Just a friendly reminder that Robert Friedland’s Ivanplats has been renamed Ivanhoe Mines and has commenced trading under the symbol IVN on the TSX. Mr. Friedland is touring investors around his properties in South Africa and the DRC this week. Our August 22, 2013 prediction that he would soon send Ivanhoe’s shares above $2 has… Continue Reading

So long Alpha Minerals, you beautiful bastard! Read our past coverage of this tremendous discovery here. Just one week after public talks began to consolidate ownership of the PLS discovery, Alpha Minerals has agreed to sell itself to Fission Uranium for $7.67 per Alpha Share in a news release out this morning. Shareholders of Alpha will… Continue Reading

Stalwart junior resource stock analyst John Kaiser was uncharacteristically enthusiastic in recommending Probe Mines (TSXV:PRB) to Korelin Economics radio subscribers today, saying the company’s Borden Gold project, about 200 km southwest of the Timmins Gold District in Ontario, Canada, has “District scale potential” of its own. Originally Probe Mines thought they had approximately 4 million ounces of… Continue Reading

In reviewing Lumina Copper’s corporate presentation earlier we were amazed at how cool the company’s Taca Taca project looks in photos. This is what the World’s largest copper deposit available for sale (owned by a junior exploration company) looks like. Taca Taca is the “Best deposit in the worst market” Lumina’s largest shareholder Ross Beaty… Continue Reading

It has been quite a year for Fission Uranium CEO Dev Rhandahwa. A year ago his stock wasn’t performing and he was getting beat up on the internet. Then, in classic mineral exploration fashion, Rhandawa’s fate changed. Lukas Lundin’s Denison Mines paid approx. $70m for Fission’s Eastern Athabasca Basin assets, leaving the spinout company to… Continue Reading

Read: What were 2 Shluchim doing on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange? Shared by: Jeb Handwerger

Shares in Petromanas Energy (TSX-V:PMI) are up approx. 65% since the Calgary-based, Albania-focused oil and gas explorer announced an operational update and Q2 results last Thursday. Petromanas is exploring Blocks 2-3 in Albania with super-major Shell (75%). At the Shpirag-2 target (pictured), PMI intends to conduct a controlled test of approximately 350-400 metres of the… Continue Reading

On Friday, North American Nickel Inc. (TSXV:NAN) announced an 18.62 meter interval with heavy sulfides at the Imiak Hill target at the Maniitsoq project in southwestern Greenland. Assays from the drill intercept are still 3-4 weeks away, NAN CEO Rick Mark tells me, however a photo of the drill core embedded in the press release has… Continue Reading

I was very fortunate to get to meet artist Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun at his studio in Vancouver yesterday. Yuxweluptun, born in Kamloops in 1957, is one of Canada’s most accomplished painters. His works are featured in the National Gallery of Canada. I first saw LPY’s art in a CEO.CA post by Joseph Staples last November. His New Chiefs… Continue Reading

Last week I bought some Ivanplats at $1.56 thinking it was too beaten up for the calibre of people and projects it has. Summer months are also historically the best times to pick up junior mining shares. I also just learned that IVP Chairman Robert Friedland (who owns some 135 million IVP shares) will be… Continue Reading

Petroamerica Oil Corp. (TSXV:PTA) just reported net income of $11.2 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2013. A review of the quarter and an Activity Schedule of upcoming catalysts can be found in the news release. Read: Petroamerica Announces Second Quarter 2013 Results and Surpasses 6,000 bopd Production Milestone PTA also announced that they have surpassed the… Continue Reading

Today I got tired of looking at Nevada Copper NCU in my portfolio. The copper junior was promoted to me last year as a no-brainer for M&A (Apparently not yet)… So I sold it and began accumulating Robert Freidland’s Ivanplats IVP. While nothing against NCU’s Pumpkin Hollow project, IVP has three of the best development stage projects in… Continue Reading

The best story in mineral exploration today is the PLS uranium discovery by Fission / Alpha, which has created a land rush in the Southwestern region of Northern Saskatchewan’s Athabasca Basin. Click here for a high res map by way of Rivador Consulting Ltd. Fission / Alpha continue to deliver outstanding market performance and are halted… Continue Reading

Aug. 9 (Bloomberg) — Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp., Latin America’s most valuable non-state crude producer, said buying a light crude producer in Colombia would help reduce transport costs for the mostly heavy oil producer. Increasing low-density crude output would reduce purchases of diluents needed to transport heavier oils by pipeline, Chief Financial Officer Carlos Perez… Continue Reading

Ten days ago, shares in Alberta Oilsands (TSXV:AOS) exploded to the upside when the company announced that the Government of Alberta had cancelled their oil lease at Clearwater, and must repay AOS $51 million (or approx. $.24 per share) plus interest as part of a government compensation framework for cancelled contracts. This is the second… Continue Reading