IMA Exploration Inc. WKN 884 971 CA4496641016 IMR

@ Silbertaler

beim stöbern im Board bin ich über diesen Thread gestolpert, sollte zu deinem passen.

http://www.goldseiten-forum.de…id=12&sid=&hilight=ima+ex

Sorry - ohne inhaltliche Wertung:

Erinnert mich irgendwie an das Pushing in den Boards am Neuen Markt damals ...

Noch etwas zu den Press Releases grundsätzlich:
Ich bin selbst bei einem US-Börsennotierten Unternehmen beschäftigt. Auf diese Mitteilungen gebe ich absolut nichts. Sieht super offiziell und zeitnah aus - ist aber alles beliebig "frisiert".

Immer diese offiziellen Ratschläge der Experten: Bla bla bla im Sinne von der Anleger muss sich über das Unternehmen und die Details informieren. Und dann informiert er sich auf Basis dieser Mitteilungen ... Wer nicht wirklich sehr gute Kontakte in das Unternehmen hinein hat (und damit meine ich Upper-Management-Level) kann absolut keine Erkenntnisse über die tatsächlichen Chancen erlangen - da kann ich ansonsten auch Lotto spielen oder mich gleich als Guru fühlen weil das ganze Business (oder Marktsegment) steigt.

Ist nicht persönlich gemeint. Ich denke: Der Trend ist Dein Freund - habe feste Verlustlimits - wiege Dich nicht in Kenntnis der tatsächlichen Details.

Gruss vom zweifler

Das ist ja das Dilemma - auf eigene Fausst kann man nicht mehr als diese Infos nehmen.

Alternative wäre ein Fond mit einem sehr guten Management - aber wer genau hat dann da im Detail den Einblick. Ergo: Auch schwierig.

Ich denke, dass man nur mit dem Markt gehen kann und dabei einfach möglichst breit streuen muss. Dann kann eigentlich nichts schief gehen

Alternativ könnte die Chart-Technik helfen. Da kenne ich mich nicht gut aus, aber wenn nur genug daran glauben, dann wird es auch so kommen ...

Gruss,
zweifler

Zitat

Original von zweifler
Das ist ja das Dilemma - auf eigene Fausst kann man nicht mehr als diese Infos nehmen.

Alternative wäre ein Fond mit einem sehr guten Management - aber wer genau hat dann da im Detail den Einblick. Ergo: Auch schwierig.

Ich denke, dass man nur mit dem Markt gehen kann und dabei einfach möglichst breit streuen muss. Dann kann eigentlich nichts schief gehen

Alternativ könnte die Chart-Technik helfen. Da kenne ich mich nicht gut aus, aber wenn nur genug daran glauben, dann wird es auch so kommen ...

Gruss,
zweifler

Alles anzeigen

Hallo Zweifler,

einfach ist im Leben nun einmal das wenigste. Wenn Dir jemand dem Augenschein nach einen einfachen Weg aufzeigt, will er meistens nur Dein Geld. Charttechnik kannst Du bei einem solchen Wert vergessen (Meine Meinung !). Entweder Du traust Dir zu, das Potenzial selbst zu analysieren, oder Du hälst Dich besser fern.

Weshalb Du Silbertalers Arbeit hier mit dem "Stigma Pusher" versiehst, entzieht sich meinem gesunden Menschenverstand. Wenn Du bessere und fundiertere Beiträge abliefern kannst so bist Du herzlich dazu eingeladen

Gruß
Schwabenpfeil

IMA - The MEGA SILVER BONANZA ...
(frr) Jan 21, 13:27

Strikes again.

Adding to resource/reserve on a basis noone could have anticipated. From zero to drill indicated < 300moz, going on to the half billion and won't stop before a Billion or more, IMHO only!
What a great story in the making, while most of the big silver analysts haven't even started to trake notice.

