Molybdenum’s #1 Future Use: Farming

LETTER A – Jim Rogers once said that farmers will be driving lamborghinis, I think he failed to say that farmers who have molybdenum stockpiled for fertilizing will own yachts and mansions to park their lamborghini into/onto.

Using human waste, waste from hospitals and waste from mine tailings which are sometimes ejected into the same sanitary sewer pipe to mineralize/fertilize our farmland works HOWEVER it is contaminated with pharmaceuticals, chemicals, heavy metals and just about anything that could be wrong with it, is wrong with it. Too much of any mineral can affect growth in plants, that’s why controlled amounts applied to soil should be the only clean and safe way. http://m.ctv.ca/topstories/20120331/loosening-of-rules-about-spreading-sewage-120331.html

There is no law I’ve heard of or could find stating the minimum mineral content in plants allowed for human consumption. When plants turn yellow/deformed or harvests are small, there is obviously a reason for it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebig’s_law_of_the_minimum http://geoinfo.nmt.edu/resources/minerals/home.html

1 acre (43,560 square feet) at 12 inches deep of soil would have an average weight of 3,267,000 pounds or 75 pounds a cubic foot. http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/earth-soil-weight-d_1349.html  http://cropsoil.psu.edu/turf/extension/factsheets/acre-furrow-slice .

Okay so now we know the average soil only weighs 1,000,000 pounds an acre at 4 inches deep being conservative.

Now let’s just say you want to increase the soil’s molybdenum content up by 1 part per million. That is right you need 1 pound of molybdenum to fertilize your 1 acre of deficient soil… Extra molybdenum is required to fix nitrogen in leguminous plants (soy beans).

http://www.nationmaster.com/red/graph/agr_pro_soy-agriculture-production-soybean&b_map=1 http://www.ipni.net/ppiweb/agbrief.nsf/5a4b8be72a35cd46852568d9001a18da/59ff6d08cc1359eb8525690b005646a6!OpenDocument

In 2011 this planet extracted roughly 500 million pounds of molybdenum and according to http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=6&ved=0CEwQFjAF&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mmta.co.uk%2Fuploaded_files%2FMolybdenum.%2520Roskill.pdf&ei=HKl6T9GvC4nO9QSS_sGIBQ&usg=AFQjCNE47zsnGFewsDr8zlefyv7XXaW_FA only a maximum of 5% went to agriculture… That exactly means farmers worldwide RARELY have used it.

What you take out of the soil you must put back in… and we ALL need to eat!

There is 1 billion acres of farmland in the U.S.A. that is repeatedly farmed every year. That means the whole world’s supply of yearly Molybdenum is not even enough to fertilize the U.S.A. for one year. http://www.epa.gov/agriculture/ag101/landuse.html http://www.nma.org/statistics/fast_facts.asp#minerals

This link here tells of experiments done with molybdenum on plants and proves it is extremely important. http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/96/5/745.full

LETTER B – Read A again. Before you invest know that this metal could be the bottle neck of many industries, especially agriculture in the near future.

I think agricultural usage of molybdenum is overlooked and will skyrocket.

Anyone who says the land they have consistently farmed does not need to be replenished is a joker. Moreover, anyone that says farmland has the same amount of minerals as 100 years ago needs to go to a farm and see how much plant material(which have minerals in them) is taken from the land.

Anyone, company or shareholder who owns this one extremely over looked mineral is doing their homework.

When other industries become involved there will be blood! http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21422-slow-graphene-down-speed-computers-up.html  http://actu.epfl.ch/news/a-chance-discovery-may-revolutionize-hydrogen-pr-2/

Due diligence. Do your own research.

Carlo Biancardi April 3, 2012

Phoenix Metals: Rise From The Ashes

Metals/elements are the simplest or smallest material that either singularly or combined with other elements make everything we KNOW of e.g. animals, water, trees, cars, houses, land, computers and anything you can think of.

So if you own an element you would want this element to be very special and you should be willing to pay ANY price for this element. I am not talking about Gold, I am talking about Molybdenum. In this article I will bring up at least one more important factor for investing in ANY life giving element.

