Western Copper and Gold (WRN:TSX) is developing the massive Casino deposit in the Yukon. The Casino deposit hosts 8.9 million ounces of gold and 4.5 billion pounds of copper in reserves. An additional 9 million ounces and 5.4 billion pounds of copper are part of an inferred resource. The project does have a large CAPEX at… Continue Reading
Sunridge Gold (SGC:TSXV) is looking to follow in the foot steps of Nevsun Resources (NSU:TSX) and become the next Canadian listed miner in Eritrea, Africa. A feasibility study has been completed on four advanced stage projects that shows strong economics of a $692 million NPV (10% discount rate) and 34% IRR. We were lucky enough… Continue Reading
Avino Silver & Gold Mines (ASM:TSXV) is a growing low cost silver, gold, and copper producer in Mexico. The company is focused on the historical Avino mine which operated continuously between 1974 and 2001 before closing due to low metal prices. Avino now has two operating mines, the San Gonzalo Mine and the recently reopened Avino Mine.… Continue Reading
The vast-majority of global platinum production comes from tough jurisdictions like South Africa and Russia. Wellgreen Platinum (WG:TSX) has one of the world’s largest undeveloped PGM deposits located in the mining friendly Yukon. An updated PEA was released today (here’s the news release) showing after-tax NPV of CAD$1.2 billion with an after-tax IRR of 24.6% at a 7.5% discount rate. Wellgreen… Continue Reading
At the Vancouver Resource Investment Conference last week, CEO.ca caught up with Largo Resources (TSXV:LGO) CEO Mark Brennan. The company is the only pure play vanadium producer (Vanadium is an alloy that makes steel stronger). Mr. Brennan told us about the vanadium market and how it is growing due to being used in more applications. Mark Brennan, CEO,… Continue Reading
At the Vancouver Resource Investment Conference last week, CEO.ca caught up with Patrick Soares CEO of Foran Mining (FOM.T). Foran is currently looking for a joint venture partner for the McIlvenna Bay project located in Saskatchewan, a large zinc-copper-gold-silver Volcanogenic Massive Sulphide (“VMS”) deposit. The project has a PEA study complete that shows economics of a $262.7 million… Continue Reading
Matt Lennox-King is the CEO of Pilot Gold, one of the leading mineral exploration companies. We were fortunate to catch up with Mr. Lennox-King at the recent Cambridge House VRIC 15 conference in Vancouver. Yesterday, Haywood Securities upped their price target on Pilot Gold shares from $1.60 to $1.90, maintaining their Buy rating, in a… Continue Reading
At the Vancouver Resource Investment Conference last week, CEO.ca caught up with Silver Standard (SSO.T) CEO John Smith. Silver Standard just released 2014 production results producing 8.7 million ounces of silver, 129,000 ounces of gold, and 30 million pounds of zinc. Mr. Smith thinks the mining industry will face three main issues in 2015. The following is a transcript… Continue Reading
At the Vancouver Resource Investment Conference last week, CEO.ca was pleased to catch up with Andre Gaumond, CEO of Virginia Mines (VGQ.T). Virginia is in the process of merging with Osisko Gold Royalties (OR.T) to create the next mining royalty powerhouse. The new company will have two of the best gold royalties in the mining… Continue Reading
At the recent Vancouver Resource Investment Conference in Vancouver, CEO.ca caught up with Joseph Campbell CEO of TerraX Minerals (TXR.V). Terrax is exploring the northern extension of the historic Giant mine in Yellowknife. Management have been able to attract Andrew Gaumond’s Virginia Mines as a major shareholder (9.2%), along with Haywood Securities chairman John Tognetti.… Continue Reading
Over the past five years zinc bulls have gone nowhere. However, the metal, used primarily for galvanizing steel in the construction industry, is setting up for a substantial supply deficit as early as next year which could see the spot price pop. Investors interested in the zinc space have very few investable options. The majority… Continue Reading
James Fraser and I were manning the CEO.ca booth at the recent Cambridge House Vancouver Resource Investment conference, when exploration guru Brent Cook showed up with a friend of his, Mr. Steve Nano, president and CEO of Mirasol Resources (MRZ.V). Cook said we need to follow what Mirasol is doing. Fortunately Carter Smith was close-by… Continue Reading
Could a chat app save Canada’s venture markets? After four years of declines in financing activity driven by falling commodity prices, Canada’s once-proud public venture capital system is on the ropes. Startups south of the border are waiting longer and longer to go public, if ever, with strong secondary markets for private companies providing nearly… Continue Reading
Jordan Trimble, 27 is currently the youngest CEO of any publicly traded mining company. This young dynamo entered the business straight out of university and is now running Skyharbour Resources (SKY.V). Skyharbour is a uranium junior holding a very prospective land position(over 390,000 hectares) in the prolific Athabasca Basin. Jordan made several property deals in… Continue Reading
Richard L. Bedell is a director and President and Chief Executive Officer of RenGold. Along with Ron Parratt, Richard was a co-founder and Executive Vice President and Director for AuEx. Richard has over 30 years of exploration experience including an adjunct faculty position in Exploration Geophysics at the Mackay School of Earth Sciences & Engineering.… Continue Reading
