Here is a article from Port Phillip Publishing.
Although BUX is not mentioned in the article, I believe now that we have aquired some Nickel assets this will prove to be a major positive for BUX and the share price.
Heres Stevensons article edited to Ni stocks from the Resource Speculator - read it for yourself:-
Dear Reader,
A total solar eclipse is a magical thing.
If you were lucky enough to be on a Cairns beach in 2012 when the moon passed between the Earth and Sun, you’ll know what I mean.
Everyone waits in anticipation...the air cackles with excitement...the sky darkens.
After a few minutes, it’s all over, and you go back to your daily life. Well, today I’d like to tell you about a differentkind of eclipse.
One that’s much, much rarer...but no less remarkable.
In fact, it’s only occurred twice in the last half-century.
2012: People watch Queensland’s first total solar eclipse in 1,300 years from a beach in Cairns (Source: Reuters)
And unlike the solar eclipse, hardly anyone even knows it happens. It comes and goes with only a few specialists knowing it took place.
But for the handful of people who do know about it...it can profoundly change their lives.
You don’t have to look to the skies for this unusual event. As I said, this is different from any kind of eclipse you already know about.
Because this ‘eclipse’ occurs in the commodity markets... In a very niche corner of the commodity markets.
I’ll explain in detail exactly what it is and how it works in a moment...but essentially, it’s the alignment of two very rare - and very lucrative - situations.
Like I said, it’s only happened twice in the last 50 years. The first occurred in 1969 and lasted five years until 1974...
The second occurred in 2004, lasting until 2008...
In each instance it triggered short-term stock moves of between 144%...to as high as 34,899%.
If I’m right, THIS TIME WILL BE NO DIFFERENT.
I’ll show you how it happens...
I’ll show you why it happens...
And, more importantly, I’ll show you watertight proof that a THIRD ECLIPSE is aligning again in 2015.
I expect it to start around June this year...and endure into 2018.
And it could drive three specific stocks multiples above where they trade today.
Which stocks?
I’ll get to that soon.
First you should know I’ve been studying this phenomenon — and the single event that precedes it — for years...
You could say I’ve been waiting for this opportunity my entire professional life.
I’ve seen it move certain stocks up hundreds — sometimes thousands — of percent...regardless of whether resources as a whole are going up or down.
In fact, that’s an important point you should understand...
Right now resources are in an overall bear market. They have been since September 2011.
But that doesn’t mean there aren’t opportunities to make money from special situations within this sector.
This is one of those situations.
Let me show you what I mean...
3,329% in seven days
Ever heard of an explorer called Tasminex?
If you haven’t, don’t worry. Neither have most people.
Back in the late 1960s it was investigating some leases around Mount Venn in Western Australia.
It floated on the ASX in October 1969.
But then, three months later, something remarkable happened...
On 23 January 1970, one of the directors panned some drill samples and identified traces of ‘heavy metal sulphides’.
It quickly became a rumour that he’d found a huge cache of an important industrial metal.
Let me be clear: there was no conclusive proof he’d discovered anything.
In fact, at any other time no one would have cared about this rumour. But...because it happened during the ‘eclipse’, by 30 January — just one week later — Tasminex had rocketed from $2.80 a share...to $96.
A 3,329% gain in just seven days.
I can tell you this move stunned most investors.
And can you blame them?
At that point, Tasminex had no working mine. They didn’t have a single cent in revenue coming in. Just a few hundred kilometres of red rust rock to explore.
What’s more, ‘metal sulphides’ are found in many geological structures. And they in no way guarantee an economic mineral deposit.
Still, while most people were shocked to watch Tasminex soar, you could have made over 30 times your money inside a week.
So...what caused such a massive move?
The ‘N3’
The solar eclipse is one of the most awe inspiring spectacles in all of nature.
The sky takes on an eerie twilight as the black disk of the Moon blocks the Sun’s bright face.
It rarely lasts more than a few minutes.
But for it to occur in the first place two things have to happen at the same time...
You see, the Moon crosses between the Sun and Earth 13 times per year.
