November 22, 2014
Here It Is: Our TCR Photo Review via Ratanakiri Province. Ban Lung & Phnom Penh.
TCR family, it has taken me 6 visits to crystallize why Angkor Gold (TSX: V.ANK, Stock Forum) has better than even odds chance of delivering Cambodia's first commercial gold, with net smelter returns to investors.
Oh, and delivering with a heart of, yeah, gold: schools, gardens, rain harvesters, clinics, midwives, chefs, micro-lending -- the Khmer list continues. Canada's Mike and Delayne Weeks and a growing staff of China technologists, Cambodian geologists and Canadian and multinational professionals (nurses, engineers, teachers, artists) are transforming even yours truly into a community softie here in The Kingdom.
We're about 8 hours' drive from Phnom Penh, close to the Vietnam border and in the thick of Cambodia's thickest scrub of natural beauty.
For our TCR family of investors, these images are highlights of this continuing Cambodia tour with Angkor Gold (ANK in Cambodia). Read the captions, but only if you want more proof that Angkor and its India partner, Mesco Consolidated, will deliver the first commercial gold mine to this nation of 15 million beautiful people -- in the next 12 to 15 months. No selfies, I promise.
Look, there already are trolley cars, winches and tub stands for hauling some 400 tonnes of ore a day to Phum Syarung. I am in contact with India's J K Singh and his Mesco team; they have every intention of filling the robust demand for India gold (up by some estimates 250% year to year).
The trolleys hold some 1.8 metric tons per car, it looks like. This mine is a near-production story that is destined to add the market worth of any looming gold producer, maybe in days.
The story is out. Look at the growing trade in ANK shares. Next up: mining permits look imminent; more cash from India; fresh drilling at something called Phum Lom that could be every bit as potent as Phum Syarung.
And our Fully Charmed Tour, next date: Feb. 2, 2015, for a growing group of professionals, investors and artists. We;ll be checking out the Ratanakiri crystals, too -- zircon and select sapphires.
OK, so it's not ACDC, if you catch the drift. It is so much better. (Image above from China Wall and China technical team of Betec.)
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See you soon. Back to Phnom Penh on Sunday to meet with media, with missionaries -- for real -- and with Ministry of Mines & Energy officials. Please scan these photos. They are fresh off the TCR LG.
Notes: Looking at Bolivia trip to the Pulacayo silver project for Prophecy Coal (TSX: PCY, Stock Forum) in mid-December. (PCY in Canada). ... In Los Angeles for LD Micro small-company fest for two days in early December. ... Those Mocking-Jay chirps and tweets in the second and -- released today -- third Hunger Games flick are so much like some of the insect tunes broadcast this time of year in the bush and at the volcanic crater lake, Yeak Laom, 2 kilometers from Angkor Gold's Ban Lung headquarters. ... We have 4 spots left for the Feb. tour, which will include: agriculture, mining, good will, community, the capital scene, Siam Reap temples, Angkor Thom among 'em, and synapse flashes for a lifetime.
-- Thom Calandra
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