Currency Wars: Russia Holds "De-Dollarization Meeting": China, Iran Willing To Drop USD From Bilateral Trade

  

  C.S. We are going into the next stage of The Currency Wars when our previous discussions on this blog are getting into the headlines from Kremlin. Geopolitical map of the world is being re-drawn as we speak now. Our Global Village  is getting to the good old street on street fight. The reason is simple: There Is Not Enough. You can print money and manipulate equity market in to the All-Time-High for a while, but you can't print Oil, Copper, Gold and other commodities without which any growth is impossible. We all need to eat in between of our sessions on Facebook and even Google search will not bring us food into the mouth yet. Our dear Apple is really great, but we can not eat iPads even if their prices are "deflationary". We need Gas, Fertilisers and even more Oil to grow our Food and deliver it. 

  Have you noticed that with global growth in economy being barely above the water and China's "Collapse" Oil prices are strongly north of $100 mark? Where is all that Shale Oil and Gas? What will happen when economy will start growing for real?

  China knows is too well that is why it is buying resources all over the world, including Copper and Lithium. It has the military plan of Electrification of its Transportation and for Alternative Energy. Just check the numbers on Wind and Solar Power installations in the world. Energy Storage is the next stage and Lithium is at the core of it. Now China benefits from all these games and manipulations in the Gold market and buying best Copper deposits in the world.

  Have we mentioned already that poor Ukraine has been caught between the rock and the hard place? That nobody really cares about its Independence or its Proud People? That Joe Biden son has joined the board of the major Gas producer  in Ukraine? Or that it is all really about China? Empire has the only one resource left - its Military Complex (Industrial part of it gone, but Nukes are here) and it is playing the very dangerous game to leverage it and slow down China.

  Can even the good Golfer who is spending more time on the Greens than in the War Room fight with the Bear Hunters or Shaolin Masters? This is the question two charts are talking about. US Dollar above, which is playing with dangerous 80.00 level after breaching 79.00 once already these weeks; and Gold below, which is harder and harder to break down below MA200.
  Nobody knows the future, but the one outcome is already here: due to stupidity and arrogance the world has another Tsar  and will have one more retired Golfer ...

US Dollar Dives Below 79.00 - How Long Can They Keep Gold Down? GLD GDX TNR.v MUX NG ABX

  "US Dollar dives this morning and is breaking down the all-crucial 79.00 line in the sand. At the moment of writing we have 78.94. Our rhetorical question of the day is how long manipulation can keep Gold down in this environment? Now yesterday's attack on Gold can be put in the new totally dramatic perspective of today's US Dollar Melt Down."

Eric Sprott: The Chinese Gold Vortex - Do Not Miss This Golden Opportunity GDX TNR.v MUX

  "CS. Gold is building a very strong reversal pattern after resent correction. The only problem is that we are not the only one watching this chart closely and manipulators are trying to paint the breakdown on the chart above. In the normal market this picture will indicate very strong Bull market, building the base after The Golden Cross to make its Second Bull Leg Up. We have the close right above the MA200 at $1,300 and Bollinger Bands suggest that volatility will increase dramatically. Will "They" be able to break Gold down again? This is the question which will separate boys from the men again. The most important for us that this technical picture reflects the fundamentals Eric Sprott is talking about in his article." 

Ukraine, Syria And Global De-Dollarization: USD To Go Down And Gold Up TNR.v MUX RGLD GDX GLD ABX

 "What is connecting so different countries as Ukraine and Syria? The big chess game played by the U.S. and Russia. Syria needs to be "liberalised" in order to build pipelines for the natural Gas to be supplied from Qatar  to Europe. Russia and China have blocked that game and they have Ukraine revolution 2.0 now. Putin's dream is to rebuild USSR as the Eurasian Union and Ukraine is the key to his success. He will not back out of it easily. One thing is an insult in the ice hockey defeat by the U.S. in Sochi and another thing is to lose "Small Russia". On the map below you can see why Ukraine is so important geopolitically, it is all about Energy again. Key supply natural Gas routes from Russia to Europe are crossing this country." 

