Okay, I don’t know if that’s true. But I am about 100x more prolific in our new investors app, chat.ceo.ca, than I am on this blog. Here are a couple of examples from the past 24 hours: Just got off the phone with Glen Kuntz, CEO of Mega Precious Metals #MGP. Here are my notes:… Continue Reading
Three leading Canadian financial commentators bring their insights on technology, mining and investing to Youtube: Y’all know that I love making web content… So when Agoracom chief market commentator Allan Barry Laboucan asked me to join him in a Google Hangout with veteran Canadian business journalist and broadcaster Pat Bolland, my response was simply, “Aw, hell yea!” The gentlemen… Continue Reading
This morning, NexGen Energy (NXE.TSXV) released news that looks significant. They released 4 new holes (AR-15-39, -39w, 40b and 41) which appear to prove that the A3 shear zone which was only just recently discovered is potentially larger than the A2 shear (which hosts the best-to-date hole AR-14-30). AR-14-30, which was drilled as the company’s first vertical hole,… Continue Reading
What do cars, precision-guided missiles and the television you’re watching right now have in common? They all depend on something called rare earth elements, unusual metals that are sprinkled inside almost every piece of high-tech you can think of. Most people have never heard of them. But we have become so reliant on rare earths… Continue Reading
The mining exploration business is very risky, with about 3 out of a 1000 good looking prospects becoming mines. That’s why some smart small exploration companies follow the “prospect generator” business model of generating ideas and finding more established partners to pay for the drilling. This shares the upside, but more importantly, gives the prospect generator… Continue Reading
Last month, we met Canadian Mining Hall of Famer Bob Dickinson and Amarc Resources President and CEO Diane Nicolson in Vancouver to learn about Amarc’s emerging IKE copper porphyry district discovery in BC. The veteran mine builder Dickinson had recently lent $1 million to Amarc and was very enthusiastic for its prospects of finding Canada’s… Continue Reading
Ivanhoe Mines (IVN.TO) shares are up 18.8% today, last at C$1.01 at press time, and up over 35% in the past few weeks. Over @ chat.ceo.ca, we’re speculating either Executive Chairman Robert Friedland is marketing the story to new investors somewhere, or possibly there’s an event relating to a strategic review process currently underway of… Continue Reading
Billionaire mine developer Robert Friedland has said that real wealth in the mining sector is created by finding something. Friedland would know this, having driven 5+ world-class mining discoveries in his career. He knows that to find a mine you have to spend a lot of money, and drill a lot of holes. Another secret… Continue Reading
The Athabasca-basin in Northern Saskatchewan is the world’s most prolific uranium producing region. For several decades, small “junior” companies have explored the Basin for economic uranium deposits, with the lucky few being taken out by larger companies at substantial premiums. Shares in Fission Uranium are up over ten fold over the past three years when… Continue Reading
Angel investor and podcaster Jason Calacanis interviewed technology venture-capitalist Fred Wilson at Calacanis’s Launch Conference a few weeks back in San Francisco. Wilson is an accomplished VC having backed Twitter in the early days, and countless others. Calacanis is no slouch himself having been an angel investor in UBER. The two-men got to talking about… Continue Reading
Collin Kettell is building junior mining’s best new podcast at PalisadeRadio.com and I was grateful to be a guest on the show a couple of days ago. During the conversation, we discussed how mining veterans are taking advantage of the downturn. We spoke of the importance of a long time horizon for mining investors to… Continue Reading
Plenty of newsletters writers have been calling the bottom in junior mining shares for the past four years as the shares themselves have gotten cheaper and cheaper, but that doesn’t mean the letter writers should give up on the practice. With each passing year the odds of a rebound become more likely. I watched the Casey Research Going Vertical video… Continue Reading
Brent Cook (BC): So, I’ve owned Lara for quite a while, we own it in the Exploration portfolio. I’m going to have a quick talk with Miles [Thompson] and see how it’s going and what the future looks like. BC: Hey Miles, what’s going on with Lara? Miles Thompson (MT): We’re basically just sticking to… Continue Reading
Mining legend Ross Beaty made a fortune buying up copper deposits when nobody wanted them. He has also financed several mega-wealth creating mineral discoveries, contributing to his astounding track record, outlined in this earlier CEO.ca article. Leo Hathaway, VP Exploration for Odin Mining & Exploration, has been working closely with Mr. Beaty for the last… Continue Reading
Tonight is the season finale of the popular Discovery Channel program Gold Rush, and viewers are set to find out how much gold the Hoffman family dug up this season. Klondike Gold Corp (KG.TSXV), a fledging junior miner I own stock in and have worked with, will receive 15% of whatever Gold the Hoffman’s produce… Continue Reading
