Robert Collison & Peter Raymont, 1983, 57 min 35 s This feature documentary reveals how Bank of Montreal chairman William Mulholland dealt with his debt-laden customers Dome Petroleum and Mexico during the global debt crisis of ’82. Interviews with bankers and financial experts demystify the causes of debt crisis, confirm the fragility of the international… Continue Reading
Repost from Feb 24, 2015. Note, Northern Uranium is drilling again. Keep your eyes on the UNO.V… Chad Ulansky cut his teeth on Ekati, Canada’s first diamond discovery, but it’s uranium that he’s hunting for now in Canada’s frozen North. The Kelowna geologist is president and CEO of Northern Uranium (TSXV:UNO), which is exploring in… Continue Reading
The following was originally published January 13, 2015 for Resource Opportunities subscribers. Often people ask me who I think the next great mining entrepreneur will be. My standard answer is that while there are very few young men and women who can raise money, build teams, acquire assets and develop them in far off places,… Continue Reading
Tommy here… I’m out of range for the next week or so, and have scheduled a few re-posts to keep CEO.CA alive while I’m gone… Here’s a gambling story about the late great media billionaire Kerry Packer from Australia. One casino boss remembered, “I was lucky enough back in the day to actually witness this gentleman… Continue Reading
Cactus Club Cafe founder and CEO Richard Jaffray shared his entrepreneurial journey with over 1000 interested Vancouver-area businesspeople yesterday. Mr. Jaffray participated in an hourlong live interview with BCBusiness magazine founder Peter Legge at the Hotel Vancouver for the annual BCBusiness Top 100 event. Jaffray says the best decision of his life was to become an entrepreneur.… Continue Reading
This morning Toronto-based gold developer Continental Gold (CNL.TO) announced an updated mineral resource estimate for the Buritica project in Colombia. The new resource is based on 271,003 metres of drill core sampling and 7,215 metres of underground sampling over the past eighteen months. Buritica now contains 4.48 million gold ounces in the Measured and Indicated (M&I)… Continue Reading
Bill Gross has founded a lot of startups, and incubated many others — and he got curious about why some succeeded and others failed. So he gathered data from hundreds of companies, his own and other people’s, and ranked each company on five key factors. He found one factor that stands out from the others… Continue Reading
There is so much networking potential at the Subscriber Investment Summits. Case in point: Bitgold (XAU-TSXv). I recently visited Toronto and the buzz on Bay Street was still all Bitgold, a month after the web-based payments and savings platform for gold launched on the TSX-V. Shares in the startup–less than one year old–soared to $8 before retreating. Bitgold… Continue Reading
Yesterday I had the opportunity to meet Vancouver mining entrepreneur Randy Turner. Mr. Turner has been involved with multiple mineral discoveries since the late 1970’s, with the most notable being the Snap Lake diamond mine in Northwest Territories, taken over for a combined $478 million in 2000. Mr. Turner splits his time as the CEO of two… Continue Reading
Canadian diamond explorer North Arrow Minerals (NAR.V) reported disappointing diamond valuation results from the Qilalugac project bulk sample test this morning: The parcel of 383.55 carats of diamonds greater than +1DTC (~1 mm) was valued at $13,795 or $36 per carat and a modelled range of possible values was also produced with a “possible low” model… Continue Reading
The Australian government has done something interesting to reign in excessive foreign speculation in its property market, while simultaneously stoking its struggling junior resource sector, mired in the current commodities downturn. Foreign investors in Australia can qualify for a significant investor visa (SIV) by betting A $5 million on Australia’s economy. The SIV asset mix… Continue Reading
The high-grade Spectrum gold project in British Columbia’s Golden Triangle will see a $3.5 million, 10,000-12,000 metre drill program this summer thanks to $8.1 million in financings by its operator, Skeena Resources (SKE.V). Skeena is led by American businessman Walter Coles, CEO, and Canadian Mining Hall of Famer geologist Ron Netolitzky, Chairman. Mr. Netolitzky helped find… Continue Reading
A Vancouver-based gold junior operating in Fiji came out with a PEA this morning that has supporters of the company singing its praises. Read: Lion One Announces Robust Preliminary Economic Assessment for High Grade Gold Operation at Tuvatu Project in Fiji. PEA Highlights (all amounts are quoted in $USD utilizing a base case gold price of $1,200… Continue Reading
May 31 – June 1, 2015 8:30 am – 5:30 pm Vancouver Convention Centre West 1055 Canada Place Vancouver, BC, V6C 0C3 Canada View Map #Canvest15 Here’s the full agenda. Cambridge House’s Canvest 15 conference kicks off in Vancouver tomorrow. This is a solid event for public venture capital professionals in the mining and technology… Continue Reading
Four of the top newsletter writers in the junior mining industry are hosting a free conference in Vancouver this Saturday (Details), and they’ve brought along ten of their best stories with them. Eric Coffin of Hard Rock Advisory, Gwen Preston of Resource Maven, John Kaiser of Kaiser Research and Brien Lundin of Gold Newsletter will… Continue Reading
