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Key Points
- Global EM investors are increasingly looking beyond standard MSCI index constituents in Russia in search of value.
- Average investor allocation to Russia is 3.76% marginally higher than the MSCI benchmark allocation (3.42%), however with a higher deviation from the average than other emerging markets.
- Sector focus in Russia is shifting away from traditional areas like oil & gas and mining towards new areas such as retail and technology. The opportunity for stocks outside traditional sectors to capture institutional investment is perhaps greater now than at any point in the last 5 years.
- A well-structured methodology for proactive targeting of investors can help IR teams to take advantage of new opportunities.
Emerging Market Fund Analysis & Methodology
This blog is written in conjunction with Copley Fund Research, an independent research firm which analyses the holdings of a specific sub-set of institutional equity investors.
In this case we are focusing on a cross-section of 120 actively managed global mutual funds, which invest a combined total of over $250bn in emerging market equities.
These funds use an index (usually the MSCI Emerging Market Index) as their performance benchmark but have complete discretion over portfolio allocations amongst global emerging market companies. As such they provide a good indication of buy-side sentiment towards countries, sectors and individual stocks in emerging markets.
Here we highlight some of the key trends in their fund allocations, analyse the overall pattern of investment in Russian companies and look at some of the top EM Funds that might be of interest to Russian IR teams.
Russia: Today's Investment Landscape
According to public data, at the start of January 2016 Russian equities made up 3.42% of the MSCI Emerging Markets index, representing a combined total of more than $1.7 trillion in passive and active investments by over 1,100 institutional investors globally. Despite recent outflows and transaction sanctions imposed by Europe and the United States, investors from these geographies continue to hold the lion's share (>75%) of institutional investment in the Russian equity capital market.
Geographical Distribution of Institutional Equity Investors into Russian Equity Market (2015)
Russian Equity Investment Trends
Following a steady increase in equity investment in Russia between 2011 and 2013, the market was badly hit by the global commodity price depression and the uncertainty caused by the Ukraine conflict and associated trade sanctions. Russia is now the 8th most popular emerging market by average portfolio weight, having been overtaken by South Africa and Mexico during the last few years.
The macro economic factors affecting Russian investment have far outweighed the micro factors, with some institutions forced to close Russia funds entirely to satisfy risk managers and internal obligations.
However, the downward trend may now finally be reversing, as many funds increased their Russian equity allocations during the second half of 2015, positioning themselves as overweight versus the MSCI EM index. Should this trend continue, 2016 may well reward the more optimistic IR teams who anticipate growing interest in their company story and plan accordingly.
Distribution of Investment in Russia
The current distribution of Russia holdings can be seen in the chart below, with wide ranging levels of allocation amongst the 120 funds. The average allocation of 3.76% is marginally higher than the MSCI EM index benchmark allocation of 3.42% – and still higher than the percentage allocated to either Turkey or Poland – indicating a moderately bullish stance on Russia at present.
Taking Advantage of Investor Opportunities
Following the 2008 credit crisis, investment in Russian equities reached its peak in December 2013. As stated above, a large number of investors subsequently either reduced or sold off their positions as economic conditions worsened. Should this situation turn around, these investors could prove particularly interesting for companies, given their history of interest in the Russian market. It's certainly worth companies keeping track of investment patterns to understand the likely impact of a change in market conditions and take advantage of potential opportunities.
2015 Activity
The chart below shows the funds who have increased exposure to Russia the most over the course of 2015. Schroder's EM Opportunity Fund tops the list, followed by Lazard's Developing Market Fund. All of the funds listed below have a shown a willingness to invest in Russia when others have taken a more cautious approach.
Sector focus
During the last few years investor appetite has switched more and more towards the technology and consumer sectors and away from oil and gas, in line with other emerging markets. Russian oil & gas stocks made up nearly 3% of EM portfolios back in January 2011 but now account for under 1.2%; food retail stocks have nearly doubled from 0.47% to 0.82% over the same period.
From a stock perspective Magnit, Lukoil and Sberbank are the most widely held in Russia; each is owned by around 50% of funds and together they account for around 46% of total holdings in Russia.
New Emerging Market Opportunities
EM active investors are more than willing to invest outside the benchmark index where the opportunities arise. Stocks such as Yandex, X5 Retail and Mail.ru are not included in the MSCI benchmark but have attracted over $1bn in investment from the active EM funds in our analysis.
This shows two things: firstly that just because a company's stock is included in the MSCI EM index doesn't automatically mean that active investors will invest, and secondly that the MSCI EM index isn't a barrier to attracting investment from international EM funds. This should encourage companies outside the MSCI Emerging Markets index to engage with global EM active investors as they have a clear mandate to look beyond benchmarks in order to generate excess returns.
Focus List
Based on the analysis above we recommend the 39 global emerging market active funds listed below should be on the radar of Russian IR teams. These funds are selected on the grounds of either their current allocation in Russian equities, increased Russia allocations over the last 12 months, and/or a history of high allocations in Russia over the last 5 years. As such they will have a greater propensity to invest in high quality companies throughout the region.
A Framework for Investor Targeting
Investment profile of my company
The starting point of any investor targeting exercise is to build a solid understanding of how your company's story can fit into criteria that global investors look for when screening for companies: liquidity, key fundamental metrics and non-financial highlights.
Things to consider:
- Does my company's liquidity, or average daily trading volume (ordinary shares and depositary receipts combined) meet institutional investor requirements? Minimum threshold for large institutional investors is on average $1million+ per day. Smaller funds or those focused on the mid-/small-cap segment of the market often have more flexibility, however also tend to have fewer resources and less support (corporate access, investment research) from brokers.
- Compared to the regional and broader EM peer group, which set of fundamentals particularly stands out in my equity story?
- How are we positioning our collateral to address the needs of investors with particular strategies (e.g. Income/Yield, Growth, Value etc)? Do we have a good understanding of the triggers of the investment decision on those funds?
- What are the key non-financial metrics that matter in my story? What macro- or mega-industry trends is my company's equity story continually benefiting from?
Opportunity Analysis
Many companies take a technical, if not scientific, approach to identifying investor opportunity. A starting point is to conduct a comprehensive analysis of your own shareholder base, factoring in significant movements over the past four quarters.
Next, an institutional investor study draws up a target investor groups based on a number of criteria:
- Investors who are already present in my shareholder register
- Investors who are invested in my peer group but not in my company
- Investors who have held my company's shares previously but do not currently hold them
- Investors who have been increasing allocations to my region and/or my sector
- New EM funds launched globally over the last 12 months
- New ideas of investors from brokers and other consultants
Things to consider:
- Do I have a clear understanding which investors with active mandates hold my regional and international peer group? How often am I monitoring changes and activity in this list? Are the changes in line with what we are seeing in our shareholder base? If not, what are the drivers of the outliers?
- Am I monitoring developments in the passive and ETF industry and do I understand which benchmarks my company is part of? What are my company's allocations to each of those indices?
- How often am I monitoring broader fund flows into my region and comparing this to what we are seeing in my company's shareholder base?
Following this, companies often group investors into tiers, which then dictate the outreach strategy for the year. For illustration purposes the following example may be helpful:
All investor tiers have access to 'passive channels' which include IR website/web casts, annual report, IR mailings / press releases, IR events (R&D day, etc.), quarterly conference calls, event-driven/product conf. calls, phone & email contact with IR
The study can then be applied to three key geographies: Europe, North America and Asia.
In summary, Russian allocations in EM portfolios are increasing but from a historically low base. In order to capture a share of these allocations, it might benefit IR teams to keep track of those funds with a history of investment in Russia. The opportunity for stocks outside the traditional focus of oil & gas to capture institutional investment is perhaps greater now than at any point in the last 5 years. Our targeting framework can be applied by listed companies to proactively target new opportunities.
We hope it is useful and are happy to provide additional information and answer any questions.
Steven Holden
Copley Fund Research
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LYNWOOD — An unsuccessful candidate for the Lynwood City Council has been charged with two misdemeanor election code violations for failing to register a campaign committee and using a fictitious address on a mass mailer, the district attorney's office said Tuesday.
