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Armada Data is a great Web 2.0 success story.  I don’t mean “Twitter like” success with huge traffic, notoriety and no revenue model.  I mean the kind of company that delivers a real service to real customers for real revenues and profits.

How successful?  Their paying a dividend for god’s sake.  How many Web 2.0 companies are generating revenue, let alone paying dividends to shareholders?

Yes, they are an AGORACOM client and I am horribly conflicted – but I understand running a small and emerging Web 2.0 company as well as anybody and these guys make me jealous.

How successful are they?  Before today’s news, here are the stories I blogged about them.  Keep in mind all of this news has come out in the last 3 weeks.  Most companies would be thrilled to put this news out over an entire year.

The headlines alone should tell you all you need to know – but don’t be lazy and actually dig into these stories:

Nov 5th, 2009 – Reports Record October Results From CarCostCanada.com Division

Oct 30th, 2009 – Posts Record Q1 Results and Plans To Increase Yearly Dividend

Oct 28th, 2009 – Joins AGORACOM 100 With $2.15 Million in Revenue and 3 Consecutive Years of Profitability

All they did today was announce record results from the insurance side of the business.  Yep, that’s right – they have multiple revenue streams.  Armada Data isn’t a Web 2.0 company, their Web 3.0

Congratulations to the entire Armada Data team for a job well done.

September & October 2009 Highlights:

Insurance Services revenues up 46% versus Sept/Oct-2008

• New ACV Insurance service significantly contributing to revenue growth
• ACV market 10 times greater than Armada’s existing 43r insurance service
• ACV targeted roll out to Armada’s 26 existing insurance clients underway
• New ACV Insurance service now being used by 2 Top-10 companies
• Insurance division entering busiest time of the year

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November 18, 2009 - Armada Reports Record Results From Insurance Division

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With gold continuing to make new highs, companies like AGORACOM client New Dawn Mining are going to benefit, especially with news like this (see below).  As always, assume I am horribly conflicted by the fact that New Dawn Mining is an AGORACOM client and do your own due diligence.

To begin your DD, make sure to review my blog coverage of New Dawn Mining.

One thing is certain.  There is no escaping the fact that New Dawn is a real company with real gold production and real revenues.  In fact, the company has only served to increase production for 7 consecutive months now.  The fact that New Dawn can finance expansion of processing capacity from their own cash flows is proof positive of their success.

It’s up to you to decide what you are willing to pay for these fundamentals.

With respect to today’s press release, highlights include:

· Processing capacity at Turk Mine increased to 580 tonnes per day, a 45% increase from previous processing capacity of 400 tonnes per day

· Expansion of processing plant at Turk Mine fully funded from operating cash flows

· Installed production capacity at Turk Mine now at 22,000 to 23,000 ounces of gold per annum

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November 18, 2009 - New Dawn Increases Gold Production Capacity at Turk Mine in Zimbabwe by 45%

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AGORACOM Client, Legend International Holdings has yet again signed a major deal with a large fertilizer producer.  Before getting into today’s news, here is some brief but powerful info about the company:

LGDI SIGNS LANDMARK AGREEMENT WITH IFFCO, INDIA’S LARGEST FERTILIZER ENTERPRISE

On July 16th, 2008, LGDI and IFFCO, announced this landmark agreement.

IFFCO is India’s largest fertilizer enterprise, a cooperative with over 50 million farmers associated with it, primarily engaged in production and marketing of nitrogenous and phosphate fertilizers in India. IFFCO has five fertilizer plants in India with a domestic annual capacity of producing 4.3 million tonnes of phosphatic fertilizers and 4.2 million tonnes of nitrogenous fertilizers.

When your biggest future customer has enough confidence in you to outright own 34,000,00 shares + an option to acquire another 17,000,000 shares, you have to feel good about the company.

On September 22, SEC filings showed that IFFCO acquired an additional 6,000,000 shares in LGDI via open market purchases.

GEORGE SOROS OWNS 10.18% OF LEGEND INTERNATIONAL

Reuters reported that George Soros, via Soros Fund Management, has taken a 5.19% stake (11.7 million shares) in AGORACOM client Legend International Holdings (LGDI: OTCBB).

On October 17,2008 his stake in LGDI was increased to 10.18%

TODAYS PRESS RELEASE

Last night, Legend announced the forming of a strategic alliance with Wengfu Group Co. Ltd (Wengfu) for the development of its phosphate mine, a beneficiation plant and a phosphoric acid plant in the Mt Isa region, Queensland, Australia.

How significant is this?

Wengfu is the one of the largest phosphate fertilizer producers in China, and has developed two phosphate mines in Guizhou Province and beneficiation, fertilizer and chemical plants in Guizhou, Gansu and Sichuan Provinces, China. Wengfu produces over 2.5 million tonnes of finished fertilizer products. Wengfu exports fertilizer to over twenty countries worldwide including Australia and New Zealand.

Other highlights of the press release include:

• Legend and Wengfu have agreed to work together on the feasibility study initially for the mining and beneficiation of phosphate rock at Legend’s Georgina Basin Phosphate Project in Queensland, Australia. Pending a positive feasibility study, Wengfu and Legend will also investigate the production of speciality phosphate products derived from phosphoric acid manufacture.

