Talison Lithium to Present at the Merriman Capital Investor Summit 2012

Perth, Western Australia, January 25, 2012 – Talison Lithium Limited (“Talison” or the “Company”) (TSX: TLH | US: TLTHF ) announced todaythat, Frank Wheatley, Executive Director Corporate Affairs and Strategy will be presenting at the Merriman Capital Investor Summit 2012. The conference will be held in New York City on February 1, 2012.

The Merriman Capital Investor Summit 2012 is dedicated to fast-growing companies in industry sectors such as clean-tech and clean energy, biotechnology, and resources including critical metals and rare earths. The conference features corporate presentations and individual meetings.

The presentation will be webcast, and a link to the webcast will be available on Talison’s website at www.talisonlithium.com.

For more information about the conference or to schedule a one-on-one meeting with Mr. Wheatley, please contact Talison’s investor relations representative listed below.

About Talison

Talison is a leading global producer of lithium. Talison mines and processes the lithium bearing mineral spodumene at the Greenbushes Lithium Operations in Western Australia. In addition, Talison explores for lithium at the Salares 7 lithium project made up of seven salars (brine lakes and surrounding concessions) located in Region III, Chile. Talison has an extensive, well established global customer network and a leading position in the growing Chinese market.

To view the entire press release please visit:
Talison Lithium Ltd. Press Release


Editors note:
Talison Lithium is the largest pure lithium producer in the worlde today, supplying over 300 customers, mostly in China, with Lithium.  This year (2012) Talison negotiated a price increase for it's lithium production of 15%.

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Gold nuggets of the digital world - Domain names and their value!

Image via WikipediaWhen considering investments, most people don't even consider internet domain names.  Most people see these internet addresses as just some digits, not unlike a phone number, in the mass of cyber space known as the world wide web. However, unlike a phone number, a proper, high end domain name is an address, a label and a powerful marketing tool that can draw in thousands and even millions of visitors.

Many domains derive their cachet and importance from the business world "prior" to the existance of the world wide web (circa 1996)

Examples include such obvious brands as NewYorkTimes.com, Time.com, Ford.com, IBM.com,  etc.  You get the picture. There are also companies who obtained "first mover" advantage in their industries in the early days of the web such as Yahoo.com, Ebay.com, Amazon.com and MSN.com Those companies thereby became household names as web search and usage grew expotentially. At the beginnings of the world wide web (www) in the 90's, Microsoft.com became a default website for millions looking  for answers from the software giant, especially for it's windows operating systems.

Today social media domains like Facebook.com, Twitter.com,Youtube.com and gamers like Zynga.com have made their mark with great online businesses that have boosted those names from obscurity into the daily life of millions of web users. Other great business will no doubt follow, and will boost otherwise obscure domains into the limelight. However, because of the nature of domains and of search, it is the simple names and phrases used in domains that have the most value.

The world wide web has spawned many great opportunities and changed many ideas of business. In this case, it made the english language, simple words and simple phrases, into valuable property. It has subsequently done the same for every language as more and more countries piled into the new phenomenon known as the world wide web.

 Those who saw the value of these "gold nuggets" of the digital world back in the mid 90's began to register as many powerful "word" domains as possible. The most valuable that come to mind are domains like: Business.com (sold for $200,000 then "flipped" on the secondary market for $7 million) Sex.com (porportedly sold for $12 million) Cars.com, etc. The ".com" domain extension has always been considered the most valuable with the .net and .org extensions initially labelled as poorer cousins which sold, on average, for about 10% of the  .com leaders.  However, Just last week, MY.net sold for $75,950 at Sedo.com  Not a bad return on an investment (registration fee) of less than $30 eh!  Even if you bought such a domain in the past few years on the secondary market for, say, $10,000  your return is still over 750%

For those just now getting into the domain game, there are many new opportunities, such as new extensions.  Besides country codes like .ca (Canada) .De (Germany) .au (Australia) .it (italy) etc., there are now a number of new extensions and the new domainers are scooping up names like it is 1996 all over again with extensions like .co, .mobi, .travel, .asia etc. etc.  Now Icann (the International Corporation for Assigned names and numbers) is considering more proposed extensions including ".family,"".tech,"".law," ".mp3,"".free," and ".xxx.  For future domainers, these are opportune times indeed.

