Fifty a long time ago, uranium fever hit Wall Street. It was then just a handful of years following a Navajo shepherd in New Mexico, through the name of Paddy Martinez, discovered “yellow rocks” on his house, mistaking them at first for gold. An avalanche of 1950s dollars (much more useful versus the ones we have nowadays) poured into mutual funds and uranium mining stocks, sending their values to astronomical levels. Get prepared for déjà vu all more than once again, as Yogi Berra as soon as stated. Trend spotter, James Dines, editor from the Dines Letter, believes uranium mining stocks and shares could grow to be just as hot, or hotter, than the Web shares with the 1990s. (Editor’s note: StockInterview.com interviewed James Dines on July 20, 2004, when he forecast a “buying panic in uranium.” Given that then, spot uranium (U3 08) rates have nearly doubled. Over the past 35 a long time, Dines has successfully predicted mega trends in gold, world wide web, palladium and uranium price tag movements) And now traders are chasing uranium mining stocks and shares again.
A look at business leader, Cameco (NYSE: CCJ), which funds manager Robert Mitchell called the “Saudi Arabia of uranium,” shows a three-year gain of greater than 700 percent. Over the earlier few a long time, Australian-traded Paladin Resources, skyrocketed from under a dime to over $2/share (A$) A latest Forbes magazine cover story, entitled Going Nuclear, analyzed uranium’s latest price surge, “One reason the price tag of uranium must maintain escalating is that producers are only starting to ramp up to meet the solid demand. Utilities globally need 180 million kilos of uranium annually, but at this point a mere 108 million kilos are coming out with the soil.”
Why the sudden jump? A Morgan Stanley institutional report, published in December 2004, explained that with the 1990s, uranium oxide rates stayed low because surplus uranium came into the market from weapons decommissioning. That surplus inventory worked its way through the marketplace. The Morgan Stanley analyst forecast a “deep supply-side shortage” of uranium, citing that new mining manufacturing hasn’t yet arrive on the internet to remedy the deficit. Within the year-ago forecast, the uranium deficit was expected to grow to nearly 20 million lbs this yr (from a surplus of 6 million lbs in 2003), after which leap with a peak deficit of a lot more than 35 million lbs in 2006. Deficits in excess of 30 million kilos were also anticipated for 2007 and 2008. According to the Morgan Stanley analyst, $50/pound may be feasible in the spot price tag for uranium oxide, identified in the trade as “yellowcake.”
Mining Newsletters Favor Strathmore Minerals
What’s that mean for uranium shares? Higher costs needs to be anticipated as much more traders, mutual funds and hedge funds lookup out the greatest returns. While the lion’s share of investment dollars is most likely to chase Cameco’s cost higher, the robust percentage gains in that stock might have already peaked. Usually, new funds searches for well-capitalized junior mining shares with solid uranium projects in their portfolio. Among those people most often advised between mining newsletter writers is Strathmore Minerals Corp, trading around the Toronto Venture Exchange (ticker symbol STM.V) Prominent between Strathmore’s projects are in-situ leach mining operations proposed for Wyoming and New Mexico, plus an aggressive exploration program within the world’s richest uranium locations, Saskatchewan’s Athabasca Basin (residence to uranium mining giant, Cameco)
In September, letter writer Lawrence Roulston of Resource Opportunities recommended Canadian-based Strathmore Minerals (TSX-V: STM), writing, “The business is systematically adding value for the projects most likely to be considerable in the near phrase, specifically those people with near-term production possible.” Also in September, Resource Planet contributing editor, Alf Stewart, wrote, “The two deposits Strathmore is developing had been ‘cherry picked’ through the inventory of Kerr McGee, largest private explorer of uranium prior to that business grinding to a halt inside the early 1980s. As these components are largely drilled off, Strathmore may be regarded a lot more of the uranium development company than an explorer.” This past June, money manager Adrian Day suggested uranium stocks in his research report, writing, “So I am focusing on four primary places in uranium, with 1 or two buys in each… top exploration companies that have the goods and are probably to bring properties into manufacturing. Strathmore Minerals, with technically solid management, lots of components, and a strong balance sheet, is arguably the best.”
New Uranium Discovery inside the Athabasca Basin?
Here’s one of the stronger reasons why investors may possibly anticipate a powerful rally in Strathmore’s share price tag above the coming twelve months: Inside a November 16th news release (http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/051116/20051116005591.html?.v=1), Strathmore Minerals announced a discrete conductor, greater than 30 miles long, right after completing an airborne geophysical survey on the company’s Davy Lake property, inside the north central portion with the Athabasca Basin. In accordance to the company’s news release, “The conductor’s profile response indicates a deep and in locations, broad source.”
