to fractional reserve banking, the total of U.S. currency and coin in circulation is only 724 billion dollars as reported by treas.gov.

At silverinstitute.org and cpmgroup.com, they each report that silver has been in a deficit for about 15 years, where world mine supply has been about 500 million ounces, scrap supply about 200 million ounces, and industrial and jewelry demand about 800 million ounces. The difference, about 100 million ounces, has come from investor and government selling, drawing down reserves of silver. Known supplies of refined silver are down to about 250 to 600 million ounces. At the COMEX, they are down to 48 million ounces of silver left that is registered for delivery, which you can see at nymex.com.

The governments of the world are printing up too much paper money, and the world is running out of real money, silver. I believe this will lead to the price of silver rising dramatically in value, around the world.

I urge your readers to verify the statistics I have provided, and to make their own decisions.

Sincerely,

Jason Hommel

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I wrote an article:
Miners to Use Silver as Cash – 27 November 2003
Apparantly, I was about 6 months too early in my predictions, but that’s ok, I’m a very long term thinker and investor. I did not miss the mark by too much time, and if you think in terms of decades, I was right on the mark.
There are several companies that are increasingly deciding to hold their cash in the form of silver bullion. These companies are:

SSRI SSO.V (SILVER STANDARD RSC)
SRLM.PK (STERLING MINING)
NPG.V NVPGF.PK (NEVADA PACIFIC GOLD)
EDR.V EDRGF.PK (ENDEAVOUR SILVER)
And PAAS (Pan American) is now thinking about it.
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The Silver Valley in Idaho is bringing back the use of silver as money. A silver one-ounce coin, a “Sterling” to be used as a $10 piece.
http://shoshonenewspress.com/index.asp?Sec=News&str=2869
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For news on the New Hampshire Sound Money Bill, that proposes to use U.S. Treasury minted Silver Eagles and Gold Eagles as money see: http://www.goldmoneybill.org/

25 Reasons why the Sound Money Bill Must Be Supported
by Jason Hommel

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There are two excellent annual silver surveys that are sponsored by industry.

The survey by silverinstitute.org costs $195, 87 pages.
http://www.silverinstitute.org/wssum03.pdf — 8 page free summary of last year’s reeport.

The survey by cpmgroup.com costs $150, 162 pages.
http://www.cpmgroup.com/SSpress2004.pdf –3 page press release.

The two reports present the case that about 500 million oz. of silver are mined each year, about 200 million oz. of silver comes from scrap, and about 100 million oz. of silver comes from investor dis-hoarding, either by individuals or government sources, in order to meet the annual demand of about 800 million oz. of silver by industry & jewelry. This is wildly bullish, because investors are net selling more than buying, and I think the potential of investor demand is huge, and can be measured by seeing how much paper money there is in the world.
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Here are two U.S. Government produced reports on silver, containing data on years from 1900 to present, on U.S. & world production, and U.S. consumption, and U.S. industry & government stockpiles.

Report #1
http://www.goldismoney.com/ssr/USsilver.xls
Report #2
http://www.goldismoney.com/ssr/USsilver2.xls

I evaluated these government produced reports in my silver stock report #36.

In sum, we are running out of silver. The U.S. government had over 3 billion ounces of silver in 1940, and today, has very little left, or none.

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The Commodities Futures Trading Commission

The CFTC report on the allegations of manipulation in the silver market — 9 page report
The CFTC report confirmes much of the research above, and almost outlines the bullish case for silver!
–My comments on the CFTC report are in silver stock report #34 & #35

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Silver consumption, per capita, in the U.S. is the same today, in 2004, as it was in 1945.

And what is the per capita consumption of silver in the U.S. today? 5500 tonnes x 32152 = 177 million ounces of silver used per 285 million people. 177 / 285 = .62 oz. silver consumed per year, per person, in the U.S., whether in 1945, or in 2004. Each person in the U.S. today, on average, uses 6 tenths of an ounce of silver.
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As the New York Times, January 11, 1859, page 2 said—
“It is well known that the most colossal fortunes the world ever saw have been based on silver mines…”
–quote found by Charles Savoie

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WHERE and HOW to BUY SILVER BULLION
http://www.goldismoney.com/buy-gold.php

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My 2004-2009 price predictions for gold and silver:
2004: $595/oz. gold, 50:1 ratio = $12/oz. silver
2005: $1011/oz. gold, 30:1 ratio = $34/oz. silver
2006: $1719/oz. gold, 10:1 ratio = $172/oz. silver
2007: $2923/oz. gold, 5:1 ratio = $ 585/oz. silver
2008: $4,969/oz. gold, 1:1 ratio = $4969/oz. silver
2009: $8448/oz. gold, 5:1 ratio = $1698/oz. silver
2010+: infinity dollars/oz. gold, infinity dollars/oz. silver.

I calculate the gold price rise by guessing that by 2009, M3 will have a “gold-value” like it did in 1980, which is to say, M3 was worth 2 Billion oz. of gold or less. It also assumes M3 will about triple in that time. These figures are conservative, because I see no reason that M3 should be valued more than the gold the U.S. actually holds, which is a mere 261 million oz., not billion. Today, the M3 value is $8870 billion / $425/oz. = 19 billion oz. of gold M3 could buy in theory. The silver:gold ratio is also a very, very vague guess, reflective of monetary demand chasing silver, which is more scarce than gold in above ground, refined form. I have no idea when the ratio of 15:1 will be exceeded, I’m just totally guessing. I suppose it could happen this year or next month for all I know. Of course my real price targets are infinity dollars per oz. for both gold and silver when all is said and done, I just don’t know how long that will take, nor what year it will be. But my point in producing the price predictions is to show my bullishness for silver and gold.

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A great overview on silver: Douglas Kanarowski’s 78 Approaching Forces For Higher Silver Prices

See also Douglas Kanarowski’s article: What Impact Will Digital Photography Have on Silver?

Doug’s third article is also excellent: Silver — the next big thing in the global markets? Answering A Few Silver Questions

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See the 600 year silver chart to see how undervalued silver really is:
http://goldinfo.net/silver600.html

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Look at the summary of the world silver survey by GFMS Limited on behalf of The Silver Institute :
http://www.gfms.co.uk/Publications%20Samples/WSS03-summary.pdf

Note, there is virtually no monetary nor investment demand. Note, the 2002 mine production (585 mil oz.) is greatly exceeded by industrial, photo, and jewelry demand. (838 mil oz.). Note the chart on page five, “Supply from above-ground stocks”.

The difference between mine supply and industrial demand was met by a combination of three factors: 1. Government selling, 2. Private selling, 3. Recycling

U.S. government selling is ending, as their stocks have run out, or will run out. This factor will reverse, because the U.S. government will need silver to continue their coin program, and/or need silver when they wake up and decide they need to replenish their strategic stockpile for domestic security. Silver is a war material. China’s selling of silver will also likely turn into buying, as China will need silver for continued industrial development, or when they also lose faith in the U.S. dollar.

Private selling has been rapidly shrinking and is now almost ended, and should turn into buying, and become monetary demand. Monetary demand is everything in the silver supply / demand situation. It’s not now. Now, it’s nothing. But it will become something incredible, because the dollar is dying.

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The following is a “must read”: Ted Butler’s best ever explanation of how silver is manipulated lower than it should be.
http://www.investmentrarities.com/11-04-03.html

Over 3400 people have signed the silver petition to stop the manipulation at the COMEX:
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/comex/

Ted correctly points out that a lower price creates excessive demand from consumers. However, Ted Butler does not point out, and neglects to mention, that a perpetually low price also creates lack of demand from investors who are “trend investors”.

I think most silver experts over-analyze all the supply and demand factors of the silver market. No factor is more important than monetary demand. The force of photographic demand is like a light breeze compared to the hurricane or tornado of monetary demand. Monetary demand is everything.
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Consider the gold market for a moment: Even short selling at the COMEX is nothing compared to monetary demand. The short position most certainly helps to depress the price of gold as the short position is growing larger. However, it adds fuel to the fire if there is short covering, and thus, it can boost the gold price later. But the commercial short position on the COMEX is next to nothing compared to the non-reported “over the counter” trading that is done that does not appear on the COMEX.

(Numbers in metric tonnes, 32,152 oz. per tonne.)

870 tonnes — the paper position at the COMEX, 280,000 contracts for 100 oz. each.
5,000 tonnes — the official number admitted that the central banks have sold.
15,000 tonnes — the number GATA research shows that central banks have sold / or leased.
30,000 tonnes — the number of official central bank gold, minus either the 5000 or 15,000 tonnes.
145,000 tonnes — all the gold mined in the history of the world.
2,600 tonnes — annual mine supply
4,000 tonnes — annual demand

And all of that is nothing compared to the amount of dollars out there that exist that could buy gold. $20 trillion bonds, $9 trillion M3 = $29 Trillion. A mere 1% is $290 Billion, which, at $500 /oz. is a massive demand of 18,039 tonnes. Do you understand what that means? That means that far, far less than 1% of dollars, in either bonds or M3 can buy gold, because there simply is not that much gold available.

Long before 1% of U.S. paper dollars tries to buy gold, gold will be going up well over $1000/oz., and silver will be headed up over $50/oz.

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To scare away investors–that is the entire reason gold and silver are manipulated in the first place. Only the trend investors can be deceived. The problem is that nearly everyone is a trend investor. Very few investors understand value. If people knew the facts and used their brains, the available above-ground refined silver would be gone by tomorrow, and the price would be well over $20-50/oz. But don’t trust me, check the numbers and follow the links:

“The money chart”

   1,000,000,000,000: 1 Trillion dollars
     1,000,000,000: 1 Billion dollars
                1,000,000: 1 Million dollars
$200,000,000,000,000: Estimated total derivative exposure of all banks in the entire world. (20 x U.S. GDP)
$75,000,000,000,000: U.S. Govt. unfunded liabilities; social security, etc.
$45,153,000,000,000: U.S. Household wealth, as of first quarter, 2004. (Includes Real Estate, and investments)
$33,000,000,000,000: World bond market, yr end, ’01:  http://tinyurl.com/vr7u
$26,400,000,000,000: World stock market, June 2002: http://www.nyse.com/press/1044027443845.html
$20,200,000,000,000: U.S. bond market, yr end, ’02:  http://tinyurl.com/vr7g
$11,447,800,000,000: U.S. GDP, 2004 q1 http://www.bea.doc.gov/bea/dn/home/gdp.htm
$11,300,000,000,000: NYSE U.S. stock market, April, ’04 (363 bill/s x $31.14/s ave.) http://nyse.com (See: Market info: quick facts)
$9,274,000,000,000: M3 (money in U.S. banks) July, ’04  http://tinyurl.com/vra0
$7,337,786,947,237: US debt, Aug. 20-04   http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/opd/opdpenny.htm
$2,360,000,000,000: U.S. annual budget 2005 http://tinyurl.com/3xbd2
$1,860,000,000,000: World “official” gold mined in all of history, 145,000 T (4.6 bil oz.) @ $400/oz. http://tinyurl.com/vrcc
     $400,000,000,000: Estimated silver mined in all of history: 40 billion oz? @ $10/oz.  http://snipurl.com/93j1
     $724,174,342,365: Total U.S. paper currency & coin in circulation, Dec. 31, ’03  http://www.fms.treas.gov/bulletin/index.html
     $700,000,000,000: U.S. annual budget deficit (current).
   $272,000,000,000: Market Cap of Microsoft (03-2004) http://tinyurl.com/vrcn
     $222,000,000,000: M3 increase (money in U.S. banks) from Jan 2004 to April 2004 (in three months).
   $180,000,000,000: Debt of Ford Motor Co. (03-2004) http://tinyurl.com/vrd1
     $166,200,000,000: U.S. current account deficit (trade deficit) for 2Q 2004.
   $104,400,000,000: US gold, 261 mil oz., @ $400/oz. http://tinyurl.com/vsr9
   $100,000,000,000: all the world’s gold stocks/equities (estimated?)
       $75,000,000,000: Money flowed into Equity funds in the first quarter, 2004
       $8,226,000,000: all the world’s “primary” silver stocks (80 of them on this list, as of June 25, 2004)
         $6,710,000,000: 671 mil oz. of “identifiable” silver bullion left in the entire world, according to GFMS @ $10/oz.
          $358,000,000: 51.1 mil oz. of “registered” COMEX silver bullion @ $7/oz.  http://tinyurl.com/vrcw

So, what do all those stastistics mean?

For a while I was using M3 and dividing that by the US gold (261 million ounces), which implies the us dollar is 84 times more valuable than it should be, and that gold should hit $34,000/oz. after the fraud is destroyed. Today, I realize I need to add in the Bond market, because bonds are an asset class designed to siphon away and replace real money, which is to say, gold. This gives a price of about $111,111/oz. for gold. At $ 430/oz, this implies that US bonds and paper currency are 258 times more overvalued than gold.

Gold is overvalued relative to silver, because at current prices, it takes 60 ounces of silver to buy 1 ounce of gold. Historically, this ratio was 15 or 16. Given the silver shortage, this ratio will hit 10:1 or 5:1, or even 1:1. Thus, gold is perhaps 60 times more overvalued than silver.

Silver is overvalued relative to certain select silver stocks, perhaps by a factor of 3 or 10 or 20 to one.

Thus, if you multiply all those numbers, 258 x 60 x 10, You will see that bonds and currency are overvalued relative to select silver stocks by a factor of 154,800 to one. In other words, if silver stocks reach their true value, and paper currency disappears as it always does, then you might expect certain silver stocks to go up in relative value by a factor of 154,800 times more than they are worth today. By that time, you should definitely sell the silver stocks, and buy gold.

Can silver stocks really appreciate so much? Is there historical evidence for such a crazy thing? Yes.

See http://www.sterlingmining.com/old.html
Excerpt:
“CDE rose from penny stock status (.02 in 1967) to an NYSE-listed, $60 per share stock in 1980. In fact, the average share on the Spokane Stock Exchange rose in value nearly 16000% (yes, sixteen THOUSAND percent), as America could not get enough of silver and silver stocks.”

CDE rose by a factor of 3000, or 300,000%, and by 1980, the metals boom was stopped short, and paper money’s death was postponed. If paper money dies a death that lasts a generation world-wide, then even greater gains should have been expected.

For this reason, a wise silver stock investor should NEVER sell silver stocks for paper cash. A wise silver stock investor who looks for value would never sell a fairly valued silver stock for an overvalued silver stock that traded for hundreds of thousands of times more value than it should be. Likewise, there is no excuse for a silver stock investor to have any cash or money market or bonds in his portfolio for any reasonable length of time, except for when selling one silver stock to raise the cash for another silver stock, or for when you need to raise the cash to buy silver, or a private placement in another silver stock.

So, if you want some fairly liquid alternatives to cash, in case you don’t know what other silver stocks to buy at the time, here they are:
1. Buy silver. You can hold silver in an IRA.
2. Buy CEF. Central Fund of Canada, ticker symbol CEF. It’s gold/silver bullion fund. It has 50 oz. of silver for every 1 oz. of gold. The fund is fairly liquid, you can buy it as easily as any other stock, and is a good cash substitute. Unfortunately, given the current ratio, about 55% or more of the value is in gold.
3. Buy a fairly large cap silver stock, with fairly large volume, that is stilll fairly cheap on the list. Canadian Zinc, Sterling Mining, IMA Resources, and perhaps Mines Management and Cardero are probably the best five candidates. These all have market caps ranging close to $50-$100 million dollars or more, and are more liquid than many others. (I used to recommend PAAS and SSRI for this kind of “liquid alternative”, but they are no longer relatively cheap, and the others have now increased in liquidity, and are now much more suitable for this kind of trading.)

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The sheer stupidity of big money not recognizing the value of the world’s remaining silver is utterly shocking to the rational mind. Clearly, bond holders are utterly deceived, and totally unaware of the situation. All my readers should understand and know that bonds were originally invented to suck the capital and money (gold and silver) away from the people. Bonds today are a paper promise to repay paper. What a con game! Are bond holders conservative and safe? No, they are fools! There is nothing safe about holding a paper promise to receive more paper when we have been experiencing hyperinflation for the past two and a half years!

See my prior essay, “ Inflation & Deflation During Hyperinflation ”

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And the fund investors who buy paper silver futures contracts instead of real silver are a very odd bunch of fools, for they should realize that nobody can deliver 800+ million ounces of silver promised in the paper contracts and options that does not exist. It’s like the paper longs are betting on the bank run happening, but they all are making sure they get at the end of the long line. Instead, they could go front and center, where there is an open window available where you can go and get physical silver, and nobody is there. Idiots! If you know a bank run is going to happen, and you are actually willing to bet on it, then go and withdraw your money before it is too late! Don’t bet on it happening, which, if it does happen, your contracts will be defaulted on! Amazingly blind idiots. Wake up!

See also my prior essay, “The Moral Failures of the Paper Longs“

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How bullish am I on silver? Here’s an interesting way to put it: “68 times infinity” dollars per ounce.

I believe the dollar will eventually be destroyed, likely within my lifetime, hence the “infinity” part. I believe the ratio of silver to gold may be equal during a spike, when the market realizes that above-ground refined silver is more rare than gold. Thus, silver may outperform gold by a factor of 68 times better. Currently, the ratio is 68 ounces of silver can buy one ounce of gold or 68:1.

I may end up selling silver for gold, some at the 10:1 silver to gold ratio, some more at 5:1, and I would sell any silver remaining at a 1:1 ratio, that we may hit during a supply/demand crunch during a paper money collapse.

How we can tell if silver is leading gold, or if gold is leading silver? IE, which is going up more, faster than the other? The way you can tell is by looking at the ratio. If the silver:gold ratio is going up (say, from 60:1 to 80:1), then gold is moving up faster (because it takes 5 more silver oz. to buy an oz. of gold. If the ratio is going down (from 60:1 to 40:1), then silver is moving up faster. So, keep an eye on the ratio.

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For a list of bullion dealers:http://www.goldismoney.com/buy-gold.php

For a list of Brokers that handle Canadian issues and/or pink sheets:
http://www.bibleprophesy.org/SilverStockExtra.html

To track the 163 ticker symbols of the 100+ stocks on this list at yahoo: (Updated on April 2)
http://www.bibleprophesy.org/SilverStockExtra.html

To learn All about Canadian law, 43-101, about reserves and resources:
http://www.bcsc.bc.ca/Publications/mineral_projects_sept03.pdf

A good web site that hosts posting boards for many of the smaller canadian stocks (that Yahoo! finance does not have boards for) is stockhouse.com
Click on “Bullboards”.
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This is a list of primary silver stocks.

I count a company’s ounces of gold as 10 oz of silver. Why? Because I have a very strong positive bias in favor of silver over gold.

Given my bias in favor of much, much higher silver prices, then, to me, the grades of silver are far less important than buying more oz. in the ground. More oz. in the ground at a lower cost is the most important consideration for me.

My method is simple. Cost per ounce in the ground. How much do you get (silver reserve totals), and how much does it cost (market cap)? The cost is the market cap divided by the silver reserve totals. Cheaper is better. Buy low, sell high.

