The garage sale is well underway over at Barrick (ABX:TSX).  The company has agreed to sell its Yilgarn South Assets in Australia to Gold Fields (GFI:US) for a $300 million.  The Yilgarn assets are comprised of three mines; the Granny Smith, Lawlers and Darlot mines which produced an aggregate of 452,000 ounces of gold at… Continue Reading

Serafino Iacono’s Gran Colombia Gold. (GCM:TSX) announced continued strong production out of its underground operations at Segovia and Marmato in Colombia. The company produced 9,441 ounces of gold and 10,784 ounce of silver in the month of July which brings year-to-date production to a total of 60,942 ounces of gold and 89,201 ounces of silver.… Continue Reading

Torex Gold (TXG:TSX) released the final batch of results from its Media Luna target at the Morelos Gold Project in the Guerrero Belt in Mexico.  The company expects to release a maiden resource by mid-September on the Media Luna zone.  Highlights of the final holes include 19.9m of 11.56 gold equivalent (8.17g/t gold, 24.53g/t silver and… Continue Reading

“As for Peak Gold, if that does indeed turn out to be behind us, the big, bulk-tonnage low-grade deposits that are falling out of favor today will become prime assets in the future. It’ll either be that or go without.” Read: Peak Gold | Casey Research 

Dr. Mark O’Dea’s True Gold Mining (TGM:TSXV) continues to drill good heap leach gold intercepts and this morning announced assay results from a recent 9 hole campaign at the Watinoma zone of the Karma gold project in Burkina Faso.  The company twinned a couple previously drilled RC holes and encountered the same widths with improved… Continue Reading

In the world before Brazilian billionaire, Eike Batista fell from grace, CB Gold (CBJ:TSXV) was a market favorite.  Prior to Batista losing the vast majority of his wealth due, in part, to the commodity price decline as well as some unhealthy personal leverage, Colombian gold juniors had a bid.  In February 2011, after a few… Continue Reading

After successfully acquiring the Masbate Mine as part of their buyout of CGA Mining, it appears Clive Johnson and his team may be looking for more assets to buy.  This morning B2Gold (BTO:TSX) announced a US$225 million offering of senior subordinated convertible notes due in 2018.  The company currently has $95 million cash with an additional $100… Continue Reading

Gold has rallied over $100 in the last two weeks, surprising the bearish herd and reinvigorating gold bulls with confidence that further price appreciation is imminent. However, gold is now short term overbought and may be due for a rest as price approaches important support/resistance near $1400: Click to enlarge This week the FOMC minutes… 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

Today I got tired of looking at Nevada Copper NCU in my portfolio. The copper junior was promoted to me last year as a no-brainer for M&A (Apparently not yet)… So I sold it and began accumulating Robert Freidland’s Ivanplats IVP. While nothing against NCU’s Pumpkin Hollow project, IVP has three of the best development stage projects in… 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

When Glencore and Xstrata merged earlier this year in a $30 billion deal, the Chinese regulators demanded that Glencore sell its Las Bambas mine in Peru by September 30, 2014 in order for them to approve the massive merger.  It appears that Chinalco Mining, the listed copper arm of the state-owned Aluminum Corp of China is interested… 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

Pretium Resources (PVG:TSX) released more stellar high-grade results from its Brucejack project  located 65km north of Stewart, BC.  The results come from the resource zone known as the Valley of the Kings which hosts the company’s world-class 6.6 million ounces of gold at an average grade of 13.6g/t gold.  The Company is currently performing an… Continue Reading