NEWS RELEASE

2005 Number 3
January 21, 2005
Soil Sampling Reveals a 6 km Mineralized Trend Parallel to the Navidad and Esperanza Trends

IMA Exploration Inc. (IMR-TSX.V, IMXPF-OTC.BB) is pleased to announce results of ongoing surface work at its 100% owned Navidad project in Patagonia, Argentina. A large expansion to the soil sample grid and follow-up prospecting has uncovered a series of new mineralized zones to the southeast of Loma de la Plata. The newly named "Argenta Trend" includes Sector Zeta and Loma de la Plata and extends approximately six kilometres to the southeast, parallel with the Esperanza and Navidad Trends. Ongoing prospecting and detailed rock sampling continue to define this exciting new trend and individual mineralized zones along it.

1366 new samples (including blanks and duplicates) were collected at 50m intervals on lines spaced 200m apart and cover an area of over 1300 hectares to the south of the previous grid (see http://www.imaexploration.com/s/Navidad.asp for updated maps showing results of the entire Navidad soil grid). The Argenta Trend is highlighted by anomalous silver, lead and zinc values with subordinate and sporadic anomalous copper.

Prospecting and geological mapping along the Argenta Trend has found several new zones of silver-lead, lead-silver, and silver-copper mineralization. Results have been received to date from 32 rock chip and grab samples, these range from below detection to high-grade silver, lead, and copper. Highlights include eight samples containing over 100 g/t silver (up to 290g/t Ag), ten samples with over 10% lead (up to 29.7% Pb), and two samples with over 1% copper (up to 1.42%). Detailed sampling along the Argenta Trend is ongoing with the objective of defining size and average grade of individual mineralized zones, results will be reported as they become available.

Mineralization along the Argenta Trend occurs mainly within latite volcanic rocks that appear similar to those at Galena and Navidad Hills and the newly discovered Loma de la Plata zone. However, mineralization in the Argenta Trend also occurs in sandstones and limestones with which the volcanics are interbedded. The sequence is interpreted to be at the same stratigraphic level as mineralization defined at Galena Hill, but with some differences in that sedimentary facies are coarser grained. An interesting and unusual feature of the Argenta Trend is the presence of a more than 5 km long continuous strontium in soil anomaly caused by a bed of celestite (strontium sulfate) that appears to have an exhalative hydrothermal origin. Much more restricted beds of celestite have previously been found on the flanks of Navidad and Galena Hill. At both Navidad and the Argenta Trend the celestite lies stratigraphically above the levels most favorable for silver mineralization.

Volcanic strata outcropping along the Argenta Trend dip shallowly to the northeast towards the Navidad and Galena Hill area (see previously published map and cross-section of Loma de la Plata on IMA's web-site). Based on geological mapping it is interpreted that this same favourable stratigraphic level is present at depth between the Argenta and Esperanza Trends, a distance of over 2.4 kilometers. Geophysical crews are currently on site surveying this area with the objective of developing additional targets that may be present along this favourable stratigraphic level but not exposed on surface.

Dr. Paul Lhotka is IMA's Qualified Person for the Navidad project under National Instrument 43-101 regulations and has overseen all aspects of the current program. For more information and maps depicting the work described herein please visit IMA's web site at http://www.imaexploration.com/.

IMA is well financed to continue to test the numerous exploration targets at Navidad with significant drill programs. The Company has over 10 years experience in Argentina and is focused on the exploration and development of its' 100% owned Navidad silver discovery.

IMA ist mein grosser Tip für Silber - Joe Grosso ein Genie!

frr

ex my post G-E

Hallo alle,

endlich wird mal über einen der aussichtsreichsten Explorer Werte diskutiert. Der Wert ist in D anscheinend noch ziemlich unbekannt;
Leute die diesen Wert empfehlen: J. Hommel, Louis Paquette (Vancouver).
Der letztere hat einen ganz vernünftigen Börsenbrief:
http://www.emerginggrowthstocks.ca/

