After a devastating five year slump in junior resource stocks, it’s great to see veteran newsletter writers like Brent Cook and John Kaiser turning positive on the sector. In a Investing News Network interview at last week’s Vancouver Resource Investment Conference, Kaiser said it’s the best buying opportunity of his career. “We will never, ever… Continue Reading

By Stefan Wieler and Josh Crumb What a difference a month makes. As the market reassess growth and asset prices under renewed volatility – and with a more passive response from Central Banks thus far – the USD-gold price has remained remarkably stable and range-bound for over 10 weeks. Compared to most currencies and assets… Continue Reading

The ranks of the independent brokerage companies are being reduced again with the news that Euro Pacific Canada has acquired Dundee Goodman Private Wealth from Dundee Securities. Upon completion of this transaction, 78 investment advisers and related support teams will move from Dundee to Euro Pacific. In all about $3.5 billion of investible client assets… Continue Reading

Martin Hayes, Fastmarkets reporter, reminisces on his decades of covering the hectic action on the LME floor. (Republished with permission from Fastmarkets.com.) He begins: For nearly all my working career in the City, I have been closely involved with the LME and reporting from its open-outcry trading floor, the world-famous ‘Ring’. I first went down there… Continue Reading

Themes and Trends at CES The following Consumer Electronics Show recap was written by Pardeep Sangha, technology analyst at Haywood Securities. Email Riley Skinner (rskinner@haywood.com) to request a full copy of Mr. Sangha’s CES report. · The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) held in Las Vegas last week attracted over 170,000 attendees. There were approximately 3,200… Continue Reading

Source: Kevin Michael Grace of The Gold Report (11/23/15) After five trying years, RAB Capital Founder and President Philip Richards sees the light at the end of the tunnel. In this interview with The Gold Report, he argues that a continued zero-interest-rate policy from the Fed will be good for gold and silver, while continued… Continue Reading

Published by Robert Friedland and Peter Meredith on behalf of Ivanhoe Capital. Ed Flood, an entrepreneurial geologist, with a flair for investment management, was a vital asset in critical decision making throughout the founding, operational establishment and ultimate exploration success – spanning 17 years of triumph and tribulation – that came to distinguish the original… Continue Reading

(Editor’s Note: Lithium has been a hot topic in CEO Chat of late, as Tesla Motors’ Gigafactory takes shape in the Nevada desert. In a future where batteries take centre stage, powering everything from Elon Musk’s electric cars to electronic devices to residential power systems, lithium supply becomes crucial. That presents opportunities for speculators, and… Continue Reading

Source: JT Long of The Energy Report  (9/1/15) Canadian natural gas prices have held up so well that the majors are taking strategic positions to prepare for an eventual demand spike. But the paydays could be delayed depending on the outcome of the Canadian federal election on Oct. 19. In this interview with The Energy Report,… Continue Reading

August 20, 2015 09:29 ET Skeena Releases Initial Drill Results VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwired – Aug. 20, 2015) – Skeena Resources Limited (TSX VENTURE:SKE) (“Skeena” or the “Company”) is pleased to provide assay results for the first six holes of its 60-hole summer drilling program. A total of 7,300 m of a proposed 12,000 m has… Continue Reading

Lou Eccleston seeks to inject new life into peer-lagging TMX Group When a group of Canada’s major banks and pension funds banded together to buy control of the country’s dominant stock exchange owner a few years ago, it was viewed as a strategic move to keep the TMX Group out of the hands of the… Continue Reading

TORONTO — China’s Tencent Holdings Ltd has taken a $50 million stake in Kik Interactive, an investment that values the Canadian mobile messaging company at more than $1 billion, Kik said on Wednesday. Kik, a Waterloo, Ontario-based company whose chat platform is popular with U.S. teens, has long said it aims to emulate the success of… Continue Reading

The VCMA (Venture Capital Markets Association) wrote a letter to all all elected members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia last week, arguing of the looming demise of Canada as the world’s mineral exploration leader. Don Mosher, Founder of the VCMA Advisory Board joins BNN to make the case on how too many regulations… Continue Reading

Unlike many analysts, Joe Mazumdar of Canaccord Genuity does not expect a substantially higher gold price any time soon. So what are hard-pressed gold investors to do? In this interview with The Gold Report, Mazumdar argues that they should seek high-grade resources—usually underground—in stable jurisdictions that benefit from the strong American dollar. And he highlights seven near-term… Continue Reading

Apologies postings are light, we are at the Sprott conference in Vancouver this week. Big news in the gold sector though as Romarco’s Haile gold deposit is being taken off the market… Henry Lazenby at Mining Weekly has the full story. TORONTO (miningweekly.com) – Triple-listed OceanaGold has agreed to buy Canadian project developer Romarco Gold in… Continue Reading