 Recently, Microsoft published a research paper identifying a new bias in online searches they have labelled "Domain Bias". The paper clearly defines what many searchers already know by default. That online searchers clearly favor high end domain names with direct words or phrases, in their searches as opposed to vaguely named domains or those with dubious background.  Here is an excerpt from that paper:

"In this paper, we uncover a new phenomenon in click activity
that we call domain bias—a user’s propensity to click
on a search result because it comes from a reputable domain,
as well as their disinclination to click on a result from a domain
of unknown or distrustful reputation. The propensity
constitutes a bias as it cannot be explained by relevance or
positioning of search results."

Microsoft Research

2012 may well be another turning point in the domain market as new, more specific domain extensions are brought online and new entrepreneurs jump in to a thriving and growing market.  Will you be one of them?

PS: Sedo is the largest seller of domain names in the world today!

 

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Naysayers and famous quotes from critics who just couldn't see possibility!

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NAYSAYERS PROVEN WRONG...

"Man  will never reach the moon regardless of all future scientific  advances."

--        Dr. Lee DeForest, "Father of Radio & Grandfather        of Television."

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"The  bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosives."

  -        - Admiral William Leahy , US Atomic Bomb Project

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"There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom."

--        Robert Millikan, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1923

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"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."

--        Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science,        1949

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"I  think there is a world market for maybe five  computers."

--        Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943

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"I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the  best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year."

-- The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957

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"But what is it good for?"

--        Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968,        commenting on the microchip.

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"640K ought to be enough for anybody."

--        Bill Gates, 1981

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This 'telephone' has  too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us."  

--        Western Union internal memo, 1876.

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"The Wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?"

--        David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.

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"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a  'C', the idea must be feasible."

--        A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)

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"I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper."

-- Gary  Cooper on his decision not to take the leading role in "Gone With The Wind."

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"A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make."

--        Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting Mrs. Fields'        Cookies.

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"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out,"

--        Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.

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"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible,"

--        Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.

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"If  I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do        this,"

-        - Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M  "Post-It" Notepads .

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"Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy,"

--        Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for  oil in 1859.

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"Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau."

--        Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University , 1929.

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"Airplanes  are interesting toys but of no military value."

--        Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre        , France .

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"Everything  that can be invented has been invented."

--        Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, US Office of Patents, 1899.

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"The super computer is technologically impossible. It would take all of the water that flows over Niagara Falls to cool the heat generated by the number of  vacuum tubes required."

-- Professor  of Electrical Engineering, New York University

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"I  don't know what use any one could find for a machine that would make copies of documents. It certainly couldn't be a feasible business by itself."

--        the head of IBM, refusing to back the idea, forcing the inventor to found Xerox.

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"Louis  Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction."

--        Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse , 1872

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"The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon."

--        Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1873.

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And last but not least

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their  home."

--        Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp.,  1977

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Buying physical Gold and Silver may be the best course in 2012.

Did Bankers Deliberately Crash MF Global to Crash Gold and Silver Prices?

December 27th, 2011

Did bankers use the MF Global bankruptcy to suppress gold and silver prices and create the panicked appearance of collapsing precious metals to give themselves additional precious time to delay the crash of the Euro and the US Dollar? As crazy as this sounds, a closer investigation of some key data seems to imply this possibility. Though bankers claim that they created futures markets to provide a mechanism for commodity producers to hedge against volatile market prices, I have never bought the kool-aid the bankers were selling in this explanation for the rationale behind their creation of futures markets. Given that today, futures and spot prices for gold and silver in the short-term are entirely set by banker manipulation of the supply and demand for paper derivatives that often have no backing of any physical metal, I believe that bankers created futures markets for the explicit intent of allowing themselves to manipulate the prices of commodities and to enrich themselves, and themselves only, through the process of alternately and artificially inflating and deflating prices as would not be allowed in any type of free market. In other words, bankers invented futures markets to allow themselves to siphon off and steal money from other parties that wanted to invest in commodities with a mechanism, risk-free to them, that required deception and zero honest work and zero integrity.

