Petroamerica Oil Corp. ($PTA) neighbour C&C Energia ($CZE) bought up by Pacific Rubilaes Energy ($PRE) for an approx. 52% premium. PR Newsire “Russia gets into your blood,” he said. “Life is never a straight line. Persistence and enthusiasm is how you get things done.” BP Seen Takeover Target After Settlement as Value Trails. Bloomberg “Most of those in public office,… Continue Reading

Three Mining Pros Take The Reins At Prophecy Platinum Prophecy Platinum Corp. (NKL), has scored a major talent coup by attracting a trio of credible and experienced mining executives to advance its flagship Wellgreen platinum, nickel and copper project in the Yukon Territory. We had the opportunity to sit down with new CEO Greg Johnson… Continue Reading

Via The Calandra Report – Subscribe Here – Only $58 HOUSTON — Are Colombia oil producers nearing a wave of mergers, as asset manager Frank Holmes forecast three weeks ago?

Happy Halloween… Berkshire Extends Housing Bet With Brookfield Venture. Bloomberg Norway Oil Fund Looks Into Factor Risk Model Embraced by Pimco. Bloomberg Centamin’s licence for flagship Sukari mine revoked by Egyptian court. Financial Post Is India’s Rising Billionaire Wealth Bad for the Country? NYTimes Ortega Tops Buffett With Zara Fortune of $53.6 Billion. Bloomberg Gary Shilling: Who Loses When Fed Keeps… Continue Reading

We were travelling all throughout Albania today, which is a wonderful country. Tomorrow we’ll be back to posting as normal, but in the meantime, please enjoy some photos from our trip.

“As today’s aristocrats age, many of them will undertake their own web legacy projects, and a niche production market will grow at the intersection of art, technology, history and public relations.” Web Legacies of the Super Rich. CEO “It’s almost like ‘The Beverly Hillbillies. They just shot in the ground and up came bubbling crude oil…” Iowa Farms… Continue Reading

“The easiest way to get people to do what you want them to do… is to start with people who want what you want.” Seth’s blog Koch Sued by Executive Claiming He Was Held Captive. Bloomberg Michael Belkin Predicts 40% Stock Market Drop. Ritholtz via WSJ Robert Friedland’s Ivanplats to raise $300-million at $4.75 a share. Globe and Mail  also: Ivanplats IPO… Continue Reading

Petromanas Energy Inc. ($PMI), an Albanian-focused oil and gas explorer backed by Royal Dutch Shell, was discussed in the Energy Report recently by National Bank analyst Darrel Bishop. Highlights below. Shpirag-2 well site in Albania – Photo: Petromanas TER: One of the jurisdictions you follow is unusual —Albania. Can you explain the investment thesis and the current opportunities? DB:… Continue Reading

“The only way to make money is if other people agree with your thesis.” O.T. Xstrata Backs Glencore Bid With Board Assurance, Vote Change. Bloomberg Presenting Apple Inc.’s Braeburn: The World’s Largest Hedge Fund. ZeroHedge Blackstone’s Schwarzman: Alignment of interests is ‘off the table’. Pensions & Investments Norway’s Wealth Fund Targets U.S. Real Estate. Bloomberg Why do… Continue Reading

Russia’s Norilsk Nickel sees African opportunity. Reuters China steelmaker, miners cut output as slowdown bites. Reuters Short-term dip in uranium prices now a long-term slump. Financial Post A closer look at O’Leary Funds. Globe and Mail Open Season on Salt: What the Science on Hypertension Really Shows. Scientific American The Lie Factory: How politics became… Continue Reading

One of the most fascinating modern technological innovations in my opinion, is the icebreaking ship. Known as “icebreakers” these naval vessels with specially designed hulls open up shipping routes and arctic exploration opportunities that would otherwise be inaccessible.

“He, by announcing a story which everyone knows not to be true, told the truth by the very fact that he did not claim to be relating real events.” -Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana, Book V:14 Lived From 620-564 BC Fabulist, Storyteller Credited For Writing Over 684 Fables, Known as “Aesop’s Fables” Aesop’s fables… Continue Reading

Recently we sat down with Amir Adnani, CEO of Uranium Energy Corp. ($UEC), an American uranium mining company, for a conversation on the nuclear industry eighteen months after the catastrophe at Fukushima which devastated both Japan and most uranium miners’ share prices. One of the most critical issues we discussed in our interview was the… Continue Reading

“It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight! It is no trick at all to be right on the market. You always find lots of early bulls in bull markets and early bears in bear markets. I’ve known many men who… Continue Reading

Draghi-Day: ECB agrees new bond-buying plan. Reuters Russia is stockpiling gold. Marketwatch Indian Tycoon Seeks 40-Fold Payout In African Gas Deal. Bloomberg China’s New Richest Man Revealed, Living Off Just $20 Per Day. Bloomberg Transcript: Canadian Minister of Natural Resources Joe Oliver’s Speech to Canaccord Genuity Corp., Sept 4, 2012. Republic of Mining Qatar Imperils Big Merger… Continue Reading