What does a shrinking supply and skyrocketing demand equal? It equals happy investors if you can get in before the public participation phase. Right now, savvy investors are in the accumulation phase of the next massive resource trend, graphite.  China controls much of the world’s graphite mines (about 75%), but a few solid companies outside of China will be well positioned to capitalize on this trend.  Some analyst say investing in graphite will be a fad, some call it a fundamental change in the resource industry, whatever you call it, there is no reason you can’t profit.

The key to capitalizing on a graphite investment now is to identify the explorers and miners who are established now.

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After I wrote in January the US $ strengthened another 2.5 cents to 1.262 on January 12th. That was our short term US $ high vs the Euro. Now we are sitting at 1.328, a six cent move in about 5 weeks. The currencies fluctuate on every piece of news that comes out of Europe and the US.  Will the Euro survive? If it does will all the existing Euro nations still be using it or will countries like Greece exit?

Happy New Year to my Valued Readers & my almost 1600 Twitter Followers!

Well the Euro continues to lose value against the US dollar. I thought the channel at 1.3250 may hold but no such luck. We have now seen the Euro bounce off the 1.2864 resistance level and we will see if it holds.  If the Euro keeps tanking we will see more pressure on the stock market.

All the year end selling was done last week and now we have the seasonal rise in the market. RRSPs are often topped up before the end of February and people use the contributions to buy investments.  I would also guess that there is a lot of $$ sitting on the sidelines waiting for the markets to tell them it is time for a run. 

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I should have waited one more day I guess!

After the market closed, Passport Energy released news, and big news!

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As many of you know kids can keep you very busy and looking at declining markets everyday doesn't really inspire me to write. Well today I bring you a new sponsor, two new picks and an update! My newsletter will always be free and I appreciate all that respond to our sponsor's e-Bulletin. Good luck in the sponsor's give aways!

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VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - June 30, 2011) - Rockland Minerals Corp. (TSX VENTURE:RL) (the "Company") is pleased to announce that follow-up field work is underway on the northern block of the Schefferville Gold Property, using recently flown data from a low altitude (10 meter altitude, 2.5 meter sampling rate) "draped" heli-borne magnetometer survey on a 50-meter spaced grid, flown by Novatem Inc.

The Schefferville Gold Project lies within the 2.7 Ga Ashuanipi Metamorphic Province (2.7 Ga) of the Archean-age Superior Craton. In the mid-1980's Québec government regional lake-bottom geochemical surveys revealed strong arsenic-gold geochemical anomalies northwest of Schefferville. The old-timers, panning the creeks in the region, had not seen "colour" in their gold pans, due to the atomic-scale dissemination of gold within arsenopyrite. Weathering of the Ashuanipi gold mineralization simply did not create nuggets at the earth's surface, and this mineralization lay undiscovered. Only one wave of exploration followed the government discovery, in the late 1980's, and consisted of channel sampling, and a few shallow drill holes by Québec juniors VIOR-Mazarin, and by IOC. VIOR-Mazarin reported +1 g/t Au diamond drill intercepts at the Arséne in the northern block, and at Lac Lilois in the southern block. The first focus of Rockland's 2011 geological field work is on a new area, the Rusty Acres, which has never been drilled. Here, several clusters of +1 g/t Au historic surface samples in outcropping rusty, iron-formations are seen on the compilation map.

Rockland controls the best prospects in the district by first optioning 100% of E.D. Black's Ashuanipi Claims (southern block) and by earning a 55% interest in the Schefferville Gold Project claims, in both the northern and southern blocks, with Joint Venture partner Western Troy Capital Resources Inc. (45%) (TSX VENTURE:WRY).

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There are times when you look back on stocks on your watch list and you wonder why did I not buy that stock? When this happens, many times over the last few years for the same stock, it is just sad. I'm talking about Endeavour Silver Corp ( EDR TSX ) which I pondered buying and featuring a few years back at .40/share. The company is now trading at $7.34 and I'm still kicking myself. Bradford Cooke is the CEO of the company and has grown the company to be a several million oz/year silver producer.

I was informed that their group was doing a new IPO but this time the focus would be on gold.