Mineral exploration information service

Mining analysts are experienced experts in commercial mineral exploration and development and market operation. They conduct on-the-spot investigations on the projects being explored, write analysis and comment reports on exploration projects, and provide information services. Their publications are mostly loose-leaf pamphlets, with only a few pages in each issue, but they sell at a high price. Mining analysts provide suggestions to investors in risk exploration, such as analyzing the prospect and competitiveness of a primary exploration company's exploration projects, predicting the company's recent and medium-and long-term stock price trends, and suggesting buying, holding or selling. There is no mining analyst in China's exploration industry, and China's commercial mineral exploration market lacks such an important role. Give two examples to introduce mining analysts.

Example 1: Doug Casey, American mining analyst. Kathy is an authoritative mining analyst in the mineral exploration and development industry. His analysis of exploration projects and his prediction of the trend of first-class exploration companies are highly accurate. According to his analysis, many exploration investors have achieved ideal returns. After on-the-spot investigation of exploration projects, many stocks of primary exploration companies he recommended confirmed his prediction of stock price trend through selection. Southwest Resources Company rose 854%, Eldorado Company rose 1 466%, Virginia Company rose 996%, and Miranda Gold Company rose 334%. On August 1 day, 2004, in an analysis report of 16 pages, Kathy predicted that the uranium exploration and development market would become hot rapidly. Three weeks later, the share prices of the first-class exploration companies exploring uranium deposits generally rose strongly, and paladin Company rose by 1505%. During 1998, Kathy introduced the exploration project of General Mining Company in Huangshuigou copper-gold mine in Shimian, Sichuan, but the evaluation was average. Casey owns a company, Casey Research, which has various publications on mineral exploration, development and analysis. For example, international speculators are used to guide investment in high-risk mineral exploration; Kathy's gold stock partner is used to guide the investment in pre-feasibility study and feasibility study of precious metals; Casey Investment Alerm is used to guide the holding, sale and purchase of shares of primary exploration companies. Because the information service of mineral exploration provided by Cathy is of high quality, the publications researched by Cathy are also expensive. Kathy Investment Alert has an annual fee of $4,500.

For example, the Shagou Ag-Pb-Zn mine in Henan Province, which was explored by the Sino-Canadian joint venture Falunde Mining Co., Ltd., attracted the attention of many mining analysts. In May 2005, Jim Dartnell, a mining analyst, said in Wolverton Weekly that this mine is a new high-grade silver mine in China, and continuous exploration can be realized through mining. In August, 2005, Mike Swanson, a mining analyst, introduced this kind of silver-lead-zinc mine with thin vein and rich grade at the window of Wall Street, and thought that the exploration and development plan of Fande Mining Co., Ltd. was feasible. He is optimistic about the profit potential of the mine, predicts that it will bring good returns to investors, and suggests buying shares of the company. Mining analysts Berien Lundin and Lawrence Rouston made a similar analysis.

In addition, there are some well-known mining analyst publications that are quite influential in the exploration industry, such as Canadian Maison Placements and Resources Opportunities.

Two, mineral exploration magazines and newspapers

Although there is more and more information on the Internet, paper-based mineral exploration magazines and newspapers still play an irreplaceable role. Some magazines and newspapers have a long history, high quality articles and a large amount of information, and have a stable readership in the commercial mineral exploration industry. Some are mining magazines and newspapers, but mineral exploration is an important part of them. Here are some magazines and newspapers about mineral exploration.

1. Northern miners

Miners in the North is a mining news daily, which was founded in 19 15 with a history of 92 years. It has established information sharing relations with 33 other media and is the authoritative information source for commercial mineral exploration. Northern Miner is a company listed on Toronto Stock Exchange (EPL/ Tokyo Stock Exchange). In addition to the miners in the north, the media also published the Canadian and American Mining Handbook, Canadian Mining Magazine and CD-ROM magazine Mining Archives.

The column of "Northern Miners" includes news of mineral exploration and development, market forecast of mineral exploration, review of mineral exploration projects, introduction of exploration companies, stock market information of listed exploration companies, job search information, advertisements of mineral exploration contractors, suppliers and consultants, etc.

