Cashed up Latin American silver producer and developer, Silver Standard (SSO:TSX) has agreed to divest one of its non-core assets to Argonaut Gold (AR:TSX) for $75 million.  The asset is the advanced-exploration stage San Agustin project located in Durango state, Mexico.  According to a 2009 resource estimate prepared for Silver Standard, the project hosts 1.6… Continue Reading

Disclosure: Author has no formal or informal pecuniary interest in Mega Uranium. However, author has acquired hundreds of thousands of Mega Uranium [MGA.TO] shares in the past three weeks. This investment opportunity is very high risk and is not suitable for most investors. Always do your own due diligence and please consult an investment advisor.… Continue Reading

Glenn McNamara’s Petromanas Energy had its heaviest volume day in history Tuesday. Over 59 million PMI shares traded hands, closing at $.13, up 13%, after the company announced positive testing results at their Shpirag-2 well yesterday (Read: Petromanas and Shell strike oil deep in Albania). Petromanas also announced this morning that Heinz J. Scholz and Werner Ladwein have… Continue Reading

D. Grenville Thomas’s North Arrow Minerals Inc. (TSXV-NAR) has made Canada’s newest diamond discovery at the Pikoo project in central eastern Saskatchewan. North Arrow tested a 209.7 kg sample of drill core from the PK150 kimberlite, which has returned 745 diamonds larger than the 0.106 mm sieve size, including 23 diamonds larger than the 0.85 mm sieve size, according… Continue Reading

Clive Johnson’s B2Gold (BTO:TSX) has released additional results from their 134 hole, 23,500m 2013 drill campaign at the company’s near-term Otjikoto project in Namibia.  The latest results were from the Wolfshag zone which sits immediately east and northeast of the planned open pit for the project.   Results from the Wolfshag zone highlight the potential to… Continue Reading

Seventeen months after the Shpirag-2 well started drilling in Southern Albania, Petromanas Energy (TSXV:PMI) and joint venture partner Royal Dutch Shell have finally released testing results from the $75 million exploration well on Albania’s Blocks 2-3. PMI and Shell announced a discovery at Shpirag-2 today, with flow rates of 1,500 to 2,200 barrels per day… Continue Reading

[audio:https://blog.ceo.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Rick-Rule-CEO.CA-Nov-4-2013-Tommy-Humphreys-Audio.mp3] Sprott USA Chairman Rick Rule, the Carlsbad, California based natural resource financier with nearly four decades of experience, joined us for a conversation earlier today on the current mining bear market, which is approaching its third anniversary. As expected, Mr. Rule was upbeat, and sounds to be making the most of the opportunities being… Continue Reading

Alpha Minerals (AMW:TSXV) and Fission Uranium (FCU:TSXV), the joint venture partners who continue to advance the Patterson Lake South discovery in Saskatchewan, announced this morning that they discovered a sixth mineralized zone in a step-out hole drilled 525 metre’s from the original discovery zone.  The new zone, R600W, is on a 1755m trend with all five high-grade… Continue Reading

Doug Forster’s Newmarket Gold Inc. (TSXV:NGN) may be a breath of fresh air to Canada’s mining sector. The company has experienced executives touting optimism and looking for acquisitions in a gold mining market where few buyers exist. Then again, it could end up another failed TSX-venture shell, waiting on the shelf for the next dream… Continue Reading

Robert Friedland’s Ivanhoe Mines (Disclosure: Long) has provided an update on its Kipushi copper-zinc-germanium project in the DRC. Kipushi is one of three flagship assets that Ivanhoe is currently developing, and today’s news release shared a lot of news. Here it is in its entirety: Ivanhoe Mines Reports Ongoing Dewatering at Historic Kipushi Mine in… Continue Reading

Best in-class Colombia gold developer, Continental Gold (CNL:TSX), released assay results from the latest 13 drill holes from the Veta Sur and northern Estera systems at the Buritica project in Colombia.  Highlights include: hole BUUY149 which encountered 0.5m of 101.5g/t gold and 20g/t silver and hole BUUY353 which encountered 2.5m of 12g/t gold and 37g/t… Continue Reading

Bob Quartermain’s beat up, Pretium Resources (PVG:TSX) has released assay results from ten underground holes and provided a more positive update on the ongoing 10,000-tonne bulk sample work.  Highlight assay results include 12.22m of 201.21g/t gold uncut including 0.5m of 4,830g/t gold uncut.  The drilling continues to intersect super high-grade and narrow veins of roughly… Continue Reading

THE CALANDRA REPORT: Subscribe $91 yearly What follows is probably the most emotional, and highly charged, subsistence mining drama taking place in the gold world. The drama is running in Colombia. We have been tracking Buriticá — because I know the company, I know the project, I think I understand the shades of green and… Continue Reading

After much speculation surrounding B2Gold’s (BTO:TSX) current M&A mandate, Clive Johnson has pulled the trigger on a relatively small acquisition; agreeing to buy Volta Resources (VTR:TSX) and their Kiaka gold deposit in Burkina Faso for shares with a total deal value of $63 million.  BTO has agreed to purchase VTR using their shares in an… Continue Reading

East African oil and gas explorer, Africa Oil (AOI:TSXV) has shutdown two significant oil blocks; Block 10BB and Block 13T.  According to the release, AOI’s operating partner, Tullow Oil has agreed to shutdown activities at these two blocks in Kenya due to local protests surrounding employment issues.  The release notes that this is a precautionary… Continue Reading