The question: I received this mail (redacted a touch to protect both guilty and innocent). This kind of thing happens every now and again. The question comes at the end.
“I am a private investor who does a lot of junior mining stock (Canadian) analysis, has its own database and publishes on SeekingAlpha.com as [redacted]. Recently I met a CEO of a junior mining company [redacted] who referred to your blog as hilarious but very critical as well, he thought I would love it. Boy was he right, and I love your style! Kept laughing over your “owly” comment (o rly) and numerous other things and comments. But your critical comments on a lot of juniors are just about right most of the time (no need to abandon the entire sector though as you suggest one time;) so I think it is of great value to me.
For now, I am planning on building some kind of reputation on SA first, and after that building my own website, as I want to redevelop myself from [redacted] to junior mining research and investment as I think it’s a much more fascinating universe. A serious website is priority number one, so no pump ‘n dump or “you give me a ton of warrants and some shares and I will write something positive for your IPO” kind of thing. I know a very good writer from SA on O&G, he wants to team up with me with his own site. He makes money by providing custom analysis for funds etc. Not worked out how I’m going to make money out of it but if my quality is good enough this will develop in a natural way I guess, as true quality is scarce in junior mining I noticed. Only Cookie and Kaiser seem to fit the bill IMO.
Bottom line: is there any possibility to connect my future site to yours, and what would it cost if you of course would allow it in the first place?
Like to hear from you,
Cheers!
[redacted]
The answer: No, fuck off.
UPDATE: Setty is a nicer spirit than I, and offers this link