Ivanhoe Mines (IVN:TSX) intends to raise up to $108 million for the development of its Kamoa copper discovery and Kipushi copper-zinc project, both located in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Katanga province.  The raise is comprised of 50 million Class A common shares at a price of $2.00 per share.  Billionaire founder and Chairman, Robert… Continue Reading

Of the 2000 junior resource companies we track, very few have the strength of Continental Gold Corp. It has over $130 million in the bank, analysts believe its 5.5 million ounce Buriticá high-grade gold deposit in Colombia will become a cash cow, its technical and management teams are well-experienced, and when the deposit gets permitted… Continue Reading

Burkina Faso gold developer, True Gold Mining (TGM:TSXV) received its environmental permit for its Goulagou I, Goulagou II and Rambo deposits which make up the company’s Karma gold project.  The next and final step to bring Karma into production is the receipt of the exploitation permits which the company expects getting in 2 months.  In… Continue Reading

NOT COLARADO — Better than gold? Maybe. The Precious Metals Summit webcast is in gear. This is the Colorado conference that precedes the Denver Gold Group gathering, a larger-company show that starts Sunday evening. The video quality at Precious Metals Summit is good, and the display for about 60-plus companies is indexed accordingly by time slot… Continue Reading

NGEx Resources (NGQ:TSX) released an updated resource estimate for its Los Helados copper-gold porphyry project.  The project is a large, low-grade, bulk tonnage copper-gold porphyry system located on a contiguous land package that the company holds in Chile’s Region III.  The company completed an additional 32 holes and over 32,200m which was completed earlier this… Continue Reading

A favorite gold takeover candidate, Sulliden Gold (SUE:TSX) announced a $40 million bought deal financing priced close to market at $1.02 per share (versus last close of $1.10).  The underwriters include National Bank and Scotia Capital.  This should be viewed positively, although the market may sell down closer to the pricing of the offering. The… Continue Reading

Source: Karen Roche of The Gold Report  (9/18/13) Many mining companies find themselves in a high-grading dilemma, according to Brent Cook, publisher of Exploration Insights. As companies deplete higher grade reserves, they have to acquire new deposits. But unless you are a geologist, don’t look to NI 43-101s to always give you reliable information about the quality of a… Continue Reading

Another good sign for the resource equity markets; Paul Matysek’s Goldrock Mines (GRM:TSXV) quietly raised $9.24 million by way of strategic investment by Austral Gold (AGD:ASX) consisting of units at $0.80 per share (with an $0.80 warrant).  This represents a 51% premium to yesterday’s closing price.  After closing, Austral will own approximately 15% of Goldrock.  Austral’s… Continue Reading

After today’s Fed bombshell all eyes are now focusing back towards the mining & resource space. I have selected four charts (two seniors and two juniors) that contain a significant amount of risk-adjusted potential: Click to enlarge ABX FCX CNL.TO EDV.TO ABX and FCX hold anywhere from 10-50% of short-to-medium term upside, whereas CNL and… Continue Reading

Ginguro Exploration (GEG:TSXV) has a new insider. Robert McEwen, the self-proclaimed ‘Chief Owner’ of McEwen Mining (he owns 25% of the company) and co-founder of Goldcorp has invested $1 million into GEG via $0.10 unit ($0.15 ½ warrant) private placement through his Evanachan Limited. This brings his ownership up to 18.5% in the junior Canadian… Continue Reading

Newmont Mining (NEM:NYSE) announced this morning that it has signed a letter of intent to sell its Midas operations in Nevada to private equity firm, Waterton Global.  Midas has been a staple of Newmont’s Nevada operations as it is a high grade gold-silver and has been in production since 1999.  Many analysts already anticipated depletion and shut down of… Continue Reading

In July of this year, a favorite of Rick Rule and Brent Cook, Lydian International (LYD:TSX), took it on the chin following a resolution passed by the Armenian government that modified the basin to the Lake Sevan.  This led to Lydian essentially having to bring their heap leach and processing site plan back to the… Continue Reading

The Federal Reserve will issue its latest verdict on monetary policy tomorrow at 2pm EST. In addition, the FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) will provide its latest economic guesses …err….forecasts which will be heavily parsed over by market participants. This will be followed by Chairman Bernanke’s grand entrance to his press conference in which he will… Continue Reading

Endeavour Mining (EDV:TSX) has added some depth to its roster by bringing on Ian Cockerill, Miguel Rodriguez and Frank Giustra to its strategic advisory board.  The three new members will replace Jorje L. Gamarci and Dr. Antony Harwood.  The board now consists of seven members: Michael Beckett (Chairman), Ian Cockerill, Frank Giustra, Ian Henderson, Wayne… Continue Reading

This morning Dale Corman’s Western Copper and Gold (WRN:TSX) provided an update on the developments of their Casino project in the Yukon (see Dale Corman’s Western Copper and Gold Challenge: Developing a Low-Risk Casino). WRN has completed their 2013 field program which is the end of a six-year long engineering and baseline data collection program… Continue Reading