Over the past five years zinc bulls have gone nowhere. However, the metal, used primarily for galvanizing steel in the construction industry, is setting up for a substantial supply deficit as early as next year which could see the spot price pop. Investors interested in the zinc space have very few investable options. The majority… Continue Reading
James Fraser and I were manning the CEO.ca booth at the recent Cambridge House Vancouver Resource Investment conference, when exploration guru Brent Cook showed up with a friend of his, Mr. Steve Nano, president and CEO of Mirasol Resources (MRZ.V). Cook said we need to follow what Mirasol is doing. Fortunately Carter Smith was close-by… Continue Reading
Could a chat app save Canada’s venture markets? After four years of declines in financing activity driven by falling commodity prices, Canada’s once-proud public venture capital system is on the ropes. Startups south of the border are waiting longer and longer to go public, if ever, with strong secondary markets for private companies providing nearly… Continue Reading
Jordan Trimble, 27 is currently the youngest CEO of any publicly traded mining company. This young dynamo entered the business straight out of university and is now running Skyharbour Resources (SKY.V). Skyharbour is a uranium junior holding a very prospective land position(over 390,000 hectares) in the prolific Athabasca Basin. Jordan made several property deals in… Continue Reading
As a young man, Peter Tallman fell in love . . . with rocks. It happened with the help of an unwitting 80 year old mentor named Harold, who was given the job of teaching young Peter how to build a stone fireplace. After struggling unsuccessfully to break the first boulder for the job (an… Continue Reading
There are just a handful of people in the world who have found gold deposits hidden underground profitably. Those that do, often make multiple discoveries. One such goldfinder now entering the sweet spot of his career is Matt Lennox King, 38, CEO of Pilot Gold (TSX: PLG) (www.PilotGold.com), one of the most dynamic mineral exploration… Continue Reading
Electrician turned mining entrepreneur Gianni Kovacevic has two important reminders for investors bailing on the copper sector this morning. The first is that no force in the world can prevent the ascent of man. Over the next decade, another 500 million people will be lifted from abject poverty, Kovacevic says, putting incredible demand on natural resources,… Continue Reading
Shares in Roxgold (ROG.TSX) are up 20% already this year and 35% from their tax-loss influenced low of CAD $0.48 per share in mid-December. This morning, I spoke with John Dorward, President and CEO of Roxgold who was in Burkina Faso last week meeting with the newly appointed Minister of Mines and getting his new General… Continue Reading
CHAT.CEO.CA is now live… I have a confession to make: I have never been a confident writer. Seriously, for someone who is supposed to be a blogger, I am finding increasingly that I often spend hours editing sometimes even the most basic of posts, with the outcome being only marginally better than the original. The… Continue Reading
Greg Smith, CEO of Anthem United Inc. (www.AnthemU.com) (TSX.V: AFY) is a Canadian Chartered Accountant (CA) making a name for himself as a rainmaker in the Vancouver exploration industry. With 3 large value transactions under his belt, Mr. Smith has earned a reputation for coming through on promises and acting in the best interests of… Continue Reading
I enjoyed catching up with the James Altucher Show this morning, and thought I would share some of the program with CEO.ca readers. Altucher’s had a diverse career as an entrepreneur, hedge fund manager, and angel investor, and he has a penchant for spilling his guts out. As a writer, he’s become something of a… Continue Reading
There are few mining executives in Canada with the boardroom and community track records of our pal Mike McPhie, Executive Chairman of IDM Mining (www.idmmining.com) (TSX.V: IDM), Managing Director of JDS Copper and JDS Gold, Chair, BCIT and past Chair, AME BC. Mr. McPhie has over 20 years of global mining experience involving financing, permitting,… 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
I just bought my first ever Australian listed stock. It’s a small speculative position that I initiated because I think the technology/mining/water play is just getting going, and has some great people involved. The company is Clean TeQ Holdings (ASX:CLQ), and it has a roughly $20 million market capitalization. Clean Teq is a technology business… Continue Reading
Alexander Molyneux grew up with one foot in Australia and the other in Hong Kong, so he had a front-row seat to the rise of Asia and the demand for energy in a rapidly growing world. The nuclear winter brought on by Fukushima and the accompanying flight of capital afforded him the opportunity to get… Continue Reading
