in the gold markets...
made as much as 15,650% or more
It's no secret that the price of gold is skyrocketing.
Investors around the world are snapping up anything gold related as fast as possible... gold coins... mining stocks... exchange traded funds (ETFs), you name it.
And for good reason: Our country is on a spending binge that's likely to cause massive inflation over the next few years.
By far, the best way to protect and grow your wealth during a time like this is to own gold...
But here's the thing...
Most investors don't realize that there's a serious distortion in the gold markets right now.
And if you understand how this distortion works, and how to capitalize on it immediately, you could make more money over the next 18 months than you've ever made in your life...
I know... that's a big promise.
But look at the results from the last time this distortion took place. In-the-know investors made an absolute killing...
- Last time this distortion took place, a group of investors from California had the opportunity to make an incredible 15,650%. That turns every $1,000 invested into $156,500...
- A group of Canadian investors had the chance to make an incredible 17,900%. Just $5,000 invested here turns into $895,000
- And another group of investors from Quebec and the West Coast had the chance to make an astounding 28,025%. That return would give you nearly $2,800,000 for every $10,000 invested...
We're talking absolutely huge, once-in-a-lifetime returns.
And the best part about this opportunity?
You don't have to touch risky mining stocks... options... or even gold coins or bars to do it.
Instead, you simply have to know a secret of how the gold industry works -- and act soon to take advantage of the situation...
Let me explain...
When investors get worried about inflation... they buy gold.
The rush has already started...
In the last 3 months:
An ounce of gold has gone from $780 to $939 (Bloomberg just reported on 2/11 that speculators are betting on $1,000 gold by April 2009)...
GLD -- the ETF that follows the gold price -- is up 22%... the Gold Miners ETF, which tracks gold mining stocks, is up 63%...
And if you've tried to buy any gold coins or bullion in the last few months -- if you can find any -- the premiums have shot up as much as 15-20%... sometimes a lot more. "Large purchases of coins are perhaps the ultimate sign of safe-haven gold buying," said John Reade, a precious-metals strategist at UBS.
What's causing the run-up?
According to the Financial Times, bankers say the move is being driven by the "very rich," who are hoarding the metal in vaults... and by professional money managers...
They're all starting to catch on that what the government is doing to bail out our economy will make the price of gold shoot through the roof.
As a result, the super-wealthy and their money managers are piling into any big gold investment they can find: Gold ETFs... Gold blue-chip mining stocks like Newmont and Barrick... and gold bullion...
But there's a secret in the gold markets that not one in 1,000 investors knows about or understands, which gives you and me access to gold investment returns that are simply out of this world.
It's a rare and valuable 'distortion,'as S&A editor Dan Ferris calls it.
What, exactly, is going on here?
Let me explain...
your money in gold
As you probably know, the actual mining of gold and natural resources is an expensive, capital intensive process.
It literally takes millions and millions of dollars for the labor, permits, and heavy mining equipment needed to develop a mine...
Not only that, it could take years -- and many more millions -- before a company mines a single ounce of gold. Even then, a mining company could spend all this money... only to discover that the mine is a bust.
But imagine if instead of running a mining business, you owned a stake in more than 400 of the world's richest, most promising gold, silver, uranium and diamond mines.
You own the land. You own the gems.
Now... imagine how much someone -- especially a mining company looking for reserves -- would pay you for the right to mine just one of those properties.
That, in a nutshell, is the "distortion" in the gold markets that can make you an absolute killing.
Instead of owning a mining business or trying to hoard physical gold... it's much, much safer and more lucrative to simply own a stake in the real estate where the best mines are located...
For example:
- A company called Consolidated Stikine owned a stake in what turned out to be a massive gold deposit in British Columbia, called Eskay Creek. In three years time, this company's shares went from 32 cents to $90 dollars -- an astounding gain of 28,025%...
- Arequipa Resources had a big interest in Pierina, a gold mine in Peru. When this mine hit, shares went from 30 cents to $30 -- a gain of 9,900%...