Disclaimers, Warnings, and Advice: I have gathered the information below over the course of several months. I believe it is accurate to the best of my ability. I have made mistakes in the data from time to time. I’m human. I have collected the information from public sources such as company web sites and public information found at yahoo.com to get the stock prices. This report in no way guarantees the accuracy of the information below, since the information may change at any time. The number of outstanding shares can change as a company engages in new share issues to raise more capital through private placements, or if outstanding warrants (and options) are exercised and converted into shares, or if shares are bought back. Shares can be consolidated, or split. The number of ounces of silver in the ground can also change, as these are often only estimates. The number can also change up or down, depending on drilling results.

This report is not investment advice. This report contains information that may or may not be up to date, and may be inaccurate. I urge you to contact the company and do your own research to verify the information contained in this report.

This report is not an offer to buy or sell any securities. I am not a broker. Only your broker can buy or sell securities for you.

I urge you to consult with your investment advisor to determine whether these kinds of investments are right for you.

I also caution you to be aware of your investment advisor’s advice, they are sometimes paid to push things like mutual funds, bonds and other securities that may not be in your best interest to buy. Some investment houses are short physical metal, and thus, they may attempt to strongly discourage you from buying precious metal or precious metals investments. I believe that the propaganda machine in support of frauds such as bonds and the dollar is so strong, that they may even believe what they say when they give bad advice to avoid the safety and protection of precious metals. It is most likely that they simply do not understand the precious metals market as well as you do.

All total estimates of “ounces in the ground” can vary widely. There are “proven and probable reserves” which are the highest category of certainty which is obtained through many drill holes, and then at the least accurate, there are “inferred resources” which are hardest to estimate. Additionally, every miner always has “more silver properties that need to be explored, which probably contain more silver”. For the purposes of this report, I have added all those numbers together. It is believed that all these “ounce in the ground” estimates can be profitably mined at $5-6 per ounce silver, or lower. Thus, I believe that when silver trades for $15/oz. or above, that all of these ounces can be mined at a substantial profit.

I may be wrong. (I probably make mistakes in every article, and there have been updates and corrections made each week, especially as prices change.)

Mining is a risky business. You need to be willing to sustain a total loss of your investment for various unforeseen accidents. Silver stock companies can do stupid things to shareholders such as take on debt, or issue more stock at too low prices which reduces the percentage of the company you may own (dilution). Yet, they need to issue shares to raise capital for drilling, and then an even bigger dilution to build a working mine. They may sell YOUR silver too cheaply, or worse, hedge the price of YOUR silver just as it begins to go up if they lock in a price which then proves to be too low if the dollar is destroyed. Mining is a risky business as estimates of assets in the ground can change. There is political risk and environmental risk. They can’t franchise the business, are stuck in one location, are subject to government confiscation, or taxes, or union wage negotiations, and corporate looting.

Do your own research. Be responsible for your own investment decisions. Again, please, before investing in a mining company, call up the company, and speak either with the CEO or the Investor Relations contact person.

Contact the company. Check the company web site, read the annual reports, check my numbers, check my math, and email the company. That’s what they are there for, to answer your questions, and to speak about the opportunity of the company. Don’t trust everything you read over the internet. I am a biased source. I own silver mining stocks. And I’m not a broker, nor an investment advisor. I’m just a private investor trying to make sense of this crazy world, and sharing my information and thoughts on silver companies.

Beware of scammers. Surely, there are scammers in the mining industry in the past, and there will be scammers in the future. Remember the fraud of Bre-X. The new 43-101 compliance laws put in place after Bre-X will not prevent a “certified” geologist from lying if he feels lying will create a better payoff. The Bible warns, “trust no man”, yet at the same time advises us to “cast our bread upon the waters”, and to not issue “false allegations” against others. Physical gold and silver provide the “payment in full” as long as the coins or bars themselves are genuine and not fake.

This report may be copied, and transmitted by other people, and may become outdated by the time it reaches you.

I can’t tell you how you should invest your money, of course. The reason is that I don’t know how convinced you are of the silver bull market, nor do I know how soon you will be needing the money back, so I don’t know how long you can wait to see results, nor do I know how much liquidity you need. Nor do I know the size of the money you have to invest. It is very hard to invest large quantities of money in a small market cap stock.

That being said, my investment strategy seems to be working for me, so far. And so, here is how I have started an initial valuation process of the following silver companies to guide my own investment decisions.

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(Market cap is always converted to US dollars and denominated in US dollars because I divide by ounces of silver, which are also denominated in dollars)

The Market Cap is the usual tool to value a company. It is what the company “costs to buy” if you could buy the entire company, all the shares, at the latest share price. It is calculated by multiplying the share price, by the total number of shares that the company has issued. In reality, you could almost never buy an entire company at the price of the Market Cap, but only a small portion. Usually, even small buying pressure, such as trying to buy 1% of a company, can push up the price of a stock by up to 10-50% higher. In my reports, I list Market Cap in terms of millions of dollars as “$75 mil MC”.

To calculate the Market Cap, I try to get and use the number of “fully diluted shares”. A company creates shares when they sell them to investors in what are called “private placements”, or “initial public offerings” (IPO). These usually consist of shares and warrants, sold for cash that the company will need to grow and expand.

The “outstanding shares” is the number of shares that exist out there if you count them all, and it does not count the warrants, which are like options. The investor can “exercise the warrants” which is a right, but not an obligation, to buy more shares from the company at the set price of the warrant.

If the company does well, and the stock price moves up, all the warrants will be, or should be, exercised and converted into shares, especially if they become “in the money”, and the warrants are significantly cheaper than the stock price.

Now, “fully diluted shares” is the total number of shares, plus the warrants, counting warrants as if they were all exercised and became fully trading shares. I think “fully diluted shares” is a better number to use to calculate market cap than by using “outstanding shares” as most do.

Finally, I go beyond valuing a company based on Market Cap alone; instead, I value a company by dividing the Market Cap by the assets of the company, which are usually the silver reserves in the ground. Thus, I can get a sense of what you are getting for what you are paying. And then, I denominate the whole thing in terms of silver, and not dollars, to get a more constant measure.

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(These first four companies, BHP, GMBXF.PK, KGHM and BVN produce a lot of silver, but look to be way too expensive to buy for the silver exposure for your portfolio.)

BHP Billiton Ltd (BHP)
http://www.bhpbilliton.com/
web.queries@computershare.co.uk IR
–‘produces 40 mil oz. silver annually from one mine’
Additional comments: unfortunately, BHP has a 57 Billion market cap, so we can’t buy BHP for the silver exposure. IE, $53 Billion / oh, say, 1000 million?????= $53/oz.

Dear BHP: By all means, keep mining the silver if you want the silver exposure, and want to be in the silver business. But don’t sell the silver. Keep it. Let the profits of your entire company accrue as an increasing physical supply of physical silver. In fact, do as Buffett did, and buy more silver if you can. It would be infinitely easier for you to buy silver from yourself than it would be to buy 40 million ounces of silver from the COMEX, which, today, might be impossible.

Silver Wheaton
http://www.wheatonriver.com/index.php/str=9,mod=cnt,act=cnt,id=120
“Silver Wheaton will have approximately 724 million common shares outstanding”
$70 million Cdn financing at $.40 Cdn, with 1/2 warrants at .80 Cdn.
175 million units and 87.5 million warrants.
724 million shares outstanding + 87.5 mil warrants = 811.5 mil shares fully diluted.
@ $.40/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = $.308 US
$250 million MC.

Wheaton River has a market cap of 1.47 billion at $2.58/share. I have no idea of the quality of the silver properties, but somewhere in the back of my head, I remember removing WHT from my report when I discovered that about 10% of their money came from the production of silver. As a gold company, I have not listed them. For the market cap to be $250 million, with a $70 million Cdn private placement already done, there is serious, serious, big-money demand for silver focused investments out there in the world right now.

Wheaton River plans to wait until October 15th to spin off some silver properties. See http://www.wheatonriver.com/

KGHM Polska Miedz
http://www.kghm.pl/en/index.php
ir@kghm.pl
–KGHM is the world`s sixth-largest coppper producer and second or third in silver.
1163 tonnes of silver produced in 2001.
1163 x 32152oz.tonne = 37.4 million ounces of silver produced in 2001
–Copper/Silver mine in Poland.
–Market capitalisation is about $$1.52 billion.

Grupo Mexico SA de CV (GMBXF.PK)
http://www.gmexico.com/
http://www.gmexico.com/Html/contactUs.htm
651,646,640 shares (2002 annual report)
@ $4.00/share
$2606 mil MC
“Grupo Mexico ranks as the world’s third largest copper producer (copper at $1.24), fourth largest producer of silver and fifth largest producer of zinc.”
They produced 28.2 million oz. of silver, worth $129 million, in 2002. (P. 5, annual report.)
Total value of produced metals: $2527 milllion. (but the company lost money in 2002). They mainly produce copper, 900,000 tons worth $1.5 billion in 2002. Thus, silver, at 2002 prices, is only 5% of their production value. Silver is a by-product for them, not a main product.
I don’t have silver reserve figures, nor do I see any need to find them or add them, since they are not a primary silver producer, and I don’t think anybody would be buying them for the “silver exposure”.
If we assume 280 mil oz. of silver (ten years reserve for production), then we stilll don’t have anything exciting for the silver alone.
$2085 mil MC / 280 = $7.45/oz. cost.

Compania de Minas Buenaventura SA (BVN)
http://www.buenaventura.com/
dhuguet@buenaventura.com.pe (IR)
NYSE:BVN
– Peru´s largest publicly traded pprecious metals company
–produces over 10 mil oz of silver per year
–looks way too expensive for the silver alone: 2.7 Billion market cap.
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ABX (Barrick)
http://www.barrick.com/
investor@barrick.com (IR)
535 million shares outstanding (1 Q 2004)
@ $19.40/share
$10,379 million Market Cap
5.5 million oz. / year gold production.
–production hedged out for 3 years worth of total production, or about 15 million oz. (most notorious hedger of the industry, the “leader”)
–price of hedges locked in near the market lows, perhaps $340/oz. on average, nobody knows for sure, because Barrick will not say
–reportedly, Barrick is trying to “unhedge”.
–reportedly, they plan to deliver 1/3 of production to hedges, which means they “might” be hedge free in about 10 years.
–the size of the hedge, 1 Q, 2004: 14.7 mil oz. gold, at $400/oz., would be valued at $5.9 billion dollars.
–but they claim to be “debt free”, if you ignore the gold they owe for delivery, at locked in, low prices. (only true if gold is not money)
–cash: $850 million
Silver Reserves reported to be 850 million ounces!
Gold Reserves reported to be 86 million oz. (x 10 = 860 mil oz. + 850 silver = 1710 mil oz. “silver equiv.”)
$10,379 million Market Cap / 1710 mil oz. = $6.07/oz. silver
You may get “approx” 1.03 ounces in the ground for 1 oz. silver’s worth of stock, if the silver and gold was not hedged–but 30 mil oz of silver may be hedged.

Additional comments: Barrick earns $26 million in first quarter. x4 = $104 million, which gives a P/E ratio of 103. Ouch, that’s high. The hedge book loss was $10 million.

Over the years, Barrick has hedged their production, which many claim has helped to depress the price of gold and silver, by artificially adding to supply. (Barrick’s promises becoming the extra supply.) The declining price of the precious metals has put other miners out of business, which Barrick has acquired at low prices. If Barrick goes bankrupt due to their hedges, and rising gold and silver prices, then perhaps Barrick’s many properties will, once again, be sold at distressed prices.

Around the spring of 2003, ABX made an announcement about covering 30 million ounces of silver they sold short. Then, a large buyer showed up in the futures contracts for about that amount.

1 Q 2004 note on hedging silver, p. 33: “At March 31, 2004, we had fixed-price commitments to deliver 22.3 million ounces of silver over periods primarily of up to 10 years. We also had written silver call options on a notional 7 million ounces of silver with an average exercise price of $5.76 per ounce. These options expire at various dates in 2004 and 2005. The options are classified as non-hedge derivatives for accounting purposes. Looks like they never closed out the silver hedge, but that they just bought options or futures that expired.

I expect silver bullion to continue to outperform ABX stock at these prices. I don’t really count Barrick as a silver company… Let me be abundantly clear. I primarily list Barrick to show how poorly it compares to all the rest, and to help show how much better the rest compare. This is a “comparative valuations” report, after all.

IPOAF.PK (INDUSTL PENOLES)
http://www.penoles.com.mx
397.5 mil shares outstanding (2003 annual, unchanged since 2001)
@ $4.20/share
$1669 mil MC
419 proven and probable reserves of silver (from 2002 annual report on web site)
$1669 mil MC / 419 oz. silver = $3.98/oz.
You get “approx” 1.56 ounces in the ground for 1 oz. silver’s worth of stock.

Additional comments: Industrias Penoles is the world’s top producer of refined silver. They actually derrive more revenue from silver than any other source. But they lost money in 2002. Produced 21.5 mil oz. silver 1 Q 2004 (Net earnings of $342.5 million 1 Q 2004)

The word late Feb. 2004 from ECU Mini, who reported to lemetropolecafe.com, is that Penoles hedged silver at low prices. As reported at lemetropolecafe.com, “We know the market is so tight even the world’s largest silver producer, Mexico’s Penolas, wasn’t thrilled about supplying 1 million ounces for a special project with ECU Silver, led by their extremely able CEO Michel Roy.”

From 2003 annual statement, by Dec 31, 2003, Penoles hedged 1.5 million ounces of silver at $5.31/oz. That looks to be a bad bet, but easily coverable for Penoles. They bought an option to sell (put) 17 million ounces of silver at 4.94. Another bad bet. Totally wasted money, it appears to me. They also have an option to buy 8.5 million ounces (call) at $5.53. Not bad. Such hedging practices, win or lose, make it more difficult for investors to know and guess the current operational state of the company. Who knows whether Penoles will lock in more silver, and take away the upside potential profitability for shareholders, or even waste money on put options that will never be exercised.

Whether Penoles hedged an entire 2 years worth of production by Feb, 2004, I don’t know, and remains to be seen. Penoles also engages in hedging dollars in the foreign exchane markets, further complicating matters.

77 million oz. silver refined by the metals division in 2003, and 1 mil oz. gold.
They probably refine almost all the silver that comes out of Mexico.
They produce about 48 mil oz. of silver from their mines 2003, and they have expansion plans.

I’ve heard this stock is tightly held, most is family owned.

Their oz. numbers are “proven & probable reserves”, which is much more certain than most of the others which are mostly “inferred and indicated resources.” They undoubtedly have “inferred and indicated resources” in addition to the “proven & probable reserves,” I just could not find any info on that at the web site or in the annual report. There is no need for a Mexican company to comply with Canadian law, 43-101. When CDE recently complied with 43-101, they raised their total numbers by about 30-50%?

Given the report in March, 2004, that Penoles has hedged silver for two years, I expect silver bullion to continue to outperform IPOAF.PK stock at these prices.

CDE (COEUR D’ALENE)
http://www.coeur.com
coeurir@coeur.com (208) 769-8155 or (800) 624-2824
214 mil shares outstanding (June 2004) not fully diluted
@ $3.52/share
$753 mil MC
“Current cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments stand at approximately $252.7 million at January 31, 2004, giving effect to recent $180 million offering of 1.25% Senior Convertible Notes due 2024, net of offering costs.”
July 15th, 2004: Cour Presents Resources in Cdn 43-101 form:
http://biz.yahoo.com/cnw/040715/id_coeur_d_alene_mine_1.html
Total of proven & probable reserves: 175 mil oz. silver, 1.4 mil oz. gold. Total silver equiv: 189 mil oz.
Total of measured, indicated, and inferred resources: 76 mil oz. silver, 1.4 mil oz. gold. Total silver equiv: 90 mil oz.
(43-101 reporting increased the number from 189 mil to 279 mil oz. silver). Before, Cour only reported reserves.)
(Produced 14.2 mil oz. silver in latest fiscal year (early 2004)
$753 mil MC / 279 mil oz = $2.69/oz.
You get “approx” 2.32 ounces in the ground for 1 oz. silver’s worth of stock.

Additional comments: CDE’s page on silver, “The Value of Silver” says nothing about silver as money. Unbelievable!

Wheaton recommends rejecting the CDE buy out offer:
Wheaton Does not Intend to Pursue the Coeur D’alene Mines Proposal: Recommends Shareholders Vote IAMGold Combination
Monday May 31
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/040531/315071_1.html
Interestingly, as one reason, Wheaton says: CDE has a history of losses and negative operating cash flow.

Quarterly Loss Reduced From $31.2 Million a Year Ago to Just $3.0 Million in 2004’s First Quarter
As of May 5th, CDE announced: No silver or gold hedge positions in place.

For the full year 2003, the Company reported a net loss of $67.0 million, or $0.40 per share, compared to a net loss of $81.2 million, or $1.04 per share in 2002.

Why does CDE continue to mine and sell silver at a loss? Why has CDE borrowed $180 million to continue expanding this business plan? Why couldn’t CDE have raised the money from issuing more shares? Why has CDE stock increased over seven times from about 30 million shares outstanding at the end of 1999 to 214 million shares outstanding by the first quarter 2004? How was CDE able to secure such favorable terms for a loan? “giving effect to recent $180 million offering of 1.25% Senior Convertible Notes due 2024, net of offering costs.”” Who did CDE borrow money from? Who stants to gain if CDE continues to produce silver at a loss?

If CDE produced silver at a loss during the first quarter 2004, how much money will they make if silver hits $10/oz? Perhaps the break-even price for production is a constant $8.00/oz.? Regardless of their “cash cost” numbers. If so, and if CDE produces 15 million oz. of silver per year, then at $10/oz., CDE may make up to $30 million dollars, at the most, from their silver production, if none of their other costs like energy costs rise in price due to inflation. Mining uses a lot of energy, just so that you know, so I don’t think it is likely that CDE will have profits even with higher silver prices in the $8-10 range due to inflation. Given that CDE has a market cap of up to $1000 million dollars, CDE just is not worth it at all, in my opinion. And neither would CDE stock be worth the price if they had a market cap of $300 million, in my opinion. I would rather own silver, as it moved in price from $6 to $10. And in the meantime, CDE may well move in price from $6.49/share down to $2.16/share (assuming no further dilution, and a reduction to a more reasonable $333 million market cap), and by then, with silver at $10, CDE may have a P/E ratio of 10, and a huge heavy debt load of $180 million dollars that may take up to 6 years of possible profits to pay off.

At $2.16/share, $10 silver, and a P/E of 10: $333 mil MC / 189 mil oz. = $1.76/oz. = You’d get about 5.68 oz. of silver for each silver oz. worth of stock.

There is one very important factor that CDE investors need to consider, especially if they are hoping that the stock will return to a historic price. CDE stock prices, in my opinion, are highly unlikely to return to historic prices. And why? Because of the recent massive dilution. At the end of 1999, there were 30 million shares out. Today, there are 214 million. You MUST take that information into account when looking at a long-term historical price chart. For example, the price in 1996 was $20/share, but there were less than 30 million shares? If so, then the market cap was $600 million ($20/share x 30 million shares). Today, the market cap typically exceeds the previous historic price of $20/share and $600 mil MC! $3.63/share x 214 mil shares = $777 mil MC, which shows that CDE is more expensive today at $3.63/share ($777 mil MC) than it was at $20/share ($600 mil MC).

I expect silver bullion to continue to outperform CDE stock at these prices.

