[Texas Eagle]

Byron’s hot on the case of a tiny company that’s sitting on a massive graphite reserve in the Canadian wilderness – 8 million tons. It can pull graphite from the ground for a cost of $400 per ton and sell it for $2,000.

Yeah. Thanks for the heads up on the name of that tiny company so we can invest in it, Byron.

Jerk.

[DManA]

It never occurred to me that this stuff needed to be mined. I thought you manufactured it. There is no process to make graphene?

[BB62]

Another Canadian company that has found “riches” in places others haven’t?

The name “Bre-X” comes to mind...

[ken21]

but before you panic,

rare earths are plentiful within several meters on the ocean floor all around the earth.

[Yo-Yo]

So then grahpene is a natural form of carbon nanotubes?

[EyeGuy]

“Cheap solar panels.”

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Cheap? Who cares if they are still embarrassingly inefficient.

No thanks, if given a choice I’ll still take unfashionable petroleum, coal and natural gas reserves over “hip” new materials.

[caww]

You have got to see this! Unbelievable....a printer that prints in 3-d. Shows a wrench complete and usable after printing it...astounding really! Video has over 2 million hits already. So just print a solar pannel?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZboxMsSz5Aw&feature=youtu.be

[TalonDJ]

just like China runs 97% of the world supply of rare earths

The reason for that is not because they HAVE more. This stuff is everywhere. It actually is not 'rare'. But it is hard to extract. And since China does not give a rat's patooty about pollution they can extract it cheaper than anyone else.

[WOSG]

This is the stupidest article in the world.

Graphene is CARBON. Comes from graphite ... which is ABUNDANT.

[Ernie Kaputnik]

The author is partially correct in that China controls 80% of these this mineral but is being deceptive in failing to point out that the USA has more than enough of this material within our own country. We just don’t have access to it because of the EPA and Enviro-Nazis and their liberal, Democrat servants in Congress.

As it stands now, the regulations currently on the books make it too damn expensive to mine for rare earth minerals (including graphite)in the USA. Mining companies and investors are interested in making a profit. Minimal profit on their investment combined with the huge potential for outrageous lawsuits due to ridiculous regulations forces these companies to go elsewhere. Thus, now we are forced to depend on the Chinese for more than just loaning us money.

[LibWhacker]

this is an opportunity you don’t want to pass up. You can get the name, ticker symbol and a massively discounted membership in Byron’s premium advisory Energy & Scarcity Investor 00 but only for a few more hours. The offer expires tonight at midnight.

Aww, nuts. Missed it by two minutes.