Hallo allerseits,
danke für die Anteilnahme,
war ja fast wie Kirtag! 
Hommel Push war wirksam bei Clifton und Arian
(edel, ich wart noch etwas bei Arian wegen listenaufnahme)
Sabina hat nach 1,3 bei 1,5 die nächste Hürde.
Impact hat auch zugelegt.
Hier ein Minenbericht von Doug Beiers:
derselbe, der über Energold geschrieben hat. Teil 2 über Impact folgt.
Grüße
Tschonko
(das Fake wurde angeblich gelöscht, Dank auch dafür.....
nur jetzt kann ich mich dort nicht mehr anmelden :D)
Thu Oct 26, 2006 10:49 am Post subject: Impact Silver IPT.V
Mine Visit
Just returned from visiting the Impact mine yesterday afternoon and even
before I began unpacking I sold 1/2 my Wolfden shares to add to my already overweighted position in IPT. It was tempting to sell more holdings for even more IPT but I do want to keep some diversification in other stocks I feel are very undervalued.
This morning i still haven\'t unpacked but want to at least fill you all in
on some of my thoughts and observations before the market opens in case some here want to add more or get a position in IPT.
I do belive this company is on the verge of being "discovered".
To save time I will be brief:
- this region is some of the most beautiful country I have ever had the
pleasure to view. The elevation is around 6,000\' - rolling hills with neat
homes widely scattered over the region. Quite a bit of small scale farming, agriculture, cattle, sheep etc. As we toured the property it was common to see families leading a burro down mountain paths to various destinations or granny with her loaded shopping bags coming back from a trip to town, hiking up and down these endless trails that would daunt most of us here. On a little jut of land there was a school with basket ball court sitting on a precipice maybe 200\' by 300\' in dimentions. On 3 sides it was almost a sheer drop-off of a thousand feet or more to the valley below. Mind boggling.
- the townsite located a couple miles from the mine is pretty as a picture
and the people very friendly, quite isolated
- the statue in the town square is a miner, these people have been miners
for generations and Impact is the only operating mine in the region
- Impact controls the majority of the prospective land in the region,,, for
all intents and purposes controls all the prospective land base here
- the group I was with included representitives from brokerage firms, a
Director of an investment bank in Washington, Robert Moriarty, all of the
senior Mexican mine management along with Fred and Darrell. This is the first "media tour" as Fred was waiting until he was satisfied that most of the operational wrinkles were ironed out before showcasing it to the world
- Our experience was over-the-top throughout the entire visit, from the
clean accommodations, quality of meals to the beauty of the region and
knowledge and hospitality of the Mexican senior management.
Fred and his people put on a first class presentation in every way, all
surprises were to the upside.
People and Property
- The senior Mexican (bilingual) geologist who was trained by Goldcorp and 43-101 qualified seemed to know the property like the back of his hand. We drove over much of the property and on several mountain tops where you could see for miles he would point out a portal or adit and describe the vein(s) and give their history and grades, then he would trace the veins and discuss how they merged or split - again with the grades - down the mountain, across the valley and up the other mountain. This happened time after time from several different vantage points. There was no attempt to pump but it was obvious that his knowledge was impressive and he was extremely proud of
their resources.
- A professional mining engineer with (according to Fred) exceptional
credentials from Mexico City is on contract to IPT and spends 3-4 days a
week on site. Part of his effort goes toward keeping everyone focused on the overall mining "growth plan", supervising senior staff in that they are
properly coordinating their activities (quite complex in many ways), and a
strong work ethic (not slacking off). This guy gets a lot of respect from
everyone including President Fred Davidson.
- Geologist & Vice-President George Gorzynski spends most of his time on the property. It is obvious that he loves it there and is totally enamoured with the potential and actual value in-the-ground. He would like nothing more than to explore and drill and keep drilling to uncover what he believes is an endless source of rich silver veins on this 125+ square miles of property. This will come in time but for now his focus is more on a detailed study of veins that are the easiest to bring into production to get the mill up to 500tpd, currently around 200tpd. (more on that further down).
Property
It became obvious to all of us that there is so much silver here that they
will be mining it for decades if not hundreds of more years. The only time
this property has not been actively mined in its 400+ years of production is during times of war and revolution. This is because a valley that runs thru the property extends from Acapulco right to Mexico City and one of the
mountains/hills is a strategic location during times of war. In our
underground tours it was obvious that the rock is relatively easy to work
with as there were hardly any rock-bolts needed to stablize workings
creating a very safe working environment for the miners.
Production Plans
- if plans stay on course the mill should be up to 300tpd by January 2007,
getting to 500tpd depends on various items including permitting and the time needed to drive adits into discovered veins etc. Contrary to what many believe (new to me also) there are some veins here that are exceptionally wide. Two veins we were shown that will be coming into production very soon (if not already) measure between 12 and 25 metres grading between 400-600gpt silver.
Growth Plans
- the company is studing portable mills as there has been many substantial improvements with them. The cost of a complete mill that will produce concentrate looks like it would cost between $200-$400,000.00 for a 100-200tpd mill. Extremely economical. Two reasons for adding portable mills would be:
1/ cheaper to truck a concentrate than raw ore, if oil prices continue to
rise this would be add even more value to this
2/ Metallurgy. A different mix of metals would mean different chemicals in
the processing procedure (some areas of the property have copper content).
Rather than changing the process at their 500tpd operation it may make sense to add production with a portable mill. This could keep going as they explore further out.
Environmental
- no issues with any enviornmental situations I am aware of
Infrastructure Development
- they will be replacing some of the floatation cells over the next few
months, will cost a couple hundred thousand dollars.
- the tailings damn will have to be built up prior to getting up to 500tpd.
This is quite straight forward and they are studying the engineering to
decide the best approach.
Promotional
- The presentation folder/slide show by Fred was exceptional. They have
spent quite a lot of effort in organizing their "story". This new
presentation will form the base of their restructured website which
(hopefully) will be completed in the next week or 3. Both Bob Moriarty and I stressed how important a great website is to support the share price.
- Darrell now has the authority to prepare all news releases and has been working hard on this. Expect a steady stream of news from the company over the next several months.
Club Med facilities
There are about 15 residences on the mine site in a beautiful setting in
great shape. There is a swimming pool, badminton court and a recreation hall (party room) with bar owned by Impact. Bob Moriarty commented that these facilities alone are worth the market value of Impact shares. Fred has given many of these residences to some the senior mine management as a "benifit" for their use, rent free. This has been a major asset in acquiring and keeping some of the best Mexical mining people. Fred commented a couple times that miners from Mexico and Peru are among the best in the world and his crew are right at the top.
That\'s all for now, it ended up not being all that brief but the market has
been open for a while so best get this posted. There is so much to say about this mine and operation I find it difficult to quit writing. Not sure how I will organize the story in an article I want to do. I am so impressed I will
come across as a pumper if I don\'t restrain myself. We were all totally
impressed and all I can say is Fred deserves a ton of congratulations for
what is a complete success story that is now ready to be told to the
investment world.
Impact\'s day in the sun has arrived in my opinion.
Doug Beiers
The Simple Investor