“One drill hole changes the game. It’s very hard to decide who gets to make it and who doesn’t. It’s a big gate, and yet very few make it through. But you have to let them try.” — Lukas Lundin “Did you know you were getting the better end of that deal with Kinross?” I… Continue Reading

Topics include NexGen Energy, Fission Energy, Alpha Minerals and Denison Mines. Recorded April 24, 2013.

Despite dramatic headwinds in both the uranium and exploration industries, Canadian explorer NexGen Energy has cornered the Athabasca Basin’s two best, recent uranium discoveries. On March 11, 2011, the uranium industry was devastated by the nuclear catastrophe at the Fukushima power plant on the west coast of Japan. The black swan event also coincided with… Continue Reading

Alpha Minerals Reports 53m of 6.57% U3O8 With 10.5m of 29.26% U3O8 at Patterson Lake South JV, SW Athabasca Basin Industry sources continue to be amazed with the quality of this discovery. Press release, Stock quote.

Alpha Minerals Inc (C:AMW) Shares Issued 20,400,561 Last Close 4/8/2013 $4.10 Alpha Minerals Inc. has entered into an agreement with Salman Partners Inc., Cormark Securities Inc. and Raymond James Ltd. pursuant to which the underwriters have agreed to underwrite the offer and sale of 1.2 million flow-through shares and 500,000 non-flow-through units of Alpha Minerals… Continue Reading

On a day when junior resource stocks are getting absolutely hammered, Alpha Minerals (TSXV:AMW) has announced the first official coverage of the company, by Rob Chang, Cantor Fitzgerald, with a BUY (Speculative) recommendation. At press time, shares in the Athabasca Basin focused uranium explorer were off 12.3% or 57 cents to $4.06. Considering Chang’s recommendation was at… Continue Reading

This morning Skyharbour Resources announced they have acquired a land package in the Southwestern Athabasca region in close proximity to the Fission/Alpha Minerals discovery. Shares in the junior exploration company (TSXV:SYH) traded up 10% to six cents by press time. The company has been around for over ten years but inactive as of late save for a rollback in… Continue Reading

Nice news out from Alpha Minerals and JV partner Fission Energy this morning. Read: ALPHA MINERALS DISCOVERS THIRD ZONE OF URANIUM MINERALIZATION AND “OFF-SCALE” RADIOACTIVITY 780 METERS EAST OF ORIGINAL DISCOVERY AT PATTERSON LAKE SOUTH, ATHABASCA BASIN. This continues to demonstrate a very strongly mineralized multi-zone corridor. Shares in Alpha Minerals had reached as high as $4.30 by press time.… Continue Reading

Father and son Ben and Garrett Ainsworth may have lead Alpha Minerals and JV partner Fission Energy to the radioactive mother lode on a new frontier in the Athabasca Region of Northern Saskatchewan. Not long ago, Alpha Minerals, formerly ESO Uranium, was a dog of a stock. Trading at just $.02 last October, chances of… Continue Reading

Good news can still move the needle, at least in the uranium space. Alpha Minerals recently announced a uranium discovery in Saskatchewan’s Athabasca Basin. Here’s the 12 month AMW.v chart:

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

Starting an investing blog covering the junior mining sector requires some preparation. So I trekked up Howe Street and east on West Georgia to the Vancouver public library, where I borrowed Fleecing the Lamb: The Inside Story of the Vancouver Stock Exchange, by David Cruise and Alison Griffiths. Published by Douglas & McIntyre in 1987, two… Continue Reading

Quiet, Understated, Marathon-Running Retail Banker Antony Jenkins Brought In To Run Barclays. Bloomberg Scotiabank Makes $3.13B No-Frills Bet on ING. Financial Post After Bloody, Violent Strike, Lonmin Miners & Management Make Amends, Prepare To Resume Mining Operations In S.A. Bloomberg SkySurf, Founded By Ottawa Businessman Raed Almasri, Bought Canadian Air-To-Ground Internet Service Rights For $2.1… Continue Reading

Private Saskatchewan uranium exploration concern expands.