Back on March 20th, 2013, when Alpha Minerals was trading in the $4 range, I put a $15 price target on the company’s shares (source). With the announcement yesterday that Fission Uranium will be swallowing Alpha for roughly $7.67 per Alpha share my prediction has fallen short. Shares of the combined company could still double on a… Continue Reading

So long Alpha Minerals, you beautiful bastard! Read our past coverage of this tremendous discovery here. Just one week after public talks began to consolidate ownership of the PLS discovery, Alpha Minerals has agreed to sell itself to Fission Uranium for $7.67 per Alpha Share in a news release out this morning. Shareholders of Alpha will… Continue Reading

NexGen Energy (TSXV:NXE), an Athabasca Basin focused uranium exploration company, has closed a $5 million financing at a price of $.35 per unit (with a half warrant at $.55). The company intended to raise $1.8 million but interest surely sparked from the success at Fission Uranium and Alpha Minerals’ PLS discovery, immediately adjacent to NexGen’s… Continue Reading

It has been quite a year for Fission Uranium CEO Dev Rhandahwa. A year ago his stock wasn’t performing and he was getting beat up on the internet. Then, in classic mineral exploration fashion, Rhandawa’s fate changed. Lukas Lundin’s Denison Mines paid approx. $70m for Fission’s Eastern Athabasca Basin assets, leaving the spinout company to… Continue Reading

Fission Uranium Makes Proposal to Alpha to Acquire Alpha Shares for $7.26 per Alpha Share http://t.co/VuDpxKiFjE — Fission Uranium Corp (@FissionUranium) August 26, 2013 Flashback: Strong charts fuel PLS project takeover speculation

Alpha Minerals (AMW:TSXV) and Fission Uranium (FCU:TSXV) released assays on five more holes at their PLS discovery in the Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan.  The strike length of R390E zone has doubled since the 2013 winter program started to over 120m of strike.  The highlight of this batch of results was a 47m interval of mineralization including… Continue Reading

By James Kwantes, World of Mining Rebalancing, Part 2: Signs of life (click here for part 1) In my last post, I detailed the positions that I’ve sold (Amerigo Resources, Sandstorm Gold/Metals & Energy) or dramatically reduced (Lumina Copper) in the past couple of months. This post takes a closer look at stocks I’ve purchased… Continue Reading

NexGen Energy (NXE:TSXV) has started a 3,000m drill program on their Rook I property which is located next door to Alpha/Fission’s PLS project (see recent drill results here). NexGen has already completed aerial VTEM and magnetics as well as ground gravity testing. The exploration team at NexGen, led by Andrew Browne, has already defined a… Continue Reading

Investor, geologist and writer Malcolm Shaw has provided exceptional coverage of the PLS Discovery on Seeking Alpha. Here’s a repost of his Monster In The Making piece from earlier this morning: Fission Uranium (FCUUF.OB) and Alpha Minerals (ESOFF.PK) have released an update on their ongoing Patterson Lake drilling program. The companies have identified a 4th zone of mineralization on… Continue Reading

Fission Uranium (FCU:TSXV) and Alpha Minerals (AMW:TSXV) announced this morning, after being halted late yesterday, that they had discovered a fourth mineralized zone at their Patterson Lake South Discovery.  The fourth zone, R945E, is located 165m grid east of R780E zone and extends the total strike length of the PLS deposit to 1.05km.  Hole PLS13-084 hit… Continue Reading

The best story in mineral exploration today is the PLS uranium discovery by Fission / Alpha, which has created a land rush in the Southwestern region of Northern Saskatchewan’s Athabasca Basin. Click here for a high res map by way of Rivador Consulting Ltd. Fission / Alpha continue to deliver outstanding market performance and are halted… Continue Reading

Fission Uranium (FCU:TSXV) and Alpha Minerals (AMW:TSXV) announced further results from their $6.95 million, 44 hole, 11,000m drill and ground geophysics program at their Patterson Lake South (PLS) deposit in the Athabasca Basin of Saskatchewan.  The companies announced drilling results including hole PLS13-080 which encountered 13.41m composite off-scale mineralization including 7.6m of continuous off-scale mineralization.  This… Continue Reading

Fission Uranium (FCU:TSXV) and Alpha Minerals (AMW:TSXV) announced the results of an additional four drill holes from their Patterson Lake South Deposit (50/50 Joint Venture) in the Athabasca region of Saskatchewan.  The two are in the process of completing a $6.95 million, 11,000m drill and ground geophysics program on the project.  Drilling highlights included 18.5m… Continue Reading

David Talbot, Senior Mining Analyst at Dundee Capital Markets, is one of the foremost uranium analysts in Canada. He sat down with the Energy Report to discuss a few of his favourite names. Read: Top Ten Stocks for a Uranium Price Rebound: David Talbot On the uranium price’s recent poor performance, Mr. Talbot commented, “What we… Continue Reading

Rumours are circulating on Howe and Bay Streets that someone may soon move on the PLS project in Northern Saskatchewan, a 50/50 joint venture held by Fission Uranium (TSXV:FCU) and Alpha Minerals (TSXV:AMW), fuelling demand for the shares of both companies. Click to enlarge: FCU.V AMW.V These are unsubstantiated reports, but the PLS project is… Continue Reading