- And a firm called Aurelian Resources owned a stake in a gold project called Fruta del Norte in Ecuador. When this project hit it big in 2006, Aurelian's shares skyrocketed from 40 cents to $29 – a gain of 7,150%...
As a prospect generator, you don't mine a single ounce of gold.
You simply collect as much gold-rich land as you can find – hundreds and thousands of acres of it.
Once a prospect generator owns the land... and can prove there is gold underneath... that's enough to entice bigger mining companies like Newmont Mining, Barrick, and GoldCorp to buy an interest.
So the prospect generators take the big mining companies money... and then they go out looking for more land.
In other words prospect generators don't produce gold. They don't mine gold.
All they do is find gold and take ownership of the properties.
In short: They "generate prospects" for bigger mining companies.
In my opinion, it's the perfect business. And, more importantly, the perfect investment, especially right now.
There's almost no overhead, very few employees... and absolutely incredible profits...
Let me show you some examples...
In my opinion, prospect generators are the perfect investment... both in terms of risk -- and reward.
You see, all these companies do is stake land -- as much as they can. In fact, most of these companies are made up of just a few scientists who go around the world staking claims.
Once they find a promising piece of land, they run some basic tests to see if there's any gold there -- and how much.
If the tests are positive -- if there's a lot of gold (or diamonds or uranium) -- they've got a winner. If the tests prove negative -- they simply pull up stakes and move on to the next prospect.
The only investment they've made in the property is what it cost them to travel there and run the tests -- peanuts compared to the costs of a large-scale mining operation with its large crews, heavy equipment and processing plants.
And at the end of the day, the only properties they hold onto are the most promising ones.
Bottom line: The risks of investing in prospect generators is far, far, far less than your typical mining stock (which spends millions of dollars developing one or two mines that may or may not be winners).
And unlike your typical mining stock, which only pays off if they hit it big... prospect generators have at least 4 different ways of making you rich.
Let me show you...
#1:Every time a prospector finds a new claim, their stock goes through the roof.
Prospect generators each own dozens – sometimes hundreds – of mining claims. And they're always looking for more...
Here's one example – a prospect generator called Altius Minerals. Back in 2003, Altius staked a host of new claims in Labrador. Within a year, shares had soared 148%.
(In fact, sometimes all it takes for the stock to start moving is the hope of finding a new claim. When Sanu announced it had gotten new licenses to explore in Africa, the stock jumped 125%.)
#2:Once a prospect generator has claimed a promising mine, mining companies are eager to start exploring it.
Let's look at Sanu again. In January of 2007, big mining firm Lundin announced they wanted in on some of Sanu's properties in Morocco – and bought a 13% interest in the company. In the week leading up to the announcement, Sanu's shares nearly doubled.
Another example: Mansfield Minerals. Mansfield announced in July 2005 that it had optioned one of its properties in Argentina to Apex Silver. Seven months later, Mansfield investors were up 362%.
#3: With one investment, you own dozens of promising gold mines and millions of shares in the world's best mining companies.
When a big mining company wants in on a prospect generator's mine, it has to pay.
Sometimes it pays cash. Most of the time, it pays cash and stock.
Bottom line: These little prospect generators – along with owning hundreds of the world's most promising gold mines – also own millions of shares of some of the world's best mining companies.
As a shareholder, you own them too.
And when one of these miners hits pay dirt... you make a fortune.
Here's an example. In 2005, a prospect generator called Strategic Metals sold some of its properties to an exploration firm called Twenty-Seven Capital. In exchange, Twenty-Seven gave Strategic FIVE MILLION shares of their stock.
At the time, these shares were worth 45 cents each. But it was soon clear to bigger mining firms that Twenty-Seven was now sitting on truckloads of gold and copper.
In February 2007, Twenty-Seven was bought out for $1.60 a share – a 255% gain.
Strategic made $9 MILLION from that deal – without doing a single ounce of work.
And their shareholders went along for the ride.
During that same time period, Strategic's shares soared
425%.
Nearly every prospect generator owns shares of the small mining firms that are mining their properties. And each one of these miners has the potential to explode at any time.
#4: The Big Buyout.