SIL (APEX SILVER)
http://www.apexsilver.com/
information@apexsilver.com (303) 839-5060
47.4 million shares outstanding (late May, 2004) (not fully diluted?)
(derived from share price & market cap, late May, 2004)
@ $19.00/share
$901 mil MC
cash on hand: ~ $390 million March 2004
San Cristobal (Bolivia) (proven & probably reserves) 454 mil silver
(forecast capital costs for construction to total approximately $435 million)
(Produced zero silver in 2002)
7.8 billion pounds of zinc, and 2.9 billion pounds of lead
$901 mil MC / 454 mil oz = $1.98/oz.
You get “approx” 3.14 ounces in the ground for 1 oz. silver’s worth of stock.

Additional comments: Apex’s webpage on silver, “Commodity Fundamentals” says nothing about silver as money. Unbelievable and shameful! Unless you count this phrase, “As a precious metal, it has been a source of human adornment since the beginning of time.” At least they recognize that silver is a precious metal, and at least they recognize it has been precious since the beginning of time. That’s a start!

Bullishly, they note: “As a result of the silver inventory drawdown, by the end of 2002, the worldwide stockpile of refined silver has been reduced to levels sufficient to satisfy less than approximately six months of the existing demand.”

A positive article was written about Apex in Business Week Online:
A Bright Gleam On Apex — Friday June 4

“Apex has rights in some 100 mineral-exploration holdings at 34 properties in countries such as Bolivia, El Salvador, Mexico, and Peru.”

The article’s analyst notes that in 2-3 years, when/if production comes online, “At silver’s current price of $6 an ounce, Apex could earn $2 to $3 a share, he figures. If silver runs up to $10, earnings could hit $6, he says.”

I note that this means that at a P/E of 10, if production comes online, Apex may more than tripple in 3 years to $60/share, while silver nearly doubles. That’s not much leverage, given the increased risks of mining and owning a public company, and given that management of Apex seems to not recognize that silver is money, and debt is aweful.

March 16th, Apex raises $144 million in a convertable debenture deal to help finance the development of San Cristobal. They now have 350/435, or 80.4% of the capital costs needed for construction. Raising the last bit should now be very easy to do. If, while raising money, they held their cash in the form of silver bullion, they would probably not need to raise any more cash at this point, since silver has moved up over 50%.

See my silver stock report #40 for reasons why Apex will not likely use their cash to buy silver bullion while they wait for higher silver prices.

Apex silver primarily has institutional investors.

Apex has a lot of zinc. That’s an added bonus that is not factored in to my method of valuation. Zinc prices have been heading up soon, so that’s another bonus. Plenty of zinc is especially good if zinc is moving up in price. Zinc hit a recent high of $.51/lb., from a low of about $.35/lb. For zinc prices, see http://www.metalprices.com

Apex is not mining now, but are waiting for higher silver prices. George Soros, Billionaire, owns a bit of this one, his group of funds owns over 14% I read recently. There are several other zinc / silver plays on this list that investors might also consider: Canadian Zinc, Expatriate, or Metalline (I own Metalline, but not SIL.)

I do not have an idea on whether or not SIL will out perform silver bullion or not. It’s hard to say, because of that huge zinc bonus.

FSR.TO FSLVF.PK (FIRST SILVER)
http://www.firstsilver.com/
info@firstsilver.com (604) 602-9973 or (888) 377-6676
38.6 mil shares fully diluted (March 2004)
@ $1.65/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = $1.27 US
$49 mil MC
From the Company’s main page:
“As at December 31, 2001, First Silver’s mineable reserves were 12 million ounces of silver and inferred resources totaled 30 million ounces of silver. The mine is developing a 1000 plus meter exploration drift to upgrade currently identified inferred resources to mineable ore reserves and to discover new reserves.” (12 + 30 = 42 mil oz.)
(The company appears to mine about 2 million ounces of silver per year, so perhaps by mid 2004, that would be 5 million ounces mined out from reserves and resources?) 42 – 5 = 37 mil oz.
12 + 30 = 42 mil oz.
$49 mil MC / 37 mil oz. = $1.33/oz.
You get “approx” 4.70 ounces in the ground for 1 oz. silver’s worth of stock.

Additional comments: This is a high grade, producing miner. The high grades, about 300g/ton, are a plus. They are also actively exploring, another plus.

1st Q, 2004, FSR.TO earned $1.45 million Cdn?, or 4 cents/share, ending a string of losses for the 6 quarters prior. Seems as if their break even cost to mine is $6.00/oz silver. Produced 565,332 oz. silver for the quarter, and 1288 oz. gold.

First Silver is unhedged, and remain committed to remaining unhedged.

PAAS (PAN AMERICAN SILVER)
http://panamericansilver.com/
info@panamericansilver.com (604) 684 -1175
70 mil shares fully diluted (April, 2004)
http://panamericansilver.com/s/CorporateInformation.asp?ReportID=26039
@ $14.35/share
$1004 mil MC
10 silver properties (3 in production)
produced 7 mil oz. silver in 2001: estimated to produce 15 million ounces in 2005
Reserves & Resources through Dec. 11th, 2003 from
http://panamericansilver.com/s/ReservesAndResources.asp?ReportID=25303
743.2 million total
850 million ounces, says Ross Beaty, CEO, on Sept 17th, 2004
$1004 mil MC / 850 mil oz. = $1.18/oz.
You get “approx” 5.27 ounces in the ground for 1 oz. silver’s worth of stock.

Additional Comments:  Ross Beaty, CEO of PAAS called me today, Sept 17th, to talk about his company and silver. He told me that I was a very successful marketer, and that my efforts are helping them change their policy on hedging, so that they will renounce it altogether. In the past, they received loans from the World Bank which required hedging commitments, but now PAAS is debt free, wants to remain debt free, and will not need to hedge to finance mine construction. Furthermore, although Ross acknowledged that putting extra cash into silver bullion will only add a miniscule amout of upside exposure to rising silver prices, he said that holding cash in the form of silver bullion is now “on their agenda”.

Furthermore, he clarified that the number of ounces of silver in the ground that PAAS has is 850 million, and their estimated production for next year, 2005, is 15 million ounces of silver.

He also spoke about all the things he and his company have done to promote silver as money, including encouraging Mexico to issue silver coinage, and well as to help encourage the U.S. mint to continue minting silver eagles even though the U.S. mint has run out of silver. Furthermore, the company has plans to encourage other nations that mine silver to mint silver coins, such as Poland, and others.

They will also be donating $150,000 to the silverinstitute.org

PAAS is hosting the 2004 Silver survey summary by GFMS for the Silver Institute

Pan American of Canada buys Morococha silver mine in Peru for US$35 million This $35 million acquisition is a great deal for PAAS, and a minor help for PAAS shareholders. According to the press release above, the silver mine produced 3.5 million ounces of silver a year, at a cash cost of $3/oz., which is great! At $6.50/oz, that’s $3.5 x 3.5 mil oz. = $12.25 million per year profit after cash costs! That gives the acquisition a P/E ratio for the mine’s acquisiton cost of under 3! What a deal!

Unfortunately, PAAS shareholders are paying way above that when they buy the stock today. After this acquisition, PAAS should have a “2004 silver production forecast to 13 million ounces from 10.1 million ounces and will reduce forecast cash costs to below $ 3.50/oz, bringing anticipated total costs to less than $4/oz for the year.” Now, at $6.50/oz, that’s $2.5 x 13 mil oz. = $32.5 million per year profit, after cash costs, excluding management expenses? That gives a P/E ratio for PAAS of about $1000 / $32 = 31. Therefore, considering the two P/E ratios, 31 compared to under 3, PAAS stock is over ten times overvalued compared to other silver mining opportunities that exist in the market, such as the property they just purchased.

PAAS had a very meager profit of $1.3 million, second quarter, 2004. I certainly would not get excited about paying nearly a billion dollars in market cap to get an annual earnings of $5 million. That’s a P/E ratio of 200!

The reason silver investors are investing in companies such as PAAS is for the upside potential of rising silver prices, and the leverage that silver stocks offer.

PAAS plans to produce 15 million ounces of silver in 2005. If silver prices double from $6 to $12/oz., and if PAAS is breaking even or profitable at $6/oz., then PAAS could earn an additional $6 x 15 million, or an extra $90 million dollars of profit per year.

However, this must occur in an environment where silver prices rise, and all other costs remain flat, so that labor, or energy, or oil, or steel prices also do not go up. Lately, we have witnessed costs of other commodities rising faster than silver.

KBR.TO KBRRF.PK (KIMBER RESOURCES)
http://www.kimberresources.com
info@kimberresources.com (604) 669-2251
31.6 mil shares fully diluted (Apr 20, 2004)
+ 1.9 in Sept. PP
33.5 mil shares fully diluted (Sept 2004)
http://www.kimberresources.com/sharestructure.html
@ $1.70/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = US $1.31
$44 mil MC
from http://www.smartstox.com/reports/kbr.pdf
30 mil oz. silver resources Measured & indicated, plus inferred
540,000 oz. gold x 10 = 5.4 mil “silver equiv.”
$44 mil MC / 35.4 mil oz. = $1.24/oz.
You get “approx” 5.03 ounces in the ground for 1 oz. silver’s worth of stock.

Additional comments: Kimber Announces Closing of Private Placement Thursday September 9
$1.50/unit for $1.9 million, 1/2 a warrant at $1.80.

Kimber Reports Significant Drill Hole On Carmen Deposit

A one property company. The Carmen gold-silver deposit on their Monterde property in the Sierra Madre belt of Chihuahua State, Mexico. Significant exploration potential.

It was reported by a press release that 16%-17% of KBR.V is owned by silver bull Jim Puplava of http://www.financialsense.com, which I think is a rather solid endorsement of the company.

MFN MFL.TO (MINEFINDERS)
http://www.minefinders.com/
info@minefinders.com
39.1 mil shares fully diluted 1 Q 2004
@ $6.22/share
$243 mil MC
Cash on hand, Fully Diluted: C$34 million
“over 3.5 mil ounces of gold resource and 160 mil ounces of silver” –Dec. ’03
silver conversion = 3.5 x 10 = 35 mil + 160 mil oz. silver = 195 mil oz. silver
At 70:1 ratio, 3.5 x 70 = 245 “silver equiv” of gold, and 160 mil of silver = 405.
245/405 = 61% of the mineral value is in the gold, 39% silver.
At 10:1 ratio, 35/195 = 18% of the mineral value is in the gold, 82% silver.
“In addition to the resources already drilled, Minefinders controls a strong portfolio of properties in Nevada, Arizona, and Mexico which have the potential to host new multi-million ounce discoveries over the next few years.”
$243 mil MC / 195 mil oz. = $1.25/oz.
You get “approx” 4.99 ounces in the ground for 1 oz. silver.

Additional Comments: Minefinders Drills 21.4 g/t Gold Over 1.5 Meters at Clear Project, Nevada
Thursday September 9

At 70:1 silver to gold ratio, over half of MFN is in gold, so consider this a significant gold bonus.

Minefinders reports increased Measured and Indicated Resource at Dolores
August 9, 2004 (The increase was by 10%, and I don’t see how the numbers relate to my previous numbers, which were higher, and may have included a total that was based on more properties?)

WTZ WTC.TO (WESTERN SILVER) (formerly Western Copper)
http://www.westernsilvercorp.com
info@westernsilvercorp.com Jay Oness Toll Free: 1-888-456-1112
43.3 mil shares fully diluted (July 2004)
@ $8.25/share
$357 mil MC
(not actively mining)
$14 million Cdn cash in the till (2 mil + 12 mil financing) no debt
From the “SNC Lavalin Resource Calculation” March, 2003.
Indicated 158.8 mil oz. silver
Inferred 54.6 mil oz. silver
Total 213.4 oz. silver.
Total 1.94 oz. gold x 10 (at 10:1) = 19.4 silver equiv.
The capital cost to get the mine going is estimated to be US $148 million
Western Silver Completes Pre-Feasibility Study on Chile Colorado Zone at Penasquito
New info: 267 mil oz. silver at a grade of just over 1 oz. per tonne. (an increase of 54 mil oz. over previous est.)
Brechia zone will likely double the numbers: probably in Jan will have 500 mil oz. silver, 5 mil oz gold.
Plus, they have two other zones that could each duplicate the success of each of the other two. So up to a Billion… oz. of silver as “exploration potential”!
Feasibility: 2006-7 production timeline.
$357 mil MC / 287 oz. = $1.24/oz.
$357 mil MC / 1000 oz. = $.36/oz. –exploration potential
You get “approx” 5.00 ounces in the ground for 1 oz. silver’s worth of stock.
Exploration Potential = 17

Additional comments: Western Silver Discovers More High-Grade Gold Mineralization and Expands the Size of the Gold Zone at Penasquito Monday August 30

WTZ’s silver page: “Why Silver?” While acknowleding the silver fundamentals as produced by the Silver Institue, and shrinking supplies, it says nothing about silver as money. WTZ acknowledges their role is to make sure their shareholders are “well positioned to take advantage of any shortage of supply or rise in the price of silver.”

Western Silver was formerly Western Copper… Copper now at $1.35/lb!

Note the capital cost to get the mining started: $148 million dollars.
WTZ also has the following other metal resources:
3.73 billion pounds of zinc x .50/lb = $1865 million
673 million pounds of copper x $1.30/lb = $874 million
1.3 billion pounds of lead x .40/lb = $520 million

GRS GAM.TO (GAMMON LAKE)
http://www.gammonlake.com/
gammonl@sprint.ca (902) 468-0614
62 mil shares fully diluted (Feb 27th, 2004)
@ $4.65/share
$288 mil MC
Total Ocampo NEW “1.85-million gold ounces and 76.7-million silver ounces in the measured and indicated categories and a further 2.55-million gold ounces and 127.8-million silver ounces in the inferred category.”
Inferred: 2.55 mil oz. gold, 127.8 mil oz. silver
Silver equiv = 25.5 mil oz. + 128 mil oz. = 153.5 mil oz.
Measured & Indicated: 1.85 mil oz. gold, 77 mil oz. silver
silver equiv = 18.5 mil oz. + 77 mil oz. = 95.5 mil oz.
Total silver equiv: 249 mil oz.
OLD DATA: Total Ocampo Inferred: 1,124,000 oz. gold, 50,438,000 oz. silver
Silver equiv = 11.24 mil oz. + 50.44 mil oz. = 62 mil oz.
Total Ocampo Measured & Indicated 2,207,800 oz. gold, 108,438,000 oz. silver
Silver equiv = 22 mil oz. + 108 mil oz. = 130 mil oz.
Total Ocampo Measured & Indicated plus Inferred = 182 mil oz.
Gammon owns 26.3% of Mexgold, MGR
Since Mexgold owns 185 mil oz. of “target exploration potential”, 26.3% of that is 48.6 mil oz.
249 + 49 = 298 mil oz. (231 oz. in report #49, last week)
$288 mil MC / 298 mil oz.= $.97/oz.
You get “approx” 6.44 ounces in the ground for 1 oz. silver’s worth of stock.
**Note** most of Mexgold’s oz. that are added in are an “exploration target” not yet “inferred resources”.

Additional comments: Gammon Lake Resources Defines Expanded 7.5-million Ounce Gold-equivalent Resource at Ocampo Gold-silver Project Tuesday September 7

“Overall, a total of 130,000-metres have been drilled in more than 800 holes since the inception of the Gammon Lake Ocampo Project”

At prices of a 64:1 silver:gold ratio at $425/oz gold and $6.60/oz silver, the resources are worth $1048 million of silver, and $1411 million worth of gold. Cash cost is $85/oz. Life of mine is 7 years.

GAMMON LAKE INTERSECTS 1-METRE OF 390 GRAMS PER TONNE GOLD AND 1,402 GRAMS PER TONNE SILVER (13.2 OUNCES PER TONNE GOLD-EQUIVALENT) June 10

CFTN.PK (CLIFTON MINING)
http://www.cliftonmining.com/
clifton@cliftonmining.com 801-756-1414 (303) 642-0659 Ken Friedman
47 mil shares fully diluted (May 2004)
@ $.90/share US
$42 mil MC
http://www.cliftonmining.com/wsreview.htm –source of 100 mil oz. resources est.
http://www.cliftonmining.com/resource.htm
From: http://www.siliconinvestor.com/stocktalk/subject.gsp?subjectid=13531
“A previous geologist has talked about a possible resource of 1 billion oz. of silver, and 5 million oz. of gold.”
100 mil oz. silver
+500,000 oz. gold x 10 = 5 mil oz. silver equiv.
= 105 mil oz. silver.
up to 1000 mil oz. silver “exploration potential”.
Clifton has a complex JV agreement with Dumont Nickel. In sum, here is what Keith Moeller VP, Clifton Mining Company wrote to me: “If Dumont produces a positive feasibility study on an individual property piece, then they gain a 50% interest in that piece alone, not in the rest of the property. If they spend more than 5 million dollars (US) on any one piece and they produce a positive feasibility study on that piece, then they will gain a 60% interest in that one piece of property, not in the rest. If they stop at any time or fail to produce a positive feasibility, then they will gain no interest in any of our property. Right now we have around 7 different pieces of the property that have “Stand Alone” mine potential. If Dumont stakes or purchases any property within five miles of the joint venture property, then we automatically receive a 50% interest in that property.”
My problem is how to quantify that. First, there is the range of potential silver resources. Second, there is the range of potential ownership, which is highly variable, and not subject to the entire property, nor necessarily subject to spending by Dumont, but subject mostly to Dumont doing a positive feasibility study on each of many properties . At the extreme ranges, the values are:
40% to 100% of 105 = 42 – 105 million oz.
40% to 100% of 1000 = 400 – 1000 mil oz. “exploration potential”
$42 mil MC / 42 mil oz. = $1.01/oz.
$42 mil MC / 1000 mil oz. = $.042/oz.
You get “approx” 6.17 ounces in the ground for 1 oz. silver.
Exploration Potential: 150

Additional comments: Goldseek.com is hosting a “Meet the CEO” session with Dr. Friedman of Clifton. If readers would like to send him some questions (open until Aug. 23), see:http://www.goldreview.com/MeetCEO/ask.php

Note the “exploration potential” is very large, but it also assumes that their JV partner, Dumont, does not acquire any interest in the property at all.

Perhaps an interesting and novel way to determine percentage ownership of the projects would be to look at the relative market caps for both Clifton, and Dumont, and then assume that the market has it “about right”, and then use thier relative values to determine a possible percentage ownership of each. And then, simply decide to own both, keeping your percentage ownership of each company, about the same. For example, if the MC of Clifton is $43 mil, and Dumont is about $10 mil, so own about 4.3 times as much Clifton as Dumont.

JV agreements were primarily entered into during a time when it was difficult to raise money through share offerings, as a way to advance the projects. Unfortunately, JV agreements also make it difficult for investors to value a company! Several companies at the NY Gold show in June were just completing buyout agreements (or working on doing so) with their JV partners.

For more info on what’s going on with Clifton, see http://www.dumontnickel.com , JV partner. One man suggested buying both Clifton and Dumont to ease the difficulty in trying to figure out their JV agreement.

