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Carnival time for Bush and the dollar

Greetings investors
Don’t you love the doublespeak we get from Washington?
Last year President Bush made a scarcely publicised trip to South America, visiting Brazil and Colombia while studiously avoiding Venezuela. We were told he was there to talk about ethanol production, remember?
Yeah, and another purple cow just flew by!
We haven’t heard much about ethanol, but Brazil announced this week it was [...]

My fave sleeper silver play

Greetings investors.
Here’s our current fave, a real sleeper called Fortuna Silver Mines Inc. (FVI.TSXV), with silver/polymetal assets in Mexico and Peru.
Shares of FVI spiked 25% yesterday on news from its 76% owned San Jose silver-gold deposit in southwest Mexico. It released the best intercepts from drilling that ranged to 4.36 grams gold and 302  grams silver per [...]

South Park, Colorado Mining: Lack of Foresight

The mining industry of Colorado has come to a grand brink in South Park. For those who are unfamiliar, South Park, Colorado is not just a cartoon with foul mouthed kids. It’s an actual place within a region rich in wilderness, beauty, wildlife, and natural resources. The name “South Park” refers to a sequence of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]