David Bending has supplied mining claims to penny stocks to be used for pump&dumps going back like 15 years. Just judging by the history of those penny stocks I'd conclude that most (if not all) of the mining claims were pretty much worthless (in terms of actually being worth the cost to be mined). Bending sort of reminds me of a James W McLeod or James Laird or Lawrence Sookochoff.
A couple of other notable, recent tickers that worked with David Bending included:
1) Aureus Inc (ARSN) which signed an agreement with Gold Exploration Management Services, Inc (David Bending) to acquire a small property in Elko County, Nevada consisting of 11 unpatented mining claims for $15,000 to use as its business plan to go public
ARSN had some offshore money laundering connections and links to other big name paid promotions. The claims that ARSN bought for $15,000 to help with the going public process were paid for through the sale of 2,430,000 shares to a group of 34 nominee seed shareholders from South Korea at $.01/share. Those shares were never actually paid for by or delivered to the nominees but instead were later transferred into anonymous offshore accounts to be sold into the market. Those mining claims were of course worthless and later dropped by ARSN after the S-1 was made effective. ARSN ended up doing a 15:1 forward split turning those 2,430,000 free trading shares of stock into 36,450,000 free trading shares of stock.
Like HZNM, ARSN was a very obvious sham IPO control of which was later used for a paid promotion.
2) IndoGlobal Exchanges (IGEX) when it went public as Claridge Ventures Inc. used some worthless mining claims the shell purchased from David Bending for $21,500 to help with the S-1 process.
Money to purchase the claim was raised by selling 3,285,000 shares to 37 nominee seed shareholders at $.02/share. Those shares were probably never actually paid for by or delivered to the nominees but instead were later transferred into anonymous offshore accounts to be sold into the market.
After the S-1 was made effective, IGEX dropped the property because they determined that the property was not economically feasible to spend money on. IGEX did a 35:1 forward split turning those 3,285,000 free trading seed shareholder shares into 114,975,000 free trading shares of stock.
Like HZNM and ARSN, IGEX had a very obvious sham IPO set-up with links to some other well known paid promotion tickers. IGEX never got the expected paid promotions. Instead IGEX just turning into a dump and dump.