The world is at a tipping point for mass production of low cost batteries, according to thirty one year old geologist, journalist and entrepreneur Simon Moores, who is about the embark on a World Tour discussing critical metals. This shift will have a huge impact on the raw materials driving it including graphite, lithium and… Continue Reading
Huge news in junior mining. Frank Giustra, a highly successful and controversial mining financier, with ties to President Clinton, is getting behind one of the richest and arguably most controversial deposits in all of mining. And of course I’m talking about Northern Dynasty Minerals’ (TSX:NDM) Pebble deposit in Alaska, vetoed under the Clean Water Act by the EPA in 2014.… Continue Reading
Good morning from Vancouver, Here are a few junior resource and investing headlines from CEO.CA Chat: Paladin Energy founder John Borshoff has stepped down after 21 years at the helm of the embattled uranium producer. With approx $530 million USD in long term debt (versus $282 million market cap), Paladin has struggled in the post… Continue Reading
Montan Mining (MNY.v) is a small junior miner in the process of acquiring the Mollehuaca Gold Processing Plant in Peru for US $3.3 million. The Plant will allow Montan to process ore for Peru’s formalized small-scale miners, and potentially make a profit in good and bad metals markets. This morning, Montan announced it had secured… Continue Reading
The Sprott Stansberry Natural Resources Symposium is underway at the Fairmont Hotel in Vancouver. This is an excellent gathering for 50-60 junior resource companies that do business with Sprott, a world leader in natural resources investing, as well as roughly 750 retail and professional investors from around the Globe who follow the Sprott and Stansberry… Continue Reading
Canadian stocks are priced in real-time based on investor interpretation of all publicly available information. Investors can and should apprise themselves of important information about the companies they own (including through brokers) by reading relevant www.SEDAR.com filings for a balanced description of the business, financial statements and even management compensation details. Investors should also keep… Continue Reading
Vancouver’s junior mining community is mourning the loss of Ryan Fletcher, the 31 year old co-founder, director and interim CFO at Montan Mining, and a former director of Zimtu Capital. Mr. Fletcher was remembered by friends and business partners in CEO.CA chat yesterday evening, with especially moving comments from Montan co-founder Luis Zapata. “Ryan was… Continue Reading
Red Eagle Mining (TSXV:RD) has been a junior miner on a mission over the past year, raising roughly its market cap in equity and triple that in debt to build the fully permitted and now fully funded Santa Rosa gold mine in Colombia. To quickly review the company’s to-do-list this past year, Red Eagle published… Continue Reading
“In our business, you make it taking shots.” Ron Netolitzky, 2014 Canadian Mining Hall of Fame inductee Prospector Ron Netolitzky found his footing exploring for uranium in the northern Saskatchewan muskeg while oil patch consulting on the side, but it was in the mountains of northwestern British Columbia that he found his fortune. In the… Continue Reading
Haywood Securities Inc. is one of Canada’s leading independent investment firms, with deep expertise in the early stage mining, energy and technology sectors. Each week, Haywood’s Mining Team publishes the Weekly Dig, which covers the mining news week that was. This week, the following companies are mentioned: $NXE $CS $EDR $FVI $LSG $MND $SVL $AKG $KDX $TGM… Continue Reading
Here is the first recorded presentation by new Sabina Gold and Silver (SBB.TO) CEO Bruce McLeod, mining engineer. The presentation was taped at Gwen Preston’s Metals Investor Forum in Vancouver on May 30, 2015. Mr. McLeod was introduced by veteran junior mining analyst John Kaiser, who commented, “at forty cents, [Sabina] is not just a bottom… Continue Reading
Repost from earlier this year. Editor will be back next week… PDAC 2015: Lukas Lundin sets lofty goals as he re-enters gold game Legendary mining and oil tycoon Lukas Lundin has never been modest about his goals. So his latest targets probably shouldn’t surprise anyone, as eye-opening as they might sound. “I want Lundin Mining… Continue Reading
Repost from Mar 2015… Robert Hirschberg is a Toronto, Canada apparel industry entrepreneur and investor. For the past thirty five years, Mr. Hirschberg has been an active speculator in junior mining penny stocks, one of the highest-risk segments of all investing markets. In this video, you will hear how Mr. Hirschberg parlayed $20,000 at the… Continue Reading
Repost from January 2013 [editor is away this week], and easily one of CEO.CA’s best-of… 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
I am back in Africa this week and off the grid, which means posting will be light. The last time I was there, in Feb 2014, Robert Friedland showed me around Ivanhoe’s African projects. Here’s what I had to say about them at the time… The reality distortion field, made famous by Steve Jobs’ biographer Walter Isaacson,… Continue Reading
