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jim6103

03/07/08 1:30 PM

#9455 RE: beulah #9454

blarsh8...."Jim, I hope Scott reads this board and diversifies with the purchase of some tantulum properties as well. Of course, since tantalum is so closely associiated with niobium, we may have enough already."

From my DD, I have found that tantalum is found with niobium in most cases. The percentages vary from deposit to deposit. For example, Commerce Resource's deposit in British Columbia has 1 pound tantulum for every 6.5 lbs. of niobium. A deposit in Quebec has a ratio of 1 lb. tantulum for every 2.5 lbs. niobium. I would suspect that since our host rock is the same as both of these (carbonatite), we will have tantalum. How much is anyone's guess, but I believe that the company is working or will be working on that answer shortly. I don't think that it will be in the Hawk Report, but coming from the first drilling/sampling of Zone D.