There was an interesting article in the Globe today on Tesla that is important to the cobalt market. Long-term investors can catch a ride with Tesla Excerpt (emphasis ours): Think about battery volume alone. Tesla’s goal is to ship 700,000 cars in 2019, which requires a 24-fold growth from production volume last quarter. This would give… Continue Reading

Dr. Mark O’Dea’s Burkina Faso gold developer, True Gold Mining (TGM:TSXV), received good news this morning from the authorities of the West African nation; the company has been granted the environmental permit for the Kao deposit.  This environmental nod, keeps the company on track for its development timeline for the Karma gold mine.  They now have four of… Continue Reading

Fission Uranium (FCU:TSXV) has released assay results from three holes drilled at Patterson Lake South.  The company is excited about PLS13-099 which is the eastern-most hole drilled in the R945E zone and encountered shallow mineralization over several wide intervals including 17m of 3.99% U308 and 3.5m of 18.52% U308.  The highest grade assay in the… Continue Reading

The Lundin Group’s Lucara Diamond Corp. (TSX:LUC) jumped 11.3% in early trading Friday after the company announced a greater than $1 billion increase in the estimated in-situ value of the Indicated mineral resource at the Karowe diamond mine in Botswana. The growth is credited to the company’s consistent recovery of large and exceptional stones at… Continue Reading

After coming off their huge Patterson Lake South win, the former management team of Alpha Minerals is now running Alpha Explorations (AEX:TSXV) which is a spinout with assets in the Cluff Lake and Patterson Lake areas in Saskatchewan.  They also hold prospective land in the Timmins gold camp area in Ontario.  Today they announced their… 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

On Monday, the Mexican senate approved a draft energy bill which would allow, for the first time in 75 years, private foreign investment into the oil and gas sector in their country.  Mexico is the number 10 global oil producer and has been controlled by the state-owned oil company, Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex).  That state-run entity has seen crude… Continue Reading

Platinum Group Metals (PTM:TSX) is set to resume trading this morning after announcing yesterday that it would be completing a $175 million bought deal financing led by BMO Capital and GMP Securities.  The stock has performed well this year, up over 50% YTD thanks to successful development of their Western Bushveld Joint Venture where they… Continue Reading

A new mineral exploration company to watch, Kaizen Discovery, will commence trading in Toronto tomorrow under the symbol KZD. Kaizen was born out of an amalgamation with HPX TechCo (50% owned by Robert Friedland) and Concordia Resource Corp. Kaizen will be 85% owned by HPX TechCo (Private) and 15% by Concordia shareholders. The company will… Continue Reading

Millions around the world have been inspired by Nelson Mandela’s dedication to freedom and human dignity.  After being imprisoned in Apartheid South Africa for 27 years, he came out and created a free, united country based on dialogue between all citizens.  Humanity is forever indebted to him. RIP Madiba “I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature… Continue Reading

Lundin Mining (LUN:TSX), Lukas Lundin’s namesake multi-billion dollar base metal mining company, announced today that they would be spending in excess of $460 million in capital in 2014, (compared to an estimated $255 million for fiscal 2013).  The bulk of the spending, $300 million will go towards completing construction of the Humboldt mill and their recently acquired Eagle mine,… Continue Reading

Canada Carbon (TSX-V: CCB), a Vancouver-based firm engaged in the acquisition and exploration of mineral properties in Ontario and Quebec, announced today that the company had commenced the second phase of drilling at their Miller Graphite project located in Quebec. According to the news release, the campaign is intended to define the graphite mineralization at… Continue Reading

With the question of whether the deal between Alpha Minerals (AMW:TSXV) and Fission Uranium (FCU:TSXV) now out of the way, the stage is set for consolidation wave in the Patterson Lake region of Saskatchewan.  Some questions were raised recently about whether this deal would be finalized following a lawsuit involving Fission which muddied the waters.  However, now… Continue Reading

Lukas Lundin’s Lucara Diamond (LUC:TSX) sold almost $23 million from their third ‘exceptional’ stone tender.  The diamonds were from the company’s Karowe mine in Botswana which has been the backbone of the company’s success this year.  In May of this year, LUC announced their first stone tender which sold 15 stones for gross revenue of… Continue Reading

Africa Oil (AOI:TSXV), the east African oil explorer and Lundin Group Company, has found a fifth consecutive oil discovery in Kenya.  The Agete-1 exploration well in block 13T (50% non-operated working interest, Tullow Oil is 50% operator), has discovered and sampled movable oil with an estimated 100 metres of net oil pay in good-quality sandstone reservoirs. The… Continue Reading