Explosion of Cellular Phone Use Drives Commerce Resources (TSX.V:CCE) Value

Explosion of Cellular Phone Use Drives Commerce Resources (TSX.V:CCE) Value By Darryl Kelley
Commerce Resources is developing what may very well be newest domestic source of tantalum and niobium in North America. The company has just raised $32.7 Million in a financing that will see it continue to develop resources at its 100%-owned Blue River Tantalum-Niobium Project.
Commerce Resources Corp. s stated goal is to become the world s next source of tantalum and niobium. Commerce is the most active tantalum and niobium explorer in North America, with a focus on developing its Upper Fir deposit into production.
At present the major use of tantalum is in capacitors which are used in desktop and laptop computers, mobile phones, digital cameras, pagers, PDA s, handheld games, automotive applications and a number of other fields in the electronic industry. It is estimated 65 percent of tantalum made available each year is used in the production of capacitors.
Rising numbers of cell-phone-using teens have become a key source of growth for the wireless industry.
The latest estimates show that by the end of the year, 84 percent of the U.S. population will be carrying mobile phones, according to SNL Kagan, a communications research firm.
This has left yet-to-be-connected youngsters as one of the few remaining ready sources of new subscribers.
Major companies such as AT&T, Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel Corp. have done a brisk business by encouraging existing customers to sign up for family calling plans. These services allow the addition of a mobile phone to an account, usually for an additional charge of about $10 a month.
Tantalum capacitors are a key component in mobile phones. The sector s rapid growth has led to a worldwide tantalum shortage and prices have risen significantly, swelling the coffers of the Congo s warring factions who profited historically from increased demand for the material.
In January 2000, a kilogram of tantalum cost $65. Last December, the price was $550, although that has fallen back to about $375 today.( Where are these price quotes coming from? They are not consistent with current prices that we know of. A pound of concentrate would be worth around $55 dollars. A pound of tantalum oxide would be $ 150 pp and a pound of capacitor grade powder would be worth approximately $ 350pp
Tantalum ores are found primarily in Australia, Canada, Brazil, and central Africa, with some additional quantities originating in southeast Asia and in China. There is also interest in exploration for this element in various regions of the world, such as Canada, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
Tantalum minerals with over 70 different chemical compositions have been identified. Those of greatest economic importance are tantalite, microlite, and wodginite; however, it is common practice to name any tantalum-containing mineral concentrate as tantalite primarily because it will be processed for the tantalum values and is sold on that basis.
The single largest source of tantalum mineral concentrates is the production by Sons of Gwalia Ltd. from its Greenbushes and Wodgina mines in Western Australia. These two mines combined produce between 70 and 80% of the world s supply, with production in 2001 reported at approximately 1.8 million pounds.
Additional operating mines are the Tanco Mine (Cabot) in Manitoba, Canada, the Kenticha Mine (Ethiopia Minerals Development Authority) in Ethiopia, the Yichun Mine in China, and the Pitinga Mine (Paranapanema) and Mibra Mine (Metallurg) in Brazil.
Quantities are available from Brazil through the processing of small alluvial deposits by prospectors and in numerous countries in Africa, such as Rwanda, Namibia, Uganda, DRC-Kinshasa, Zaire, Gabon, Nigeria, South Africa, and Burundi.
The central African countries of Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC-Kinshasa) and Rwanda and their neighbours used to be the source of significant tonnages. But civil war, plundering of national parks and exporting of minerals, diamonds and other natural resources to provide funding of militias has caused the Tantalum-Niobium International Study Center to call on its members to take care to obtain their raw materials from lawful sources. Members should refrain from purchasing materials from regions where either human welfare or wildlife are threatened.
Exploration to date at the Upper Fir deposit has outlined an indicated resource of 8.6Mt with 208.2 g/t Ta2O5 and 1,372.6 g/t Nb2O5 and an inferred resource of 5.5Mt with 208.2 g/t Ta2O5 and 1,349.9 g/t Nb2O5 (Gorham, 2007). Exploration to date at the Fir deposit has outlined an indicated resource of 5.65Mt with 203.1g/t Ta2O5 and 1,047g/t Nb2O5 (Verzosa, 2003). The Fir is also host to an inferred resource of 6.7Mt with 196g/t Ta2O5, 646g/t Nb2O5 and 3.20% P2O5 (McCrea, 2001). The Verity deposit, 10 km north of the Fir property, is estimated to host an inferred resource of 3.06Mt with 196g/t Ta2O5, 646g/t Nb2O5 and 3.20% P2O5 (McCrea, 2001).
Niobium is an additive to the production of steel. A 2% alloy of niobium has the ability to triple the tensile strength of the steel, from a PSI (pounds per square inch) of 40,000 to 120,000. Niobium-alloyed steel is found in construction steel, oil and gas pipelines, nuclear plant pipelines, the automotive industry and aerospace.
The primary mineral from which niobium is obtained is known as pyrochlore, found occurring in carbonatites globally. The world s largest deposit located at Araxa, Brazil, is operated by CBMM, and averages between 2.5% and 3.0% Nb205. Two other currently operating pyrochlore mines are the Anglo American Brasil Mineracao (Brazil), grading at 1.34% niobium oxide and the Iamgold-owned Niobec (Quebec) at their St. Honore deposit, grading at 0.67% niobium and mined underground.
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Setting Business Goals: Will you have a Fulfilling Year?