So you’d think you’d see a total eclipse at least once a month, right?
But you don’t.
Why?
Because the Moon’s orbit is tipped about 5 degrees to the Earth’s orbit around the Sun.
That means the Moon’s shadow usually misses Earth, as it passes above or below our planet.
But...once every so often the geometry lines up just right...and the Moon’s shadow falls on a tiny patch of the Earth’s surface.
Now look, I’m not writing to you today to give you a lesson on lunar science. I’m writing to show you that there’s an unseen, lunar-like geometry that very occasionally triggers huge stock price spikes in a niche sub-sector of the commodity market.
This unseen geometry influences these stocks in the same way the alignment of the Sun and Moon determines when and where an eclipse takes place on Earth.
Again, this isn’t some whacked-out theory that stocks are connected to the stars.
It’s precisely because of this ‘commodity market geometry’ that Tasminex — and so many other stocks like it — soared.
You see, in a solar eclipse, the track of the Moon’s shadow is called the Path of Totality.
Typically, it’s 10,000 miles long and only 100 miles wide. It covers less than 1% of Earth’s entire surface.
Take a look:
In order to see the Moon completely eclipse the Sun, you must be somewhere inside the narrow ‘path of totality’.
And where it hits depends on two key factors:
The angle of the Moon as it passes between the Earth and Sun
And the Earth’s axis at that precise time.
Well it’s the exact same principle with the N3 Eclipse. And like a solar eclipse, your window of opportunity to see it...anticipate it...and PROFIT from it...is very small.
I call this particular eclipse the ‘N3’ because of the commodity sub-sector it’s in, and that it’s the third time it’s happening in Australia in 50 years.
The resource I’m talking about is NICKEL.
And as I will show you, right now two critical factors are converging to cause a massive, looming supply crunch in this hugely important metal.
I expect it to hit markets by the middle of this year.
When it does, nickel prices could go through the roof.
The last time this happened the price of nickel per tonne went up four-fold from around $12,000...to over $50,000...
...and certain nickel stocks shot up by much higher multiples.
That is why this opportunity is so timely for you as an Australian investor.
You’re right in nickel’s 2015 ‘path of totality’.
And...
If you position yourself correctly, you could bankmultiple gains this year and next
Now, I believe I’ve uncovered the best three stocks to profit from this event.
Each are at the heart of the nickel eclipse I believe will begin to play out from the mid-point of this year.
They are what I call ‘quality pure plays’.
That means that while each company is a sound business...their business is solely exploring for, producing or selling nickel.
That also means the nickel price is the major driver behind their shares.
This is where a few smart investments today could make you an awesome amount of money...in a short period of time.
I will show you how I can make such a claim when the wider resource market is at the tail-end of a three-year slump.
As you’ll see, in special situations like this that doesn’t matter. This is a hidden opportunity within the wider resources market downturn.
So...what exactly is going on in the nickel market?
Why do I believe nickel is set to explode in price from June and well into 2016? And why am I certain that the three Aussie stocks I’ve found are the best way for you to profit from it?
The easiest way to explain is to show you what happened the last two times the nickel eclipse took place...
‘N1’:
1969–1974
As I said, the eclipse happens when two unique factors converge simultaneously.
In short, these factors are:
A big macro event that suddenly and dramatically ramps-up demand for nickel to unusually high levels...
A crisis within a big nickel producing corporation or region that threatens global supply.
Whenever one of these factors occurs on its own...nothing significant tends to happen to nickel prices or nickel stocks.
But when they happen TOGETHER...nickel prices can rise exponentially...and so can small, pure-play nickel stocks.
This is what happened in 1969... ‘When all sorts of things became believable...’
If you’re 60 or over you may remember the infamous Poseidon Bubble...
It had its genesis in the nickel market.
Poseidon NL was a mining exploration company.
For years it languished.
But then prospector Ken Shirley found a promising site at Windarra in Western Australia.
On 25 September, 1969, Poseidon’s shares started to rise...