Sometimes a big mining company wants one of these mines so badly... it just buys the company outright.
A few years ago, for example, a prospect generator called Francisco Gold caught the eye of mining giant Glamis Gold. Glamis wanted one of Francisco's Mexican mines...
So instead of paying royalties, it bought the company. After the deal was announced, Francisco's stock tripled, practically overnight.
Now... any one of these scenarios, alone, would make buying these stocks worthwhile.
But when you put it all together, the results are simply astounding...
How to turn $10,000 into $1.5 MILLION
By investing in these companies, you get exposure to the world's most promising gold, silver, diamond and natural resource mines – with more being added to the portfolios all the time.
These mines attract some of the world's most elite mining firms – from small companies like AberDiamonds to behemoths like Barrick and Newmont – who are happy to pay millions of dollars (and millions of shares of stock) to get access to these properties.
And when one of these mines starts producing – the windfall is enormous.What this all boils down to is an investment that has the potential to return large amounts of money – constantly and consistently – for years and years...
As well as the potential to make huge gains – thousands of percent – overnight...
Let me show you what I mean... with a company called Azimut Exploration...
Azimut is a prospect generator based out of Quebec...
If you had invested $10,000 in Azimut six years ago - and didn't touch it for five years - your brokerage statement would look something like this:
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And these are just some of the biggest, quickest gains.
All total, after 5 years, your original $10,000 investment would be worth $1,565,000.
That's a 15,650% total return... in less than 5 years.
Not a bad nest egg if you ask me...
So which ones are the best to put money now?
At last count, there are just 25 known prospect generators in the entire world.
To isolate the very best ones -- the businesses with the most promising projects, the most upside, and the best possible share price -- Dan spoke with his private contacts in the mining stock world... including one gentleman who is one of the industry's biggest financiers, and who personally knows all of the important people at each one of these companies...
Dan also spoke with a geologist who's spent much of the last few years studying these companies... and the geological results behind all of their most promising projects...
And if you're familiar with Dan's work, then you know his specialty is finding cheap and undervalued stocks -- companies whose actual value is far greater than what is reflected in the share price.
That's exactly the case with the two small prospect generators he's recommending right now...
The only two prospect generators you should buy
As Dan just wrote:
"In both of these companies, you're mostly getting cash and securities for your money – with a diverse array of natural-resource exploration properties, and holdings in gold and silver bullion.
"If gold is so popular... why are these stocks so cheap? That's exactly why you want to buy them as soon as possible..."
PROSPECT GENERATOR #1:
Trading for under $6 per share, this safe, super-cheap prospect generator gets you a portfolio of 26 different gold and resource projects in eastern Canada...
Better yet, when you buy this stock, you're not only getting interests in lucrative gold projects you're also getting exposure to other valuable natural resource stakes -- in uranium, iron ore, nickel, and potash.
This exploration outfit has made a ton of money for its investors in the past...
For example, in 2007, when the uranium market was going crazy, this small firm sold its founder's shares of a very lucrative uranium project for $200 million -- more than 30% more than the net worth of the entire company -- and its share price shot up 200%...
And that was just on one deal...
PROSPECT GENERATOR #2:
This company -- run by one of the wealthiest and influential men in the Canadian natural resource industry -- gets you a huge portfolio of gold, silver and copper projects in the U.S., Canada, and South America.
Long-term holders have made a ridiculous amount of money...
When this firm first got started about 10 years ago, in the first year alone investors saw a 540% return...
And just recently, it completed a deal to sell off one of its resource projects in the U.S. to one of the biggest steel multinationals in the world -- netting 336% on the deal...
You can get into this stock for under $5 per share today...
Bottom line:
Thanks to this gold market distortion, these stocks are cheaper than ever... and poised to make investors incredibly wealthy in the huge gold run-up to come...
These stocks are trading at bargain-basement prices right now... and they shouldn't be.
That's why the sooner you get in, the more you could potentially make.
Dan released a new special report that gives you the full run down on all of them – what they are... how you can invest in them... and how much money you could expect to make.
