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agreed--moron mode is the correct assessment.
I have spent the day researching back painting on glass--that will be fun!
This has been inspired by a beautiful painted fish my Mother left me--which has an iridescent glaze over variant turquoises on the scales.
Bank earnings beat, but the stocks were slammed down. Interesting because trading revenue up because of volatility, but student loans, auto loans, SMB loans and CC all down. Shows where the consumer is heading with this entire economy. As Gregg Mannarino says its all fake.
tia
ECSIF
Current price look good to me but i low on cash , when they release the news things should get interesting. Shorts are in control now
Babby
Do not put in a market order use limit only !!! ECSIF is listed on over the counter so you can get good quotes !! Do not chase it because you have 2 houses that control and short at will . Today it was in the $1.10 range most of day . The next report should be about end of month so you have some time .
I hope to find some cash next week or so but will not hurt the volume in ECSIF
Revised farm would you just buy it at current prices
or with a limit? tia
glad you have done so well with it and for your heirs!
Will give you guys a hint to ownership
After a return phone call from what was FCO [[ name changed to Ecobalt ECS.T / ECSIF ] about 3 years ago i started adding more , started paying about 8 or 9 cents and was buying 5,000 at a time ! I slowed down in the lower Twenty range then added some more up to around $1.10 range .
Hint think i will retire sometime !
oops i gave the Grandkids about 23,000 shares , my guess may pay for all college
Be sitting down when you listen to this !
Cobalt is near the end and is SHOCKING to say the least .
http://www.stockhouse.com/companies/bullboard?symbol=t.ecs&postid=27879702
Everyone knows i give management hell because they act like they have no idea what they are doing but the mine is being built anyway . We have no debt and a few weeks ago they said we still had about $42,000,000.00 that is 42 million in the bank and this will finish the mine and refinery . WE will find out soon how much we still need for the final processing mill soon
Farml--thankyou!
babywildthing
I did own the fortune cobalt mine and then sold after reading what it was going to cost to build it ! They saying 6 to 700,000,000.00 that is millions !!! Who would ever give them that much money is the big question and the location of the mine is not good ! Above the Great Slave Lake in upper Canada .
As for LIC.V they are also after cobalt and Lithium , everyone thinks there will be a surplus of Lithium soon because was easy to get and ramp up ! Cobalt is a different bear hard to find and cost to mine and process and the end users are willing to pay for the product and expect to also pay more for cobalt in times ahead ! Everyone expects the Congo to go full blown civil war soon , 60% of worlds cobalt come from the Congo
Thank you Farml for that--will look into it more....
Little reading on the ECS cobalt mine
Note this was removed from the mining site news that is at the bottom of artical
?????ECS' Primary Cobalt Solution?????
image: http://www.miningnews.net/w-images/1d865ae6-2f68-4467-ac7c-0e30898e2ca9/3/ecobaltSiteView-1680x600.jpeg
http://www.miningnews.net/w-images/1d865ae6-2f68-4467-ac7c-0e30898e2ca9/3/ecobaltSiteView-1680x600.jpeg
Spurred by the surging price of the metal, on the back of already tightening supply, eCobalt has channelled new and longstanding global investor support to rapidly advance work on a number of fronts and get the only permitted US cobalt mine ready to move forward into production in 2020.
The company's optimized feasibility study (OFS), due for release this quarter, is focused on process and cost optimization but also maximizing offtake opportunities from production of a clean cobalt concentrate from the Idaho Cobalt Project (ICP), a change from the earlier emphasis on more refined output.
"Strong demand and changing dynamics has presented us with alternative upstream product opportunities to evaluate that can potentially result in optimization of the flowsheet at the company's hydrometallurgical cobalt production facility [at Blackfoot, Idaho], and its operating and capital costs," says eCobalt president and CEO Paul Farquharson.
Speaking with RESOURCEStocks ahead of the OFS release, Farquharson says the company's 2017 feasibility study provided a strong platform on which to launch the proposed US$187 million Idaho Cobalt Project's (ICP) final pre-production phase. That study showed a pre-tax NPV of US$136 million (using a 7.5% discount rate) and plus-21% IRR could be generated with cobalt at $26.65/lb - a price now well back in the rear-view mirror - and the average life-of-mine net cash costs for cobalt from the Idaho concentrator at circa US$5/lb.
At $35/lb cobalt, which will produce about 75% of ICP's revenue, the project has a $245 million NPV and 31% IRR. Add $14.4 million to after-tax NPV and 1.3% to IRR with every $1/lb gain in the cobalt price and it's no wonder eCobalt's project has become the world's standout primary cobalt producer in waiting.
