Deep below the surface of Mongolia’s southern Gobi desert, men and machinery are laying the foundation for a mining enterprise that will drive the country’s economy for decades to come. Shaft 2 at Oyu Tolgoi’s underground mine expansion is 1.3 kilometres deep and will provide access to some of the largest stores of copper and… Continue Reading

Prior to the Ivanplats IPO in 2012, the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg had both published articles speculating on an offering value of up to a billion dollars (the IPO was eventually completed as a $300-million offering). The company was founded by Robert Friedland, one of the best known mining developers, and had assembled three… Continue Reading

Kaminak Gold (KAM-V) bolsters its ranks with another ex-Stornoway hire, appointing Zara Boldt as CFO and corporate secretary today. Boldt has common history with Kaminak President and CEO Eira Thomas: she was the ex-CFO of Stornoway Diamonds (SWY-T) and Strongbow Exploration (SBW-V), where Thomas also held key positions. Thomas, who joined Kaminak in 2013, was… Continue Reading

Streaming company Sandstorm Gold (SSL-T) has made one of its biggest forays into the royalty business yet, acquiring 56 royalties from diversified miner Teck Resources for US$1.4 million in cash and $20.6 million in shares (at $3.57/share). The assets offer diversification geographically (33 are in North America) and across various project stages. Four of the… Continue Reading

Kaminak Gold is one of the few junior gold explorers moving full speed ahead with its flagship Coffee Gold Project despite challenging market conditions; the economics at Coffee are simply too compelling.    Last week Energy & Gold had the opportunity to catch up with Kaminak Gold (KAM.V) CEO Eira Thomas and VP of Corporate… Continue Reading

The Young Mining Professionals Toronto (YMPT) is back, and excited to announce we will be hosting Pierre Lassonde as our distinguished speaker on Thursday, February 18, 2016 at Hy’s Steakhouse in Toronto. Pierre Lassonde is the Founder and Chairman of the world’s leading gold-focused royalty and streaming company, Franco-Nevada. Mr. Lassonde is an authority on… Continue Reading

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

It’s an active start to the week for Athabasca Basin uranium plays, and NexGen Energy (NXE-V) is leading the way with another batch of stellar assays from its Arrow project. Also in the southwestern Basin, Fission Uranium (FCU-T) announced a final agreement and offtake deal with China’s CGN Mining on its Triple R deposit. The… Continue Reading

Rubicon made deep cuts to resources at its Phoenix gold project and signaled the end to its ambitions to bring the deposit, which has seen near $1 billion in exploration and development spent on it, to production. A revised resource, updating a 2013 estimate, paints a dramatically different picture of the Phoenix project, in the… Continue Reading

CEO.ca – Like an over-excited Jack Russell chasing a rabbit, the scent of fresh core beckons and I scramble to learn what I can of new drilling programs. As is the game, most exploration programs come to naught. But some don’t. So it goes. Wag my tail. I don’t know if this will turn into a… Continue Reading

Drilling Los Helados. Source: NGEx CEO.ca – For the first time NGEx Resources pulled together the 60%-owned Jose Maria and Los Helados copper-gold deposits into a single mining scenario – now called the Constellation project – in a preliminary economic assessment. It’s big. NGEx, about 19.9% owned by the Lundin family trusts, had previously envisioned a… Continue Reading

Kaminak Gold (KAM-V), a popular gold play among junior mining investors, halted the stock then released a Feasibility Study just after the close today. The FS details a 10-year, open-pit heap-leach mine yielding an after-tax internal rate of return of 37% and NPV of $455 million (at a 5% discount). The economics have improved since… Continue Reading

I was curious to hear about Euromax Resources’ view of the road to final financing on the Ilovica copper-gold project in Macedonia, after the company released a no-big-surprises feasibility study this morning. London-based Steve Sharpe, president and CEO, answered his phone and after some wrangling with Skype’s poor quality, we chatted for 10 or so… Continue Reading

I catch up with Sulliden Mining (SMC-T) this morning to hear about its new president, Paul Pint, and what working role he will fill. Sulliden – spun off from “old Sulliden,” a predecessor company that was taken over by Rio Alto – owns stakes in a few juniors like Belo Sun and Falco, and also… Continue Reading

Today I join the CEO.ca team. On the one hand it’s a seamless shift for me. As at Mineweb and the Northern Miner, my previous homes as a writer and editor, I’ll be helping the CEO.ca team produce crack stories about exploration and entrepreneurs. On the other hand it’s a new adventure. Tommy and his… Continue Reading