maria gern + kneifelspitze + lake königssee

the last day of my weekend in marzoll / berchtesgaden area (BGL) i have spent at the kneifelspitze and IN the lake königssee. yes, i swum in the ice cold lake as the air temperature outside was -1 degree celsius and the water temperature was maybe plus 3 or 4 degrees celsius, so it was warmer in the lake than outside, my dears :-)

and yes, there was weather inversion too, so i could take beautiful pictures at peak kneiflspitze today

starting point in maria gern (close to berchtesgaden)

pilgrimage church in maria gern 

watzmann (2713 m) in the middle and hochkalter (2607 m) at the right side

walking higher and higher ...

untersberg massive and the city of salzburg below the clouds

finally at the paulshütte alm (restaurant) at the kneifelspitze (1189 m)

untersberg again

 watzmann again

crazyman

me IN the lake königssee testing the water, later i swum too :-)

just in case you have forgot my message about how to reach happiness in your live😄

more pictures here

toter mann = dead man

well, while the best of all wives and me stayed in marzoll for the weekend, i had much spare time alone during the day. what did i do? i have visited the dead man (toter mann) on saturday.

enjoy few inversion pictures from the toter mann peak (1391m above sea level).

 i started at the hochschwarzeck (close to bischofswiesen)

 the bezoldhütte cottage at toter man

big (2713m) and small watzmann on the left side and and hochkalter (2607 m) right

back at hochschwarzeck, i had free internet, lunch and hot forest fruits tea in a warm restaurant building

my deepest insight at dead man? the way to happiness😃

more pictures here

marzoll

what a nice weekend in the bavarian alps in marzoll close to bad reichenhall. well, for my wife it was a very challenging full time job at her HBHS seminar. for me it was pleasure++ while hiking to the nearby peaks toter mann + kneifelspitze, swimming in the ice-cold lake königssee, enjoying the nice hotel sanatorium schlossberghof and learning about feeling fear while watched the marzoller kramperl (krampusse) giving their best :-)

the private marzoller schloss

 sanatorium schlossberghof

marzoll castle

marzoll church

my wife at her HBHS seminar. what is HBHS? Hypno-Bilaterale Hemisphären-Stimulation. a healing method based on hypnosis developed by my wife. more details HERE. that ilona ebert ad at a fair we have visited in munich 1 week ago has nothing to do with my wife, but i liked it anyway 😃

back to hotel sanatorium schlossberghof

there were everywhere some smart / funny quotations out there

in marzoll comes the santa claus never allone. krampus is also at start and yes, they beat the legs of the viewing public with ropes really strong

more pictures here

eof

sibanye - we are one

sibanye gold? an unknown company with over 100 years of history? yes, both. 

sibanye gold limited is a south african mining company created in 11/2012 and listed in 2013 at the london + new york stock exchanges, after gold fields (which was founded in 1887) unbundled its south african mining activities and the old gold mines Kloof, Driefontein and Beatrix in the west Witwatersrand Basin (West Wits) as well as various service companies became part of sibanye gold limited.

well, i've enjoyed the presentation by CEO neal froneman in munich presented by jochen staiger's SRC (swiss resource capital)

sibanye means 'we are one' in the isiXhosa language

source of both pictures: company website https://www.sibanyegold.co.za/

few key notes about sibanye:

• 9th biggest gold producer in the world with 1.5 million ounces yearly production
• 5th biggest PGM producer (platinum group metals: platinum + palladium) after acquisition of aquarius platinum limited. with the newly acquired rustenburg platinum mine probably soon the 4th largest PGM producer
• because of 100+ years of underground mining, the current deep is approx. 4 km, but with modern mining methods there is also more stuff not that deep
• approx. 5% yearly dividend
• current market cap 2.14 billion USD
• huge employer in south africa with approx. 60,000 employees
• responsible, safe and sustainable operations with good relationships to trade unions and local communities, which is not only nice but also needed for successful operations in south africa :-)
• for me it seems to be stock which i really can 'buy and hold' for long, long, time 
• etc.

more coming soon or never :-)

good luck, donald trump ~ TrumpTheEstablishment

if trump remembers his own words while president, so it is going to be good for america and the world, isn't it? let's hope it for now :-)
=> welcome back to anti-war and against torture & spying..... and for protection of civil liberties => let's #TrumpTheEstablishment. good luck, donald 🍀