Hydrogen is the simplest element we know of and has the #1 on the periodic table of the elements. Any elements heavier than Iron(#26) are created from a particular type of star.

In other words… to get elements of #27 and heavier you need a particular type of star.

The elements I like to concentrate on are created in particular stars and can create life as we know it. After all we are made with star material. These 5 elements are called transition metals and I would definitely consider investing in these: Cobalt(#27), Nickel(#28), Copper(#29), Zinc(#30), Molybdenum(#42).

The heavier  elements after Iron (#26) on the periodic table, are all much more scarce. Therefore Molybdenum takes the position of the “rarest life creating transition metal grown in a special star.” http://astrobio.net/exclusive/4531/elements-of-exoplanets

As an amateur astronomer I consider everything in our universe relevant, especially when it comes to investing. Time is definitely not what we think it is, especially in outer space e.g. Orion Nebula and 1987a.

Our Sun is a medium sized star. The abundance by mass is 71% Hydrogen, 27.1% Helium, 0.97% Oxygen, 0.4% Carbon, 0.096% Nitrogen and  0.434% of 62 other detected elements.  Our Sun has very small amounts of heavy elements. Earth just happens to be highly abundant in heavy metals (#27 and higher), thankfully when our Sun was created it didn’t absorb them all.

Deep space travel is unpredictable in a sense that we would need to bring important metals with us(life-giving) if we can not determine the chemical composition of the intended destination.

The phoenix metal refers to metals/elements that you could invest in and the metal would be truly recyclable or rise from ashes. #1 metal applied to growing medium. #2 metal ingested by plant. #3 life form eats plant  #4 metal is eventually recycled back to environment. Useless metals cannot do what I just explained! In the future anything and everything could easily be constructed in a lab from elements, specifically… food.

For now plants are our lifeline and we need these plants to have specific elements in certain ratios in the soil beneath them. Growing big plants that are mineral deficient (among other things) just to fill our stomachs does not satisfy our brain and it makes us over eat. Plants do their magic by utilizing these available elements/metals and making delicious healthy unexplainable food e.g. there is a super conductor that works even better when dipped in red wine, which for now is unexplainable.

On a recent episode of a popular physics show, someone had a concept of how to build a starship and this ship had to travel to our nearest star Alpha Centauri (4-4.5 light years away). The ship was mentioned to have large solar sails, anti-matter/matter colliding engines, laser lattice force fields, artificial gravity to keep us healthy and carbon nano technology shell(carbon is life giving). I think it was ideal but what about food supply? This is where Molybdenum could be used extensively on the ship because of its extreme strength and high melting point. The whole ship would be constructed of life giving elements. Therefore when you arrive at your permanent destination,  it would become your food source and shelter.

I understand that people look for ways to make money through stock markets and a hundred other ways, investing in a certain scheme when the price is low and sell high, investing in cycles through commodities or stocks, but what about keeping an investment for a long time never to sell it unless you really need to or civilization needs you to?

I welcome any arguments that would persuade me to invest in gold… I have read way too many brainwashed, economic and repetitive stories on this metal.

Due diligence and do your own research.

Carlo Biancardi, January 3, 2012.

Metal Ratios: Available Vs Needed

If you are collecting metals and you want to have a metal capable of food  production you would want the scarcest metal because you would want a manageable  amount seeing that these metals are cheap at today’s prices. Molybdenum is the  scarcest metal/element for food production and it happens to be a transition  metal which in today’s economy driven by energy and manufacturing makes it  attractive and consumed.

To grow edible plants you need specific ratios of elements that are proven to  work. I use a reputable product that grows great hydroponic/aeroponic food.

Let’s say there is 80 pounds of molybdenum left on Earth. You would add  10,000 pounds of iron, 5000 pounds of manganese, 1500 pounds of zinc, 1000  pounds of copper, 1000 pounds boron(nonmetal) and 50 pounds cobalt to water  along with other very abundant elements to grow plants.

