One of the clear up and comers from Robert Friedland’s camp of natural resource developers, Matthew Hornor, CEO of Kaizen Discovery, was interviewed in a quite positive Global Mining Observer story earlier this week. Here’s the link: EXCLUSIVE: Inside Friedland’s Exploration Unit Mr. Hornor’s Kaizen Discovery (TSXV:KZD) has HPX TechCo (Robert Friedland) and ITOCHU Corporation of Japan as… Continue Reading
Well known Canadian businessman and philanthropist Frank Giustra has joined Twitter. Follow him here: @Frank_Giustra Giustra is best known as the founder and first CEO of Lionsgate Films, now the world’s largest independent film studio. He is also an accomplished natural resource developer, having co-founded Wheaton River Minerals, which subsequently became Goldcorp and spun out… Continue Reading
Continental Gold (TSX:CNL) is developing one of the richest gold projects in the world right now. Their 100% owned Buriticá mine just outside Medellin, Colombia, has over 7 million ounces of gold and silver at very high grades (9+ g/t). Some are speculating the project could grow to 20 million ounces or more. “Buriticá is going to grow,”… Continue Reading
World leading global natural resource developers, the Lundin Group, led by Swedish billionaire tycoon, Lukas Lundin, have only one mineral exploration vehicle left. It’s called NGEx Resources Inc. (TSXV:NGQ), after the family motto: No Guts, No Glory and the company’s main focus, Exploration. NGEx owns three large copper gold deposits along the Chile/Argentinian border, the Josemaria, Los Helados, and Filo… Continue Reading
Resource sector stalwart John Kaiser, editor of Kaiser Research, a subscriber supported publication which analyzes nearly 2000 junior resource companies worldwide, joined Vanessa Collette of Cambridge House Live in Vancouver Monday to discuss his take on the junior markets. Kaiser thinks this summer may be a good time for investors to start bottom fishing out… Continue Reading
Economic geologist Brent Cook, the editor of Exploration Insights, a high value subscriber supported publication focused on junior miners, echoed much of what he said in our interview of a few weeks back when he sat down with Vanessa Collette at the Cambridge House conference in Vancouver the other day. Related: Brent Cook: Why gold miners… Continue Reading
Lawrence Roulston is a geologist and the editor of Resource Opportunities, a subscriber supported publication focused on junior miners. In an interview at the Cambridge House diversified investment conference in Vancouver yesterday, Roulston told his interviewer that the junior mining stock market is going to be low, albeit with quality projects receiving adequate finance, until retail investors… Continue Reading
This is a supreme vote of confidence for the early stage Arrow Discovery made by NexGen Energy. Garrett Ainsworth, who we profiled last year for making the Patterson Lake South uranium discovery, is leaving the spinout company he, his father and Mike Gunning had landed in after being taken out by Fission last year. Related: How… Continue Reading
After two weeks of speculation, Clive Johnson’s B2Gold Corp has finally said it would buy Australia’s Papillon Resources Ltd for $570 million in B2Gold shares. The offer price of A$1.72 ($1.59) per share represents a 21 percent premium to Papillon’s close on May 23, the last day the stock traded, or a 40% premium using the… Continue Reading
Good evening, Tonight we launched a redesigned CEO.ca. There are still a few kinks to be worked out, but it was time for us to get this puppy live (this is CEO.ca version 2.0 if you were wondering). The goal of the redesign was to make the site faster, and more mobile friendly, as well… Continue Reading
Athabasca-Basin uranium explorer, NexGen Energy, has released assay results from its Winter Drill Program at the Rook 1 project, confirming that all 8 holes drilled at the Arrow target hit uranium mineralization. Two of the standout holes demonstrate both high grade and potential scale for this early stage uranium discovery. Hole RK-14-27 encountered maximum continuous intersection of 29… Continue Reading
There was some concern among investors in Ivanhoe Mines, myself included, that a critical Mining Right Permit for the company’s Platreef platinum deposit in South Africa would be delayed. May 31, 2014 was the looming date by which either the Permit had to be received or all work on the project, such as the ongoing sinking… Continue Reading
Peter Koven of the Financial Post has a missive out this Saturday morning on Canada’s embattled junior resource sector. He speaks to Terry Ortslan, Stan Bharti, John Kaiser and others about why the sector is in trouble, and possible events that could trigger a turnaround. “History suggests that a quick drop in global metal inventories,… Continue Reading
The financial crisis is forcing governments and business at all levels to make some tough decisions. If things continue like this for much longer, there’s a real risk that we may have to let Fred go….
My trusted friend Jonathan Roth helped Petromanas Energy make a must watch mini-documentary about oil in Albania, and the company’s exploration activities there in partnership with Royal Dutch Shell, which has just been released today to coincide with the company’s Annual General Meeting. Watch the video: Albania: The World’s Next Big Oil Play? Petromanas Energy… Continue Reading
