http://finance.yahoo.com/news/stephen-j-pollack-joins-tombstone-130000642.html

This looks to be a coup for them, though I'm not clear if Mr. Pollack has any background in mining, let alone in exploration companies. With his resume and contacts, however, he may not need it.

This appointment may explain why the stock has been rising so strongly in recent weeks.

Good luck to Mr. Pollack and TMBXF. Their success will be ours too, given their Zebra project and LBSR's Hay Mountain project are virtually on top of each other.

In a related matter, was wondering about the significance of TMBXF's new claim near Phoenix when I recalled that finding money for mining these days has become easier for small projects than for larger ones. While we have little clues as to the potetial for their new claim in the Eagletail Mountains, it is certainly not a mega projects, and may be a tool for leveraging interest in the short run into something that can carryover into a larger deal later. We shall see.

Meanwhile, TMBXF is up another 17 percent at this time.

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POG back over 1,200, but still range-bound.