The best way to make money as a mining investor is by owning a company that has exploration success, or being on the right side of commodity price moves. Last year, NexGen Energy (NXE-TSXV) delivered us 95% share price increases thanks to their Athabasca Basin uranium discovery, Arrow. But we’re holding out for a bigger… Continue Reading

Good morning investors, A quick look at some of last night’s more interesting insider filings: First Mining Finance (FF-V) – CEO Keith Neumeyer banked some more shares of his gold-focused mineral bank, buying 47,000 shares yesterday at 32 cents a share. Neumeyer, who also runs First Majestic Silver, has been a voracious buyer of First… Continue Reading

Osisko Gold Royalties (OR-T) expands stake in Barkerville Gold Mines (BGM-V) Sean Roosen’s Osisko Gold Royalties has picked up a royalty and added to its stake in Barkerville Gold Mines through a $10.24-million private placement of 32 million flow-through common shares at 32 cents a share. Osisko will pay $25 million for the 1.5% NSR… Continue Reading

Canada’s Athabasca Basin is arguably the best place to look for uranium in the world, and it’s the backyard of Cameco, the world’s largest producer. A few small exploration companies have been able to find and delineate uranium deposits there and make money for shareholders by selling them to majors such as Cameco. CEO.CA has… Continue Reading

Good morning, investors. Time to go long baby formula and diapers? Chinese couples will now be allowed to have two children after the country’s Communist leadership lifted a one-child policy instituted in 1980 to address fears of a population boom. The population boom happened anyway but now economic concerns have taken centre stage`. China is facing the… Continue Reading

The Toronto office of Warren Irwin, hedge fund manager and CEO of Rosseau Asset Management, is decked out with memorabilia from Bre-X Minerals Ltd., the largest and most famous gold mining fraud in history. Irwin made a fortune as a young money manager trading Bre-X stock. He had heard about the Indonesia-focused exploration company in… Continue Reading

Eastern Platinum (ELR-T) “Where there’s smoke, there’s fire,” the saying goes. In the case of Eastern Platinum, the smoke was the multiple delays in closing a deal that would have seen a Chinese buyer pick up Eastern Platinum’s PGM business in South Africa. The flames arrived yesterday after the market close when Beijing Hehe Fengye… Continue Reading

The Athabasca Basin is back in play after a planned merger between Denison Mines and Fission Uranium fizzled, the companies announced this morning. Two-thirds approval was required from Fission shareholders but they shot down the much-criticized all-share deal, which had dragged down the stocks of both companies since it was announced July 6. News release:… Continue Reading

Good morning investors and speculators, Hope everybody had a good Labour Day weekend, news in the junior resource world is coming fast and furious to start out the four-day trading week. NexGen Energy: The Athabasca Basin’s hottest uranium play reported assay results from six angle drill holes, and they are impressive. The highlights – AR-15-49c2… Continue Reading

Get Gwen Preston’s research via email. Subscribe at ResourceMaven.ca. The Venture index is now down almost 2,000 points from its March 2011 high, a 75% slide fueled by gold’s 40% haircut, copper’s 45% decline, silver’s 66% cut, platinum’s 50% fall… That was bad. Then China devalued the yuan and things got even worse. Copper sank… Continue Reading

Permitting progress. A first gold pour. Drill results. Takeovers and asset sales. Miners and explorers are still getting things done. An environmental assessment green light. A first gold pour. Drilling results. A takeover aimed at an in-development U.S gold mine. The sale of half a massive copper mine for a billion dollars. Things are still… Continue Reading

Via EnergyandGold.com: Yesterday, a Vancouver-based mineral exploration company drilled one of the best holes in the history of uranium exploration. NexGen Energy’s (NXE.TSXV) AR-15-44b resulted in 56.5 meters grading 11.55% including 20 meters at 20.68% U3O8, and shares in the junior company soared 10.45% Monday. The result was widely hailed by the analyst community. Cantor… Continue Reading

This morning, NexGen Energy (NXE.TSXV) released news that looks significant. They released 4 new holes (AR-15-39, -39w, 40b and 41) which appear to prove that the A3 shear zone which was only just recently discovered is potentially larger than the A2 shear (which hosts the best-to-date hole AR-14-30). AR-14-30, which was drilled as the company’s first vertical hole,… Continue Reading

The Athabasca-basin in Northern Saskatchewan is the world’s most prolific uranium producing region. For several decades, small “junior” companies have explored the Basin for economic uranium deposits, with the lucky few being taken out by larger companies at substantial premiums. Shares in Fission Uranium are up over ten fold over the past three years when… Continue Reading

Shares in Athabasca-Basin uranium explorer NexGen Energy (NXE.V) climbed 13.8% in early trading Tuesday, last at $0.37, following a news release announcing a large new radon anomaly 400m NE and along strike of the company’s 2014 Arrow Zone discovery. Radon in water is no guarantee of an additional discovery, but the surveys were successful in… Continue Reading