A few notes from my friendly conversation with Kitco’s Alex Letourneau yesterday: M&A has been seen as a critical catalyst to get the junior mining sector going so I’m glad Goldcorp’s made a move on Osisko and I agree with the market that Goldcorp will sweeten their bid. The China Gold Stone Mining Development /… Continue Reading

Teck Resources (TSX:TCK.B) CEO Don Lindsay made a brilliant comment on BNN Television earlier about long life mining assets. “Whether it’s copper, whether it’s oil, whether it’s zinc, it’s a cyclical business, and you know that you’re going to get all of your money back in 2 or 3 good years. What you don’t know… Continue Reading

An edited version of this story was first published in the Globe and Mail. The man who recently left his job as head of Sprott Resource Corp. says he has yet to sell a share in the company. Kevin Bambrough, who exited his role as the chief executive of Sprott Resource Corp., as well as… Continue Reading

The man at the helm of Molycorp for 15-plus years, who helped to ignite a mania in the rare earths industry just five years ago, has bet big on a niobium project originally discovered by Molycorp. Mark A. Smith has invested over $1.3 million personally for 8.4 percent of NioCorp Developments (TSXV:NB), which owns the… Continue Reading

The man who was arguably the best performing junior resource fund manager IN THE WORLD from 2007-2013, Kevin Bambrough, Ex-President of Sprott Resource Corp., and President of Sprott Inc., abruptly departed the Sprott Group October 22, 2013 after an 11 year career with the embattled natural resources fund manager. Mr. Bambrough delivered a 150% net… Continue Reading

Ari Sussman’s Continental Gold (client and long position) was discussed in this interview with Paul Harris, Editor of the Colombia Gold Report: Paul Harris Has Something to Say About Colombia’s Gold Exploration Sector Excerpt: TGR: How do investors make money in Colombian mining equities or companies with projects in Colombia? PH: Well, Brian, I think you, as… Continue Reading

Tekoa from Bull Market Thinking has published an interview with the always fascinating anarchist libertarian author, speculator and founder of Casey Research, Doug Casey. Here are Doug’s comments on getting rich, and what he’s up to nowadays. “First thing I’d say is that there’s not a fixed amount of wealth in the world. It grows… Continue Reading

Canadian Oil Sands (COSWF on the Nasdaq) is a HUGE oil producer.  There are some very interesting differences between this company and other Canadian oil producers.  Those differences may work to Canadian Oil Sands’ advantage. Take a look at this video interview I did in San Francisco in December and decide for yourself … Watching… Continue Reading

Here’s the second video I shot in San Francisco at the 49 North Resource Investment Conference. You can find the first video HERE.  This one is an interview with Bridget Freas, a representative from Coeur Mining (Symbol CDE on the NYSE). I think this Coeur interview is especially relevant because the positive action in gold and silver… Continue Reading

I came across a 2011 article about Canaccord Financial founder Peter Brown, and I particularly enjoyed the following excerpt: In 1968, Brown and partner Ted Turton bought 51 per cent of a struggling Vancouver brokerage for $23,000. They soon ran into problems with an “irresponsible” financial partner who bankrupted the company, he said. “We started… Continue Reading

The following is an excerpt of a conversation with Sprott USA Chairman Rick Rule published by Tekoa Da Silva, Editor, Bull Market Thinking (Source). TD: Rick, if I can ask you about the concept of becoming rich to be blunt, based on your experience, what are some of the characteristics that you feel lead to becoming… Continue Reading

Tekoa from Bull Market Thinking interviews Sprott Asset Management founder Eric Sprott, who became a billionaire in the gold bull market, but has lost his step as the bullish outcome for precious metals and resources equities Sprott predicted has yet to materialize. Still, the interviewer asked a couple of great questions of the pioneer Sprott:… Continue Reading

Congratulations are in order to Ari Sussman and his team at Continental Gold Limited (TSX:CNL). They have been awarded the Mines and Money London 2013 Exploration Award for their Buriticá high grade gold project in Colombia, beating out the likes of Fission Uranium, Robust Resources and Sirius Resources for the honour. Mines and Money London is… 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

“Mason Graphite apparently has the purest deposit in the world and is run by the world’s experts, people who have been in the graphite business a long time…” – Jim Rogers, Chairman of Rogers Holdings Mason Graphite (LLG:TSXV) put together a small, but high-grade, deposit based on 25 drill holes and 2,285m of drilling completed… Continue Reading