Iris Pygatt, 51, was expected to surrender to authorities and be arraigned on the two charges today in Compton Municipal Court, said Deputy Dist. Atty. Herb Lapin.
Lapin said his office would recommend that the court release Pygatt, a Lynwood real estate agent, on her own recognizance after booking and arraignment. Pygatt declined to comment on the charges.
Pygatt, who finished sixth in a field of 12 candidates in the November election, is charged with failing to register her campaign committee with the secretary of state and sending out a mass mailer with a fictitious address, Lapin said.


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Our first target which we predicted in yesterday's analysis has been hit. USD/JPY is still expected to trade in a lower range. Despite the pair posting a rebound, the upward potential is likely to be limited by the resistance at 114.00. The declining 50-period moving average is playing a resistance role. The relative strength index is below its neutrality level at 50.
To sum up, below 114.00, look for a further decline with targets at 113.30 and 113.15 in extension.
Alternatively, if the price moves in the opposite direction, a short position is recommended above 114.00 with a target at 114.30.
Chart Explanation: The black line shows the pivot point. The current price above the pivot point indicates a bullish position, while the price below the pivot point is a signal for a short position. The red lines show the support levels and the green line indicates the resistance level. These levels can be used to enter and exit trades.
Strategy: SELL, Stop Loss: 114.00, Take Profit: 113.30
Resistance levels: 114.30, 114.50 and 114.90 Support Levels: 113.65, 11.30, 112.95The material has been provided by InstaForex Company - www.instaforex.com


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Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, Steve Carell & More Help Honor Steve Martin at AFI Life Award Gala 2015!
Amy Poehler and Tina Fey strike a pose on the red carpet while attending the 2015 AFI Life Achievement Award Gala Honoring Steve Martin at Dolby Theatre on Thursday (June 4) in Hollywood.
The 43-year-old actress and Tina, 45, were joined at the Audi-sponsored event by Steve Carell and his wife Nancy, Natasha Lyonne, Maya Rudolph, Michael Sheen and girlfriend Sarah Silverman, Jack Black and his wife Tanya Haden, Eric Dane and his wife Rebecca Gayheart, Fred Armisen, Brad Garrett, Kevin Nealon, Martin Short, and Steven Martin himself.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Amy Poehler
The gala will be broadcast by TBS next week on Saturday, June 13, followed by an encore presentation on TCM on July 30th – Don't forget to tune in!
FYI: Amy is wearing Kurt Geiger London shoes. Sarah carrying a Nancy Gonzalez clutch.
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The question of whether transparency will lead to a more accountable practice in the management of the natural resource management is a complex one. At the surface, it seems like the obvious answer to achieve accountability and then improved governance but is it really the case? Even when the advocates for transparency insist that the public should get the information in a format they can decipher regardless of their education levels, it means increased costs for agencies and companies whose main goal is not information dissemination.
Education plays a major role in ensuring that the public can decipher what information is released. So if education is not improved then transparency doesn't make much difference. If we think from the financial perspective do we think that the cost incurred in processing information will be equated with the benefits to be accrued from good governance? If the answer is yes, then we will see more transparency but if not, we are in for a long wait.


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Gymnast Shawn Johnson Put To Sleep After Breaking Leg
12 Responses to "Gymnast Shawn Johnson Put To Sleep After Breaking Leg"
Until the day I die I will put Shawn's cause before the presence of the Lord. There are no words to describe this crime mainly coming from her own parents. No matter what the law says it is a crime against God. Very few crimes in the world have astounded me like this one in particular. Shawn's talent was in her heart and head not in her body. I feel guilty of this crime because I have not acted and prayed enough to stop people like this. Lord, have mercy.
You either have absolutely no grasp whatsoever of the concept of satire, or are a master of it, and I honestly cannot tell which.
hahaha indeed.
Wow thats crazy but could live with myself if i didnt comment and say shawn you may not know me but im in love you girl the way you do your thing has always amazed and turned me on hit me up sometime when you get the chance im gonna be on the us track team so email me at firstname.lastname@example.com
that isnt even true she is still alive retards i havent heard of humans being put to sleep.
p.s. in some nations, holland namely, this is common.
euthanasia – Definition
[yōṓthə-nā́zhə, -zhē-ə]
(n.) The act or practice of ending the life of an individual suffering from a terminal illness or an incurable condition, as by lethal injection or the suspension of extraordinary medical treatment.
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a broken leg isn't exactly a terminal illness or incurable condition…..
hey retards, not as unlikely as you may think. remember this story?
Schiavo's feeding tube removed PINELLAS PARK, Florida (CNN) — The feeding tube for the brain-damaged Florida woman at the center of a bitter moral and legal tug of war was disconnected Friday afternoon, and her husband's lawyer pleaded, "She has a right to die in peace." the young woman was allowed to starve to death, a very cruel way to "put someone to sleep," or uthanasi.
are you all honestly taking this bullshit as reallity??? the onion (name of the show) is just making fun of gymnists, there is a movie called the onion movie. the show is just a fake news cast that makes fun of people, you honestly thought they shot there daughter in thee back of the head lmao come on. re- watch it with a different perspective, and youll see that it is just dark humor
This is insane she was at my school TODAY so that is impossible
1st she didnt die and its stupid for the people to say that about her because im her cousin and see her practically everyday so dont belive it because she DID NOT DIE AND THE PEOPLE WHO DECIDED TO SAY THAT ARE EXTREAMLEY STUPID


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May 26 will be a big night in Hollywood- with lots of people inviting friends over for festive viewing parties for this much anticipated "event" – the premier of HBO's "Behind the Candelabra." The trailer is bound to get your mouth watering.
Posted by Janet on April 9, 2013
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By British Teeth
On April 9, 2013 at
Mother-of-god when will the hype stop? HBO have been pushing this film for the better part of a year! Are they so desperate for viewers?
That said, yes, of course, we're having the whole family over to watch Douglas get properly buggered by Matt Damon. Cheers
By abe
On April 9, 2013 at
agree, homosexuals are of all times.
By Bluejay
On April 9, 2013 at
This feature is the last one for which Marvin Hamlish produced and wrote the music. Enjoy!
By CoCo
On April 9, 2013 at
It actually looks very well acted. I love the casting. Didn't think I'd be interested, but….
By Jeanne
On April 10, 2013 at
This sounds divine. Or Divine.
By Christine India
On April 10, 2013 at
This subject should be up for discussion, between the saved and the unsaved….that is, the sheep and the goats. Micael and Matt may be in deep trouble with the LORD for playing these parts. (men kissing men and promoting gays….not good).
PS: I love to be dissed, raked over the coals, cursed, bad-mouthed, I'm used to it; I love it; bring it on. It just makes me stronger, but I'm sure you can't understand that. Winning.
BTW, I have toured Liberace's home and museum in Vegas. Awesome.
By Palermo
On April 10, 2013 at
you couldn't pay me to watch this mess
By Barry W
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Just curious Janet, who's mouth is watering? Yours or your man's?
By JanJan
On April 10, 2013 at
The book was great, it's sad carluccis closed in Vegas a little time ago. I wonder if he will be mentioned in the hbo movie.
By JanJan
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Btw Scott Thorson is now in a heterosexual relationship.
By Shelby
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Well said, Christine India! However, I don't think the Lord would be unhappy with Michael or Matt because they are only playing a part; they aren't the real people. Acting has been around since the beginning of time. Liberace and Scott might have some problems, though. It's what is in a person's heart that the Lord looks at. That is between them and God.
By Noblecascade
On April 10, 2013 at
I'm interested in seeing this film but I wouldn't say my mouth is watering.
By philip and Andrea
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@Christine India, of course we can understand it silly,
self delusion and fantasy, have been two of the most essential, and characteristic aspects of Christian faith, since its very inception.
Much like flour and liquid is to a cake.
By sherry lynee
On April 10, 2013 at
Who will watch this immoral filth?