Der oben angesprochene Rechtsstreit ist zwischen aquiline resources (aqi.v) und ima exploration (imr.v). Es wird behauptet, dass wenn der Streit nicht wäre, die Aktie doppelt so teuer wäre. Ima ist trotzdem der Explorationswert in Argentinien mit der höchsten MK. Früher hatte IMA noch verschiedene Explorationsstellen, im Sommer 2004 wurden die Gold Properties abgespalten, und IMA besteht nun nur aus den Properties in der Chubut Province in Argentinien (Navidad, Galena usw.). Hier ist allerdings der grösste Silberfund der letzten Jahre gemacht worden (siehe oben).
Nun zum Rechtssteit (Hergang unverbindlich): Vor eeinem Gericht in Vancouver, BC, Kanada hat Aquiline Ima angeklagt: Ursprünglich gehörten die Properties die jetzt Aquiline gehören einer Firma Minerva oder so ähnlich. Diese standen zum Verkauf, und mehrere Interesenten waren da. Im Rahmen der Verkaufsverhandlungen wurden natürlich (vertrauliche) Informationen an die Interessenten abgegeben. Käufer war schlussendlich Aquiline, Ima war ein Interessent. Ima hat daraufhin in der Nachbarschaft von Aquiline seinen Claim abgesteckt, eben Navidad usw, und hat dort einen grossen Fund gemacht. Das Gebiet das von Ima erworben wurde, war also nicht der Gegenstand des Kaufs der von Aquiline durchgeführt wurde.
Aquiline behauptet jetzt, dass IMA nur aufgrund der vertraulichen Informationen, die im Rahmen der Verkaufsgespräche weitergereicht wurden, Kenntnisse von Navidad erhalten hat, und dass der Kauf (od. Claim) nicht rechtens sei. IMA sagt dazu, dass sie schon immer in der Gegend präsent waren, und dass interne Papiere (von IMA) schon viel früher existieren, die die Interessen von IMA an Navidad belegen.

Also die Klage basiert auf der Beschuldigung:"unrechtmässiger Erwerb von Wissen, der zur Aquisition führtte".

Interessant, nicht war? Paul van Eden hat sich dazu dahingehend geäussert, es wäre wohl am besten, Papiere von beiden Gesellschaften zu halten. Einige sagen, ein langer Rechtsstreit wäre möglich, was natürlich schädlich wäre. Wieder andere behaupten, dass die Klage wohl wenig Aussichten auf Erfolg hat. Ein weiterer Punkt der im Zusammenhang mit IMA wichtig ist, ist die Lage in Argentinien. Es gibt dort immer wieder Berichte von Teilen der Bevölkerung, die Minen generell verhindern wollen (Open Pit mining mit Quecksilber und Cyaniden).

Trotzdem ist IMA einer der interessantesten Silberwerte.

MfG Silberschatz

Hallo Silberschatz;

Hab eben erst diese Nachricht bekommen und versuche zu antworten - kann jedoch nicht total spetifisch sein.
Werde dies nachholen sobald die Chose es erlaubt. Alles was ich derzeit sagen kann ist, dass beim Erwerb dieser Konzession keinerlei, wie immer gearteten geologischen Informationen bekannt waren. Ich glaube, dass dieses gesamte Gebiet ursprünglich von Newmont gehalten wurde und IMA es von NEM erwarb. NEwmont hat im Grossen aireal surveys durchgeführt, ohne irgend einen Hinweis auf ein Silber oder ein sonstiges Vorkommen.

Zuerst muss betont werden, dass IMA generell seit 1994/95 als einer der ersten Juniors überhaupt in Argentinien Mineralrechte an grossen Landpaketen erwarb. Dies war auf private Kontakte und der Hilfe Vincente Mendez, der jahrzehntelang für Argentiniens Regierung (was immer man von dieser gehalten haben mag) als Geologe tätig war.

Immerhin waren IMAs Geologen, die als erste vor Ort waren und durch outcrops von Native Silver weitere Untersuchungen befürworteten. Die zu erahnende Bonanza dürfte erst zu dieser Klage geführt haben; Es ist auch nicht das erste mal, dass AQI ähnliche Taktiken verfolgte.

