Tim Kiladze and Jacqueline Nelson have a tough new article out about gold fund manager Eric Sprott. While it’s definitely worth a read, reports like these tend to mark market bottoms, historically. We believe the best days for Sprott Inc. lie ahead. Read the article at Globe and Mail ->

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

We just received the following email from former Forbes West boss Mark Morabito announcing the parting of ways between his Vancouver-based natural resources group and Mr. Bharti’s Forbes & Manhattan in Toronto. Here’s what it said: I am writing to advise you that Forbes West and Forbes & Manhattan are parting company amicably. We will… Continue Reading

Renowned investors Frank Giustra, James Grant, Mark Mobius, B. Muthuraman, Tye Bousada, Jim Rogers, Seymour Schulich and Rob Arnott offer their best commodity related investment ideas. Article: Globe and Mail Frank Giustra renowned gold investor will soon be singing #PatsyCline in women’s under wear! See attached m.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-busi… — Kevin O’Leary (@kevinolearytv) April 20, 2013

I was talking with the great Frank Holmes, CIO and CEO of US Global Investors last week and he made a clever comment that I was reminded of today. He said: “I go to these entrepreneurs events all over the place — the EOs and the YPOs — and you know how you can tell the… Continue Reading

Paul Reynolds is the president and CEO of Canaccord Financial Inc. (TSX:CF, LSE:CF), a leading financial services firm specializing in wealth management and global capital markets. Established in 1950, Canaccord rose to prominence under the leadership of former CEO and now honorary chairman Peter Brown. For decades, the company was synonymous with Canadian venture capital… Continue Reading

Alterra Power Corp (C:AXY) Shares Issued 466,374,814 Last Close 4/18/2013 $0.30 Mr. Ross Beaty reports: Ross Beaty, of 1550 — 625 Howe St., Vancouver, B.C., V6C 2T6, acquired ownership of 14.93 million common shares of Alterra Power Corp. on April 17, 2013, by way of a private purchase, made in reliance on the private agreement… Continue Reading

He pays little attention to the daily trading noise, or to prophesies that the commodity supercycle is over. Even on a day when gold is nosediving, he remains bullish about the five- to 10-year prospects as long as monetary expansion and currency volatility remain rampant – and China, he feels, has come back nicely. Gold,… 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

Over the last two years, economists, market professionals, and the media have pushed all sorts of “doom and gloom” coverage about the residential real estate market here in Metro Vancouver. Most of this coverage fuels public opinion that the local real estate market is tanking – that we’re all in for a big hurt. Given… 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

Worth an estimated $27 billion, the enigmatic Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has very public holdings: he is the second-largest voting shareholder in News Corp., he owns Paris’s George V hotel and part of New York City’s Plaza hotel, he is a major stockholder in Apple, and he will soon own the world’s tallest building. But… Continue Reading

New interview/profile of King Abdullah of Jordan | The Atlantic by Jeffrey Goldberg

TORONTO — Ivanplats Robert Friedland needs no introduction. For one, he is North America’s greatest mining showman. Second, he is almost surely a billionaire. Third, he is a miner’s mining exec. “He knows his metals, and his black box works,” platinum prospector and Ivanplats board member William Hayden told me the other day over fizzy… Continue Reading

Early in 2013, the BC Securities Commission moved to ban unlicensed finders from accepting fees as a result of introducing accredited investors to private placements. The BCSC concluded that approximately 1% of capital raised would be impacted by the decision. However on February 28, 2013, TSX Venture Exchange President John McCoach wrote in a letter to… Continue Reading