If it was currently producing its initial circa-2,000 tonnes per annum of cobalt, with planned copper and gold by-products, ICP would be generating a handsome US$68 million a year of free cash flow and about $90 million EBITDA, based on the 2017 feasibility numbers (forecast for the first few years).
And cobalt (and copper and gold) prices are not the only things changing this outlook for the better.
Under proposed changes to US corporate tax rates, eCobalt is set to pay about 21% less tax during the life of the ICP than previously expected.
The company is seeing significant opportunities for capital and operating cost improvements in mine and processing optimization work in progress, while an additional five million pounds of cobalt in the recently announced revised resource model is expected to bolster the new reserve model in the OFS.
Farquharson says work on the OFS has it on track for delivery this quarter.
"We are working with Micon and SNC, so things are moving along well," he says.
"We also now have our equipment supplier present at the pilot tests so all input for manufacture of equipment will happen in a timely manner as well."
Concurrent with the reserve modelling (on the back of 2016-17 drilling results), eCobalt is fine-tuning its mine planning which is now focused on the use of the cut-and-fill method, instead of the long-hole stoping first envisaged, to extract 2.5m-by-4m stope blocks (versus 30m-by-100m earlier), which will have a major impact on dilution levels and the type (higher grade) and predictability (better) of ore being delivered to the mill.
Farquharson says the use of a sweeping ramp instead of a spiral decline will also favourably impact mine access and haulage economics and safety, while eCobalt's focus on producing clean cobalt concentrate rather than the cobalt sulphate heptahydrate in the 2017 FS should simplify its process flow sheet.
The previous study had the ICP 800tpd underground mine producing an average 2.4 million lb of cobalt per annum, 3.3Mlbpa of copper and 3,000ozpa of gold over a 12.5 year mine life, with that projected life only based on eCobalt's Ram deposit, near Salmon in central Idaho. The company has effectively only explored about 7% of its total claims on the Idaho Cobalt Belt, while the Ram resource remains open at depth and along strike. Drilling will continue from underground.
At least a dozen known targets exist elsewhere on eCobalt's considerable land package, including areas where historic drilling has returned intercepts with grades higher than the cut-off grade for the Ram deposit.
"The ICP would be a vertically integrated project designed to produce cobalt chemicals for the rechargeable batteries market in addition to by-products of copper concentrate, copper sulphate, magnesium sulphate and gold," eCobalt says.
Farquharson says the recent feasibility study "fundamentally de-risks" the project, while the optimization study results will open the door to final project financing and product offtake talks.
"We have been receiving strong interest for offtake from various parties across the battery supply chain since the release of the economic results of the feasibility study in addition to advancing discussions with the parties that we have engaged over the past year," he says.
"But cobalt's use in a number of growing markets - from superalloys to vitamins - means there is interest from a wide range of parties in a clean cobalt concentrate product and we are talking to all these parties, not just those in the battery supply chain.
"Producing a more upstream, less refined product opens up numerous avenues for revenue generation from our production."
Farquharson says eCobalt has hosted multiple parties on site as part of recent due diligence activities.
"Discussions are ongoing. [Site visitors] are in the data room reviewing the FS and bench-scale tests."
The tests successfully removed 99% of arsenic from Ram underground material.
"Pilot level tests are currently underway, results from which will be released in the next few weeks," Farquharson says.
"We're in a fortunate position with a lot of interest for our product, and we're taking a cautious approach to ensure the deal we commit to is one that will benefit the company and shareholders over the long term."
With some sort of offtake deal sure to be part of eCobalt's ICP financing mix, the company is also nearing key decisions on full project finance.
"When we release the OFS in Q2 this document will be the basis for our production decision and we will be able to then determine the best financing structure for the long term success of the project," Farquharson says.
"In addition to putting together the financing structure, throughout the spring and summer we will be completing all environmental systems so that we can commence underground development in Q318.
"We have the main permits in hand which are the Record of Decision approving the plan of operations and the water discharge NPDES permit. All other permits are applications that are made when we ramp up from pre-construction to construction, such as road use, building permit, etc. These are relatively straightforward permits to obtain and are more administrative in nature.
"The major permits are already in place."
The company recently raised about C$30 million of equity funding via a successful raise that drew significant interest from institutional level investors in North America, Australia, Europe and Asia. It is fully funded through its pre-development phase.