Es scheint, dass jede (Silber)-Münze zwei Seiten hat.

Zum Fundamentalen möchte ich hier und jetzt nur beitragen, dass namhafte unabhängige Geologen von mir gebeten wurden die Daten seit vor der ersten Bohrung und bisher regelmässig zu checken. Die überwiegende Meinung bestätigt die Annahme, dass es sich um (schon nicht mehr potentiell) um einen der grössten Silber (-Blei) Funde je und weltweit handle.

Ja, und wenn AQI nicht wäre, wäre der Titel schon wesentlich höher ... Persönlich glaube ich an eine recht rasche Lösung in dieser Angelegenheit, wohingegen von der Explorationsseite noch wesentliche Impulse zu erwarten sind. Eine halbe Silber-Unzen sind in diesem Jahr, bei der Rasanz der Exploration kaum auszuschliessen!

Hommel hat letzte Woche in seinem Silberreport einen Bewerb ausgeschrieben, bei dem man eine vorgegebene Aktie mit einem bericht versieht. ca. 800 Wörter.

Thema war IMA Exploration
Es gab 18 Einsendungen.

Der Autor des veröffentlichten Beitrages, von Jason noch editiert, kriegt einen 100 oz. silberbarren.
Ausgesprochen gute Idee, bei der auch etwas davon hat, weil bei einer Aktie so ziemlich alles auf den tisch kommt und er alle Berichte lesen kann.

Hier der Siegerbericht:

Silver and IMA Exploration
by Jack Myers and Jason Hommel

More and more people are becoming aware of the growing importance of silver as an investment vehicle. The fundamentals for the shiny metal are excellent and can only get better. The key? Supply and demand. Annual mine supply is just under 600 million ounces while annual demand is almost 900 million ounces, and almost all of that demand is from industry at 40%, jewelry at 30%, or photography at 25% of annual demand. Investment demand is less than 5% of annual demand, and that is poised to change due to the growing awareness of the silver shortage. Why is silver in short supply?

Silver is the greatest conductor of electricity known to man, and so it has been used in virtually every electrical device ever created. Since the end of World War II, the United States consumed about 7/10ths of an ounce of silver per person. Most of the silver ever produced in human history has been consumed, and so, now above ground silver is more rare than gold.

Of course, in a world increasingly awash in devalued paper currencies and debt, silver’s most important use of all may be its historic role as real money. When the train inevitably starts to come off the troubled economic track, silver will once again serve as a tried-and-true monetary refuge. Ultimately, silver is a proven store of value.

However, despite its many strategic uses, silver incredibly finds itself in a growing supply deficit. That’s because once-enormous above-ground stockpiles have been drawn down to dangerously low levels. More silver has been used than produced in the last sixteen (now going on seventeen) years! Sixty years ago, during the bygone era of silver coinage, billions of ounces of Ag were kept in storage. Today these immense stores are nearly gone. For the first time in memory the U.S. Mint is buying silver in the open marketplace to produce its yearly supply of Silver Eagle coins. Today’s spot price is $7.26. During 1979-1980, the oil baron Hunt Brothers and their Middle-eastern friends conspired to corner the world’s lucrative silver market. They nearly succeeded, driving the spot price to $50 in the process. Today's inflation-adjusted price of the former peak would be well north of $150 to $250/oz. The difference today is that above-ground supplies have gotten much smaller, and fewer mines are producing silver as their primary metal. China is consuming all commodities — silver included — at a voracious rate, and the global financial system is drowning in an ocean of paper. It’s not question of whether the silver price is going to explode, but when.

Many silver stocks in exploration companies stand to explode in price to an even greater degree due to the leverage they offer the silver investor. Exploration companies also can explode in price as they create wealth through the process of discovery. IMA Exploration is one company that deserves a closer look.

