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

[audio:https://c03c06.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Mark-ODea-Podcast-Nov-15-2013.mp3] Track record is everything in junior mining. Mark O’Dea took Fronteer Gold from a $1 million shell in 2001 to a diversified mine developer that sold for $2.3 billion to Newmont in 2011. The Vancouver-based, 45-year-old Newfoundland-born geologist also created Aurora Energy in 2006, and sold its Labrador uranium assets for $260 million to… Continue Reading

Parex Resources (PXT:TSX), who recently increased its 2013 exit rate guidance from 15,500bpd to 15,700bpd due to stellar production success from their light oil assets in Colombia’s Llanos Basin have now sets the bar high for 2014.  The company announced their 2014 production guidance and capital budget plans which set Parex up for a profitable… 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

News release: Silver Bull Files Preliminary Economic Assessment Technical Report on SEDAR for the Sierra Mojada Project, Coahuila, Mexico. Related: Silver Bull CEO Tim Barry Discusses Sierra Mojada PEA SVB data by YCharts We seek Safe Harbor.

THE CALANDRA REPORT: Subscribe $91 yearly Thursday November 14, 2013 Mines are made, not found. That is Barkerville Gold Mines’ tagline for investor brochures. James Francis Gerard Callaghan spent upwards of $120 million making Barkerville mines and properties along central British Columbia’s Cariboo trend in Canada. Do you know the restaurant Max’s in northern California? “This… Continue Reading

Highlights: Jewellery: The sector delivered another quarter of solid year-on-year growth as consumers across the globe, encouraged by lower average prices, showed an increasing demand for higher carat pieces. Investment: Demand for bars and coins grew 6% to 304.2 tonnes, with growth mainly coming from Asia and the Middle East, including Turkey. Outflows from ETFs… Continue Reading

After markets closed yesterday, West African gold producer, Endeavour Mining (EDV:TSX) released significantly improved third quarter results which included record gold production of 88,445 ounces in the quarter which is their largest quarter to date and represents a 17% from second quarter production of 75,421 ounces.  The company was able to slightly lower cash costs in the quarter, down… Continue Reading

In early 2011, a junior resource company, Sanatana Resources (STA:TSXV), was looking to acquire land in a developing gold camp in Canada and they came across one such opportunity in a property called the Watershed project in northern Ontario.  This property was owned by Augen Gold so STA entered into an option agreement with Augen to earn in… Continue Reading

Ray Smith’s Madalena Energy (MVN:TSX) has released results from their unconventional oil wells in the Paddle River area of west-Central Alberta.  Production began in early November and during a nine-date test, the horizontal Ostracod oil well flowed at an average rate of 658bpd and 871Mscfd of natural gas for a total of 803boepd.  After accounting… Continue Reading

According to Strateco Resource’s (RSC:TSX) CEO, Guy Hébert, a group of the company’s US shareholders intend to challenge Quebec’s recent resistance to uranium exploration and mining.  In March, Quebec environment minister, Yves-Francois Blanchet announced a moratorium on all uranium exploration and mining until the government had the opportunity to review and submit an environmental report… Continue Reading

According to a private source close to China’s largest gold producer, China National Gold Group, that group is looking at investing in Robert Friedland’s Ivanhoe Mines (IVN:TSX).  The source claims the state-owned China National Gold is interested in acquiring a stake in Ivanhoe’s Platreef project.  The Platreef project is a thick, high-grade Flatreef platinum-palladium-gold-nickel-copper-rhodium deposit in South… Continue Reading

For months we’ve been writing about the major bottom to come in precious metals. It appeared we finally saw it in late June as the metals and the stocks surged during the summer. Yet, these markets trailed off in August and it continued into October. The equities were down seven straight weeks. That gave way… Continue Reading

Rightfully, many investors in the junior sector look at stock recommendations from analysts or experts with a great degree of skepticism. The junior sector is small and there are always potential conflicts of interest evident in these types of recommendations. For example, sell-side analysts may cover a company for which their firm also provides investment… Continue Reading