Colombia’s New President | Gold Standard’s Pinon By Thom Calandra BOGOTA — Why does the wind in Panama blow from north to south? Because Colombia apparently sucks. For gold prospectors anyway. Let’s hope the Latin America paradise sucks for leftist rebels in coming months as well. Colombia is one of my two favorite places in… Continue Reading
THE CALANDRA REPORT: Subscribe* *$110 yearly: Does Not Recur Resource prospectors are bleeding their depleted coffers at a time when they might think about hoarding capital firepower. We are seeing evidence that legitimate assay updates of mineral resources, for one, are all but ignored in the investment marketplace. Some public relations professionals tell me the usual… Continue Reading
THE CALANDRA REPORT: Subscribe $91 yearly SIEM REAP, Cambodia — Just touched base here with Bob Neill, newest Angkor Gold board member. Bob is the 33-year-old executive from Medellin who handles much of Grupo de Bullet’s property syndication efforts in Colombia. He is just back from touring a handful of ANK’s properties in Ratanakiri Province.… Continue Reading
Today is the one year anniversary of making this video with my brother. I thought it would be a great opportunity to share some of my favourite mining and energy quotes, starting with one from Mr. Lowell, of course: “If there’s anything my career says about me, it’s that I’m very good at being wrong.”… Continue Reading
On Fire: ALQA, CUR, SVV, BCRX, Gold & More THE CALANDRA REPORT: Subscribe We send this update from Active Trading Partner’s David Banister, whose analysis thus far is superb. We have been tracking the 48-year-old New England writer’s work on ALQA for about four weeks. Also, CUR. Plus: metals equities, including Almaden Minerals (AAU in… Continue Reading
CEO.ca audience, we exhibit several items direct from The Calandra Report. Thom Calandra will be visiting CEO.ca regularly. His TCR audience is active and pays as much as $101 yearly for the twice-weekly TCR reports, Each of the following items should serve an audience looking for a short fuse on a trade. Our CEO.ca audience… Continue Reading
THE CALANDRA REPORT: Subscribe $91 yearly Also: Sysorex Global, Inovio Pharma Solvista Gold corners Iamgold into a porphyry partnership at Caramanta in Colombia. Takeways: Breathing room for Solista’s Miller O’ Prey and Jeffrey Miller. Bob Allen’s Grupo de Bullet owns a hunk of Solvista (SVV in Canada). Solvista is one of our TCR 8 It… Continue Reading
THE CALANDRA REPORT: Subscribe $91 yearly Topics: Coastal Contacts, Inovio, American Sands, Stockr, Mason Graphite, Tembo, GSV & Sunny LA LOS ANGELES — Just back from getting my batteries charged at LD Micro in Bel Air. About 240 companies — four or five gold | a dozen energy | and the rest Biomedical, Internet, retail,… Continue Reading
A new mineral exploration company to watch, Kaizen Discovery, will commence trading in Toronto tomorrow under the symbol KZD. Kaizen was born out of an amalgamation with HPX TechCo (50% owned by Robert Friedland) and Concordia Resource Corp. Kaizen will be 85% owned by HPX TechCo (Private) and 15% by Concordia shareholders. The company will… Continue Reading
Calandra: Junior Miners Need Consolidating By Hannah Tool | Index Universe Thom Calandra was co-founder and chief columnist of MarketWatch before it was sold to Dow Jones in 2005. After taking a few years off, he returned with The Calandra Report, a mining-focused newsletter. Calandra spoke to IndexUniverse contributing writer Hannah Tool about the downturn of… Continue Reading
THE CALANDRA REPORT: Subscribe $91 yearly SAN DIEGO — Inovio Pharmaceuticals (INO in USA), a DNA vaccine developer I sidestepped for four years, is having success with a Middle Eastern virus. INO shares are raging today. Inovio’s J, Joseph Kim, via a persistent biz-dev executive, Bernie Hertel, has been on me, professionally, since 2009. Inovio… Continue Reading
THE CALANDRA REPORT: Subscribe $91 yearly Thursday November 14, 2013 Mines are made, not found. That is Barkerville Gold Mines’ tagline for investor brochures. James Francis Gerard Callaghan spent upwards of $120 million making Barkerville mines and properties along central British Columbia’s Cariboo trend in Canada. Do you know the restaurant Max’s in northern California? “This… Continue Reading
THE CALANDRA REPORT: Subscribe $91 yearly What follows is probably the most emotional, and highly charged, subsistence mining drama taking place in the gold world. The drama is running in Colombia. We have been tracking Buriticá — because I know the company, I know the project, I think I understand the shades of green and… Continue Reading
Here’s my pal Zach Flood, exploration geologist with Concordia Resource Corp. (TSX:CCN), making friends in the DRC this past August. Zach and I were housemates in boarding school 12 years ago. He’s from Reno, Nevada originally and now lives in Vancouver. Concordia is in the midst of a corporate reorganization and Robert Friedland is becoming… Continue Reading
THE CALANDRA REPORT: Subscribe $91 yearly October 22, 2013 Most everyone likes an under-fished story. Even regulators. So, this is Day 9. Barkerville Gold Mines’ return to trading brings a doubling of the stock price for those who bought the tarnished stock in America’s pink-sheet market (symbol BGMZF) whilst the Canada shares were halted. Those… Continue Reading