By strom
On April 10, 2013 at
Fag note on HBO
By Donny
On April 10, 2013 at
I'll watch it for sure, all God's Children etc., should be interesting. Great actors and an infamous, salacious story, whats not to like ?
it's prob going to be sad and comical, just like some of this blogs inhabitants. But without all the angry hate, accusations, and envy , we'll see ..
By Erin
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Quality words, gonna come here again.


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So, this was my hotel room's view when I stayed in the Row NYC, right next to Times Square. I could not find it on foot, but maybe someone has better eyesight than I do (which wouldn't be surprising at all). If someone does, or if someone has any information about this, please do contact me and help me make this blog as accurate as possible.


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Weekend Open Thread
Welcome to your weekend open thread. Yes, the rumors are true. I am taking a break for a while. I'm sure the rest of the crew will take good care of you. This will be my last thread for a while.
Good read about the man who stole the Mona Lisa 100 years ago, making her the most famous portrait in the world.
The Wellcome Trust released some film archives taken of British soldiers suffering for "shell shock" in 1917-1918. Quite fascinating
There are four other videos you can watch. I always thought "shell shock" referred to PTSD. In the video above, I think only the 2nd soldier suffers from what I understand PTSD to be. The other soldiers look like they have a neurological condition, but I'm no expert.
And finally, Wisconsin governor Scott Walker receives a less-than-friendly welcome at the Wisconsin state fair.
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City Attorney Frank Bartolone on Monday gave the City Council a list of six alleged violations by West Boca Cablevision Inc. of its contract with city, and one council member said it's proof the company should probably lose its franchise.
The list was prepared at the request of the council amid recent dissatisfaction over the company's performance.
It accuses Cablevision of installing facilities at St. Andrews School without getting city approval in advance, failing to pay its franchise fee to the city until Feb. 4, more than three months late, and not notifying the city of signal testing.
Bartolone also said the company failed to establish new facilities, even though its application said it would start building them in early 1984. He said the firm also neglected to give the city 24-hour reports on service outages and never submitted plans on how the city would use Cablevision in an emergency.
"As of this point, we have very little communication with that company," Deputy Mayor Richard Robinson said at Monday's council meeting. He said he wants to move ahead with revocation procedures.
But Bartolone said he believes the cable company is making attempts to remedy the problems, and he said he thought the council did not need to act immediately.
"I do," Robinson said.
Marian Smith, general manager of West Boca Cablevision, wasn't aware of the memo Monday.
"I have not received anything officially from the city, and I'm reserving comment until I do receive something officially," she said.
Mayor William Konrad directed Bartolone to send the cable company a letter, explaining the council's point of view.
"Write them a letter, give them a reasonable period of time (to correct the violations), then come back and we'll see where we are at that time," Konrad said.
Smith said she was optimistic about settling the disputes.
"I think if I can meet with these gentlemen . . . I can resolve this," she said.
But council member Al Edmunds was impatient with negotiation.
"Don't bring them here for some kind of debate," he told Bartolone.


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No matter how slowly the wheels may turn when it comes to catching cheats, the mere fact that it is happening shows that even after a period of 8 years there can still be justice.
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has re-tested a selection of doping samples collected at the 2005 IAAF World Championships, Helsinki, Finland, from a wide range of disciplines and nations, and the results have revealed a further six adverse findings. [Read more…]


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WWE RAW Results: Yes! Yes! Yes!Matt Richenthal at . Comments
Most WWE fans around the dial had one reaction to this week's Monday Night Raw:
Yes! Yes! Yes!
That's because Daniel Bryan hijacked the latest installment, taking over the program along with 100 fans who flooded the arena and demanded a showdown with Triple H.
Security was helpless. The Authority tried and failed to start a match. And Triple H was eventually forced to give in to Bryan's demand after Stephane McMahon yelled a lot and said she "owns" Bryan.
But Bryan wasn't happy with merely a match at"Wrestlemania. If he wins, he asked to be placed into the WWE World Heavyweight Championship match between Orton and Batista.
And there it is. Did the WWE just save itself from what had been a disastrous Wrestlemania main event, sure to be serenaded with a negative reaction in New Orleans?
The main event featured Bryan and Big Show taking on Batista and Orton, with Bryan getting the pin over the champion after avoiding a Batista spear that took Orton down.
The Undertaker also showed up and exchanged a few words with Paul Heyman, while Hulk Hogan hyped the WWE Network and also announced a 30-man Battle Royale at Wrestlemania. It will be in honor of Andre the Giant.
Here's a match result rundown:
- John Cena defeated Erick Rowan.
- The Usos defeated Ryback and Curtis Axel.
- Big E. defeated Jack Swagger.
- Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns defeated Cody Rhodes and Goldust.
- The Bella Twins defeated A.J. Lee and Tamina Snuka.
- Sheamus defeated Christian.
- Daniel Bryan and Big Show defeated Randy Orton and Batista.
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As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information
Mining is an extremely capital intensive business for two reasons. Firstly mining has a large, up front layout of construction capital called Capex - the costs associated with the development and construction of open-pit and underground mines. There are often other company built infrastructure assets like roads, railways, bridges, power generating stations and seaports to facilitate extraction and shipping of ore and concentrate.
Capex costs are escalating because:
- Declining ore grades means a much larger relative scale of required mining and milling operations
- A growing proportion of mining projects are in remote areas of developing economies where there's little to no existing infrastructure
There is also continuously rising Opex, or operational expenditures, to consider. These are the day to day costs of operation; rubber tires, wages, fuel, camp costs for employees etc.
The bottom line? It is becoming increasingly expensive to bring new mines on line and run them.
The reasons behind flat-lining gold production, and record cash and all-in costs, are numerous:
- Production declines in mature mining areas
- Slower than expected ramp-ups of output
- Development time up
- The entire resource extraction industry suffers from a lack of skilled people
- Extreme weather
- Labor strikes
- Protests
- Increasingly more remote and lacking in infrastructure projects
- Higher capex costs
- Increased resource nationalism
- Increased environmental regulation
- More complex metallurgy
- Lower cutoff grades
In 1998 the world's top two highest grade mines were SMM's Hishikari Mine in Japan @ 50g/t and Barrick's Meikle mine in the U.S. @ 32g/t. In 2011 the world's top two highest grade mines were Newcrest's Gosowong in Indonesia @ 25g/t and goldcorp's Red Lake mine in Canada @ 24g/t.
In 2014 Klondex Mines Fire Creek Mine in the U.S. was the world's highest grade mine @ 44g/t and coming in second place was Kirkland Lakes Macassa Mine in Canada @ 22g/t. Declining mined and mineable gold grade is a direct result of the industry's inability to discover new high grade/high margin deposits.
Goldman Sachs Eugene King published a report earlier this year (2015) warning of Peak gold. Since gold production lags discoveries by around 20 years the following chart suggests he may be right.
Here's some excellent insight from Brent Cook, explorationinsights.com.
"Major gold mining companies are facing a big problem. They are unable to find and develop enough ounces to keep up with demand, for the simple fact that economic gold deposits are extremely rare."
There are three main reasons why gold production increased up to 2000 despite declining gold prices.
- The first is the advent of new mining and processing technologies that made previously uneconomic low grade deposits economic. This was mostly a result of heap leach technology and bulk mining methods. Meaning, mining companies could now scrape up large areas of low grade mineralization and sprinkle a cheap solution of cyanide on the rock to recover the gold. This primarily worked on near surface oxidized deposits in relatively dry climates.
- The second is that vast regions of the world that had previously been closed for various reasons were opened up to exploration. These new areas include much of Latin America, Africa, and the former Soviet Union.
- The third is that geologists had a whole slew of new exploration tools with which to scan the earth. These include satellite imagery, geophysics, and more sensitive chemical tools.
The net result was that new technologies kept old deposits going longer and made previously uneconomic ones viable, thereby ramping up production into the early 90's. New deposits in previously unexplored and off-limits areas kept that production going until about 2000. All well and good but the industry is not finding as many new deposits as they need to in order to maintain current production levels. And, although we can expect incremental technological improvements in processing, mining, and exploration, there is nothing revolutionary on the horizon.
