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Pat: Can I have some info on a small mineral company called Athabasca Minerals? Many thanks.

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Athabasca Minerals, $0.30, symbol ABM on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 33.3 million; Market cap: $10.0 million; www.athabascaminerals.com), operates the Susan Lake aggregate operation, one of Canada’s largest gravel pits, about 85 kilometres north of Fort McMurray. The company also holds permits for 480,244 acres around Fort McMurray. It believes this land could contain a variety of industrial raw materials, such as sand, gravel, silica sand, salt and limestone. In the three months ended June 30, 2015, Athabasca’s revenue fell 8.1%, to $3.3 million from $3.6 million a year earlier. It lost $763,146, or $0.023 a share, compared to a loss of $538,704, or $0.017. The stock has fallen steadily since mid-2014, along with oil and gas prices. That’s because oil sands operators have put off major expansions, slowing demand for aggregates. Athabasca Minerals is okay to hold, but only for highly aggressive investors willing to accept the risk of a slow turnaround in oil sands development. …