Earlier that month shares traded for 80¢. By Friday, 26 September they’d hit $1.85.
The following Monday the company confirmed they’d found nickel.
The shares then raced from $1.85...to $5.60...to $6.60...then $12.30...and kept going up all the way to$75 and beyond.
Take a look...
By 5 February Poseidon’s stock hit $280...a 34,899% gain in five months.
Can you imagine that? That turns a single $1,000 investment into the kind of money that at that time would have bought you the finest mansion on Sydney Harbour.
Within mere weeks Poseidon shares were the hottest in the world.
And the boom quickly spread, as finance journalist Trevor Sykes wrote at the time: ‘And so Poseidon, when it roared off for the wild blue yonder, dragged a whole ragtag and bobtail of other penny stocks along with them.
‘All sorts of things became believable...punters were not much interested in iron ore in Tasmania but would pay crazy prices for any company with a sniff of nickel...
‘There was a little stock called Pursuit down in Victoria, which in one trading session ran from 4 cents to 12 cents. And I was spending most of the day as a reporter at the Melbourne Sun trying to find out why.’
Well let me tell you why...
In the second half of the 1960s two key factors were converging...
First, you had a big macro event taking place in Vietnam...
The Vietnam War came to a devastating head in 1968.
By then 500,000 US troops were in the region. And with them an awesome amount of military supplies, weaponry and firepower.
Consider...over the whole campaign the US dropped over 7 million tonnes of bombs on Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. That’s more than twice the amount dropped on Europe and Asia in the Second World War.
That’s not to mention the tanks, helicopters, rifles and other supplies for the war effort. And nickel was a vital component in all of them.
It’s no coincidence demand for the metal reached an all time high during that period.
But then, in 1969, a second factor hit, converging with the first...
A crisis at the world’s largest nickel mine crippled global supply...
A workers strike at the major Canadian producer, Inco, forced the closure of one of the world’s biggest nickel mines.
It choked production...and sent the price of nickel skyrocketing.
The price reached £7,000 per tonne on the London market at the beginning of November 1969... The EXACT time Poseidon NL caught the public’s attention.
My point is... When a big macro event spurs unusually high demand...and a regional crisissimultaneously chokes supply...
Crazy things happen to certain stocks in the right place, at the right time.
Now look...
These events do not line up very often.
And when they do, they don’t last for long. But that doesn’t matter if you can anticipate what’s coming...take advantage of it...and then get out, hopefully, for a big profit.
That’s what I’d like to help you do, starting now, if you’re interested.
I believe the nickel market today presents you with your best opportunity to make a lot of money in three uniquely positioned stocks.
What’s so unique about them?
Well to start with, while their businesses deal primarily in nickel, they are not your typical ‘resource punt’.
Each company is either already producing, will be producing soon or is sitting on a potentially highly lucrative ground.
In short, they are fundamentally strong, healthy firms...and perfectly follow the big picture story that’s playing out right now.
And if it goes like I expect...it could light a fire under the shares.
How high COULD they go?
A brief run through of the second ‘nickel eclipse’ will give you a good idea...
‘N2’:
2004–2007
Now...I don’t need to tell you how the rise of China and its infrastructure investment spree initiated the biggest resource price boom in our history.
You know the story...
Since 2001 China has built power stations, bridges, dams, airports, motorways, railways, underground systems and multiple cities...
And to do so it needed mountains of iron ore, copper and nickel.
In fact, that’s what everyone still points to as a major driver of commodity prices over the last 15 years:China’s huge demand. This was the macro event.
But what many people don’t realise is that, for a brief three-year period within that boom, a SECOND factor converged — the crisis.
And it caused the nickel price to spike four times over, from $11,000 per tonne...to $52,000.
Here, take a look at this...
What you’re looking at is a graph of the nickel price going back 26 years.
As you can see, the price was on its knees for 15 years, up until 2004. That’s because during the 1980s and 1990s there was an abundance of nickel on the market.
Importantly, there was limited demand for this nickel.
But then in 2003 China started building...
