tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077884170542930172024-03-13T18:53:11.909-04:00IKNBLMSilence is no longer acceptable
Ottohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03069822714021884725noreply@blogger.comBlogger17769125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-507788417054293017.post-17330892156189850952020-09-18T12:37:00.003-04:002020-09-18T12:37:25.826-04:00The Friday OT: Itzhak Perlman, Daniel Barenboim and the Berliner Philharmoniker do Beethoven's Concerto for Violin and OrchestraYou can watch it and listen to it here:<br />
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<br />The <b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cokCgWPRZPg" target="_blank">YouTube is here</a>.</b> Make 47 minutes of your Friday afternoon as good as the 47 minutes I had this morning. Just seeing the love poured over Perlman at the start is enough to hit the button and watch the first two minutes, but then the music takes over.Ottohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03069822714021884725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-507788417054293017.post-40539466277055450492020-09-18T12:26:00.002-04:002020-09-18T12:26:34.499-04:00A question for Tony Hawkshaw of Bear Creek Mining (BCM.v)<p style="text-align: justify;">From today's NR, announcing works to benefit the town of Corani:</p><p><span face="sans-serif"></span></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span face="sans-serif"><i>"Upgrading the road will have dramatic positive benefits to the local economy and safety of the community members..."</i></span></p><p></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">Tell me Tony, how many years has Bear Creek Mining been developing Corani? How. Many. Freakin. Years?</p><p style="text-align: justify;">And you wonder why BCM is now scared of the town, treating them like their serfs for years and promising them if they behave, they'll get a nice road. Now the locals have forced the company's hand and what's more, they are still refusing all access to outsiders including the BCM people, but Tony forgot that when he was composing the NR today. Wonder why.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>Ottohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03069822714021884725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-507788417054293017.post-15046858259503973092020-09-18T08:56:00.000-04:002020-09-18T09:09:14.755-04:00How do I love thee?: The July 9th bubble post, revisited <div style="text-align: justify;">
On<a href="https://incakolanews.blogspot.com/2020/07/how-bullish-how-frothy-how-do-i-love.html" target="_blank"> July 9th in <b>"How bullish? How frothy? How do I love thee? Let me count the ways"</b> </a>your humble scribe included a quicklist of companies that were signalling a frothy market for mining juniors. Here's how the aforementioned have got on since then:</div>
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Ottohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03069822714021884725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-507788417054293017.post-18896060517310898212020-09-18T02:22:00.002-04:002020-09-18T02:22:48.176-04:00In The IKN Weekly this weekend<div style="text-align: justify;">
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Your author has a socially distanced meeting with Alex Black of Rio2 Ltd (RIO.v) and finds out about progress at Fenix, what Beaver Creek virtual was like for a CEO, the company plans for special polymer magical poo at Fenix, along with not-so magical smear campaigns at Mining FinTwit. </div>
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More on why World Number One Basket Case Country Argentina's newly imposed currency controls make the whole country radioactive as a mining FDI destination, because it's plain the market still doesn't understand how bad this is going to be. If it did a good two dozen miners would have deep red ink against their names tonight. Then there's Ecuador and Bolivia and don't get me started on the political disaster area known as Peru. </div>