Mining people are continually on the lookout for the next “elephant” — the colloquial term for a company-making mineral deposit of gargantuan proportions. The overwhelming majority of outfits never find such an increasingly elusive prize. However, one company . . . IMA Exploration (IMR-TSX.V, IMXPF-OTC.BB), recently bagged a certifiable silver “elephant” in the Patagonia region of Argentina. At a whopping 268 million indicated ounces of silver and still growing, the question remains, just how big of an ore body has IMA discovered?

To date, the raw numbers are truly impressive. And with nearly every turn of the drill, IMA is adding more metal to its already stunning totals. IMA’s “Navidad” property is vast, its geology rich and complex. Multiple styles of mineralization occur along a several-kilometer trend. There’s copper, lead, and silver — so, so much silver. Bulk, lower-grade tonnage interspersed with dazzling intercepts of bonanza-grade mineralization.

Some are calling Navidad the hottest new silver deposit anywhere on the planet. So far, Navidad has lived up to this exalted billing.

Highlights include:

-- 80.8 million tons at 103 g/t silver and 1.45% lead using a 50 g/t silver equivalent cut-off.

-- 207 million indicated ounces of silver (Ag) at Galena Hill, “ground zero” at Navidad. Plus over one million tons of lead and another 36 million “inferred” ounces of the precious metal.

-- 61 million oz. Ag at nearby “Navidad Hill” and the “connector” zone that links Navidad Hill to Galena Hill. One intersection boasted an astounding 1,165 grams of silver per ton over 28 meters.

-- A more recent “blind” discovery at Calcite Hill that yielded a 72-meter intersection with a respectable 202 g/t Ag.

-- The new “Sector Zeta” and “Loma de la Plata” zones. Channel samples from Sector Zeta have returned in excess of 1% copper and 100 g/t silver while Loma de la Plata shows in excess of 200 to 400 g/t Ag over more than 50 meters. Drilling has yet to begin.

Basically, Navidad contains some seriously rich rock. One drill result was 35.8 m of 2,850 g/t of silver. That's about 92 ounces/tonne of silver over 117 feet! At $7.26/oz., that rock is worth $668/tonne! And most of IMA's silver is close to surface, and will thus likely be mined by the cheaper open-pit method, that can sometimes be profitable when mining rock worth about $30/tonne! (This explains why the cut-off grade when determining resources is as low as 103g/tonne or 3.3 oz./ tonne.) One IMA geologist stated that he thought Navidad was much more than a potential mine: it was a mining district!

To date, the current resource calculation is as follows: total indicated resources are 271 million ounces of silver, and an additional 36 million ounces inferred, for a total of 307 million ounces of silver. Those numbers are 43-101 compliant. These numbers will likely continue to grow significantly over the next several years as drilling the district continues year round due to the mild climate.

Conveniently located near one of Argentina’s major highways, Navidad presents no major infrastructure problems. It’s the kind of wealth-generating property mining giants the world over are scrambling to find — or buy out at increasingly inflated prices. Majors today are involved in a strategy of merger mania as the quickest way to grow their depleted property portfolios. And Barrick Gold is already a major shareholder in IMA.

One way to judge the quality of the project is to look at the quality of the people the project attracts. On Feb. 17th 2005, IMA announced the appointment of Eng. Augusto Baertl to be responsible for the development of IMA's 100% owned Navidad silver deposit in Argentina. As the former President of Compañia Minera Antamina, Mr. Baertl developed Antamina, which involved a capital investment of US $2.2 Billion. Antamina was operational ahead of schedule, under budget and in strict compliance with international social and environmental standards.

IMA is headed up by Joseph Grosso, an old pro in the search for Latin American resources. Mr. Grosso’s family ties and connections in Argentina gave him the inside track on cherry-picking the country’s premier properties in the early 1990s. That’s when Buenos Aires finally gave the go-ahead for international mining ventures to do business in their highly prospective and under-explored provinces.

