Lion One Metals (LIO-V, LOMLF-Q, LLO-ASX) The Bullet Points: Lion One Metals just released a very impressive Preliminary Economic Estimate for their Tuvatu project indicating an after-tax IRR of 52% (payback in 1.5 years) and an after-tax NPV over four times the size of Lion One’s current enterprise value. Capital requirements for start-up are light… Continue Reading

This past weekend I attended the Metals Investor Forum hosted by junior mining newsletter writers Gwen Preston (Resource Maven), Eric Coffin (Hard Rock Analyst), John Kaiser (Kaiser Research Online), and Brien Lundin (Gold Newsletter). I had the chance there to speak with Darin Labrenz, CEO of Pure Gold Mining and we discussed their Madsen Project… Continue Reading

A Vancouver-based gold junior operating in Fiji came out with a PEA this morning that has supporters of the company singing its praises. Read: Lion One Announces Robust Preliminary Economic Assessment for High Grade Gold Operation at Tuvatu Project in Fiji. PEA Highlights (all amounts are quoted in $USD utilizing a base case gold price of $1,200… Continue Reading

Following the Q1’15 financial reporting period, two miners announced the suspension of operations during the week; on Thursday, a major diversified miner announced it would implement temporary halts to six Canadian metallurgical coal mines for about 3 weeks during Q3. While only a brief period, the Company has not ruled out additional closure periods during… Continue Reading

Recently I called Anthem the “rising star” of the Toll Milling industry… Today we might have to revise that to simply: The Star. Earlier today Anthem United announced that they will be purchasing a second 350 tpd mill in Chaparra, Arequipa, Peru. So quickly what does this means for Anthem, and Toll Milling in Peru? Size… Continue Reading

by Jennifer S. Getsinger, PhD, PGeo – Resource World June/July 2015 Desert Star Resources Ltd. [DSR-TSXV] of Vancouver, in its newly streamlined form, is concentrating all of its exploration ener- gies on three projects in the southwestern United States: two copper porphyry proj- ects in Arizona and the Anchor gold project in Nevada. Having recently… Continue Reading

Bob Moriarty Archives Back in 1993 silver crashed as low as $3.52 in late February/March. A silver company based in Canada was faced with a serious business decision. What kind of business model do you use when the price of your commodity is sitting at 5000-year lows? A decision was made by the company that… Continue Reading

Via Energy and Gold.com: The TSX-Venture has spent the last 6 months putting in a bottoming pattern (ascending triangle) and running into resistance just above the 700 level. However, a breakout could be close at hand…   The series of higher lows remains intact and the pullbacks have become shallower. The current pullback is testing… Continue Reading

Bob Moriarty Archives I’m going to keep saying exactly what I have been saying for years about Red Eagle. They are financed, they are permitted and they will be in production in a year. I wrote about a new gold mining company in Colombia over three years ago named Red Eagle (RD-V) that went public… Continue Reading

I haven’t done a mining story in a while. Mostly because, mining. If you know a lot of mining guys, you know a lot of guys who have been downsizing for a while now. A few less receptionists, maybe squeeze a couple of companies into one office space, maybe hit a few less conventions this… Continue Reading

Via EnergyandGold.com: A global shift to cleantech is absolutely going to change the world. It’s also going to make some people very rich. One way for investors to cash in on the green energy movement is to invest in graphite. What most resource investors aren’t aware of is that graphite has been placed on the… Continue Reading

Ivanhoe Mines and China’s Zijin Mining Group sign landmark agreement to co-develop the world-scale Kamoa copper discovery in the Democratic Republic of Congo Zijin to acquire 49.5% of Ivanhoe’s Kamoa stake for a total cash consideration of US$412 million Zijin holds option to acquire an additional 1% share upon successfully arranging project financing for 65%… Continue Reading

Comments from Federal Chair Janet Yellen on Friday raised the possibility of an interest rate hike in 2015 as U.S. CPI data showed a three-month annualized inflation rise of 2.6%, a four-year high. The rise in inflation in the U.S. may attract investors to inflation-hedge commodities, especially gold, if the Federal Reserve is slow to… Continue Reading

Peter Epstein, CFA, MBA Twitter: @peterepstein2 Copper Supply Far From Secure, Production Costs Rising It’s widely known that average copper grades have been falling for decades. The conventional wisdom is that the average grade from producing mines is down from about 1.0% to roughly 0.60%. That trend is likely to persist. Labor, energy, water, legal,… Continue Reading

In the late 1990s a small Canadian junior mining company bought an exploration property in southern Peru with a plan to capitalize on the newly opened market after two decades of internal conflict and civil war. Just 100 km north of the Atacama Desert, the driest place on earth, the property consisted of hard earthen… Continue Reading