In the Earth’s crust there is 1 ppm molybdenum, there is 56300 times more  iron(56300 ppm) than molybdenum, 950 times more manganese(950 ppm), 70 times  more zinc(70 ppm), 60 times more copper(60 ppm), 10 times more boron(nonmetal-10  ppm) and 25 times more cobalt(25 ppm) than molybdenum.

After mixing these micronutrient metals in water you would see that when all  the 80 pounds of molybdenum is gone(the actual ratio available on Earth), you  would still have all the other elements left over in large amounts because you  need a higher ratio of molybdenum to grow plants than the ratio that is  available on Earth.

The other abundant elements you would need to grow plants is nitrogen,  phosphorus, potassium, calcium, magnesium, sulfur, chlorine and oxygen,  hydrogen, carbon(water and air).

Humans need these other elements in our diet, some of these elements are  necessary, probable or controversial: nickel, arsenic, chromium, silicon,  iodine, fluorine, selenium, vanadium and sodium.

It just so happens that the scarcest element needed in food production i.e.  molybdenum, is needed in higher amounts/ratios than is available on Earth,  making it even more valuable.

In hydroponic/aerponic growing of plants there are problems associated with  minerals entering or being absorbed by the plant, for this reason there are  chelating compounds introduced. Also, chelating coats the mineral and makes it  an organic compound (every mineral is inorganic on the table of elements), this  coating fools the plant and this way the mineral can enter the plant and the  mineral can move more freely around the plant. Copper, iron, manganese and zinc  are the target minerals for chelating. Chelating naturally with citric acid or  chemically with edta, eddha or dtpa would be needed. In soil growing natural  microorganisms do the chelating for us e.g. Hydroxamate Siderophores.

Due diligence.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LtbxVkZsxA

Carlo Biancardi (London, Ontario) Nov. 2011

Gold Vs Bismuth

If all the metals were extracted from Earth’s crust and were readily available for purchasing, or if mining operations worldwide suddenly stopped because of an emergency e.g. crude oil shortage. How would you put a price on Gold?

The reality is, metal would cost according to the amount available. Let’s just say none was sold yet and these metals were in big piles awaiting shipment. Which metal would you buy? I of course would buy Molybdenum (read my other articles).

I used Gold as a reference metal and the price of $1600 an ounce. Here is what the other metals would cost in comparison to today’s gold price and parts per million in Earth’s crust (availability/scarcity).

Gold (0.004 parts per million in crust) = $1600/ounce or $23328/pound. Today’s price of Gold $1600.

Adjusted metal prices according to Earth’s crust availability:

Silver (0.075 ppm)  = $85/ounce or $1240/pound  —- Here’s how I calculated it… 0.075 ppm divided by 0.004(Gold)=18.75, then $1600 (Gold) divided by 18.75=$85.

Palladium (0.015 ppm) = $425/ounce or $6200/pound.

Platinum (0.005 ppm) = $1280/ounce or $18660/pound.

Molybdenum (1 ppm) = $6.4/ounce or $93/pound.

Cobalt (25 ppm) = $0.25/ounce or $3.64/pound.

Copper (60 ppm) = $0.10/ounce or $1.46/pound.

Zinc (70 ppm) =  $0.09/ounce or $1.31/pound.

Nickel  (84 ppm) = $0.08/ounce or $1.17/pound.

Manganese  (950 ppm) = $0.0067/ounce or $0.098/pound.

Iron (56300 ppm) = $0.00011/ounce or $0.0016/pound.

Aluminum (82300 ppm)  = $0.000077/ounce or $0.0011/pound.

Tin (2.3 ppm) = $2.78/ounce or $40/pound.

Lead (14 ppm) = $0.457/ounce or $6.66/pound.

Bismuth (0.0085 ppm) = $752/ounce or  $10960/pound.

As you can see today’s Silver prices are low in comparison to what is really available and Silver should cost $85/ounce. Bismuth is only $20 a pound right now and should cost $10960 a pound! Molybdenum is $15 a pound right now and should cost $93 a pound if we followed the abundance list.

In my above price list I mentioned that all the metals would be available to purchase. Imagine what would happen if the piles of metal were visibly shrinking; I will tell you.

