This morning, Robert Friedland’s Ivanhoe Mines (IVN:TSX) announced a monster hole at their Flatreef platinum project in South Africa.  In hole TMT006, IVN intersected 90.64m of 4.51g/t 4PGE (platinum, palladium, rhodium and gold) 0.37% nickel and 0.20% copper.  Within the 90.64m interval included 40.79m of 6.88g/t 4PGE. “This is an extraordinary drill hole,” said Robert… Continue Reading

NexGen Energy (NXE:TSXV) has completed their first phase of drilling on their Rook I project and announced a summary of their findings.  Rook I is 2.1km northeast of Fission/Alpha’s Patterson Lake South Discovery.  The program was designed to narrow down a large prospective target area, to determine if mineralization existed their and to better understand the geology… Continue Reading

Bruce Duncan’s Canada Carbon (TSXV:CCB) published results of a chemical characterization of material from the company’s 100% owned Miller hydrothermal lump/vein graphite property in Quebec, Canada. The news release suggested graphite from Miller “May be suitable for applications requiring ultra-pure grades, such as some core components of nuclear reactors.” Shares in the company traded heavily… Continue Reading

Bloomberg is out with a great article this morning on the junior mining sector (Hat tip to Jon Jones @ Haywood for forwarding). According to the article, mining acquisitions under $1 billion have slumped to an 8 year low. Additionally, there are 972 mining companies in Canada with no revenue over the past 12 months,… Continue Reading

Petroamerica Oil Corp. (TSXV:PTA), a Calgary-based junior oil and gas company operating in Colombia’s Llanos Basin, has started drilling its La Guira-1 exploration well on the Los Ocarros Block. The well was spud (read: started drilling) October 9, 2013 and is targeting the Mirador, Gacheta and Une Formations which produce at the adjacent Las Maracas… Continue Reading

Readers may remember I jumped on the Ivanhoe Mines (TSX:IVN) bandwaggon on August 16th when the shares were $1.56. They rallied all the way to $2.59 on September 20th, before falling to where they are today, $2.06, because the company announced a $108 million financing at $2, the gold price has been sucking (a proxy for… Continue Reading

PRESS RELEASE VIA REPUBLIC OF MINING Famed mining financier inaugurates Goodman School of Mines lecture series SUDBURY, ON (October 9, 2013) – Laurentian University’s Goodman School of Mines launched its inaugural lecture series today with two lectures by internationally renowned financier Robert Friedland, Chairman and Founder of Ivanhoe Capital Corporation and Executive Chairman and Founder… Continue Reading

Economic geologist Brent Cook, who runs the respected Exploration Insights service, showed us why he’s the best newsletter writer in junior mining in a June 16, 2013 report on Pretivm Resources (TSX:PVG). Cook dissected Pretivm’s Brucejack deposit for subscribers, communicating grade continuity concerns. He explained that he’ll be staying on the sidelines with regards to investing in… Continue Reading

Pretivm Resources (NYSE:PVG, TSX:PVG) shares fell over 30% in early trading on Wednesday with the announcement that Strathcona Minerals Services, a hero in the $6 billion Bre-X Minerals fraud 16 years ago, resigned from their part of overseeing a 10,000-tonne bulk sample test at Pretivm’s Brucejack project. The bulk sample program is highly anticipated in… Continue Reading

Discovery Investing’s Chris Berry says he’s just returned from the SME Global Uranium Symposium last week in Corpus Christi, Texas, with his tail between his legs. “It appears that any “nuclear renaissance” will be delayed for some time due to a confluence of factors…This offers investors perhaps the most precious commodity of all – time… Continue Reading

In a strange turn of events, Pretivm Resources (PVG:TSX) announced this morning that their qualified person overseeing the company’s highly anticipated 10,000 tonne bulk sample program has resigned. Strathcona Mineral Services had been engaged to oversee and report on the bulk sample.  It is unclear from the news release as to the reason for their… Continue Reading

[audio:https://blog.ceo.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Silver-Bull-CEO-Tim-Barry-Discusses-Sierra-Mojada-PEA-Oct-3-2013-With-Tommy-Humphreys-21-min-audio.mp3] Silver Bull Resources (NYSE:SVBL, TSX:SVB) reached an important milestone last week: it released the Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA) for their 100% owned Sierra Mojada silver-zinc project in Coahuila, Mexico. On Thursday, I discussed the report with Silver Bull CEO Tim Barry. The full audio of our conversation is available above and below; but first,… Continue Reading

Mason Graphite Inc. (TSX.V: LLG), a Canadian junior mining company focused on its 100% owned Lac Guéret graphite property in northeastern Québec, has published two video interviews with CEO Benoit Gascon discussing the company and the graphite industry with well known television personalities, Larry King and Jim Rogers. Watch the interviews at www.masongraphite.com.

Lundin Group company, ShaMaran Petroleum (SNM:TSX), received good news on the development of its Atrush block located in the Kurdistan region of Iraq.  The company and its partners received approval from the Kurdistan regional government for the first phase of development there.  This approval allows for a 25-year development license which allows SNM, TAQA and… Continue Reading

Barrick Gold (ABX), the lowest cost senior gold producer, is currently trading at levels which are simply too cheap to pass up. From an investment risk-to-reward standpoint Barrick has rarely been so attractive – Barrick’s enterprise value is back to 2009 levels when the gold price was more than $300 lower: Click to enlarge  ABX… Continue Reading