On the back of Mexico opening up its oil sector to foreign investors for the first time in 76 years, Colombia’s largest state-owned oil company, Pacific Rubiales (PRE:TSX) has decided to join in. The company, which produced 149,011 boepd (net) in Q2, signed a 3-year memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Mexico’s state oil company Petróleos… Continue Reading

Recently, we had the pleasure of sitting down with two of exploration geology’s brightest young stars; Dr. Alan Wainwright and Daniel MacNeil.  Dr. Wainwright (Chief Geologist) and Mr. MacNeil (Project Acquisition and Development) allowed us to visit them in the humble Vancouver offices of their current venture, Desert Star Resources (DSR:TSXV). Mr. MacNeil has over… Continue Reading

“Blast you Excel!!” While Kenneth Rogoff took his lumps last year due to an enormously inexcusable excel error, this former Chief Economist for the IMF and co-author of This Time Its Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly is still a voice to be reckoned with.  As part of Project Syndicate’s cleverly-titled-no-pun-intended “Submerging Markets” series, Rogoff… Continue Reading

OCO data by YCharts I would imagine the phones at Oroco Resource Corp (OCO:TSXV) would be busy today following a positive ruling by the Federal Tribunal of Mexico. Shares are up 200% to $0.10 on over 10.5 million shares at the time of writing. The court granted Oroco its appeal of the decision of the lower Federal District… Continue Reading

CTT data by YCharts Citation Resources Inc. | CTT:TSXV | 39,019,287 Shares O/S (basic) | $2,731,000 Market Cap | $.02 – $.14 Year Range | $.07 Last Trade There are numerous mineral belts endowed with many millions of ounces of silver and gold throughout Mexico.  However, none are more prolific than the Guerrero Gold Belt which is home to a significant amount… Continue Reading

Late last night, Silver Standard Resources (SSO:TSX) announced it has entered into an agreement with Barrick and Goldcorp to acquire their producing Marigold mine in Nevada for $275 million.  The mine is owned 66.7% and 33.3% by Goldcorp and Barrick, respectively.  The mine produce 162,000 ounces of gold in 2013 and is expected to produce between… Continue Reading

Dr. John-Mark Staude’s prospect generator, Riverside Resources (RRI:TSXV) has signed an agreement with a private Mexican company to acquire a 100% interest in the Cajon gold project with their strategic alliance partner, Hochschild Mining Plc.  The Cajon project is located near Goldgroup’s (GGA:TSX) Cerro Colorado mine and Timmins’ (TMM:TSX) San Francisco mine.  Recent exploration work… Continue Reading

Desert Star Resources (TSXV:DSR) is a junior exploration company being proactive in this market. Last year they picked up six exploration projects in the U.S., each with big potential. Of particular note are their Red Top, Copper King and Copper Springs projects in Arizona, as well as their Oro project in New Mexico. A map of their… Continue Reading

Cambridge, England is a university town that hosts a house of higher learning. Cambridge House is a Howe Street abode, a dwelling where hope, fear and greed each have rooms on the same floor (and share a bathroom). And floors and bottoms, of the TSX Venture variety, were something of a theme at this year’s… Continue Reading

I just had a call with my friend John-Mark Staude, CEO of Riverside Resources (TSXV:RRI). John-Mark is such an enthusiastic, fun and positive guy and we laughed about the state of the markets while promoting each other on our latest endeavours. Riverside, for those unaware, has a pretty genius business model for a junior mining… Continue Reading

Silver Bull Resources (SVB:TSX) provided investors with a recap of the developments they undertook in 2013 which saw them produce an initial preliminary economic assessment (PEA) at their Sierra Mojada silver-zinc project in Mexico.  They also updated the company with their plans for 2014.  The company will aim to derisk Sierra Mojada through advancing permitting… Continue Reading

In the following article, we offer our forecast for 2014 including five stock picks from each of our analysts. Compare 400+ precious metals stocks with a Free 14-day Trial to Tickerscores.com. 2014 Venture Forecast The TSX-V will be a stock picker’s market in 2014. In this environment, investors should stay cautious and the focus should remain… Continue Reading

Riverside Resources (RRI:TSXV), the North American focused prospect generator, announced their plans for 2014 this morning.  The company highlights the strategic partnerships created in 2013 and how they intend to build on them in 2014 and beyond.  During 2013, the company secured two new strategic alliances with Antofagasta and Hochschild for gold and copper prospects… Continue Reading

Dr. John-Mark Staude’s, prospect generator, Riverside Resources (RRI:TSXV) has announced they found a partner in Pembrook Mining (private) to option their Coatan gold project in Mexico.  Pembrook will have to pay Riverside $27,460 in cash and incur $1.8 million in expenditures on the project over the next four years to earn an initial 70% interest.  Then, to… Continue Reading

One of the very few Canadian based junior mining companies with any cash is Lowell Copper, which raised $11.4 million earlier this year, with a lead order coming from resource titan Lukas Lundin. Lundin and others backed the junior for the intellectual property of its founder, J. David Lowell, an octogenarian explorationist who pioneered the… Continue Reading