The important NOT low abundance metals would be sold very quickly.

Metals that sustain life, build impressive infrastructure and are scarce would be in high demand. Molybdenum would sell quickly and the price would skyrocket because when it’s gone, none for sale, you better have it in the right spot, e.g. infrastructure, farmland, aerospace, etc.

Due diligence, please do your own research.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubqb-ornyPk

Carlo Biancardi (London, Ontario) Sept 2011

Commodities: Where Is Life Heading? Short article

Check out my commodity blogs, carlobiancardi.wordpress. Here is a link on my investing in LIFE GIVING (molybdenum) metals scenario. Go 5 min 30 secs in or watch entire video. http://watch.bnn.ca/#clip473555

If all the resources were scarce which element would you want to own that would persuade someone to give you their last can of tuna? Gold might be useless in 50 years. Human kind has one objective, survival. Which means growth and reproduction. If humankind could travel the universe we would consume all the life giving elements until we could reproduce no more.

Molybdenum Atomic # 42

Did you invest in number 42? What I mean by number 42 is the atomic number 42, the element is Molybdenum and this is also the commodity you should invest in.

I asked “Do you use Molybdenum” to a well known local area farmer here in London, Ontario which farms hundreds of acres of corn, soy beans and peas and his response was “it rings a bell, what is it?”

Molybdenum is not well known yet to farmers, but when they try it on their fields they will not stop using it.

Here is a little lesson. When you grow a plant you take nutrients out of the soil. To grow more plants in that soil you have to put nutrients back in. Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Potash are 3 main nutrients that all farmers add back to their soil in some way, this ensures that the plant will grow huge.

This does not mean that the plant is also healthy. To be healthy you would also add micro nutrients like the commodity Molybdenum. The plants would be healthier eg.. they would contain less toxic nitrosamines and many other reasons also. We would be healthier because we would consume more Molybdenum in our diet.

So most of you would think I am saying to invest in Molybdenum because it is good for our health and a plants health, well you are wrong.

Going back to what I said about Macro nutrients that are used yearly in huge amounts by farmers. Farmers add Nitrogen to soil by injecting Ammonia gas to soil, spreading urea pellets, etc… The price of Nitrogen is determined by natural gas prices.

Farmers can also easily grow a leguminous crop which is edible and also captures Nitrogen out of the air and stores it in the roots for the next years crop (Nitrogen fixation). This is how applying Molybdenum accomplishes 2 huge tasks. Farmers can also grow winter leguminous cover crops (clover) which could use Molybdenum supplementation also.

For this to happen efficiently leguminous (soy beans, peas, peanuts, etc.) plants should have 10 times more Molybdenum (10 ppm) in the soil than the least desirable amount in plants (1 ppm).

Molybdenum can be added at $15 (wholesale price) an acre which is one pound per acre or even smaller/larger amounts if desired, any amount is better than none at all. According to New Mexico State University a farm could effectively capture roughly 250 pounds of Nitrogen PER ACRE depending on the Leguminous species used. To supply 250 pounds of Nitrogen it would cost a farmer $50 (wholesale price) per acre for undesirable urea pellets (2011).

Therefore adding Molybdenum to soil is cheaper for farmers and healthier for us.

The important thing is that when farmers catch on they will realize there is not enough for every farm and the commodity will sky rocket in price because the world’s supply is only 500 million pounds per year of Molybdenum. There are also many other uses for Molybdenum. I also think Molybdenum should replace Gold or Silver, my other articles will explain why.

There are 1 billion acres of farmland in the U.S.A. which would require at least 1 billion pounds of Molybdenum to fertilize, there is not enough Molybdenum for everyone.

Stinging jellyfish and dangerous algae blooms worldwide are end results of nitrogen fertilizing. Nitrogen runoff from rainfall and improper drainage coming from farms that can’t hold the nitrogen in the soil properly is a problem. When plants fix nitrogen it is stored in nodules in the root system, where it is released as needed and it is well anchored to the soil.