Within a year nickel stockpiles on the London Metal Exchange (LME) basically ran out...yet China needed more and more...
A new ‘eclipse’ was lining up.
You can see the effect of this in this simple graph:
As nickel supplies plummeted...nickel prices SKYROCKETED.
The price per tonne shot up 400%.
But investors in pure play nickel stocks did far better than that.
Here’s a list of nine of them on the ASX...
Column 1
Column 2
1
Independence Group:
+ 691%
2
Western Areas:
+810%
3
Panoramic Resources:
+639%
4
Mincor Resources:
+530%
5
Poseidon Nickel:
+1,138%
6
Mirabela Nickel:
+3,126%
7
Minara Resources:
+144%
8
Aspire Mining:
+518%
9
Lincoln Minerals:
+500%
Bear in mind all these stock gains were made between January 2004 and December 2007.
In other words, inside the nickel eclipse’s ‘path of totality’.
As I said, when a big, macro event takes place that ramps-up demand at the same time a regional crisis threatens supply...big things can happen to these kinds of stocks.
OK, I’m sure you’re thinking anyone can look back over stocks like the above and say they were great opportunities.
Hindsight, as they say, is 20–20.
But is it possible to know a nickel eclipse is coming BEFORE it’s too late?
It is.
And that brings me to today...
Expect a looming — MASSIVE — supply crisis to hit the market this June
Many punters hate resources right now.
And I’m not surprised...
The Fukushima disaster stung uranium investors in 2011. China burnt rare earths in 2012. Gold wiped out the bugs in 2013. And last year iron ore felt the pain.
With all this gloom and doom, resource stocks are trading at all-time lows. It doesn’t matter which sector — investors hate them all.
But this universal hatred of resources presents a big opportunity for you.
You see, nickel is quite unique from any other resource...and it’s due to rocket in price this year and beyond.
And if my analysis is right, it’ll start in earnest this June.
Let me explain why.
Like the two previous eclipses, the N3 comes down to two factors converging:
The Macro Event: huge, building global geo-political tensions,
And...
The Crisis: a regional supply choke that’s about to reach breaking point.
Here’s what I mean...
N3 FACTOR ONE
The Triple-Crunch: War in the Middle East...Russian sanctions...and the New China
Right now, the world is a hotbed of military and political uncertainty.
You’ve got the geopolitical crisis in the Middle East, the standoff between the West and Russia, and then China manoeuvring to meet its own economic goals.
There’s a huge war erupting between Yemen and Saudi Arabia...Egypt is in crisis...and ISIS is running riot in Iraq. Meanwhile, the US are trying to rid Syria of President Assad.
In short, the global landscape is a hostile place full of international and civil war.
Then there’s Russia...
In October last year Russian-backed forces occupied eastern Ukraine.
In response, the US and its Western allies imposed economic sanctions on Russia.
These were mild at first, involving travel bans and asset freezes on certain Russian oligarchs and officials.
Those sanctions failed.
So the US stepped them up, prohibiting any western bank to finance major Russian companies.
Now...the economic impact of these sanctions is undeniably severe.
Russia’s GDP plummeted...
The exchange value of its currency, the ruble, collapsed...
And its foreign currency reserves depleted
Putin used these reserves to prop up Russian companies that could no longer tap into dollar markets to refinance their debts.
What’s more, these sanctions came at the same time that global oil prices crashed in late 2014.
Now as you no doubt know, Russia’s main export is oil and gas — it produces 30% of Europe’s energy. But what many people DON’T realise is that Russia is also home to the biggest producer of refined nickel in the world, Norilsk Nickel.
According to Bloomberg, it accounts for 17% of global supply. A supply it’s finding more difficult to sell thanks to the West’s economic sanctions.
You see, businesses don’t like supply disruptions and opt for more secure sellers.
Last May Forbes reported that ‘the possibility of curbs on Russian shipments could drive (nickel) stocks to critically low levels in coming months...’
And we’re nearly at this point now...