The report is called The Gold Stock Distortion: How to Get Rich with Prospect Generators.
If each one does even HALF as well as the prospect generators I told you about in this report, you could make a lot of money... very quickly.
For as long as these stocks are in Dan's model portfolio, he will keep you updated on any new discoveries... new royalty payments... or new deals in the pipeline -- and what it means for you...
In the future, Dan also may add new ones to the portfolio, as their prospects become more enticing... and they become available at a good price.
Best of all, this report is free of charge.
Here's how to get it...
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My name is Brian Hunt.
I'm the Editor in Chief of Stansberry & Associates Investment Research.
In my position for S&A, I have a "big picture" view of what's going on in the world of finance... the major investment trends that will affect what happens in the next week, month, and year... and the opportunities S&A editors are investigating to capitalize on it all.
In my opinion, the boondoggle going on in Washington D.C. today will have wide-ranging ramifications for all investors... for years to come...
And that's why I believe right now is the best possible time to be investing in gold and natural resources.
Why?
Two reasons...
If you've been with Stansberry & Associates for a while, I'm sure you've heard this before: Commodity prices run in cycles. And right now, we're in the middle of a bull market.
Gold prices, for one, have more than tripled since the bull market began in 2001. But this is just the tip of the iceberg...
The last big bull market in gold was from 1968 to 1982 – about 14 years. That was actually the shortest bull market in gold since the turn of the century.
Like I said, the most recent run began in 2001. That means we're about seven years in. That gives us at least seven more years of gains, historically speaking...
But I believe it will last much longer than that.
I'm not the only one that sees it that way...
- Bloomberg reports: "Gold may reach $2,000 an ounce by 2010."
- Barron's reports that gold prices could easily hit $8,000 an ounce.
- And Michael Lynch-Bell, head of mining and metals at Ernst and Young, says the potential for gold is "virtually limitless."
Jim Mustard, a veteran mining analyst for Haywood Securities in British Columbia adds:
"For many of us, myself included, we've never seen anything like this in our career."
Reason #2: Professional investors can't buy these small stocks... yet.
I know you've heard this before:
As the dollar gets weaker, it causes inflation... gold gets more valuable. It's that simple.
Right now, professional investors are afraid of inflation. So the big institutions are starting to go crazy for all kinds of gold investments...
For example:
- Morgan Stanley just came out with a report that predicts at least 3 years of surging gold prices "as governments ramp up spending to battle the global recession... "
- Bloomberg News just reported: "Greenlight Capital Inc. founder David Einhorn is finally taking his grandfather's advice. The $5.1 billion hedge fund is buying gold for the first time amid the threat of inflation from increased government spending..."
- And Eric Sprott, one of Canada's top money managers, said on February 3rd: "The window to raise money for gold stocks has blown open..."
But at the moment, it's next to impossible for them to buy small stocks like prospect generators.
Why? Because they simply have too much money to move around at any given time...
Let's say an average Wall Street mutual fund has $900 million in its portfolio. If the manager wants to divide the fund into 10 equal parts, that's about $90 million for each part.
But the small gold companies I'm talking about are worth, at most, a little over $200 million. That means if the average mutual fund tried to buy shares in one of these prospect generators, he'd be buying up close to half the shares. Impossible.
That would send the price through the roof -- and the mutual fund manager wouldn't get a good deal.
Plus, SEC government regulations don't allow giant mutual funds or other big banking firms to buy a huge percentage of any one company.
That's why it's just not possible for big Wall Street firms to pay attention to small stocks like these... until they get much, much bigger.
And that's why right now is exactly the time to be buying small prospect generators...
It's the perfect opportunity for average investors to get in on what could be the biggest gains you've made in your life.
And I think there's no one better to be recommending these stocks than Dan Ferris...
Why do I say that?
Because Dan does the kind of in-depth research that just about no one else in this business does...
Let me show you what I'm talking about...
How we discovered the gold stock distortion
The first thing you should know about Dan...
Doing super-detailed balance sheet research is how he spends the majority of his time each and every day. As much as 6 months of research goes into a single stock recommendation...
