We called up Brent Cook, economic geologist and editor of Exploration Insights, for a quick conversation on the junior resource sector as we head into the summer doldrums yesterday (MP3 download link). Mining stocks are cheap but Brent’s not calling the bottom yet. “If you buy something in this market, be prepared to buy the same number… Continue Reading

Rick Rule rules the junior resource world with his checkbook. The acclaimed speculator has been financing mining and energy companies for nearly forty years and has the big scores and scars to prove it. From his perch as chairman of Sprott USA, the world’s best known natural resources & precious metals focused investment firm, Rule… Continue Reading

With special thanks to Odgers Berndston, global leaders in executive search, for supporting these interviews. Meet Brent Cook: seasoned geologist and the mind behind Exploration Insights, one of the most credible and influential gold stock newsletters in the world today. We recently caught up with Brent in Vancouver, and asked him to share some of… Continue Reading

New regulation complicates Canadian companies’ ability to raise capital at home and abroad. Source: British Columbia Securities Commission.  See also: BCSC to End Finder’s Fees for Capital Raising Except by Registered Dealer (Clark Wilson). BCN 2013/01 Notice and Request for Comment – Proposed Revocation of BC Instrument 32-513 Registration Exemption for Trades in Connection with Certain Prospectus-Exempt… Continue Reading

Haywood Securities initiates coverage of Petroamerica Oil Corp. (C:PTA) with a Sector Outperform rating and a price target of C$0.55. Read our coverage of PTA, and do your own due diligence. Petroamerica Representations of value, or the unexpected double history of banking and the art world. Gold, Golden, Gilden, Glittering. Believer “No money EVER gets made in meetings.” How I… Continue Reading

Goldman: The Economic Crisis Ends In 2013. Business Insider Popular Delusions: The bull case for safe havens. The Big Picture Of warplanes, the homeless, teachers’ unions, oil, drugs, immigration and monetary policy. National Post Norway Wealth Fund to Spend $11B Adding U.S. Real Estate. Bloomberg Could Fine Art And Collectibles Become A New Asset Class? Forbes The… Continue Reading

Brent’s partner Quinton Hennigh was also interviewed by Daniela at the Denver Gold Forum. Serious speculators should consider subscribing for Exploration Insights, Brent and Quinton’s premium newsletter. It’s the gold standard of exploration stock newsletters and I read it every Sunday. Join Brent, Quinton and I at the Toronto Resource Investment Conference Sept 27-28, 2012. Early registration is free… Continue Reading

Foreign Purchases of Canadian Securities Reach Record. Bloomberg A Yahoo Search Calls Up a Chief From Google. Dealbook Contrary Indicator. The Globe’s hatin on mining stocks. Globe and Mail Otto Rock, Keir Reynolds and Callaghan himself with more on BarkerVaudeville. Enbridge brand can be repaired: analysts. Financial Post Four Reasons the Hedge Fund Industry Is… Continue Reading

Newsletter writers are using the word Cartel in regards to the Libor rate fixing story. In bold. This is interesting to me because the word cartel carries heavy associations. What do we think of when we hear the word “cartel”? Latin American drug terrorists. All of the bad guys from the movie Commando. Men with… Continue Reading

A large, red panic-button sits beside this awkward, dramatic opener: “They say it’s always darkest before the dawn but in the financial world we seem to repeatedly go beyond ‘dark’ into pitch blackness when the periodic stumbles that are part and parcel of an ever-growing world come along.”  Grant Williams, a portfolio and strategy advisor to Vulpes Investment Management in Singapore, uses most… Continue Reading

If a recent 43-101 report proves accurate, the next round of drinks may be on controversial Vancouver gold mining promoter Frank Callaghan. Image:HiAlpha As the chief promoter and CEO of Barkerville Gold Mines Ltd over the past 18 odd years, Frank Callaghan has fostered a mixed reputation, and it’s not just for his penchant for… Continue Reading

This Sunday and Monday: 200 commodities companies take on Facebook. Dear Readers, I’d like to take this opportunity to invite you to the World Resource Investment Conference this Sunday and Monday in Canada’s Vancouver Convention Centre (East). Headlining the free event are financial entrepreneurs Peter Schiff, Doug Casey, Rick Rule and Frank Holmes. The metals equities specialists join representatives from more than 200 natural resources companies and… Continue Reading

One of the most complicated issues in the junior exploration business is how to best align the interests of all stakeholders involved with the exploration process. These stakeholders include everybody from the retail investor on down, with a specific focus on management. It is always a big checkmark for investors to see management pay personally… Continue Reading

An interview with rock star newsletter writer and commodity trading adviser Gregory Weldon from last weekend’s Cambridge House California Resource Investment Conference. You should run and not walk to sign up for a free trial of Weldon’s Money Monitor. End game (1:11) “I fear that if central banks don’t remain as aggressive as they’ve been,… Continue Reading

Originally published on TommyHumphreys.com. It is my pleasure to share this interview with my friend Doug Casey, the legendary author, investment newsletter writer and founder of Casey Research. Doug is about the nicest guy you could meet for a man in the doom and gloom business, and I think business is good. So without further adieu,… Continue Reading