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:

Economists expecting “substantial declines over the next year or two”. The recent Global Forecast Update (Scotia Bank, 2013) illustrates how deleveraging of the private and public sectors coupled with geopolitical unrest, an expanding income gap, and euro zone unemployment could still put the moderate global economic recovery into a tailspin. The Update supports central banks… Continue Reading

It was a challenging year for the Yukon’s mineral exploration industry. At least that’s what Lee Pigage, the head of mineral services for the Yukon Geological Survey, is telling attendees at the annual Mineral Exploration Roundup Conference this week in Vancouver. “There was still a very decent amount of expenditure (in 2012) but it was… Continue Reading

Odgers Berndtson are global leaders in executive search and recruitment for mining and other industries. The other day we were talking discovery with respected gold geologist Brent Cook (full interview to be published next week). In our conversation we asked Brent to name a few explorationists investors should follow; the names of people Brent would… Continue Reading

New regulation complicates Canadian companies’ ability to raise capital at home and abroad. Source: British Columbia Securities Commission.  See also: BCSC to End Finder’s Fees for Capital Raising Except by Registered Dealer (Clark Wilson). BCN 2013/01 Notice and Request for Comment – Proposed Revocation of BC Instrument 32-513 Registration Exemption for Trades in Connection with Certain Prospectus-Exempt… Continue Reading

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

To some, Vancouver is a collision of condo towers, a mecca for mining companies or a promoters’ paradise. It is all of these, of course, and much more. Last night I tweeted this photo of Vancouver and the Lower Mainland from space, courtesy of Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield’s Twitter account (a must-follow). Hadfield has been tweeting unearthly photos and… Continue Reading

I really hate the word culture sometimes. It means a lot of different things to different people and seems to be applied to many things that to me don’t qualify but to others are valid. One person’s culture is anothers knitting club. How you define culture is up to you and like we talked about… Continue Reading

Hairy Legs, Elizabeth Znovar, 2012 Macaulay & Co. has been taking shape over the last 7 years into an important view of Vancouver’s contemporary art scene outside of the usual suspects. The focus ranges between both newly established conceptualists from the grad classes of the early 2000’s (Mark Soo, Jeremy Shaw, and Elizabeth Znovar) and… Continue Reading

Three Mining Pros Take The Reins At Prophecy Platinum Prophecy Platinum Corp. (NKL), has scored a major talent coup by attracting a trio of credible and experienced mining executives to advance its flagship Wellgreen platinum, nickel and copper project in the Yukon Territory. We had the opportunity to sit down with new CEO Greg Johnson… Continue Reading

In spite of falling iron ore prices, a group of well known insiders from Oceanic Iron Ore Corp have reached into their own pockets to move their Hopes Advance project in Quebec’s Labrador Trough forward. We had the opportunity recently to connect with Oceanic’s chairman and former president of Teck Resources, Steven Dean, and Oceanic’s president, Alan… Continue Reading

Clueless Capital: An Interview With the World’s Youngest, Most Charmingly Oblivious Hedge Fund. NYMag “Avoid the Canadian tradition of nit-picking the ambitious and original.” Conrad Black: As Quebec decays, Toronto seizes greatness. National Post Robert Frank: Texas Postal Worker Is Artist Behind Hermes Scarves. CNBC Photo: Hermes Blood, Sweat, and Piers (Morgan). Vanity Fair

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

Come see how Canadians are solving global commodity shortages, and learn how to make inflation your friend. Dear Readers, We’d like to take this opportunity to invite you to the 2012 Toronto Resource Investment Conference at the Sheraton Hotel. Headlining the event are resource entrepreneurs Brent Cook, John Kaiser, Lawrence Roulston and Keith Schafer. These… Continue Reading

The Parti Quebecois’ narrow election victory yesterday gave the province’s long-suffering separatists something to cheer about – at least until deadly gunfire from a lunatic introduced tragedy as Pauline Marois celebrated her political party’s win. The election outcome, not to mention the gunfire, likely put a bit of a scare into people – especially outside… Continue Reading