In other words, he won't recommend any stock unless he finds it's almost impossible to lose money.
Here's a great example of the kind of research I'm talking about...
When Dan first started Extreme Value in 2002, at the time, America had real estate fever. The price of houses and land were going crazy (like what's happening in the gold market right now)...
One of the first investment opportunities Dan discovered in Extreme Value was a way he found to get up to a 99% discount on some of the most beautiful (and expensive) land in the United States.
For example...
- Dan discovered 13,800 acres by a scenic river, right next to the Daytona International Speedway, and the Ladies Professional Golf Association headquarters...
- He also found a piece of completely pristine,
undeveloped land the size of Los Angeles -- in southern California, just a few miles from the Pacific Ocean...
- And he also discovered 21,000 acres of undeveloped land on the Hawaiian island of Kauai (where they filmed Jurassic Park)... plus a 37,000-acre plantation on the island of Maui... for around $2 per acre.
But Dan wasn't getting into some secret property deal...
Instead, he discovered a way you could buy this land for the price it was originally purchased (at prices from over 100 years ago, in some cases)...
Through the stock of six public companies.
To vet these companies, Dan did the kind of research that, quite frankly, not many analysts do these days.
First, Dan flew to Hawaii... to Texas... and to Florida... several times.
He searched the deeds at the Land Titles Office, by hand.
He checked out current property sales.
He investigated the local real estate markets. And he talked to as many brokers and insiders as he could.
Besides the thousands of miles of travel and legwork, Dan spent countless hours (often 12 hours a day or more, for days straight) digging into the balance sheets and financials of these companies.
All told, Dan spent close to a year working on the research and recommendations for what became "The Undervalued Land Report."
Readers who took his recommendations made a killing...
How to make a super-safe $75,000
Within the first two years after Dan recommended these six companies, Extreme Value subscribers who bought in could have made great money...
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Together, these six stocks had an average gain of 153%...
Enough to turn $5,000 invested in each into $75,950, in a very short time.
This is how Dan Ferris operates.
He finds an extraordinary opportunity...
And he spends an incredible amount of time and money getting it right.
He's done the same thing recently with The Gold Stock Distortion...
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And personally, I think this opportunity will be FAR bigger than anything Dan has done before...
If the recent action in the gold markets is any indication.
Dan has been following the gold and mining stock market for over 15 years. (Before he started Extreme Value, Dan wrote an advisory called Real Asset Investor, which focused exclusively on gold and commodity stocks...)
He's been following these 2 prospect generators for over 7 years. He's vetted these opportunities with his well-connected personal contacts in the gold & natural resources industry, (including one of the biggest financiers and an expert geologist)... and he's poured over the balance sheets and corporate filings...
Now... Dan can help you make a fortune in the next 12-18 months -- with a safe, inexpensive opportunity most Americans will find out about only when it's too late.
And, as I mentioned earlier...
I want you to have Dan's new report on this situation, with my compliments, if you're willing to give Extreme Value a try.
Before I tell you how to receive this new research, there's something else you'll get to be involved with, which Dan put together specifically for this opportunity...
Second Opinion from a Financier
who made 28,025%
Dan put together his first-ever conference call webcast to go over the details of this situation.
Our special guest on this call is a personal friend of Dan's -- the wealthy mining stock contact I mentioned earlier.
For privacy reasons, he asked us not to mention his name in this briefing... so I'll refer to him here as RR.
As I mentioned, RR knows all of the gold world's big money players personally... and he's financed some of the most important stock deals of the last 30 years.
In fact, for the last three decades RR and his firm have helped high-net worth investors make a killing in gold.
Some of his recommendations have made his investors a ridiculous amount of money.
For example:
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Results like these are why America's wealthiest investors have been handing their money over to him for the past 30 years...
For example, if you gave RR $25,000 when he uncovered Consolidated Stikine, you'd be sitting on $7 million and change, once he dropped the position.
To make that kind of return (280-times!) in the wild natural resources industry, you really have to know what you're doing.
And that's why RR was delighted to be on our call...
