THE CALANDRA REPORT: Subscribe $91 yearly Also: Sysorex Global, Inovio Pharma Solvista Gold corners Iamgold into a porphyry partnership at Caramanta in Colombia. Takeways: Breathing room for Solista’s Miller O’ Prey and Jeffrey Miller. Bob Allen’s Grupo de Bullet owns a hunk of Solvista (SVV in Canada). Solvista is one of our TCR 8 It… Continue Reading

Robert Friedland’s Ivanhoe Mines (IVN:TSX) has completed  dewatering activities to the main working level of the historic and high-grade Kipushi copper-zinc-germanium-lead and precious-metals mine (68% IVN, 32% state-mining company) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).  The mine’s underground workings were extensively flooded during the previous 18 years when the mine was on care-and-maintenance as a former… Continue Reading

Sound familiar?  That’s because Asanko Gold (AKG:TSX) and PMI Gold (PMV:TSX) attempted a merger in late 2012 that was mutually terminated in early 2013 after it became apparent they wouldn’t get the supermajority votes necessary to complete the transaction.  Now, after the largest price decline in gold in over a decade and the substantial derisking that… Continue Reading

Running out of financial flexibility, Bruce McLeod’s Mercator Minerals (ML:TSX) has agreed to a merger/takeover by Intergeo which is a subsidiary of ONEXIM Group(controlled by Russian oligarch, Mikhail Prokhorov worth an estimated $13 billion).  The deal will see Mercator’s assets get a much needed injection of capital.  Intergeo’s controlling shareholder Daselina (part of ONEXIM) will provide a… Continue Reading

NGEx Resources (NGQ:TSX), the only mineral exploration vehicle in the multi-billion dollar Lundin Group, has begun the 2013-2014 exploration program at their Josemaria and Filo del Sol projects in San Juan, Argentina.  In 2013, NGEx dramatically increased the resource base at their Josemaria and Los Helados projects.  Josemaria now hosts over 6 billion pounds of copper and… Continue Reading

Platinum Group Metals (PTM:TSX) is set to resume trading this morning after announcing yesterday that it would be completing a $175 million bought deal financing led by BMO Capital and GMP Securities.  The stock has performed well this year, up over 50% YTD thanks to successful development of their Western Bushveld Joint Venture where they… Continue Reading

A new mineral exploration company to watch, Kaizen Discovery, will commence trading in Toronto tomorrow under the symbol KZD. Kaizen was born out of an amalgamation with HPX TechCo (50% owned by Robert Friedland) and Concordia Resource Corp. Kaizen will be 85% owned by HPX TechCo (Private) and 15% by Concordia shareholders. The company will… Continue Reading

Calandra: Junior Miners Need Consolidating By Hannah Tool | Index Universe Thom Calandra was co-founder and chief columnist of MarketWatch before it was sold to Dow Jones in 2005. After taking a few years off, he returned with The Calandra Report, a mining-focused newsletter. Calandra spoke to IndexUniverse contributing writer Hannah Tool about the downturn of… Continue Reading

Lundin Mining (LUN:TSX), Lukas Lundin’s namesake multi-billion dollar base metal mining company, announced today that they would be spending in excess of $460 million in capital in 2014, (compared to an estimated $255 million for fiscal 2013).  The bulk of the spending, $300 million will go towards completing construction of the Humboldt mill and their recently acquired Eagle mine,… Continue Reading

In the mining game, one dumb mistake can lead to years of decline. See Mining, Baja. Baja Mining? More like Ba-ha-ha-ha-ha Mining. “Shares of Vancouver-based Baja Mining Corp. (TSX:T.BAJ, Stock Forum) climbed 37% to 35 cents after the company provided revised capital cost estimates for its Boleo Project in Mexico after Monday’s market close,” –… Continue Reading

After the close yesterday, Reservoir Minerals (RMC:TSXV) released assay results for five drill holes from the Timok project (joint venture with Freeport McMoran).  Two of the five holes intersected high-grade copper-gold mineralization in the high-sulphidation epithermal zone in the Cukaru Peki target.  The highlight was drill hole FMTC 1341 which intersected a massive, 166 metres (from 557.0… Continue Reading

Anchor Andrew Bell sported an arm sling on his Commodities program on BNN television earlier, citing a cycling accident. The show must go on, however and three CEOs joined Bell this morning to tell their stories. Brian McLachlan, President and CEO of Yoho Resources (TSXV:YO), was the first guest on the program. Yoho are developing oil… Continue Reading

Cordoba Minerals (TSXV:CDB) announced a significant but early stage copper-gold porphyry discovery in Colombia earlier, and it caught our attention enough to pick up a few shares at the open this morning (Do your own due diligence!). Read: Cordoba Minerals Announces the Discovery of a New High-Grade Copper and Gold Porphyry System Drilling 101.1 metres… Continue Reading

Simon Ridgway’s Cordoba Minerals (TSXV:CDB), which is in the process of combining with Ari Sussman’s Sabre Metals, and Paul Dias’s Minatura, has discovered a new high grade copper and gold porphyry system at the company’s 26,000 hectare San Matias project in Colombia’s Mid Cauca Gold Belt, drilling an impressive 101.1 meters @ 1.0% copper and… Continue Reading

LUBUMBASHI, The Democratic Republic Of The Congo – Mining promoter Robert Friedland has released a preliminary economic assessment for a major Congolese copper discovery that he says could be one of the world’s lowest-cost producers. A preliminary economic assessment released Monday by Friedland says a two-phase mine at the site could be worth US$4.3 billion… Continue Reading