I spent a couple hours re-skinning EnergyandGold.com this weekend. I co-created the site 6 weeks ago with two of my best pals, Scott Armstrong and CEO Technician, and it has already clocked over 25,000 pageviews! The idea behind it is to do two things well: commodities charts and profiles of compelling junior companies. EnergyandGold will differ… Continue Reading
In the good old days of Howe Street, venture stock-brokers would act as an intermediary between junior mining companies and investors. This is a somewhat murky ethical practice of the brokers having two masters, both the companies they were helping to get off the ground, and the clients with which they were to serve. Investors… Continue Reading
The following article was adapted from the August 27, 2014 issue of Resource Opportunities, our premium newsletter (the video below was taped in December 2014 and just released this morning). North Arrow is a presenting sponsor at our upcoming Subscriber Investment Summit in Toronto on February 28th, at a truly critical time for the company. Only a… Continue Reading
Azarga Uranium’s Richard “Dick” Clement has retired as CEO, President and Corporate Secretary of Azarga Uranium (AZZ.TO), and has been appointed deputy chairman of the company’s board of directors. He’s being replaced by current Azarga chairman Alexander Molyneux, 39, a former investment banker and CEO of SouthGobi Resources. The move comes less than 6 months… Continue Reading
Thanks to CEO Chat friend Luc ten Have for bringing this to our attention yesterday: Feb 12, 2015: Second Exceptional Intercept of 82m at 20.4 g/t Gold and 1.94% Copper at Hot Maden Prospect, Eastern Turkey And here are the maps. This is a follow up to a Feb 2, 2015 news release: Impressive Intersection of 103m @ 9.0… Continue Reading
I just got off the phone with the Petroamerica Oil CEO Ralph Gillcrist in Calgary. The company has been under intense selling pressure in recent weeks, after having declined approximately 75% since September. Clearly, investors in PTA were caught off guard in the oil price crash, myself included. Ralph’s message was Petroamerica has a strong… Continue Reading
North Arrow Minerals (NAR.V) is a promising diamond exploration company with a portfolio of projects in Northern Canada. The company has extremely successful backers in the diamond industry, with Gren Thomas serving as Chairman, and his daughter Eira Thomas acting as an advisor to North Arrow. The Thomas’s led the Diavik diamond discovery in the… Continue Reading
Mackie Research Capital, an employee owned investment firm headquartered in Toronto, intends to acquire Jordan Capital Markets, a broker/dealer based in Vancouver, for an undisclosed sum, according to a joint press release out this morning. The transaction provides Mackie with a greater footprint on the West Coast, and strengthens their venture brokerage business, providing growth… Continue Reading
As a mining jurisdiction, Colombia went from unloved to hyped to ignored. Branded for years as unsafe due to kidnappings and dangerous drug cartels, Colombia experienced a brief resurgence in 2011 as gold plays such as Vetas and La Bodega energized mining markets during gold’s heady run to $1,900 US an ounce. Fast forward a… Continue Reading
Dear Subscribers, For those of you attending this year’s PDAC in Toronto, the world’s largest mining convention, this is your invitation to our CEO Summit on Saturday Feb. 28th at the Hilton Hotel – that’s the day before the PDAC begins. Click here for event details and here to register now. This exclusive event is… Continue Reading
The final two weeks of January is the busiest time of the year for Vancouver’s mining industry, with Cambridge House’s Vancouver Resource Investment Conference and AME BC’s Roundup conventions gathering mining professionals and investors from around the world back to back. Reflecting on the chaotic two weeks, spending an hour with Quinton Hennigh was definitely… Continue Reading
Shares in Nicaragua focused gold explorer Calibre Mining (CXB.V) are up nearly 6 fold in the past year. The company proved their share price climb was no fluke when Pierre Lassone, co-founder of gold royalty behemouth Franco Nevada, acquired an 11.2% stake in Calibre in Q4 2014 for $2 million at $0.08 per share with… Continue Reading
Technology venture-capital has seen huge growth in the equity crowdfunding arena thanks to web sites like Angel List that connect startups with accredited angel investors. The trend has only been accelerated by the adoption among many of the tech world’s best known investors, from Tim Ferris to Jason Calacanis, whom are leading investment syndicates on… Continue Reading
Yesterday on CEO Chat, consulting corporate secretary Lorraine Pike, who has been advising junior companies for over a decade, took questions on what it’s like to work with Canada’s two public venture capital exchanges, the TSX Venture Exchange (TSXV) and the Canadian Securities Exchange (CSE). Find the entire chat thread here: http://chat.ceo.ca/lorraine-pike-q-and-a To Lorraine, the CSE wins in… Continue Reading
The uranium market is moving in a different direction than other commodities, with the nuclear fuel continuing its move up over the past two weeks on its re-approach to US$40/lb, just yesterday hitting US$37.50/lb again. This is certainly a topical space and we at CEO.CA have been following the relative new comer to the segment,… Continue Reading