Taking some headlines of March 4th, 2005 as an example, we can see that all the information published in this newspaper is concerned by the mineral exploration industry. For example, the Mesquite mine in California will not die yet (a new ore body has been discovered in this mine), the prospector is in Sierra Madre, Mexico (the explorer Pedro Cruz has made a new discovery there), and Glencairn's reserves in Limon gold mine in Nicaragua have doubled (Glencairn is a primary exploration company). There are high-quality exploration areas for joint ventures or mergers and acquisitions (introducing Awari gold mine, Bulago gold mine, Leonard Schultz nickel mine, Jimi Valley gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc mine from Tas Gold Mine Company of Papua New Guinea).

There are also some newspapers that have little influence on commercial mineral exploration, such as Prospector, which report investment and mineral exploration news. The newspaper first published the introduction of mining analyst Brien Lundin to Henan Ag-Pb-Zn mine in China.

2. Resource World Magazine

World Resources magazine is one of the authoritative magazines for mineral exploration and development investment. Provide opportunities and news for investment, and often publish authoritative comments from the chairman and manager of mining companies. For example, on the cover of the second issue in 2005, Dr. N.Keeril, the chairman of Tektronix-Cummins Company, appeared. He introduced two major developments of the company. First, the Pogo gold mine in Alaska will produce 500,000 ounces (about 65,438+08 tons) of gold in the first year. Second, the Temagami copper mine in the northernmost part of Ontario is also a hot spot at present. In the mining column, some new progress in mineral deposit exploration is introduced, such as the major discovery of Carroll Creek and the new discovery of seven major exploration companies in Ecuador in South America. This magazine costs $5.95 per issue. You can also visit the magazine's website (www.resourceworldmag.com). After briefly explaining the types of mineral deposits, such exploration magazines should disclose the level of exploration projects, the scale and grade of ore bodies, and the space for further exploration, so as to provide decision-making basis for investors.

At present, it is difficult to obtain commercial mineral exploration information from newspapers and magazines in China, which affects the operational efficiency of commercial mineral exploration. In China, there are more than 100 magazines and newspapers on mineral exploration, one of which is a scientific and technological journal on mineral deposit science and exploration technology. One is political magazines and newspapers with the nature of organ newspapers, which report the news and related policies of geological prospecting units. It can not meet the demand of commercial mineral exploration for market information, prospecting trend and exploration technology.

With China becoming more and more important in the mineral exploration and development market, mineral exploration publishers are sensitive to this business opportunity and have entered China to occupy the market. Mining Magazine, the authoritative international mining cooperation media, has published a Chinese monthly magazine. Mineral exploration, as an important part of mining industry, occupies a great weight in publications. This magazine introduces the mineral exploration projects and progress at home and abroad, some of which are equipped with geological maps and profiles, and the grade and thickness of minerals can be seen in the exploration projects. Discuss hot issues in mineral exploration, such as environmental protection of Maoling gold mine. Introduce new exploration technologies, such as using air pressure and hydraulic pressure to improve drilling efficiency; Use a drilling rig with small volume and strong maneuverability to explore the pit; Study the remote control of drilling. International mining information provides useful information for domestic geological prospecting units to "go global".

In 2005, Australia published Mining Asia, a bilingual magazine on mineral exploration and development. It wrote in Chinese on the title page: "A lion who has been sleeping for many years wakes up from his sleep, and hunger is his first feeling. This is China, a booming country with huge demand for mineral resources. " In issue 1 in 2005, besides focusing on the exploration progress of Caijiaying zinc mine in Hebei Province, it also reported the exploration and development of Jin Feng gold mine in Guizhou Province by Xinhe Gold, which was called the goose that laid golden eggs. It is reported that Rusina Company discovered a platinum-nickel sulfide mine in Acoje, Luzon Island, Philippines, which was originally mined as chromite. After the discovery of platinum and nickel, the company's morale was greatly boosted. The China Mining Conference held in Beijing on June +065438+ 10, 2004 was also reported in detail. The project invested by 10 mineral exploration company in China is introduced. Asian mining industry also pays special attention to the rapid expansion of China mining companies overseas. They think that although China company lacks experience, they will learn it quickly, so as to obtain a stable and reliable mine source.