This is a worrisome slide for major gold producers—they are unable to sustain themselves. For the most part they are surviving via old deposits that are running out of ore and newer deposits that are quickly headed into the "old" deposit category. Reserves from these aging deposits are not being replaced by new discoveries. Producers' problems are further exacerbated by rising exploration and development costs, plus the significant time it now takes to permit and finance a new deposit."
Here's Paul van Eeden (paulvaneeden.com) on reserve replacement,this was written in 2001:
"Worldwide gold production from mining is approximately 80 million ounces per year. A few years ago, a world-class gold discovery, which rarely occurs, would have been anything over a million ounces. Perhaps a few such deposits are discovered in a decade yet we mine the equivalent of 80 such deposits a year…
This from Natural Resource Holdings, 2013 Global Gold Mine & Deposit Rankings; "The gold mining industry needs to discover 80 million ounces of gold every year just to prevent it from shrinking and it is highly unlikely that we will ever discover 80 million ounces in any given year, never mind do so on a continuous basis."
"There are only 580 mines and deposits on earth with over 1 million troy ounces of in-situ gold with less than 200 in North America… we are nearing peak gold production as the total in-situ ounces when adjusted for metallurgical recoveries and average mine life are about 50% less than what is required to maintain the current production trends.
The average grade of all producing mines is 1.18 g/t Au, which is 32.6% higher than the average of all projects still in the development phase (0.89 g/t Au). This has significant implications on future gold production. In the near term, with significant volatility and the gold price at a three-year low, many of these projects are simply not economically feasible." Natural Resource Holdings, 2013 Global Gold Mine & Deposit Rankings
In their 2013 report Natural Resource Holdings identifies 3.72 billion below ground ounces of gold. You have to ask; what's actually recoverable?
"Goldcorp estimates that global production will drop six per cent in the next three years, and almost 18 per cent in the next nine years. This may seem mind-boggling to the casual investor who watched hundreds of gold companies pop out of the woodwork during the bull market from 2000 to 2011. But it speaks to the numerous challenges facing the sector. There has been a shortage of new discoveries in the past decade, leaving the industry's pipeline relatively bare. At the same time, companies have been deferring or canceling projects because the execution risk is just too high. That is due to soaring construction and operating costs, political risk, permitting challenges and numerous other factors.
And of course, gold prices have plunged almost 40 per cent in the past three years. That accelerated the move to the production cliff because miners have been forced to shelve many big projects. They have also focused on higher-grade ores at their mines, which means their reserves and mine lives are shrinking fast.
The production cliff puts the senior gold miners in a precarious position. The not-so-secret problem with these firms is that their current production rates are not sustainable for very long. They have a couple of uncomfortable options: let production decline, or go on an acquisition frenzy to fill up their project pipelines. And those options are complicated by the excessive debts that many of them are carrying." For many miners, there's no avoiding the gold 'production cliff' now, Peter Koven, Financial Post
"Over the past 24 years, mining companies discovered 1.66 billion ounces of gold in 217 major gold discoveries, SNL Metals & Mining's 2014 edition of Strategies for Gold Reserves Replacement shows.
While that sounds like a significant amount of gold, it falls short of the 1.84 billion ounces produced over the same period. In addition, the amount of gold discovered and the number of major discoveries (defined as any deposit with a minimum of 2 million ounces of contained gold) have been trending downward over time, from 1.1 billion ounces in 124 deposits discovered during the 1990s to only 605 million ounces in 93 deposits discovered since 2000.
The amount of potential production from these major discoveries is particularly concerning when looking at the discoveries made in the past 15 years. Assuming a 75% rate for converting resources to economic reserves and a 90% recovery rate during ore processing, the 674 million ounces of gold discovered since 1999 could eventually replace just 50% of the gold produced during the same period.
However, considering that only a third of the discovered gold has been upgraded to reserves or has already been produced, and that many of these deposits face significant political, environmental or economic hurdles, the amount of gold becoming available for production in the near term is certainly much less." Kevin Murphy, Fewer discoveries, slower development weigh on gold industry, Mining.com
Better than Gold
Gold's price has risen because of the abuse and mismanagement of our monetary and currency systems - throughout history, gold has always shone the brightest when trust breaks down, confidence falls and fear climbs. Which sounds exactly like today, wars, plague, economic collapse, central banks money printing out of control and the bad news rolls on an on.
Gold is up about four times from its lows more than a decade and a half ago. What's the upside from here?
If gold hits $5000.00 an ounce it's more than a quadruple from here. You've got a nice return and it's this authors belief that gold and silver bullion and coins should be part of every investors portfolio.
History shows us, time and again, the greatest leverage to gold's rising price is owning gold exploration/development junior mining stocks.
Will mainstream investors eventually catch on to the fact they need to own both gold and gold shares? The buying of shares in companies involved in the search for and development of gold projects is an imperative to garner the coming golden rewards.
"I am amazed by how nervous more and more Investors or shall I say Gold traders are becoming. Every Bull Market must always climb a wall of worry and this market will be no different. Since so many of you seem to be wavering between whether you should become short term traders or stay as long term investors, perhaps a refresher course in making money and a little bit of hand holding may be the order of the day.
While a few succeeded by trading commodity futures; stock options, day trading or short selling. Jesse Livermore, the most famous of the short sellers who caught the top in 1929, nevertheless died broke. After a great deal of study and research it finally sunk in that most of them that achieved their ultimate goals were those individuals who identified a major Bull Market or an individual stock and RODE it for all it was worth. They bought and held during both the pleasurable upswings as well as through the sharp, terrifying down drafts, during which times they all took advantage of the down drafts to accumulate more stock. Then, when the Bull Market appeared to be in its final, frothy stage, they gradually sold their holdings to the late comers (who Joe Granville named the Bag Holders), who's blind greed had them clamoring to get in at the top." Aubie Baltin
Gold juniors are going to be the most rewarding, the most lucrative way to garner the huge rewards from the coming freight train rush to gold. Those golden tracks are being laid today using the world's fiat currencies as ballast - when your cash is trash your gold is shining.
There will be fierce merger and acquisition (M&A) competition for the juniors with stable safe gold ounces in the ground by producers having to replace their reserves in an extremely competitive environment. As we've seen there aren't very many decent sized deposits, ones over one million ounces, left in politically stable countries.
Junior resource companies, not majors, own the worlds future mines and juniors are the ones most adept at finding these future mines. They already own, and find more of, what the world's larger mining companies need to replace reserves and grow their asset base.
If I was looking for superior investment vehicles to take advantage of what I think I know regarding precious metals I'd be assembling a portfolio of juniors with sizeable deposits in the post discovery resource definition stage with the occasional green field exploration play thrown into the mix.
New Carolin Gold Corp. TSX.V - LAD
When I first started investing in the junior resource space I was given some good advice by many people. One pearl of wisdom was this;
They do not come along very often but many times the best investment is a good project screwed up by poor management. The best return on your money comes from a change of management coming in, taking over a great but screwed up project.
This is exactly the opportunity I believe is being presented by New Carolin.
The Carolin Mine, a former underground gold producer from 1982 – 1984, is located on the west fork of Ladner Creek, approximately 18 kilometers northeast of Hope.
The 1,360 tpd mill at the mine was commissioned in early 1982 and produced over 43,500 ounces of gold during 27 months of operation.
Construction of the New Carolin Mine started in 1980 when gold's price was US$600.00 an ounce. When the first gold was poured gold was down to US$300.00 oz. With poor gold recoveries (just 60%) and mined grades lower than forecast due to country rock dilution the mine had to close in 1982.
The original resource estimate was finalized in 1997. The gold resources reported in the table below are based on exploration and development work undertaken by Athabaska Gold Resources in 1995 and 1996 using a database of 595 diamond drill holes (approximately 40,000 meters of diamond drilling).
The historic resource grade of plus 4 gpt was very close to the average grade that was originally mined from the Idaho Zone (New Carolin Mine).
The Carolin Mine mineralized zone is open in all directions.
A mine development map from 1981 shows the 800 level being extended north for 1.2 km to the McMaster Zone. The proposed cross cuts for drilling indicate to this author that previous operators had high confidence that gold mineralization runs beyond the Carolin Mine and that the area between the Carolin Mine and the McMaster zone could yield additional gold resources as development continues.