With cobalt prices recently surging past 10-year highs, higher asset values in the sector have been reflected in a range of transactions over the past 12 months. High-quality, primary cobalt producers in safe, stable jurisdictions are a rarity in the space.
eCobalt has already spent more than US$120 million advancing the ICP to its current stage. Now it has assembled a formidable technical and site leadership group.
All of which puts a question mark next to eCobalt's recent share-price gyrations, which have seen it touch a low of C$1.26 this year after opening 2018 at $2.07. It's currently trading around $1.40.
Farquharson isn't overly concerned.
"We're seeing typical share price behaviour," he says.
"A decrease when an equity financing is announced, and as we are finalizing the OFS - the market is waiting for those details.
"We have several milestones coming up as we move towards production, [including] results from the pilot tests, the new OFS, equipment being delivered to site such as the water treatment plant and finalizing off-take agreements.
"That will hopefully contribute to a proper valuation of the company in the market.
"The demand for cobalt continues to grow.
"Automotive companies such as Volkswagen and BMW have recently announced their intent to source cobalt from the producers themselves to secure future supply.
"Major cobalt producers such as Glencore recently announced ramping up cobalt production. But even doubling their current cobalt production would not meet expected electric vehicle demand.
"World mine production of cobalt in 2016 was estimated to be 123,000 tonnes. Glencore estimated that at least 285,000t of additional cobalt production would be required to make 30% of new vehicles electric by 2030."
http://www.miningnews.net/resourcestocks-company-profiles/resourcestocks/1335519/ecs-primary-cobalt-solution
Please God--may it happen soon
GW exposed them for this some months back--but then--- no-one paid attention to what he said--GW has been the canary...
I mean Trump and McCain along with Graham have been battling thru out the election until the present. How many millions of innocent lives have been lost because of our horrible policies and now we want more? WTF
Add in Big Pharma with their monopoly owning our healthcare industry. I've witnessed it first hand in my family with the prescribe everything and anything with little regard for the patient. Its why MNKD gets blocked in the diabetes field. Sick people like wars are big business. No need to cure just treat and make sure the treatment has plenty of side effects so hospitalization, surgeries and more doctor visits are the norm. Disgusting.
awful hypi...all I know to do is pray and tell others what I know..
and may Corsi be correct..treason to many!!
I have 3 friends all AF academy grads and you don't want to know what's going on in Syria. These guys were Lt Colonels with 2 now retired and one working with Natick Labs. Do you know there are no AK45 or 47 I don't know which one that manufactures in US. The movie War Dogs is a good one to see. Lindsey Graham and scumbag McCain have a manufacturing company in Bulgaria that makes these weapons of the terrorists. They then went to ISIS in Syria because those are the preferred weapons. Syria is an absolute shit show. We armed the insurgents and have been a major player to over throw Assaad. I can go on and on with some of this shit. War is big bucks and we all know that already. MIC calls the shots and why those two guys McCain and Graham hate Trump so bad. Lock 'em up!
Today's stick save at the close in the markets.
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/^VIX?p=^VIX
former ambassador embarrasses the BBC
I need a diagram....liar upon liar upon liars
fireworks--OIG report and comments per Sundance:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/04/13/breaking-doj-inspector-general-michael-horowitz-releases-oig-report-on-andrew-mccabe/#comments
wow--well done
you have been busy...
Thank you!
Major things happening.
Russia says Atlanticists staged Syria chemical attack - This is the Russian Foreign Minister who is not know to lie.
Briefing from the Russian DOD .. telling about the chemical weapons hoax.
They are now calling it outright a hoax.
The Russia oriented sites are beginning to be taken off-line. SouthFront is disappeared from Facebook. But I happen to know that they worked hard on hardening their sites since 2 weeks ago. Fort-Russ was down this morning but they are up again now. Over at the Saker I know 2 techs have been working on hardening for weeks now and his servers are in a 'vault' in Iceland. They are so far staying up. Russia-Insider is still up but read them with caution. All the personal blogs and smaller sites are really struggling. The disappearing of the information has started.
Russia is directly accusing Britain of creating this false flag and implicating the US.
Syria said this morning that if the US shoots at them, they will now shoot back under some 'defense' clause that they claimed this morning in the UN. For years they've tolerated the US there - so, now they are saying they will defend themselves.
New information is out about how many US troops and contractors are really there and the numbers are staggering. I've lost the report now (US leaked report) but will look for it again.
