Want to take advantage of the resource sector downturn? Find a billionaire backer and a management team from a top tier producer… Warwick Smith’s Western Pacific Resources (TSXV:WRP), a Vancouver-based junior miner with a $3.3 million market cap, has raised $10 million via a convertible debenture, and an additional $8.5 million via a base metals streaming agreement… Continue Reading

Congratulations are in order to Ari Sussman and his team at Continental Gold Limited (TSX:CNL). They have been awarded the Mines and Money London 2013 Exploration Award for their Buriticá high grade gold project in Colombia, beating out the likes of Fission Uranium, Robust Resources and Sirius Resources for the honour. Mines and Money London is… Continue Reading

A new mineral exploration company to watch, Kaizen Discovery, will commence trading in Toronto tomorrow under the symbol KZD. Kaizen was born out of an amalgamation with HPX TechCo (50% owned by Robert Friedland) and Concordia Resource Corp. Kaizen will be 85% owned by HPX TechCo (Private) and 15% by Concordia shareholders. The company will… Continue Reading

“You want me to be a wilting flower? I mean, wilting flowers don’t build companies.” “If nobody would try, of course nobody would make it,” Mr. Munk said. “I must have given 25 lectures at business schools and my theme number one is: dream big, dream big. Put all your efforts into realizing your dreams.… Continue Reading

Click here to watch the BNN interview.  Andrew Bell: We’ve seen a couple of downgrades, BMO and RBC, they say nothing wrong with the company, just the stock’s got above their valuation. William Lamb: I think the way we would see that is they are basing on information which is available in the market. The… Continue Reading

Shareholders of Turquoise Hill Resources (TSX:TRQ) would be wise to participate in an upcoming rights offering, according to company founder and billionaire mining entrepreneur Robert Friedland, who lost control of Turquoise Hill in 2012, and says he still owns 8-9% of the company. “People should buy the rights and exercise them hand over fist,” Mr. Friedland… Continue Reading

Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos tells his vision to Charlie Rose on CBS 60 Minutes yesterday. This is an inspiring segment and an incredible publicity coup for Amazon.

An investment advisory group from PI Financial Corp. in Vancouver are writing a solid junior resource client newsletter, called Digging Through The Dirt (DTTD). The authors are Bill Whitehead, 56, Senior Vice President, Adam Simmons, 33, Ph.D. Geology, and Justin Hayek, 29, Certified Investment Manager (CIM). Nine companies are discussed in this month’s DTTD: Macro Enterprises (MCR-v), Desert Star… Continue Reading

The Canadian retail speculator isn’t dead, they just don’t give a damn about mining anymore. LX-Ventures (TSXV:LXV), a publicly traded technology VC founded by Keir Reynolds and led by CEO Mike Edwards, has been on an absolute tear recently, climbing over 600% in 40 days on very strong volume (9 million shares yesterday, for example).… Continue Reading

Graham Farquharson of Strathcona Mineral Services tells The Northern Miner why his company made such a stink about Pretium (TSX:PVG)’s resource model and bulk sample test, ultimately resigning from the project. “Farquharson does not believe that Brucejack is a fraud. He does believe the resource model is wrong and that the actual resource at Brucejack… Continue Reading

John Fitzgerald Kennedy: May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963

What else is a highfalutin mining promoter to do during a global resource downturn than tech deals, obviously. Yesterday Stan Bharti’s Forbes & Manhattan (F&M), a Toronto-based merchant bank well known for their mining and energy promotions, announced that they had advised on a $60 million financing for Mobli, a social media image and video… Continue Reading

Cordoba Minerals (TSXV:CDB) announced a significant but early stage copper-gold porphyry discovery in Colombia earlier, and it caught our attention enough to pick up a few shares at the open this morning (Do your own due diligence!). Read: Cordoba Minerals Announces the Discovery of a New High-Grade Copper and Gold Porphyry System Drilling 101.1 metres… Continue Reading

Simon Ridgway’s Cordoba Minerals (TSXV:CDB), which is in the process of combining with Ari Sussman’s Sabre Metals, and Paul Dias’s Minatura, has discovered a new high grade copper and gold porphyry system at the company’s 26,000 hectare San Matias project in Colombia’s Mid Cauca Gold Belt, drilling an impressive 101.1 meters @ 1.0% copper and… Continue Reading

Readers with interest in learning about famous business personalities ought to check out Ann O’Neill’s profile of CNN’s founder, Ted Turner wants to go to heaven, which is running on CNN.com today. A film about Mr. Turner will also air on the network he founded in 1980 tonight at 7pm eastern, but the article is as… Continue Reading