THE CALANDRA REPORT: Subscribe $91 yearly SAN DIEGO — Inovio Pharmaceuticals (INO in USA), a DNA vaccine developer I sidestepped for four years, is having success with a Middle Eastern virus. INO shares are raging today. Inovio’s J, Joseph Kim, via a persistent biz-dev executive, Bernie Hertel, has been on me, professionally, since 2009. Inovio… Continue Reading

LUBUMBASHI, The Democratic Republic Of The Congo – Mining promoter Robert Friedland has released a preliminary economic assessment for a major Congolese copper discovery that he says could be one of the world’s lowest-cost producers. A preliminary economic assessment released Monday by Friedland says a two-phase mine at the site could be worth US$4.3 billion… Continue Reading

November 14th 2013, Vancouver, BC, Canada – Canada Carbon Inc. (the “Company”) (TSX-V:CCB) is pleased to announce that it has received the final modeling results from the Geotech VTEM airborne survey performed over the East claim block of the Miller graphite property (refer to news release, October 8th, 2013).  The inversion modeling allows the three-dimensional definition of… Continue Reading

According to a private source close to China’s largest gold producer, China National Gold Group, that group is looking at investing in Robert Friedland’s Ivanhoe Mines (IVN:TSX).  The source claims the state-owned China National Gold is interested in acquiring a stake in Ivanhoe’s Platreef project.  The Platreef project is a thick, high-grade Flatreef platinum-palladium-gold-nickel-copper-rhodium deposit in South… Continue Reading

With the gold price unable to meaningfully breakout this year, gold miners have been increasingly conscious of the quality versus quantity of the ounces they produce.  The West African gold miner, Endeavour Mining (EDV:TSX), led by Neil Woodyer (Founding Partner of mining finance firm Endeavour Financial) and a slew of other mining executive powerhouses, has been consistently lowering… Continue Reading

[audio:https://c03c06.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Rick-Rule-CEO.CA-Nov-4-2013-Tommy-Humphreys-Audio.mp3] Sprott USA Chairman Rick Rule, the Carlsbad, California based natural resource financier with nearly four decades of experience, joined us for a conversation earlier today on the current mining bear market, which is approaching its third anniversary. As expected, Mr. Rule was upbeat, and sounds to be making the most of the opportunities being… Continue Reading

GREENWICH, CT, Oct. 31, 2013 /CNW/ – On October 21st, 2013 FrontFour Capital Group LLC (“FrontFour”) and a like-minded shareholder (the “Requisitionists”) announced that they had served the board of Renegade Petroleum Ltd. (“Renegade”, or the “Company”) (“RPL-V; RPTTF-O”) with legal notice of their requisition of a special meeting of shareholders. FrontFour also demanded the… Continue Reading

Robert Friedland’s Ivanhoe Mines (Disclosure: Long) has provided an update on its Kipushi copper-zinc-germanium project in the DRC. Kipushi is one of three flagship assets that Ivanhoe is currently developing, and today’s news release shared a lot of news. Here it is in its entirety: Ivanhoe Mines Reports Ongoing Dewatering at Historic Kipushi Mine in… Continue Reading

East African oil and gas explorer, Africa Oil (AOI:TSXV) has shutdown two significant oil blocks; Block 10BB and Block 13T.  According to the release, AOI’s operating partner, Tullow Oil has agreed to shutdown activities at these two blocks in Kenya due to local protests surrounding employment issues.  The release notes that this is a precautionary… Continue Reading

According to our CEO Technician, Ivanhoe Mines has a $3 short term technical target if shares in the African mine developer close above $2.50 today. Related: What is a Cup and Handle pattern? Last week, Ivanhoe was upgraded by CIBC World Markets analyst Leon Esterhuizen from “sector perform” to “sector outperform” with a $4.50 price… Continue Reading

TODAY is Friday the 13th (again) and the last school day before spring break.  Of much lesser importance (to a couple of my children anyway), today is school report card day. My husband and I used to love it when my kids brought their report cards home. It was exciting to see how they were… Continue Reading

Here’s my pal Zach Flood, exploration geologist with Concordia Resource Corp. (TSX:CCN), making friends in the DRC this past August. Zach and I were housemates in boarding school 12 years ago. He’s from Reno, Nevada originally and now lives in Vancouver. Concordia is in the midst of a corporate reorganization and Robert Friedland is becoming… Continue Reading

With gold set for its first annual decline since the year 2000, Goldman Sachs, the outspoken pessimist of the gold markets, put out a report summarizing their expectations for third quarter earnings.  The focus of the piece was Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) gold miners and was titled “3Q earnings previews: Lower gold price… Continue Reading

163,000 shares of buying was enough to send Newstrike Capital Inc. (TSXV:NES), a Vancouver-based, Mexico-focused gold exploration company run by Richard Whittle and backed by the Lundin Group, up 13 cents or 15.6% Monday. Last Thursday, Newstrike announced that an airborne geophysical survey flown over the company’s Aurea Norte property generated fifteen high priority exploration targets,… Continue Reading

The Lundin Group’s Lucara Diamond Corp. (TSX:LUC) reached a 52 week high of $1.25 Friday, with shares in the African diamond producer closing at $1.23 on approx. 700,000 shares. Lucara’s shares have more than doubled since the company entered production at its 100% owned Karowe diamond mine in Botswana in August, 2012 (Related: A New Age… Continue Reading