It was a challenging year for the Yukon’s mineral exploration industry. At least that’s what Lee Pigage, the head of mineral services for the Yukon Geological Survey, is telling attendees at the annual Mineral Exploration Roundup Conference this week in Vancouver. “There was still a very decent amount of expenditure (in 2012) but it was… Continue Reading

Our readers have been hearing about Petroamerica Oil Corp. ($PTA) since August, 2012. Since then, we’ve been covering the Colombian-focused oil and gas junior closely — and we’ve done well owning the shares. Sunday evening, PTA management convened in Vancouver for a round of investor meetings today. We were able to join PTA’s Executive Chairman… Continue Reading

The Mackenzie Valley Review Board has released its Report of Environmental Assessment and Reasons for Decision for Fortune Minerals’ NICO gold-cobalt-bismuth-copper project. This is a significant milestone for the NICO project, see: Fortune Minerals receives Environmental Assessment Board approval for the NICO mine & mill

Shares in Petroamerica Oil Corp symbol $PTA dropped 8.9% to .36 cents Friday on 6.23 million shares after the company reported a dry hole at their CPO-1 prospect in Colombia, but the real story of the day was the flash crash at the open to 27.5 cents. This looks like a stop loss induced flash crash, and an investor with… Continue Reading

Odgers Berndtson are global leaders in executive search and recruitment for mining and other industries. The other day we were talking discovery with respected gold geologist Brent Cook (full interview to be published next week). In our conversation we asked Brent to name a few explorationists investors should follow; the names of people Brent would… Continue Reading

Eric King of King World News interviewed Franco Nevada Chairman Pierre Lassonde yesterday. Here’s the audio link -> Commenting on the capital markets for miners, Lassonde told the interviewer, “We’re in a period where essentially the market is closed for junior and the smaller, intermedia, one mine companies, they can not raise any money. The valuations are probably the… Continue Reading

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New regulation complicates Canadian companies’ ability to raise capital at home and abroad. Source: British Columbia Securities Commission.  See also: BCSC to End Finder’s Fees for Capital Raising Except by Registered Dealer (Clark Wilson). BCN 2013/01 Notice and Request for Comment – Proposed Revocation of BC Instrument 32-513 Registration Exemption for Trades in Connection with Certain Prospectus-Exempt… Continue Reading

The unapologetic promoter behind Newstrike Capital and other ventures shares his latest and greatest ideas. TH: Keir, last year you were pitching us on a web startup called Stockmash, which aimed to crowd source investment ideas. What’s the latest there? KR: Ah, yes, I sold it to another company last year that was more advanced in crowdsharing… Continue Reading

Mining in British Columbia Today By Gavin Dirom, President at AME BC, at MiningFeeds. While grassroots mineral exploration activity appears to be down in 2012 compared with 2011, there were many advanced exploration projects including New Gold’s Blackwater (Stock Profile – TSX:NGD), Pretium’s Brucejack (Stock Profile – NYSE:PVG & TSX:PVG), Seabridge’s KSM (Stock Profile – TSX:SEA)… Continue Reading

With special thanks to Odgers Berndston, global leaders in executive search, for supporting this production. Click here to launch the video in Youtube, or scroll to the bottom of this article. The Atascosa Ranch is walking distance from the US/Mexico border, just outside of Nogales, Arizona. It’s owned by Dave Lowell, an affable 84-year-old man… Continue Reading

Two bros make a short film together about a legendary miner. When we were kids my older brother Adam used to beat the pulp out of me. He gave up when I outgrew him and we have been good friends ever since. Now I get to exact revenge on him every time we play golf.

At most events, you can predict precisely what’s going to be said, and by whom. …  The first law of screenwriting is that the hero of a great movie is transformed during the arc of the story. That’s the goal of a great conference, as well. But it’s difficult indeed, because there are so many… Continue Reading

The Haywood uranium banking team is keeping busy as they have arranged/ advised for Denison to purchase Fission Energy in stock and subsequently spin out one of their exploration assets that is generating a lot of interest in the Athabasca basin, the Patterson Lake project.  This move further solidifies Denison as the consolidator of strategic assets the… Continue Reading

From The Financial Post The panel spent time discussing the “atmosphere” which existed at Scotia towards the end of Mr. Berry’s employment. “It is clear that serious issues, mostly relating to his compensation, had arisen.” In each of the two prior years to Mr. Berry’s dismissal, he had earned $15-million, when CEO Rick Waugh made… Continue Reading