The futures markets in commodities is such a deceptive market that it is hard to know even where to begin to unravel its many mechanisms of deceit in all their glory. Futures contracts traded on the world’s largest commodity markets such as the COMEX in New York and the LBM in London allow bankers to commit reverse alchemy, turning real physical gold and real physical silver into nothing but false paper contracts and air. Secondly, through futures contracts traded in New York and London, bankers routinely defy the economic principles of supply and demand, and set short-term prices for gold and silver that literally have zero to do with the supply and demand dynamics of the physical gold and physical silver market. In the world of physics, such an illogical, comparable feat of deception would be the indefinite suspension of the law of gravity. Bankers invented paper derivative gold and silver markets to allow themselves to literally defy and suspend every single sound economic principle that exists.

This is important to understand because not only does understanding this concept make the bulk of what you learn in business school a lie and entirely useless, but also because bullion banks such as Deutsche Bank, Citibank, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs et al that serve as the puppet conduits for more powerful families that control Central Banks, routinely used to lease physical gold into the open market as their primary mechanism to suppress the price of gold and silver. However, as their mechanism of fractional reserve banking began to threaten the viability and utility of the most widely used fiat currencies in the world, the USD and the Euro, bankers understood that they needed to utilize and/or create another mechanism to suppress gold and silver prices that could replace selling physical PMs into the open market as they no longer wished to give up a solid asset with no third party counter-risk for what they knew they were turning into essentially worthless pieces of paper. Thus bankers increasingly turned to the paper futures markets to manipulate and control the price of gold and silver and also served up additional bogus derivative products to the public like the GLD and SLV ETFs. Bankers knew that there was no way they could possibly control the price of gold and silver if the supply and demand determinants of physical gold and physical silver had anything to do with the price, so they conspired to fool the world into believing that the fake paper price they set was set by the supply and demand of the physical markets.

Collapsing OI of Gold/Silver Futures Markets Directly Related to MF Global Collapse?
And here’s where MF Global enters the banking cartel gold and silver price suppression scheme. Today, short-term futures and spot prices of gold and silver have almost nothing to do with the physical supply and demand dynamics of gold and silver, as odd as that may sound. Bankers created the futures markets and paper derivatives in gold and silver to kill free markets and for the express purpose of suppressing gold and silver prices. Today we literally have no idea what the free market price of gold and silver should be or could be, besides the fact that both would be multiples higher than their current price, because of the fake paper market in gold and silver that the bankers created.

As well, bankers ensured that they armed a legion of worker bees in commercial investment firms all over the world that would represent these paper derivatives backed by very little physical gold and silver to their clients as the equivalent of investing in 99.999% pure physical gold and silver. In doing so, the worker bees thereby lured people all over the world into what will turn out to be the fatal mistake of not buying millions of troy ounces of physical gold and silver and instead buying their offering of fool’s gold and fool’s silver. When we receive a massive default of gold and silver futures contracts that stand for delivery on the COMEX or LBM, or if the SLV and GLD default, then, and only then, will the public start to see true price discovery of physical gold and physical silver in action. However, for clients of MF Global, unfortunately, they have already experienced the mistake of buying fool’s gold and fool’s silver from the bankers and have received air in exchange for gold and silver futures contracts they purchased that stood for delivery.

Bankers invented fake paper gold and silver contracts, because they knew that if they could not fulfill contractual obligations to deliver physical gold and physical silver because the contracts were a binding lie to begin with), that they could always renege on these contractual obligations and give the people the nothingness they truly owned in return. And thus, we have the story of MF Global.

Ratings agencies downgraded MF Global on Oct 25 and MF Global declared bankruptcy on Oct 31. If one scours the data that the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) releases via its aggregated Commitment of Trader (COT) reports during this time period, one may not notice any data that immediately stands. However, investigation of the disaggregated reports reveals far more interesting patterns that almost undoubtedly can be traced back to the collapse of MF Global. In a period just preceding the MF Global collapse, from late August to mid October, the open interest (OI) in longs in gold and silver futures within the Managed Money category collapsed by 33.75% in gold (202,430 to 136,103) and 44.74% in silver (29,849 to 16,494). During this exact same time period, shorts in the gold and silver futures in the Managed Money category increased by 19.3% and 83.82% respectively (see the chart below). Within the Managed Money category, between Sept 13th and 27th, in just a two-week period, the drop in OI in the longs in gold and silver futures was even more pronounced, with a 25.41% plunge and 34.3% plunge in silver. I imagine if someone could trace the connection of this plunge in OI in the Managed Money category in the gold and silver futures markets, one would discover that a good deal of the plunge was somehow directly tied to the impending MF Global bankruptcy and its freezing and/or liquidation of gold and silver futures accounts in its possession.