Clifton has 28% ownership of a biotech firm that makes a colloidal silver. The biotech firm has a patent on a “super” colloidal silver solution made with 10,000 volts that adds oxygen that gives it more powerful antibacterial properties, and is safer since it uses less silver, which would prevent “blue skin” argyria. Normal colloidal silver that you can make at home with 30 volts works to kill bacteria by disrupting the oxygen metabolism of the cell wall, killing bacteria with oxygen. The market for safe antibiotics is in the multi Billions of dollars.

You can now order the colloidal silver solution online at http://www.asapsolution.com
To receive 10% off, use 50105 as the coupon number.
Clifton Mining Company – ASAP Product to Be Produced in Brazil
The minimum royalty payable to ABL will be $57,000 per month. 28% for Clifton is $191,520/year.

ABL signs a contract with GNC. (April) Clifton’s biofirm’s colloidal silver product will be on the shelves of this mass market health food and fitness stores, GNC. Congratulations to Clifton!

SSRI SSO.V (SILVER STANDARD RESOURCES)
http://www.silver-standard.com/
paull@silverstandard.com (604) 689-3856 or (888) 338-0046
51.8 mil shares fullly diluted (August 2004) –from the company web site.
@ $14.12/share
$731 mil MC
debt free, cash: $Cdn 36 mil plus 2 million ounces of silver, plus securities.
As of May 12: The company has budgeted $8.2 million in 2004 for feasibility and scoping studies and exploration of its 15 projects. With cash of $61 million, and marketable securities of approximately $10 million at March 31, the company decided to invest approximately 20% of its cash and securities in physical silver following the decline in silver prices in April and May. Silver Standard now owns over 1.95 million ounces of silver. This silver is held on an allocated and segregated basis and, consequently, is not available to be loaned.
not mining or producing; 23 silver properties
measured and indicated resources totaling 403.6 million ounces of silver
plus inferred resources totaling 446.4 million ounces of silver = 850 mil oz.
2.2 mil oz. gold. Silver equiv = 22 mil oz. silver. (22 + 850 = 872 mil oz.)
$731 mil MC / 872 mil oz. = $.84/oz.
You get “approx” 7.43 ounces in the ground for 1 oz. silver’s worth of stock.

Additional comments: Silver Standard Resources Inc.: La Pitarrilla Drilling Expands Cordon Colorado and Pena Dyke Zones, Commences at Javelina Creek
Wednesday September 8

Congradulations to SSRI for converting some of their cash, 20%, to silver bullion! I wish it was more, but it is certainly a great start! SSRI decided to hold such a large percentage of their cash in the form of bullion, first, of all silver miners!

SSRI now has more silver resources than PAAS. I’d expect SSRI’s market cap to soon exceed PAAS, especially given PAAS management’s lack of understanding that silver is money, and can be used as money.

SSRI really is the “silver standard”. SSRI has the largest market cap this far down the list, which makes it a more attractive target for people with larger amounts of money to invest. SSRI continues to add resources through drilling and acquisition. This company seems to really understand the silver story, and helped to educate me as an investor.

I attended a two hour SSRI presentation after the Gold show in SF in late November, 2003. For the most part, their properties are very well drilled, and they have a fairly solid idea on how much silver oz. in the ground they have. They started their plan to acquire silver properties and become a “silver company” in about 1993, which explains why they have such a large market cap, and so many good properties with so many ounces of silver.

Some investors like SSRI because of the diversification –SSRI owns many silver properties. You can get a similar kind of diversification by owning stock in many silver companies.

* TM.V TUMIF.OB (TUMI RESOURCES) (TUY Frankfurt Exchange) (I own shares)
http://www.tumiresources.com
nicolaas@attglobal.net Nick Nicolaas IR (604) 657 4058
24 mil shares fully diluted (Mar. 1, 2004)
@ $.97/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = $.75 US
$18 mil MC
20 mil oz resource up to 50 million oz. silver potential but needs to be explored and drilled.
500,000 gold resource x 10 = 5 mil oz. silver equiv.
Debt free, 2 projects in Mexico.
Raised $2.7 million Nov. 14, 2003
$18 mil MC / 25 mil oz. = $.72/oz. ***I’m using this number***
$18 mil MC / 50 mil oz. = $.36/oz. (exploration potential)
You get “approx” 8.69 ounces in the ground for 1 oz. silver’s worth of stock.
Exploration Potential: 17 (likely plus more after bonanza silver discovery late November, 2003.)

Additional comments: Tumi signs right to acquire 100% of the Jimenez de Teul project, Zacatecas Silver Belt, Mexico

Tumi soared in late November, 2003, after the company announced a bonanza grade silver discovery after drilling. Final drilling is winding up, and a resource calculation from all the recent drilling is expected soon, sometime after final drilling results are announced.

Tumi is focused on becoming a “premiere junior silver explorer.” It’s good to see the focus is in the right metal. Doing active drilling to prove up their projects and increase “resources”. Nick Nicolaas really understands the silver story, beliving silver has much greater appreciation potential than gold.

I own shares of TM.V.

* PLE.V (PLEXMAR RESOURCES INC) (I own shares)
http://www.plexmar.com/ (now updated)
info@plexmar.com Guy Bedard, President, Phone: (418) 658-6776 Fax: (418) 658-8605
–Signed two option agreements to acquire two exploration projects in Northern Peru, Cascajal and Marilia.
67 mil shares fully diluted (August 2004) –Guy gave me this number (Sept, 2004)
@ $.135/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = $.10 US
$7 mil MC
$1.4 mil Cdn. money in the bank.
–just acquired (OPTIONS ON) 2 silver mines in Peru. Total: 1.09 mil gold oz., 28.4 mil oz. silver
Total silver equiv: 38.4 mil oz. –I can’t find these numbers on the new website?! And I didn’t realize the property acquisitions were options, and not 100% owned acquisitions?!
Cascajal–Plexmar must pay to the owner $ 1 M US over a 5 year period with a $ 500,000 US payment in the 5th year.
Cascajal–1,700,000 tonnes representing a total of 260,485 ounces of gold and 13,446,000 ounces of silver. (not 43-101)
Recent financing was at $.25, with 7 mil warrants at $.40 Cdn
Still acquiring properties.
$7 mil MC (+ $5 mil in needed financings?) / 16 mil oz. = $.75/oz.
$7 mil MC (+ $5 mil in needed financings?) / 38.4(old number from web site) mil oz. = $.31/oz.
You get options on “approx” 8.33 ounces in the ground for 1 oz. silver’s worth of stock.
You get options on “approx” 20 ounces in the ground for 1 oz. silver’s worth of stock.

I own shares of PLE.V

ORM.V OREXF.PK (OREMEX RESOURCES)
http://www.oremex.com/s/Home.asp
info@oremex.com
28.8 mil shares fully diluted (End of May, 2004) after, and including financing?
@ $.97/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = $.75 US
$22 mil MC
Have $5 million cash in the bank as of Dec. 2003.
holds the right to acquire a 100% interest in six mineral properties in Mexico.
Oremex will focus on the exploration and development of the Tejamen Silver Property and the San Lucas Silver Property.
They are hoping to explore for up to 100 mil oz. silver by drilling over the next year.
–Experienced team of geologists and mannagement that have put other properties into production:
Anthony R. Harvey, Chariman, has put 14 properties into production in his 40 year career.
http://www.oremex.com/s/TejamenSilver.asp?ReportID=68653
for an inferred resource of 8.4 million metric tons at a grade of 89 g/t Silver (2.86 opt) and 0.2g/t Gold (0.006 opt).
2.86 x 8.4 = 24 mil oz. silver at Tejamen (one of six silver properties)
$22 mil MC / 24 mil oz. = $.90/oz.
$22 mil MC / 100 mil oz. = $.22/oz. –exploration potential
You get “approx” 6.95 ounces in the ground for 1 oz. silver’s worth of stock.
Exploration Potential: 28

Additional comments: Oremex intersects 20 oz. of silver per tonne over 292 feet Wednesday September 8

Oremex Closes $2.6 Million Private Placement Financing May 28 “The Company issued a total of 2,890,023 units at $0.90 and 1,445,012 warrants exercisable at $1.10 for a period of 12 months from closing. In addition, 269,940 Agents’ Warrants were issued entitling the holder to purchase one unit at $0.90 for a period of 12 months.”

* CZN.TO CZICF.PK (CANADIAN ZINC) (I own shares)
http://www.canadianzinc.com/
czn@canadianzinc.com 1-866-688-2001
78.5 mil shares fully diluted (August, 2004)
@ $.68/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = $.52 US
$41 mil MC
$14.6 million cash, Cdn, no debt.
not mining ($20 mil needed to finish & start the mine) ($100 mil worth of mining infrastructure in place!)
~70 mil oz. (IN ZONE 3 only!! of 12 zones! This company seems to be greatly under-reporting their silver reserves. Their 18 year mine plan consists of zone 3 only, but there are 12 mineralized zones on the property.) Really, perhaps well over 100 mil oz. silver.
$41 mil MC / 70 mil oz. = $.58/oz.
You get “approx” 10.6 ounces in the ground for 1 oz. silver’s worth of stock.

Additional comments: Canadian Zinc Commences Exploration Program At Prairie Creek, NT

CZN likely has much more silver in the ground, and has good profit potential.

To get the mine up and running, they might be able to pay back debt financing within 2 years, but I would hope they would avoid debt, and raise the capital in additional financings.

I note several very, very positive things about this company.

1. This was the mining operation set up by the Hunt brothers, the major silver investors in the silver spike to $50/oz. in 1980 who were bankrupted by their own debts and margin calls as a result of the COMEX rule changes and silver short sale manipulation. The Hunts spent $50 million building infrastructure to build the mine. They were 90% complete when bankruptcy hit. The value of those buildings is now perhaps over $100 million, and the mine only needs about $20 million (CAN) ($15 mil US) to get the mine up and running. That’s much cheaper than other cost estimates of other operations.
2. The 70 million oz. of silver estimate is for zone 3 only. But there are 12 zones on the property. The zone 3 estimate is for a 10 year mine plan that involves mining zone 3 at current metals prices.
3. High Grade ores:
12% zinc/ton; = 240 lbs. zinc/ton x 50 cents/lb. = $120/ton for the zinc.
10.1% lead/ton = 202 lbs. lead/ton x 40 cents/lb. = $80/ton for the lead.
6 oz. silver/ton x $6.95/oz. = $42/ton for the silver.
0.4% copper/ton = 8 lbs. copper/ton x 1.30 cents/lb. = $10/ton for the copper.
Total: $249/ton!   Prices accurate as of Mid Feb., 2004
4. My method of valuation: I’m really counting only the silver, not the base metals in my “oz in the ground” valuation. So consider a significant “zinc bonus”, and “lead bonus”.
5. Zinc and base metals prices headed up? About 45 cents/lb. for zinc! Check http://www.metalprices.com/ for updates.

(I own shares of CZN.TO)

SHSH.PK (SHOSHONE SILVER)
http://www.shoshone-mining.com
Carol Stephan, director, 208-666-4070
18 million outstanding shares
@ $.45 US
$8.1 mil MC
Lakeview Mine and Mill: 24,190 tons of mineralized material delineated at Lakeview, grading an average of 11.8 oz/t silver.
= 285,000 oz. silver. But is a narrow (high grade) vein mine, like Cour d’Alene and Hecla, with few reserves.
Conjecture (in Lakeview district): 336,000 tons at a grade of 11 ounces per ton of silver = 3.7 mil oz. silver. “Terms of the 25-year lease [of the conjecture] include payment of a $3000 per year advance royalty, issuance of one million shares of Shoshone common stock to Chester, and a sliding scale net smelter return based on the spot price of silver.” At .$60/share, that’s $.6 mil MC more for the lease.
blende project: 21.4 million tons grading 1.63 ounces per ton (oz/t) silver. (low grade) 34.8 mil oz. silver
(not 43101 compliant, plus 5.8% lead-zinc )
Shoshone must issue 1 million shares, and spend $5 million on exploration by December 31, 2008 to complete its 60 percent earn-in on the blende project. How to count that? As an investor, I hate evaluating these kinds of complex deals. 60% of 34.8 mil oz. silver is 20.9 mil oz. that will cost an additional $5 million, plus a million shares. At $.60/share, that’s $5.6 million for 20.9 mil oz. resource. That’s $5.6 million / 20.9 mil oz. = $.27/oz. acquisition cost to Shoshone for blende, which they don’t own yet, just an option. I don’t like options, which is why I buy silver bullion, and mining companies in the first place, as they are “unexpiring call options” if they own their properties.
Total: 4 mil oz. silver, plus an option on 20.9 mil oz. silver at blende.
$8.1 mil MC (plus $6.2 mil they need to raise to maintain leases) / 4 mil oz, plus 20.9 mil oz. (24.9 mil oz.) = $.57/oz.
You get options and leases that, if they raise money at the current share price, may give “approx” 10.8 ounces in the ground for 1 oz. silver’s worth of stock.

SRLM.PK (STERLING MINING)
http://www.sterlingmining.com/
RDemotte@aol.com Ray DeMotte 208 666 4070
12.2 mil shares outstanding (May 31, 2004)
16.6 mil shares fully diluted (May 2004) –(To get the latest number, I have to call Ray DeMotte. Note the date.)
@ $6.95/share
$115 mil MC
~185 mil oz. reserves + resource, Sunshine alone
Quote from: http://www.sterlingmining.com/jun112003.html
“The prior operator last estimated the mine reserves at 26.75 million ounces of silver, 10.36 million pounds of copper and 7.05 million pounds of lead (or approximately 28.85 million ounces of silver-equivalent), as well as an additional resource of 159.66 million ounces of silver. “
Other properties:
Baroness   15 mil — tailing project, no further exploration potential, (construction finished, testing beginning)
Tesorito      17 mil — + exploration potential
San Acacio    14 mil — + exploration potential
Total: 231 mil oz. silver
$115 mil MC / 231 mil oz. = $.50/oz.
$115 mil MC / 550 mil oz. = $.21/oz. (exploration potential)
You get “approx” 12.5 ounces in the ground for 1 oz. silver’s worth of stock.
(Exploration potential is 30.)

Additional comments: Sterling Mining continues to acquire and lease good silver properties.
Timberline to Lease Montana Properties to Sterling Mining

I wrote an article on SRLM in late Dec. 2003. See: Sterling Mining (But I no longer own shares.)

Ray DeMotte really, really understands the silver story, and has been aggressively acquiring silver properties. Sterling continues to consolidate its land position around the Sunshine mine.

Sterling Mining acquired the Sunshine mine. Sunshine had “more than 360 million ounces of production over the past century” and was one of the big three: Hecla, Couer, & Sunshine. Sunshine went bankrupt. Sterling got the property a few months ago cheap, because they were quick & willing to pay cash. Other buyers wanted to do a full study before making an offer.
The best factors, I feel, are as follows:
1. The Sunshine mine is an existing mine that was mining at a profit. The company went bankrupt, not the mine. So there will be no great capital costs for start up, only minimal costs.
2. The Sunshine sits on 1/2 sq. mile, and was never fully explored. Sterling Mining owns 10 square miles of property surrounding the Sunshine, right in the heart of silver country, the location of CDE and HL, the other two big companies at the top of this list.
3. The management of Sunshine understands the silver story. They are on a mission to acquire distressed silver properties at today’s cheap prices. See also: December 14, 2003: “In light of the continued low silver price, Sterling has this year begun holding back into inventory a portion of this year’s silver coins minted.”

For more detailed information on what’s happening in the Silver Valley in Idaho, see the following link:
http://www.blanketpower.com/mining/titlepage.htm

I will be speaking in Idaho at the Silver Summit in September 23-24
http://www.silverminers.org/summit/index.html

FAN.TO FRLLF.PK (FARALLON RESOURCES)
http://www.farallonresources.com/fan/Home.asp
info@hdgold.com (604) 684-6365 Erick Bertsch
78.3 mil shares fully diluted (Aug, 2004)
@ $.73/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = $.56 US
$44 mil MC
Exploration and development in Mexico.
Managed by Hunter-Dickinson http://www.hdgold.com
On 4 sulphide deposits out of 16, 29 mil tonnes of ore grading 89 grams silver/t and 1.57 g gold/t.
Conversion: 89 grams x .03215 troy oz./gram = 2.86 oz./t silver
RE: those 29 mil tons, they “anticipate increasing resources to 50 mil tonne range…”
2.86 oz./t silver x 29 mil tons = 83 mil oz. silver
1.5 mil oz. gold x 10 = 15 mil oz “silver equiv”.
Total: 98 mil oz. silver equiv.
(Exploration potential = x 1.7 = 167)
(Minus: The recoveries on low grade ores such as this are typically not 100%, but may be more like 50-85%, but it also depends on which metal in the polymetalic deposit that they most focus on extracting, and also depends on advances in technology.)
$44 mil MC / 98 mil oz. silver equiv. = $.45/oz.
$44 mil MC / 167 mil oz. silver equiv. = $.26/oz. –exploration potential
You get “approx” 13.9 ounces in the ground for 1 oz. silver’s worth of stock.
Exploration potential = 24

Additional comments: Exciting New Drill Results Kick Start Farallon’s Drilling Program at Campo Morado
Tuesday September 7

These drill results contain much higher levels of zinc than previous drilling, 4-8% compared to 2%.

The last drilling was done in 1999… because of low zinc prices: 46% of the price of the metals was in the zinc before prices crashed… The largest componant in late 2003 was gold, which was surprising to Eric, the IR guy I spoke with. About 1/3 is in silver now.

At today’s low metals prices:
2% x 2000 lb = 40 lbs zinc x $.42/lb = $16.8 for the zinc (.37 to .50 lb zinc.)
3.14 oz. x $5.15 = $16 for the silver.
.055421 oz. x $385/oz. = $21 for the gold
(Assuming 100% metals recovery–which is not likely to be the case. It may range from 60% to a higher percentage, depending on extraction methods used and the particular mineral targeted, which constantly change with technology advancements, and price changes in the metals. By the time a mine like this gets running, perhaps in 5 years or so, things may change to allow even greater metal recovery.)

The stock once had a market cap of $450 million, Canadian.

Speaking with FAN.TO guys, they think reserves of ore could be 50 mil tonnes OR MORE, but that they really don’t know, and want to issue conservative estimates.

* IMR.V IMXPF.OB (IMA EXPLORATION) (I own shares.)
http://www.imaexploration.com/s/Home.asp
info@imaexploration.com
49,059,825 mil shares fully diluted (May 27, 2004)
@ $2.85/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = $2.19 U.S
$107 mil MC
Exploring in Argentina.
$4.5 million cash
Snowden Reports Over 200 Million Ounces of Contained Silver at IMA’s Galena Hill — May 25th
Indicated + Inferred Resource = 243 mil oz.
“This resource includes only the Galena Hill deposit and portions of the adjacent Connector zone, and does not include known and interpreted mineralization at Navidad Hill, Barite Hill, Calcite Hill, or along the Esperanza Trend.”
My comments: This resource might be perhaps 1/4 or 1/5th of the overall potential resources, based on estimating by looking at size of the land area being explored, compared to the size of the land area covered by the resource calculation. The full exploration potential might be 4 times as big.
$107 mil MC / 243 mil oz. = $.44/oz
You get “approx” 14.07 ounces in the ground for 1 oz. silver’s worth of stock.
(Exploration potential might be (times 4) or 56.

