Sulliden Gold (SUE:TSX) has cleared the final hurdle at its Shahuindo gold and silver project in northern Peru by receiving an ‘okay’ for their Environmental Impact Assessment.  With this milestone complete, after an 18 month permitting process, the company expects to begin construction within 30-60 days (once final project finance package completed).  The construction will… Continue Reading

Western Copper and Gold Corp.’s Casino deposit in the Yukon contains 18 million ounces of gold and 10 billion pounds of copper. WRN CEO Dale Corman delivered 20 fold returns to investors between 2001-2006. Can he do it again? Western Copper and Gold Corp. has approved this story. Please read their Cautionary Statement. In a bear… Continue Reading

In April of this year, Mexico’s Economics Committee in the Chamber of Deputies approved a proposed new 5% mining royalty tax.  Over the weekend, the Executive Branch of the Mexican federal government presented its 2014 Tax Reform proposal which included new mining specific federal royalties.  These included a Special Mining Royalty which is a 7.5%… Continue Reading

Cambridge House International, Canada’s junior mining advocates, are hosting the FREE Toronto Resource Investment Conference at the Sheraton Centre Hotel this Thursday and Friday (Details and Registration). Join financiers Ned Goodman of Dundee Corp., Eric Sprott of Sprott Inc., Frank Holmes of US Global Investors, along with newsletter writers including Keith Schaefer of the Oil and… Continue Reading

B2Gold (BTO:TSX) and joint venture partner Calibre Mining (CXB:TSXV) have signed a definitive joint venture agreement granting BTO an option to acquire another 19% interest in the Primavera gold-copper project in Nicaragua. Read: Calibre and B2Gold Sign Definitive Joint Venture Agreement. Calibre currently owns 49% of the project and B2Gold owns the remaining 51%.  Once… Continue Reading

Newstrike Capital (NES:TSXV) hasn’t had an easy ride over the past year, with share prices hitting 3-year lows, however, they have been efficiently adding value to their Ana Paula project in Guerrero State, Mexico.  Today they discovered several high-priority targets on a parallel trend with the Ana Paula project (which, the market didn’t care for much… Continue Reading

Pretium Resources (PVG:TSX) released additional assay results from its Valley of the Kings bulk sample program as well as additional non-program exploration work.  Highlights include: Hole VU-168 which intersected 6.25m of 1,622g/t gold including 0.5m of 9,040g/t gold and 0.5m of 6,090g/t gold; and, Hole VU-182 intersected the Cleopatra vein and hit 8.04m of 714.8g/t… Continue Reading

With excerpts from today’s Ivanhoe Mines news release. Robert Friedland, Executive Chairman of Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN), and Lars-Eric Johansson, Chief Executive Officer, announced today that the company is proceeding with the sinking of a bulk-sample shaft to access the underground Flatreef platinum, palladium, nickel, copper, gold and rhodium discovery at its Platreef Project in… Continue Reading

Cameco Corp (CCO:TSX) provided an update on its Cigar Lake project located in northern Saskatchewan.  Cigar Lake is owned by Cameco (50% operator), AREVA (37.1%), Idemitsu Canada Resources (7.875%) and TEPCO Resources (5%).  Construction of the mine is currently at 97% however, while commissioning underground facilities, Cameco found more work that will delay jet boring… Continue Reading

OGIB’s Keith Schaefer thinks Canadian based oil companies are set for a run. Lots of int'l money flowing into #Canada #oil stocks today–if you like it, better buy it–sector trade starting in earnest — Oil&Gas Investments (@OilandGasInvest) September 6, 2013 Take a look at these three charts: 1. Gran Tierra Energy Inc. (TSX:GTE) $1.94 billion market… Continue Reading

THE CALANDRA REPORT: Subscribe $91 yearly and rising JOHANNESBURG — Ivanhoe Mines (TSX:IVN) this week began what looks like a two-year strategy to fortify deposit estimates and tune technical criteria for its Platreef/Flatreef platinum group metals properties in South Africa’s Limpopo Province. A bulk mining permit is in the works, one of perhaps 16 applications,… Continue Reading

The following commentary has been provided by Lawrence Roulston. Mr Roulston is an economic geologist and the editor of Resource Opportunities, a subscriber funded newsletter uncovering opportunities for wealth creation in natural resources stocks. We are subscribers of Mr. Roulston’s and follow him at conferences. Sign up for a free report from Mr. Roulston today.… Continue Reading

US hedge fund, Two Fish Management, is making a renewed call for the breakup of Barrick Gold (ABX:TSX).  The hedge fund, led by Mike Morris said “the market is essentially assigning a massive conglomerate discount to the company.”  Morris cannot see any compelling reason to own a worldwide conglomerate of gold mines.  Two Fish wrote… Continue Reading

Alpha Minerals and Fission Uranium each own 50% of the Patterson Lake South (PLS) project in Northern Saskatchewan. PLS is the most exciting mineral discovery in recent times for its potential size, high grade, shallow depth and proximity to infrastructure. Fission Uranium CEO Dev Randhawa has launched a takeover of Alpha to consolidate ownership at… Continue Reading

There’s a tremendous post out from the good people at Sprott today: Hostile Takeovers Gone Bad. The author, geologist and investment advisor Steve Todoruk, says that Cameco made a fatal flaw in their attempted takeover of Hathor Exploration in 2011 by not acquiring shares in the company before the takeover announcement. As a result they… Continue Reading