ZeroHedge:

Russia Holds "De-Dollarization Meeting": China, Iran Willing To Drop USD From Bilateral Trade

"That Russia has been pushing for trade arrangements that minimize the participation (and influence) of the US dollar ever since the onset of the Ukraine crisis (and before) is no secret: this has been covered extensively on these pages before (see Gazprom Prepares "Symbolic" Bond Issue In Chinese Yuan; Petrodollar Alert: Putin Prepares To Announce "Holy Grail" Gas Deal With China; Russia And China About To Sign "Holy Grail" Gas Deal; 40 Central Banks Are Betting This Will Be The Next Reserve Currency; From the Petrodollar to the Gas-o-yuan and so on).

But until now much of this was in the realm of hearsay and general wishful thinking. After all, surely it is "ridiculous" that a country can seriously contemplate to exist outside the ideological and religious confines of the Petrodollar... because if one can do it, all can do it, and next thing you know the US has hyperinflation, social collapse, civil war and all those other features prominently featured in other socialist banana republics like Venezuela which alas do not have a global reserve currency to kick around.

Or so the Keynesian economists, aka tenured priests of said Petrodollar religion, would demand that the world believe.

However, as much as it may trouble the statists to read, Russia is actively pushing on with plans to put the US dollar in the rearview mirror and replace it with a dollar-free system. Or, as it is called in Russia, a "de-dollarized" world. Read more."

Lithium Charge: Ford Focus Hatchback Electric 2013 tnr.v, czx.v, rm.v, lmr.v, alk.ax, lun.to, tsla, sqm, fmc, roc, lit, li.v, wlc.v, clq.v, res.v, ree, avl.to, nsany, f, gm, rno.pa, dai, byddf, hev, aone, vlnc

  If we can allocate all costs properly to the account of Oil Supply in the U.S., including the price for military operations and protection of the ocean lines, amount spent in order to protect 100 years old Oil based technology can easily place us all in the Electric Cars in five years time.

  Cost of human tragedies will be always on hands of those who still keeps us addicted to Oil.

"Only sometimes Mr Market allows us to step into the same long term trend at the depressed valuations even when fundamentals and assets in the particular investment plays are better. We are entering the tectonic shift in our Energy Diet now - it will be painful, but with right attitude and determination we can succeed with the new technology available to us now. Transportation will be leading the way in this next Industrial Revolution - Electrification of our Mobility. We will need more and more Oil and Gas in order to produce our food."

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NGeX Resources awarded major Potash project ngq.v, tnr.v, lun.to, czx.v, pot, bhp, rm.v, lmr.v, sqm, fmc, roc, li.v, ore.ax, lit, tck, rtp, vale

   Now we have an idea why Lukas Lundin was buying his  own "Global Exploration Vehicle" stock in the market recently - NGeX Resources added to its Gold, Silver and copper properties Potash in Erirea.

"Lukas will be again in a very favorable position after these very tough few years for the company. He can and should use his currency - shares in the company above CAD10.0 to buy another companies with sizable projects at still undervalued valuations among juniors. He should definitely, in our opinion, to study well opportunities for acquisition in CIBC report. His another company - NGeX Resources is a part of that M&A list with its properties in Argentina, Chile, Africa and Canada is moving up nicely in price these days as well.TNR Gold has a few J/V projects with NGeX Resources in Argentina. Lukas Lundin was buying recently NGeX Resources in the market."

"NGeX Resources - Another of our Summer Picks is wakening up now. Lukas Lundin's Global exploration Play NGeX Resources is finally making some progress in the market place and stock is ready to follow. The recent J/V deal with Teck Resources gave the share price a nice boost of confidence, but stock is still only a shadow of what it once was, with the portfolio of properties and very high expectations in Suramina Resources, Canadian Gold Hunter and Sanu Resources, which were all combined to constitute NGeX Resources.           

