My head is starting to spin a little as we reach the 4th site visit on the 2015 Yukon Media Tour; there’s an excessive amount of information to take in. To get up to speed see Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4. The media members had just boarded another mini-airplane from Burwash Landing… Continue Reading

Michael Scherb founder and general partner of Appian Capital Advisory talks to MINING.com about the particular nature of private equity in mining, how the industry if bifurcating and becoming more sophisticated and why now is the ideal time to be active in the industry. The benchmarks for private equity in mining is probably overly onerous… Continue Reading

Few majors and juniors are willing to deploy exploration capital in this market but even less are prepared to prospect on virgin ground. One junior Company with a mandate to pursue grassroots exploration is Westhaven Ventures (westhavenventures.com). Westhaven (TSX.V – WHN) is the vehicle legendary prospector Grenville Thomas and his team are using to define… Continue Reading

In case you missed it last week  Rick Rule Chairman of Sprott US Holdings was on BNN Market Call last Wednesday night with host Mark Bunting. The always entertaining Mr. Rule discussed with Mr. Bunting precious metals stocks. Here are my notes from the show. There are two ways that commodities can recover from a bear market.… Continue Reading

Goldcorp Inc. has been very active on the M&A front over the last few years, spinning off non-core assets and replacing them with better ones. The company wants to make more upgrades to its mine portfolio, and RBC Capital Markets analyst Stephen Walker fully expects to see some deals in the months ahead. “We currently… Continue Reading

Get Gwen Preston’s research via email. Subscribe at ResourceMaven.ca. The Venture index is now down almost 2,000 points from its March 2011 high, a 75% slide fueled by gold’s 40% haircut, copper’s 45% decline, silver’s 66% cut, platinum’s 50% fall… That was bad. Then China devalued the yuan and things got even worse. Copper sank… Continue Reading

Via www.TimOliver.us: Sometime around 10:30 a.m. on August 4, 2015, an earthmoving contractor working for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) broke into flooded underground mine workings along Cement Creek, near Silverton, Colorado. The result was the release of at least three million gallons of acidic water laden with high levels of dissolved and settleable solids. The… Continue Reading

The world is at a tipping point for mass production of low cost batteries, according to thirty one year old geologist, journalist and entrepreneur Simon Moores, who is about the embark on a World Tour discussing critical metals. This shift will have a huge impact on the raw materials driving it including graphite, lithium and… Continue Reading

By Henry Bonner (hbonner@sprottglobal.com) Is this what a market turn feels like? “Great opportunities in natural resources occur once per decade,” Rick Rule explained at the Symposium. “They occur at the bottom of a ‘bear market.’ “And this ‘bear market’ is the most severe that I have seen since the mid 1980’s. That suggests a… Continue Reading

Montan Mining (MNY.v) is a small junior miner in the process of acquiring the Mollehuaca Gold Processing Plant in Peru for US $3.3 million. The Plant will allow Montan to process ore for Peru’s formalized small-scale miners, and potentially make a profit in good and bad metals markets. This morning, Montan announced it had secured… Continue Reading

Junior miners, especially in bear markets, are all about the people… Wealth Minerals (TSX.V – WML) (http://www.wealthminerals.com) is working to ensure future success by attracting top tier talent with significant experience in Latin America. Yesterday, the company announced that Mr. Xiaohuan (Juan) Tang, B.Eng, M.Eng, M.Sc, M.Phil, is joining the leadership team as a Director… Continue Reading

Permitting progress. A first gold pour. Drill results. Takeovers and asset sales. Miners and explorers are still getting things done. An environmental assessment green light. A first gold pour. Drilling results. A takeover aimed at an in-development U.S gold mine. The sale of half a massive copper mine for a billion dollars. Things are still… Continue Reading

CEO.CA Readers, you should watch this video right now… There’s an old saying in mining: the best place to find a new mine is next to an old one. Integra Gold’s (TSXv:ICG) Lamaque and Sigma mines in Val-d’Or (direct translation: Valley of Gold), Quebec have produced over 9 million ounces of high-grade gold historically, worth roughly US… Continue Reading

Focus continued to shift from Europe to the Federal Reserve and the timing of a potential interest rate hike. While the Fed kept interest rates at near zero this week, as expected, the governing body of the central bank continued to remain bullish on the U.S. economy, fueling market expectations that interest rates will be… Continue Reading

The Sprott Stansberry Natural Resources Symposium is underway at the Fairmont Hotel in Vancouver. This is an excellent gathering for 50-60 junior resource companies that do business with Sprott, a world leader in natural resources investing, as well as roughly 750 retail and professional investors from around the Globe who follow the Sprott and Stansberry… Continue Reading