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<br />Ottohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03069822714021884725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-507788417054293017.post-47721734647757546052020-09-17T21:45:00.000-04:002020-09-17T21:45:29.458-04:00Napito wins Cosalá, hilarity ensues<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="https://www.eleconomista.com.mx/empresas/Napo-gana-recuento-sindical-en-mina-de-la-canadiense-Americas-Gold-and-Silver-20200917-0072.html" target="_blank">Today and by an uncontested 121 votes</a></b>, Mexican Senator and "known figure in mining" Napoleón Gómez Urrutia, a.k.a, Napito, saw the Union he controls win the right to represent workers at the Cosalá mine in Mexico owned by Americas Gold & Silver (USAS) (USA.to), the one that's been on strike for the last seven months. And as for why hilarity will now ensue ask Darren Blasutti, because somebody has been lying through their teeth in public and we're about to know who that is. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;">This story is better than any Mexican Telenovela, promise you.<br /></p>Ottohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03069822714021884725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-507788417054293017.post-45684128274991751982020-09-17T14:34:00.002-04:002020-09-17T22:33:35.455-04:00Kuya Silver presentation tomorrow Friday (update: link now fixed)<div style="text-align: justify;">
Among the flotsam and jetsam of silver exploreco "opportunities" (normally we the investor are the opportunity for the silverco, not the other way round), every so often a decent looking opportunity comes along. It just so happens that one of the few is called Kuya Silver and as it's having its first roll-out marketing presentation tomorrow (<a href="https://6ix.com/event/expanding-and-restarting-a-high-grade-silver-mine-in-peru/?utm_bmcr_source=6ix_email&utm_campaign=%5BEVENT+INVITE+1+Day%5D+Meet+Kuya%3A+Expanding+and+Restarting+a+High-Grade+Silver+Mine+in+Peru&utm_medium=email&utm_source=autopilot" target="_blank"><b>link here</b></a>) this post exists to give the heads-up. I do not own any, I have no business relationship at all with the company and that won't change*, I am thinking about buying some at some point, but that depends on what they do and the market price of shares when they finally come out of RTO with MONT. </div>
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If nothing else it's worth watching the presentation tomorrow. It's free and at a convenient time, so go with what Orange Stupid had to say about hydroginandquinine: Waddya got to lose?</div>
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*<span style="font-size: xx-small;">True for all companies, in fact. Other people can fake independence while taking sneaky payouts from companies, IKN is real deal indy which is why you hate me so much.</span>Ottohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03069822714021884725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-507788417054293017.post-11050666802707801842020-09-17T13:30:00.002-04:002020-09-17T20:35:13.370-04:00Daniela Cambone joins Porter Scamsberry<div style="text-align: justify;">
Birds of a feather. Will Brent Cook finally crack and take Porter up on his permanent offer of easy and sleazy money, now his pal has accepted her thirty pieces of silver? Time will tell...</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">UPDATE: Reader P nails it:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Daniela Scambone</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Esprit d'escalier for your humble scribe. I doff my cap.</div>
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In the post <b><a href="https://incakolanews.blogspot.com/2020/02/new-gold-ngd-anita-soni-of-cibc-makes.html" target="_blank">"New Gold (NGD): Anita Soni of CIBC makes an early claim for Dumbass Analyst Call Of The Year 2020"</a>,</b> of Feb 2020 we celebrated the fact that our illustrious anal yst had downgraded NGD at what was potentially the wrong time. Thusly, so therefore and what have you, seven months later and...</div>
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Over and over, too. Anyway, your investment is screwed, get out now while the getting is good and if you don't believe me, maybe you'll believe The Argentina Mining Chamber of Commerce (CAEM) and <b><a href="https://www.cronista.com/apertura-negocio/empresas/Super-cepo-al-dolar-frena-inversiones-por-us-25.000-millones-en-oro-cobre-plata-y-litio-20200916-0013.html" target="_blank">what they said about the currency restrictions imposed</a></b> by the Alberto F government today.<br />
