Much hyped Colorado Resources (CXO:TSXV) announced assay results from 9 additional holes at their North ROK property, located 15km northwest of Imperial Metals’ (III:TSX) Red Chris mine in British Columbia.  The company has struggled to find results that impress the markets like their discovery hole did with 242m of 0.63% copper and 0.85g/t gold.  Highlights of… Continue Reading

Billionaire promoter and resource developer, Robert Friedland to change name of Ivanplats (IVP:TSX) back to his favorite resource company name, Ivanhoe Mines.  The name change will take effect September 3, 2013 and will trade on the TSX under the symbol “IVN”. “The original Ivanhoe Mines and its predecessor company, Indochina Goldfields, earned international recognition and… 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

Pacific Potash (PP:TSXV) announced today that it intends to merge with Cowley Mining Plc to create the second largest landholder in the Amazonas potash basin, similar in size to Petrobras and Brazil Potash.  The two also intend to raise up to $12 million in equity (120 million units at $0.10 per unit).  Cowley owns strategic land… Continue Reading

After rallying $70 in less than a week gold now finds itself in no man’s land, essentially equidistant from the nearest major support and resistance levels: Click to enlarge Now that gold has achieved the $1420-1425 target which we projected several times during the past month it is worth reviewing the past few months of market… Continue Reading

Copper Mountain (CUM:TSX) announced it has entered into an option agreement with Westar Resources and Bearclaw Capital to earn up to 75% interest in the Axe property in British Columbia.  The Axe property is an advanced stage project with the potential to host a large copper porphyry.  Currently Westar and Bearclaw hold the property in… Continue Reading

Read: What were 2 Shluchim doing on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange? Shared by: Jeb Handwerger

OAO Uralkali CEO Vladislav Baumgertner is being detained in Belarus.  Baumgertner is also the Chairman of the Belarusian Potash Co (a trading venture set up by Russia’s Uralkali and Belaruskali and controlled 40% of global potash exports) and is accused of abusing his position after Uralkali shocked the markets by stating it would be quitting the… Continue Reading

On Friday, North American Nickel Inc. (TSXV:NAN) announced an 18.62 meter interval with heavy sulfides at the Imiak Hill target at the Maniitsoq project in southwestern Greenland. Assays from the drill intercept are still 3-4 weeks away, NAN CEO Rick Mark tells me, however a photo of the drill core embedded in the press release has… 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

As trading begins in Asia gold is surging above $1400: Click to enlarge Syria is the obvious catalyst, however, we must remember that we are in a very bullish time of the year for gold: The bulls have the wind at their back and dips are likely to continue to represent buying opportunities – next… Continue Reading

Related: Watch mining legend Robert Friedland send Ivanplats shares over $2 in the near term

Last week I bought some Ivanplats at $1.56 thinking it was too beaten up for the calibre of people and projects it has. Summer months are also historically the best times to pick up junior mining shares. I also just learned that IVP Chairman Robert Friedland (who owns some 135 million IVP shares) will be… Continue Reading

Dr. Mark O’Dea’s True Gold Mining (TGM:TSX) continues to have drilling success at its Liguidi project in Burkina Faso and is being rewarded in the markets for it, with the stock up 15% at the time of writing.  The company released more assays from its current drill campaign which returned “widespread near-surface gold mineralization and expanded… Continue Reading

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