CanAlaska Uranium (TSXV:CVV) is full of surprises. This morning, CanAlaska announced a $12.5-million deal with Cameco (TSX:CCO), Canada’s largest uranium producer, to explore the West McArthur property near two of Cameco’s high-grade uranium deposits. Here’s a summary of the terms: $725,000 cash to CanAlaska and $5 million in exploration at Grid 1 and Grid 5… Continue Reading

Sandspring Resources’ Toroparu project in Guyana is the fourth largest gold deposit in South America currently held by a junior Toroparu contains ~10 million ounces of near-surface gold mineralization in all categories, amenable to simple metallurgy Experienced backers include Silver Wheaton, the John Adams / Energy Fuels group (Denver, CO) and Frank Giustra’s Fiore Group… Continue Reading

Economic geologist and financier Cal Everett has beenappointed CEO and Director of Pilot Gold (TSX:PLG), a Nevada- and Turkey-focused mineral exploration company with a diverse portfolio of projects. Everett is one of the best-known institutional salesman and capital markets advisors in the mineral exploration business. He spent 12 years with BMO Nesbitt Burns, 7 years… Continue Reading

A small mineral exploration company may be in the early innings of a new diamond discovery in Canada– but will need some capital and further evidence to support its theory. On Thursday, CanAlaska Uranium (TSXV:CVV) announced the staking of 75 kimberlite targets in Saskatchewan’s NW Athabasca Basin. The targets were developed from a 2011 airborne… Continue Reading

It was mushrooms that brought Shawn Ryan to the Yukon, but gold that secured his fortune and reputation. Specifically, soil sampling leading to the discovery of gold, millions of ounces of it. His Yukon exploits also brought him a measure of fame — the prospector appeared on the cover of the New York Times Magazine… Continue Reading

Since topping out above US$4.50/lb in 2011, copper has fallen by more than 50% to a recent low of $1.94/lb. The 5-year copper bear market can be primarily blamed on soft Chinese demand and bloated Chinese copper inventories resulting from the 2009-2010 Chinese economic stimulus plan. But there are some technical signs that the copper… Continue Reading

Or the one that has found it, for that matter. Peter Tallman, Klondike Gold (KG-V) President and CEO, explains. “Going back a year, we have an intercept in a drillhole of effectively a nugget of gold that is about 100 metres away from where the largest nuggets in the Bonanza and Eldorado creeks came from,… Continue Reading

Canada’s top uranium producer has a significant new discovery nearby to one of its largest existing mines. Cameco Corporation revealed in its quarterly MDA filing on SEDAR Friday initial figures for the Fox Lake deposit at the Read Lake project in Saskatchewan’s Athabasca Basin, which has seen continuous drilling since 2008. “… first time reporting for the Fox… Continue Reading

“There’s a new thing I don’t know much about, a discovery by Erdene in Mongolia,” Cook said on his way to the Erdene booth to look over drillcore from Erdene’s latest gold discovery in Mongolia, the Bayan Khundii gold project. “Really interesting results. I’m going to learn what I can.” Erdene President and CEO Peter… Continue Reading

At the Vancouver Resource Investment Conference last week, veteran junior mining analyst John Kaiser described the scene as a survivor’s ball. “This is the cream of the crop assembling into this place,” Kaiser said. He continued, “We will never, ever again see such an assembly of management talent, inside juniors with good projects, a lot… Continue Reading

Invictus MD Strategies (CSE:IMH) is a small public company founded in 2014 to take advantage of opportunities in the cannabis space. The company was founded by Dan Kriznic, a Vancouver-based entrepreneur and Chartered Accountant. Dan previously helped build one of the largest private education and real estate investment firms in Canada as an acquisitions-focused Executive… Continue Reading

Carlin Trend gold explorer Gold Standard Ventures (GSV-V) landed a C$16.1-million investment from Goldcorp (G-T) this morning, fortifying its treasury to explore and build ounces in Nevada’s Railroad-Pinion district. The deal was done at $1/share, a gravity-defying 11% premium to Friday’s closing price. Goldcorp takes a 9.9% stake on an increasingly crowded shareholder registry. OceanaGold… Continue Reading

Source: CanAlaska Uranium (CVV) In Canada’s Athabasca Basin, home to the world’s highest-grade uranium mines, leading developers NexGen Energy, Fission Uranium and Denison Mines are duking it out for the top market-cap spot. Meanwhile, tiny prospect generator CanAlaska Uranium (CVV-V) keeps making moves of its own. This morning, CanAlaska announced that Denison plans to poke a… Continue Reading

Robert Friedland was inducted into the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame earlier this month, and this morning`s news out of Ivanhoe Mines (IVN) offered another demonstration why he belongs there. Ivanhoe announced a major new copper discovery, Kakula, about 5 kilometres west of its existing Kamoa resource in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Kamoa is… Continue Reading

There’s a high-value junior mining investment conference in Vancouver tomorrow (Saturday). Four independent newsletter writers — Brent Cook and Joe Mazumdar of Exploration Insights, Eric Coffin of Hard Rock Advisors and Gwen Preston of Resource Maven — and a dozen of their top picks are hosting the Metals Investor Forum (MIF) at the Pan Pacific Hotel.… Continue Reading