Original Franco-Nevada founder and billionaire Canadian financier Seymour Schulich revealed a new 11 million share long position in embattled miner Barrick Gold yesterday, worth roughly $211,200,000 at today’s prices. Mr. Schulich also said he considers a Barrick Newmont merger “constructive,” noting that it would create a “very large” Canadian company. Mr. Schulich is bullish on gold… Continue Reading
Junior mining community organizers, Cambridge House International, are set to host their annual blockbuster Vancouver Resource Investment Conference at the Vancouver Convention Centre this January 19-20, 2014. There are roughly 300 junior mining companies exhibiting (full list), ranging from explorers to developers and even some producers, each likely to be prospecting for investors at Vancouver’s… Continue Reading
Peregrine Diamonds stock was introduced to a cliff earlier today when the company disclosed that DeBeers has elected not to exercise its option for 50.1% of Peregrine’s Chidliak diamond project on Baffin Island. Shares dropped from yesterday’s close of 65 cents down to the low-30s, before bouncing to 41.5 cents at the time of writing.… Continue Reading
PRESS RELEASE VIA REPUBLIC OF MINING Famed mining financier inaugurates Goodman School of Mines lecture series SUDBURY, ON (October 9, 2013) – Laurentian University’s Goodman School of Mines launched its inaugural lecture series today with two lectures by internationally renowned financier Robert Friedland, Chairman and Founder of Ivanhoe Capital Corporation and Executive Chairman and Founder… Continue Reading
Cambridge House International, Canada’s junior mining advocates, are hosting the FREE Toronto Resource Investment Conference at the Sheraton Centre Hotel this Thursday and Friday (Details and Registration). Join financiers Ned Goodman of Dundee Corp., Eric Sprott of Sprott Inc., Frank Holmes of US Global Investors, along with newsletter writers including Keith Schaefer of the Oil and… Continue Reading
A World of Mining Special – Part 1 of 2 This is a story about Eira Thomas, dubbed the “Queen of Diamonds” for her role leading the geologists who discovered the kimberlite pipes that became the Diavik diamond mine. Diavik, Canada’s second diamond mine, produced 1.9 million carats of the sparkling stones in the fourth quarter… Continue Reading
by Stockwatch Business Reporter Richard Angus Bruce McDonald, the promoter who found the Casa Berardi gold mine in Quebec, has died, age 73. His colleagues will remember him dearly as a capable fundraiser, an admired mentor and a kind friend. Mr. McDonald is credited with turning around a 1980s mining market that was cooling off… Continue Reading
