Economic geologist Brent Cook, the editor of Exploration Insights, a high value subscriber supported publication focused on junior miners, echoed much of what he said in our interview of a few weeks back when he sat down with Vanessa Collette at the Cambridge House conference in Vancouver the other day. Related: Brent Cook: Why gold miners… Continue Reading

Dear CEO.CA Reader, A well-respected colleague and friend of mine, Rick Rule, Chairman of Sprott US Holdings, is hosting the Sprott Vancouver Natural Resource Symposium 2014 on July 22-25 at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver. Below is some information on his conference, which I strongly recommend that you read more about and consider – if you… Continue Reading

This post originally appeared in South China Morning Post. Three years ago, Robert Friedland, executive chairman and founder of Ivanhoe Mines, told the Hong Kong Mines and Money conference: “Hong Kong will become the largest mining finance market in the world.” Four years on this clearly hasn’t happened, which has led some to wonder if it… Continue Reading

ROG data by YCharts After closing their recently announced ~$29 million bought deal financing, filings show that the London-based private equity firm, Appian Capital, has acquired 21.6 million shares (10.1%) in Roxgold (ROG:TSXV).  The shares were acquired as part of a BMO Capital Markets led $29 million bought deal financing priced at $0.58 per share.  Haywood… Continue Reading

Keith Schaefer’s Oil and Gas Investments Bulletin Premium Edition is rapidly becoming one of the most influential investment newsletters in the world. Why? Subscribers are getting really rich from the picks – more on that in a second. It’s very entertaining and informative to read and written in plain speak. Keith’s completely transparent and honest,… Continue Reading

Proponents of the relatively new crypto-currency, Bitcoin, have long boasted that the system was secure. Onlookers at the recent Vancouver Resource Investment Conference might have seen a company called Greenbank Capital (GBC:CSE) on display, with Director Mark Wettreich telling attendees that his company was betting on Bitcoin because, among other things, it was secure. “How… Continue Reading

Alex Letourneau of Kitco News interviews Brent Cook of Exploration Insights, Alex Davidson of Yamana Gold, Catherine McLeod-Seltzer of Bear Creek Mining and Lowell Copper, and Miles Thompson of Reservoir Minerals and Lara Exploration, at last week’s PDAC convention in Toronto. This is an impressive gathering of credible exploration and mining industry figures. McLeod Seltzer,… Continue Reading

Silver miners have failed to replace reserves over the past three years. This from Tim Barry, President and CEO of Silver Bull Resources (TSX:SVB, NYSE:SVBL). Barry and I met at his Vancouver office Friday, before the New Zealand born geologist, 37, flew to Toronto to present at this week’s PDAC, where 25,000+ are set to… Continue Reading

In the mining sector, there’s an investment conference somewhere on earth every day of the year. Well, it’s time for the 2014 BMO Metals & Mining Conference. BMO’s event is considered the best attended and most productive institutional focused event of the year by the CEO’s we’ve interviewed. Kitco.com’s dynamic lead journalist Daniela Cambone is… Continue Reading

I highly recommend readers who will be in Toronto this weekend to check out an exclusive and boutique investment conference happening at the Downtown Toronto Hilton on Richmond Street West this Saturday March 1, 2014, the day before the PDAC convention begins. The 2014 Subscribers Investment Summit is hosted by three of the junior resource sector’s most… Continue Reading

SIGN UP FOR CEO.CA’S FREE LIST  |  MORE PHOTOS  |  DISCLAIMER The reality distortion field, made famous by Steve Jobs’ biographer Walter Isaacson, is a personal intensity and vision so powerful it bends people to your will, convincing them of a project’s higher purpose. Isaacson describes this capacity for influence as a notorious trait of Steve Jobs,… Continue Reading

I joined CNBC Africa during the Mining Indaba convention last week in Cape Town, South Africa. Interviewer Svetlana Doneva and I discussed Canada’s leading role in mineral and energy exploration and development on that continent, which I credited to our intellectual property and technology, as well as the Canadian style of entrepreneurship, which lends itself… Continue Reading

We think the risk/reward proposition for buyers of Ivanhoe Mines (TSX:IVN) is quite attractive from current levels (below 1.70). From a Technical Analysis perspective, the multi-month falling wedge has dropped into the 1.50-1.70 support zone. Volume has also dried up which we like to see before a big bounce – $2.00 is a reasonable short… Continue Reading

Cambridge, England is a university town that hosts a house of higher learning. Cambridge House is a Howe Street abode, a dwelling where hope, fear and greed each have rooms on the same floor (and share a bathroom). And floors and bottoms, of the TSX Venture variety, were something of a theme at this year’s… Continue Reading

After the Vancouver Resource Investment Conference on Monday evening, I somehow found myself in a conversation with mining, energy and movie mogul Frank Giustra and economist John Mauldin and I wanted to share a few of things that I learned listening to the two men discuss a wide range of topics. Giustra said he never had… Continue Reading