Additional comments: IMA Intersects Bonanza-Grade Silver over 35.8 Metres Grading 2,850 g/t ‘83.2 oz/ton’ Including 11,995 g/t Silver over 7.1 Metres ‘350.3 oz/ton’
“These latest results, in addition to those from hole 88 (a 470 metre step-out from Navidad Hill, see Sept. 8, 2004 news release), clearly demonstrate the potential for outlining significant additional resources at Navidad Hill and Calcite Hill. Both of these targets are northwest of the Galena Hill deposit, where after Phase I drilling the Company announced a significant deposit that contains an Indicated Resource of 207 million ounces of silver and 1.1 million tonnes lead (see May 25, 2004 release).”
Wednesday September 15

Now, that was the kind of drill result that the entire silver junior exploration industry has been waiting for! This is the most silver in a drill hole that I’ve ever seen. (My knowledge is limited to about the past 1 year of producing this report, and about the past 5 years of historic/current company results).

The stock traded 10 times the normal volume on Wednesday of the release, and was up 15%. I bought in during the mad rush myself Wednesday morning, and tried to pick up a bit more just now on Friday afternoon.
volume of a sphere=4/3¶r^{3

Diameter = 35.8 meters. radius = 17.9 meters. 17.9 cubed = 5735 x pi x 4/3 = 24023 cubic meters. A cubic meter is a “tonne”? (Note a tonne of water weighs exactly 1000kg and has a volume of 1 cubic meter by definition), 24,000 tonnes x 89 oz/tonne = 2.1 million ounces (estimated average)… in the sphere around that one drill hole!

The only drill result that I know of that may be close is the Eskay Creek silver/gold property, owned by Barrick, onced owned by Homestake. An explorer near the Eskay Creek mine is Kenrich-Eskay See Kenrich-Eskay below or CLICK HERE}
IMA Exploration Inc.: Drill Hole #88 Yields a Blind Silver Discovery 470 Metres Northwest of Navidad Hill
“The hole intersected 72.3m averaging 202 g/t silver and 3.45% lead from 70.3 to 142.6m depth…”
“None of the 15 new holes reported on in this release are within the Galena Hill deposit where an Indicated Resource of 207 million ounces of silver (63.6 million tonnes grading 101 g/t silver and 1.76% lead) has been identified”
Wednesday September 8

IMA’s Drilling at Navidad Intersects 115 Meters Grading 454 g/t ’13 oz/t’ Silver at Galena Hill

I don’t think the lawsuit challenging IMR’s claims has any merit.
IMA Exploration Inc.: Statement of Defence Filed Wed, Apr 7

IMA has several joint venture partners in the area in Argentina near Navidad. See Tinka, Cloudbreak, Consolidated Pacific Bay. Other companies are in the near area such as Pategonia Gold, Pacific Rim, and Silver Standard. And, of course Aqualine who, based on their lawsuit, seems as if they think they own the entire area for 50 miles around all their mining claims. That’s a total of 7 other companies in the area. And of course, Cardero also has significant exploration properties in Argentina.

IMA had many other silver properties that they just spun off into a new company, Golden Arrow. For every 10 shares of IMA existing shareholders got 1 share of Golden Arrow. (See below)

(I own shares of IMR.V)

CHD.V CHDSF.PK (CHARIOT RESOURCES)
http://www.chariotresources.com/
ullir@chariotresources.com
45 mil shares fully diluted October 2003
@ $.35/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = $.27 US
$12 mil MC
Cello Ccasa (1 project of 4) Resource Estimate – August 2002
31.4 mil oz. silver, 134,000 oz. gold. (x 10 = 1.3) 32.7 mil oz.
(Stilll much exploration work to do.)
$12 mil MC / 32.7 mil oz. = $.37/oz.
You get “approx” 16.8 ounces in the ground for 1 oz. silver’s worth of stock.

RDV.TO RDFVF.PK (REDCORP VENTURE)
http://www.redcorp-ventures.com/
http://www.redfern.bc.ca/index.html
info@redcorp-ventures.com
52.7 mil shares fully diluted (March 2004)
@ $.30/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = $.23
$12 mil MC
http://www.redfern.bc.ca/projects/tulsequah/exploration_resources.html#results
9 mil tonnes indicated and inferred at 107.5 g/t x .03215
= 31 mil ounces silver (3.4 oz/ton low grade silver, with other minerals)
(also have significant gold ($30/ton at $400/oz.) and zinc $60/ton at $.46/lb.)
728,000 oz of Gold x 10 = 7.3 mil “silver equiv”
= 38.3 mil oz. silver equiv.
$12 mil MC / 38.3 mil oz = $.32/oz.
You get “approx” 19.6 ounces in the ground for 1 oz. silver’s worth of stock.

Additional comments: Redcorp Ventures Ltd.: Tulsequah Drilling Continues to Deliver Impressive Results–July 16th

RDV has a “gold bonus”. At $409/ gold, and $6.50/oz. silver, it’s about $300 million worth of gold, and $200 million worth of silver, or about 60% of the value is in the gold. Since my method really undercounts the gold, this means there is a significant “gold bonus” here.

GGC.V GGCRF.PK (GENCO RESOURCES)
http://www.gencoresources.com/
info@gencoresources.com IR: Rob Blankstein: 604-682-2205, or
20+ mil shares fully diluted (April, 2004)
@ $.71/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = $.55
$11 mil MC
–Producer in Mexico.
http://www.gencoresources.com/reserves.html
Inferred resources: 484g/t silver x .03215 = (15.5 oz/t) x 2.3 mil t = 35.8 mil oz. silver
2.00g/t gold x .03215 = 148,000 oz. gold x 10 = 1.5 mil oz. “silver equiv”
385 x .03215 = … x 95k = 1.2 mil oz silver
40+ mil oz. silver equiv. resources
2002 production, 500,000 oz. silver, 9000 oz. gold
$11 mil MC / 40 mil oz. silver = $.27/oz.
You get “approx” 22.8 ounces in the ground for 1 oz. silver’s worth of stock.

Additional Comments: As of April, 2004, Genco is producing 35,000 oz/month of silver, earning $100,000 Cdn/month, and expects to earn $1,000,000 Cdn/month by year’s end by doubling both the tonnage and the grade. Genco is also aggressivly planning on making property acquisitions.

HDA.V (HUSIF.PK) (HULDRA SILVER)
no web site
Phone: Magnus 1 (604) 261-6040
6.924 mil shares fully diluted (end ’03?)
@ $.45/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = US $.35
$2.4 mil MC
no debt
HDA’s proven and probable reserves stand at 161,000 tons of
ore grading an average 25.6 ounces per ton silver, and 10 percent combined
lead/zinc — 4.12 mil oz silver, not including the zinc & lead.
According to Magnus, the indicated and inferred reserves total about 180,000
tons at about the same grading — in other words, a further 4 million ounces of
silver.
~8 mil oz. silver
$2.4 mil MC / 8 mil oz. silver = $.30/oz.
You get “approx” 20.8 ounces in the ground for 1 oz. silver’s worth of stock.

Additional comments: There is a significant lead/zinc bonus. “The property could be put into production at a capital cost of Cdn $3.5 million — with payback of capital (when equity financed) within two years.”

* MGN (MINES MGMT) (I own shares)
http://www.minesmanagement.com/
info@minesmanagement.com (509) 838 6050 Doug Dobbs
12.4 mil shares fully diluted (April 2004)
@ $5.90/share
$73 mil MC
261 mil oz. silver resources. Previous drilling spent over $100 million drilling the property.
$73 mil MC / 261 mil = $.28/oz.
You get “approx” 22.2 ounces in the ground for 1 oz. silver’s worth of stock.

Additional comments: Mines Management Quarterly Update and Progress Report on the Montanore Silver-Copper Project
Friday September 17

The revised plan for developing the Montanore Mine envisions an operation processing 12,500 tons of ore per day, yielding approximately 8 million ounces of silver and 60 million pounds of copper per year at a cash cost of under $2.90 per ounce. (At a capital cost of approximately $236 million.)

“The cash operating costs of the project remain attractive at approximately $12.14 per ton, taking into account inflation offset by increases in productivity from improved mining methodology and technology.”

As copper moves up 5 cents/lb., it adds $100 million to the value of the deposit.
As silver moves up $.50/oz., it adds $130 million to the value of the deposit.

Mines Management owned 10% of the rights to their property in Montana. The other 90% owner, Noranda, simply gave up on the property and walked away from their mining claim due to “perpetually” low silver prices and political concerns. That explains the rocketing share price. So, the MNMM group got 90% of the rest of the property FOR FREE!–the value of which, and the nature of this transaction has just barely begun to be understood by the market, given the low relative price.

Their property also has about 59% of the value (at current prices) in copper (copper recently at $1.24/lb.), 2 Billion pounds of copper, and 261 mil oz. of silver. Doing the math:
261 mil oz. silver x $6.70/oz. = $1.748 Billion.
2 Billion lbs copper x $1.24/lb.. = $2.5 Billion.
Total value of mineralization before costs to extract, $4.0 billion. It was recently a high of: $4.8 Billion. This number increased from around $3 Billion just a few months ago! These numbers do not suggest a potential market cap value of the company. The costs to extract that mineralization will be substantial, along the way. However, if they are cost effective at today’s prices, and if metals prices double, then that is substantial profit, and creates the leverage investors seek.

They do not have an active working mine–which is a minus. They will need to raise capital to get a mine going: $236 million current estimate.

Regarding environmental concerns: Noranda had a fully approved Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) that led to successful project permitting, so environmental concerns were not a factor in Noranda’s departure of the project in 2002.

For more on MGN (formerly MNMM) see
http://www.thebullandbear.com/bb-reporter/bbfr-archive/minesmgmt.html

Mines Management has a new Message Board at Yahoo! Finance:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/mb?s=MGN

I own shares of MGN.

* SVL.V STVZF.PK (SILVERCREST MINES) (I own shares)
http://www.silvercrestmines.com/
info@silvercrestmines.com (604) 691-1730
25.9 mil shares fully diluted March, 2004
@ $.72/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = $.55 US
$14.3 mil MC
$3 mil cash in the till.
Honduras – Arena Blanca: high grade exploration project, 7,600 g/t silver, no samples, adit inaccessable.
Honduras – Opoteca Deposit: Indicated and Inferred silver: 12.8 mil oz. silver
Honduras – La Pochota: a vein, 1-4 meters in width, of between 300 to 500 g/t silver, needs drilling
Honduras – El OCote Deposit: Indicated and Inferred silver: 19.8 mil oz. silver
Ultimate exploration potential may be another 40 to 100 mil oz? See the Rosita Extension, grades 100 to 200g/t silver, news release dated Sept., 2003, “SilverCrest Makes Significant Discovery at El Ocote Silver Project” (in Honduras)
El Salvador – El Zapote Project: Indicated and Inferred silver: 14.3 mil oz. silver
Guatemala – Concepcion Concession (pending): includes several past producing silver mines. documented results of greater than 13,714 g/t silver — a historical resource of 1.9 million tonnes grading 86 g/t (2.5 opt) silver (4.75 mil oz., non- 43-101 compliant)
Mexico – Silver Angel Project– a 100% interest in 10,300 hectares located in the northern Sierra Madre Range… with structural features that host seven past producing, high grade silver-gold mines. –currently exploring this project.
Totals: 12.8 + 19.8 + 14.3 + 4.75 = 51.65 mil oz.
+85 million pounds of zinc, indicated and inferred.
$14.3 mil MC / 52 mil oz. silver = $.28/oz.
You get “approx” 22.6 ounces in the ground for 1 oz. silver’s worth of stock.

Additional comments: SilverCrest Updates Corporate Milestones
Wednesday, September 8
Excerpt:
During the course of the next several months the Company will be reporting:

results of the 30 hole drill program nearing completion at the El Zapote Project in El Salvador,
revised resource estimates for the Cerro Colorado III and adjacent San Casimiro deposits at El Zapote,
El Zapote Feasibility Study update,
initial drill results for the three hole drilling program at the Tajado Prospect located at El Zapote,
results of the Phase 1 exploration program on the Silver Angel Prospect in Sonora, Mexico,
results of the initial 9 holes currently being drilled at the Silver Angel, and
progress on the potential acquisition of additional silver properties.

The two projects of current focus are in Mexico and El Salvador, (nothing in Honduras at the moment). The El Salvador project is moving “full speed ahead” with a feasibility study expected by November. Depending on the study, hoping for produciton perhaps by Jan or July, 2006.

Article on Silvercrest by Peter Zihlmann: His recommendation, “average down”.–which means to buy at these new low prices, which are not expected to last.

Regarding the properties in Honduras: The company believes that the El Ocote silver deposit can be developed to the advantage and benefit of the people of Honduras without any serious detriment to the environment. It continues to be prepared to work toward a social contract that will address the needs of all the stakeholders but must be confident that the government of Honduras is prepared to respect the rule of law and support foreign investment in the development of the natural resources of Honduras before committing substantial amounts of its shareholders capital to that end.

I own shares of SVL.V

* ABI.V ABMBF.PK (Abcourt Mines) (I own shares)
http://www.abcourt.com/
jftremblay@abcourt.com Jeff Tremblay (IR) (418) 575-1169 cell phone
28.3 mil shares fully diluted (June 21, 2004)
@ $.205 share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = $.16
$4.5 mil MC
no debt., North of Montreal., ~11 mil shares family owned.
proven reserves… not ready to be opened, re-opened perhaps in mid 2005?
–Abcourt-Barvue: Past producer, existing infrastructure: Put into production a second time, 1985-1990 for $20 million.
–Historic Resource for: 18.1M oz silver, 120,000 oz.. gold, 303,000 tons zinc, 2,308 tons copper.
–Estimated cost to reopen the silver mine was (with the old plan) $35 mil Cdn: Estimated: 27.55% IRR, 98% return on equity, payback period of 2 years.
-The current plan is to do an 80,000 ton bulk sample at an approximate cost of $5 mil Cdn, hopefully by early 2005.
$273 million worth of zinc at .45/lb, $108 million worth of silver at $6/oz, $45.6 mil worth of gold at $380
$4.5 mil MC / 19 mil oz. = $.24/oz.
You get “approx” 26.5 ounces in the ground for 1 oz. silver’s worth of stock.

Additional comments: Jeff Tremblay and Renaud Hinse took a trip to Vancouver and San Franciso, and came out to Grass Valley, California my hometown, to meet with me late August. They have been in business as early as 1977. The mine last operated from 1985 to 1990. In 1980, the stock price hit a high of $4.95/share. In 1985, they raised and spent $20 million Cdn. to start production, and in 1990 production was put on hold due to low silver and zinc prices.

Imagine trying to run a business for 14 years with no revenue! Yet, during that time, they have managed to keep the company debt free, and dilution to a minimum! Yearly costs to keep the claims and equipment of this family-run mine are $100,000, so that has been their secret of survival.

–looking to raise $5 mil to reopen the gold mine.
looking to raise $5 mil to reopen the silver/zinc mine.

(I own shares of ABI.V)

* EXR.V EXPTF.PK (EXPATRIATE RECS) (I own shares)
http://www.expatriateresources.com/
info@expatriateresources.com 1-877-682-5474 Dr. Harlan D. Meade, President and CEO
122.9 mil shares fully diluted (July 23, 2004) (listed on the front page of the web site!)
@ $.28/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = $.22
$26 mil MC
$1.2 mil CAN capital in the tilll no debt.
Mostly a base metals company: Zinc. Also has some silver & gold.
6 properties. Most of the value is concentrated in the 100% owned Wolverine Project.
Total mineralization across 6 properties: 97.2 mil oz. silver, 565,000 oz. gold, = 103 mil oz. “silver equiv.”
About 3.8 billion pounds zinc, also some copper and lead.
$26 mil MC / 103 mil oz. silver = $.26
You get “approx” 24 ounces in the ground for 1 oz. silver’s worth of stock.

Additional comments: On Sept 8th, I wrote an article on Expatriate. http://www.goldismoney.com/ssr/expatriate.html
http://www.gold-eagle.com/editorials_04/hommel090904.html

On Sept. 8th, Expatriate announced drill results: Expatriate Discovers New Massive Sulphide Showing in Finlayson District, Yukon. 13.4% zinc and 40g/t silver.

On Sept. 7th, Expatriate announced their intentions to complete an $8 million Cdn financing.

Significant zinc bonus, about 3 times the silver value. Smelter credits are estimated at about 60% zinc, 25% silver, 10% gold and copper, and the rest, other minerals, but that assumes old low prices for silver, about $5-6?/oz. My method of valuation puts a value on the silver only, not the rest, so this is a significantly better value than my number shows.

Call Dr. Harlan D. Meade, President and CEO 1-877-682-5474, and ask him to send you an information packet on EXR.V. It contains a good report on why he is bullish on both silver and zinc.

(I own shares of EXR.V)

* ASM.V ASGMF.PK (AVINO SILV GOLD) (I own shares.)
http://www.avino.com/
shares@avino.com 604 682-3701 — David Wolfin
10.5 mil shares outstanding. / 12.5 mil shares fully diluted (June 2004)
16.5 mil shares fully diluted (including, and after the purchase of remaining 51% of the Avino mine)
@ $1.30/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = $1.00 US
$17 mil MC
from: http://www.avino.com/other/goldstock100197.html –in 1997
“How Much Silver Does Avino Have?”
“Operations at Avino’s silver mine in Mexico are both open-pit and underground. I examined the reserves and interpolated the tonnage into silver ounces as follows: 28-million ounces proven; 50-million ounces probable and 27 million ounces possible.” (Not all are 43101 compliant reserves & resources.–that is an old, third party report.)
The Avino Mine operated from 1986 to 2001, producing about 497 tons of silver, 3 tons of gold, and 11,000 tons of copper. That’s about 1.6 million ounces of silver, or about a million ounces of silver per year.
Avino produced 166 ounces of silver for every one ounce of gold. At a 60:1 value ration, that means that the value of silver to gold is 2.76 times as much value (today and historical) is in silver than gold.
They actually have over five silver properties/projects. I only have numbers for one, the primary Avino mine
= 28 + 50 + 27 = 105
Avino owned 49% of that, or 51.5 mil oz., prior to the purchase agreement for the remainder for an additional 4 million shares.
$17 mil MC / 105 mil oz. = $.157/oz.
You get “approx” 39.6 ounces in the ground for 1 oz. silver’s worth of stock.