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Ottohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03069822714021884725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-507788417054293017.post-29815068464316079432020-09-16T10:17:00.001-04:002020-09-16T10:17:23.371-04:00Your last chance to sell Rise Gold (RISE.cse) before the pain begins<p> Friday September 18th is the EGM. Lawrence Lepard cannot wait, he's been sweating on his filthy lucre all month.<br /></p>Ottohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03069822714021884725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-507788417054293017.post-66158423825342116862020-09-16T10:00:00.002-04:002020-09-16T10:30:01.623-04:00Paul's so vain, he probably thinks this post is about him<ul style="text-align: left;"><li>It's not the fact it's the<a href="https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/victory-metals-announces-private-placement-financing-849358735.html" target="_blank"> first NR</a> out of this embarrassing Collin Kettell (too many Ls) pump job since April.</li><li>It's not the obvious "keep lights on and pay salary checks" destination of the $2m being raised.</li><li>It's not even the way it's being set up for Pump 2.0 in 121 days' time.</li></ul><p style="text-align: justify;">All those are valid of course, but the best thing about the NR today was to remember the company existed, then revisit its website, then fall about laughing when getting<a href="https://victorymetals.ca/key-people/?tab=key-people" target="_blank"> <b>to the photo of Paul Matysek</b></a>...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2caiCboTp2bZ3R_IQmt4iXWN7h1bWiA75xkpPca_fbSBILX4z6AncG3FmYFWXK9OAjaVHW4wnpQqKtL96b6y9QAuVWrXX5G6VDrjaIRGs_zaGAyD4MbqWTLGu4Z-JW0ft0z9rqTffX4bj/s398/matysek.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="352" data-original-width="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2caiCboTp2bZ3R_IQmt4iXWN7h1bWiA75xkpPca_fbSBILX4z6AncG3FmYFWXK9OAjaVHW4wnpQqKtL96b6y9QAuVWrXX5G6VDrjaIRGs_zaGAyD4MbqWTLGu4Z-JW0ft0z9rqTffX4bj/s320/matysek.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">...and the fact that Paul was 20 years younger and 50 kilos lighter when that photo was taken. My stars, talk about self-delusions, another fetid lump of lard who can't control his impulses and pretends another life. <br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Ottohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03069822714021884725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-507788417054293017.post-65025598806285241102020-09-16T07:35:00.002-04:002020-09-16T07:35:38.032-04:00A blog makeover, coming soon<p> By the end of this week, this humble corner of cyberspace will have completed its upgrade. </p>Ottohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03069822714021884725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-507788417054293017.post-2593922082358889702020-09-16T07:03:00.003-04:002020-09-16T07:03:41.100-04:00Herd Mentality<p> It must be embarrassing for you to have elected him. What were you thinking?</p>Ottohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03069822714021884725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-507788417054293017.post-55059206866606296642020-09-15T13:41:00.000-04:002020-09-15T13:41:04.865-04:00The trouble with Brent Cook Resources (MRZ.v) these days...<div style="text-align: justify;">
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Ottohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03069822714021884725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-507788417054293017.post-73719161271345352082020-09-15T12:32:00.000-04:002020-09-15T12:32:03.355-04:00Oroco Resources (OCO.v) runs a financing and......reader 'EB' took the words right outta my mouth, it must have been while he were kissin' me. Here's what EB wrote, word for word as he's kindly allowed me to publish it here:<br />
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While I know that you probably get bombarded with emails like these I
would just like to ask, is this even legal? For the management to reward
a newsletter writer like this? Or is it simply just something us
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"> <span style="font-size: small;">...because there are so many things to unlike about the way this placement has gone down, including the way it's been blithely welcomed by an unsuspecting flock of newbie mining sheep, that this humble corner of cyberspace doesn't know which is the cruddiest. A placement which states, loudly and clearly, "serious money please stay away". </span><b> </b></span></div>
Ottohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03069822714021884725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-507788417054293017.post-85973128656620791832020-09-15T10:46:00.001-04:002020-09-15T10:46:50.693-04:00Robert Cudney, scammer of retail investors on social media<div style="text-align: justify;">
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This is how he affords to own a string of racehorses and you don't, by pumping his failures and wasting the money of anyone daft enough to listen to him. A pathetic man who should learn to shut up if he hasn't anything useful to say.</div>
Ottohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03069822714021884725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-507788417054293017.post-46081804361377701132020-09-15T10:36:00.007-04:002020-09-15T10:37:15.278-04:00Luis Miguel Incháustegui is the best Minister of Energy and Mining Peru has had in years<p style="text-align: justify;">He gets opposite sides talking, he solves problems, he understands mining and today he has shown no problem at all in<a href="https://larepublica.pe/politica/2020/09/15/denuncian-que-manuel-merino-ya-armaba-su-gabinete-antes-de-la-vacancia-presidencial/" target="_blank"> pointing to traitors inside the political party of his own family</a> background (his father was also a minister, way back when). He doesn't have the easiest last name for foreign tongues, but get used to hearing it because he's a political star in the making. Peru needed a guy like this in 2020, luckily it found one.<br /></p>Ottohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03069822714021884725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-507788417054293017.post-29575169554885800722020-09-15T08:50:00.003-04:002020-09-15T10:17:53.798-04:00Regarding Eric Sprott and Covid-19<p>From IKN590's intro:</p><p><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Tahoma;">Regarding
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experiences last week was receiving a mail from a “prominent Toronto businessman” (let’s say, without
naming names), who wrote unsolicited to defend Eric Sprott’s position on
Covid-19 being man-made in a Chinese lab. The interaction was interesting,
because the first mail took two paragraphs of business-type flattery of my work
and self-presentation of himself before it finally got to its point (for the record,
I do not know, but the tone of the mails strongly suggests he is Eric’s
personal friend). The tone changed 180° after my three word reply (admittedly
one of the words was “idiot” and I bring these things upon myself deliberately)
because I keep forgetting that I mustn’t talk to somebody as important as he is
like that.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
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</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Tahoma;">Another typical comment I get from
time to time in the mailbox is more negative on Eric Sprott, as a section of
the investment community cannot understand how he got to be so rich. That one
is easier to explain and I find myself defending Mr. Sprott, as my eldest
daughter is good at guitar and my pal David the priest is really good at
speaking in public. Eric Sprott just happens to be very good at timing the gold
market, in fact he’s almost certainly in the world top five. However, being
good at guitar doesn’t stop my daughter from being a grump at times, it has to
be said that David is a bit on the clumsy side and being great at trading gold
doesn’t stop Eric Sprott from being dumb as a rock about science. And yes, you
can cherry pick one Chinese scientist and a viral YouTube video to state
categorically that Covid-19 is man-made; that is your prerogative, but do not
expect to be taken seriously afterward.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
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</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Tahoma;">Just because you want something to
be true does not make it true. If a narrative sounds correct and is appealing
to your worldview it may indeed turn out to be backed by facts, at that point
you can feel confident about bringing it into the debate. However, you need to
investigate it first, because one of the main reasons conspiracy theories are
popular is that they provide the ignorant with a seat at the debate (or at
least it seems to them that way, until they complain they are being ignored due
to Deep State or whatever). You need to know
when you are wrong as well as when you are right and above all, a person with
celebrity for doing one thing well shouldn’t be nefarious with the power that
comes, riding shotgun with their specialist ability. Being good at gold doesn’t
make you good at guitar, neither does it make you a good person and my mailer’s
rich friend in Toronto seems to have forgotten that while he was busy counting
his money. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
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</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Tahoma;">To wrap up and be clear, scientific
investigation has shown Covid-19 is not a synthetic or man-manipulated virus.
