One of the best performing junior mining stocks of 2014 has been NioCorp Developments Ltd., a Vancouver, Canada based company which owns the Elk Creek niobium deposit in Nebraska (niobium is a steel strengthening and lightening alloy). Shares in NioCorp are trading at $0.63 Monday after reaching $0.78 a few days ago. They could be… Continue Reading

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Mining mogul Ross Beaty has decided not to move forward with a $5 million exploration joint venture with Magellan Minerals and a private company to explore areas of Brazil’s Pocone gold belt. Tuesday evening Magellan announced that the March 3, 2014 agreement with Mr. Beaty, a successful and closely followed natural resource investor, had been terminated. Commenting… Continue Reading

By Frank Holmes CEO and Chief Investment Officer U.S. Global Investors Texas is oil country. The state I now call home leads the nation in oil production and would be one of the top oil-producing nations if it were its own country. But that doesn’t stop us from exploring other promising oil opportunities further afield.… Continue Reading

Dear CEO.CA Reader, A well-respected colleague and friend of mine, Rick Rule, Chairman of Sprott US Holdings, is hosting the Sprott Vancouver Natural Resource Symposium 2014 on July 22-25 at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver. Below is some information on his conference, which I strongly recommend that you read more about and consider – if you… Continue Reading

President Clinton and Frank Giustra’s Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership has been named to Inc. Magazine’s 25 Companies That Are Changing the World list. According to the story, CGE has built six enterprises in just over a year with another six on the way. 20,000 jobs have already been created, more than 16,000 people have been… Continue Reading

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

The Economist is out with a first class post on Barrick Gold founder Peter Munk. Munk’s tale How a former refugee from the Nazis made and lost several fortunes Apr 19th 2014 | From the print edition YOU can’t be right all the time. In a 1995 profile of Peter Munk, the founder of Barrick Gold,… Continue Reading

Ivanhoe Mines’ Kipushi project in the D.R. Congo was one of the world’s richest copper, zinc, germanium and precious metals mines from 1924 until political instability in the Congo forced the mine’s closure in 1993. Kipushi’s current 68% owner, Robert Friedland’s Ivanhoe Mines, believes the mine was not fully exhausted despite 68 years of operations.… Continue Reading

BlackRock’s managing director of natural resources Evy Hambro said demergers were a way to unlock value for shareholders and backs plans by BHP Billiton to sell off assets. (Brisbane Times)

By Frank Holmes CEO and Chief Investment Officer U.S. Global Investors Commodity returns vary wildly, as experienced resource investors can attest and our popular periodic table illustrates. This inherent volatility can spell opportunity for the nimble investor who can look past the mainstream headlines to identify hot spots. Our global resources expert, Brian Hicks, CFA,… Continue Reading

I don’t know if VICE Media Inc. is really worth the billions founder Shane Smith says it is, but I do know that he’s a great salesman. Smith believes the youth media company he founded in Montreal in 1994 will haul US $1 billion in revenue this year with 50% profit margins, telling Bloomberg VICE could… Continue Reading

This post originally appeared in South China Morning Post. Three years ago, Robert Friedland, executive chairman and founder of Ivanhoe Mines, told the Hong Kong Mines and Money conference: “Hong Kong will become the largest mining finance market in the world.” Four years on this clearly hasn’t happened, which has led some to wonder if it… Continue Reading

Ivanhoe Mines published a positive Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA) for the Platreef project in the Northern Limb of the Bushveld Complex in the South African province of Limpopo. The Platreef mine is projected to be the lowest cost producer of platinum-group metals in Africa, home to over 70% of the world’s production. Key features of the… Continue Reading

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