Kaiser Research Online: The days of Free Stuff are over |
Kaiser Research Online used to provide a fair amount of useful content on an unrestricted basis, on the mistaken assumption that this would encourage individuals to pay for a membership that provides full access to KRO which is a research platform that covers all Canadian and Australian resource sector listings. Then the AI boom arrived and everything unrestricted was fair game to be scraped by AI bots to feed their large language models and basically eliminate any reason for individuals to visit web sites that provided organized information and insights. Kaiser Watch was launched in 2022 as a free platform featuring KRO Favorites that graduated from the Bottom-Fish Collection. This was intended to encourage individuals to subscribe to a full access individual membership, but in light of the endless resource junior bear market such hopes proved futile. Beginning in 2025 most of KRO will sit behind a paywall. Audio and video Kaiser Watch episodes will continue to be posted to YouTube on an unrestricted basis, with the cost being the time you spend listening to or watching the YouTube episodes. The associated KW episode written comments and graphics hosted by KRO will be available only to KRO members. A version will be posted to a Kaiser Watch subscription service on Substack available at a cheap monthly cost, though sometimes KRO will post content to Substack that is immediately unrestricted. Free is gone, but for those who still have hopes for resource juniors, cheap will be available. The existing $450 per calendar year KRO Individual Membership will cease to be available to the public after March 31, 2025. Everybody who has this membership as of March 31, 2025 will be entitled to renew at the same rate in 2026 and each year thereafter as long as KRO remains in operation. KRO Individual Members will have conditional access to the current KaiserResearchOnline Slack forum which will operate as a collaborative Bottom-Fish workshop. After March 31, 2025 $450 Individual Memberships will be available only on an invitation only basis. We are launching the KRO Pro Membership at $2,000 per 12 months or $200 per month on an auto renewal basis. Its members will have a separate Slack forum. It is aimed at high net worth investors and corporations who are mainly interested in KRO as a platform for conducting fundamental or peer research. And should the resource junior sector ever enter a bull market, that is what anybody interested in story paths, milestone timelines and outcome visualizations will have to pay. The KRO Individual Membership will be an exclusive and largely closed club of individuals who stuck it out during the longest bear market ever suffered by the Canadian junior resource sector.
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The Diamond Resource Center reflects John Kaiser's interest in diamonds since that day in late 1991 when he watched a news release scroll off the thermal print system at the brokerage firm where he was research director describing Dia Met's recovery of diamonds in some place called Lac de Gras. The resource juniors were in a bear market and JK sensed, this was going to change a lot of things; as it turns out, a lot more than he ever imagined. Today interest in diamond resource juniors is in a deep slump, and the rise of cheap synthetic gem diamonds has even put into question the viability of natural diamond production. In 1991 diamond exploration lore was very primitive; much has changed since that time and JK even played a role in pushing for diamond reporting standards that are useful. The Diamond Resource Center keeps track of companies involved with diamonds, simply because JK is one of the few independent analysts who understands the data flow. But the Diamond Resource Center is much more than a window into those juniors still looking for diamonds or mining them. It has become the host for the diamond references Patricia Sheahan has been compiling since the eighties and emailing as a monthly pdf to the diamond illuminati of the world. In 2015 JK approached Pat Sheahan about converting her reference data into an online resource and she agreed. Inside the Diamond Resource Center is the Sheahan Diamond Literature Reference Compilation. Over 150,000 references - technical, media and corporate - going back to 1850, painstakingly compiled by Pat Sheahan, now available as annual lists, through region and keyword based lists, and alphabetically by authors. If you are interested in diamonds or their history, this is where you go. But it is also of interest to people curious about ancient geology, for diamonds are a window into the earth's past. And it is certainly of interest to academics trying to keep track of the latest thinking in the diamond related sphere. Due to health issues Pat Sheahan was forced to discontinue her monthly service in May 2022. On January 9, 2025 Pat Sheahan will be inducted into the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame along with Frank Giustra and Agnico-Eagle's Sean Boyd, a testimony to the idea that you do not need to be rich and famous in order to be recognized for having made a big difference. The Diamond Center will remain unrestricted as long as KRO is online, and the fucking AI bots can chow down on it to their hearts' content.
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