The Saker is publishing every video and translators are translating as fast as they can.
http://thesaker.is/latest-articles/
Briefing by official representative of Russian Defence Ministry Major General Igor Konashenkov Full Transcript
There is a load of more information coming down. Looks like the Russians have chosen today to leak, and leak big.
I checked CNN and BBC but you will not find much of this on mainstream - BBC has a article Syria crisis: UN chief says Cold War is back that just continues calling everything 'grotesque lies' but of course has no link for anyone to listen to the lies firsthand.
All of this is being disappeared fast. But of course, they cannot disappear the UNSC statements by the various countries.
and
Why We May Be Headed For Another ‘Minsky Moment’
https://thefelderreport.com/2018/04/12/why-we-may-be-headed-for-another-minsky-moment/
A recent article from Jesse Felder. Quite good IMHO.
and
Join a class-action law suit for truth of Parkland school...
...shooting!
https://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2018/04/13/join-a-class-action-law-suit-for-truth-of-parkland-school-shooting/
dune today on rosenstein
DuneCreature Fri, 04/13/2018 - 13:15 Permalink
Sometimes the Deep State eats its own....
One last, last time for the late arrivals....
~~~))) What The Spooks Actually Do For A Living (((~~~
Act spooky?
Well, yeah. .... That would stand to reason. .. Spooks are rather spooky. Ghost like. ... Never exactly what they claim to be.
But what function do the spooks serve to our nation, any nation? .. Or mighty empire if that's what you fancy your collective, commune or citadel on the hill to be?
The spooks gather dirt.
They are regular slop mops, mop buckets and sometimes very delicate feather dusters. ....... Dirt collectors.
Go to Washington DC from Sticksville Kentucky of Isle Of Idiots Idaho to take a position with the Federal Government and the spooks come dripping out of the proverbial woodwork. .. They will appear out of thin air and ooze out of the heating ducts, monument bases and art galleries. The spooks are very, very interested in these naive newcomers.
The spooks seem to be everywhere and nowhere at all. .. Very illusive.
They are 'not nice people', shall we say.
Robert Merritt - Deep State Control Files
and FYI...........
Control Files? - Those Are Grim Fairy Tales according to your High School Civics 101 class teacher.
Need another example?
The Spooks Can Hack ANYTHING
Then you go to collage or the university and join a secret society and after the initiation and a thorough tormenting and hazing your mentor tells you the dark ugly truth. ...... Spooks are everywhere AND they run the country. ......... You were taught in your silly grade school that you got to elect your senators, judges and presidents and that they work for We The People. .......... Silly children also believe in Santa Claus too.
Me? .... I believe in spooks and Carlos Santana.
Live Hard, Deep State = Dirt Collection = Blackmail = Control Files = A Completely Compromised Corrupt Covertly 'Owned' US Government By.......................The Deep State, Die Free
~ DC v8.8
Sessions and Rosenstein out the door. Sure hope its true!
http://theweek.com/speedreads/767219/trumps-firing-rosenstein-sessions-reportedly-imminent
Syria.
this is an informative @Twitter poster @ThomasWictor
His threads are very interesting.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/984505247719550976.html
and
What price will mankind have to pay for the collapse of the....
...Empire?
https://thesaker.is/what-price-will-mankind-have-to-pay-for-the-collapse-of-the-empire/
Well worth the read....
and
Has Epstein's Island been destroyed?
Discussion here
https://twitter.com/dhobe13/status/984467546018603010
and
food for thought:
Hat Tip!
1
Yes, it is credible. I would say that we have killed more than 500 Russians over there, at least. Maybe -- one thousand? How to calculate them? What "methodology" should we use? Do we count only Russians in the Russian military uniforms?
Let's see. 4-5 years ago, Putin stated that some 5,000-7,000 Russians joined the ISIL, the Islamic state forces. I would put tne number higher. Another 2,000-3,000 accepted the Islamic state employment as accountants, managers, to do some administrative jobs, and some of them left Russia alone, some with their families. Many of these people were hired in Moscow for example, because there are 2 Mil Muslims living in Moscow, another 2 Mil Muslims (or people from "Muslim" regions in Russia) are in Moscow as temporary, seasonal workers, for a very low salary. This info is from the Russian nespapers, particularly Pravda.
Now, you have Russians living in former Soviet states, currently independent states, including those "Muslim" states, and these Russians have dual citizenships, or are living there as Russians with permanent resident cards and work permits. There are about 2,000-3,000 thousands of them in ME now, some as independent contractors, some working for Russia, indirectly, in their services. Then, of course, you have the Russian military over there, Russian state contractors, military contra and Russian security officers in all of these groups involved in this conflict, "monitoring" the situation. No matter where you drop a bomb, some Russians could die.
