Recession? What recession?

March 17, 2008
Greetings investors.
Call me an old fuddy duddy, but I was taught to wait for two consecutive quarters of negative growth before raising the recession flag, We haven’t even had one.
Nor have unemployment levels come close to the peak reached during the last recession in 2001.
And hey, what’s with the bookies over in Chicago betting the farm on a [...]

Semester-end course breakdown, Part 1

It’s been a while. Frankly I’ve just been being lazy. This semester isn’t particularily onerous, which goes a ways towards explaining why I haven’t been putting forth much effort. It’s far too easy to fall into complacency when I’m not so busy that I have no time. On the plus side, I’ve finally caught up [...]

Hogs n Boars, Logs n Cores

 
Core Logging, Sinaloa, Mexico, not saying where:
 
There has been a big black and white pig waiting for me I think every morning. It waits by a gate at the house next to our “compound” – (the drillers live in a row of rooms in a little house next to the house I live in and [...]

Old Camp Stove

Sinaloa, March? Friday? 2008  I ran away from my company, from corporate, from data and computers, sections and 43-101 reports. I wanted to log core and that is what I am doing.  I’m not saying where or for whom or what the type of mineralization it is, but I am in Mexico. Every morning I [...]

TiRex hits monster hole in Albania

March 4, 2008
Greetings investors.
We got news yesterday from a popular BarkerLetter pick, TiRex Resources Ltd. (TXX.TSX-V), which has an active precious and base metals project in southeastern Europe (Albania to be precise).
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again - ‘ … ay caramba!’
The results of the first round of drilling at the Mirdita project are among [...]

Cashing in on zinc

March 3
Greetings investors!
Last spring we wrote up Aussie zinc producer Zinifex Ltd. , based on the long term pricing fundamentals and the company’s immediate prospects for enhancing its reserves.
We’re advising investors to sell on the heels of a successful takeover offer by rival base metals producer Oxiana Ltd. The company is buying Zinifex at a 14% premium (all [...]