THE CALANDRA REPORT: Subscribe $91 yearly SIEM REAP, Cambodia — Just touched base here with Bob Neill, newest Angkor Gold board member. Bob is the 33-year-old executive from Medellin who handles much of Grupo de Bullet’s property syndication efforts in Colombia. He is just back from touring a handful of ANK’s properties in Ratanakiri Province.… Continue Reading

Endeavour Mining (EDV:TSX), the African gold miner, that currently operates three mines in West Africa has announced commercial production has been reached at its fourth mine; Agbaou in Cote d’Ivoire.  The company expects to grow production by 1/3rd this year, to approximately 400,000 ounces (up from 300,000 ounces in 2013) while reducing all-in costs per ounce below… Continue Reading

West African gold developer, True Gold Mining (TGM:TSX), is developing one of the most intriguing gold projects held by a junior cap company, and has received its final exploitation permit for the company’s Karma gold project in Burkina Faso.  This represents the final permitting hurdle after announcing, earlier this month, that they had received the environmental go ahead… Continue Reading

Fission Uranium Corp (TSXV:FCU) released the first five holes from its winter drill program at the Patterson Lake South (PLS) uranium project in the Southwestern Athabasca Basin region of Northern Saskatchewan. Hole PLS14-129 (line 600E), with 36.72 meters of off-scale (>9999 cps) mineralization at shallow depth, was the best hole drilled at PLS to date by… Continue Reading

Cambridge, England is a university town that hosts a house of higher learning. Cambridge House is a Howe Street abode, a dwelling where hope, fear and greed each have rooms on the same floor (and share a bathroom). And floors and bottoms, of the TSX Venture variety, were something of a theme at this year’s… Continue Reading

Mason Graphite (LLG:TSXV) has announced the closing of its previously announced $700,000 equity financing which was announced in accordance with their 40% investment in NanoXplore Inc, the graphene producer.  The offering was fully subscribed for by Mason’s management as well as Forbes and Manahattan executives and was completed at a significant premium to the market price and… Continue Reading

I just had a call with my friend John-Mark Staude, CEO of Riverside Resources (TSXV:RRI). John-Mark is such an enthusiastic, fun and positive guy and we laughed about the state of the markets while promoting each other on our latest endeavours. Riverside, for those unaware, has a pretty genius business model for a junior mining… Continue Reading

Pilot Gold (PLG:TSX) has released their maiden resource for the KCD deposit on the TV Tower project.  The resource estimate focused on the Kucukdag gold-silver-copper deposit which is the first of several targets on the TV Tower property (40% Pilot Gold/60% Teck Resources).  The estimate was divided into a lower gold zone and an overlying silver… Continue Reading

When searching for opportunities in the junior sector, we like the focus to be on quantitative and empirical data. Sure, everyone likes a good anecdote about geologists kicking over rocks in the middle of nowhere, but the truth is nothing makes us happier than cold, hard numbers. The most difficult aspect of a company to… Continue Reading

This morning, Clive Johnson’s B2Gold (BTO:TSX) released an inferred resource estimate for the Wolfshag zone near the company’s Otjikoto gold project in Namibia.  The Wolfshag zone sits adjacent to the east and northeast portion of the pit for the Otjikoto deposit.  This initial resource estimate was comprised of 703,000 ounces of gold at an average… Continue Reading

Copper and silver mining legend and environmentalist Ross Beaty joined Cambridge House Live at the Vancouver Resource Investment Conference in Vancouver this past Sunday. Beaty is best known for founding Pan American Silver, one of the world’s largest primary silver producers, and the Lumina Copper franchise, one of the most successful copper exploration groups ever,… Continue Reading

Silver Bull Resources (SVB:TSX) provided investors with a recap of the developments they undertook in 2013 which saw them produce an initial preliminary economic assessment (PEA) at their Sierra Mojada silver-zinc project in Mexico.  They also updated the company with their plans for 2014.  The company will aim to derisk Sierra Mojada through advancing permitting… Continue Reading

Norway’s largest domestic non-state owned oil producer, Lundin Petroleum (LUP:TSX) announced fourth quarter and full year 2013 production results today.  The company produced an average of 31,100boe/d in the fourth quarter and 32,700boe/d for the full year average.  In the fourth quarter, Lundin Petroleum received an average price per barrel of US$109.  This remains a… Continue Reading

This morning two high-growth mid-tier gold producers, B2Gold (BTO:TSX) and Rio Alto (RIO:TSX) announced strong fourth quarter and 2013 production numbers.  The performance in the fourth quarter of these two companies shows the strength of this tier of gold company, even in todays environment.  They are producing at record levels and have been able to… Continue Reading

Pilot Gold (PLG:TSX) has made a significant breakthrough in Turkey, by finding a major new discovery of supergene copper underlying the oxide gold zones at the company’s K2 project, part of the TV Tower project (40% Pilot Gold/60% Teck).   According to the Pilot Gold, drilling and surface work suggest that at least two copper-gold porphyry systems… Continue Reading