China Mining Newspaper and China Mining sponsored by China Mining Association and Mining Consultation sponsored by Mining Branch of China Council for the Promotion of International Trade have begun to provide information on commercial mineral exploration, but the information cannot meet the demand of commercial mineral exploration market. At present, there are no magazines for commercial mineral exploration in China.

Third, the commercial website of mineral exploration.

With the advent of the information age, we will rely more and more on the Internet to obtain commercial mineral exploration information. Mining Information (www.infomine.com) is the most famous commercial website for mineral exploration. The main commercial mineral exploration information in the world can be obtained from this website. You can inquire about the latest progress of global prospecting and major events in exploration, the management, projects and financial status of exploration companies, geological data and engineering exploration data of exploration areas, the status of companies and projects engaged in mineral exploration in various countries, global and regional conferences and exhibitions related to mineral exploration, instruments and equipment for mineral exploration, investment trends in mineral exploration, geological maps, technical books related to mineral exploration, new technologies for mineral exploration, independent exploration geologists and consulting services, and exploration geologists.

Iv. Commercial mineral exploration and development exhibition

Exhibition economy is also very important in commercial mineral exploration and development, which can be classified as mineral exploration information service. Because mineral exploration is the starting point of mine life cycle and the most important part of mining industry, mineral exploration and mineral development exhibition is one of them. There are many similar exhibitions in the world, and each continent has its own brand exhibition. For example, the Canadian Prospecting and Developers Conference (PDAC) is the largest commercial mineral exploration and development exhibition in the world. Other famous exhibitions related to commercial mineral exploration and development include: Australian Investment Mining Conference, British Mining and Currency, South African Mining Investment, Vancouver Resource Investment Conference, etc. In recent years, sponsored by the Ministry of Land and Resources, China International Mining Conference has also begun to form a brand, and the commercial atmosphere is getting stronger and stronger, with the number of participants exceeding 1000. It has become the largest mineral exploration and development exhibition in Asia.

Organizing and participating in the commercial mineral exploration exhibition must consider three factors: First, who will participate. It should cover individual prospectors, primary exploration companies, large mining companies, mining-related intermediaries and financing institutions, mineral exploration technology contracting engineering companies and suppliers, and geological survey institutes (institutes) that provide public welfare services. Second, why do you want to participate? The purpose of exhibitors is to discuss their activities with mining analysts, fund managers and bankers; Face-to-face communication with valuable investors; Looking for new business opportunities for mineral exploration; Strengthen the relationship with existing investors; Establish contact with potential customers all over the world; Show investment potential and conditions. Third, predict who will visit their booth. Institutional investors, fund managers, exploration brokers and mining analysts, senior managers of banks, senior managers of mining companies, government representatives, mining information media. Because of the high cost of participation, it is necessary to decide whether to participate in the exhibition according to the above three elements.

Verb (short for verb) others

The information demand of commercial mineral exploration market is business opportunity. For example, in order to meet the information needs of investors in nickel exploration and development, Intierra Company has compiled a map of investors in nickel exploration and development in Australia, which is updated once a year. This map is based on a light geological map of Australia. Mark the prospecting prospects of different geological bodies, and mark nickel sulfide and laterite nickel deposits, nickel sulfide and laterite nickel deposits in production, closed nickel sulfide and laterite nickel deposits, nickel sulfide projects under exploration and feasibility study, nickel concentrator and nickel smelter in production and closure according to scale. The above contents are classified according to scale, and the table on the right lists the status, type, scale and mineral owners of all projects. For the Kaguli-Kanbar belt where nickel mines are concentrated, the distribution and status of mineral rights areas are marked on a larger scale. The investor map of nickel mine exploration and development contains a lot of information, which is clear to the investment and merger of exploration companies at a glance. In the market environment of commercial mineral exploration, as long as there is demand, someone will operate it.