Virtually all the considerable unconformity uranium deposits recognized inside the Athabasca Basin are directly associated with fault structures associated with graphitic conductors. Deposits this sort of as Key Lake, Cigar Lake and McArthur River had been discovered by drilling electromagnetic conductors located within magnetic lows.
In an interview with Jody Dahrouge, of Edmonton-based Dahrouge Geological Consulting Ltd, he told StockInterview.com, “Early indications are that this conductor is comparable with other known uranium deposits, graphitic conductors with magnetic lows.” On a scale of 1 to ten, Dahrouge rated the Davy Lake conductor a ten. “It is a extended conductor, cut by structures, with deep depth and connected by a late fault,” explained Dahrouge. “It is really a high quality conductor that continues to depth, and it is typical of individuals occurring that are linked with known uranium deposits.” Dahrouge described how the MegaTem II airborne geophysical survey was able to pinpoint the conductor as shallow as 600 meters and running deep to 1200 meters. Dahrouge made comparisons to other uranium deposits in the Athabasca Basin. “The Sue Deposit close to McLean Lake is linked with an electromagnetic conductor that is roughly 2.6 kilometers extended,” he stated. “Based on our operate at Waterbury Lake, we identified an 8 kilometers long conductor associated with the Midwest Deposit(s) The ‘P2′ conductor at McArthur River is around 13 kilometers long. This feature was first identified in 1984, by a ground Deep EM Survey. The Shea Creek deposits, based south of Cluff Lake, are connected with an roughly 25 kilometers lengthy conductor, identified as the Saskatoon Lake Conductor.” Dahrouge added, “These deposits are based at depths similar to what we anticipate at Davy Lake.”
What is probably most substantial is Strathmore’s gamble, by exploring away from the eastern parts of the Athabasca Basin, some 300 kilometers in the eastern Athabasca Basin, where the major discoveries have been produced. “It was practically unexplored,” Dahrouge mentioned with excitement in his voice. “It’s really virgin soil.” Whilst there is certainly ample evidence suggesting multiple uranium deposits in the Athabasca Basin, other junior exploration businesses are seeking in the shallow parts with the eastern basin, which may not likely yield economic uranium ore. A single pundit acidly questioned some of the current exploration activity inside the Athabasca area, “Are they truly re-flying old soil that’s previously been flown a hundred times, or are they just releasing old data to save cash?” Dahrouge pointed out that the uranium appears to be running deeper for several from the newer discoveries, as he believes the Davy Lake house might hold true for Strathmore Minerals inside the north central portion of the Athabasca Basin.
Crucial characteristics in many Athabascan uranium deposits are the cross-cutting fault zones. Dahrouge confirmed the Davy Lake conductor has cross-cutting fault zones with a sinistral (left-sided) fault about halfway along its length. According to Dahrouge, there is certainly also a “conductor extension which crosses the fault from west to east and ‘flows’ out into a tiny, sub-circular magnetic reduced.” As with several of the Athabascan uranium deposits, which tend to be found between overlying sedimentary units and underlying basement rocks, the Davy Lake conductor fits the bill. Strathmore Mineral’s president, David Miller, told StockInterview.com, “the 50-plus kilometer geophysical anomaly seems to indicate a basement conductor.” However, Mr. Miller tempered the exhilaration within the air, “A geophysical anomaly doesn’t make an ore body. These exciting initial outcomes will be followed up with infill geophysical lines, followed by ground geophysics, followed by shallow drilling, searching for alteration. When we have narrowed the target to drill, we will pull inside the big rigs and test the conductor in the unconformity.” Dahrouge remains excited about the Davy Lake conductor, and mentioned, “Clearly this represents an superb exploration target for unconformity sort uranium deposits.
What does all that suggest? It could explain why Strathmore Minerals may properly be about the road to some world-class uranium discovery as further exploration much more clearly defines how important those people newly discovered conductors may turn out to be. Meanwhile, Strathmore’s New Mexico and Wyoming properties (amounting to potentially a number of million lbs of uranium resource) are inside the preparatory phase of the permitting method. Since the area uranium cost inches forward towards the widely accepted short-term target above $40/pound, numerous of Strathmore Mineral’s components might turn out to be instantly much more useful to a utility business who will someday require the company’s uranium oxide to fuel their nuclear reactor.
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