In a recent statement, Norilsk said it expects ‘nickel supplies to move into a deficit of about 20,000 tonnes in 2015, after a surplus of 93,000 tonnes in 2014.’
It predicts the deficit will widen to 55,000 tonnes by 2016.
At the same time, the US is looking at arming Ukraine to fight Russia.
Speaking in Brussels on 22nd March, NATO’s military commander, General Philip Breedlove, urged the West to send defensive weapons to Ukraine.
And as you’ve seen with the Vietnam War, this will only INCREASE demand for nickel.
My point is...a major geopolitical event is beginning to spiral out of control.
The Ukraine is heading into an all out a warzone, and as this risk rises, so will the nickel price.
Meanwhile...
China needs more nickel than ever!
It’s easy to see why China needed nickel for its investment driven economy — nickel’s vital for engineering and construction.
It’s harder to see why China’s new consumer driven economy needs nickel.
But it’s actually pretty simple...
You see, Beijing wants 60% of its people to live in cities by 2020. That’s 120 million people moving from the countryside to urban areas within the next five years.
To put that in perspective, it’s like moving every Australian into a Chinese city, more than five times over. And this will cause a big boost in nickel consumption.
You see, nickel is the main component of stainless steel. Stainless steel is everywhere in this world. And it contributes to all aspects of modern life.
Home appliances...vehicles...electronics...new factories and restaurants...all dependent on nickel.
And as China transitions to a consumer economy, its people will want more of these things. At the same, China still needs nickel for its infrastructure projects still being built.
Now take a look at the chart to the right. It shows that in 2013 China consumed nearly half of the world’s nickel production.
By the end of this year Chinese nickel consumption could hit 56%.
But while their consumption is getting bigger...their stockpiles are getting drastically low.
On 25 March 2015 Commerzbank stated: ‘China’s stockpile of nickel ore is running short: stocks in five of the country’s main ports have halved within one year.’
And according to Reuters: ‘Chinese stainless-steel producers will likely have to import more pure nickel, putting upward pressure on prices.’
The point is, nickel demand isn’t slowing down.
It’s RISING.
The great Chinese migration from the countryside to cities is amplifying this trend.
And very soon we’re about to see a massive global shortage...
N3 FACTOR TWO
Major nickel-producing country
BANS ALL EXPORTS
On 12 January 2015 the Indonesian Mining Act of 2009 kicked in.
Essentially, it bans all raw nickel-ore exports.
This is a problem for China — it buys 60% of its nickel from Indonesia.
Now of course this ban did not come out of the blue. And China’s been stockpiling nickel in preparation.
As you can see to the right, since Indonesia announced the ban China upped its nickel imports from the Philippines. They’re up 27% to date.
But there’s a small problem...
Filipino nickel-ore is extremely low grade, which means China can only produce lower grade stainless steel.
To date, China has avoided this problem by blending Filipino ore with Indonesian ore. But as you’ve just seen, China’s running down its stockpiles.
Soon they will run dry — it’s only a matter of time.
What happens when they do?
This is the game-changing question... And understanding its answer could make you a LOT of money in the next 18 months.
You see, I believe China will soon be forced to buy its nickel from the London Metals Exchange (LME).
And when they do, LME inventories should start depleting as early as June this year.
In short, a new Nickel Eclipse is coming.
And I believe it will create...
The perfect storm for three Aussie
‘pure play’ nickel stocks
Now look, the last time the LME had a nickel deficit was back in 2006, during the last eclipse.
That deficit was 51,000 tonnes. And it sent the nickel price above US$35,000 per tonne that year...triggering some pure play nickel stocks up over 3,000%.
But my research tells me the market could move from a massive 93,000 tonne surplus in 2014...to a DEFICIT of 30,000 tonnes in 2015...and a 60,000 tonne shortfall in 2016.
Keep in mind, the current nickel price is around US$12,500 per tonne. In this case, I expect to see nickel prices shoot beyond US$20,000 by the end of the year...and surpass US$30,000 in 2016.
This should see quality ‘pure play’ Aussie nickel stocks do extremely well.
