08th June 2006
Dr. Boen Tan and Rick Mazur of Forum Development (TSX: FDC) helped explain the geology of the uranium deposits in Canada's Athabasca Basin. They told us:
Unconformity-type uranium deposits are among the richest and largest in comparison to other urani...
08th June 2006
Nearly 80 percent of the world's operating commercial reactors were built more than 15 years ago. The nuclear renaissance, since 2002, has been driven by the anticipated evolutionary shift from one reactor design to a later generation. Most of the world's...
08th June 2006
One of the related reasons helping to drive the current uranium bull market higher is the "once-through" use of uranium. The world's largest commercial consumers of U3O8 are the U.S. utilities. Because of government policies established thirty years ago, ...
08th June 2006
The Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) technology may trump the Generation III designs, and possibly compete with Generation IV head-to-head. PBMR is a High Temperature Reactor (HTR) technology conceived in the 1950s, and developed in Germany in the 1970s....
08th June 2006
The Chinese plan a 200 megawatt production plant by 2007 and have firm plants for thirty PBMR plants by 2020, providing 6 gigawatts. Reports have also been made that China hopes to deploy up to 300 gigawatts of reactors by 2050. By comparison, the world's...
08th June 2006
Encircled by nearly 20 gold mines in one of the world's most prolific gold-producing regions, Evolving Gold may be in the pole position for the Sleeper Success Story of 2006. Surrounding Evolving Gold's Winnemucca Mountain gold property are world-class go...
08th June 2006
But despite the excitement of its exploration team, Santa Fe stopped drilling for gold on the Winnemucca property in the late 1980s. We asked CEO Dr. Lawrence Dick for an explanation. "It's hard to imagine, but that's the case with many properties held by...
08th June 2006
The Generation IV reactors are still on the drawing boards. Six design selections were made in early 2005. The group is still growing. As we were going to press, the European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM) formally joined the other ten members of GIF –...
08th June 2006
Which project gets Norman Burmeister talking breathlessly? Ask him about the company's Kilgore gold property in southeastern Idaho. "I'm very excited about this project," said Burmeister. "It was a property that was very high on Echo Bay's list. At the ti...
08th June 2006
A preliminary structural investigation by Stanton W. Caddey, a highly respected geological consultant, concluded in an October (2003) report:
"The Kilgore prospect area represents a high quality gold project, much of which remains to be drill tested. ...
04th June 2006
Bad weather may be heading our way. Many very smart voices have raised their volume over the number of alarming red flags pointing to a worldwide environmental catastrophe coming in a few years or decades hence. One voice, coming from the sharp mind of Ja...
03rd June 2006
Having read through the May 23rd newsletter "Energy and Capital," we were astounded to read about Mike Schaeffer's favorite coalbed methane (CBM) stock, Pacific Asia China Energy (TSX: PCE). The widely read CBM guru aggressively argues PCE will become a m...
29th May 2006
Summary: Dr. Lorne Tyrrell pioneered lamivudine as the standard treatment for hepatitis B virus (HBV). Now a success, he observed the drug's shortcomings. Now CEO of ViRexx Medical, Tyrrell hopes his latest development, Chimigen, will offer new hope for H...
28th May 2006
Summary: Dr. Lorne Tyrrell pioneered lamivudine as the standard treatment for hepatitis B virus (HBV). Now a success, he observed the drug's shortcomings. Now CEO of ViRexx Medical, Tyrrell hopes his latest development, Chimigen, will offer new hope for H...
26th May 2006
Summary: Over the past seven years, Mitchell Drilling has pioneered the Dymaxion drilling technology in Australia. Reports indicate they can extract coalbed methane (CBM) gas for as low as $1.10/mcf. Having drilled more than 250 wells across Australia, Mi...
