Father and son Ben and Garrett Ainsworth may have lead Alpha Minerals and JV partner Fission Energy to the radioactive mother lode on a new frontier in the Athabasca Region of Northern Saskatchewan. Not long ago, Alpha Minerals, formerly ESO Uranium, was a dog of a stock. Trading at just $.02 last October, chances of… Continue Reading
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Check out this incredible 3D Tour of the Sistine Chapel. Turn up your speakers for the full experience… Source: Vatican
I have just signed the Venture Funding Crisis Committee’s petition: “British Columbia Securities Commission: Please review the proposal to revoke the NW Exemption.” For those unaware, the Northwest Exemption enables unlicensed finders to be compensated for introducing certain accreddited investors to private placements. Vancouver VC Praveen Varshney commented, “We need more sources & means of fundraising… Continue Reading
Early in 2013, the BC Securities Commission moved to ban unlicensed finders from accepting fees as a result of introducing accredited investors to private placements. The BCSC concluded that approximately 1% of capital raised would be impacted by the decision. However on February 28, 2013, TSX Venture Exchange President John McCoach wrote in a letter to… Continue Reading
Daniela Cambone of Kitco News talks with Nolan Watson of Sandstorm Gold at last week’s PDAC conference in Toronto. Of note Watson is very bullish on his recent Entree Gold transaction, saying it could go down as the best streaming deal in history. He is moderately bearish on gold for the next 18 months, saying… Continue Reading
A new post by my brother Adam Humphreys at Thought Catalog. How To Get Scalped tcat.tc/XVbT6W — Thought Catalog (@ThoughtCatalog) March 6, 2013 Reminds me of this:
“By 2025, which is tomorrow morning in geologic time, and at the scale in which we invest in mining, 630 million people, or 14 per cent of the world’s urban population, and 8 per cent of all the people walking on this planet, will live in 37 megacities,” he said. “As you build those cities,… Continue Reading
Junior mining needs an ad network. Recently I asked a prominent US financial blogger if he would sell me a “Sponsored Post” to help one of my venture investments tell their story. The post was credible and I was responsible for its quality. I also wanted to help the publisher make some money, but he shut… Continue Reading
There are those who work all day; those who dream all day, and those who spend an hour dreaming before getting to work to fulfill those dreams. “Go into the third category,” his father said, “because there’s virtually no competition.” Source
An incredibly inspiring look at the career of entertainment mogul David Geffen.
Another gem from PBS exploring three generations of Rockefellers, featuring interviews with American historian Ron Chernow and others.
Read: Up close and personal with Google’s visionary new computer By: Joshua Topolsky, The Verge
A look at the personality of one of America’s private equity pioneers, the late billionaire Teddy Forstmann. Read: The Ghost in the Gulfstream | By: Rich Cohen, Vanity Fair