How well? And which stocks?
Like I said, I’ve researched and uncovered three incredible opportunities I see on the market today.
They are all directly in line to benefit from the situation emerging in the nickel market right now. And I’d like to send you my original reports on each of them — with absolutely no obligation — so you can see each opportunity for yourself.
But let me quickly profile my favourite for you now, so you get an idea of what’s on the table for you today.
5¢ to $5...in 12 months
This is quite simply the best speculative mining stock on the ASX right now.
It’s a nickel explorer on the verge of a major resource discovery in Africa. And it couldn’t come at a better time — smack bang at the start of the N3!
In fact, I strongly believe this stock will be the next Sirius Resources.
Now if you know Sirius’ story, you’ll know how significant this comparison is. Sirius saw its share price jump from five cents to FIVE DOLLARS within 12 months.
That’s a 9,900% move inside a year.
cents to five bucks.
They’ve remained above $2 ever since.
But the macro picture is lining up beautifully.
Nickel is hot right now...and it’s about to get a lot hotter.
And I believe this stock is on the verge of a major, major discovery.
It may take some time. Or it may not happen at all. But if they come out with the kind of announcement Sirius did back in the day, good luck buying in below 8¢!
As I said, I have two more to tell you about.
Like this stock, they are ‘pure nickel’ plays that could do very well when the price of their primary product begins to skyrocket.
These stocks are established businesses. One is already producing. The other should be producing soon. And, by my calculations, they are ridiculously cheap right now. I’ll give you my full reports on these stocks too.
I will tell you what price to pay for these shares, how much you stand to make, and when you should start making money.
They’re all yours, right now, with my compliments, simply click here.
My name, by the way, is Jason Stevenson.
I’m the lead analyst for Australia’s premier independent resource investment advisory service, published by Port Phillip Publishing.
It’s called...
The Resource Speculator
Why NOW is the best time to go
resource profit-hunting
From March 2000 to September 2002, the Nasdaq fell 73%.
Take a look:
Many of those companies died. Many others saw their stock prices fall further.
But over the next 12 years the Nasdaq gained 279%. And companies such as Amazon have gained 1,811%. Apple is up 4,701%.
My point is, this is what happens after a tremendous bubble.
You get a tremendous collapse.
But that doesn’t mean the market will never recover.
The only reason you could give for resource stocks never recovering is if you didn’t think the world will ever need any more nickel, iron ore, copper, gas or oil.
Yet the demand for all of these resources is higher than it has ever been.
And the demand will CONTINUE to grow.
What’s more, when a company strikes a significant resource, whether it be nickel or copper, oil or gas...that company’s stock price WILL ALWAYS GO UP.
It’s incredibly hard and expensive to find a resource...so when a company finds one, investors always lap it up.
Now I’m not saying resources are exactly like the tech recovery... I’m saying they’re BETTER.
Unlike technology, you can’t just ‘invent’ a new resource.
You have to spend millions searching for it and recovering it.
They are hard to find and FINITE.
Once one project depletes its resource there is always the need to find a new one.
And that’s what makes a few key markets so exciting right now.
The nickel sector is one of them.
Macro events are lining up with a regional crisis. And that suggests the price per tonne is going to go up massively.
And I’d love to send you my full original research on the three best nickel stocks to benefit from this. You can review them without any obligation whatsoever.
They are the first things you’ll receive when you try a subscription to the Resource Speculator.
But if this story piques your interest, I would do so soon.
Just the other day I received an email from the representatives of the MD of this company.
They told me he was in town for ‘meetings ahead of the first spud at their 2 well program offshore Morocco in April’.
They asked if I wanted to schedule a meeting.
I politely declined — in my experience you won’t learn anything new from a company’s MD or their PR people.
But what this email DID tell me was that the drilling programme is about to begin very, very soon.
That’s the real takeaway from all of this.
And it’s why I’m excited by this story.
You see, this driller is poised to sink a well in an area confirmed to have an enormous, untapped offshore petroleum reservoir. And it’s set to happen in the coming weeks.
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