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A Report to Trader Dan From the Trenches

Dear Mr. Norcini,

Let me start by sincerely thanking you for your work at JSMineset, it is an integral part of the site and your commentary and charts are impressive.

I often provide "trench" updates to Mr. Sinclair as I run my family business which is an industrial hardware store.  To expand on that

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In The News Today

DJ Tanzania To Add 240 MW To National Grid In 18 Months -Paper

Fri. October 09, 2009; Posted: 05:27 AM

Tanzania will add around 240 megawatts of power to its national grid in the next 18 months as it seeks to ease the country-wide power shortage, the Citizen Newspaper reports Friday.

Plans were

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With Commodity Prices Trending Upward, Near-Surface Mine Development and Royalty Model Become Options for Junior Explorers

Dear CIGAs,

The contemporary wisdom that “bigger is better” has taken a well-deserved beating since the credit crisis unfolded and destroyed some of the world’s largest financial institutions in its wake.

With large-scale project financing options limited or non-existent because of the credit crisis, many of the smaller players in the global mining industry

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In The News Today

Jim Sinclair’s Commentary

This is for starters.

CBO: Budget deficit hit record $1.4T in 2009 By ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press Writer Andrew Taylor, Associated Press Writer – Wed Oct 7, 7:02 pm ET

WASHINGTON – The federal budget deficit tripled to a record $1.4 trillion for the 2009 fiscal year that ended last week,

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Jim’s Bloomberg Interview

Dear CIGAs,

As mentioned the other day, I was interviewed on Bloomberg. An MP3 copy of the interview is linked below.

Click here to download the interview in MP3 format…

A Leading Economic Indicator: Lumber

Dear Friends,

The more I look at the US equity markets and compare that to the world of Main Street, the more convinced I am that this nearly vertical rally in the equities is the result of funny money plowing into stocks which has little significance to the average citizen on the street who

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Jim’s Mailbox

Total Consumer Credit Outstanding:  The Consumer Credit Bubble Has Popped. By CIGA Eric, 10/8/09

TOTALSL, Total Consumer Credit Outstanding for September was $2462.7B.  This represents the sixth consecutive negative year-over-year (YOY) contraction.  Also, the -4.5% contraction (logarithmic) is the largest YOY contraction since the inception of the series in 1943.  Please do not be

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Hourly Action In Gold From Trader Dan

Dear CIGAs,

It would appear that the decision by the Reserve Bank of Australia to raise interest rates has set a fire under the Aussie and added further to the bullish tone in regards to the entire Asian currency block. It soared to just shy of the 90 level early last evening when news

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