Renowned Chinese journalist Chai Jing has produced a groundbreaking documentary on China’s pollution problems. The film has received almost 80 million views on youkou (Chinese version of Youtube) and is being discussed just about everywhere in Asia. Even Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s HK research team called this a ‘turning point’ in their daily research… Continue Reading

I interviewed mining and oil tycoon Lukas Lundin for the Financial Post’s PDAC edition which is in print today. Mr. Lundin talks about how he’s positioned his family natural resources empire for the next 1-4 years. Read: PDAC 2015: Lukas Lundin sets lofty goals as he re-enters gold game Mr. Lundin said a lot of… Continue Reading

Arizona prospector Dave Lowell was born to find hidden treasure. The 87-year-old prospector is probably the world’s best mine finder, having discovered an amazing 17 ore bodies. And as it turns out, he’s a fine writer as well. In his new autobiography, titled Intrepid Explorer, Mr. Lowell vividly recalls a lifetime spent in mining and… Continue Reading

A tight community of stock brokers, promoters and Canadian diamond investors saw some excitement today as North Arrow Minerals (NAR.V), a diamond explorer with active projects in Nunavut, Saskatchewan and elsewhere in Canada, halted its stock pending news. Over at our financial news chat application, chat.ceo.ca, users started speculating whether it would be drill results… Continue Reading

The oil price crash of late 2014 has been especially harsh on small-cap producers, and Colombian focused E-P Petroamerica Oil (PTA.TSXV) is no exception. Its shares have fallen over 70% since September 2014. The company reported December 31, 2014 year end reserves yesterday evening (NR here), focusing on 2P volumes of approx 8.1mmboe and a 2P… Continue Reading

Chuck Fipke and Chad Ulansky’s Northern Uranium Corp (UNO.V), which we featured on CEO.ca yesterday, provided an exploration update for the company’s North West Manitoba property, where exploration is focused on the Maguire Lake area. The news release, authored by Northern President and CEO Chad Ulansky, describes “spectacularly encouraging” alteration observed while drilling an intense… Continue Reading

Chad Ulansky cut his teeth on Ekati, Canada’s first diamond discovery, but it’s uranium that he’s hunting for now in Canada’s frozen North. The Kelowna geologist is president and CEO of Northern Uranium (TSXV:UNO), which is exploring in northwestern Manitoba just beyond the eastern edge of the prolific Athabasca Basin. Ulansky got his start as… Continue Reading

Investing in junior mining is highly speculative, but a thriving business model which significantly de-risks a company in this industry is the prospect generator. A prospect generator partakes in the business of exploration through powerful partner-funded networks to pay for the majority of exploration costs. The core model is to build a portfolio of targets… Continue Reading

The following article was adapted from the August 27, 2014 issue of Resource Opportunities, our premium newsletter (the video below was taped in December 2014 and just released this morning). North Arrow is a presenting sponsor at our upcoming Subscriber Investment Summit in Toronto on February 28th, at a truly critical time for the company. Only a… Continue Reading

Via EnergyandGold.com, The mining industry is continually depleting its inventory, which is why it has always been an M&A led business. Junior companies find and develop new deposits and then mid-tiers and majors take them out. This has been the way of the miners for generations. There are few undeveloped high quality gold projects in… Continue Reading

Thanks to CEO Chat friend Luc ten Have for bringing this to our attention yesterday: Feb 12, 2015: Second Exceptional Intercept of 82m at 20.4 g/t Gold and 1.94% Copper at Hot Maden Prospect, Eastern Turkey And here are the maps. This is a follow up to a Feb 2, 2015 news release: Impressive Intersection of 103m @ 9.0… Continue Reading

I just got off the phone with the Petroamerica Oil CEO Ralph Gillcrist in Calgary. The company has been under intense selling pressure in recent weeks, after having declined approximately 75% since September. Clearly, investors in PTA were caught off guard in the oil price crash, myself included. Ralph’s message was Petroamerica has a strong… Continue Reading

North Arrow Minerals (NAR.V) is a promising diamond exploration company with a portfolio of projects in Northern Canada. The company has extremely successful backers in the diamond industry, with Gren Thomas serving as Chairman, and his daughter Eira Thomas acting as an advisor to North Arrow. The Thomas’s led the Diavik diamond discovery in the… Continue Reading

During a period of polarizing precious metals and industrial commodity pricing, Rick Rule, Chairman of Sprott U.S. Holdings was kind enough to share a few comments—opining on global counterparty risk, resource capital markets, capitulation, and more. When I asked for his expectation of a final capitulation sell-off in resource markets, Rick noted that, “We came… Continue Reading

On February 13th last week, Torex Gold Resources Inc. (TXG. TO) a Canadian gold development company with operations in Mexico, announced that 11 of the 13 company workers who had been abducted the week before had now been safely returned. As a result, construction activities at Torex’s main gold development project, its El Limon Guajes… Continue Reading