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Hudson Resources: Advancing a Neodymium-Abundant Rare Earths Resource in Greenland

Hudson Resources Inc. is a junior mineral exploration company. The Company is engaged in the acquisition, exploration and development of mineral properties. Its properties include Naajat Mineral Claim, Greenland, Nalussivik Mineral Claim, Greenland, Sarfartuup Qulaa Mineral Claim, Greenland, Sarfartoq Mineral Claim, Greenland, Sarfartoq Ost Mineral Claim, Greenland, Arnanganeq Mineral Claim, Greenland and Sarfartoq Valley Claim, Greenland.

Hudson Resources is steaming ahead in the exploration and development of the Sarfartoq rare earths project, located on Greenland's Arctic Circle, some 20km from tidewater, 60 km from Greenland’s international airport and 15km from a proposed site for a hydroelectric power plant.  It is just two and a half years since Hudson began exploring for rare earths on the carbonatite complex, and already one of the five targets is at an advanced stage with an inferred resource of 212,000 tonnes of contained TREO (total rare earth oxide) including 40M kg of neodymium, a key component in permanent magnets. During those two years the price of the metal has soared fifteen-fold, from under $20/kg in 2009 to around $330/kg today, an indication of the market's perception of the positive supply/demand fundamentals for the metal.  

The company, which recently raised C$17M, is hoping that future progress will also be speedy, assisted by the streamlined permitting process in Greenland and by the relatively straightforward metallurgy of the deposit; early indications are that it has strong similarities to other carbonatite deposits such as Molycorp's Mountain Pass.  Hudson has just commissioned Wardrop to undertake the Preliminary Economic Assessment, which should be complete by the fall, paving the way for the start of the pre-feasibility study by the end of the year. 

Meanwhile Hudson's current market capitalisation, at C$83M, is one of the lowest of the fifteen or so advanced rare earth companies in the Bloomberg Rare Earths Index.  There is a school of thought which argues that the company is undervalued relative to its rock values and metallurgy, with the market currently placing unwarranted emphasis on the presence of heavy rare earths in the rare earth mix of each deposit.  A recent research report by Dahlman Rose rated the company as a buy, with a target valuation at a 20% discount rate of C$1.60 per share, compared with the current price of C$1.03.  If a 16% discount rate is assumed then the valuation jumps to $3.80 per share.

NMR software blog iPad - BioNMR

There are too many reasons why any wise guy will never write a program to process or visualize NMR spectra on the iPad. What's the iPad? A small, light-weight device that you can use to read books and newspapers, watch pictures and movies, hear music, play games. It's a machine to enjoy contents created by some other means. If you realize this, you conclude that the iPad comes ready to watch NMR spectra as well, provided that those spectra are saved as PDF. The iPad is closed system. The programs are sold through a single store. Only the owner of the store decides what will be sold (or freely distributed) and when it will be released. If your program is accepted, your problem aren't finished yet. Soon or later a user will discover a bug, and you will want to release a new version. You and the users will continue suffering for another week or two, until Apple decides to release the new version. The main problem is that writing a program requires time and time has a cost. Many people would say: "We don't need anything sophisticated. Give us the simplest thing", forgetting that the simple software has never been successfully, especially in the NMR field. Do you think that SpinWorks has been more successful than XWin-NMR? The former was simple, free and relatively unknown. The latter was big, complicated, expensive… and famous! Even if we try to forget this history lesson, writing a small program is still very very costly. For most programmers, and for all NMR programmers, the OS of the iPad is a foreign language. You can learn it, but it takes 1 or 2 years of study and practice before you become productive. You need a sound reason before spending 2 years of your life. This sound reason can be the project of writing 100 small programs or 1 big program. No wise man will spend 2 years of his life to write a single stupid program. With a few exceptions, today's NMR programs are cross-platform. From the point of view of the customer, a cross-platform product is a safer investment. The same is true for the makers. Actually it will be hard to survive for single-platform software. Putting our issue into this context, the question becomes: "Which of the existing NMR software is easier to port to the iPad?". MestreNova is based on QT , which permits "the creation of applications for Symbian and Maemo, MeeGo (Nokia N9) in addition to desktop platforms, such as Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux". No mention of iOs.

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