Keith Schaefer’s Oil and Gas Investments Bulletin Premium Edition is rapidly becoming one of the most influential investment newsletters in the world. Why? Subscribers are getting really rich from the picks – more on that in a second. It’s very entertaining and informative to read and written in plain speak. Keith’s completely transparent and honest,… Continue Reading
This is a fascinating 2006 documentary about how Vladimir Putin came to power in Russia. The film argues that Putin was chosen to be Boris Yeltsin’s successor because he protected Yeltsin’s family and close associates from a corruption investigation. The filmmakers interviewed many Kremlin Insiders, including Boris Berezovsky, the late oligarch in exile who hung… Continue Reading
Ivanhoe Mines’ Platreef project in northern South Africa, one of the richest and largest platinum ore bodies every discovered, may be getting a lot bigger. Exploration drilling at the Ga-Madiba target, several kilometres to the South East of the Platreef Indicated Resource, turned up 48.6 meters of 4.63 grams per ton platinum, palladium and gold,… Continue Reading
I had nowhere to go but up in March of 2010. Pac.Web.Co., our little web design company, was drowning in tax bills, salaries and office expenses. I had just bought out my partner, Macully, and was having a heck of a time getting used to his end of the workload, which I had previously taken… Continue Reading
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Eric Reguly, Europe Business Correspondent for the Globe and Mail, has an excellent new profile out on 87 year old Barrick Gold Co-Chairman Peter Munk, who is expected to step down from the world’s largest gold miner he co-founded next month. The transition to retirement could either save Munk’s life or kill him, Reguly writes. Apparently… Continue Reading
Kevin O’Leary and Bruce Coxon are out as hosts of CBC’s Dragon’s Den TV program and Mike Wekerle and Vikram Vij are in (CBC story). O’Leary has been hosting the show since it came to Canada in 2006. With his double duty in America as a co-host on ABC’s Shark Tank, and almost daily appearances… Continue Reading
Dave Lowell’s Lowell Copper announced an option to earn up to 70% in the TC property in the Hillsboro – Bisbee mineral trend in New Mexico from Rose Petroleum PLC and a subsidiary. The deal appears to have been structured in a way that allows Lowell Copper to back out if results aren’t promising. The… Continue Reading
Alex Letourneau of Kitco News interviews Brent Cook of Exploration Insights, Alex Davidson of Yamana Gold, Catherine McLeod-Seltzer of Bear Creek Mining and Lowell Copper, and Miles Thompson of Reservoir Minerals and Lara Exploration, at last week’s PDAC convention in Toronto. This is an impressive gathering of credible exploration and mining industry figures. McLeod Seltzer,… Continue Reading
Fred Wilson of AVC.com shared this four year old Jack Dorsey speech yesterday. In it Dorsey says the first step to creating a new product or business is to draw your ideas down on paper and share them with others. The ideas for both Twitter and Square started on paper. In the case of Twitter,… Continue Reading
John-Mark Staude’s Riverside Resources (TSXV:RRI) has one of the best business models in the mineral exploration business. His firm generates ideas and gets partners to pay for them. And unlike the dozens of groups that say they are in this line of business, Riverside actually does deals and moves the company forward on a regular… Continue Reading
One of the most undervalued junior oil companies announced an update with mostly good news this morning, and a little bad. Petroamerica Oil Corp. (TSXV:PTA), which trades at less than 1.4x cash flow, produced an average of 6497 barrels of oil per day for the month of February, and 6,453 barrels of oil per day… Continue Reading
It can be very hard for a stock to go up when there is a big seller. The market knows this has been the case for Petromanas Energy (TSXV:PMI), a high potential oil and gas explorer partnered with Royal Dutch Shell to look for oil in deep tanks on shore in Albania. Petromanas acquired its… Continue Reading
In an exclusive interview to CEO.CA, LX-Ventures (LXV) CEO Mike Edwards asks investors for patience and defends his company’s execution in light of its recent 60% share price fall. Edwards says LXV has no plans for future acquisitions or financings until a “business model validating event’ occurs whereby one of LXV’s portfolio companies is sold… Continue Reading
Silver miners have failed to replace reserves over the past three years. This from Tim Barry, President and CEO of Silver Bull Resources (TSX:SVB, NYSE:SVBL). Barry and I met at his Vancouver office Friday, before the New Zealand born geologist, 37, flew to Toronto to present at this week’s PDAC, where 25,000+ are set to… Continue Reading
