Mining venture-capital trade show, Cambridge House International’s Vancouver Resource Investment Conference, returns this Sunday and Monday at the Convention Centre and the CEO.ca will be there. This is the largest gathering of junior mining companies and their investors in Vancouver, with 8000 delegates expected, including representatives from over 300 public companies. I am hosting a panel… Continue Reading

“Anybody who says that the super-cycle is over is an idiot, it’s just been deferred for a little bit”, mining tycoon Robert Friedland told a packed audience in London last week. I was there for the 12th annual Mines and Money show. And if you’re in the mining business and haven’t been to London lately, the Mines… Continue Reading

To a packed crowd in Vancouver yesterday, veteran junior resource analyst John Kaiser gave a presentation hosted by AME BC entitled, Confronting the Potential Extinction of a Canadian Institution. Here is a link to the 59 slide PDF presentation, courtesy John Kaiser. Mr. Kaiser has been closely involved with Canada’s venture capital markets for over thirty… Continue Reading

This year, CEO.ca is proud to be taking part in Cambridge House International’s annual Vancouver Resource Investment Conference, at the spectacular Convention Centre, January 18-19, 2015 (Register now). The event is the largest annual financial gathering in Vancouver with over 7,500 investors expected. 350+ companies are participating this year, ranging from mineral explorers to technology firms, financial… Continue Reading

Economist and Nobel Laureate Vernon Lomax Smith is coming to Vancouver next week to speak at a free event put on by Simon Fraser University and Bank of Montreal (BMO). With record real estate prices and a depressed mining market, the bubble-themed event is well timed for a Vancouver business audience. The talk should be… Continue Reading

Travis and I went to the Lighthouse Labs graduation/Demo Day in Vancouver last night and we are so glad we did. The event was an inspiring chance to meet some up-and-coming web development talent, and see what they’re working on and learn about what matters to them. Web development is an in-demand job, as more… Continue Reading

Natural resources are an extremely risky and volatile segment of the markets. To increase your odds in this dangerous but sometimes spectacularly profitable space, you will want to rely on some expert help. Start with Lawrence Roulston, geologist and private equity investor, who has found 6 such 50 baggers in his 18 years of editing… Continue Reading

The general dissatisfaction that accompanies my burning desire to be successful means I often lose sight of the fact that some pretty amazing stuff happens around me. A few weeks ago my friend, entrepreneur Frank Giustra invited me to lunch with the Dalai Lama. As a well known business leader, Frank gets roped into a… Continue Reading

At the Subscriber Investment Summit in Vancouver on October 9th, Red Eagle Mining’s (RD.TSXV) CEO, Ian Slater, explained why his Colombian gold development company is undervalued. Red Eagle’s Santa Rosa project has some of the best economics of any gold development project in the world, with a 52% after-tax internal rate of return (IRR) and a… Continue Reading

[Sent to Premium Subscribers October 20, 2014] Investors waiting for money to flow into the mining sector may want to consider some alternative trading ideas in the interim. Colombian focused oil producer Petroamerica Oil Corp. (PTA.TSXV) offers a good risk-reward profile at its current valuation. With $65 million cash and $35 million debt, Petroamerica trades at… Continue Reading

Of the 15+ compelling stories told at our first ever Subscriber Investment Summit in Vancouver last week, one that stood out was NexGen Energy (NXE:TSXV), which made a rapidly growing Canadian uranium discovery in 2014 at the Arrow Zone. NexGen’s CEO, Leigh Curyer, previously managed a $500 million private equity fund with the mandate of finding… Continue Reading

At the Subscriber Investment Summit in Vancouver last Thursday, 35 year old Sandstorm Gold CEO Nolan Watson made the case for a new gold standard. “I believe that if you take actual physical gold in a vault and transact it electronically, that will be the first time in my generation that we will have something that… Continue Reading

I had the pleasure of attending the 2014 Subscriber Investment Summit in Vancouver today. It was an insightful gathering of resource executives, investors, and newsletter writers. There was even a billionaire or two in the room and naturally plenty of “corporate pillow talk” (credit to Keith Schaefer for the phrase). The mood of the conference was generally… Continue Reading

This Thursday is our first ever Subscriber Summit at Vancouver’s Pan Pacific Hotel (Map). Please note the conference is fully sold out, so we are unable to accommodate any late registrations (Sorry!). Below is the agenda for your reference: 9:30am – 9:50am Keith Schaefer, Oil & Gas Investments Bulletin Introduction to Subscriber Investment Summit: Vancouver 2014 9:50am – 10:00am Canamax… Continue Reading

TORONTO — “IT’S A DARK TIME IN OUR BUSINESS.” Pat DiCapo, Toronto financier: “A major discovery will bring greed back into the markets.” Mr. DiCapo, a 40-something lifelong banker and markets person, was into Aurelian in Ecuador when three miners alone were kicking around down there. By July 2008, when Kinross used stock to purchase… Continue Reading