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Graphite Investing News (GIN) recently published a video interview with Mickey Fulp of www.mercenarygeologist.com in which Fulp explains to investors the criteria he uses to evaluate a graphite deposit. In the interview, Fulp mentions three companies in the graphite sector, including Zenyatta Ventures (TSXV:ZEN), which is developing a graphite deposit in Ontario, Canada. In this interview, INN Senior Editor Andrew Topf asks Aubrey Eveleigh, Zenyatta’s CEO, to clarify the geology of the Albany discovery and how the company plans to process the graphite to nearly 100-percent purity.

At the World Resource Investment Conference, Chris Berry, founder of House Mountain Partners, chatted with Editor Vivien Diniz about energy metals and the factors impacting commodities. With lax global demand, Chris Berry sees deflation as a large concern for today’s economy. Unlike his peers, who are estimating three to five years of slowdown, Chris’ optimistic 24 months is one that should give investors hope.

At the World Resource Investment Conference in Vancouver, Chris Berry, founder of House Mountain Partners, spoke with INN Editor Vivien Diniz the challenges that junior resource companies face trying to break into the oligopoly that is the energy metals markets. In this market, Chris Berry looks at near-term production stories in uranium, particularly in the Athabasca Basin — the latest hot spot for uranium exploration.

Leonard Melman, publisher of the Melman Report, believes another downleg is possible for gold, but the long-term bull market is intact. Speaking with INN’s Andrew Topf at the World Resource Investment Conference, Melman also said the US government is downplaying inflation right now because of its fear of higher interest rates.

Colorado Resources (TSXV:CXO) was the "belle of the ball" at the recent World Resource Investment Conference in Vancouver, attracting a steady crowd of enquirers at its booth and a standing-room-only crowd at its corporate presentation. Despite the company's fall in stock price on step-out drill results last Thursday, CEO Adam Travis says in this video that there is plenty of room for stock price appreciation after a discovery hole on its North ROK copper-gold project in April catapulted the junior company's market capitalization.

At last week’s World Resource Investment Conference in Vancouver, Andrew Topf, senior editor at the Investing News Network, spoke with David Franklin, market strategist at Sprott Asset Management. Among other topics, Franklin discussed conditions in South African platinum mines, how unrest in South Africa is set to positively impact platinum prices and his belief that Ivanplats (TSX:IVP) is poised to redefine the platinum market.

At the World Resource Investment Conference in Vancouver, Danielle Park and INN Senior Editor Andrew Topf discussed macroeconomics and commodities. Park, author of Juggling Dynamite, believes it’s positive that commodities are moving down because it means a base is being established for a recovery in the business cycle. Park also said there is great risk right now in the S&P 500 (INDEXSP:.INX) and income-paying instruments like dividend-paying stocks.

Rick Rule, Chairman of Sprott US Holdings, talked uranium with INN Senior Editor Andrew Topf at the the recent World Resource Investment Conference. In the video below, Rule explains why he prefers to buy companies with the potential to develop large-scale uranium deposits. He also explains why the price of the nuclear fuel will inevitably rise.

William Lamb, president and CEO of Lucara Diamond (TSX:LUC), speaks with INN Senior Editor Andrew Topf about the company’s projects in Botswana and Lesotho, touching on Lucara’s recent discovery of a 239-carat diamond at the Karowe mine. In the interview, William also covers a number of topics of importance to diamond investors, including diamonds deposits’ unique qualities, the challenges of being a diamond junior and the Kimberley Process.

INN’s Andrew Topf spoke with Eric Coffin, editor of HRA Advisories’ Hard Rock Analyst newsletter, at the World Resource Investment Conference in Vancouver. In the interview below, Coffin gives his take on some of the junior companies he’s been following, including Colorado Resources (TSXV:CXO), Comstock Metals (TSXV:CSL) and Independence Gold (TSXV:IGO). The takeaway? Companies that make big discoveries could reinvigorate the sector if they inspire other juniors to do more exploration.