NOT COLARADO — Better than gold? Maybe. The Precious Metals Summit webcast is in gear. This is the Colorado conference that precedes the Denver Gold Group gathering, a larger-company show that starts Sunday evening. The video quality at Precious Metals Summit is good, and the display for about 60-plus companies is indexed accordingly by time slot… Continue Reading

Yesterday Stockwatch reported that well known Canadian financier Frank Giustra was rolling back his public shells. These are the vehicles he has historically used to launch new natural resources ventures. Frank Giustra’s Royce Resources Corp. (ROY), last at 1.5 cents, will ask shareholders at its AGM on Oct. 17, 2013, to approve a 1:10 rollback. The shell… Continue Reading

THE CALANDRA REPORT: Subscribe $91 yearly ELKO, Nevada — Last week, in a presentation panel in Toronto, I told an audience of 200 that Gold Standard Ventures’ (GSV in Canada and USA) Dave Mathewson and another Nevada stalwart, geologist Roger Steininger at NuLegacy Gold (NUG in Canada), were of a type: good old Nevada boys… Continue Reading

Continental Gold Corp (TSX:CNL) is one of the strongest of the Toronto-based gold juniors (off the top of my head: 5+ million ozs high grade gold inferred at their flagship Buritica project in Colombia, expectation for resource growth, especially at depth, $550+ million market cap, $130 million in cash). Continental expects to file for their… Continue Reading

Source: Karen Roche of The Gold Report  (9/18/13) Many mining companies find themselves in a high-grading dilemma, according to Brent Cook, publisher of Exploration Insights. As companies deplete higher grade reserves, they have to acquire new deposits. But unless you are a geologist, don’t look to NI 43-101s to always give you reliable information about the quality of a… Continue Reading

Ginguro Exploration (GEG:TSXV) has a new insider. Robert McEwen, the self-proclaimed ‘Chief Owner’ of McEwen Mining (he owns 25% of the company) and co-founder of Goldcorp has invested $1 million into GEG via $0.10 unit ($0.15 ½ warrant) private placement through his Evanachan Limited. This brings his ownership up to 18.5% in the junior Canadian… Continue Reading

Newmont Mining (NEM:NYSE) announced this morning that it has signed a letter of intent to sell its Midas operations in Nevada to private equity firm, Waterton Global.  Midas has been a staple of Newmont’s Nevada operations as it is a high grade gold-silver and has been in production since 1999.  Many analysts already anticipated depletion and shut down of… Continue Reading

Here is an 11 minute interview with Pat Di Capo, CEO of Power One Capital Markets. Pat is a beast. He structures and buys big positions in junior resource deals such as Continental Gold, Dalradian Resources, Aurelian Resources, Petrolifera, Ryan Gold, and countless others. Pat has raised over $1.75 billion dollars for private and public… Continue Reading

Bruce Duncan’s Canada Carbon Inc. (TSXV:CCB) has had a glorious summer. Here’s the 12 month chart: CCB data by YCharts The company holds four graphite properties in Ontario and Quebec, including 2 past producing graphite mines, the Miller and the Asbury. The Miller property in particular has investors excited, with high quality graphite reported at… Continue Reading

Endeavour Mining (EDV:TSX) has added some depth to its roster by bringing on Ian Cockerill, Miguel Rodriguez and Frank Giustra to its strategic advisory board.  The three new members will replace Jorje L. Gamarci and Dr. Antony Harwood.  The board now consists of seven members: Michael Beckett (Chairman), Ian Cockerill, Frank Giustra, Ian Henderson, Wayne… Continue Reading

This morning Dale Corman’s Western Copper and Gold (WRN:TSX) provided an update on the developments of their Casino project in the Yukon (see Dale Corman’s Western Copper and Gold Challenge: Developing a Low-Risk Casino). WRN has completed their 2013 field program which is the end of a six-year long engineering and baseline data collection program… Continue Reading

Clive Johnson is a big, fast-talking ex-rugby player and one of Canada’s best gold mining executives. The 56-year-old has built back-to-back multi-billion-dollar gold companies. His latest, B2Gold Corp. (TSX:BTO), is one of the few gold producers to have delivered for investors over the past five years. Johnson’s contrarian instincts have served him well in a… Continue Reading

Positive results continue to roll in at PLS, the 50/50 joint venture owned by Fission Uranium and Alpha Minerals. Read: Alpha Minerals JV Confirms Significant Mineralization With Strong “Off-Scale” Radioactivity at R945E Zone At PLS Project. The market appears to have been expecting success. Shares in both Fission and Alpha were effectively flat at press… Continue Reading

I was able to catch up with billionaire Ivanhoe Mines (TSX:IVN) Executive Chairman Robert Friedland in Toronto yesterday. The Singapore-based mining legend was in Toronto this week to announce the launch of Ivanhoe Pictures, a new film and TV finance and production company, and to host the first investor presentations for his Ivanhoe Mines after… Continue Reading

Quietly yesterday, Serafino Iacono’s Gran Colombia Gold (GCM:TSX) announced it had grown production month-over-month to 9,988 ounces of gold in August (from 9,441 ounces in July).  These ounces come from the company’s underground mining operations in Colombia at their Segovia and Marmato mines.  The company has produced 70,939 ounces so far in 2013 with the… Continue Reading