“If you want to get something done in Massachusetts, you need him.” That’s how Morley Safer describes Boston’s Billy Bulger, the powerful longtime president of the Massachusetts Senate — and brother of the infamous mobster James “Whitey” Bulger. (Original air date: Sept. 27, 1992) Source

When I was ten I loved to write down who liked who. “David liked Joanne”. “Lori liked Jimmy”. Then I would write down why. “David would laugh every time Joanne would make a joke in class.” I had a spiral notebook, about 8×11, and I pretty quickly would fill up all the pages and then… Continue Reading

I have said since you interviewed me over one year ago, this will continue and now is becoming a global phenomenon. The Fed has worked itself (and now most of the world) into an inescapable trap. I believe hard assets will go higher, including gold and commodities. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-23/central-banks-drop-tightening-talk-as-easy-money-goes-on.html

THE CALANDRA REPORT: Subscribe $91 yearly October 22, 2013 Most everyone likes an under-fished story. Even regulators. So, this is Day 9. Barkerville Gold Mines’ return to trading brings a doubling of the stock price for those who bought the tarnished stock in America’s pink-sheet market (symbol BGMZF) whilst the Canada shares were halted. Those… Continue Reading

US Global Investors (NASD:GROW) CIO Frank Holmes, the always energetic and insightful natural resources fund manager, made two simple yet profound observations regarding identifying junior resource management teams worthy of your investment dollars during a private conversation at Canaccord Genuity’s Global Resources Conference in Miami yesterday. 1) Junior resource companies operating internationally should always have senior managers… Continue Reading

We had the wonderful opportunity of attending the Canaccord Genuity Global Resources Conference during the past couple of days in Miami, Florida. Canaccord put on a first class event with many of mining and energy sector’s best CIOs and CEOs on hand. Below are some of the key takeaways from the conference: Most miners are… Continue Reading

US Oil Sands (USO:TSXV) has closed its previously announced, oversubscribed $81 million financing and has added a changed lineup of all-star energy entrepreneurs to its board of directors.  USO raised the money from three main strategic investors, Blue Pacific Investments, Anchorage Capital Group and Spitfire Ventures.  Blue Pacific nominated Serafino Iacono (highly successful Colombian resource entrepreneur… Continue Reading

Andrew Ross Sorkin’s Dealbook (The New York Times) is out with a new article on the latest betting scheme being proposed by Wall Street; a market to buy and sell real financial interests in entertainment stars.  Fantex Holdings announced today that it will open a marketplace in the US where investors can trade an interest in the… Continue Reading

Lukas Lundin’s Africa Oil (AOI:TSXV) announced a $450 million brokered private placement.  The company is issuing 56.5 million shares at $8.25 per share and will be placed on a best efforts basis through Citigroup, Dundee and Pareto Securities.  The company claims to have good support for this financing with its existing shareholders as well as… Continue Reading

This morning, Robert Friedland’s Ivanhoe Mines (IVN:TSX) announced a monster hole at their Flatreef platinum project in South Africa.  In hole TMT006, IVN intersected 90.64m of 4.51g/t 4PGE (platinum, palladium, rhodium and gold) 0.37% nickel and 0.20% copper.  Within the 90.64m interval included 40.79m of 6.88g/t 4PGE. “This is an extraordinary drill hole,” said Robert… Continue Reading

Bloomberg is out with a great article this morning on the junior mining sector (Hat tip to Jon Jones @ Haywood for forwarding). According to the article, mining acquisitions under $1 billion have slumped to an 8 year low. Additionally, there are 972 mining companies in Canada with no revenue over the past 12 months,… Continue Reading

Gold development darling turned dog’s breakfast Lydian International (TSX:LYD) has been given a preliminary endorsement by the Armenian authorities for the alternative location of their proposed heap leach processing facility at the Amulsar gold project, the company said in a news release this morning. Read: LYDIAN INTERNATIONAL ANNOUNCES UPDATE ON DEVELOPMENT OF THE AMULSAR GOLD MINE; ARMENIA The… Continue Reading

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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

THE CALANDRA REPORT: Subscribe $91 yearly TIBURON, CALIFORNIA — GOLD STANDARD VENTURES shares in Canada and the USA, along with an ancillary listing in Germany, are rising smartly this week. As much as 50 percent in several days for GSV (in Canada and USA and 6AZ in Germany). This is a heady move that is linked… Continue Reading