 

made this speech trump president?

and yes, let's hope trump will not forget his pre-election agenda as obama did 8 years ago ... anyway, russia please watch out ...

eof

edelmetallmesse 2016

next edelmetallmesse (precious metals fair) aka gold + silver show took place in munich again :-)

well, there were many interesting presentations about the financial and geopolitical situation in the the world as gold investments (silver investments ditto) have much to do with difficult times like the ours: shaky peace + dwindling freedom + undemocratic acting governments in the society we live in => many speakers told we should protest in the streets (as i already do every monday), so let's CRASH the SYSTEM; my dears or at least let's protect ourselves against the growing NWO ...
of course, there were also few chart analysis & pure price prediction presentations which i didn't visit at all.

erich hambach ~ let's inform the ignorant mainstream people about the presumable problems in our society 

  matthias weik & marc friedrich

 thomas bachheimer

 thomas bachheimer

 thorsten schulte (silberjunge)

david morgan ~ the curve of mania

max otte ~ suggestion for current investment strategy

folker hellmeyer, bremer landesbank ~ a brilliant public speaker and smart pro-european (political) economist

the conference room in the public transport museum (MVG museum, münchen)

electric cars need a lot of copper, you know? tesla showed by gianni kovacevic's copper bank 

i've got a nice dividend from my dear endeavour silver miners, a silver coin similar to this one:

source: here (2010)

the very good presentations i've attended at day #1. of course, i have left bad / boring presentations immediately :-)

• erich hambach
• volker schnabel (mack & weise vermögensverwaltung)
• matthias weik & marc friedrich
• dietmar siebholz started with some problems in germany, but later he just promoted gianni kovacevic's copper bank
• thomas bachheimer
• thorsten schulte (silberjunge)

day #2:

• claus vogt, krisensicher investieren
• david morgan, the morgan report
• peter denk (only 20 minutes)
• prof. max otte
• bill holter
• excellon resources inc. ~ silver producer ~ one of the oldest positions in my commodity oriented portfolio
• folker hellmeyer, bremer landesbank ~ a brilliant public speaker and smart pro-european (political) economist

well, i've increased my commodity stocks positions as well and i'm going to buy bought few more on monday mostly at market opening in USA/CANADA in a sharp declining commodity market. gold + silver were down a lot and USD was up in the european markets => thus many of my limit orders were filled at a lower level then specified by me on sunday ~ 1 EUR = 1.477 CAD; 1 EUR = 1.103 USD => good luck, my sweet portfolio warriors :-):

• excellon resources @CAD 1.94 => they are going to double production and to cut in half the costs in Q1/2017
• vista gold @ USD 1.05 => i just had few USD from dividends left in my CAD based account, so i've slightly increased one of my few USD positions
• first mining finance @ CAD 0.79 => keith neumeyer, the CEO of my single biggest stock position first majestic silver, started the company to take advantage of crashed prices for exploration properties and wants to wait to sell them later as the markets improve. let's wait with him ;o)

• first majestic silver @ CAD 10.76 ~ my single biggest position ~ existing position increased
• bhp billiton (ADRs @ USD 35.11 ~ existing position increased
• endeavour silver @ CAD 6.27 ~ existing position increased
• great panther silver @ CAD 1.80 ~ existing position increased
• international tower hill mines @ CAD 0.99 ~ new position opened because of comparison of peer group seen in first mining finance presentation slides
• spanish mountain gold @ CAD 0.14 ~ new position opened because of comparison of peer group seen in first mining finance presentation slides
• nickel one @ CAD 0.075 ~ new position opened because of talks with CEO at the fair
• pretium resources @ CAD 12.99 ~ new position opened because of comparison of peer group seen in first mining finance presentation slides
• orex minerals @ CAD 0.465 ~ existing position increased
• south32 @ USD 9.61~ existing position increased ~ south32 is a subsidiary of bhp billiton for the southern hemisphere
• victoria gold @ CAD 0.6 ~ existing position increased
• exeter resource @CAD 1.55 ~ new position opened because of comparison of peer group seen in first mining finance presentation slides
• 92 resources ~ lithium in Northwest Territories, canada ~ existing position increased
• zimtu capital @ CAD 0.19 ~ existing position increased

more pictures / slides here

link to last year's event: edelmetallmesse 2015

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