There are no shafts at the Carolin Mine and the underground workings are dry and fully accessible.
The future mine model for the Carolin Mine envisions open pit and underground components.
The McMaster Zone is approximately 1.3 km north of the Carolin Mine.
A New Carolin May 2012 technical report established an inferred resource on the McMaster zone of 3.6 million tonnes grading 0.69 gram gold for 79,540 oz. gold using a 0.5 gram gold cut-off. Note that over half of this existing resource is at 2 gpt and near surface.
- The McMaster Zone occurs within the current mine permit area and is open in all directions.
- The McMaster Zone resource takes into account only gold. The silver accompanying the gold mineralization was not included in the historical database.
- The current resource estimate doesn't take into account a gold oxide zone. If it continues to depth it could be significant.
The Emancipation Mine was an intermittent gold producer from 1916 to 1941.
The Aurum, Pipestem and Ward adits all produced gold intermittently from 1935 to 1937.
There's also 'Jewelry Box' type gold showings present:
- The Montana - 30 oz's gold from two tons of material.
- Georgia No. 2 prospect - 33 oz's of gold from one ton of material.
Tailings Pond
Athabaska Gold Resources drilled 60 holes into the tailings and New Carolin drilled another nine. These 69 holes were drilled into just 60% of the tailings pond's surface area. They were used to establish a National Instrument 43-101 resource of 404,000 indicated tonnes grading 1.83 grams gold per tonne for 24,000 contained oz., plus 84,400 inferred tonnes grading 1.85 grams gold for a further 5,000 oz gold.
Since the Carolin Mine shut down the fully permitted tailings impoundment has been monitored and inspected by independent consulting engineers. After the Imperial Metals Mt. Polley tailings dam breach BC's Ministry of Mines mandated that all of the Provinces tailings impoundments be inspected and reports filed by December 1, 2014. New Carolin completed its inspection in September 2014. Remaining tailings capacity is 1,327,723 metric tonnes.
Core from the McMaster Zone (DDH 32-09; 3.96 g/t gold over 27.6 meters, from 32.4 to 60.0 meters) was provided to SGS Canada Ltd. for gold recovery testing.
Pressure-oxidation and carbon-in-leach has shown recoveries of 96.3% on flotation concentrate from the McMaster Zone. Using flotation, pressure oxidation and cyanidation - combined with cyanidation of the flotation tailings - returned overall recoveries of 94.5%.
Mineralization of the McMaster Zone is similar to that of the Carolin Mine (no core is available for testing).
Some 1,200 junior resource exploration and development companies are located in Vancouver, British Columbia. Vancouver is well known as a hub for mining expertise and is one of the greatest mining centers in the world.
Not many of those 1200 companies can claim to have a mine, let alone one with:
- A stable, just inspected permitted tailings impound with room to grow
- Only a 6 km drive down an all weather gravel road from the Coquihalla Highway to the mine site
- Power lines only six km away
- Old mill equipment and foundations still in place
- Extensive mine workings
- Inferred gold resource of 750,000 ozs of gold grading 4.5g/t
- Water and mining permit already in place
- Politically mining friendly jurisdiction
- Positive response from local community
New Carolin can claim all that, and a whole lot more - it's fully permitted mine project sits just 160 km east of Vancouver British Columbia, Canada, just 30 minutes from the town of Hope. Workers can complete their shifts and sleep in their own beds in their own homes. Supplies can be easily sourced and transported to the mine site.
New Carolin Gold Corp. TSX.V-LAD has just acquired an additional 30% ownership in the Ladner gold project. Previously LAD had a 10% undivided interest in the property that holds the core asset plus 100% of the lower property that while on strike does not as yet have a proven asset. The ownership of the property has been problematic for New Carolin for almost 3 years since Century mining went into bankruptcy. The market has punished LAD for a lack of clarity on ownership and specifically for the lack of a direct path to 100% ownership.
The transfer of this additional 30% interest is very significant for LAD shareholders, not just for the significant upgrade in their percentage ownership of the assets on the property (roughly an inferred resource of 750,000 oz at 4.5 g/t gold plus 28,000 inferred oz minimum in the tailings)) but also because LAD now has a direct path to delivering on 100% ownership of the property.
LAD has an agreement in place with the receiver to acquire the 100% interest by raising $2 million towards developing the project. A key component of that agreement was the transfer of the 30% interest from Tamarlane to LAD as the receiver did not directly control that 30%. Now, with the monies raised to date, plus the $200,000 loan facilitating the 30% transfer, and the just raised $225,000.00, LAD has $1,250,000 left of the $2 mil raise required to transact the further 60%, but I predict the deal will close with another $750,000 raised.
Once LAD can claim 100% ownership they will own the roughly 750,000 oz of inferred gold underground plus the 28,000 + oz in the tailings pond (drilled out on only 60% of the ponds surface). Management of New Carolin believes that their next drill program will have very meaningful targets that could further enhance the current resource.
Will these new developments be enough to put them in play as an acquisition target or perhaps to be of sufficient interest to financiers willing to put the property back in production? We don't know but both prospects certainly exist and make this a very compelling story going forward.
There's also considerable discovery upside left on the property.
'The Coquihalla serpentine belt is an elongate, north - northwest trending, steeply dipping ultramafic unit. The belt lies within a major crustal fracture, the Hozameen fault and exceeds 50 kilometers in discontinuous strike length. The serpentine belt reaches its maximum development in the Carolin mine-Coquihalla River area, where it is greater than two kilometers in width. It gradually narrows to the south (Manning Park area) and north (Boston Bar).' Exploration in B.C. 1989, Ministry of Energy and Mines
New Carolin's Ladner Gold Property follows the Hozameen fault structure for approximately 28 km and exceeds 144 square kilometers covering substantially all of the accessible, yet still very underexplored Coquihalla Gold Belt(CGB).
The Ladner Gold Project contains several former underground producing gold mines and numerous gold prospects – more than 30 have been discovered so far.
Approximately 11 gold showings have been found within a 2 km stretch north of the Carolin Mine.
A recently completed airborne geophysical survey indicated a major magnetic linear structure that can be traced for over 18 km within the company's claims. All the aforementioned gold prospects occur along this major magnetic anomaly and there's several kilometers of untested ground left along the structure to explore.
New Carolin is not only shaping up as a very low risk shot at a prospective near term producer but also as a company with excellent potential for further discovery.
Let's get Jim Mustard, mining analyst and vice president of investment, mining and banking at Vancouver-based PI Financial, to bring this into perspective for us.
"The majority of M&A activity is focused on gold and copper projects. Grade is king now. Anything that can be sold as shovel-ready, and that is in a jurisdiction with clear permitting protocols, that is not subject to being derailed, and that has low to modest capital expenditures, will be sold."
Earlier in the article I listed a whole slew of ongoing negatives for the gold mining industry as a whole and individual deposits as a whole. Perhaps we should see which, if any applies to New Carolin. Here's the negative or con list:
- Production declines in mature mining areas
- Slower than expected ramp-ups of output
- Development time up
- The entire resource extraction industry suffers from a lack of skilled people
- Extreme weather
- Labor strikes
- Protests
- Increasingly more remote and lacking in infrastructure projects
- Higher capex costs
- Increased resource nationalism
- Increased environmental regulation
- More complex metallurgy
- Lower cutoff grades
As we read above this list, except global changing weather patterns, does not apply to LAD. We're close to the town of Hope, the people of Hope and the surrounding area, including First Nations people, want this mine to go ahead and are very supportive of New Carolin's efforts.
British Columbia is an excellent place to work in the resource extraction industry and the Provincial Liberal government under leader Christy Clark is very supportive of mining.
Metallurgy studies have been done indicating high recoveries, there's nothing complicated about the mining or extraction process and grades are high.
Having infrastructure close means a lower capex, situated just outside the town of Hope, and within 160km of Vancouver, means skilled workers and lower opex.
