Shares in African mine developer Ivanhoe Mines reached a new all time low of $0.68 Monday morning, hovering around $0.71 at press time. The company’s shares have fallen roughly 40% in a week, which prompted to me ask the company’s founder, largest shareholder and Executive Chairman, Mr. Robert Friedland, for an explanation as to the… Continue Reading

Richard L. Bedell is a director and President and Chief Executive Officer of RenGold. Along with Ron Parratt, Richard was a co-founder and Executive Vice President and Director for AuEx. Richard has over 30 years of exploration experience including an adjunct faculty position in Exploration Geophysics at the Mackay School of Earth Sciences & Engineering.… Continue Reading

CEO.ca talked to accomplished mining executive Eira Thomas at the Vancouver Resource Investment Conference January 19, 2015. Ms. Thomas is President and CEO of Kaminak Gold (KAM.V), which is developing the Coffee gold project in the Yukon Territory, with major backers including Lukas Lundin and Ross Beaty. Kaminak completed a PEA in 2014 demonstrating robust… Continue Reading

Mr. Dorward has over 17 years of experience in the mining and finance industries and most recently served as Vice-President, Business Development at Fronteer Gold Inc. He was an integral part of the team that sold the large Michelin uranium deposit, acquired AuEX Ventures Inc., and successfully advanced Fronteer Gold’s properties prior to the Company’s… Continue Reading

As a young man, Peter Tallman fell in love . . . with rocks. It happened with the help of an unwitting 80 year old mentor named Harold, who was given the job of teaching young Peter how to build a stone fireplace. After struggling unsuccessfully to break the first boulder for the job (an… Continue Reading

By Henry Bonner (hbonner@sprottglobal.com) Read online > You might not realize it, but we’re living through an exceptionally slow period for exploration. The ‘junior’ resource sector simply is not making new discoveries. The TSX-V, where most Canadian exploration stocks are traded, is down around 60% in four years. As a result, fewer investors are willing… Continue Reading

There are just a handful of people in the world who have found gold deposits hidden underground profitably. Those that do, often make multiple discoveries. One such goldfinder now entering the sweet spot of his career is Matt Lennox King, 38, CEO of Pilot Gold (TSX: PLG) (www.PilotGold.com), one of the most dynamic mineral exploration… 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

“We got involved with Wheaton River at a time when the gold price was depressed. We had the sense of urgency that the gold price was going to up, and we didn’t have enough gold assets to take advantage of it.” Ian Telfer, Chairman and former CEO of Goldcorp, the world’s top gold miner. Goldcorp… Continue Reading

My friend Peter Tallman is president CEO of Klondike Gold Corp (TSXV:KG), a company that today holds the key claims in the heart of the 1898 Klondike Gold Rush region near Dawson City, Yukon, where some 20 million ounces of placer gold was recovered at surface, with the hard rock source of the gold never… Continue Reading

Electrician turned mining entrepreneur Gianni Kovacevic has two important reminders for investors bailing on the copper sector this morning. The first is that no force in the world can prevent the ascent of man. Over the next decade, another 500 million people will be lifted from abject poverty, Kovacevic says, putting incredible demand on natural resources,… Continue Reading

Although 2015 is only a couple weeks in the books, the beaten down gold developers have so far been on a tear! The GDXJ index is up 19% year-to-date with many of the more leveraged names up even further. Integra Gold (ICG.TSXV), which is developing the Lamaque South mine in Val D’or Quebec has kept pace with… Continue Reading

Shares in Roxgold (ROG.TSX) are up 20% already this year and 35% from their tax-loss influenced low of CAD $0.48 per share in mid-December. This morning, I spoke with John Dorward, President and CEO of Roxgold who was in Burkina Faso last week meeting with the newly appointed Minister of Mines and getting his new General… Continue Reading

January 12, 2015 When China celebrates its new year next month, we will transition into the Year of the Ram, also known as the Year of the Goat or Sheep. If you believe in luck, this could be a good sign. The ram comes eighth in the 12-zodiac cycle, and in Mandarin, “eight” sounds very… Continue Reading

​Yes I failed. The worst idea I ever had — one rooted in the belief that a company could make a difference in the lives ofColombia villagers and their investors — is off another 40 percent in stock price Monday. But then, as a money manager familiar with the Gran Colombia Gold failure just told… Continue Reading