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March 2, 2016

Gwen Preston, founder and editor of the ResourceMaven.ca joins Cory to discusses some of the gold and uranium stock that are catching her attention. Gwen has a very similar outlook on the mid-cap producers and more advanced exploration companies. These are the stocks that have set themselves up to run first as gold investors return tot eh markets.

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21 Comments
    Mar 02, 2016 02:15 PM

    Retail in trouble again……..Sports Authority , files Bankruptcy, and closing 120 stores.

      Mar 02, 2016 02:17 PM

      more bad loans for the banks………SA, missed a $20million note payment in Jan.

        CFS
        Mar 02, 2016 02:24 PM

        Seabridge gold never missed…..careful with abreviations, FFM!

        CFS
        Mar 02, 2016 02:27 PM

        I never knew running out of fuel could cause a “meltdown”…..How exactly does the physics work for that?

    CFS
    Mar 02, 2016 02:22 PM
    Mar 02, 2016 02:49 PM

    Louise Yamada………says………”bullish on gold”

      Mar 02, 2016 02:55 PM

      Yes, but is Yamada bullish on Yamana? 😉

    CFS
    Mar 02, 2016 02:05 PM

    After success with a helium plasma, I understand they are about to introduce hydrogen.
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3356624/Stellarator-SUCCESS-Strange-twisted-design-finally-make-fusion-power-reality-switched-time.html
    once they established a pulsed stable plasma is achieved, they will introduce cooling to extract power as they increase the duty cycle of the pulsing.
    Demonstration of Fusion power is about 2 years away.
    Probably about a decade away for commercial production at a minimum.

      Mar 03, 2016 03:16 AM

      As for nuclear Fission they are still exploring converting over to Thorium as a fuel source, and I’ve mentioned in the past that IBC Advanced Alloys is working with MIT and Texas A&M to coat Uranium pellets with Beryllium to lower the temperature, to eliminate melt-downs, and be more efficient.

      There are many changes coming to the energy sector with next generation nuclear reactors.

      Fusion reactors will be very exciting as well, but it has been discussed for decades, and is probably further off than people think. There also is 0 infrastructure for it at present and 100’s of nuclear reactors being build that cost Billions, so that train isn’t going to slow down for a while.

        Mar 03, 2016 03:13 AM

        Thorium(Updated September 2015)

        – Thorium is more abundant in nature than uranium.
        – It is fertile rather than fissile, and can only be used as a fuel in conjunction with a fissile material such as recycled plutonium.
        – Thorium fuels can breed fissile uranium-233 to be used in various kinds of nuclear reactors.
        – Molten salt reactors are well suited to thorium fuel, as normal fuel fabrication is avoided.

        The use of thorium as a new primary energy source has been a tantalizing prospect for many years. Extracting its latent energy value in a cost-effective manner remains a challenge, and will require considerable R&D investment. This is occurring preeminently in China, with modest US support.

        http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-and-future-generation/thorium.aspx

          Mar 03, 2016 03:14 AM

          “…Mixed thorium-plutonium oxide (Th-Pu MOX) fuel is an analog of current uranium-MOX fuel, but no new plutonium is produced from the thorium component, unlike for uranium fuels in U-Pu MOX fuel, and so the level of net consumption of plutonium is high.”

          This means there is much less plutonium waste in a Thorium reactor than a conventional Uranium reactor. The reason Uranium was selected in the 40’s and 50’s (over going the Thorium route) was to make plutonium for nuclear missiles.
          Now that world realized how insane those weapons are, Thorium makes more sense, but the infrastructure is not there. The vast majority of the next generation reactors still run on Uranium….. so that’s where the opportunity is in the mining stocks.

            Mar 03, 2016 03:22 AM

            The USA is the largest consumer of Uranium on the planet and they import 90% of the fuel. The companies that supply the USA energy demand in Nuclear fuel over the next 3-8 years will grow at an astonishing rate.

        Mar 03, 2016 03:15 AM

        Here is a link to the White Paper from IBC Advanced Alloys on the advantages of coating the Uranium pellets with Beryllium. Genius!!
        ___________________________________________________________________________
        Nuclear Fuels Initiative

        Increasing Efficiency and Safety

        http://www.ibcadvancedalloys.com/clientuploads/NuclearInfo/Nuclear%20Fuels%20White%20Paper_R4.pdf