And of course being that the resource is in Canada is just slapping icing on our cake, getting paid for Canadian dug gold in U.S. dollars tacks on roughly 32% to gold's spot price, currently US$1145.20, making your gold worth Cdn$1511.66.
I've always used my 10% rule when evaluating whether or not a stock has share price appreciation potential. Here's how I do it…
750,000ozs gold x US$1150.00 = US$862,500,000.00/10 = US$86,250,000.00 divided by outstanding shares fully diluted as of Sept 30th 2015 of 113,494,997
10% good times = $0.75
5% bad times = $0.37
2.5% harsh times = $0.18
New Carolin shares last traded @ .05, using 2.5% to 5% of in-situ value shows me there is upside not yet assigned to LAD's share price, likely because, even though the path is clear to 100% ownership we are not there yet.
This author believes LAD's current share price is going to go through an upwards revision when we own 100% of the project. I also believe we are going to find more gold, a lot more gold. Something big must be causing all those gold showings/deposits strung out along pretty much the entire 28km length of the property.
The bottom line is this project is real and we have tremendous discovery potential on not only the north property but the contiguous southern property as well - we have to spend money here.
New Carolin is a value proposition. Value will be added by:
- A bad market about to turn in gold's, and gold deposit owners favor.
- Securing 100% ownership.
- Finding much more gold.
Gold, and gold mining stocks, are not currently getting a lot of love from investors. Perhaps it's time for you to color outside the lines a bit, give group think a huge doubt and take some advice from the Baron?
Baron Nathan Rothschild became a legend during the financial crisis right after the Franco-Prussian War. As the story goes, a panic-stricken investor came screaming into his office yelling, "You advise me to buy securities now? Now? The streets of Paris run with blood!" Rothschild replied, "My dear friend, if the streets of Paris were not running with blood, do you think you would be able to buy at the present prices? Buy when there's blood in the streets, even if the blood is your own."
Is coloring outside the lines, New Carolin Gold Corp. TSX.V – LAD and getting ahead of the herd on your radar screen?
If they aren't, they should be.
Richard (Rick) Mills
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It looks pretty straight forward as far as input and output connections but there is a bunch of plumbing set up for the compressor side. I have a couple pictures below that show some of it. There is a pressure gauge and relief valve. The things that I cant figure out are the square box on top that has all the power coming in and out (im assuming its a shut off or something) and the other is the round black cylinder under the box with orange tubs coming out of it.
My main goal is to have a nice, clean(hate my harbor freight pump!!!!) quiet and oil free vacuum pump. If I can gain a nice little compressor with a tank(think blowing dust off lathe, cleaning out hollow forms) then I would like to use both feature.
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'Ah, how much good brandy he and I have made little of in our day! By my soul, Mr. Fairbird, he is the prince of skinkers, and the father of the free trade — not a stingy hypocritical devil like old Turnpenny Skinflint, that drinks drunk on other folk's cost, and thinks it sin when he has to pay for it — but a real hearty old cock; — the sharks have been at and about him this many a day, but Father Crackenthorp knows how to trim his sails — never a warrant but he hears of it before the ink's dry. He is BONUS SOCIUS with headborough and constable. The king's exchequer could not bribe a man to inform against him. If any such rascal were to cast up, why, he would miss his ears next morning, or be sent to seek them in the Solway. He is a statesman, 58 though he keeps a public; but, indeed, that is only for convenience and to excuse his having cellarage and folk about him; his wife's a canny woman — and his daughter Doll too. Gad, you'll be in port there till you get round again; and I'll keep my word with you, and bring you to speech of the laird.
Gad, the only trouble I shall have is to get you out of the house; for Doll is a rare wench, and my dame a funny old one, and Father Crackenthorp the rarest companion! He'll drink you a bottle of rum or brandy without starting, but never wet his lips with the nasty Scottish stuff that the canting old scoundrel Turnpenny has brought into fashion. He is a gentleman, every inch of him, old Crackenthorp; in his own way, that is; and besides, he has a share in the JUMPING JENNY, and many a moonlight outfit besides. He can give Doll a pretty penny, if he likes the tight fellow that would turn in with her for life.'
In the midst of this prolonged panegyric on Father Crackenthorp, the boat touched the beach, the rowers backed their oars to keep her afloat, whilst the other fellows lumped into the surf, and, with the most rapid dexterity, began to hand the barrels ashore.
'Up with them higher on the beach, my hearties,' exclaimed Nanty Ewart —'High and dry — high and dry — this gear will not stand wetting. Now, out with our spare hand here — high and dry with him too. What's that? — the galloping of horse! Oh, I hear the jingle of the packsaddles — they are our own folk.'
By this time all the boat's load was ashore, consisting of the little barrels; and the boat's crew, standing to their arms, ranged themselves in front, waiting the advance of the horses which came clattering along the beach. A man, overgrown with corpulence, who might be distinguished in the moonlight panting with his own exertions, appeared at the head of the cavalcade, which consisted of horses linked together, and accommodated with packsaddles, and chains for securing the kegs which made a dreadful clattering.
'How now, Father Crackenthorp?' said Ewart —'Why this hurry with your horses? We mean to stay a night with you, and taste your old brandy, and my dame's homebrewed. The signal is up, man, and all is right.'
'All is wrong, Captain Nanty,' cried the man to whom he spoke; 'and you are the lad that is like to find it so, unless you bundle off — there are new brooms bought at Carlisle yesterday to sweep the country of you and the like of you — so you were better be jogging inland.
'How many rogues are the officers? If not more than ten, I will make fight.'
'The devil you will!' answered Crackenthorp. 'You were better not, for they have the bloody-backed dragoons from Carlisle with them.'
'Nay, then,' said Nanty, 'we must make sail. Come, Master Fairlord, you must mount and ride. He does not hear me — he has fainted, I believe — What the devil shall I do? Father Crackenthorp, I must leave this young fellow with you till the gale blows out — hark ye — goes between the laird and the t'other old one; he can neither ride nor walk — I must send him up to you.'
'Send him up to the gallows!' said Crackenthorp; 'there is Quartermaster Thwacker, with twenty men, up yonder; an he had not some kindness for Doll, I had never got hither for a start — but you must get off, or they will be here to seek us, for his orders are woundy particular; and these kegs contain worse than whisky — a hanging matter, I take it.'
'I wish they were at the bottom of Wampool river, with them they belong to,' said Nanty Ewart. 'But they are part of cargo; and what to do with the poor young fellow —'
'Why, many a better fellow has roughed it on the grass with a cloak o'er him,' said Crackenthorp. 'If he hath a fever, nothing is so cooling as the night air.'
'Yes, he would be cold enough in the morning, no doubt; but it's a kind heart and shall not cool so soon if I can help it,' answered the captain of the JUMPING JENNY.
'Well, captain, an ye will risk your own neck for another man's, why not take him to the old girls at Fairladies?'
'What, the Miss Arthurets! The Papist jades! But never mind; it will do — I have known them take in a whole sloop's crew that were stranded on the sands.'
'You may run some risk, though, by turning up to Fairladies; for I tell you they are all up through the country.'
'Never mind — I may chance to put some of them down again,' said Nanty, cheerfully. 'Come, lads, bustle to your tackle. Are you all loaded?'
'Aye, aye, captain; we will be ready in a jiffy,' answered the gang.
'D— n your captains! Have you a mind to have me hanged if I am taken? All's hail-fellow, here.'
'A sup at parting,' said Father Crackenthorp, extending a flask to Nanty Ewart.
'Not the twentieth part of a drop,' said Nanty. 'No Dutch courage for me — my heart is always high enough when there's a chance of fighting; besides, if I live drunk, I should like to die sober. Here, old Jephson — you are the best-natured brute amongst them — get the lad between us on a quiet horse, and we will keep him upright, I warrant.'
As they raised Fairford from the ground, he groaned heavily, and asked faintly where they were taking him to.
'To a place where you will be as snug and quiet as a mouse in his hole,' said Nanty, 'if so be that we can get you there safely. Good-bye, Father Crackenthorp — poison the quartermaster, if you can.'