• After completion of a positive feasibility study for the mining and beneficiation, Wengfu will become an equity partner with Legend to strengthen the alliance and share in the benefits of successful development of all stages of the project including the production of specialty phosphate chemical products.

I especially like the fact that Wengfu may also become an equity partner with Legend, which would only add to the strength already brought by IFFCO.

Background

Legend is led by Joseph Gutnick, a prominent Australian mining industry entrepreneur, who has overseen some of Australia’s largest and most prestigious resource discoveries.

Legend’s primary focus is the development of its phosphate interests in the Georgina Basin, Queensland, Australia including Paradise (formerly Lady Annie and Lady Jane), D-Tree, Thorntonia, Lily Creek, Quita Creek, Sherrin Creek and Highland Plains.

Legend plans to produce an average of 5 million tonnes per year of phosphate rock concentrate of 30%+ P₂O₅ by 2012, thus becoming one of the world’s leading producers of phosphate rock. More information on Legend is available athttp://www.lgdi.net/.

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I am pleased to announce that  Melkior Resources (MKR: TSXV) is the newest member of The AGORACOM 100.  With $3.3 million in the treasury and large holdings in McFaulds Lake and the Timmins Mining Camp, Melkior is AGORACOM 100 material.

In addition, the company has now commenced an online investor relations program, which speaks volumes about the company’s confidence. Why? When a company decides to make itself open and accessible to investors from around the world, you have to believe they are confident in their future and want to communicate accordingly.

As always, assume I am horribly conflicted by the fact Melkior is now a client of AGORACOM and do your own due diligence.  Here are some of the things we like about the company:

HIGHLIGHTS

Melkior is a Canadian resource exploration company with diversified properties with exposure to gold, base metals, and uranium, all located in the provinces of Ontario and Quebec. For investors concerned about geo-political risk in far away nations, Quebec and Ontario add a great deal of comfort.  Large land holdings in key exploration areas include McFaulds Lake and the prolific Timmins mining camp.

I am very pleased to announce that Fire River Gold Corp (FAU:TSXV) is the newest member of The AGORACOM 100 – and represents an extremely fresh opportunity for investors.  Why? The Company just listed on the TSX Venture Exchange on November 12 and has followed that up with an online investor relations program, which speaks volumes about the company’s confidence.  Why? When a company decides to make itself open and accessible to investors from around the world, you have to believe they are confident in their future and want to communicate accordingly.

As always, assume I am horribly conflicted by the fact that Fire River is an AGORACOM client and that we have participated in this private placement.  As such, do your own diligence, which I am going to kick start by giving you the following overview and bullet point highlights:

FAST OVERVIEW

Fire River Gold Corp. completed its IPO at the end of May 2009 and is the newest member of the International Metals Group, (www.internationalmetalsgroup.com) giving it access to a well established team with over 100 years of experience working in Alaska. The primary focus of FAU is the exploration and development of gold projects in North America. The recently acquired Nixon Fork Gold Mine in Alaska has the potential to be a near term gold producer.  If the company can realize this potential, their timing couldn’t be better with gold trading north of $1,140 as of the time of this post.

The Company is presently negotiating additional advanced stage gold projects in North America. Management’s objective is to make FAU a North American gold producer in the next 18 months.

PROPERTY HIGHLIGHTS

Nixon Fork Project:

• Near Term Gold-Copper-Silver Producer
• Fully Constructed 200+ tpd Mill
• Permitted and Bonded
• Turn-key Mining-Milling Operation
• Mine Fully Permitted and Bonded
• Significant Exploration Upside

Golden Zone Project:

• NI 43-101 compliant mineral resource
  • 255,100 contained ounces of gold
  • 1.39 million ounces of silver
  • 7.29 million pounds of copper
• 14 targets are identified
• 2009 program in progress
• Excellent infrastructure, road access to property, 12 miles from major highway and railroad, power nearby

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Regards,
George

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Let the fly by nights die, consolidate those with decent assets and let the superstars stand up on their own two feet.
Quality over Quantity folks. It is that simple.

If you’re asking what the heck does peanut butter have to do with the junior resources space, have a read of the post.  In the meantime, I’m pleased to see continued follow-through on my call for consolidation in the space.  Today, Goldcorp agreed to acquire Canplats Resources in a deal worth about $238 million.  This is great news for the space as it will surely lead to further money injected into juniors with highly prospective projects.  Ironically enough, the story contained a quote from Pierre Lassonde who seems to have his finger on the very pulse of this consolidation trend:

Bullion producers including Goldcorp and Barrick Gold Corp., the largest producer by market value, may attempt to take
over smaller companies in the next two months to boost output amid dwindling supplies and rising prices, Franco-Nevada
Corp. Chairman Pierre Lassonde said in an interview last week.

On that note, I can’t help but mention the fact this could not be better timing for the AGORACOM Online Gold & Commodities Conference.  Emphasis on the online element of the conference as it will allow investors from anywhere in the world to participate and connect with great companies and keynote speakers from their PC.  Click on the banner for full information … and yes, it is free to investors!

Regards,
George

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