Robert Friedland’s Ivanhoe Mines (IVN:TSX) and the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) in South Africa jointly announced today that the mining right for the development and operation of the Platreef project has been finalized and work can resume immediately. Work at Platreef, which will be one of the world’s largest platinum mines, had been delayed since May… Continue Reading
After pre-marketing their latest venture, Denham Capital, which is one of the largest resource-focused private equity firms, announced the formation of Auctus Minerals, to focus on acquiring underperforming operations across Australia and applying operating efficiencies to them in order to turn a profit. The venture is being funded with US $130 million (initially) from Denham and will… Continue Reading
The Sunday Times of London reported overnight that Mick Davis’ X2 Resources has made a bid for some of Anglo American’s Chilean copper mines, their Brazilian nickel assets, and some of their coal operations. If successful, this would represent Davis’ first acquisition since he left as head of Xstrata after the merger with Glencore in 2013, and could… Continue Reading
For those that haven’t had access to the internet or TV today, the West African country of Burkina Faso’s government has collapsed and is essentially in complete disarray. After a day of violent protests, the military seized power and effectively dissolved the country’s parliament. This is a surprise, coming out of one of the more… Continue Reading
Amid the doom and gloom of the resource markets, two small cap focused boutique investment firms have decided to combine their shops in an attempt to gain size and weather the storm. This morning, Toronto-based Mackie Research announced it would be acquiring the oil and gas boutique, Jennings Capital. Jennings was founded in Calgary by Rob… Continue Reading
“We are contrarian, value-oriented investors in private equity, credit and real estate,” is what Apollo Global says on its website. The firm which was founded by Leon Black in 1990 out of the ashes of investment bank Drexel Burnham Lambert is a pioneer in the private equity space. Today it manages over $150 billion globally… Continue Reading
John Alfred Paulson is an American hedge fund manager and billionaire who heads Paulson & Co, a New York-based firm he founded 20 years ago. He manages nearly $25 billion in assets for global clients. In 2007 Paulson made his name and a large part of his personal fortune (now estimated at $13.5 billion) betting big… Continue Reading
The Lundins focus on Chile is continuing today, this time with more news from portfolio company, NGEx Resources (NGQ:TSX). “Chile’s biggest new copper-gold camp” is posted all over NGEx’s website and the company believes that they not only have large deposits (3 of them to be exact), but that they are sitting on an entire… Continue Reading
The Lundin name has been synonymous with large deals in the mining space (Lundin Mining and Fortress Minerals) as well as big new oil discoveries in Norway (Lundin Petroleum) over the past few weeks, however, today that trend was bucked with their African oil explorer (aptly named Africa Oil (AOI:TSX)) trading to new 52-week lows… Continue Reading
A relatively unknown European-focused gold developer called Euromax Resources (EOX:TSXV) has a market cap of just $26 million, but yesterday it secured a $175 million streaming deal with the world’s largest gold streamer, Royal Gold. That’s nearly 8x its current market cap. Euromax’s management is made up of most of the former European Goldfields executives who sold that… Continue Reading
In what looks to be a classic example of “first mover advantage’, the billionaire Lundin family is acquiring one of the best gold projects in the world, in the worst market in decades. Lukas Lundin’s Fortress Minerals is acquiring the Fruta del Norte (FDN) gold project in Equador from Kinross Gold for $240 million in cash and stock. The… Continue Reading
As reported earlier (here), billionaire Swede Lukas Lundin has been in talks with Kinross and the Ecuadorian government for a potential deal on the infamous high-grade gold deposit known as Fruta del Norte. After 5,200 shares traded today, the Lundin Group shell, Fortress Minerals (FST.H:TSXV) was halted pending news. As we speculated earlier, this would… Continue Reading
NGEx Resources (NGQ:TSX) is the only pure-play mineral exploration vehicle in the Lundin Group of Companies, one of the most successful natural resource development groups in the world. NGEx is developing a trio of staggeringly huge copper deposits on the Chilean-Argentine border that contain a total of over 28 billion pounds of copper and 19 million ounces… Continue Reading
The opportunity to buy a $1 bill and pay only $0.50 for it was created earlier this year in the shadow of the largest gold M&A deal of the year. The $3.6 billion acquisition of Osisko was announced in April when Goldcorp made a hostile offer for the Canadian gold miner and ultimately saw Agnico-Eagle/Yamana jointly outbid… Continue Reading
On the back of Mexico opening up its oil sector to foreign investors for the first time in 76 years, Colombia’s largest state-owned oil company, Pacific Rubiales (PRE:TSX) has decided to join in. The company, which produced 149,011 boepd (net) in Q2, signed a 3-year memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Mexico’s state oil company Petróleos… Continue Reading