  NGeX resources has a number of J/V projects with our another Top Pick - TNR Gold, which is spiced by Lithium and REE in plus to its Gold and Copper projects. It is a very small world of quality names in resource exploration and development companies and Lukas Lundin is involved in our Chinese M&A story in Canada as well: Lundin Mining has a position in Canada Zinc Metals.

  The major asset in all Lundin companies is Mr Lukas Lundin himself and we think that this company now lacks his determination and charisma - recent CEO is not even close to what shareholders were taking for granted with Lukas. The company is very shy now of any promotion or even telling its story properly to the market place.

  With all that said, it could be the best buying opportunity again: the stock is under the radar screens at the moment. Recent drill results are coming from getting hot Eritrea in Africa. You can see the core pictures here. Lukas was always famous in trading political risk for exploration one. Eritrea had its own bad moment after the crisis with UN sanctions and lack of political stability, but Nevsun Resources is making its way with mine development now and all other juniors involved in that country seems to be following moving to the upside:"

NGeX presentation.


NGeX Resources awarded major Potash project.

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Dec. 6, 2010) - NGEx Resources Inc. (TSX:NGQ) ("NGEx" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has been granted the Bada Potash Exploration License located in the Danakil Depression in Eritrea. This large license, encompassing over 431 square kilometers, is located 30 kilometres inland from the Red sea port of Mersa Fatma and 150 kilometres southeast of the capital city of Asmara. To view the attached map, please click here: http://media3.marketwire.com/docs/NGQ1206m.pdf.

The Bada license is situated within the northern portion of an evaporite basin extending southward into Ethiopia, where exploration in the 1960's resulted in the discovery of the large Crescent and Musley potash and sylvite deposits. Allana Resources Inc. have been drilling an area north of the Musley deposit and have reported an inferred resource of 105.2Mt grading approximately 20.8% KCl (sylvite and kainite) (Allana press release dated September 17, 2008). BHP-Billiton and Sainik Coal Mining, a leading Indian coal mining company have large exploration licenses in the Ethiopian portion of the basin south of the Crescent and Musley deposits. In the Eritrean part of the basin, South Boulder Mines Ltd. have announced the discovery of shallow potash mineralization near the village of Colluli in Eritrea, 20 kilometres north of Musley and 30 kilometres southeast of Bada. South Boulder reports shallow potash-bearing horizons up to 19.7 metres thick averaging 20% to 25% KCl (see South Boulder Mines press release dated October 18, 2010). South Boulder have announced plans for a pre-feasibility scoping study for low-cost open-pit mining at Colluli. 

The Danikil Depression is known to continue northeast from Colluli and is believed to have potential for potash-bearing beds on the Bada license. However, only very limited historical exploration work has been done in the license area to date. Initial reconnaissance at Bada by NGEX found extensive shallow alluvium cover, young volcanic rocks or recent marine evaporites, with potential for potash-bearing rocks under much of the license area. 

Exploration of the license will start in January, 2011. The initial phase will be to confirm the evaporite sequence and then to drill test the shallower portions of the basin for potash mineralization.

The Bada license area offers several significant advantages for any future operations. The area has easy access to the port of Mersa Fatma to the northeast, alluvial fans on the southeast side of the depression could be a viable source of fresh process-water, and the shallow nature of the mineralization found to the south at Colluli suggests the feasibility of low-cost open pit mining. NGEX's Eritrean subsidiaries, have a 12 year operating history the country and a strong technical and support team.

Wojtek Wodzicki, President and CEO of the Company, commented, "We believe that there is potential for a significant potash discovery on the Bada license and we are excited about starting work on this new and unexplored portion of a major, world-class potash basin."

Dr. Demetrius Pohl, a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 has reviewed and verified the technical information contained in this news release.

On behalf of the Board,

Dr. Wojtek Wodzicki, President and CEO

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