It occurred naturally and if you do not believe that you have not done the
reading, this is so simple and obvious it is like disputing whether the sun
will rise in the East or West tomorrow morning. Those that persist in claiming
the contrary are at best ignorant, at worst a threat to their fellow humans and
if you are one of the people tricked by the stupidity of Eric Sprott and his
now indignant friends, that ignorance also applies to you. As for Sprott and
his mail-happy friend, they should both be thoroughly ashamed of themselves.</span></span></p>
<p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>Ottohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03069822714021884725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-507788417054293017.post-31966481083405812622020-09-14T01:03:00.005-04:002020-09-14T01:03:50.878-04:00The IKN Weekly, out now<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAkOypLCTUZxH6Ii1zTuh1vQ0PAmqCUOhCbauD6Lyvvho_8GfCHxwhHEHzB5P2sxgEs3jrBV3NlxXKRJeZ_LR0uOAxonhk4FVoE8Y8cLTSTUa1-Y9BNL_0MdTa6MtSA3hVY-fDZXABexX0/s1200/number_590.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="743" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAkOypLCTUZxH6Ii1zTuh1vQ0PAmqCUOhCbauD6Lyvvho_8GfCHxwhHEHzB5P2sxgEs3jrBV3NlxXKRJeZ_LR0uOAxonhk4FVoE8Y8cLTSTUa1-Y9BNL_0MdTa6MtSA3hVY-fDZXABexX0/s320/number_590.png" width="320" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p>IKN590 has just been sent to subscribers. It contains opinions on mining companies. <br /></p>Ottohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03069822714021884725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-507788417054293017.post-88777125863000235212020-09-12T20:45:00.002-04:002020-09-12T22:29:54.485-04:00First Energy Metals (FE.cse) are obviously disgusting scammers...<div style="text-align: justify;">
...and it's not just the contents of the NR you see below that makes it clear, it's also the fact they just published at 7pm on a Saturday evening. Hey Gurminder, why bury your crud post-close Friday when you can do it while all the brokerage anal ysts are out disco dancing, right? Therefore this humble corner of cyberspace, whose Dear Leader just happens to be at his desk writing things, believes more people should see this NR and those people include the ASC, OSC and BCSC who need to look into the recent volume increase and sales by Anonymous into the newsletter pump.</div>
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<a href="https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/first-energy-metals-announces-independence-property-results-803001278.html" target="_blank"><b>Anyway, here's the NR that</b> t</a>hese pond scum life forms disguised as human beings tried to bury, your humble scribe aiding readers' eyes by adding some red ink to the important bits and pieces:</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>First Energy Metals Announces Independence Property Results</b></span></div>
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<span class="xn-location">VANCOUVER, BC</span>, <span class="xn-chron">Sept. 12, 2020</span> /CNW/ - First Energy Metals Ltd. (CSE: FE) ("First Energy" or the "Company) would like to announce it that it has received assay results from <span class="xn-chron">July 2020</span>
exploration work on Independence Gold Property located in the
Southeastern BC. The results of 15 grab rock samples and 3 sediment
samples collected from the Property indicate low values of gold, silver,
and base metals with only one grab rock sample assayed 1.1 grams per
tonne gold. <span style="color: red;"><u><b>The Company has decided not to pursue further exploration
work on this property. </b></u></span></div>
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In addition,<span style="color: red;"> </span><u><b><span style="color: red;">the Company has engaged GRA Enterprises LLC</span> </b></u>in
association with the National Inflation Association ("NIA") to advance
investor knowledge of First Energy's existing property portfolio. NIA
was launched during the 2008/2009 global financial crisis with a goal of
helping educate the public about monetary policy and how the Federal
Reserve's policies impact interest rates leads to price distortions,
malinvestment, asset bubbles, and income/wealth inequality. NIA provides
its members with information about the global economy and financial
markets that the mainstream media refuses to discuss. NIA advocates for a
return to the gold standard and provides analysis of the precious
metals market while profiling publicly traded gold and silver
mining/exploration companies that could be positioned to thrive during
an inflationary environment<span style="color: red;"> <u><b>GRA Enterprises LLC will be compensated up
to <span class="xn-money">$35,000 USD</span></b></u></span> for its partnership and advisory services for a term of six months.</div>
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<span class="xn-person">Afzaal Pirzada</span>, P.Geo., Geological Consultant of the Company, and a "Qualified Person" for the purposes of National Instrument 43-101 - <i>Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects</i>, has reviewed and approved the scientific and technical information contained in this news release.</div>
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<b>About First Energy Metals Limited.</b></div>
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First Energy Metals Limited is a junior resource company engaged in
the exploration and development of precious and energy metals such as
lithium, cobalt, gold and silver within its property portfolio in <span class="xn-location">North America</span>.
