At the Vancouver Resource Investment Conference last week, CEO.ca caught up with GoviEx Uranium (CSE:GXU) CEO and engineer Daniel Major, with 25 years global mining experience, who works closely alongside GoviEx founder and Executive Chairman Govind Friedland. The company is developing one of the largest uranium resources in Niger, the Madaouela project (Project Interactive, Corporate Presentation). Mr. Major… 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

Dalradian Resources, a Toronto-based junior gold developer focused on the Curraghinalt deposit in Northern Ireland and led by CEO Patrick Anderson, welcomes one of the most influential investors in mining to its team Tuesday. Veteran geologist and mining entrepreneur Ross Beaty, founder of Pan American Silver and the Lumina Copper franchise, will purchase 9.9% of… Continue Reading

Shares in African mine developer Ivanhoe Mines reached a new all time low of $0.68 Monday morning, hovering around $0.71 at press time. The company’s shares have fallen roughly 40% in a week, which prompted to me ask the company’s founder, largest shareholder and Executive Chairman, Mr. Robert Friedland, for an explanation as to the… 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

CEO.ca talked to accomplished mining executive Eira Thomas at the Vancouver Resource Investment Conference January 19, 2015. Ms. Thomas is President and CEO of Kaminak Gold (KAM.V), which is developing the Coffee gold project in the Yukon Territory, with major backers including Lukas Lundin and Ross Beaty. Kaminak completed a PEA in 2014 demonstrating robust… Continue Reading

Mr. Dorward has over 17 years of experience in the mining and finance industries and most recently served as Vice-President, Business Development at Fronteer Gold Inc. He was an integral part of the team that sold the large Michelin uranium deposit, acquired AuEX Ventures Inc., and successfully advanced Fronteer Gold’s properties prior to the Company’s… Continue Reading

At the Cambridge House Vancouver Resource Investment Conference this past Sunday and Monday, we had the chance to ask respected mining analyst Brent Cook for his outlook on the sector for which he is best known. Here’s what he said: Right now one of the biggest risks given how 2015 is starting off so positive… Continue Reading

As a young man, Peter Tallman fell in love . . . with rocks. It happened with the help of an unwitting 80 year old mentor named Harold, who was given the job of teaching young Peter how to build a stone fireplace. After struggling unsuccessfully to break the first boulder for the job (an… Continue Reading

Shares in Athabasca-Basin uranium explorer NexGen Energy (NXE.V) climbed 13.8% in early trading Tuesday, last at $0.37, following a news release announcing a large new radon anomaly 400m NE and along strike of the company’s 2014 Arrow Zone discovery. Radon in water is no guarantee of an additional discovery, but the surveys were successful in… Continue Reading

“We got involved with Wheaton River at a time when the gold price was depressed. We had the sense of urgency that the gold price was going to up, and we didn’t have enough gold assets to take advantage of it.” Ian Telfer, Chairman and former CEO of Goldcorp, the world’s top gold miner. Goldcorp… Continue Reading

“In our business, you make it taking shots.” Ron Netolitzky 2015 Ronald Netolitzky Tribute | Canadian Mining Hall of Fame

Mining venture-capital trade show, Cambridge House International’s Vancouver Resource Investment Conference, returns this Sunday and Monday at the Convention Centre and the CEO.ca will be there. This is the largest gathering of junior mining companies and their investors in Vancouver, with 8000 delegates expected, including representatives from over 300 public companies. I am hosting a panel… Continue Reading

My friend Peter Tallman is president CEO of Klondike Gold Corp (TSXV:KG), a company that today holds the key claims in the heart of the 1898 Klondike Gold Rush region near Dawson City, Yukon, where some 20 million ounces of placer gold was recovered at surface, with the hard rock source of the gold never… Continue Reading