In a capital intensive business such as mineral exploration and development, the ability for a company president or CEO to find new money is of paramount importance. One such junior mining CEO, John-Mark Staude of Riverside Resources (RRI.TSXV), is an experienced, hard working geologist and deal-marker we trust. Luckily for Riverside they do not need… Continue Reading
Tom Perkins, co-founder of venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield and Byers, which was an early financier to Genentech, Google, Amazon and scores of others, took to Bloomberg Television earlier to apologize for comparing the persecution of America’s rich to the plight of the Jews under Hitler in Nazi Germany. Perkins says he regrets the Kristallnacht comparison;… Continue Reading
Calandra: Junior Miners Need Consolidating By Hannah Tool | Index Universe Thom Calandra was co-founder and chief columnist of MarketWatch before it was sold to Dow Jones in 2005. After taking a few years off, he returned with The Calandra Report, a mining-focused newsletter. Calandra spoke to IndexUniverse contributing writer Hannah Tool about the downturn of… Continue Reading
Anchor Andrew Bell sported an arm sling on his Commodities program on BNN television earlier, citing a cycling accident. The show must go on, however and three CEOs joined Bell this morning to tell their stories. Brian McLachlan, President and CEO of Yoho Resources (TSXV:YO), was the first guest on the program. Yoho are developing oil… Continue Reading
THE CALANDRA REPORT: Subscribe $91 yearly TIBURON, CALIFORNIA — GOLD STANDARD VENTURES shares in Canada and the USA, along with an ancillary listing in Germany, are rising smartly this week. As much as 50 percent in several days for GSV (in Canada and USA and 6AZ in Germany). This is a heady move that is linked… Continue Reading
Economist John Mauldin, whose free email newsletter reaches some 400,000 inboxes, sources tell me, just blasted a tout for “The Next Bakken Discovered?”. For those willing to pay $749 per year for the Casey Energy Report, they can find out just which stock is poised to take advantage, according to Casey’s analyst. The stock in… Continue Reading
PRD Energy (TSXV:PRD), the Canadian based, Germany focused oil and gas exploration company, has encountered drilling difficulties at its Boerger 7Awell. Here’s a link to the news release. “After setting a whipstock at 660m, PRD encountered directional drilling challenges in soft sediments requiring changes to the well plan. The decision has now been made to… Continue Reading
King World News has released a new podcast with Pierre Lassonde. Mr. Lassonde is one of the world’s most credible and successful gold speculators. He built the original Franco Nevada and is currently Chairman of Franco Nevada Corporation, a seven billion dollar gold royalty company. He was previously CEO of Newmont Mining, the United States’s… Continue Reading
It’s becoming increasingly evident that a massive watershed moment for the uranium industry is inevitable in the very near future. Here’s why — and how you can profit from it by taking advantage of the only US based and listed Uranium Producer. Participants in all categories of the uranium industry have been whipsawed the past six or… Continue Reading
Hewlett-Packard, the world’s number one PC manufacturer, announced today that they are closing their Russelsheim office in Germany and laying-off 850 people. This is a part of their multiyear restructuring plan that was announced on May 23, 2012. This is strategy unfolding. 2011 indicated that HP needed to start looking at costs. Net revenues were up $1.2B… Continue Reading
Mining in British Columbia Today By Gavin Dirom, President at AME BC, at MiningFeeds. While grassroots mineral exploration activity appears to be down in 2012 compared with 2011, there were many advanced exploration projects including New Gold’s Blackwater (Stock Profile – TSX:NGD), Pretium’s Brucejack (Stock Profile – NYSE:PVG & TSX:PVG), Seabridge’s KSM (Stock Profile – TSX:SEA)… Continue Reading
Christo and Jean-Claude are known for producing some of the largest public art in the world over the last 50 years. The scale, vision and determination of the couple are exceptional in today’s art world; there is truly no one else doing what they do the way they do it. And all on their own… Continue Reading
“While the eurozone as a whole is roughly in trade balance, the EMU regime of austerity in the South without offsetting stimulus in the North is creating a contractinary bias, holding back global recovery.” Germany displaces China as US Treasury’s currency villain. Telegraph Gold Falls Just 1.3% Despite Massive, Odd 3.5 Million Ounce Sell Orders. ZeroHedge “Some people… Continue Reading
“It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight! It is no trick at all to be right on the market. You always find lots of early bulls in bull markets and early bears in bear markets. I’ve known many men who… Continue Reading
A fun story for mining and US history buffs and an argument for continued strength in copper demand. Stanford University, located in Palo Alto, California, and today known as the epicenter of technology, has graduated untold thousands of students. However, as with most top schools in the world, few of those graduates have chosen mining-related careers. But… Continue Reading