The Company's goal is to acquire prospective technology and precious
metals properties and develop them. The Company currently holds an
option to acquire 100% interest in Phyllis Cobalt property in <span class="xn-location">Ontario</span>. The Company has recently acquired Scramble Mine Gold Property in <span class="xn-location">Ontario</span>, and two gold exploration properties (Kokanee Creek and Independence Gold properties) located in the Province of <span class="xn-location">British Columbia, Canada</span>. First Energy Metals Limited (formerly "Agave Silver ") was incorporated on <span class="xn-chron">October 12, 1966</span> in the Province of <span class="xn-location">British Columbia</span>.
The Company's common shares trade on the Canadian Securities Exchange
(CSE) under the symbol FE and are also listed on the US OTC Markets
(Pink) as ASKDF and on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange as A2JC89.</div>
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ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF <br />
<b>FIRST ENERGY METALS LTD.</b></div>
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<b><i>"Gurminder Sangha"</i></b><span class="xn-person">Gurminder Sangha</span> <br />
President & Chief Executive Officer</div>
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For further information please contact the Company at: gsangha@firstenergymetals.com</blockquote>
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Ottohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03069822714021884725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-507788417054293017.post-82448170605684870292020-09-11T20:05:00.004-04:002020-09-11T20:11:59.822-04:00Mexican's view of Equinox Gold (EQX)<p> I cannot blame them.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVMGUKSiwoXdZzSDr9U1lxPhv7Z7abdLc-BIQU4gODsQ8lnPw7EJW9jD0WruKP4noFW80oQJ61UgeI6mlebAvKFO5Qt_7XOtYqVdOpVN94KPgdF8SMtYdA3H549Q50KiKtwuTTvEFRiee_/s700/entrada-equinox.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="519" data-original-width="700" height="463" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVMGUKSiwoXdZzSDr9U1lxPhv7Z7abdLc-BIQU4gODsQ8lnPw7EJW9jD0WruKP4noFW80oQJ61UgeI6mlebAvKFO5Qt_7XOtYqVdOpVN94KPgdF8SMtYdA3H549Q50KiKtwuTTvEFRiee_/w625-h463/entrada-equinox.jpg" width="625" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.sinembargo.mx/10-09-2020/3855667" target="_blank">From here</a>, a report that makes EQX look like a very poor corporate citizen.<br /></p>Ottohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03069822714021884725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-507788417054293017.post-67640794868873997432020-09-11T09:02:00.001-04:002020-09-11T09:02:20.766-04:00 Ecuador: An explosive supply chain issue (from IKN589)<p style="text-align: justify;">As Lundin Gold (LUG.to) seems to prefer to keep its shareholders in the dark about the supply chain issues that are about to close operations down, IKN will have to suffice. From last Sunday evening's edition of The IKN Weekly, IKN589:<br /></p><p> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Tahoma;"></span></b></span></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Tahoma;">Ecuador</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Tahoma;">: An explosive supply chain issue</span></b></span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Tahoma;">These pages
have noted that Ecuador is
the mini-Basket Case of South America (Argentina’s crown is undisputed)
and that it’s not as easy to do mining business there as in normal countries.
The last two weeks have provided a case study, thanks to a quasi-State run
company that you’ve almost certainly never heard of called Explocen. This is is
Ecuador’s only national explosives manufacturer and covers around 60% of the
country market, with only two other companies allowed o import explosives into
the country. Explocen also supplies the needs of industry and non-metallic
mining, but its main customers are mining entities large and small, from small
artisan miners to the largest operations in the country, such as ESCA Mirador
copper mine the Holcim cement company or the Lundin Gold Fruta del Norte gold
mine.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Tahoma;">At the end
of May and as part of the Covid-19 crisis, Explocen laid off five of its
workers and paid them redundancy of U$1,200 each after 25 years of service.