So, the simple question is -- how many Russian citizens died over there, those with the Russian citizenship?
revised---I asked someone who follows these alternatives very closely--last year what he liked and this is his answer
what tickers do you have for Cobalt miners?
ECS.TO & FT.TO are the two that interest me & I recently added LIC.V, although I'm not interested enough in it to do a proper workup on it!
http://www.stockhouse.com/companies/bullboard/t.ecs/ecobalt-solutions-inc
Revised 15 min new Q
Here it is
http://www.ecobalt.com
ECS.T / ECSIF American symbole
What They Said - Check The Facts
RNC comes out with new website...
https://lyincomey.com/
and
scroll down and the picture of msnbc and 5 people
would like everyone to hear what Jeffery Sachs is
saying but not sure how
https://twitter.com/JeffDSachs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tfmetalsreport.com%2Fpodcast%2F8943%2Ftfmr-podcast-thursday-april-12%3Fpage%3D1%23new
remember Wesley Clark
hopefully you have or will have sun....
I have found I can handle most everything when the sun is out
clif high has mentioned a mini ice age could be happening..he mentioned it last year..being a cycle it takes time
it is snowing here again this morning...no spring at all
the next couple of election cycles should be awful imo...
lots of postring, lies, pg, what other words can I use..especially as the dems looking to take over the repubs spots..
will the election review ..does Horowitz have that..will that review
make a difference..who knows
but I am going to try hard to ignore most of it
farm, I turned 70 last Thanksgiving..I can do alot but don't have
the faintest about doing a home page..great for you..
unfortunately no desire either..
instead I am wondering about planting parsnips :)
and I found a morel mushroom in the same place as I found a couple
last fall in my yard...miracles continue daily. thank you.
https://ballotpedia.org/List_of_U.S._Congress_incumbents_who_are_not_running_for_re-election_in_2018
List of U.S. Congress incumbents who are not running for re-election in 2018
and related stats
Former UK Ambassador to Syria: Syrian Chemical Weapons Attack Was STAGED By Islamic Jihadi Propagandists, No One Actually Died
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-04-11/former-uk-ambassador-syria-syrian-chemical-weapons-attack-was-staged-islamic-jihadi
another one?
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-04-13/one-germanys-richest-men-just-disappeared-swiss-alps
we were up there actually-- the trip up the mountain to the Pointe D'Aguille is a scary experience. Then there is another lift across from the top of the Mattherhorn into Italy--we did not go...
could not count the places to get lost but most of these skiers wear avalanche alarms---especially at this time of the year?
you young kids it is a piece of cake to make changes
LOL
I have little clue actually...
glad you are getting things back to working.
They changed my homepage , i did not do it !
I just now got things going , had to update drivers and several work around , not as easy to get started as it was but at least it works. Guess all the automatic updates do not work sometimes.
I see Firefox left Google and went to Yahoo and that started the ball rolling as nothing worked. Yahoo mail also wanted me to change my settings on privacy and i would not do that so , gave me a warning things may not work so i got a double barrel problem.
I'm only 70 years old so things a alot harder computer wise , you young kids it is a piece of cake to make changes
an article from elsewhere about the coming of the anti-christ
http://www.wittenberg2017.us/uploads/3/0/1/6/30164961/a_short_tale_of_the_anti-christ_-_by_vladimir_soloviev.pdf
the blackstone intelligence newwork re o and syria
Joseph Farrell 4/12/18
12min
well that makes one aspect clear
I want to see the opened indictment!
what exactly did they did they you?
am very interested to know...
Good China trade history with US.
http://news.goldseek.com/GoldenJackass/1523563200.php
Yep Ryan been running scared since Trump won the damn nomination. He is a total Deep State junkie and we have known that for years. I mean ran with Mittens who is also a crook from Bain Capital. Disgusting crew who would buy up companies, take them private, load them up with debt, fire off and outsource the jobs and then take them public again. Total Crook Mitt and looked at like a great businessman. Scumbags and MFers!
them dirty bastards at yahoo
them son of a bitches should rot in hell almost as bad a MSFT and there fucking windows 10 with spell correct
Trump always on the defense and must change that situation. The guy should be fired not met with at this point in time.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-12/trump-meets-no-2-doj-official-as-aides-seek-to-defuse-tensions
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