A Vancouver-based company whose main operation is a 25% partnership with a nickel mining entity in Perth, Australia, in fact a public company, in Australia, is in the mining business.

The company was incorporated under the Alberta Business Corporation Act on October 1, 1998 and has its shares listed for trading on the TSX Venture Exchange. In the period ended June 30, 2006, the company acquired all of the issued and outstanding shares of a private Australian company, Donegal Resources Pty. Ltd. Donegal has a 25% interest in the unincorporated Lanfranchi Joint Venture consisting of a producing nickel mine property on an approximately 50km2 geographically continuous mineral tenement package in Western Australia.

Prior to this acquisition, the principal business of the company was the evaluation, acquisition and development of mineral exploration properties. By acquiring Donegal the principal business of the company has changed to the extraction and sale of ore containing nickel.

The company’s nickel production is small in absolute terms but it’s steadily growing as can be projected for the next five years. To put the company in perspective, it has approximately 80,00,000 fully diluted shares outstanding, of which 26,000,000 would mature as tradable shares upon the exercise of various warrants and convertible debt, the table of which is presented below.

Based on the previous table, the warrant exercise program and the current cash position is approximately $15 million. Accordingly, the current market cap, which is about C. $70 million, is almost 20% backed by the $15 million cash the company would have upon the exercise of all the warrants and convertible debt.

This purely financial information indicates that there is a possibility on pure financial fundamentals that a company is emerging whose book value and cash value is equal to the market price after about 4 successful years. At the same time it is engaged with a powerful partner in the production of nickel, which is projected to bring about $15-20 million profit in fiscal 2007 and $30 million in fiscal 2009.

The financial aspect of the operating business is also very impressive. Preliminary information from Brilliant’s Australian partner and public sources indicate that the partnership delivered approximately 1,208 tons of nickel in the June quarter, which was actually later higher because the month of July had a delivery of 572 tons of nickel. The following table illustrates the big operating leverage and cash flow. Brilliant has a 25% partnership in that production, the structure of which we illustrate in the table below.

Utilizing the monthly figure of June -- 572 tons -- Brilliant receives one-quarter in gross distribution, minus the smelter fee and hedging cost.

* 500 Ore tons delivered x 88% recovery x 65% smelting net fee x $30,000/ton Ni price.

** Pre-hedged revenue.

*** Assuming 75% of production hedged at U.S. $6/lb.

*** Current Hedging Arrangement expires at the end of July '07 production month.

However, it is expected that in the September quarter, the figure would be 1,300 and the following March or May, it could grow to 2,000 quarterly deliveries. The calculation at the 2,000 tons of quarterly delivery indicates a potential gross revenue flow of over $60 million.

Thus, at the over $30,000,000 per ton level, annual income can be about $2.00 per share.

Going back to the balance sheet of Brilliant, and assuming that the following fiscal year 2008 and 2007 would have a delivery rate of $2,000 a quarter, we can create a possibility that in the balance sheet of Brilliant by the end of fiscal 2008, there will be over $75 million cash and by calendar 2008, in December, the figure will be over $175 million.

Let us now examine the future of this company, not only in financial but in operating and macro-economic level. The end of the Cold War began the development of the so-called Communist world and China at a rate that none of the political leaders of the last century have ever envisioned. In a way, we could proudly say that the hidden reserves, the determination and the constructive spirit of the six billion people in this universe have defeated the destructive forces of the 20th century.

The main leaders in this crusade are the working people of China, India, Russia, Indonesia, the Middle East and now perhaps beginning the 600 million African Continent. Three billion new capitalists were born in the Far East and they have created their own demand and their own desire to have steel created to transform their society. See Table 8 on International Steel.

This demand is much greater than the demand for the past. In 1941, Prime Minister Winston Churchill reminded the Japanese that the 100 million steel production of the United States, the 12 million steel production of England is greater than the 7 million steel production of Japan and in a war, Japan will be defeated.

Sixty years later, the world steel production, broken down to some countries, is more than twice as big and it's growing. It is not the space to describe the alternatives or non-alternatives of stainless steel. Today 67 of the nickel production companies satisfy the world's stainless steel demand, and that percentage in the next five years is likely to be well over 70%.

Tight steel market strains supplier-customer relations: with prices going up, the lead times stretching out, supplier-customer relationships are being put to the test. In today's tight market, customers have placed a premium on dependability of supply and honest communication regarding availability and delivery.

The Indian steel industry is poised for massive expansion. The combination of strong consumption, growth, high steel prices and a relatively unexploited iron ore raw material base has already attracted massive investment.

The GPMS-MC global steel market price index appears to have peaked. It stood at 167 in August compared to 193 in July, brought down by weaker raw material and slab prices and strip product prices in Asian and emerging markets. However, we are not forecasting a major slide in the short term. It will hold at or just below current levels through to November.

What we would like to state is that the demand for nickel is unlikely to fall. We can't have an economy satisfying the steel demands of Japan, Russia, India and China--and each of them are growing--without delivering nickel. The production of nickel, if it's assured internationally worldwide at a certain level, creates a basis for nickel mining companies, as their products are automatically taken up. In other words, if you take the existing mines and the growing demand, the first issue any economist will point out is that the price is not going to go down but it's going to go up. If the acquisition of nickel by the steel and other industries is an assured factor, obviously more mining will happen.

It is not a coincidence that when investment advisors and bankers suggest a nickel play, they have the following alternatives.

1. Inco (N) - NYSE              $76
   
   
2. The LME
   
   
3. 3. The LME mini-contract -- which is cash.
   
   

Very few publications have pointed out of the emerging new industry, mainly publicly owned nickel companies in Australia, Canada, and South America that can provide an investment alternative for people who want to participate in the popularity and prosperity and the future of the nickel industry.

It so happens that when we look at some of these companies like Brilliant Mining of their partner, Sali Mali Mining Ltd. in Perth, Australia, we find that their respective multiple is unusually low for a solid, steady mining entity. Not only do they represent solid values, but oversized current and definitely potential cash value which hardly accompanies an industry in its early stages. To place Brilliant financial in this picture, we have created an evaluation which we present in the following table.

Looking back on comparative thoughts in the investment field, when an industry suddenly emerges and captures from virtually infinitesimal market valuation, stockholders' attention and creates large oversized capital gains, I want to quote two examples.

   4.  In the middle or late 1990s, Amazon and other Internet companies broke into
        the limelight. Most of the companies were not rich.

   5.   In the middle of the 1960s, Xerox introduced the Copier 914. It was originally          estimated to have an unlimited market. Many times between 1964 and 2006, I have          seen in describing companies or industries that maybe a Xerox type phenomenon has          broken the stock market and the economy. Some worked, some didn’t.

It is for the intelligence and the researchability of the reader to evaluate the figures and the facts we have provided and answer the question himself: Would this new publicly-owned nickel company represent a Xerox type of phenomenon which could make a major difference in any portfolio? 

   Andrew Racz

Dated: September 17, 2006

(Article 37 - posted September 17, 2006)

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