After Phase I of the collapse in OI in the gold and silver futures markets, Phase II followed. When the story about MF Global’s legalized client theft hit the presses, an enormous public distrust of the entire futures markets started to build. If clients lost millions of dollars in gold and silver futures accounts due to forced liquidation or freezing of contracts that they were holding for delivery, anyone that had considered using the futures markets to take delivery of real gold and real silver following the MF Global debacle obviously reconsidered their options. Thus, due to the massive fraud of the futures markets that was revealed by the MF Global collapse, another huge drop in the OI of gold and silver longs in the Managed Money category occurred during Phase II (as labeled in the above chart) that respectively amounted to an additional respective 11.79% and 7.48% plunge. In essence, it appears that the MF Global collapse served up the exact same price suppression effect as a CME issued initial or maintenance margin hike in gold and silver futures, which forces a tidal wave of unwanted and involuntary liquidation of gold and silver longs that consequently violate technical support lines and trigger technical sells.

Of course, we also have to factor in the temporary OI-increasing effect of the risk-on CME event when they lowered initial margins to a 1:1 ratio with maintenance margins at the onset of November. Still, given the figures presented in the chart above, it seems that bankers used the MF Global collapse to force liquidation of gold and silver longs in the futures market quite rapidly and drastically. Why is this important? This is important because typically strong hands ride out any temporary banker manipulations of gold and silver prices downward. In this case, strong hands, if they existed at MF Global, were not given this opportunity and were forced to liquidate or had their accounts frozen whether or not they desired such an outcome. Furthermore, if primarily strong hands were forced out of the futures market, this would leave the majority of volume in the gold and silver futures markets primarily in the hands of the criminal banking cartel. We’ve seen repeatedly, this past year in the US S&P 500 index, when low trading volume primarily controlled by the banking cartel has translated into curious and inexplicable market bounces of 2% in a single day. In other words, low trading volume allows bankers excessive and easy manipulation over markets. If this was indeed the scenario bankers deliberately created with the MF Global collapse, then the MF Global collapse and simultaneous collapse of open interest in gold and silvers futures certainly would have paved the way for the banking cartel to easily manipulate gold and silver prices.

There was also further circumstantial evidence that bankers used the MF Global collapse to collapse gold and silver futures markets at the end of 2011. For example, in an article posted on the SilverDoctors blog by Jim Willie in which he gathered data regarding the amount of physical gold and silver ounces represented by the longs at MF Global that were standing for delivery in the futures markets before these contracts imploded, he stated: “JP Morgan increased the amount of registered silver and gold by precisely the amount that was suppose to be delivered [by MF Global]…JP Morgan effectively averted both a Comex default and a European Sovereign Debt implosion.”

Silver Lining in the MF Global Debacle?
Can there be a silver lining in the MF Global debacle? I believe that in the long-term, this extremely unethical, negative event could transform into a positive game-changer in the way people buy large amounts of gold and silver. Obviously, the futures market is not a safe market for anyone seeking to take delivery of millions of dollars of physical gold and silver as many MF Global clients learned. The GLD and SLV ETFs, of course, are no safer than any gold or silver futures contract for the same reasons. So in the future, and I mean the immediate future starting now, I believe that large buyers of physical gold and silver will now opt to bypass the bullion bank’s middle men in the futures market and go directly to the gold and silver mining companies to buy large quantities of bullion. This should eventually help usher in the death of futures markets as a mechanism for buying physical gold and physical silver and be a step towards establishing a free market for gold and silver prices for the first time in our lives. Mark Cutifani, CEO of AngloGold Ashanti, recently echoed the same: “Major [asset management fund] buyers are finding it is hard to get physical gold. People are coming directly to us [for large gold purchases,] people who want tonnes of physical gold, people with serious financial muscle, because they are finding it is very difficult to secure the volume of gold they want. That is something we have noticed over the last 18 months, and it has been increasing in the last six months. People are finding it’s hard to get physical gold.”

