A World of Mining special – Part 2 of 2 Part 1: Chasing the carat: Canada’s Queen of Diamonds comes full-circle Stornoway Diamonds’ hostile takeover of Ashton Mining and Quebec’s Renard diamond project in January 2007 was followed by an exodus of Ashton executives and managers. Several departed for Peregrine Diamonds, which is advancing its flagship… 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.

A World of Mining Special – Part 1 of 2 This is a story about Eira Thomas, dubbed the “Queen of Diamonds” for her role leading the geologists who discovered the kimberlite pipes that became the Diavik diamond mine. Diavik, Canada’s second diamond mine, produced 1.9 million carats of the sparkling stones in the fourth quarter… Continue Reading

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

by Stockwatch Business Reporter Richard Angus Bruce McDonald, the promoter who found the Casa Berardi gold mine in Quebec, has died, age 73. His colleagues will remember him dearly as a capable fundraiser, an admired mentor and a kind friend. Mr. McDonald is credited with turning around a 1980s mining market that was cooling off… 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

With the market the way it is right now, some junior exploration companies are simply not going to survive. Since most of them are in Vancouver, we thought the city’s commercial real estate might offer some insight into which ones will. We spoke with one Downtown Landlord about their experiences with resource companies as tenants.… Continue Reading

No-rail advantage puts Oceanic’s Hopes Advance project before Asian steelmakers for potential partnership. Iron ore is the key ingredient used to make steel. The majority of the seaborne trade, that is, iron to be shipped to other countries, goes to China. An oligopoly exists today whereby China is forced to rely on Big 3 producers… Continue Reading

Source: “Junior Venture Exchange Needs Cleansing” says Rick Rule of Sprott Global Resource Investments. Small Cap Power Q: The Canadian junior market and the resource juniors continue to struggle as investors shy away from them despite the TSX and Dow Jones trading at very good levels. When do you see the junior markets starting to perform again?… Continue Reading

With special thanks to Odgers Berndston, global leaders in executive search, for supporting these interviews. Meet Brent Cook: seasoned geologist and the mind behind Exploration Insights, one of the most credible and influential gold stock newsletters in the world today. We recently caught up with Brent in Vancouver, and asked him to share some of… Continue Reading