Health Canada Thumbs Up To Neptune's Krill Oil

Neptune Technologies & Bioresources
(NTB - TSX V) (NEPT - NASDAQ)
Basic Shares: 40.2 million
Fully diluted: 43.1 million

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In a young company's life there are key accomplishments around which all future success turns.
Neptune arguably hit that with its Sept. 29th announcement that Health Canada had approved Neptune's Krill Oil health claims.

Health Canada is one very tough nut to crack; it took two years of rigorous examination before the endorsement came.

And it's an endorsement that can literally be heard around the world because of the high level of respect Health Canada's pronouncements command.

Given that Neptune is working closely with Nestle, Yoplait and Bayer, it couldn't come at a better time.

It's also very timely given another recent news release announcing that Neptune subsidiary, Acasti Pharma Inc, and its product CaPre™ significantly outscored the market darling Lovaza(R), a fish-oil based product, in health benefits.

Lovaza sells well over $800 million in the U.S. alone and those rights were sold for nearly $2 billion.

So the question is, what is Neptune worth?
Catalyst Equity Research Analyst Robin Cornwell weighed in on that issue right after Health Canada's endorsement was announced.

"In our opinion Neptune shares are currently undervalued by at least $3 dollars to $5 dollars per share."

Mr. Cornwell also said the Health Canada announcement is, "a major endorsement for Neptune's NKO™ and augers well for a Phase 1/11 approval for Acasti's CaPre™ drug candidate.

This endorsement also dovetails into Nestle's recently announced creation of Nestle Health Science division, (which is) designed to pioneer a new industry between food and pharma and develop products to prevent and treat health conditions such as diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease and Alzheimer's disease, " Mr. Cornwell added.

He also noted that Neptune's work with Nestle is currently in clinical trial and added this editorial note:

"Investors not aware of such developments - soon will be!"

To read the full news release about Health Canada's endorsement please click here.

Nestle Uses Food In Battle Against Obesity

Neptune Technologies & Bioresources
(NTB - TSX V) (NEPT - NASDAQ)
Basic Shares: 40.2 million
Fully diluted: 43.1 million

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Eat specialized foods to fight obesity, Alzheimer's, cardiovascular disease and diabetes?

Seems odd.

But the biggest food and beverage company in the world - Nestle - just announced a new corporate division that will use its considerable talents and hundreds of millions to launch a pioneering venture in a "a new industry between food and pharma."

And one of the relatively little Canadian companies that has been quietly working with the Swiss-based giant in this area is Quebec-based Neptune Technologies.

Neptune's Krill Oil caught the eye of the Swiss behemoth several years ago for a number of reasons, none of which have been made public. But the public knows that Neptune's Krill Oil has the remarkable ability to reduce bad cholesterol and increase good cholesterol levels.

As a result, Neptune announced in July, 2007 that it struck a collaboration agreement with the Nestle Research Centre to jointly study, "the effects of Neptune Krill Oil (NKO™) on exceptionally prevalent conditions affecting the worldwide adult population."

"Exceptionally prevalent conditions," is a tall glass of water.

Just what specific ailments Nestle and Neptune were working on was never revealed.

But the street expectation is that a significant business event will emerge from the Neptune/Nestle alliance in mid 2011.

Nestle has sales of $100 billion per year through its vast array of food products, to name just two - Haagen-Dazs ice cream (the writer's favourite) and Nespresso coffee.

Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, Nestle's chairman and former chief executive, said in the recent news release that there is unrivaled demand for foods with healthy additives because the existing health care system can't cope with the flood of people afflicted with diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease and Alzheimer's.

"Personalized health science nutrition is about finding efficient and cost-effective ways to prevent and treat acute and chronic diseases in the 21st century," Brabeck-Letmathe said.

To accomplish the latter, Nestle will create a medical nutrition institute in Switzerland and a subsidiary called Nestle Health Science SA.

Nestle Health Science will begin operations in Jan., 2011 and run "at arms length" from the food and beverage company.

IWG Buys Back Shares

International Water-Guard (TSX-V: IWG)
Basic Shares: 39.3 million
Fully Diluted: 46.5 million

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International Water Guard (IWG) is opening up its treasury a bit to buy back up to 5% of its "undervalued " shares, it announced Sept. 27th.

Given that just over 39.3 million shares were outstanding as of Sept. 15th, that will allow the Burnaby-based company to buy back up to 2 million shares over a one-year period.
IWG has no debt.

It has $ 1million in the bank.