(I own shares of ASM.V)

* CSG.TO CSGLF.PK (Capstone Gold) (I own shares)
http://www.capstonegold.com
Chris Tomanik IR (604)-684-8894 ctomanik@capstonegold.com
37 mil fully diluted (March 2004)–from the web site (our company/corporate info)
(and 37 mil fully diluted from the July 30th / May 31 financial report)
42.7 mil shares fully diluted (August 2004)
@ $.60/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = $.46
$20 mil MC
$~6 mil Cdn, cash on hand.
They did a $9.1 million PP at $.75/share Cdn. in Jan 2004.
6 mil warrants at $1.00-$1.25 Cdn.
Projects all in Mexico, past producers.
http://www.capstonegold.com/images/capstone_proj_sum.jpg
Cozamin is the largest property (gold/copper), for which drill results will soon be announced.
Six properties (Still need about $12 mil to fully acquire 90-100% over next 5 years, minus 3% NSR
“net smelter royalty”)
Cozamin: indicated: 2.8 mil T x 85g/t Ag (7.4 mil oz. silver), .5g/t Au (44,000 oz. gold)
+ inferred: 3.1 mil T x 103 g/t silver (10 mil oz. silver), .5g/t Au (48,000 oz. gold)
High Grades range from about 200-300g/t silver. (6.5 – 9.5 oz. tonne) –across 5 properties
Totals: (excluding Cozimin): 115 mil oz. silver, 2.3 mil oz. gold. (138 mil oz. silver equiv)
Grand total: (including Cozimin): 156 mil silver equiv. ounces
Exploration Potential: up to 500 mil oz. silver at Claudia (580 mil total?)
$20 mil MC (+ $6 or more mil to finance, to fully acquire) / 156 mil oz. = $.16/oz.
$20 mil MC (+ $6 or more mil to finance, to fully acquire) / 580 mil oz. = $.037/oz.
You get options and leases that, if they raise money at the current share price, may give “approx” 37.7 ounces in the ground for 1 oz. silver’s worth of stock.
Exploration Potential: 139

Additional comments: Research Report: Capstone Gold Corporation – written by Mike Kachanovsky August 30, 2004.

On Sept. 8th, Capstone announced drill results for Cozamin:
Phase I Drill Results: Capstone Increases Grade and Tonnage to Depth at its Cozamin Copper-Silver-Zinc Deposit, Zacatecas, Mexico

Excerpt: “These results will allow Capstone to undertake a revised resource calculation as part of an underground development program planned for the first quarter of 2005.”

My comments: The grades at Cozamin for copper and silver were slightly better than previous, and the zinc grades were slightly worse, and there was no mention of any gold in the drilling samples.

The reason why I hyped Capstone for my paid subscribers is that it appeared to me that I could get about all I wanted at about $.50 Cdn, which I felt was a gift, which allowed me to put about 2% of my portfolio into it. I went on to buy more up to $.63 Cdn. So, today, you can get it at the price I started buying. And today, the company does compare almost twice as cheap as all the other stocks that give you about 20 ounces in the ground for an ounce of silver’s worth of stock.

(I own shares of CSG.TO)

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In case you didn’t notice, the list of companies, above, that have significant measurable resources, is in reverse. The worst companies, that are the most expensive with the least resources, are listed first, and the better companies, with more resources at least cost, are listed last, just above here. The list is done this way on purpose for several reasons, as follows. First, the best companies are in the middle of the report (burried). Second, it allows the reader to see the many other options available before seeing these ones. Third, this means that this list is less likely to have a “pump and dump” type effect. So, you have to “scroll up” to see the list from this point.

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Explorers:

Explorers deserve their own category, since they cannot be valued by the method of looking at reserves and resources of ounces of silver in the ground. We do not know how many oz. they might have. They are exploring for that. A few explorers may also be producers, and they are both listed here, if they do not have significantly large well-defined resources.

This list, although at the bottom, in no way indicates that these companies are more highly valued, or less valued, than companies listed above. There may be less certainty in the companies listed below, and more certainty in the companies above.

It is also difficult to categorize a company as an explorer, since all silver companies always hold more silver properties that need to be explored. IE, everyone is an explorer!

The list above is not a list of producers, the list above is a list of companies with significantly measurable resources in the ground. Those below, generally do not. Or, if they do have resource numbers, the numbers are very small compared to their much larger exploration potential, and thus, they are listed here.

(The order in this list is by largest market cap first, not by “comparative value” of the market cap divided by the resources, as above.)

HL (HECLA MINING CO)
http://hecla-mining.com/
hmc-info@hecla-mining.com (208) 769-4100
118 mil shares outstanding (August, 2004)
@ $6.26/share
$739 million Market Cap (MC)
near zero debt, cash: $123 mil (Feb., 2004)
(est. 2004 production 9 mil oz. silver and 215,000 oz. gold )
La Camorra gold mine, 547,885 oz gold.) (x 10 = 5.5 mil oz silver equiv.
San Sebastian silver mine, (proven & probable reserves) 3.8 mil (down from 8)
Greens Creek silver mine (proven & probable reserves) 31 mil (HL owns 30% of this, but the 31 mil oz. number reflects that percentage ownership.)
the Lucky Friday mine (proven & probable reserves) 10 mil. (down from 14)
5.5 + 3.8 + 31 + 10 = 48.9
Total silver equiv. reserves = 48.9 mil oz.
$739 mil MC / 48.9 mil oz. = $15.1/oz.

Additional comments: Given that CDE made a share offer in week #36 for Wheaton River, I expect that Hecla will try a similar tactic very soon, and offer shares to acquire another silver company.

Hecla is the most expensive company on the list in terms of cost per oz. of silver in the ground. But HL has more oz. than listed in the “proven & probable” category used in this calculation. Vein mining makes reserve calculations difficult, and HL has rarely had more than about a 3-4 year picture of reserves ahead of them in 100 years of production.

Hecla has a net income of $6.2 million for the first quarter of 2004, which silver prices were high, and $8.9 million net income for the first half of 2004. Annualized, that’s $24.8 million to 18 million. The higher number gives a P/E ratio of $739 mil MC / $24.8 mil = 29.7, which indicates to me that HL is way too expensive of a stock to buy. Other silver properties and companies in the silver world have P/E ratios of as low as 3.

At the NY Gold show in June, I spoke with Vicki Veltkamp, Hecla’s vice president of investor and public affairs, and I listened to her 15 minute presentation on Hecla at the show. I felt that her presentation honored my work, since she focused on the fact that Hecla does not have substantial reportable reserves, due to the nature of vein mining. She also emphasized that they already had detailed plans for spending all of their available cash, of $123 million, which implied that they had nothing left over to buy silver bullion. Point: HL is not going to buy silver bullion with their cash anytime soon.

One of Vicki’s arguments was that HL only produces 9 million ounces of silver, and that in a market that produces 500 million ounces of silver a year, that withholding production would not significantly move up the price. I think she’s looking at the wrong numbers. HL’s market cap has recently ranged from $600 million to up to $1,000 million. The remaining silver at the COMEX, available for delivery in the registered category is only about 50 million ounces, not the 500 million ounes annually produced. The available silver is valued, at $6/oz., at $300 million. HL could issue 1/4 to 1/3 more stock than they already have outstanding, and use the proceeds to buy perhaps $300 million worth of silver bullion, and likely break the price to sky high levels, which would boost profits enormously.

If HL mines 9 million ounces of silver a year, at a cost of about $5-6/oz. (because their profits are slim), then if the silver price rises to about $33/oz, and other costs remain the same, HL could be making $250 million dollars per year. It seems the largest silver companies have absolutely no vision about how they can affect the markets, and take a leadership role in the world of silver.

I urged Vicki that HL should use their stock or cash, if not for buying silver bullion, then to acquire other silver companies, since I believe their stock is overvalued. Vicki said HL does look at many acquisition opportunites, and would be interested in looking at others.

I expect silver bullion to continue to outperform HL stock at these prices.

MGR.V MGRSF.PK (MEXGOLD RSCS)
http://www.mexgold.com/
52.5 mil shares fully diluted (spring 2004)
@ $2.46/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = $1.89 US
$99 mil MC
inferred resource: 45 mil oz. silver + 1 mil oz gold.
1 mil oz. gold = + 10 mil oz. silver equiv
“The estimate does not address significant additional mineralized structures known to be present on the property, or the potential for large strike extensions of known high-grade zones.”
February Financing was for the El Cubo Gold-Silver Mine is located in the Guanajuato gold-silver district in the Republic of Mexico. Historical reports cite district production at 1.2 billion ounces of silver and over 4 million ounces of gold. With capital spending and upgrades, and expect to produce up to 100,000 oz. gold equiv/year at $190/oz. At $400/oz, that may mean $210/oz. net profit, or $21 million positive cash flow/year, and yet, the purchase price was $21.5 million. Seems like they bought a mine, at a price, with a profit potential, of a P/E ratio of 1.
Target to expand the El Cubo project resource to over 2 million ounces of gold equivalent. Given that historic production was 300 oz. of silver for each 1 oz. of gold, I think it’s odd that they speak in terms of “gold equivalent”. Why not emphasize the silver??? Converting their target of gold back to silver, at their ratio of 65:1, gives 130 mil oz. “silver equivalent”.
55 + 130 = 185 “exploration potential”
$99 mil MC / 185 mil oz. = $.54/oz. That’s an “exploration potential target”

Additional comments:
Gammon Lake is a large shareholder, 26.3%.

Mexgold announced bonanza grade discovery on Jan 13th, 11 kilos per ton silver, over 2 meters.
Part of a section of “25.5-metres grading 1.16 grams per tonne gold and 961 grams per tonne silver.”

CDU.V CUEAF.PK (CARDERO RSCS)
http://www.cardero.com/
hvanalphen@cardero.com Henk Van Alphen — President (604) 408-7488
40.1 mil shares fully diluted (July 1 2004)
@ $3.16/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = $2.43 US
$98 mil MC
($17 million Cdn cash in the treasury)

Additional comments: Cardero has three silver properties in Argentina; two main silver exploration properties: Chingolo and Providencia.

Aug 17, 2004 Cardero Announces Results From Providencia
“Cardero is encouraged by these results although ongoing sample recovery problems remain a concern…”Providencia — high grades of silver, former silver mine, could have 100-250 mil oz. ??

Chingolo — Henk says, “may have 400-600 mil oz. “exploration potential” in 200-300 mil tons of rock.” They got 30-40 grams (1.23 oz.) on the first drill hole, but hope to find 2-3 ounces silver/ton.

June, 2004: Company quote: “The Company is actively evaluating silver, gold, copper and iron-ore projects which will ensure the recognition of Cardero as a world-class exploration and development company.”

Cardero Provides Update on Iron Oxide Copper-Gold Projects in Peru–Whether it is cost effective to extract potentially $100 billion worth of iron minerals remains to be seen, and is the job of an explorer like Cardero.

AOT.V ASOLF.PK (ASCOT RSCS)
http://www.bmts.bc.ca/aot/
1 604 684 8950
39.7 mil shares fully diluted. (Nov 2003)
@ $.285/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = $.22 US
$9.1 mil MC (US)
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Additional comments: They own 5.82 million shares and 388,000 warrants of Cardero at $.35, which usually is a greater asset value than their market cap. Ascot’s share price is typically around 80% of the value of their Cardero Stock, and less liquid.)

Owns about $14 mil worth of Cardero Stock at closing prices on Sept. 10th!

(I’m listing this one out of order, not by market cap, and next to Cardero, because of their position in Cardero.)

It may be better to buy Ascot than Cardero, depending on prices. Check the math, and call Ascot to verify Cardero stock holdings, and number of shares.

* OTMN.PK (O.T. MINING) (I own shares)
http://www.otmining.com/
info@otmining.com Jim Hess Tel: 514-935-2445
12.8 mil shares fully diluted (May 15, 2004)
@ $4.00/share
$51 mil MC
Montana
Historic silver production for the Butte district, from 1880 to 2000 was 714,643,005 oz. silver.
They think their deposit may be bigger than “the richest hill on earth”, which is located near their property, in the Butte district.
The exploration potential for this company is astounding, if they are right.

Drilling has begun!

“The Ruby property encompasses the past-producing high-grade Ruby gold-silver deposit which produced an average of 2.44 ounces per ton gold and 38.66 ounces silver per ton. A 193 ton bulk sample of a high-grade base metal mineralized zone associated with the Ruby deposit returned 7.6% lead, 5.19% zinc and 1.31% copper per ton.”

“…This deposit is situated adjacent to the Ruby property and according to old reports contained 0.88-34.28 ounces per ton gold, 35-527 ounces per ton silver, 1.96-11.84% lead, and up to 5% copper. “

It’s ‘Our Turn’ For Silver
by Greg Kyle June 16, 2004

Here is a comparatively busy message board for O.T. Mining:
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=OTCF:OTMN

A nearly abandoned message board for O.T. Mining:
http://www.siliconinvestor.com/stocktalk/subject.gsp?subjectid=21081

I own shares of OTMN.PK

SPM.V SMNPF.PK (SCORPIO MINING)
http://www.scorpiomining.com
http://www.scorpiomining.com/s/SendMessage.asp
53.6 mil shares fully diluted Aug 9th, 2004
@ $1.31/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = $1.00 US
$54 mil MC
Scorpio’s recent March 2004, $16 million financing was at $2.25 Cdn/share!
— The Nuestra Senora Project: (the Candelaria deposit): Total Measured & Indicated: 131,058 tonnes @ 520.94 g/t Ag = 2.1 mil oz. of high grade silver, 16 oz./ton. Inferred: 49,468 tonnes @ 658.98 g/t Ag (21 oz./ton) = 1 mil oz. silver
–the Cochrane Hill Gold Deposit: The total Indicated Resource ~ 112,460 contained ounces of gold.
Total: 4 mil oz. silver equiv.

* FCO.TO FCACF.PK (FORMATION CAPTL) (I own shares)
http://www.formcap.com/s/Home.asp
inform@formcap.com 604-682-6229
165 mil shares fully diluted, March 2004
@ $.375/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = $.30
$48 mil MC
(Completed $10 million financing in late 2003, early 2004)
Very large cobalt property: 1-3 million tons of 0.60% cobalt equivalent
Cobalt prices are racing ahead, up to $25- $33/lb. see http://www.wmc-cobalt.com/prices.asp
2000 lbs/ton x 0.6% = 12 lbs/ton x $29.50 /lb. = $354/ton (rich ore)
cobalt is $29.50/lb. recently, up from $9/lb.
Formation Capital owns the Sunshine Silver Refinery (near Sterling Mining), worth $50 million.
Break even cost $5-6/lb cobalt.
The Idaho Cobalt Project is projected to produce 1,500 tonnes of cobalt per annum.
= 3,000,000 lbs. production x about $ 20/lb profit? = about $60 mil profit/year???
FCO.TO also owns a few minor silver projects.
The cobalt project needs more drilling, and with recent financing, things look bright.
The refinery has started up, on time and under budget sunshinerefinery.com

I own shares of FCO.TO

TVI.TO TVIPF.PK (TVI PACIFIC)
http://www.tvipacific.com
tvi-info@tvipacific.com
Dianne (IR) Phone: (403) 265-4356
400.5 mil shares fully diluted (June 14 2004)
@ $.125/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = $.10 US
$39 mil MC
“The company has a policy of not hedging or entering into forward sales contracts.”
Cash flow positive. + 2.5 % royalty on “Rapu Rapu” that should be worth about $1 million per year starting within 9-12 months. (a cash source for an explorer is a big plus)
14 projects in the Philippines.
Producing a dore bar of 96% silver and 4% gold from Canatuan project with the following:
Total silver = 7.1 mil oz silver
Total gold = 182,000 oz. gold x 10 (@10:1) = 1.8 mil oz silver equiv.
Total silver equiv (Canatuan) = 8.9 mil oz.
+ they own a drilling company with 20 rigs.
+ they have a “foot in the door” in China.
+ many other promising exploration properties in the Asian Pacific.

Additional comments: TVI Pacific Inc. Announces Closing of $2,288,788 CAD Private Placement Financings Monday June 14

TVI exploded in price from 16 cents to 23.5 cents when they announced that they would be mining in China: “TVI Pacific Inc. Receives Landmark Approval for Wholly Foreign-Owned Enterprise (WFOE) Status From Chinese Government”. see http://tinyurl.com/vwbw

They are primarily a silver explorer. The bonus is they are a producer, and are cash flow positive, which are both extremely rare for an explorer. In fact, the other producers mostly all lose money!

* NPG.V NVPGF.PK (NEVADA PAC GOLD) (I own shares)
http://www.nevadapacificgold.com/
dhottman@nevadapacificgold.com (604) 646-0188 David Hottman
59 mil shares fully diluted (Aug 18th, 2004)
+ 1.3 mil Placer dome placement
60.3 mil shares
@ $.99/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = $.76 US
$46 mil MC
$2.8 million cash (April 2004)
Amador Canyon Silver Project: 50-250 mil tonnes
silver grades average 4 oz. sil/ ton in the deposit
= 200 to 1000 mil oz. silver????? –very speculative at this point. Drilling needs to be done.
$46 mil MC / 200 mil oz. = $.23/oz.
$46 mil MC / 1000 mil oz. = $.05/oz.

Additional comments: On June 22, I wrote an article about Nevada Pacific Gold.

Nevada Pacific Gold Closes Private Placement With Placer Dome – Sept 9th
Nevada Pacific Gold Announces Multi-Level Business Arrangement With Placer Dome U.S. Inc.
Wednesday September 8

I called David Hottman regarding these developments. David Hottman of NPG.V feels this agreement with Placer Dome is “tremendous” or hugely exciting.
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The 200 to 1000 mil oz. of silver exploration potential estimate for the Amador Canyon project is based on the size of the area, which may provide between 50 and 250 million tonnes of ore, times a low grade of 4-6 ounce per ton. 50 mil tonnes x 4 oz/tonne = 200 mil oz., the low end of the target range. 250 million tonnes x 4 oz/tonne = 1000 mil oz., the high end of the range. That target range is the expectation that the geologists are hoping the drilling will prove up. It will likely take several rounds of drilling and analysis of drill results to get a proper resource calculation, and plenty of time.

NPG.V has 10 gold projects, and one silver-but it may be big. The Chairman, David Hottman, says that 90% of the value of the company is in gold, NOT silver, and yet, I’m buying this company for the silver project of Amador Canyon only, and as if the gold componant was worth nothing. (The gold projects are a free bonus, in my book, and help to alleviate the risk of this explorer.)

Explorer in Nevada. They do not really know how much silver they might they have in the Amador Canyon project. They just did a $2.5 million private placement, and another $10 million private placement in late November. On the web site, for David Hottman’s bio, it says he was a founding member of Eldorado gold. “During his tenure, Eldorado’s market capitalization grew from Cdn $7 million in 1992 to a peak of Cdn $781 million in 1996.” Please note, exploration is risky, and costly.

Now that they are well-capitalized with over $10 million dollars, this company will likely do very well as they drill and prove up the deposits across all their properties.

I own shares of NPG.V

* MMGG.OB (METALLINE MINE) (I own shares)
http://www.metalin.com/site_map.html
metalin@attglobal.net Merlin Bingham 208-665-2002
21.6 mil shares fully diluted (April, 2004) (only 2 mil options and warrants)
@ $2.00/share US
$43 mil MC
$5 million cash on hand, July 31, 2004

Additional Comments:
Metalline Mining Company Sierra Mojada Project Update
Monday September 13
Excerpt:
“The first drill was mobilized in January 2004 with additional drills added April through July to the present 4 drill program. To date, 160 holes have been drilled with a total of 15,602 meters drilled.

Reserva International of Reno, Nevada has completed a block model evaluation, using GEMCOM mine modeling software, of the oxide zinc mantos diamond drill, channel sample and percussion drill data. The block model result for the Iron Oxide (Red Zinc) manto is 22.6 million metric tons grading 8.11% using a cut off grade of 5%. “

1 metric tonne = 2 204.62262 pounds
8.11% x 2204 pounds/tonne = 178.7 pounds/tonne
178.7 pounds/tonne x 22.6 million metric tonnes = 4039.6 million pounds of zinc.

@ $ .44/lb, that’s $1.8 billion dollars worth of zinc, and who knows how much silver.