People that want to own physical gold and physical silver never should have been buying the GLD, SLV, or gold and silver futures. Now, in light of the MF Global debacle, scores of people will stay away from these fraudulent vehicles for good.

About the author: JS Kim is the Chief Investment Strategist and founder of SmartKnowledgeU, a fiercely independent investment research and consulting firm with a mission to help re-establish the monetary freedom that bankers have stolen from us. Despite believing that gold and silver will remain highly volatile in 2012, JS believes that long-term holders of physical gold and silver will be richly rewarded as bogus paper gold and silver derivatives start collapsing and reach their intrinsic value in coming years. Follow JS on Twitter and Facebook.

Mid tier gold miner San Gold is on a tear heading into 2012

"These results provide a detailed account of one of the richest gold deposits ever discovered in Manitoba. It's extremely impressive that a gold deposit that wasn't even known about two years ago will be contributing 50% of our mill feed well into the foreseeable future," 

George Pirie, San Gold's President and Chief Executive Officer. December 20th, 2011.

 SanGold Corp. is a mid-tier Canadian producer of gold headquartered at Winnipeg, Manitoba. It currently owns the producing Rice Lake, Hinge and 007 mines and owns other gold mining interests in both Manitoba and Ontario, Canada.

Today's market cap is 606,000,000, up over 40% after yesterday's huge pop, with 312,677,000 shares outstanding. It has a 52 week trading range of $1.35 to $4.09 and is trading today under $1.90  Operating revenue is $75, 239,000, up 118% year over year. It has a three year return of 16.72%

8 Analysts have a buy recommendation on Sangold with a current consensus target price of $3.40 share.  Of course, that price was set well before yesterday's big news.  What was that big news?  Well it is the reason that the CEO George Pirie, made the above noted quote in his release yesterday. Basically, SanGold has released results of this years 200 drill holes at 007 and the numbers are astounding.  They represent the largest gold find in the history of Manitoba mining.  Here are some of those numbers:


 

• S922-11-036, intersecting 23.2 g/tonne over 11.5 metres at a depth of 362 metres
• S922-11-013, intersecting 110.1 g/tonne over 2.1 metres at a depth of 330 metres
• S922-11-049, intersecting 44.2 g/tonne over 4.3 metres at a depth of 348 metres
• S922-11-089, intersecting 63.0 g/tonne over 2.8 metres at a depth of 362 metres
• S922-11-091, intersecting 21.7 g/tonne over 7.4 metres at a depth of 362 metres
• S915-11-003, intersecting 11.8 g/tonne over 12.3 metres at a depth of 396 metres
• S915-11-024, intersecting 60.7 g/tonne over 3.0 metres at a depth of 275 metres
• S915-11-045, intersecting 45.6 g/tonne over 4.3 metres at a depth of 291 metres
• S915-11-084, intersecting 17.4 g/tonne over 9.4 metres at a depth of 269 metres
• S915-11-106, intersecting 18.1 g/tonne over 3.2 metres at a depth of 358 metres

 In an industry where  3 grams per ton is considered minable reserves, you can see from the results why 6 million shares traded hands yesterday and the stock jumped 40%.  With recent M&A action in this hot area
(2011 examples include: Eldorado buying European goldfields for 2.4B, Gold Corp buying Gold Eagle, Agnico buying into Pheonix, Agnico-Eagle buying Grayd Resources, Hedge Fund Luxor Capital buying Crocodile Gold, IAM gold announcing it is on the lookout for acquisitions etc.) I have become even more bullish on SanGold than I was even last month.

big miners have chosen the express route to increasing reserves by purchasing the known assets of their rivals rather than the heartache and headache of drilling core samples and filling out permit applications. San Gold is a growing, mid tier producer of gold. Yearly revenue is now 10% of market cap, new discoveries have increased the resource base, production will hit 100,000 oz in 2012 and SanGold has an earnings per share growth of over 30% for the past five years.

2012 should bring a whirlwind of M&A activity in the gold sector, and I plan on being in on the ground floor.  How about you?

Disclosure: long San Gold (SGR-TSX) and Brigus Gold (BRD).

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