Mining in British Columbia Today By Gavin Dirom, President at AME BC, at MiningFeeds. While grassroots mineral exploration activity appears to be down in 2012 compared with 2011, there were many advanced exploration projects including New Gold’s Blackwater (Stock Profile – TSX:NGD), Pretium’s Brucejack (Stock Profile – NYSE:PVG & TSX:PVG), Seabridge’s KSM (Stock Profile – TSX:SEA)… Continue Reading

There are strange things done ‘neath the midnight sun by the men who moil for gold. The arctic trails have their secret tales that would make your blood run cold. The northern lights have seen queer sights but the queerest they ever did see, was that night on the marge of Lake LeBarge I cremated… Continue Reading

In one of the most interesting interviews I’ve had the chance to take part in all year, I spoke with JP Fortin, Vice President & General Manager of OSD Slurry Pipelines. If you haven’t yet had the chance to sit down and learn about slurry and slurry pipelines, it’s fascinating technology. What I learned from… Continue Reading

Romney Takes First Debate. New York Times The end of the Great Migration: China’s workers return home. Marketplace Also: Free trade with China still a decade away, Brian Mulroney says. Globe and Mail What future for Egypt’s wealth? Al-Ahram BlackRock Leads Firms Poised to Win From Hedge Fund Ads. Bloomberg Billionaire Glasenberg Bets on Coal Rebound With Xstrata: Energy.… Continue Reading

By James Kwantes, World of Mining Second in a series (Read Part 1 here) “Opportunity can go by in a day.” Norman Bell Keevil, Sr. Norman Bell Keevil was born on a Saskatchewan farm in 1910. In his first life, Keevil was an academic, studying math, chemistry and geology at the University of Saskatchewan before getting… 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

Fed Wants Inflation Now, Will Clean Up ‘Mess’ Later: El-Erian. CNBC Gross Sees No End to QE3 Until U.S. Unemployment Drops to 6%–From The BLS Stated Rate of 8.3%. Financial Post Brazil’s Mantega Warns of Currency War, Calls QE3 ‘Protectionist’. CNBC Bananas, World’s Most Traded Fruit, Headed Higher In Price. Bloomberg ‘Smart’ Money Targeting Low-Priced Coal Assets. Globe and Mail Gold… Continue Reading

QOTD: “You hang around for as long as I have and they start giving you awards… Twenty years earlier they wanted to put you in jail.” Peter Brown, Chairman of Canaccord, BCBusiness George Kalmar, Prominent Toronto Businessman and Holocaust Survivor, “Who Arrived With A Pregnant Wife and Just $7.50 In His Pocket” Passes Away Peacefully At The Age of… Continue Reading

Greg Weldon’s Macro Market Update Audio. Weldon Financial Greg’s update focuses solely on Gold and Silver, with perspective on … … Gold’s med-term technical breakout … Gold’s longer-term technical position … the decline in the US Dollar Index … Gold ‘priced-in’ Eurocurrency … Gold ‘priced-in’ Yen … the new RECORD HIGH in Gold ‘priced-in’ Brazilian Real… Continue Reading

Business risks facing mining and metals 2012 – 2013 (photo:E&Y) Link directly to the report now. I wanted to bring your attention to an informative report put out by Ernst & Young on the current state of M&A within the mining sector (see link below).  Some highlights of the report include: Due to increasing capital… Continue Reading

The shale gas revolution has come as a surprise to many, and could be a game changer. Click the infographic to expand.

A fun story for mining and US history buffs and an argument for continued strength in copper demand. Stanford University, located in Palo Alto, California, and today known as the epicenter of technology, has graduated untold thousands of students. However, as with most top schools in the world, few of those graduates have chosen mining-related careers. But… Continue Reading

Pimco’s Gross Forecasts U.S. Growth At 1.5% Over Decade. Bloomberg Four Real-World Investing Rules That Should Be Taught in Schools. Minyanville Conrad Black: BRIC’s spectacular rise, not so spectacular after all. National Post Lundin Mining to invest up to 750mln euros in Portugal-minister. Reuters What the U.S. Can Learn From Australia’s Coal Mines. Bloomberg Billionaire VC Vinod… Continue Reading

And it’s Friday the 13th… QE, or not QE? An assessment of the most controversial weapon in the central banker’s armoury. Economist “Economic history is a never-ending series of episodes based on falsehoods and lies, not truths.  It represents the path to big money.  The object is to recognize the trend whose premise is false,… Continue Reading