Tips on Setting Motivating Business Goals
Fulfilling (v.): to accomplish; to carry out
By its very definition, to have a fulfilling experience you need to have goals. That is, something to accomplish. Most of us would recognize the importance of goals yet it can be difficult to know where to start in getting those goals set. The following article takes you through 6 easy steps to getting some powerful goals in place.
A lot of the business owners we work with find it difficult to write personal goals. Their attention seems to divert to what the family, business or others need. Take this opportunity to focus on setting some personal goals for you. We are not saying your entire life has to be solely about you and you alone, just 2 or 3 goals. Achieving personal goals will help you thrive as a person, which in turn will help your business and family thrive. So for the duration of this exercise, the focus is on you.
Step 1: Keep It Simple
What do you want?
It s a simple question and deserves a simple answer. In your first draft just write down whatever comes into your head. Don t edit it & don t rationalize it. Let your creativity have a free reign for a few minutes. Now from the information you have written down, circle those wants that are highly important to you personally. You may decide to choose only one. The impact of achieving that goal will feed your motivation, enthusiasm and confidence on many different levels.
Step 2: Make Your Goals Clear and Specific
A goal commonly held by business owners is "I want to spend more time with the kids". The lack of specific detail makes this goal incredibly difficult to accomplish. More specific detail needs to be added. For instance, how do you want to "spend" time with your kids? How much time do you want to spend? For instance, say instead your goal was "I want to take my kids to play in the park for two hours, twice a week". Do you think you could come up with a solution to achieve that? When you get clear and specific about your goals your mind can immediately get to work coming up with solutions. A lot of perceived barriers disappear into thin air. It also makes it easier for you to visualize what you want to achieve and to recognize when you have achieved your goal. Then, shazzam! You start feeling more fulfilled!
Step 3: Write It Down
Writing your goals down is a simple act yet it has a profound impact on your cognition and your ability to achieve the goal. It turns your goals from being intangible thoughts into something tangible. By reading what you have written your goals are kept top-of-mind. Externalizing your goals means you can step back from them and think more objectively about their achievement. Goal acquisition becomes more of an exercise in logistics rather than an emotional wish list. Instead of using your brainpower to remember your goals all the time, you can free it up to focus on finding a solution. Make sure the layout is clean, simple, easy to read and preferably done in your favorite color.
Step 4: Think it through
Now come up with some ways to achieve your goal. Brainstorm some options and ideas.
The impact of this can be explained using an analogy from an Indiana Jones movie. To achieve his goal, Indiana needed to negotiate a treacherous cave system. At one point the cave opens onto a bottomless abyss, certain death is eminent! Indiana is one side of the abyss and his holy grail on the other. What should he do? Our hero picks up a hand full of dirt and casts it in front of him. The dirt reveals what was previously an invisible bridge. Where first progress seemed impossible, now Indiana has a clear path to his goal. When you think through how you are going to achieve your goal and brainstorm options, you are essentially achieving the same outcome. Those ideas may not be the actual solution but in time they will reveal the solution to you.
Step 5: Make a Decision
Is your goal vitally important to you personally? Be honest with yourself. Is this something you want or is it something other people want for you? If the goal is vitally important to you personally; then as a person of sound mind and body, are you willing to do what it takes to achieve your goal? For a lot of people, that s a big question to ask. Often the most obstructive barriers to our goals are our own beliefs about ourselves and what is possible.
If you are prepared to make the commitment, write down why the goal is vitally important to you. Then also write down the contract that you have made with yourself, that you are willing to do what it takes to achieve the goal.
Step 6: Get On With It!
Enough said really. We look forward to seeing you achieve great things in this year.



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Thinking Beyond Cleaning Office Buildings

If your business is like many other traditional cleaning company, and then started to clean offices, apartment buildings, retail shops and other commercial buildings. Clients include adding more offices with a couple of suit. Sikyeoteul buildings, medical clinics, and even to expand production facilities. Did you stop to think about expansion, but cleaning houses? Maybe some of the people that work in the building at the request of the clean houses. This is a chance to housing intrusion market.
even commercial cleaning business is doing well if the account, using the extension of the clean your house once more how to increase profit margins. Maybe you have all of the supplies and equipment across the border. That you need housing to commercial accounts. Gatyihago and commercial cleaning, there is always the possibility of additional services - do you see the carpet, carpet cleaning, window cleaning and floor cleaning houses and strip waxing.
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payment is required - for commercial accounts typically require multiple competitive bids for the extra hours Some of your needs and present the bids to make your calculations. Residential customers often do not want to spend more and more time in several companies.
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although customers are similar, there are also some key differences to keep in mind. Home when it is cleaned up and cleaned up and expect more personal space has a tendency to increase the Night. Key obstacles and cleaned house. Suit - for example, oil and filled kitchen, bathroom fixtures stained rust, and the housing and commercial cleaning business pets.
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Become a Master of Illusion with Wallpaper (Decorating with wallpaper)

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