Peregrine Diamonds (PGD-V) The peregrine falcon is known for its high-speed dive, which can reach speeds of more than 300 km-h (186 miles-h) as it descends on an unwitting target. Peregrine Diamonds’ stock has undergone more of a low-speed dive since April highs of the high-.30s – it’s been trading near 52-week lows of 14… Continue Reading

The growth outlook in both Asia and Europe, in addition to retail sales in the U.S., all conspired to batter metal prices this week, resulting in significant declines in mining equities. This was reflected in the S&P/TSX Global Base Metals and Global Mining Indices, which both fell to 52-week lows, finishing at 68 and 45.3… Continue Reading

Rick Rule on BNN Market Call (November 12, 2015) Rick Rule, chairman of Sprott Global, made an appearance on BNN Market Call last night discussing precious metals stocks. BNN host Catherine Murray sat in for regular host Mark Bunting. Rule said that weak global demand is the cause of the price slide in many commodities. For investors with… Continue Reading

Dear HRA Free List Readers, If you’ve been on the list for a while you would have seen two earlier emails about Sunridge Gold (SGC-V; SGCNF-OTCQX). The first was in April when the stock was trading at about 14 cents on the TSX. The second came in September after Sunridge received its mining licences for… Continue Reading

Good morning, investors, a few news releases of note on a quiet-ish day in the markets. Shares of Nevada explorer Nexus Gold are halted pending company news, but they won’t be releasing it until tomorrow, chairman Alex Klenman confirmed in an email. The delay prompted some chatter in CEO Chat, but we’ll see tomorrow. GoldQuest… Continue Reading

Lucara Diamond Corp’s (TSX: LUC) third quarter results, released on November 5th, showed a strong average price-per-carat sold in the period, primarily driven by the previously released results from the first “exceptional” diamond sale of the year (those estimated to sell for at least $1 million) and a overall greater recovery of higher-value stones in… Continue Reading

RENO, Nevada — ​Mac Jackson is Gold Standard Venture’s exploration chief. Like the Nevada prospector’s CEO, he and his co-workers are youngish — late 30s, early 40s. I imagine most of them were not born when the Carlin Trend “became” a gold trend in Nevada sometime in the 1960s. Gold Standard Ventures’ ​latest reverse-circulation drill… Continue Reading

Excerpted with permission from Brent Cook’s Exploration Insights newsletter Before discussing the recent results published by Rubicon about its Phoenix project, it is important to state that every mineral resource estimate has risks associated with its accuracy. Most informed investors know that some of these risks are highlighted by placing the estimated tonnage of mineralization… Continue Reading

Independent mine consultant Tim Oliver described Rubicon Minerals’ Phoenix mine as “toast” in CEO Chat on Oct. 5 and this morning he appeared on BNN to elaborate. Shares of Rubicon Minerals (RMX-T) have been hammered, dropping from $1 to 0.20 in the past month after environmental problems, a temporary shutdown order and finally, Tuesday’s announcement… Continue Reading

It’s been a quiet year for Mark O’Dea’s Pilot Gold (PLG-T) on the Kinsley Mountain front, but this morning the company released an initial resource estimate for the 79% owned Nevada deposit. For all types of mineralization, the company reported a total resource of 405,000 oz indicated at average grades of 2.27 g/t Au, as… Continue Reading

The province of B.C. announced today it has initiated an environmental assessment of IDM Mining’s Red Mountain underground gold project near Stewart in northwestern B.C. IDM submitted the project description to provincial and federal goverment agencies in the summer, following two years of environmental baseline studies covering areas including surface and groundwater quality, hydrology, archeological assessments,… Continue Reading

Mineral exploration entrepreneur Randy Turner has a strong track record in the mining business. He’s been involved in multiple discoveries and takeouts, including founding Winspear Diamonds (sold for C $305 million in 2000) and Silver Quest Resources (sold for $131 million in 2011). When New Gold acquired Silver Quest in 2011, they were after the… Continue Reading

A few news releases of note on a fairly quiet Monday morning – it must be the post-Halloween chocolate hangover. Continental Gold (CNL-T) Continental Gold has provided an update on its environmental permitting process, which it is working closely with Colombia’s national government on. Continental now expects to file a revised environmental permit application to… 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