Remember that all these facts are Internet based and that fundamentally by adding Molybdenum to any soil would provide a net benefit for all plants and animals because this commodity is not spread evenly on the Earth. A profitable mine would contain at least 500 ppm (.05%), fertile and rare (in terms of Molybdenum) farmland would contain at least 1 ppm.

This is only one in depth reason to invest in this special commodity.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVTEPXpvgn0

Carlo Biancardi (London, Ontario) March 2011

Metal Price Evaluations: Now and In The Future

Metal Price Evaluations: Now and In The Future

The year is 2100 and high amounts of metals have been extracted from the Earth’s crust and more is needed but deep space is the only source. Cities, roads, precious farmland, parks and woodlands were built or preserved where possible high grade ores are; Will we mine these places to accommodate our need for metals?

All the landfills have been recycled and metals extracted and separated from them! Will rationing and super high prices of metals be a mainstay if humans leave Earth with our resources?

Will there be a supply of life giving metals on another planet? Will the value of a metal on Earth increase if someone leaves Earth with a portion of it?

If these scenarios I mentioned happen, maybe now would be a good time to start collecting metals that will be very valuable in the future, especially if you are not rich now, but would like to leave a little something for your grandchildren/loved ones.

Right now metal is usually priced on supply and demand. For Gold there is a London Fix pricing, for some other metals, companies set prices based on the average price from other market competitors (LME, CME, etc..). I like that Molybdenum is super cheap right now ($1 an ounce) and I think it will be the Knight in shining armour in the near and distant future.

What if metal prices were based on how much there was available on Earth? Let us now imagine that the future is now, and all the metals have already been extracted from the Earth’s crust. This means that where, how, when it was mined and how difficult it is to separate does not affect price anymore.

Let’s talk about all the metal that WAS in the Earth’s crust. It is now extracted and recycled from old vehicles, landfills, aging infrastructure etc.. In my opinion only metals that sustain life would be in my metal collection.

If this scenario ever happens and it will if the population increases and that means more infrastructure, entertainment, transportation etc… it would be good to get a head start right now on possessing important metals.

In this upcoming list I want to talk about the ratio of metal prices that is happening right now.

Iridium is the rarest at 0.001 ppm in Earth’s crust, cost is $1050/ounce. Gold is at  0.004 ppm in Earth’s crust, cost is $1500/ounce. Iridium is 4 times less abundant than Gold and should cost $6000/ounce. Rhenium is about the same abundance in Earth’s crust as Gold but only costs $120/ounce.

These prices are approximations and my point is that metals are priced on hype and what we price them at, but they should be priced according to Earth’s availability and maybe will be one day.

If you consider life giving elements (transition metals) for pricing, Molybdenum is 56000 times scarcer than Iron and only cost 65 times more. Molybdenum is 60 times scarcer than Copper and costs only 4 times more. Molybdenum is 25 times scarcer than Cobalt and costs the same. Molybdenum is 70 times scarcer than Zinc and only costs 18 times more. Molybdenum is 84 times scarcer than Nickel and only costs double the amount. Molybdenum is 950 times scarcer than Manganese and only costs 30 times more.

These prices are definitely mind boggling and if you think these don’t matter, you might be wrong. It’s only a miracle that the most important metal (Molybdenum) is the cheapest, that is if you look at the abundance/cost ratio.

Look at the Monarchies, The Vatican, Billionaires and Central Banks, they have stockpiled Gold. If you look at it in percentage terms, 99.9% of known Gold supply is already bought and when we buy 1 ounce or 100 ounces we still own a miniscule amount compared to them, they will stay rich and you will stay poor, BUYING GOLD IS AN ABSOLUTE WAY OF COMPARING TO THE RICH AND WILL LEAVE YOU BEHIND FOREVER.

Everyday people buy into this “crisis investment” and “hedge to inflation” scenario for hundreds of years now and it just gives Gold a stronghold. Why not accumulate a different and way more useful metal, for example: Molybdenum. As always do your own research. Due diligence people.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVTEPXpvgn0

Carlo Biancardi (London, Ontario) May 2011