Because this gentleman knows the companies we'll tell you about... and the people involved in them... better than anyone.
Also joining Dan on our call is S&A Editor Matt Badiali.
Matt, editor of the S&A Oil Report, has a Masters of Science (M.Sc.) in geology and more than 13 years of industry and research experience.
Matt's specialty is finding energy and natural resource companies with lots of upside. Not only has he found big winners in oil and energy, like Petrobras (166% gains) and Stone Energy (93%)... he's also discovered many gold & natural resource winners -- such as Southern Copper (113%) and Cumberland (93%).
His experience with the geology of these projects will be crucial. Matt will give you his take on the most promising one's in their portfolios...
So if you want to listen to the recorded call -- and receive Dan's new report on this entire situation -- here is how to do it...
Important:
Due to the unusual nature of this opportunity -- and the small size of the companies Dan talks about -- you must be an Extreme Value subscriber to get access.
And please note: This opportunity is not for amateurs.
What I mean is, if you don't like to take any risk at all with your money, this opportunity is not for you. Small resource stocks like these can be super-volatile... especially in this market.
I'm not trying to scare you off. I just want you to be aware that this kind of investing isn't like buying a CD or a mutual fund...
So if you're comfortable putting up a small amount of money for the chance to make more on one investment than you've ever made in your life, then all you have to do is try a subscription to Extreme Value.
If you're looking for safety in your investments, I think you'll really enjoy Dan's work...
As Dan says:
"Extreme Value is about buying good companies at bargain prices. It's the one investment idea that never changes and always works. Always."
As you can imagine, subscribers who follow Dan's work are happy with the results:
*** "Dan, my results have been as follows: Made $1.01 million in profits, before taxes and expenses."~ Josh Winters, Thornton, CO
*** I made my first purchase from your recommendations nearly three years ago and have realized a 554% gain on that investment alone. Other big winners for me have been 129%, 100%, and 90%... Keep up the good work!"~ Rich Charles, Tacoma, WA
*** "About $20,000 ahead in just 60 days! Needless to say, these returns have sure beat the recent "market"by a country mile. Extreme Value delivers what it promises! Tell Dan Ferris, I figure that his advice is worth a lot more than the cost of his subscription."~ Hank Dickson, Colby, KS
I think Dan has found his biggest-ever opportunity in these two prospect generators. When you consider how bad the current market is, this could be the smartest investment move you've ever made...
The price of a subscription to Dan's research service is $1,000.
I think that is a ridiculous bargain -- especially when you consider that you could make many, many times that amount in the next 12-18 months, on just two stocks.
I can practically guarantee that this distortion will not be in the gold markets for very long...
So if you want to be involved, here is what you will receive:
- The Gold Stock Distortion: How to Get Rich with Prospect Generators. You will receive Dan's new in-depth research report, with the details on the two stocks that could make you as much as 15,000% in the next 12 - 18 months....
You will also receive...
- Extreme Value conference call. After you sign up you will have immediate access to a recording of Dan's call online. Joining Dan Ferris is RR, his gold and resources contact, and Matt Badiali, S&A's resident geologist and mining expert. They give their opinions on these two prospectors, so you have all the information you need to make an informed decision.
- Extreme Value website access, which includes:
1)Every Extreme Value issue ever published (going back to 2002)
2)The entire library of Extreme Value special investment reports, including What to Do With your Money Now... The Greatest Business in America... and much more...
As I mentioned, I think Dan's prospect generator opportunity will be the best and most lucrative recommendation he's ever made...
If you follow up on them, your subscription should easily pay for itself, very safely... many times over.
I look forward to sending you the details on one of the most exciting and lucrative opportunities Dan has ever uncovered.
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Good investing,
Brian Hunt
Editor in Chief, Stansberry & Associates Investment Research
February 2009
P.S.Remember: There is a short window of opportunity to get in on the distortion I've told you about here -- one of the biggest prospect generators, Almaden Minerals, just shot up 23%... after trading sideways for the last few months. I doubt this window of opportunity will be open long. See the order form on the next page to sign up Dan's new report... and for our money-back guarantee.