Thom Calandra of the Calandra Report is bullish on zinc, listing Ivanhoe Mines (TSX:IVN,OTCQX:IVPAF) and Thunderstruck Resources (TSXV:AWE) as some of the zinc companies that he owns and follows. Investing News Network: I know uranium isn’t the only thing that you know about. Are there any other commodities that you are going to be watching closely this year? Thom Calandra: I’m much better known for are The Calandra Report and The Calandra Network. Much better known for platinum, copper, gold especially. I remember at CBS MarketWatch or marketwatch.com, dying my hair gold and goes at $400 an ounce. We were living in London at the time and I was building up one of our products for Europe. So that was a lot of fun. And I think we’re going to have a lot more fun with gold. Zinc is getting to be more and more interesting of course. I’m a big believer in Ivanhoe and now of course, so as everyone else, but I’ve owned Ivanhoe when it was a private company in South Africa in 2003. And Ivanhoe has terrific zinc, copper, gold, and platinum properties, and palladium and nickel in South Africa in the DRC, Congo. I think if you really want roll the dice and I own some of this one as well on zinc and copper: Thunderstruck Resources is tiny… if it’s a guy at $8 million market cap that will be a lot. It’s on the island of Fiji, zinc on Fiji I’ll take it’s a lot I’ll take it. I know the management, they’re honest, I respect them. If zinc continues to do well as it has been, some of these industrial metals have done well zinc, cobalt, lithium I think will do well. But mostly on zinc my exposure comes through Ivanhoe, a tiny bit from Thunderstruck, and a company called Golden Valley Mines in Quebec. INN: Thank you so much for sharing with us today.
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