RE: PDAC ICPM Special Reception Blairman, you might ask some of these esteemed folks about how to create "hot" investor awareness of EMM and EMD the same way that graphite is now a really "hot" sector.
There was a big graphite conference several days ago in Vancouver with standing-room-only attendance, and Chris Berry was the keynote speaker. There's been a lot of media buzz about graphite and renowned metals expert Jack Lifton is now touting the sector (the way he was touting REEs a few years back, causing an investor stampede into the sector). Northern Graphite (NGC.v), the leading large-flake graphite junior, has seen its shareprice quadruple since late Spring 2011.
The press reports on graphite keep talking about how much more graphite than lithium is in the lithium ion batteries, by atomic weight (by a factor of 10-30x) -- and yet essentially the same is true for EMD (15 times more EMD than lithium, by atomic weight).
The same press reports on graphite talk frantically talk about how China controls 80% of the world market of graphite, yet we know from CPM Group and other entities that China controls over 98% of the EMM market, which puts supply of EMM at far greater risk than graphite or tungsten or even rare earths.
So what can be done to highlight for investors at large the tremendous criticality of EMM and EMD?
I notice that the graphite sector has at least seven players and they all co-sponsored this recent conference, plus they have the business development company Zimtu Capital behind several of the cos., providing funding and consulting services on growing their businesses, and doing a lot of P.R. on this sector to raise investor awareness.
What might be similarly done for AMY?? Do we need to get little Buchans Minerals and that Aussie EMM/EMD co. (Mesa Minerals, if i correctly recall the name) to do a conference in Vancouver? LOL! Do we need to invite Jack Lifton to Artillery Peak and then wine and dine him in some trendy spot in Scottsdale? :-)