This press release is very understated, using no superaltives. They found exactly what they were looking for, 4 billion pounds of zinc, and they are drilling for more, which I find very exciting. Their latest quarterly also includes a statement of the historical production, right below:

Zinc & Silver in Mexico: Sierra Mojada. Sierra Mojada is a Silver District!
“The Sierra Mojada Property has produced in excess of 10 million tons of high-grade ore that graded in excess of 30% lead, 20% zinc, 1% copper and 1 kg (31 ounces) silver per ton that was shipped directly to the smelter. The district has never had a mill to concentrate ore. All of the mining was done selectively for ore of sufficient grade to direct ship; mill grade ore was left unmined.”
(That’s 310 million ounces of silver. Who knows how much silver is left?) That’s the question with an explorer.

Potentially the lowest production cost in the entire zinc industry due to new “oxide deposit” chemical extraction process as revolutionary as “heap leaching”.

For more, see the research works article here:
http://www.stocksontheweb.com/mmgg.htm

(Merlin of MMGG.OB, and Harlan of EXR.V (friends, actually) both have reports that will educate you on the bullish story for Zinc.)

I own shares of MMGG.OB

MCAJF.PK (MACMIN LTD)
http://www.macmin.com.au/
macmin@technet2000.com.au
450 mil shares and options (Feb., 04)
@ $.07/share
$32 mil MC
This stock seems extremely volatile in price, with low liquidity, ranging from 8 cents to 13 cents.
“Total Inferred Resource is 34.5 million ozs silver but the district is unexplored for epithermal silver and exploration to date suggests a district potential of 50 to 100m ozs Ag or perhaps much more.” –“Macmin is a silver focussed company” The Texas Silver Project has in-ground resources of 44.5Moz of silver equivalent. (They own some Malichite, MAR.AX) Also, significant gold projects, perhaps several multi-million oz. potential projects.

News article in Australia on MCJAF

* FR.V FMJRF.PK (FIRST MAJESTIC) (I own shares)
http://www.firstmajestic.com/s/Home.asp
info@firstmajestic.com
28.4 mil shares fully diluted (June 7, 2004)
from http://www.firstmajestic.com/s/ShareStructure.asp?ReportID=67945&_Title=Share-Structure
@ $1.59/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = $1.22
$35 mil MC
from http://www.jaba.com/2003/info/niko_2003_1.html
http://www.stockjunction.com/modules/emails/featuredprofiles/FR/majestic_sj.html
Up to 80% ownership of the Niko project.
from http://biz.yahoo.com/cnw/040113/first_majestic_mexico_1.html
Also, First Majestic acquired the La Parrilla Silver Mine in Mexico, a former producing silver mine that closed in 1999 due to low silver prices. They expect to re-open in 4 months, producing 175,000 tonnes a year at 300g/t silver, which means 1.8 mil oz. of silver produced per year. The cost to mine is estimated at $25-30/tonne, and recovery is 85-90%. Cash costs are expected to be $3/oz. Producing 1.8 mil oz. of silver per year.
They linked an excerpt from my free e-book from goldismoney.com “8 Reasons why silver is a better investment than gold!” see url here: http://tinyurl.com/xyyb

Additional comments: First Majestic Resource Corp – Acquisition of the Perseverancia Silver Mine, and other mining properties in Chalchihuites, Zacatecas, Mexico

The other benefit of FR.V is that the company is keen on acquiring new properties. This is where the best money is made for a company in today’s bull market in silver, in my opinion. From the home page of the web site:

“First Majestic recently announced the acquisition of Le Parrilla Silver Mine, Mexico, which is anticipated to be the first of several acquisitions over the coming months.”

I own shares of FR.V

ECU.V ECUXF.PK (ECU SILVER MINI)
http://www.ecu.ca/ — site under construction, and under review by the exchange.
ecu@ecu.qc.ca (819) 797-1210
103.3 mil shares fully diluted = (6 January 2003)
+ 24,137,931 units x 1.33 = 32.1 more shares fully diluted = 135?
= “around 140 mil shares fully diluted” verbal, from IR dept. (Sept. 9th, 2004)
@ $.34/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = $.26
$36 mil MC
ECU.V is also exploring other gold properties.

ECU Silver announces today the closing of a private placement resulting in gross proceeds of $7,000,000 received in four (4) installments by ECU Silver.

Pursuant to this private placement, ECU Silver issued an aggregate of 24,137,931 units at a price of $0.29 per unit, each unit being comprised of one (1) common share in the share capital of ECU Silver and one third (1/3) of a common share purchase warrant, with each whole common share purchase warrant entitling its holder to acquire one common share at a price of $0.35

ECU is now a producer: “Production at ECU Silver’s milling facility in Velardena has been averaging 200 tonnes per day since production resumed in early August and ECU Silver is in the process of increasing this production output to approximately 250 tonnes per day by the end of the month of September.”

BZA.V ABZGF.PK (AMER BONANZA)
http://www.americanbonanza.com/
info@americanbonanza.com
235 mil shares fully diluted 1 Q 2004
@ $.15/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = $.12
$27 mil MC
American Bonanza Acquires High Grade Silver Property in Nevada & Goldcorp Exercises Warrants

IAU.TO ITDXF.PK (INTREPID MINRLS)
http://www.intrepidminerals.com/
scoates@intrepidminerals.com Stephen Coates, Investor Relations (416) 368-4525
52.4 mil shares fully diluted (March, 2004)
@ $.68/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = $.53 US
$27 mil MC
$3.2 million cash from Dec. 9 financing.
Company’s exposure is about half to gold, half to silver in several projects.
Joint Venture with BHP Billiton focused on “Cannington” style silver deposits using proprietary BHP Billiton data.
(all figures are “exploration potential”)
El Salvador – 38.5 mil oz.
Argentina – 6 mil oz.
Total: 44 mil oz. silver
Total gold: ~690k oz. x 10 (10:1 ratio) = ~ 6.9 mil oz. “silver equiv”
Total: 53 mil oz. “silver equiv”. (exploration potential or indicated or inferred, not reserves)

Additional comments: Intrepid Partners Advance Projects and Discover More Gold and Silver
–Aug 18th. (Intrepid and Silvercrest in El Salvador)

More drill results released on March 3:
Intrepid Intersects 10.3m (34ft) of 70.9 g/t (2 oz/t) Gold and 988 g/t (29 oz/t) Silver at Kamila, Argentina

The stock price exploded, nearly doubling, in response to the news of the above drilling results.

Since this company is about half gold and half silver, the 10:1 ratio really cuts down the “silver equiv” numbers, so keep in mind the “gold bonus” factor here. But it’s like that with a lot of the companies on this list, so keep that in mind, and do your own math if you want to use the 70:1 ratio.

MAI.V MNEAF.OB (MINERA ANDES)
http://minandes.com/
ircanada@minandes.com (604) 689-7017 Art Johnson
90 mil shares fully diluted (April, 2004)
@ $.59/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = $.45 US
$41 mil MC
Raised $6.6 mil in recent financing.
owns 49% of the resource: “55 mil silver equiv. oz. resource” back in 2001. AT 60:1 silver:gold when gold was about $300/oz., about half/half silver and gold.
Estimated: 16.7 mil oz “silver equiv”
15 mil oz. silver + 1.7 mil oz. “silver equiv” of 170,000 oz. of gold.
They will be exploring for more: (The resources may be only 10% of the property.)
2.2 km stretch, open another 2.7, plus 3 other vein systems. significant high grade silver exploration potential. 7000 meters of diamond drilling.  Plus a copper project, billion ton ore deposit.

Additional comments: Underground Development Work At Minera Andes San Jose Project Discovers High-Grade Gold And Silver Mon, Jul 12 “12,403 g/t (399 ounces per ton) silver”

Minera Andes plans to “fast track” to production. Expecting $.17-$.18/share Cdn earnings/year, as of April, 2004

Minera Andes Inc.: New Huevos Verdes East Drilling Intercepts Multiple Zones With Up To 63 g/t Gold And 1,690 g/t Silver – CCNMatthews

Minera Andes has several significant bonuses that my method is not valuing properly. First, I undercount the gold, of course, so consider there is a “gold bonus” at current gold prices. Second, they will be doing significant exploration work to increase their resources, and they have recently raised the money to be able to pay for that exploration work. Third, they have a copper project, and copper prices are rising. I moved MAI.V to the explorers list to be more fair to their valutation.

* EDR.V EDRGF.PK (ENDEAVOUR SILVER) (I own shares)
http://www.edrgold.com/
invest@edrgold.com Hugh Clarke, Investor Relations 1-877-685-9775
25.7 mil shares fully diluted (May 28th, 2004)
@ $1.30/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = $1.00
$29 mil MC
As of May 28th, 2004, they have $9 mil Cdn cash.
If all options and warrants are exercised, they will have another $9.8 mil Cdn in cash.
They believe there may be a chance they will not need to dilute further to develop current silver production plans at the Santa Cruz Mine. Endeavour is not a “resource” play, but rather, a “production” play on silver. They are listed with the explorers because they do not have large drill results or a resource calculation outlining significantly large resources–they have only around 5 million ounces is all. But so they don’t have a “prospective” mining property. Instead, they have a working mine! Like Hecla.
http://www.edrgold.com/s/SantaCruzMine.asp
–currently producing 600,000 oz. silver/yr.
–plans to increase production to 4,000,000 oz. silver/yr

I own shares of EDR.V

CAUCF.PK (CALEDON RES)
http://www.caledonresources.com/
gsalamis@caledonresources.com George Salamis – Managing Director
180,721,142 Shares Outstanding –
@ .13 at Yahoo!
(Mining in China)
It trades on the London Stock Exchange, under the symbol, CDN
$23 mil MC

* CBE.V CBEFF.PK (CABO MINING)(I own shares)
http://www.cabo.ca/
jav@cabo.ca (604) 681-8899 John Versfelt, President
33.3 mil shares fully diluted@ $.63/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = $.49
$16 mil MC

Additional Comments: Cabo Signs Letter of Intent to Acquire Thor Drilling Ltd.; Thor is Latest of Acquisitions for Fast Growing Cabo Mining Enterprises Corp.Tuesday September 14
Cabo’s acquisitions are now profitable, and providing cash flow.

Cabo recently completed two private placements, one at .75 Cdn/share, and another at .83 Cdn/share, and successfully acquired two drilling companies.

I wrote an article on Cabo on February 10th. Market Perspective & Cabo Mining – Hommel

In the article, I highlight what I feel is Cabo’s most imporant asset: Their property in Cobalt, Ontario. The “silver capital of Canada” produced historically, over 500 million ounces of silver.

To learn more about the mining camp town of Cobalt, there is a fascinating article detailing the history of the silver camp at http://www.cobalt.ca/cobalt/history.htm

I own shares of CBE.V

SDR.V SDURF.PK (STROUD RSCS)
http://www.stroudresourcesltd.com/projects-santo.html
gcoburn@stroudresourcesltd.com Mr. George E. Coburn, President Tel: 416-362-4126
87.4 mil shares fully diluted (April, 2004)
@ $.22/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = $.17
$15 mil MC
JV partner with APM.V on Santo Domingo Silver Project in Mexico.
150 to 300 mil oz. exploration potential of the deposit.
ownership is between 30-50%, so… 30% of 150 mil oz.= 45 mil oz., and 50% of 300 mil oz. = 150 mil oz.
$15 mil MC / 45 mil oz. =
$15 mil MC /150 mil oz. =

APM.V (Amerix Precious Metals Corp)
http://www.amerixcorp.com/
john.andrews@amerixcorp.com
50 mil shares fully diluted (including 15 mil new PP)
http://www.newbulletgroup.com/financial.htm
@ $.32/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = $.25 US
$12 mil MC
APM.V has a gold deposit in Brazil that’s bigger than the silver project in Mexico.
http://www.amerixcorp.com/mexico.htm
” If the deposit extends to considerable depth, as do many of the silver deposits in the region, it is reasonable to assume a deposit of 300 million ounces of silver.”
Stroud Resources, JV partner, lists the deposit at 150-300 million oz.
http://www.newbulletgroup.com/April1820022.pdf
APM.V partners with SDR.V
APM.V to get a 50-70% interest.
50% x 150 mil oz.= 75 mil oz., 70% x 300 mil oz. = 210 mil oz.
$12.3 mil MC / 75 mil oz. =
$12.3 mil MC / 210 mil oz. =

QTA.V QURAF.PK (QUATERRA RES)
http://www.quaterraresources.com/
corpdev@mnxltd.com
Jay Oness Toll Free: 1-888-456-1112
60.6 mil shares fully diluted
@ $.345/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = $.27 US
$16 mil MC

Additional Comments: three main properties in North America.
The main exploration project is the Nieves, near the massive Fresnillo silver mine, owned by Penoles ($2 billion market cap).

Quaterra Resources Inc.: Drilling at Nieves Intersects High-Grade Silver Aug 12
(129.3 ounces/tonne) over 1.5 metres
” The company said the results demonstrate that the Nieves mineralized system continues to have potential for development of Fresnillo-style underground high grade veins, and for bulk tonnage silver mineralization.”

QTA.V is a Sister Company to Western Silver, WTZ above.
See also Bravo Venture, BVG.V, another sister company, with 34.5 mil fully diluted shares (April, 2004)

PXI.V PNXPF.PK (Planet Exploration Inc.)
http://www.planetexploration.info/mexico.asp
invest@planetexploration.info
30.8 mil shares fully diluted (Jan. 2004)
@ $.70/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = $.54
$17 mil MC
Planet holds an option to acquire a 100% interest in the high-grade 7,005-hectare Copalquin gold/silver property located in Durango, Mexico.
“Resource estimates on the property have not been calculated since the discovery of the high-grade vertical fault zone, its existence may significantly alter Kennecott’s and Fransisco Gold’s original target potential of one million ounces of gold and 50 million ounces of silver based on their interpretation of a low-grade horizontal quartz breccia formation.”

NJMC.OB (NEW JERSEY MIN)
http://www.newjerseymining.com/
minesystems@usamedia.tv
Fred or Grant Brackebusch
23.9 mil shares fully diluted Apr, ’04
@ $.72/share US
$17 mil MC
New Jersey Mining Company (NJMC) is engaged in exploring for and developing gold, silver and base metal ore reserves in the Coeur d’Alene Mining District of northern Idaho also known as the Silver Valley – one of the world’s richest silver districts.

EPZ.V ESPZF.PK (ESPERANZA SILVR)
http://www.esperanzasilver.com/s/Home.asp
info@esperanzasilver.com
30.5 mil shares fully diluted (July 29, 2004)
@ $.53/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = US $.41
$12 mil MC
“Esperanza Silver Corporation is solely dedicated to the identification, acquisition and exploration of new silver projects.” Looking for high grades.

MAG.V MSLRF.PK (MAG SILVER)
http://www.magsilver.com
info@magsilver.com
29.1 mil shares fully diluted (Aug 1, 2004)
@ $.85/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = US $.65
$19 mil MC

Additional comments: –“MAG Silver Corporation enters the silver market as a powerful force. MAG combines a seasoned management team with two drill-ready geological extensions of high-grade world class producing districts. MAG controls 100% of the Juanicipio property adjacent to the Fresnillo District in central Mexico, currently producing over 12% of the world’s silver from high grade underground vein structures.”

The geologist, Peter K.M Megaw, is also working with EXN.V, another high grade silver project. Peter’s philosophy was that it makes sense to go after very high grade silver projects that will be profitable regardless of the silver price.

MAG Silver Commences 3000 Metre Drilling Program at Juanicipio and Lagartos Near Fresnillo June 10

EXN.V EXLLF.PK (EXCELLON RSCS)
http://www.excellonresources.com
info@excellonresources.com
87 mil shares fully diluted (Jan 9, 2004 press release)
@ $.195/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = $.15 US
$13 mil MC
From http://www.smartstox.com/reports/excellon.html
indicated = 63,400 t x 2738 g/t x .03215oz./g = 5.6 mil oz. silver
inferred = 2100 t x 1,433 g/t x .03215oz./g = .1 mil oz. silver
“gross in-situ value of mineralization is $31.4 million.”
EXN to own 51% of the project. Apex is the joint partner. 51% x 6.2 mil oz. = 3.16 mil oz.
(Company expects 114 mil shares fully diluted after takover of Destorbelle, needed to bring project ownership up to 51%)

Additional comments: “Excellon …is exploring and developing”…. “a Bonanza grade Silver deposit in Mexico.” The geologist, Peter K.M Megaw, is also working with MAG.V. From J. Taylor’s write up on 2002: “After subtracting capital cost of US $1.8 million, custom milling charges and operating costs, management believes this underground development mine can, over the next two years, generate US $15.8 million or nearly $8 million for EXN’s 51% share.” That was when silver prices were under $5/oz.! The company plans to use these proceeds to further drill and explore the property. They believe the property may contain significantly more silver, as if what’s known is only the “tail of the tiger”; furthermore, they believe they can fund exploration by mining the high-grade silver deposit that has been partly drilled.

SRY.V (STINGRAY RSCS)
http://www.stingrayresources.com/
info@stingrayresources.com (416) 368 6240
17.1 mil shares fully diluted (may 28, 2004)
@ $.72/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = $.55
$9 mil MC- Current projects centered in the Sierra Madre Belt of Mexico

* KG.V KDKGF.PK (KLONDIKE GOLD) (I own shares)
http://www.klondikegoldcorp.com/
investorrelations@klondikegoldcorp.com
70 mil shares fully diluted (Nov. 2003)
@ $.16/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = $.123 US
5 year high .30
$9 mil MC

This company has many silver and gold properties. Klondike has one silver property that could be producing within weeks.

(I own shares of KG.V)

SML.V SMLZF.PK (STEALTH MNRLS)
http://www.stealthminerals.com
Bill@McWilliam.com 604-306-0391 Bill McWilliam, Chief Executive Officer
48 mil shares (August 31- 02)
@ $.40/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = $.31
$15 mil MC

DNI.V DMNKF.PK (DUMONT NICKEL)
http://www.dumontnickel.com
info@dumontnickel.com (416) 595-1195
60 mil shares outstanding (April 15, 2004) does not include options and warrants.
@ $.225/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = $.17
$10 mil MC
Dumont stilll needs to raise and pay several million to Clifton Mining for 50%-60% of each property, and there are many properties. (See Clifton for more specifics on the JV agreement.)

Additional comments: Dumont has been acquiring many properties, which is making Clifton’s original property that much bigger. Dumont is Clifton Mining’s JV partner, doing active drilling work right now.

They just released their Technical Report Utah 2004
Technical Report Utah 2004 (11.5MB PDF)
and their Annual Report 2004
Annual Report 2004 (0.7MB PDF) see http://www.dumontnickel.com

I do not like JV agreements due to the complexity of trying to determine ownership which is contingent upon many unknown factors that might change in the future. One man recently offered me an interesting suggestion. He simply said, “Why not buy both companies?”

