Sheldon Inwentash’s Pinetree Capital has acquired 18 million shares of Allen Lone’s Augusta Industries (TSXV:AAO) at 5 cents in a private placement (market price for AAO has been 2-3 cents recently), bringing PNP’s total ownership of AAO to approximately 60 million shares or 28.5% of the company. To pay for the financing, Pinetree swapped 3 million… Continue Reading

Dr. John-Mark Staude’s, prospect generator, Riverside Resources (RRI:TSXV) has announced they found a partner in Pembrook Mining (private) to option their Coatan gold project in Mexico.  Pembrook will have to pay Riverside $27,460 in cash and incur $1.8 million in expenditures on the project over the next four years to earn an initial 70% interest.  Then, to… Continue Reading

The Lundin Group’s Lucara Diamond Corp. (TSX:LUC) jumped 11.3% in early trading Friday after the company announced a greater than $1 billion increase in the estimated in-situ value of the Indicated mineral resource at the Karowe diamond mine in Botswana. The growth is credited to the company’s consistent recovery of large and exceptional stones at… Continue Reading

One of the very few Canadian based junior mining companies with any cash is Lowell Copper, which raised $11.4 million earlier this year, with a lead order coming from resource titan Lukas Lundin. Lundin and others backed the junior for the intellectual property of its founder, J. David Lowell, an octogenarian explorationist who pioneered the… Continue Reading

After coming off their huge Patterson Lake South win, the former management team of Alpha Minerals is now running Alpha Explorations (AEX:TSXV) which is a spinout with assets in the Cluff Lake and Patterson Lake areas in Saskatchewan.  They also hold prospective land in the Timmins gold camp area in Ontario.  Today they announced their… Continue Reading

The high-grade veins at Continental Gold’s (CNL:TSX) Buritica project in Colombia continue to grow as drilling expands the areas of known mineralization.  This morning, Ari Sussman (CEO) announced the latest batch of 17 drill holes from his project.  Four of the holes were successful in intersected veins sets that were 200m west of the current… Continue Reading

THE CALANDRA REPORT: Subscribe $91 yearly Also: Sysorex Global, Inovio Pharma Solvista Gold corners Iamgold into a porphyry partnership at Caramanta in Colombia. Takeways: Breathing room for Solista’s Miller O’ Prey and Jeffrey Miller. Bob Allen’s Grupo de Bullet owns a hunk of Solvista (SVV in Canada). Solvista is one of our TCR 8 It… Continue Reading

Robert Friedland’s Ivanhoe Mines (IVN:TSX) has completed  dewatering activities to the main working level of the historic and high-grade Kipushi copper-zinc-germanium-lead and precious-metals mine (68% IVN, 32% state-mining company) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).  The mine’s underground workings were extensively flooded during the previous 18 years when the mine was on care-and-maintenance as a former… Continue Reading

Mark O’Dea’s West African gold development play, True Gold Mining (TGM:TSX) released a robust feasibility study for the Karma gold development project in Burkina Faso.  At $1,250 per ounce gold, the project provides an after-tax NPV(5%) of $180 million and a 43.1% IRR (TGM’s netted amount).  This provides for a payback of the initial $131.5… Continue Reading

Sound familiar?  That’s because Asanko Gold (AKG:TSX) and PMI Gold (PMV:TSX) attempted a merger in late 2012 that was mutually terminated in early 2013 after it became apparent they wouldn’t get the supermajority votes necessary to complete the transaction.  Now, after the largest price decline in gold in over a decade and the substantial derisking that… Continue Reading

Joseph Conway’s Primero Mining (P:TSX) announced this morning it has entered into a agreement to acquire Brigus Gold (BRD:TSX) in an all-share transaction.  Primero will use their stock, which has held its own this year, in an exchange ration of 0.175:1.  This values Brigus at approximately $220 million.  This bid represents a 43% premium to… Continue Reading

Canada Carbon (TSX-V: CCB), Bruce Duncan’s junior mining company focused on the Miller graphite project in Quebec, announced today that the firm had secured 100% interest from Caribou King Resources for an eight claim parcel contiguous to the company’s past producing Miller graphite mine. The acquisition, which would increase the Miller Graphite property to 94.2… Continue Reading

Bruce Duncan’s Canada Carbon (TSX-V: CCB), which is advancing the Miller graphite project in Quebec, announced the results from an additional chemical characterization of graphite concentrate from the company’s wholly-owned Miller Graphite property. The characterization was carried out to finely measure purity beyond the capability of current conventional infrared techniques. The submitted Miller graphite concentrate… Continue Reading

Slowly but surely, consolidation of gold miners in West Africa is picking up again. While we are far from the days when chunks of land in Mauritania sold for more than US$7-billion, there have been two interesting deals announced in the past six weeks: B2Gold Corp.’s US$63-million offer for Volta Resources Inc., and Centamin PLC’s $39.3-million… Continue Reading

Junior mining community organizers, Cambridge House International, are set to host their annual blockbuster Vancouver Resource Investment Conference at the Vancouver Convention Centre this January 19-20, 2014. There are roughly 300 junior mining companies exhibiting (full list), ranging from explorers to developers and even some producers, each likely to be prospecting for investors at Vancouver’s… Continue Reading