And it is pursuing targets through a mergers and acquisition program to expand its business opportunities during a time where it's core business - supplying state-of-the-art water treatment technology to the aircraft industry - remains flat.
Despite the latter issue, the company and others believe IWG share prices don't reflect it's leading technology, its solid management or its future prospects.
In an Aug. 9th report, Fundamental Research analyst, Siddharth Rajeev, concluded that with IWG's working capital of $2.16 million and a market cap roughly equal to that, "IWG continues to be significantly undervalued.”
In the same month that Mr, Rajeev issued his update, IWG shares were trading around $0.06 cents. The analyst said a fair market value would have been five times higher at $0.30 cents.
With today's announcement, share prices were still sitting at $0.06 cents in early trading but volume was spiking.

To read the full news release, please click here.

Argonaut Exploration Discovers Copper and Moly on High Gold Property

From High Gold Project

Argonaut Exploration
AGA - TSX.V
Shares Outstanding - 25.2 Million
Fully Diluted - 35.9 Million

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With assay results expected in the coming weeks, Argonaut announced today that geologists saw visible molybdenum and chalcopyrite (Copper Iron Sulphide) in the drill core it pulled out of its recently completed 2010 drill program at the company’s High Gold property.

The 2010 High Gold property exploration program included the following:
• The Company drilled nine exploration drill holes totaling just over 2,500 metres.
• Surface geophysical programs included 13 km of deep penetrating Induced Polarization and magnetometer surveys.
• Geological mapping and detailed rock sampling targeted the northern gold zone and the central porphyry system including 171 metres of trenching and 51 metres of stockworked bedrock.
• Drill core stored on the property from forty years ago was logged, photographed and sampled adding 1,220 metres of core analyses from seven sites to the 2010 field program.

A total of 1,783 rock and drill core samples are being analyzed as a result of the 2010 exploration program.

The High Gold property is 7,832.4 hectares in area located 64 km northeast of the city of Terrace and 45 km northwest of the town of Smithers in British Columbia, Canada.

To view the full release, please click here

Buchans Resumes Drilling High Grade Prospect

Buchans Minerals Corporation (TSX-V: BMC)
Basic Shares 112.1 million
Fully Diluted 120.6 million


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Late last year Buchans Minerals received assay results from a small, two hole drill program on its 100% owned Buchans North property located in central Newfoundland.

Both holes returned mineralization containing massive sulphides with values as high as 15.5% copper, 15.52% zinc, 214.8 grams per tonne of silver, 7.61% lead and 2.92 grams per tonne of gold.

With these results in hand, the company has been anxious to continue exploring this key property. Today the company announced that it will start drilling a 2,100 metre program beginning mid October. The drill program will be a minimum of 5 holes and will be completed this year.

The Buchans North property is located just a half kilometre away from the former Oriental Mine where 3.3 million tonnes averaging 14.18% zinc, 7.90% lead, 1.47% copper, 154.0 g/t silver and 1.96 g/t gold was mined between 1935 and 1983.

Further details and maps of Buchans North can be found by clicking here.

Full news release can be seen by clicking here.

Neptune Blazes New U.S. Trails

Neptune Technologies & Bioresources
(NTB - TSX V) (NEPT - NASDAQ)
Basic Shares: 40.2 million
Fully diluted: 43.1 million
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We have now spoken with the New York based investor relations firm that has signed on to spread the word on Neptune south of the border.

The firm, CEOcast Inc., specializes in small and micro cap companies and it has developed a "distribution base of millions of on-line investors" according to its website.

In addition, it is in contact with more than 20,000 portfolio managers, buy-side analysts and traders at more than 3,300 North American institutions.

CEOcast's content is also disseminated to over 7,000 investment research professionals representing over 425 institutions.

The Howard Group will concentrate its work in Canada and abroad while CEOcast will focus on the United States. But we will be working closely with CEOcast as our joint efforts will jump back and forth across the border.

To read CEOcast's introduction of Neptune to the American market please click here.

Silvore Fox Presenting at Virtual Mining Conference

SFX - TSXV
Shares Outstanding – 121.77 Million
Fully Diluted – 153.15 Million

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Harry Cabrita, President and CEO of Silvore Fox Minerals will be presenting at PIR’s Metals and Mining Virtual Conference.

When: September 15, 2010 @ 12:00 PM Eastern

Where: www.investorcalendar.com/ClientPage.asp?ID=161315

How: Live over the Internet -- Simply log on to the web at the address above.

Contact: Dave Burwell, (403) 221-0915, dave@howardgroupinc.com

If you are unable to participate during the live webcast, the call will be available for replay at www.investorcalendar.com/ClientPage.asp?ID=161315 or http://www.investorcalendar.com/.


About PIR’s Metals & Mining Virtual Conference

The Metals & Mining Virtual Conference will bring together experts from across the industry to provide key insights that investors need to make smarter investment decisions. The event will open on September 15th with webcast presentations from a number of companies representing a cross section of the sector. As this is an online conference, participation is as easy as watching from the convenience of your own computer. No need for the hassles of travel or getting time away from the office.


The webcasts will include the ability for investors to request more information and submit questions to the presenters. Best of all, this conference is FREE for the investor to attend.