* KRE.V KREKF.PK (KENRICH ESKAY) (I own shares)
http://www.kenrich-eskay.com/
info@kenrich-eskay.com
Toll-free 1-888-805-3940 or (604) 682-0557
29.2 mil shares fully diluted (July, 2004)
@ $.41/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = $.32 US
$9 mil MC
Recently completed a $2.3 million financing for exploration.
Kenrich Eskay’s “Cory” property (25,000 acres, 100% owned) is 10km south of Barrick’s silver property, Eskay Creek, which is “the fifth largest silver producer in the world”, with a reserve “at the beginning of 2001, 1.42 mil tons, grading 1.5 ounces/ton of gold, and 68.3 ounces/tonne of silver, 3.2% lead, 5.2% zinc.–That’s Barrick’s Eskay Creek property. Kenrich Eskay is hoping to find something similar nearby. (See 5th slide of http://www.kenrich-eskay.com/images/KRE-Presentation_files/frame.htm
70% of the rights to The Property was once almost bought by Homestake (which was acquired by Barrick) for $35 million in 1996, and Homestake was going to fund all exploration and development. The buy out ended when metals prices collapsed, and Bre-X hit, and when the majors cut back on exploration budgets to stay alive. This means the market cap of KRE.V may be worth 100% / 70% x $35 million, or $50 million, plus exploration and development costs, to a major mining company, and likely worth much more today, due to inflation of the dollar, and the rise in the price of silver!

I own shares of KRE.V

BCM.V BCEKF.PK (BEAR CRK MINING)
http://www.bearcreekmining.com/s/Home.asp
info@bearcreekmining.com
39.2 mil shares fully diluted
@ $.37/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = $.29 US
$11 mil MC
–About 6 properties in Peru

* CMA.V CRMXF.OB (Cream Minerals Ltd) (I own shares.)
http://www.creamminerals.com/cream/main.htm
http://www.langmining.com/cream-mx/
34.8 mil shares fully diluted (March 31, 2004)
@ $.30/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = $.23 US
$8 mil MC
from: http://www.langmining.com/cream-mx/companyProjects_Summary.html
Project B: Potential Target: 400m x 500m x 150m x 2.5 t/m3 = 75,000,000 tonnes
Say at: Au 0.480 g/t Ag 149.33 g/t
Silver only, that’s (1 gram = .03215 troy oz.) 4.8 oz./t x 75 million tonnes = 360 million oz. “exploration potential” in a low-grade deposit.
$8 mil MC / 360 mil oz. = $.02/oz. (exploration potential) –not yet even a “resource”!

Additional comments: Another silver property is the Kaslo.
“The Kaslo Silver Property encompasses the Keen Creek Silver Belt and is comprised of nine former high grade silver mines”…

(I own shares of CMA.V)

CHMN.PK (CHESTER MINING)
http://www.chestermining.com/
William Campbell, president (800)222-1505
“2.3 million shares outstanding, positive working capital, (making money & profitable) and no debt”
@ $3.90/share US
$9 mil MC
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/031121/215141_1.html
Historic estimate: “defined Conjecture mineral reserves of 706,000 tons grading 11.8 ounces per ton (oz/t) silver”
— the Conjecture Mine, with a lease-option agreement signed with Shoshone Silver Mining Company
= 8.3 million ounces of silver (leased out) Since Chester will be receiving royalties, it makes it harder for me to value this company.

MMG.V MMEEF.PK (MCMILLAN GOLD)
http://www.macmillangold.com/
macmillangold@ca.inter.net
25.6 mil shares outstanding (3q 2003 report June, 2003)
@ $.51/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = $.39
$10 mil MC
MacMillan Gold Hits Ore Grade Gold and Silver Mineralization at the Cerro de Oro –July 26.
Hole 54 which intersected from surface 41.1 m. of 1.44 g Au/t, 119.9 g Ag/t, 1.73% lead and 1.55% zinc.

GPR.V GPRLF.PK (GREAT PANTHER RES)
http://www.greatpanther.com
info@greatpanther.com Robert Archer, President, & Kaare Foy CFO: 604 608 1766
25.9 mil shares fully diluted (8-20 news release, 2004)
@ $.47/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = $.36
$9 mil MC
“Great Panther Resources Limited has combined experienced management, access to capital and high quality projects in Mexico. Silver and gold prices gained 26% and 21% respectively in 2003 and GPR intends to leverage this through the acquisition and development of high quality silver and gold projects.”
–Option on the Topia Silver Mine in Mexico, formerly owned by Penoles, closed in 1999. Est. 5 years worth of resources left. needs payments totaling about $2.5 million over 3 years.

ROK.V ROCAF.PK (ROCA MINES INC)
http://www.rocamines.com
info@rocamines.com
38.8 mil shares fully diluted (June 23, 2004)
@ $.32/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = $.25
$10 mil MC
Foremore project, 45km north of Eskay Creek

EGD.V EGDMF.PK (ENERGOLD MINING)
http://www.energold.com/s/Default.asp
info@energold.com Fred Davidson President (604) 681-9501
16.8 mil shares fully diluted (June 30, 2002)
@ $.56/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = $.43
$7 mil MC
“advanced silver project in Mexico” Real de Belem — property has “all the permits required for the commencement of a 200 tonne per day mining operation.” A range of 571 to 3,713 g/t Ag. (may not conform to Canadian NI43-101 standards.) A 16 hole, 1500 m drill program is currently underway. At any time during the currency of the Option Agreement, Energold will have the right to acquire a 100% interest in the Real de Belem project for an additional US$5.0 million.

GNG.V GGTHF.PK (GOLDEN GOLIATH)
http://www.goldengoliath.com/
jps@goldengoliath.com
604-682-2950
32.4 mil shares fully diluted
@ $.24/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = $.18
$6 mil MC
Additional comments: Silver Explorer in Mexico in the the Sierra Madre mountains: Uruachic.
They hope to take a collection of old silver mines and make them open pittable. They have some very high grades from chip samples from the tunnels, ranging from 100g to 500g all the way up to around and over 1000g/ton of silver.

LEG.V LEGCF.PK (LATEEGRA RSCS)
http://www.lateegra.com
info@lateegra.com
Michael Townsend, President Toll Free: 1-866-669-9377 Richard one of the IR guys.
38.7 mil shares fully diluted? (Jan 7, 2004)
@ $.19/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = $.15 US
$6 mil MC
see also Teuton Resources Corp (TUO.V)
–involved with 7 exploration projects, one near the Eskay Creek Silver Mine, one in China.

TBLC.PK (TIMBERLINE RES)
http://www.timberline-resources.com
Company contact: Bill Hoyt, director. 785-383-9246
4.88 million shares outstanding.
@ $.90/share
$4 mil MC
The Company has acquired seven mineral prospects to explore. These prospects are located in Nevada, Idaho and Montana.
Timberline to Lease Montana Properties to Sterling MiningThu, Aug 26 – Business Wire
The Montana property is near the property owned by Mines Management.
Silver Property: Minton Pass project: 20 claims containing Revett formation silver/copper project in Northern Montana. At least 5 drill holes were drilled on or near the claim group in the 1970s and 1980s. A 1971 geologic report indicates that mineralized outcrops of Revett quartzite containing bornite and other copper minerals could be traced for about 1 mile along strike of the outcrop.A short adit was driven to expose the mineralization.Sampling results showed a stratographic thickness of 16.7 feet that averaged .7% copper and 1.78 opt silver.
Detailed work plans are under development, pending acquisition and study of prior exploration data.

TUO.V TEUTF.PK (TEUTON RES)
http://www.teuton.com/
dino.teuton@shawlink.ca
Dino Cremonese, P.Eng. President (604) 682-3680
20.6 mil shares fully diluted (July 28,2003)
@ $.27/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = $.21
$4 mil MC
April 20, 2004, Vancouver, BC — 2004 Exploration Planned For Konkin Silver Property; Additonal Claims Acquired.
“Management of Teuton and Lateegra are highly encouraged by the prospective results from the Del Norte exploration to date
located in the Eskay Creek region”

* PDO.V (PORTAL DE ORO RS) (I own shares)
http://www.portalresources.net
info@portalresources.net  Phone: (604) 629-1929 Reg Advocaat
9.45 mil shares fully diluted (mid 2004)
5 mil shares owned by management!
@ $.54 Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = US $.42
$3.9 mil MC
$500k Cdn cash in the bank; To be spent on exploring two properties in Argentina, $200k each.
In Argentina, in Chubut Province, Arroyo Verde Gold/silver Project. Option to own 100%, need about another $1 mil or less to exercise option. Property was explored a bit, and now, will be re-explored. Planning to do a 3000-meter reverse-circulation drill program, to go deeper, looking for the “boiling point”, hopefully a wider higher grade area.. –Possible open pit, no historic workings, 200km to the east of IMA’s properties. The property was formerly owned by Minera Andes recently, and Pegasus, who ran out of time and money at the bottom of the market in 1999.
In Argentina, in Mendoza, San Rafael project (Gold and copper in Argentina) 700 sq. mile prop., 30 drill targets…
Portal Resources Ltd.: Commencement San Rafael Reconnaissance
Thursday August 19

(I own shares of PDO.V)

* AUN.V AUNFF.PK (Aurcana Corp) (I own shares)
http://www.aurcana.com/ — NEW updated website
kbooth@aurcana.com CEO Ken Booth 604-331-9333
42.7 mil shares fully diluted (Sept 2004)
@ $.10/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = $.077 US
$3 mil MC
Cash $650,000 Cdn, no debt
Drilling to commence on high-grade, gold-silver targets. (in Mexico)
6 properties.
Real de Catorce–Historically, more than 220 million ounces of silver was mined from five
million tons of ore on this property, approx. 48 ounces of silver per ton

(I own shares of AUN.V)

ASLM.PK (AMER SILVER MINI)
2.75 million shares issued
@ $1.40/share
$4 mil MC
Claim between CDE and the old Sunshine mine.
JV with CDE subsidiary untill 2017. ASLM to receive 20% net royalty, & if silver prices reach $16.50 an ounce or above, the profit sharing goes to 40%.
Coeur d’ Alene, Idaho

PCM.V PAOCF.PK (PAC COMOX RES)
http://www.pacificcomox.com/
info@pacificcomox.com
66 mil shares fully diluted Jan, 2004 (From Dec 11, 2003 press release and 2002 report)
@ $.08/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = $.06
$4 mil MC
Company Reports that A. C. A. Howe International has been Contracted to Prepare a Resource Estimate for the 6 Areas of Drill Intersected Gold/Silver Mineralization on the Mabel Property

BGS.V BLDGF.PK (BALLAD GLD SLVR)
http://www.balladnet.com
ir@balladnet.com
16.3 mil shares outstanding
(fully diluted?)
@ $.23/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = $.18 US
$3 mil MC
Bonanza grade “grab samples” in southern Argentina near IMA.
32 oz./T gold and 22 oz./T silver grab samples.

GRG.V (GOLDEN ARROW RESC) (I own shares)
http://www.tse.com/en/mediaNews/newsreleases/news7116.html
shareholder@tsx.com
Sean Hurd (800) 901 0058 (604) 687-1828 (same # as for IMR.V, which spun off Golden Arrow)
4.3 mil shares outstanding.–number from Sean Hurd.
$750,000 Cdn in the bank.
@ $.85/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = $.65
$3 mil MC
35 exploration properties
Argentine & Peru Property portfolio
–Spun off from IMR.V (IMA Exploration)

I own shares of GRG.V

MTB.V (Mountain Boy Minerals Ltd)
http://www.mountainboyminerals.ca/
cavok@uniserve.com
TEL: (250) 636-9283
17 mil shares fully diluted (July 2004)
@ $.24/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = $.18
$3 mil MC
http://www.stockhouse.ca/news/news.asp?newsid=1933880
high grade samples: 3640 g/T Ag to 45.5 g/T Ag

BBR.V BBRRF.PK (BRETT RES)
http://www.bmts.bc.ca/bbr/
17.2 mil shares fully diluted
@ $.15/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = $.12
$2 mil MC
Silver projects:
Yukon –grab sample of 611 g/t Ag
Argentina –samples from 31 to 5640 g/t Ag

CLZ.V (Canasil Resources Inc )
http://www.canasil.com/
22.4 mil shares fully diluted (July 2004)
@ $.135/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = $.10
$2 mil MC
Exploration properties in Mexico and B.C.

IPT.V IMPJF.PK (Impact Minerals)
http://www.impactmin.com/
Frederick W. Davidson, President (604) 681-9501 inquiries@impactmin.com
12.5 mil shares fully diluted (From website, Sept. 2004, but date unknown)
@ $.27/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = $.21 US
$3 mil MC
IMPACT is exploring the extensive Zacualpan Silver Mining District in central Mexico. IMPACT signed agreements that include options on two operating mines and a processing plant.

LSM.V LASCF.PK (Langis Silver & Cobalt Mining Co Ltd)
no web site: Patrick Sheridan Jr. President and Secretary-Treasurer Phone: (416) 628-5936
11,565,890 issued and outstanding common shares. (not fully diluted)
@ $.20/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = $.16
$2 mil MC

CBP.V CPBMF.PK (CONS PAC BAY MIN)
http://www.pacific-bay.com/
Guilford Brett, IR (604) 682-2421
11.2 mil shares outstanding (not fully diluted) (Jan 1, 2004)
@ $.13/share Cdn x .77 US/Cdn = $.10
$1 mil MC

–CBP.V is the smallest market cap silver stock that I know of. It is truly a “penny stock”.

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Final Category: Silver stocks FOR YOU and I TO RESEARCH further:

I strongly recommend you try to “get ahead of me,” and research these stocks to see if I left out any great values. I probably did. I simply did not have time, or could not yet find information (without using the telephone) on all the two key figures needed to get the “price per oz.” in the ground. You need: 1. The number of shares fully diluted x share price to get the market cap. Then, 2., you need an estimate of the oz. in the ground. Usually, I’ve been finding the oz. in the ground resource estimates right off the company webpages, and I get the number of shares by looking for it burried in the financial statements like the quarterlies or annual reports, which are also usually right on the company webpages. Have fun researching for silver companies, and let me know if you find any good ones, and I’ll add them to this list.

new one : helena silver. it is trading should have website soon.

UNCN.OB (UNICO INC)
http://www.uncn.net/
Ray Brown, 530-873-4394
Andrew Beyer (909) 587-8072
90 mil shares (about, in June, 2004) today, unknown.
@ $.029/share
Three main properties:
Bromide– 372,000 ounces of gold?
Silver Bell–15 mil oz silver?
Deer Trail –287,000 ounces of gold and 27 million ounces of silver… but the lease on the Deer Trail will expire August 31, 2005 ($3 million more total due), so they need to raise a significant amount of money.
49 mil oz. total.
You get options and leases …

Additional comments: Current share structure and debt situation unknown.

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Rivet silver
Doug Warte & Frank Duval 509 921 2294

http://www.celticresources.com/

Grand Central Silver Mines Inc (GSLM.PK)
Malachite Resources MAR.AX
http://www.malachite.com.au/

Mascot Silver Lead Mines MSLM.PK
http://www.mascotsilver.com/
Coeur d’ Alene, Idaho
“Though we have reserves and could conceivably mine them, it frankly makes no sense to do so at current prices. … The end of the silver bear will bring a number of the now-dormant small companies back to life…”
New President, still trades under $.25/share.

Silver Buckle Mines Inc (SBUM.PK)
Coeur d’ Alene, Idaho

Merger Mines Corp (MERG.PK) –Leased by Sterling Mining, who is exploring their property,
and owns 14% of Merger stock.
2.7 mil shares outstanding. (Sept, 2004)
Coeur d’ Alene, Idaho

Signal Silver –hopes to trade by next year.

Mineral Mountain Mining Company
Delaine Gruber, 208-664-3544
www.minmountain.com
Coeur d’ Alene, Idaho

Independence Lead
Coeur d’ Alene, Idaho

Metropolitain Mines Ltd (MEMLA.PK) –next to the Sunshine in Coeur d’ Alene, Idaho

Silver Bowl
http://www.silver-bowl.com/
Coeur d’ Alene, Idaho
–working to get a new stock transfer coompany

http://www.oxusgold.co.uk/ 216,559,942 Fully Diluted shares
oxus will spin off: Khandiza is a high-grade zinc, silver, copper and lead deposit located in the Sariasia region of southeast Uzbekistan.

Silver Mountain Lead Mines Inc (SMLM.PK)

Silver Verde May Mining Co (SIVE.PK)

Silver Surprize Inc (SLSR.PK)

Standard Silver Corp (SDSI.PK)

Horn Silver Mines Co (HRNS.PK)
(801)-281-5656

Andean American Mining Corp AAG.V ANMCF.PK
http://www.andeanamerican.com/
–concentrates solely in Peru
Peru currently stands as the largest gold producer and second largest copper producer in Latin America as well as the second largest silver producer in the world.

Here are a few more stocks to look up. I don’t even know if some of these are silver miners.

Lfex – Lucky Friday Extention
Kcpm – King of pine creek
Vins – vindicator silver,

Osburn
Wallace
APNE
ALS
Royal Silver Mines (RSMI)
Bunker Hill– owned by new bunker hill mining company, stockpiling ore.
Nabob
New Era

Articles like this one, that present opportunities like these, can tend to move the markets in these stocks. So, be careful when buying. If you place any market orders at the open for any of these small stocks, you might end up buying at prices that are significantly higher than you intended. Limit orders might be better, but then, you run the risk of your order not being filled if the stock price exceeds your limit. And bid / ask spreads such as 15% on small cap silver stocks are not unusual. Markets can especially be moved given the wide readership on the internet. I’ve seen markets moved even by small private newsletters such as lemetropolecafe.com and silver-investor.com (I subscribe to both). Some of these stocks can move up 15%, 30%, 50% or even over 100% in a single day. Thus, valuations can change very, very quickly. So, be careful, and re-check the numbers if the prices move up. Do your own math.

Also note, the majority of these companies have an emphasis on silver. Most silver is produced as a by product of other mining, like lead or zinc or copper mining. Those companies that primarily produce other minerals are not featured in this report. This also helps to explain and prove, that silver is undervalued. If silver miners cannot mine silver profitably, and this report shows that to be true, then something is wrong with the silver price. It must go higher.

This report, and my method of valuing silver companies, depends on a much higher price for silver than exists today to be most accurate and most successful. If silver prices go up significantly, my picks will do well. If silver prices remain flat, then many of my picks should not do well.

To learn more about the silver market:
http://www.bibleprophesy.org/SilverStockExtra.html

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http://www.gold-eagle.com/silver_section/reports.html
http://www.dailyreckoning.com/ Bill Bonner is the author of a free daily market commentary newsletter.

For information from the SEC on how to protect yourself from a “pump & dump” scam, see
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Jason Hommel

Final Disclaimer: I have not received any compensation from any public silver stock company for writing up my weekly report on “Silver Stocks–Comparative Valuations”. I own shares of the following 23 silver stocks: IMR.V, ABI.V, CZN.TO, EXR.V CSG.TO, GRG.V, ASM.V, CMA.V, PLE.V, PDO.V,AUN.V, EDR.V, KG.V, MGN, CBE.V, NPG.V, SVL.V, MMGG.OB, TM.V, OTMN.PK, FCO.TO, KRE.V, FR.V. These are required disclaimers by the SEC: whether I’ve been paid, and what I own. I believe the SEC intended this to be a cautionary note that I own these shares, not as a recommendation or endorsement. I reserve the right to buy or sell any stock at any time. I believe the SEC does not require a disclosure regarding finder’s fees. Nevertheless, I receive “finder’s fees” from silver companies on occasion