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Thursday, August 14, 2014 | Issue #2353

Cross Your Fingers

Sean Brodrick, Resource Strategist, The Oxford Club


A Note From the Editorial Director: Today we have something a little different. While Sean was traveling to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, where he's inspecting an oil and gas exploration project, his plane ran into bad weather. He's fine - thank goodness. But the harrowing tale he tells is worth sharing, because the most promising natural-resource projects are often located at the ends of the Earth. And evaluating their investment prospects requires seeing them. Enjoy Sean's tale of adventure... but say a prayer for his safe return.

- Andrew Snyder


Sean Brodrick Among the words you never want to hear as the plane you're riding in comes in for a landing is "cross your fingers."

But that's exactly what the helpful flight attendant told us today as our Boeing 737-400 descended into a fog bank over Deadhorse, Alaska.

We'd started the morning in Fairbanks. The flight was routine. The sky was beautiful.


But bad weather wrapped itself around Deadhorse like a winter shawl. The clouds, which were oh-so-pretty just minutes earlier, had now thickened into a dense fog bank.

The pilot warned us that landing would be iffy. The equipment at the airport that makes landing with instruments in such conditions possible was out of commission.

The pilot put us into a tight right turn and burned precious fuel while he waited for a break in the clouds.

Then - a gap! Maybe we could get down. But we'd have to fly through the fog to get there.


So, we had to descend through a cloudbank and take a chance that he would see the runway and make a safe landing.

The plane descended. First, we saw patches of dark clouds against a white background. It was a disorienting view; sort of like what they'd use on the old black-and-white Twilight Zone when they wanted to show "nowhere."

Then it just became a pea soup. Still, I was able to see the wings move into landing position. The whine of the plane's passage through the air became a rumble.

Down and down we went. Then suddenly the pilot poured on the gas and the engines roared as we ascended back into the sky.

We just couldn't land. Not in that fog. Not safely.

It's a pain, but I've had worse flights. And we got down eventually.

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On a previous trip to Alaska, I flew up to the Revelation Mountains with a bunch of other analysts to visit a project where grains of gold ran out of a mountain stream.

We flew through bad weather that time, too. It kind of snuck up on us, lurking behind the mountains and then pouncing on us mercilessly. Worse, it was the kind of weather that can shake a small plane around like a dog shakes a toy.

I lost about five pounds after that flight.

And one time in Chile, I went to visit a gold/copper project. The guys running it wanted to show us the neighboring gold projects to prove theirs was viable.

How do you inspect a gold mine in the Andes by small plane? You aim the plane at a mountain and put the nose down. Then you tilt the airplane so everyone can get a good look.

The airplane takes this about as well as you might expect. A soothing female mechanical voice intones: "Warning: Terrain!" Then the voice pauses to see if you've come to your senses. Then again: "Warning: Terrain!"

Over and over, we heard this. I was half-expecting the mechanical voice to say, "For Pete's sake, are you deaf as well as blind?"

That flight was white knuckles all around. The analyst next to me turned and said, "Just so you know, if she starts saying 'TERRAIN! TERRAIN! TERRAIN!' I'm going to start praying out loud."

"Me too," I replied.

We finally brought that roller-coaster ride to an end by convincing our hosts that their project was even better than the other working mines. Heck, anything! Just get us down!

So now you might be thinking, "Why does Sean put himself through this?"

Because this is how you find the best of the last great resources. The easy stuff has already been found. Now, we have to go further and to more extremes for potential riches.

There is stuff up here in Alaska that is ripe for the picking. I'll check it out. Of course, finding it is one thing. Evaluating it to see if it's right for my subscribers is another.

Stay tuned.

Good investing,

Sean

P.S. Sure, they can be dangerous. But sometimes these trips are very rewarding. On one recent journey I discovered a company that's doing what should be impossible. It's creating gasoline... without oil. The implications are staggering for this company - and its investors. I've prepared a full report. Just click here.
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