This pittance of a separation pay detonated (pardon the pun) a strike by its
workforce that continues to this day, as even though Ecuador’s government has
deemed the strike illegal the workers remain out and have even set up a picket
line with camp kitchen outside the factory. Employees haven’t budged an inch
and neither has the company, the result being a worsening of the industrial
action and on July 13<sup>th</sup> employees began an all-out strike that has
totally shuttered the company factories. Up to now there’s been little heard on
this outside of inner Ecuador mining circles, but that’s now changing and we’re
at the point were on August 27<sup>th</sup>, Lundin Gold (LUG.to) wrote to
President Lenín Moreno (8) to state that the lack of explosives provision had
caused their stocks to dwindle and supply was tight. LUG went on to warn that
if the Explocen situation were not resolved soon it would have “important
impacts on production and exportation of Fruta del Norte gold. That was 11 days
ago, nothing has changed since then.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Tahoma;">The answer,
you might think, would be simply to import a lot more explosives. True for a
normal country, but in the mini Basket Case those who specialize in the field
say it will take around three months to comply with the paperwork and
documentation required for extra explosives imports even to arrive in Ecuador to
cover the shortfall. Moral: Stick to countries that understand mining.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-size: small;"></span></p>Ottohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03069822714021884725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-507788417054293017.post-51713509631116493752020-09-10T17:50:00.001-04:002020-09-10T17:51:12.804-04:00Wishing Keith Neumeyer and Eric Sprott the fortune they deserve...<p style="text-align: justify;"> ...in their new collaboration and Grant Beasley is poorer than both of them. So am I, but it doesn't eat me the way it does a vacuous soul whose only obvious pleasures are owning money and a set of wheels and even then, he's too much of a coward to take them out when it snows. Should have bought an Audi.<br /></p>Ottohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03069822714021884725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-507788417054293017.post-26354210168932182562020-09-10T12:46:00.000-04:002020-09-10T12:46:02.790-04:00Baby shark doo doo doo doo doo doo...<div style="text-align: justify;">
Baby shark doo doo doo doo doo doo</div>
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Baby shark doo doo doo doo doo doo</div>
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Baby shark.</div>
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Marlin Gold doo doo doo doo doo doo</div>
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Trinidad doo doo doo doo doo doo</div>
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Marlin Gold doo doo doo doo doo doo</div>
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Trinidad.</div>
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Blame the rain doo doo doo doo doo doo</div>
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Blame the rain doo doo doo doo doo doo</div>
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Blame the rain doo doo doo doo doo doo</div>
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Blame the rain.</div>
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Not the truth doo doo doo doo doo doo</div>
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Akiba doo doo doo doo doo doo</div>
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Not the truth doo doo doo doo doo doo</div>
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Akiba.</div>
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Run away doo doo doo doo doo doo</div>
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Run away doo doo doo doo doo doo</div>
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Run away doo doo doo doo doo doo</div>
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Run away.</div>
Ottohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03069822714021884725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-507788417054293017.post-31165459465373531762020-09-10T12:19:00.000-04:002020-09-10T12:19:31.715-04:00The rumour on Regulus (REG.v) is...<div style="text-align: justify;">
...that they've secured a Strategic Partner. This was supposed to happen last year and nearly did, but for some reason the other party pulled out at the last minute. Anyway, it's supposed to happen this time and with Gold Fields (GFI), which at least makes logistical sense and as GFI is also a Strategic with REG's cousin company Chakana Copper (PERU.v), there's precedent. Consider this rumour "likely but not certain", if you want to know more ask Pete Panda at CEOca, he's the one with direct access to John Black these days.</div>
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