Reservoir Minerals (TSXV:RMC), which has been one of the best performing mineral exploration stories of recent years, climbing 1000+% since 2012 following successful exploration results at its Timok project in Eastern Serbia, may have gotten ahead of itself, according to PI Financial’s Digging Through The Dirt Newsletter. The authors are Bill Whitehead, 56, Senior Vice President,… Continue Reading
We recently had a chat with management over at Pinetree Capital (PNP.TO) and they were very optimistic about a handful of diverse investments they’ve made in the cloud computing (LeoNovus, LTV.V), microprocessors (Poet Technologies, PTK.V) and bio-tech (Lorus Therapeutics, LOR.TO) spaces. As a brief primer, Pinetree is a diversified investment and venture capital firm focused… Continue Reading
By 1994, it was emerging that Alumbrera, our huge copper and gold project in Argentina, was shaping up to become a very large deposit. With the impending sale of our interests to a major mining company, I began to ponder our next venture. I asked John C. Thornton, noted geologist from Tucson, Arizona, where the… Continue Reading
We think the risk/reward proposition for buyers of Ivanhoe Mines (TSX:IVN) is quite attractive from current levels (below 1.70). From a Technical Analysis perspective, the multi-month falling wedge has dropped into the 1.50-1.70 support zone. Volume has also dried up which we like to see before a big bounce – $2.00 is a reasonable short… Continue Reading
Hollywood’s always had its bad guys. Think the Joker or Darth Vader. But their biggest villain is a man who calls himself Kim Dotcom. You won’t see him on the big screen but, until recently, he ran a service that made it possible for you to see almost any movie you wanted to for next… Continue Reading
HANK: 5 Years From the Brink – In Theatres January 31, 2014 and Available on Netflix & iTunes. Hat tip Josh Brown’s Reformed Broker blog.
Jim Dines has been writing one of the world’s best read financial newsletters, The Dines Letter, since the 1950’s, and he’s still going strong… A few days ago Dines joined King World News to discuss his outlook for 2014 (Listen to the interview). Dines pats himself on the back for calling the coming 3D printing… Continue Reading
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Novo Resources (TSXV:NVO), a junior exploration company exploring for gold in the Pilbara region of Northwestern Australia, announced a new gold-bearing reef discovery 700 meters west from their original 43-101 resource (421k ozs gold at 1.47 grams per ton). The reef varies from 1-2 meters thick and is less than 20 meters deep, and one… Continue Reading
Desert Star Resources (TSXV:DSR) is a junior exploration company being proactive in this market. Last year they picked up six exploration projects in the U.S., each with big potential. Of particular note are their Red Top, Copper King and Copper Springs projects in Arizona, as well as their Oro project in New Mexico. A map of their… Continue Reading
VANCOUVER, CANADA – FRIEND OR FOE, TAKE THE DOUGH… Mark O’Dea’s True Gold Mining has just announced a $36.6-million bought deal financing with RBC Capital Markets of $0.40 units with a half warrant at $0.47 good for six months. Concurrently, Liberty Metals and Mining, True Gold’s largest shareholder, has has elected to exercise their participation… Continue Reading
Tom Perkins, co-founder of venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield and Byers, which was an early financier to Genentech, Google, Amazon and scores of others, took to Bloomberg Television earlier to apologize for comparing the persecution of America’s rich to the plight of the Jews under Hitler in Nazi Germany. Perkins says he regrets the Kristallnacht comparison;… Continue Reading
Today was a good day for two West African gold miners with head offices in Canada. Endeavour Mining (TSX:EDV) declared commercial production at their Agbao mine in Côte d’Ivoire, which is that company’s fourth gold mine in West Africa. Ivorian Prime Minister Mr. Daniel Kablan Duncan was on hand for the ribbon cutting ceremony and convention signing… Continue Reading
Michael “the Wek” Wekerle, the fast talking Canadian investing legend and Chairman of Difference Capital, took to the stage at the Cambridge House CanTech Investment Conference in Toronto earlier this month to promote his firm and Canada’s technology sector. Here are some of the more memorable of the Wek’s quotes: “I don’t think anybody has… Continue Reading
Fission Uranium Corp (TSXV:FCU) released the first five holes from its winter drill program at the Patterson Lake South (PLS) uranium project in the Southwestern Athabasca Basin region of Northern Saskatchewan. Hole PLS14-129 (line 600E), with 36.72 meters of off-scale (>9999 cps) mineralization at shallow depth, was the best hole drilled at PLS to date by… Continue Reading
