The Art of Getting in the Deal, FIRST

Dear Katusa Research Reader, Back in 2006, I spent a lot of time in an area of southeastern Europe known as the Balkans. I set up a mining company in Kosovo—the second officially registered company of its kind in the young country. I also spent a lot of time in Serbia, another Balkan country (I speak fluent Serbian). The Bor mining district in Serbia is an incredibly famous mining region that dates back centuries. In fact, most people don’t know this… but large scale mining in Europe started in the Balkans in pre-Roman times. And the largest copper-gold mine in the world pre-1950 was the Bor Mine in Serbia. I hired a team of geologists that could read the local language (Cyrillic Serbian) and I literally drove the group across the two countries to visit all of the old mining towns to conduct due diligence. As a funny side note: The owner of the motel near the mine we stayed at pitched me tirelessly on having me get one of the geologists to marry his daughter. For shits and giggles, I told him the owner and father of the potential bride to be that Paul M. was very interested, but he was very shy. Poor Paul couldn’t figure out why the owner kept coming up to him to do a toast and cheers with Sljivovica, a strong plum brandy that is part of the Balkan way of life. It was a hilarious (for me at least) continuous cycle of awkward, high octane (if you’ve ever had Sljivovica—you know what I’m talking about) toasts for Paul. I knew at the time there was very little competition. And I believed I would find the next big mine in the Balkans. I was in my mid 20’s. I was solely focused on this mission. When all my buddies were at a Halloween party in Vancouver, I was dealing with Serbian cops at 11pm at night on a roadside curb trying to convince them I’m a Canadian looking for mines, and the rental car from Zagreb, Croatia was just that, a rental car. A fun benefit of knowing a local language when the cops are trying to hustle you down is knowing exactly what they are saying when they are arguing amongst themselves. There were no cheers of Sljivovica shots with the Serbian cops—but I did get out of that tense situation and I learned a lesson. Don’t rent a car in Croatia, and drive on the outskirts of Serbia in 2006. Memories of the war were still too fresh. In short, a few years later I met another dealmaker in Serbia named Miles… He held some copper-gold rights in the country too, which I financed. It was a company called Reservoir Minerals. Miles became a close personal friend—and we still reminisce of our 2007/2008 euro escapades. In fact, while Miles and I were at my waterfront place in Croatia, he got the call to break up his company into two—one mining and one green energy. The mining assets were literally being valued at nothing, a mere $1 million. In the summer of 2012, Reservoir Minerals hit pay dirt—in a big way... The exploration drill programs showed some of the best copper-gold grades I have ever seen in my life. Case in point: The assets in Serbia were valued at $1 million in 2009. Today, the project is valued at well over $1 billion. - (That is a 99,900% gain. I want to make it clear that we didn’t make that much on this deal… but this is one of the greatest case studies I’ve ever personally seen and been involved with of how early-stage natural resource investments can make you a fortune.) Over the next few years, the company continued to hit incredible drill holes with high-grade copper mineralization. It was such a huge find, Reservoir became the target of a bidding war between Nevsun and Lundin Mining, which Nevsun won. I spoke publicly and recommended Nevsun at the 2017 and 2018 Vancouver Resource Investment Conference as one of my Best in Show picks at the time… Folks who acted could have made an easy 118% gain in just 11 months. (It’s worth pointing out that my clients and I made a ton of money on the Reservoir buyout too, to the tune of 420% gains…) Look, I’ve been on the inside of the resource market for a long time, for nearly two decades. I know the market inside and out. Financing small juniors like these—in the extremely early stages—is what I love to do. So believe me when I tell you: Not every stock is a winner and this industry is as high risk and high reward as you can get. But over the years I’ve been doing this, I’ve made millions for myself and my clients, with gold and resource gains like: - 1,901% on Midas Gold - 1,480% on Primary Metals - 903% on Rare Earth Metals - 799% on Lithic Resources - 781% on Ventana Gold - 498% on North American Tungsten - 400% on Dauntless Capital - 376% on Bayfield Ventures And it’s why I get letters like these all the time: “Marin always finds investments I have never heard of, but I’ve learned to pay attention. He suggested buying Brazil Resources… I made exactly half a million dollars after getting back my original $90,000 — over 500% in less than a year.” – F. F. “I have made so much money from your service, I can’t thank you enough!” – Rob B. “Investing in Marin’s ideas is the best decision I ever made. He puts his money where his mouth is. I invested $13,500 in Northern Dynasty. In less than three months, the value of my investment was over $52,000… up 280%.” - G.T. But if you want to make the most money possible from the start of [what could be the biggest gold bull market in history]( Don’t wait. The biggest gains in junior mining stocks are made by those who get in at the very beginning. If you’re interested, [I’ll show you exactly what to do right now](. You have to ask yourself, are you prepared? Marin Katusa Founder, Katusa Research Copyright © 2020 Katusa Research, All rights reserved. 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