The loaded horses then sprang forward at a hard trot, following each other in a line, and every second horse being mounted by a stout fellow in a smock frock, which served to conceal the arms with which most of these desperate men were provided. Ewart followed in the rear of the line, and, with the occasional assistance of old Jephson, kept his young charge erect in the saddle. He groaned heavily from time to time; and Ewart, more moved with compassion for his situation than might have been expected from his own habits, endeavoured to amuse him and comfort him, by some account of the place to which they were conveying him — his words of consolation being, however, frequently interrupted by the necessity of calling to his people, and many of them being lost amongst the rattling of the barrels, and clinking of the tackle and small chains by which they are secured on such occasions.
'And you see, brother, you will be in safe quarters at Fairladies — good old scrambling house — good old maids enough, if they were not Papists — Hollo, you Jack Lowther; keep the line, can't ye, and shut your rattle-trap, you broth of a —? And so, being of a good family, and having enough, the old lasses have turned a kind of saints, and nuns, and so forth. The place they live in was some sort of nun-shop long ago, as they have them still in Flanders; so folk call them the Vestals of Fairladies — that may be, or may not be; and I care not whether it be or no. — Blinkinsop, hold your tongue, and be d — d! — And so, betwixt great alms and good dinners, they are well thought of by rich and poor, and their trucking with Papists is looked over. There are plenty of priests, and stout young scholars, and such-like, about the house it's a hive of them. More shame that government send dragoons out after-a few honest fellows that bring the old women of England a drop of brandy, and let these ragamuffins smuggle in as much papistry and — Hark! — was that a whistle? No, it's only a plover. You, Jem Collier, keep a look-out ahead — we'll meet them at the High Whins, or Brotthole bottom, or nowhere. Go a furlong ahead, I say, and look sharp. — These Misses Arthurets feed the hungry, and clothe the naked, and such-like acts — which my poor father used to say were filthy rags, but he dressed himself out with as many of them as most folk. — D— n that stumbling horse! Father Crackenthorp should be d — d himself for putting an honest fellow's neck in such jeopardy.'
Thus, and with much more to the same purpose, Nanty ran on, increasing, by his well-intended annoyance, the agony of Alan Fairford, who, tormented by a racking pain along the back and loins, which made the rough trot of the horse torture to him, had his aching head still further rended and split by the hoarse voice of the sailor, close to his ear. Perfectly passive, however, he did not even essay to give any answer; and indeed his own bodily distress was now so great and engrossing, that to think of his situation was impossible, even if he could have mended it by doing so.
Their course was inland; but in what direction, Alan had no means of ascertaining. They passed at first over heaths and sandy downs; they crossed more than one brook, or beck, as they are called in that country — some of them of considerable depth — and at length reached a cultivated country, divided, according to the English fashion of agriculture, into very small fields or closes, by high banks, overgrown with underwood, and surmounted by hedge-row trees, amongst which winded a number of impracticable and complicated lanes, where the boughs projecting from the embankments on each side, intercepted the light of the moon, and endangered the safety of the horsemen. But through this labyrinth the experience of the guides conducted them without a blunder, and without even the slackening of their pace. In many places, however, it was impossible for three men to ride abreast; and therefore the burden of supporting Alan Fairford fell alternately to old Jephson and to Nanty; and it was with much difficulty that they could keep him upright in his saddle.
At length, when his powers of sufferance were quite worn out, and he was about to implore them to leave him to his fate in the first cottage or shed — or under a haystack or a hedge — or anywhere, so he was left at ease, Collier, who rode ahead, passed back the word that they were at the avenue to Fairladies —'Was he to turn up?'
Committing the charge of Fairford to Jephson, Nanty dashed up to the head of the troop, and gave his orders. —'Who knows the house best?'
'Sam Skelton's a Catholic,' said Lowther.
'A d — d bad religion,' said Nanty, of whose Presbyterian education a hatred of Popery seemed to be the only remnant. 'But I am glad there is one amongst us, anyhow. You, Sam, being a Papist, know Fairladies and the old maidens I dare say; so do you fall out of the line, and wait here with me; and do you, Collier, carry on to Walinford bottom, then turn down the beck till you come to the old mill, and Goodman Grist the Miller, or old Peel-the-Causeway, will tell you where to stow; but I will be up with you before that.'
The string of loaded horses then struck forward at their former pace, while Nanty, with Sam Skelton, waited by the roadside till the rear came up, when Jephson and Fairford joined them, and, to the great relief of the latter, they began to proceed at an easier pace than formerly, suffering the gang to precede them, till the clatter and clang attending their progress began to die away in the distance. They had not proceeded a pistol-shot from the place where they parted, when a short turning brought them in front of an old mouldering gateway, whose heavy pinnacles were decorated in the style of the seventeenth century, with clumsy architectural ornaments; several of which had fallen down from decay, and lay scattered about, no further care having been taken than just to remove them out of the direct approach to the avenue. The great stone pillars, glimmering white in the moonlight, had some fanciful resemblance to supernatural apparitions, and the air of neglect all around, gave an uncomfortable idea of the habitation to those who passed its avenue.
'There used to be no gate here,' said Skelton, finding their way unexpectedly stopped.
'But there is a gate now, and a porter too,' said a rough voice from within. 'Who be you, and what do you want at this time of night?'
'We want to come to speech of the ladies — of the Misses Arthuret,' said Nanty; 'and to ask lodging for a sick man.'
'There is no speech to be had of the Miss Arthurets at this time of night, and you may carry your sick man to the doctor,' answered the fellow from within, gruffly; 'for as sure as there is savour in salt, and scent in rosemary, you will get no entrance — put your pipes up and be jogging on.'
'Why, Dick Gardener,' said Skelton, 'be thou then turned porter?'
'What, do you know who I am?' said the domestic sharply.
'I know you, by your by-word,' answered the other; 'What, have you forgot little Sam Skelton, and the brock in the barrel?'
'No, I have not forgotten you,' answered the acquaintance of Sam Skelton; 'but my orders are peremptory to let no one up the avenue this night, and therefore'—
'But we are armed, and will not be kept back,' said Nanty. 'Hark ye, fellow, were it not better for you to take a guinea and let us in, than to have us break the door first, and thy pate afterwards? for I won't see my comrade die at your door be assured of that.'
'Why, I dunna know,' said the fellow; 'but what cattle were those that rode by in such hurry?'
'Why, some of our folk from Bowness, Stoniecultrum, and thereby,' answered Skelton; 'Jack Lowther, and old Jephson, and broad Will Lamplugh, and such like.'
'Well,' said Dick Gardener, 'as sure as there is savour in salt, and scent in rosemary, I thought it had been the troopers from Carlisle and Wigton, and the sound brought my heart to my mouth.'
'Had thought thou wouldst have known the clatter of a cask from the clash of a broadsword, as well as e'er a quaffer in Cumberland,' said Skelton.
'Come, brother, less of your jaw and more of your legs, if you please,' said Nanty; 'every moment we stay is a moment lost. Go to the ladies, and tell them that Nanty Ewart, of the JUMPING JENNY, has brought a young gentleman, charged with letters from Scotland to a certain gentleman of consequence in Cumberland — that the soldiers are out, and the gentleman is very ill and if he is not received at Fairladies he must be left either to die at the gate, or to be taken, with all his papers about him, by the redcoats.'
Away ran Dick Gardener with this message; and, in a few minutes, lights were seen to flit about, which convinced Fairford, who was now, in consequence of the halt, a little restored to self-possession, that they were traversing the front of a tolerably large mansion-house.
'What if thy friend, Dick Gardener, comes not back again?' said Jephson to Skelton.
'Why, then,' said the person addressed, 'I shall owe him just such a licking as thou, old Jephson, had from Dan Cooke, and will pay as duly and truly as he did.'
The old man was about to make an angry reply, when his doubts were silenced by the return of Dick Gardener, who announced that Miss Arthuret was coming herself as far as the gateway to speak with them.
Nanty Ewart cursed in a low tone the suspicions of old maids and the churlish scruples of Catholics, that made so many obstacles to helping a fellow creature, and wished Miss Arthuret a hearty rheumatism or toothache as the reward of her excursion; but the lady presently appeared, to cut short further grumbling. She was attended by a waiting-maid with a lantern, by means of which she examined the party on the outside, as closely as the imperfect light, and the spars of the newly-erected gate, would permit.
