Science has a new piece out on Afghanistan’s mining potential. Read: Mother of all lodes (behind paywall) According to the article, the US Department of Defence has the country’s mineral wealth tapped at $908 billion. The Afghans prefer the figure of $3 trillion. That bounty is a product of a tortured tectonic history: Afghanistan is an amalgam… Continue Reading
Entrepreneur Frank Giustra has helped raise over $3 billion for early stage mining and energy companies, and also founded Lionsgate Films, the world’s leading independent film studio. Today Giustra provided some exceptional entrepreneurial advice in a MinesandMoney.com interview. When asked his investment regrets, Giustra said basically all of the companies he created sucked at the… Continue Reading
Three years ago I saw author Doug Casey walking down the street in Vancouver wearing a red Hawaiian shirt and I stopped him, said I was a fan of his writing, and asked for an interview. He was extremely nice and agreed, and we taped one shortly thereafter, my first ever interview. The traffic results… Continue Reading
If you want to become a millionaire by the age of 40 and get to be a billionaire miner’s apprentice, consider going to law school, becoming fluent in Japanese, and raising hundreds of millions of dollars in that country for world class resource assets. That’s exactly what Kaizen Discovery CEO Matthew Hornor did for mining… Continue Reading
After some thousand blog posts on this site and others, I have just hit send on my first premium post for subscribers of Resource Opportunities, the investment newsletter we recently teamed up with. The Interim Update discusses an emerging Canadian mining discovery which your author is a shareholder of, and is on the cusp of receiving significant attention. For a… Continue Reading
The Lundin Group are one of most successful natural resources developers on the planet, with operations ranging from exploration to production, and mineral and energy interests spanning nearly every continent. With a company motto of “No guts, no glory” the Lundin’s entered the Atrush block in Iraqi Kurdistan in the search for oil with their… Continue Reading
The hottest uranium discovery stock in the world is Fission Uranium, with its Patterson Lake South project shaping up to be an incredible uranium asset, in an albeit unloved time for the commodity. This afternoon, Warren Stanyer and Kurt Bordain, two directors resigned from the company. The men were on Fission’s board as a result… Continue Reading
According to exploration geologist Brent Cook, Cordoba Minerals is exploring the best possible place in Colombia to build a mine, if they find one. Last year, Cordoba concluded a nearly three year effort to consolidate a 30,000 hectare project in Colombia’s northern Mid-Cauca Gold Belt, called the San Matias project. Small scale artisanal mining is… Continue Reading
Dundee uranium guru Dave Talbot did little to hide his excitement for Fission Uranium’s drill results yesterday, titling an update to the firm’s clients, “Wow. This is New. Another Zone and New Target Areas.” Reminds me of a certain double rainbow… Only weeks into the summer drill season Fission Uranium has already hit some big… Continue Reading
If you are paying attention to who the next generation of mining leaders will be, you’ve probably heard of Toronto’s Ian Ball, 32, who resigned from the President position at McEwen Mining earlier this year and was a close protege of Mr. McEwen for ten years. Today Ball was appointed president of a small (10.25… Continue Reading
NexGen Energy, the latest uranium exploration company to discover shallow and high-grade mineralization in the Athabasca region of Saskatchewan, released more impressive results this morning from a summer drilling program at its Arrow target on the Rook I property. After drilling a total of 22 holes, the Arrow target has a mineralized strike length of… Continue Reading
The last word at Brent Cook’s exploration panel at the Sprott conference last week belonged to geologist Miles Thompson, currently chairman of Resevoir Minerals, developing one of the world’s richest undeveloped copper deposits in Serbia, and is CEO of Lara Exploration, which explores for minerals in Brazil and Peru. Mr. Thompson is someone highly respected by Mr. Cook,… Continue Reading
In Part II of Brent Cook’s Exploration Panel at the recent Sprott Conference in Vancouver, geologist Dr. Tim Coughlin says investors are getting ripped off by companies who delay metallurgical tests. Metallurgy is key. I’m not referring to Amulsar, because the metallurgy there is fantastic. With another discovery I was involved with while I was with… Continue Reading
Well respected economic geologist and newsletter writer Brent Cook, held an awesome panel at the Sprott Vancouver Natural Resources Symposium last week, which was the best conference we’ve been to so far this year. Cook’s panel guests were Tim Coughlin, President of Tigris, who previously discovered the Amulsar gold deposit in Armenia for Lydian, and is… Continue Reading
– Bedrocan will be the second licensed MMJ producer to go public in Canada (mid August expected) – Bedrocan has ten years of overseas experience (not a flash in the pan company) – Market leader Tweed may lose its number one value spot, pundit says Much as they did during the dotcom boom, this year,… Continue Reading
