Just a friendly reminder that Robert Friedland’s Ivanplats has been renamed Ivanhoe Mines and has commenced trading under the symbol IVN on the TSX. Mr. Friedland is touring investors around his properties in South Africa and the DRC this week. Our August 22, 2013 prediction that he would soon send Ivanhoe’s shares above $2 has… Continue Reading

Africa Oil (AOI:TSXV) announced its second quarter results and an update on exploration and operations. The company expects to have a fourth Tullow Oil and Africa Oil JV rig drilled and tested on the 10BB and 13T Blocks in Kenya in October 2013. AOI has also secured a fifth rig for Block 9 in Kenya… Continue Reading

Billionaire promoter and resource developer, Robert Friedland to change name of Ivanplats (IVP:TSX) back to his favorite resource company name, Ivanhoe Mines.  The name change will take effect September 3, 2013 and will trade on the TSX under the symbol “IVN”. “The original Ivanhoe Mines and its predecessor company, Indochina Goldfields, earned international recognition and… Continue Reading

Last week I bought some Ivanplats at $1.56 thinking it was too beaten up for the calibre of people and projects it has. Summer months are also historically the best times to pick up junior mining shares. I also just learned that IVP Chairman Robert Friedland (who owns some 135 million IVP shares) will be… Continue Reading

Torex Gold (TXG:TSX) released the final batch of results from its Media Luna target at the Morelos Gold Project in the Guerrero Belt in Mexico.  The company expects to release a maiden resource by mid-September on the Media Luna zone.  Highlights of the final holes include 19.9m of 11.56 gold equivalent (8.17g/t gold, 24.53g/t silver and… Continue Reading

Investor, geologist and writer Malcolm Shaw has provided exceptional coverage of the PLS Discovery on Seeking Alpha. Here’s a repost of his Monster In The Making piece from earlier this morning: Fission Uranium (FCUUF.OB) and Alpha Minerals (ESOFF.PK) have released an update on their ongoing Patterson Lake drilling program. The companies have identified a 4th zone of mineralization on… Continue Reading

Ten days ago, shares in Alberta Oilsands (TSXV:AOS) exploded to the upside when the company announced that the Government of Alberta had cancelled their oil lease at Clearwater, and must repay AOS $51 million (or approx. $.24 per share) plus interest as part of a government compensation framework for cancelled contracts. This is the second… Continue Reading

Lundin Group oil junior, Africa Oil (TSXV:AOI) depended the hole of its Etuko-1 target to penetrate the Lower Lokhone formation and has hit 50m of potential net pay.  The company already hit 40m of net pay in the Auwerwer and Upper Lokhone reservoirs, so this increase in depth will be flow tested later this year… Continue Reading

Many analysts are claiming that new platinum ETF and trust products such as Sprott’s physical products have begun to wreak havoc on an already beat up and battered South African platinum industry.  Just as the gold ETFs did in the gold run over the last decade, these new platinum products could rip billions of investment… Continue Reading

By Lawrence Roulston, Resource Opportunities News that the US Federal Reserve may begin cutting back on Quantitative Easing panicked investors around the world. The mere suggestion that the easy money might be cut back if the economy continues to improve exemplifies how dependent investors have become on what is effectively a government handout. The sharp drop in… Continue Reading

“The red earth that dusts the lush vegetation around Simandou marbles the mountain rock is worth a fortune.” A few weeks ago New Yorker published an amazing story: Burried Secrets: How an Israeli billionaire wrested control of one of Africa’s biggest prizes. The article covers businessman Beny Steinmetz’s takeover of the Simandou iron ore project in Guinea,… Continue Reading

LIBERTY METALS & Mining Holdings continues to take stakes in emerging gold and metals producers. This one has Karma. The unit of the large insurer, Liberty Mutual, came across my screen about a year ago, when it gave Red Eagle Mining in Colombia (RD in Canada) $8 million in exchange for a net smelter royalty… Continue Reading

Well-known Toronto-based mining and energy promoter Stan Bharti of Forbes and Manhattan has opened up to Mineweb’s Kip Keen. Here’s a link to the article. Excerpts include: “At Forbes & Manhattan we always tell people, find good assets in emerging markets so you don’t overpay for them. I mean any fool can go and pay… Continue Reading

From yesterday’s Stockwatch Energy Summary: Pacific Rubiales and Ecopetrol hold the largest interests in the $4.2-billion (U.S.) Bicentenario pipeline, with 32.88 per cent and 55 per cent, respectively. Petrominerales Ltd. (PMG), up 10 cents to $6.16, holds 9.65 per cent, and Canacol Energy Ltd. (CNE), up nine cents to $2.90, holds 0.5 per cent. The 960-kilometre pipeline will carry… Continue Reading

NexGen Commences Drilling at Radio Project, Eastern Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan Related: Read the NexGen backstory in this CEO.CA interview here. NexGen Energy Ltd. (TSX.V:NXE) (“NexGen” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it has commenced a 4,000 meter drill program at the Radio property, which is immediately adjacent to, and on trend approximately 2km east from, Rio… Continue Reading