Basic Earth Science Systems, Inc. today reported its operating results for the 2nd Quarter ending September 30, 2008. Basic Earth is an independent oil and gas exploration company. Benefitting from higher oil and gasoline prices earlier in 2008, net income rose to $946,000. Oil and gas revenue was $2,697,000. Compared to the same period in 2007, net income was 120% higher and sales revenue was 51% higher.

Asked to comment on the company’s impressive results, Basic’s President, Ray Singleton, said the “combination of high commodity prices and the effect of our new Colorado wells coming on production have certainly supported the results of our second fiscal quarter.” According to Singleton, Basic Earth recognizes that declining oil prices will have a direct impact on future operations. However, he said Basic Earth has prepared a plan for this scenario based on prior experience.

Noting the company has faced

The base metals were mixed on Wednesday. Copper traded within a tight 4-cent range through the day, finishing near the lower end at $1.5875/lb., down a penny and a quarter.

Nickel traded choppily, with a bit of an up bias late, to close at $4.6644/lb., up a bit more than a penny. Zinc was down early, but recovered to end at its intraday high of $0.507/lb., up a penny and three-quarters. Aluminum was weak, dropping nearly a penny and a half, to $0.8349/lb., while lead plunged in the afternoon hours after most of the day in the green, settling at $0.5656/lb., down two-thirds of a cent.

Copper was weak on both bad economic numbers out of Europe, and on ballooning stockpiles.

European industrial production declined 2.4% in September, year over year, marking the biggest drop since February 2002, according to the European Union’s statistics office. From August, production sagged by 1.6%. The

Lake Victoria Mining is focused on the rich underdeveloped gold reserves in Tanzania. Tanzania produced 1.75 million troy ounces of gold during 2007 and is the 3rd largest gold producer in Africa, behind South Africa and Ghana. Lake Victoria Mining Company, Inc. currently holds an eighty percent ownership interest in the Kalemela Gold Project. Up to 15% of Africa’s exploration expenditure has been spent in Tanzania, which is thought to have Africa’s largest gold reserves, after South Africa.

The company announced the addition of Michele Ashby to their Board of Directors. Ms. Ashby is the founder, owner and Chief Executive Officer of MINE, LLC, a Colorado company organized to promote selected natural resource companies to the investment community through private conferences. From 1988 through 2005, she was the Chief Executive Officer of Denver Gold Group Inc., which is dedicated and operated as a trade association for the mining industry. In that

Clean Energy Fuels is a supplier of natural gas as an alternative fuel across North America and designs, builds, finances, and operates fueling stations and supplies compressed natural gas and liquefied natural gas. The company serves approximately 275 fleet customers operating 14,000 natural gas vehicles in public transit, refuse hauling, airports, taxis, seaports, and regional trucking markets. As of December 31, 2007, Clean Energy Fuels Corp. owned and operated 170 natural gas fueling stations in Arizona, California, Colorado, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Texas, Washington, Georgia, Wyoming, and Canada.

Clean Energy Fuel was founded by billionaire T. Boone Pickens, who has made much of his fortune investing in energy markets. Investors should note the company’s shares suffered on Wednesday after California voters struck down a proposition that offered tax rebates to buyers of more fuel-efficient cars. California-based Clean Energy has maintained that the ballot initiative’s failure will not

For many years, the major four sports, A.K.A. the “Big Four,” in the United States have been football, baseball, basketball and hockey. While other sports have generated large incomes and interest such as boxing and wrestling, the “Big Four” seemed untouchable. The Fight Zone and Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) may change the way the world looks at sports and MMA may sneak into the “Big Four” in the very near future.

MMA is a full contact sport that includes a mix of boxing, wrestling and martial arts. While violent and controversial, the sport has an incredible amount of live and television appeal. While many stadiums and casino-type forms have drawn large crowds for MMA events, television has become the main-stay for this young sport.

The leader in the MMA arena is Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). UFC will likely

For many years, the major four sports, A.K.A. the “Big Four,” in the United States have been football, baseball, basketball and hockey. While other sports have generated large incomes and interest such as boxing and wrestling, the “Big Four” seemed untouchable. The Fight Zone and Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) may change the way the world looks at sports and MMA may sneak into the “Big Four” in the very near future.

MMA is a full contact sport that includes a mix of boxing, wrestling and martial arts. While violent and controversial, the sport has an incredible amount of live and television appeal. While many stadiums and casino-type forms have drawn large crowds for MMA events, television has become the main-stay for this young sport.

The leader in the MMA arena is Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). UFC will likely

Most natural gas and oil companies would be happy with a few producing wells pumping out a respectable amount of oil and gas. Some, however, do their homework to find a location where many wells pump many barrels or cubic feet. A company that can recognize its position quickly, and develop it to maximize a variety of revenue streams quickly, is one that will become a solid long term player in any marketplace.

New Frontier Energy Inc., an oil and gas exploration and development company, works to explore and exploit oil and natural gas deposits primarily along the Colorado/Wyoming boarder. The company has been extracting natural gas since 2005 and anticipates further profitable developments at sites adjacent to its primary Slater Dome CBM prospect.

The company is currently producing and exploring in the Sand Wash Basin, a sub-basin of the Greater Green River Basin. Its current production site is located at the

The Fight Zone, Inc. recently announced that Donald Vickers, a.k.a. “The Grinch”, has joined its team of developing world class fighters. “The Grinch” will add both publicity and notoriety to the company.

The Fight Zone, Inc. is a young and prospering company based out of Colorado that is dedicated to developing and promoting MMA sports and its athletes to the world. The Fight Zone has a reputation for developing and producing world class fighters. The Fight Zone provides complete services including discipline training, strength and conditioning training, management, marketing and sponsorship programs. The Fight Zone provides all the resources necessary to quickly develop their fighters to a Pay-Per-View (PPV) level. The Fight Zone also offers a unique corporate sponsorship and merchandising program via its network of fighters which is unlike any other of their competitors.

While people in the MMA Field are well aware of

It's been a bumpy ride for solar stocks recently.

The industry received a boost when clean energy tax credits were added to the $700 bailout bill to help its passage from Congress. But fears of falling demand and oversupply have weighed on solar stocks. The Claymore/MAC Global Solar Index ETF (NYSE:TAN) fell 35% in the first eight trading days of October.

William Patalon III, however, says new mapping technology and advances that have made solar power more eco-friendly will boost solar stocks in the long run.

Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:ASTI), created by ITN Energy Systems in 2005 to develop and produce state-of-the-art thin film photovoltaic (PV) modules, has taken a big step toward commercial production. Orders for the building and delivery of production tooling and equipment have now been made, with manufacturing equipment to be in place by the third quarter of 2009. The equipment will be used for layer deposition, encapsulation, and testing, providing an initial 30 MW production capacity for the company’s new manufacturing facility now being completed in Thornton, Colorado.

The exciting thing about Ascent is that its solar modules are more easily integrated into standard building materials, though also applicable to space, consumer, and large scale power applications. Once in production at the new facility, the product will use a proprietary laser patterned cell integration process, eliminating time intensive cell-to-cell connection operations required with other technologies. The product comes out in