Argonaut Exploration Presenting at Virtual Mining Conference

Argonaut Exploration
AGA - TSX.V
Shares Outstanding - 25.2 Million
Fully Diluted - 35.9 Million

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Ray Cook, President and CEO of Argonaut Exploration will be presenting at PIR’s Metals & Mining Virtual Conference.

When: September 15, 2010 @ 12:30 PM Eastern

Where: www.investorcalendar.com/ClientPage.asp?ID=161316

How: Live over the Internet -- Simply log on to the web at the address above.

Contact: Dave Burwell, (403) 221-0915, dave@howardgroupinc.com

If you are unable to participate during the live webcast, the call will be available for replay at www.investorcalendar.com/ClientPage.asp?ID=161316 or http://www.investorcalendar.com/

About PIR’s Metals & Mining Virtual Conference

The Metals & Mining Virtual Conference will bring together experts from across the industry to provide key insights that investors need to make smarter investment decisions. The event will open on September 15th with webcast presentations from a number of companies representing a cross section of the sector. As this is an online conference, participation is as easy as watching from the convenience of your own computer. No need for the hassles of travel or getting time away from the office.

The webcasts will include the ability for investors to request more information and submit questions to the presenters. Best of all, this conference is FREE for the investor to attend.

Silvore Fox to Kick Start Drilling at Coxheath Property

SFX - TSXV
Shares Outstanding – 121.77 Million
Fully Diluted – 153.15 Million

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With a new technical team’s targets in its sights, Silvore Fox is starting its 2010diamond drill program at its 9,400 acre Coxheath property in Nova Scotia. Logan Drill Ltd has been contracted to drill 1,500 metres of diamond drill core in five to seven holes.

Five drill holes are planned in the newly identified ‘Moly Subzone’ within the ‘Central Zone’ area of the property. The drilling is going to test copper-molybdenum mineralization and confirm the orientation of the zones.
The other two proposed drill holes are planned to test nearby copper-gold mineralization and “the orientation of these zones as proposed by the reinterpretation of historical data.”

The new technical team has spent months performing an extensive reinterpretation of historical data, trenching and re-mapping of mineralized zones. The objective of the 2010 drill program is to test these new targets which are associated with historical mineralized zones drilled during the 1960's by Mariner Mines Ltd. in the Central Zone.

To view the full press release, please click here

Silvore Fox – Chinese Investment, Copper/Gold/Molybdenum Properties, World Class Team

SFX - TSXV
Shares Outstanding – 121.77 Million
Fully Diluted – 153.15 Million

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What sets Silvore Fox apart from the thousand plus other junior exploration companies listed on the TSX venture exchange? The Howard Group has released an introductory commentary on Silvore Fox Mineral Corp. This overview explains what Harry Cabrita, President & CEO of SFX is doing to build value for the company’s shareholders.

Points include:

- New major shareholder is Sino Minerals , a Canadian corporation majority owned by Chinese shareholders with expertise in mineral exploration.
- With Sino Minerals has come a world class exploration team.
- Flagship Coxheath copper/gold/molybdenum property. SFX has committed to a short time frame to define a resource at the property. The exploration program is well underway in 2010.

To view the full “Introduction to SFX from The Howard Group” click here

Carfinco Drives Home Cash

Carfinco Income Fund (TSX:CFN.UN) Units issued: 23.9 million
Units fully diluted: 24 million
Current monthly distribution: $0.02
Q1/2010 special distribution: $0.04
Q2/2010 special distribution: $0.10
Q3/2010 special distribution: $0.10
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Record quarter over quarter earnings has allowed Carfinco to provide yet another special quarterly distribution to Unitholders.

This morning, the Fund announced a special September distribution of $0.10 per unit. The special combined with the regular monthly distribution of $0.02 totalled $0.12 in distributions for September.

To date, Carfinco has distributed $0.415 this year to Unitholders averaging a payout of $0.046 per month per unit.

See full news release here.........

Neptune "Very Undervalued" In Analyst Update

Neptune Technologies & Bioressources
(NTB - TSX V) (NEPT - NASDAQ)
Basic Shares: 40.2 million
Fully diluted: 43.1 million

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Catalyst Equity Research analyst, Robin Cornwell has reiterated his Buy and emphasized "Very Undervalued", based on positive news from Neptune regarding pre-clinical test results for CaPre™ an investigational drug candidate for cholesterol management.

CaPre™ had a positive effect on C-reactive protein (CRP) levels, which is a biomarker of Cardiovascular (CVD) risk and is associated with obesity and diabetes.

The American Heart Association has recognized CRP levels in blood could be one more way to assess CVD risk.

Of note is Mr. Cornwell’s feelings on an expected IND (Investigational New Drug) filing and the positive impact on valuation that should accompany this initiative.

Click here to read his update and why he has set a one-year $5 target price.