CEO.ca audience, we exhibit several items direct from The Calandra Report. Thom Calandra will be visiting CEO.ca regularly. His TCR audience is active and pays as much as $101 yearly for the twice-weekly TCR reports, Each of the following items should serve an audience looking for a short fuse on a trade. Our CEO.ca audience… Continue Reading

In September 2010, Lundin Petroleum (LUP:TSX) announced the largest ever oil discovery made in the Norwegian shelf; the Johan Sverdrup discovery.  It is estimated to hold a staggering 3.6 billion barrels of oil.  The discovery covers an area of approximately 180 km² in blocks 16/2, 16/3 and 16/5 on the Utsira High in the central part… Continue Reading

I came across a 2011 article about Canaccord Financial founder Peter Brown, and I particularly enjoyed the following excerpt: In 1968, Brown and partner Ted Turton bought 51 per cent of a struggling Vancouver brokerage for $23,000. They soon ran into problems with an “irresponsible” financial partner who bankrupted the company, he said. “We started… Continue Reading

The results from our gold poll are in and they are somewhat surprising: A vast plurality believed that gold would remain rangebound through the end of the year. Meanwhile, barely 1 in 4 poll respondents believed that there would be a bullish end to 2013 for gold. Given that the majority of CEO.CA readers are… Continue Reading

The following is an excerpt of a conversation with Sprott USA Chairman Rick Rule published by Tekoa Da Silva, Editor, Bull Market Thinking (Source). TD: Rick, if I can ask you about the concept of becoming rich to be blunt, based on your experience, what are some of the characteristics that you feel lead to becoming… Continue Reading

Tekoa from Bull Market Thinking interviews Sprott Asset Management founder Eric Sprott, who became a billionaire in the gold bull market, but has lost his step as the bullish outcome for precious metals and resources equities Sprott predicted has yet to materialize. Still, the interviewer asked a couple of great questions of the pioneer Sprott:… Continue Reading

Malcom Perry of the Vancouver Sun reported that Ted Turton, who co-founded Canaccord Genuity Group (CF:TSX) with Peter Brown, died this week at the age of 84. Our thoughts and prayers are with his friends and family. Mr. Turton and Mr. Brown paid $23,000 in 1968 for a small brokerage firm called Turton & Co. which became Canarim Investment… Continue Reading

I had no furniture, I was 20 lbs overweight, no job, depleting bank account, owed the IRS, out of shape, I drank every night, I was separated but not divorced, two kids, depressed and maybe suicidal, and finally, I secretly wanted to be a standup comic. I also didn’t like being alone. I am the… Continue Reading

THE CALANDRA REPORT: Subscribe $91 yearly Also: Sysorex Global, Inovio Pharma Solvista Gold corners Iamgold into a porphyry partnership at Caramanta in Colombia. Takeways: Breathing room for Solista’s Miller O’ Prey and Jeffrey Miller. Bob Allen’s Grupo de Bullet owns a hunk of Solvista (SVV in Canada). Solvista is one of our TCR 8 It… Continue Reading

Robert Friedland’s Ivanhoe Mines (IVN:TSX) has completed  dewatering activities to the main working level of the historic and high-grade Kipushi copper-zinc-germanium-lead and precious-metals mine (68% IVN, 32% state-mining company) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).  The mine’s underground workings were extensively flooded during the previous 18 years when the mine was on care-and-maintenance as a former… Continue Reading

Running out of financial flexibility, Bruce McLeod’s Mercator Minerals (ML:TSX) has agreed to a merger/takeover by Intergeo which is a subsidiary of ONEXIM Group(controlled by Russian oligarch, Mikhail Prokhorov worth an estimated $13 billion).  The deal will see Mercator’s assets get a much needed injection of capital.  Intergeo’s controlling shareholder Daselina (part of ONEXIM) will provide a… 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

NGEx Resources (NGQ:TSX), the only mineral exploration vehicle in the multi-billion dollar Lundin Group, has begun the 2013-2014 exploration program at their Josemaria and Filo del Sol projects in San Juan, Argentina.  In 2013, NGEx dramatically increased the resource base at their Josemaria and Los Helados projects.  Josemaria now hosts over 6 billion pounds of copper and… Continue Reading

THE CALANDRA REPORT: Subscribe $91 yearly Topics: Coastal Contacts, Inovio, American Sands, Stockr, Mason Graphite, Tembo, GSV & Sunny LA LOS ANGELES — Just back from getting my batteries charged at LD Micro in Bel Air. About 240 companies — four or five gold | a dozen energy | and the rest Biomedical, Internet, retail,… Continue Reading

A few days after announcing the signing of a definitive agreement to buy the Midas mine and mill complex in Nevada from Newmont, Klondex Mines (KDX:TSX) has an idea to finance the acquisition and development of that project with a gold, equity and note financing package.  KDX agreed to pay Newmont a total of $83… Continue Reading