IMA currently has just over 44 million shares outstanding — 49 million shares fully diluted when all warrants and options are considered. If all warrants and stock options are exercised, it would bring in about $12 million Cdn. Management owns 15-17% of this debt-free company. With a February 25th closing price of $3.88 Cdn, the market cap for this stock is a very reasonable $154 million in U.S. dollars.

At current share prices, the cost to investors for the ounces in the ground, may be calculated as follows: $154 million market cap / 307 mil oz. = $.57/oz. Or, if the exploration potential of IMA is up to a billion ounces of silver, then perhaps the following may be more accurate: $154 million market cap / 1000 mil oz. = $.15/oz. Expressed another way, you may be getting title from between 13 to 47 ounces in the ground, for one ounce of silver's worth of stock. Meaning, if you spend the equivalent of $7.26 on stock, you are buying title to 13 to 47 ounces of silver in the ground.

Why so reasonably priced? After news of the initial discovery at Navidad, another Canadian miner filed a “nuisance” suit alleging that IMA used its proprietary geologic data to zero in on Navidad. The dispute centers around the bid process for the Calcatreau gold property in Argentina, now wholly owned by Aquiline Resources, the plaintiff in the suit against IMA. IMA, along with Aquiline, was a bidder for Calcatreau, and was shown confidential data for the purposes of placing a valuation on Calcatreau. All parties signed confidentiality agreements that excluded them from exploring and staking ground within some three kilometers of Calcatreau. Navidad, a silver-lead property, lies approximately 42 kilometers from Calcatreau, a gold property. Many have already dismissed Aquiline’s claims entirely. The CEO of Aquiline, also a principal in other mining ventures, has earned a reputation as something of a serial litigant, and is currently involved in a separate mining lawsuit in Australia. Meanwhile, shares of IMA will continue to trade at a discount until the matter can be cleared. A court hearing is scheduled in British Columbia in October 2005.

Expect the suit to be settled in IMA’s favor — eventually. If Aquiline had the same information as IMA, why didn’t they stake Navidad? Or mining giant Newmont, which had previously owned Calcatreau and generated the proprietary data purchased by Aquiline? When the truth is revealed, it will show that IMA was actively exploring the Chubut province in Patagonia and was already zeroing in on Navidad at the time they kicked the tires at Calcatreau.

“There is absolutely nothing to the claim,” CEO Grosso states flatly.

To summarize, no investment today offers the explosive upside and limited downside of silver. And very few publicly traded silver companies offer the kind of extreme leverage, proven deposit growth, and blue-sky potential of IMA Exploration.

Stock prices go up and down, and past performance is neither an indicator, nor counter-indicator, of future performance. The information in this essay has been gathered from many sources that are believed to be reliable. No guarantees are being made that this information is reliable. All potential investors are encouraged to contact IMA to verify all important information.

For more information and to get on IMA’s mailing list, contact the company at info@imaexploration.com, and/or visit their web site at http://www.imaexploration.com. You can also call the company toll-free at 1-800-901-0058. Mr. Sean Hurd is the person in charge of investor relations — he’ll be glad to hear from you.

Jack Myers is a seasoned investor in the junior mining sector. Myers has not been paid by IMA Exploration for producing this article, nor does he work for the company. He does own shares in IMA Exploration, as well as shares in IMA’s sister company Golden Arrow Resources (GRG-TSX.V), a grassroots explorer which was spun off from IMA in 2004. Mr. Myers works as a technical writer in Valley Forge, PA. He can be contacted at jackmyers@peoplepc.com.

Jason Hommel sponsored the writing of this essay by offering to give a 100 oz. silver bar to whomever could write the best essay on silver and IMA Exploration. Jason edited the essay, and added a few bits of information that was researched and highlighted in a total of 18 essays submitted. Jason also owns shares in IMA Exploration, and Golden Arrow, and has not been paid by either company to write this article. Jason Hommel writes a weekly silver stock report that covers the market caps of about 80 silver stocks. See silverstockreport.com