As the economy has declined, the mining of this essential mineral has ground to a near halt.
Big mistake!
But if you're an investor, this is one of the greatest opportunities for riches you're ever going to find.
Because one small, aggressive company is quietly working to corner the world's largest market for this crucial metal.
Best of all… it's trading for pennies!
The cobalt paradox
Cobalt is one of the most important metals in next-generation manufacturing.
When combined with iron or nickel, this metal is used to create corrosion- and wear-resistant, high-strength products.
But it's as a super alloy that we find its true value―in jet engine and gas turbine components, as well as products such as propeller blades.
More to the moneymaking point, it's also contained in both lithium and nickel rechargeable batteries.
That means products from the cell phone in your pocket, to the hybrid car parked on your street, all the way up to the airplane you take for your next vacation depend on reliable supplies.
That's a lot of demand, you'll agree. But here's the thing: Right now, hardly anybody's mining it.
Low consumer demand led to diminishing supplies
As the economic crisis wormed its way into industries across the globe, demand for cobalt softened.
Less aircraft were ordered, less gas turbines required… particularly in China… and the market for this commodity crashed.
One year ago, cobalt was priced over $50. Today it's priced at around $16.
You see, cobalt is found mostly in compounds, not in pure form. It's typically retrieved from mining operations aimed at other metals like copper or nickel.
As demand faltered and profits plummeted, miners around the world simply halted cobalt retrieval operations.
It just wasn't cost-effective.
But those rechargeable batteries for cell phones and iPods are still in high demand. Ask any teenager about his or her plans to upgrade their iPod.
Inevitably, stockpiles everywhere are depleting rapidly.
This couldn't come at a worse time. Because we're at the verge of truly…
Electrifying advancements in automotive technology
Governments are pushing green initiatives across the globe―both for environmental and political reasons.
In pollution-ridden China, the pressure is on to reduce carbon emissions.
And on a strategic level, just like in the United State and other nations, there's a determined effort to reduce dependency on imported crude oil.
The Chinese government and the country's automotive industry see their chance to penetrate the potentially huge market of fully or partially electric vehicles.
In China, the Ministry of Science and Technology has mandated that by 2012, 10% of the nation's cars must run on alternative fuels.
Currently, China's automotive market is second only to the United States.
By 2030, it's anticipated it will surpass the U.S. By then, the Chinese electric vehicle market could amount to $220 billion a year.
Even as I write, the Chinese are building a factory that planners say could produce 20,000 electric cars annually.
The top manufacturer of rechargeable batteries, Chinese BYD, is planning on producing a battery-run car by the end of this year.
Bottom line: Demand for battery components like cobalt is going to soar over the next decade.
Location, location, location
But as I mentioned, cobalt is usually produced as a by-product of copper and nickel mining.
Much of the world's cobalt supply currently comes from mines in the African copper belt that runs through the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia.
Not the most stable of regions.
Even so, you know China will be moving in hard to secure future supplies.
Right now, at about 20% of world output, the United States is the largest consumer of cobalt.
It considers cobalt so crucial that it's been labeled a "strategic metal"―one with little or no domestic supply that the government considers essential for national security.
And that's exactly where this audacious little mining company comes in…
The company I've found is about to open the only cobalt mine operation in the United States―in the entire Western Hemisphere, in fact―that will produce high purity super alloy grade cobalt metal.
All permits, paperwork and red tape have just been finalized―and this tiny company recently pulled together over $8 million in private financing to get things started.
Once operations come online in 2010, it will be the only super alloy grade cobalt mine-to-market outfit in the U.S.
That's exactly the point when current world
supplies could be depleted!
To give you an idea of this mine's profit potential, consider this: Swiss-based Xstrata plc currently controls 40% of the world's cobalt market and 85% of the high purity cobalt market.
One of its best customers is the U.S.
Xstrata has pulled every trick in the book to block this project.
It's because they're scared. They should be.
The mine our tiny micro cap owns has been estimated to have a 10- to 12-year potential to produce 1,525 tons of cobalt annually.
That would equal about 3.3% of the global supply.
Earnings projections based on just $22.52 per pound for cobalt, with a 7.5% discounted rate, suggest a net present value of $87.29 million with an internal rate of return around 22.3%.
What does all this mean for you?
This best stocks for 2010 is trading for literally pennies at this moment.
But it won't stay that way for long.
As soon as Wall Street gets wind of what's coming, this tiny stock will soar.
If you get in now, you could ride this stock from pennies to $18 by the end of the year as operations at this U.S. facility ramp up.
The only people I've told about this are Members of my elite investment research service, Hot Stocks of 2010 Confidential.
That's why it's crucial that you…
Keep it confidential
Let me be crystal clear, we don't often recommend such small mining stocks to our Hot Stock Confidential Members.
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A tiny company that holds the key to the U.S. supply of a strategic metal!
This best stocks of 2010 could so easily double… or triple… or more. It's possible that the share price that's now trading at less than $1 could reach $18 by year's end.
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NOW is the time to buy this tiny stock.
Inventories are way down.
As the economy recovers, industry picks up, automakers ramp up their hybrid and electric cars, and people again load themselves up with tiny electronic items they can no longer survive without, cobalt will again be HUGE.
And this tiny company's mine will come online just in time.
So please, act now before this stock skyrockets.
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