'I am sorry we have disturbed you so late, Madam Arthuret,' said Nanty; 'but the case is this'—
'Holy Virgin,' said she, 'why do you speak so loud? Pray, are you not the captain of the SAINTE GENEVIEVE?'
'Why, aye, ma'am,' answered Ewart, 'they call the brig so at Dunkirk, sure enough; but along shore here, they call her the JUMPING JENNY.'
'You brought over the holy Father Buonaventure, did you not?'
'Aye, aye, madam, I have brought over enough of them black cattle,' answered Nanty. 'Fie! fie! friend,' said Miss Arthuret; 'it is a pity that the saints should commit these good men to a heretic's care.'
'Why, no more they would, ma'am,' answered Nanty, 'could they find a Papist lubber that knew the coast as I do; then I am trusty as steel to owners, and always look after cargo — live lumber, or dead flesh, or spirits, all is one to me; and your Catholics have such d — d large hoods, with pardon, ma'am, that they can sometimes hide two faces under them. But here is a gentleman dying, with letters about him from the Laird of Summertrees to the Laird of the Lochs, as they call him, along Solway, and every minute he lies here is a nail in his coffin.'
'Saint Mary! what shall we do?' said Miss Arthuret; 'we must admit him, I think, at all risks. You, Richard Gardener, help one of these men to carry the gentleman up to the Place; and you, Selby, see him lodged at the end of the long gallery. You are a heretic, captain, but I think you are trusty, and I know you have been trusted — but if you are imposing on me'—
'Not I, madam — never attempt to impose on ladies of your experience — my practice that way has been all among the young ones. Come, cheerly, Mr. Fairford — you will be taken good care of — try to walk.'
Alan did so; and, refreshed by his halt, declared himself able to walk to the house with the sole assistance of the gardener.
'Why, that's hearty. Thank thee, Dick, for lending him thine arm'— and Nanty slipped into his hand the guinea he had promised. —'Farewell, then, Mr. Fairford, and farewell, Madam Arthuret, for I have been too long here.'
So saying, he and his two companions threw themselves on horseback, and went off at a gallop. Yet, even above the clatter of their hoofs did the incorrigible Nanty hollo out the old ballad —
A lovely lass to a friar came,
To confession a-morning early; —
'In what, my dear, are you to blame?
Come tell me most sincerely?'
'Alas! my fault I dare not name —
But my lad he loved me dearly.'
'Holy Virgin!' exclaimed Miss Seraphina, as the unhallowed sounds reached her ears; 'what profane heathens be these men, and what frights and pinches we be put to among them! The saints be good to us, what a night has this been! — the like never seen at Fairladies. Help me to make fast the gate, Richard, and thou shalt come down again to wait on it, lest there come more unwelcome visitors — Not that you are unwelcome, young gentleman, for it is sufficient that you need such assistance as we can give you, to make you welcome to Fairladies — only, another time would have done as well — but, hem! I dare say it is all for the best. The avenue is none of the smoothest, sir, look to your feet. Richard Gardener should have had it mown and levelled, but he was obliged to go on a pilgrimage to Saint Winifred's Well, in Wales.' (Here Dick gave a short dry cough, which, as if he had found it betrayed some internal feeling a little at variance with what the lady said, he converted into a muttered SANCTA WINIFREDA, ORA PRO NOBIS. Miss Arthuret, meantime, proceeded) 'We never interfere with our servants' vows or penances, Master Fairford — I know a very worthy father of your name, perhaps a relation — I say, we never interfere with our servants vows. Our Lady forbid they should not know some difference between our service and a heretic's. — Take care, sir, you will fall if you have not a care. Alas! by night and day there are many stumbling-blocks in our paths!'
With more talk to the same purpose, all of which tended to show a charitable and somewhat silly woman with a strong inclination to her superstitious devotion, Miss Arthuret entertained her new guest, as, stumbling at every obstacle which the devotion of his guide, Richard, had left in the path, he at last, by ascending some stone steps decorated on the side with griffins, or some such heraldic anomalies, attained a terrace extending in front of the Place of Fairladies; an old-fashioned gentleman's house of some consequence, with its range of notched gable-ends and narrow windows, relieved by here and there an old turret about the size of a pepper-box. The door was locked during the brief absence of the mistress; a dim light glimmered through the sashed door of the hall, which opened beneath a huge stone porch, loaded with jessamine and other creepers. All the windows were dark as pitch.
Miss Arthuret tapped at the door. 'Sister, sister Angelica.' 'Who is there?' was answered from within; 'is it you, sister Seraphina?'
'Yes, yes, undo the door; do you not know my voice?'
'No doubt, sister,' said Angelica, undoing bolt and bar; 'but you know our charge, and the enemy is watchful to surprise us — INCEDIT SICUT LEO VORANS, saith the breviary. Whom have you brought here? Oh, sister, what have you done?'
'It is a young man,' said Seraphina, hastening to interrupt her sister's remonstrance, 'a relation, I believe, of our worthy Father Fairford; left at the gate by the captain of that blessed vessel the SAINTE GENEVIEVE— almost dead — and charged with dispatches to '—
She lowered her voice as she mumbled over the last words.
'Nay, then, there is no help,' said Angelica; 'but it is unlucky.'
During this dialogue between the vestals of Fairladies, Dick Gardener deposited his burden in a chair, where the young lady, after a moment of hesitation, expressing a becoming reluctance to touch the hand of a stranger, put her finger and thumb upon Fairford's wrist, and counted his pulse.
'There is fever here, sister,' she said; 'Richard must call Ambrose, and we must send some of the febrifuge.'
Ambrose arrived presently, a plausible and respectable-looking old servant, bred in the family, and who had risen from rank to rank in the Arthuret service till he was become half-physician, half-almoner, half-butler, and entire governor; that is, when the Father Confessor, who frequently eased him of the toils of government, chanced to be abroad. Under the direction, and with the assistance of this venerable personage, the unlucky Alan Fairford was conveyed to a decent apartment at the end of a long gallery, and, to his inexpressible relief, consigned to a comfortable bed. He did not attempt to resist the prescription of Mr. Ambrose, who not only presented him with the proposed draught, but proceeded so far as to take a considerable quantity of blood from him, by which last operation he probably did his patient much service.
58 A small landed proprietor.
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text: You may have heard that caffeine keeps you up at night, but how about eating a handful of pumpkin seeds for better sleep? Nutritionist Pooja Vig of The Nutrition Clinic shares her tips on sleep-promoting food and drinks, as well as those that will disrupt your slumber. Do 1. Try chamomile tea. This age-old calming remedy increases glycine in the body, which relaxes nerves and muscles. 2. The best bedtime snack combines protein and carbs, such as peanut butter and banana or oatmeal with pumpkin seeds and walnuts. 3. Bananas, pumpkin seeds and leafy greens are rich in magnesium. Magnesium is known as nature's tranquilliser and can also be taken as a supplement for people with sleep issues. 4. Tart cherry juice has high levels of melatonin, a hormone that controls our sleep and waking cycles. A study found that drinking 236ml, or one cup, of tart cherry juice twice a day for two weeks helped increase sleep time by nearly 90 per cent among adults with insomnia. Don't 1. Avoid spicy, heavy foods like laksa, which are harder to digest. The body spends energy digesting the food instead of allowing the brain to enter the sleep cycle. 2. Alcohol is generally a no-no. Each alcoholic drink takes an average of two hours to clear your system. As the alcohol wears off, withdrawal effects such as restless sleep, bad dreams and even panic attacks may occur. 3. Some fermented foods like yogurt and pickles contain high levels of histamine and may trigger the secretion of stress hormones. 4. Caffeine is a notorious enemy of sleep as it blocks sleep-promoting adenosine receptors in the brain, keeping you awake. Even five hours after drinking coffee, 50 per cent of it remains in your bloodstream and has been shown to impair sleep. Source: The Straits Times © Singapore Press Holdings Limited. Reproduced with permission.


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