Nevada Sunrise (NEV.v), Pilot Gold’s 21% partner on the Kinsley Mountain gold project, is making a foray into lithium. The company is issuing shares to pick up an option on the Neptune property, an early-stage exploration property located in Clayton Valley, Nevada. Neighbours include the the Silver Peak lithium mine, now owned by Albemarle Corporation,… Continue Reading

NovaCopper Inc. (NYSE-MKT, TSX:NCQ) CEO Rick Van Nieuwenhuyse’s path to success in the Ambler mining district of Alaska, where he started his career, is a road. The company’s Arctic and Bornite deposits in northwestern Alaska contain huge caches of high-grade copper and zinc, as well as lead, gold and silver. But they are currently remote… Continue Reading

American investors interested in gold and mining stocks, especially small “junior” mining stocks, meet Steve Todoruk, Investment Executive with Sprott Global, from Carlsbad, California. Steve and I spent 36 hours together last week visiting Skeena Resources’ Spectrum property in Northern BC, and got to know each other over cheap wine and good hospitality at the Bear… Continue Reading

In a horrific market for junior mining companies, IDM Mining CEO Rob McLeod was feeling optimistic ahead of his trip to the annual Precious Metals Summit in Beaver Creek, Colorado. Accompanying him to Colorado was IDM chairman Mike McPhie. I caught up with McLeod for a coffee earlier today, before he left. On his agenda… Continue Reading

Continental Gold (CNL.TO) was expected to receive its final permit to build a large, high-grade gold mine at the Buriticá project in Colombia this summer. This hasn’t happened yet, so Continental announced this morning they’re going to pursue the final Environmental Impact Assessment from the National Government of Colombia as a Project of National Strategic… Continue Reading

Ivan Bebek’s path to junior mining success began in the late 1990s in a business class at Western University in London, Ontario. His professor encouraged the ambitious young student to take a securities course and become a stockbroker. Bebek began to learn more about capital markets, value creation and what it meant to be a… Continue Reading

Here’s a junior explorer trading at less than half its most recent reported cash balance, with a new high-grade gold discovery 8 kilometres from a mine in the making, more assay results from drilling pending, and an excellent management team. This summer, Independence Gold ($IGO.v) drilled about 1,750 metres at the Boulevard project, resulting in… Continue Reading

There’s a new leader at Canadian-based global mid-market investment bank Canaccord Genuity. Toronto-based and North American Capital Markets Head Dan Daviau, who was a co-founder and principal at Genuity, prior to its merger with Canaccord, has been appointed the firm’s president and CEO effective October 1, 2015. Mr. Daviau will also join the board of… Continue Reading

Ari Sussman is stepping down as chairman and a director of Cordoba Minerals so he can focus on developing Continental Gold’s Buritica project, Cordoba announced today. He resigned from the Dalradian Resources board in April of this year. Cordoba is also adding some heavy-duty Latin American talent to its board of directors. Joining the board… Continue Reading

Rick Rule, Chairman of Sprott U.S. Holdings Inc., warned last week that “capitulation” was beginning to occur in resource stocks. Precipitated by sudden volatility in the general stock market, small resource stocks could witness another big sell-off, he said. Resource stocks could bottom off the selling, he explained, finally putting an end to the bear… Continue Reading

Thanks Glencore, You just promised to cut more production than there is current LME inventory in the copper market. 400,000 tonnes of production is a huge cut that should push the copper market into deficit for the next 18 months. This is going to be great for the copper market and copper-producing countries like the… Continue Reading

Good morning investors and speculators, Hope everybody had a good Labour Day weekend, news in the junior resource world is coming fast and furious to start out the four-day trading week. NexGen Energy: The Athabasca Basin’s hottest uranium play reported assay results from six angle drill holes, and they are impressive. The highlights – AR-15-49c2… Continue Reading

Our final site visit in this whirlwind tour of the Yukon was to the most advanced and fully permitted development stage project in the Territory, Victoria Gold’s (TSX.V : VIT) Eagle Project, which is well supported by both Government and First Nations. The Eagle project has completed a Feasibility Study and finalized an Environmental Assessment.… Continue Reading

Good morning, I’m in White Sulphur Springs, Montana today getting to know Tintina Resources’ (TSXV:TAU) Black Butte copper project. Coincidentally, Tintina published a corporate update this morning. Tintina will submit the Mine Operating Permit application to the Montana Department of Environmental Quality later this year. Tintina expects a decision within two years. The company also announced that it has postponed its… Continue Reading

Half way through our Yukon tour, the media group was greeted by another blue-bird day in Dawson City. Things had been progressing smoothly to this point, but Mother Nature stepped in with some foggy weather and we couldn’t fly in to visit Rockhaven Resources’ (TSX-V: RK) 100% owned Klaza Project. Even the best organizers, which… Continue Reading