I was passionate when I was throwing hard pointed rocks at other little kids. “I hit him!” My friends and I would climb around construction sites, pretending they were forts. And throw rocks at each other until we were caught by parents. By adults. Fun! Einstein found his passion because he wondered what a man… Continue Reading

New friendly offer trumps Goldcorp by 11%. Osisko unveils $3.9-billion deal with Yamana Gold, Agnico Eagle. Globe and Mail If this isn’t a sign of the bottom in junior resource stocks, we don’t know what is. BlackRock shuts Evy Hambro’s small-cap mining fund. Citiwire James Kwantes with the latest on Pretivm. Mining executive Bob Quartermain goes for gold… Continue Reading

Yamana Poised to Prevail in Fight for Osisko. Bloomberg “The long-term production of some of those oil-rich wells may be overstated.” Old Math Casts Doubt on Accuracy of Oil Reserve Estimates. Bloomberg Recent gains in junior resource stocks will need to be consolidated, Sprott Chairman Rick Rule tells Eric King. A full on bull market for the sector… Continue Reading

“Investors in most Canadian provinces are likely to start getting pitches from companies to buy a little more of stocks they already hold.” Boyd Erman: Regulators approve easier way for companies to sell stock (Globe and Mail / Streetwise subscribers only) Uranium / Athabasca Basin “Among the most technically challenging mining projects in the world” Cameco’s Cigar… Continue Reading

Monday Petronova, Pacific Rubiales Farm In Worth Another Look – Black Spruce Merchant’s Sonny Mottahed Mining tycoon Ross Beaty is back and he’s funding gold exploration in Brazil Tuesday NexGen Energy Announces $10 Million Bought Deal The power of family and service to community Wednesday LX-Ventures CEO Mike Edwards determined to move share price, limit… Continue Reading

It’s really humiliating to ask for money from people. When I was a venture capitalist I hated everyone who asked me for money. And I hated my partners who pretended like they had the ability to make important life or death decisions over people. All we really wanted to do was make a lot of… Continue Reading

McLeod-Williams zinc play, Full Metal Zinc (FZ:TSXV) announced that it intends to acquire the San Andres Silver Project in Durango, Mexico.  The project is brownfields and comes with a 300tpd mill and tailings facility, supposedly costing $6 million.  From 1890 to 1915, the property is said to have produced some 17 million ounces of silver. … Continue Reading

When Glencore and Xstrata merged earlier this year in a $30 billion deal, the Chinese regulators demanded that Glencore sell its Las Bambas mine in Peru by September 30, 2014 in order for them to approve the massive merger.  It appears that Chinalco Mining, the listed copper arm of the state-owned Aluminum Corp of China is interested… Continue Reading

Fission Uranium (FCU:TSXV) and Alpha Minerals (AMW:TSXV) announced further results from their $6.95 million, 44 hole, 11,000m drill and ground geophysics program at their Patterson Lake South (PLS) deposit in the Athabasca Basin of Saskatchewan.  The companies announced drilling results including hole PLS13-080 which encountered 13.41m composite off-scale mineralization including 7.6m of continuous off-scale mineralization.  This… Continue Reading

Capstone Mining (CS:TSX) announced today that it would acquire the right to earn up to 70% of the Project Providencia from Sociedad Quimica y Mineral de Chila S.A. (SQM).  The property is somewhat strategic in that it sits approximately halfway between Capstone’s Santo Domingo Project and Anglo American’s Mantos Blancos copper mine. SQM is a… Continue Reading

Fission Uranium (FCU:TSXV) and Alpha Minerals (AMW:TSXV) announced the results of an additional four drill holes from their Patterson Lake South Deposit (50/50 Joint Venture) in the Athabasca region of Saskatchewan.  The two are in the process of completing a $6.95 million, 11,000m drill and ground geophysics program on the project.  Drilling highlights included 18.5m… Continue Reading

Paladin Energy (PDN:TSX), which was halted yesterday, resumed trading today after announcing it was cancelling the sale of a minority interest in the Langer Heinrich Mine in Namibia and is instead going to issue 15% of its outstanding share capital at a 30% discount to the market.  Needless to say, the market isn’t happy, with shares down… Continue Reading

Canacol Energy (CNE:TSX) provided production results from its wells in Colombia and Ecuador.  CNE’s total corporate production in July averaged 10,120 boepd, of which 7,027 bopd was crude oil with another 3,093 boepd of gas.  Month over month growth in total corporate production was 17.5% (8,616 boepd in May and June) and 22% (5,794 bopd)… Continue Reading

Wade had sex with Karen and now I had to fire him. She was our top designer. And he was also starting to make fun of one of my partners behind his back. He’d do that roll-the-eyes thing whenever my partner spoke.

I limped out of the meeting and said, “excuse me”, and took the elevator down 67 stories, went to Grand Central, limped home, and never went back to work at that job. I never returned the constant phone calls and emails over the next month. “James, where did you go?” For all I know my… Continue Reading