Endeavour Mining Corp. | 413,043,293 Shares | $227,174,000 Market Cap | $.415 – $2.34 Year Range | $.55 Last Trade I called Endeavour Mining’s Vancouver office this afternoon for an update from the operator of three African gold mines. SVP of Business Development Doug Reddy returned my voice mail moments later with the following update:… Continue Reading

Today is the one year anniversary of making this video with my brother. I thought it would be a great opportunity to share some of my favourite mining and energy quotes, starting with one from Mr. Lowell, of course: “If there’s anything my career says about me, it’s that I’m very good at being wrong.”… 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

A few notes from my friendly conversation with Kitco’s Alex Letourneau yesterday: M&A has been seen as a critical catalyst to get the junior mining sector going so I’m glad Goldcorp’s made a move on Osisko and I agree with the market that Goldcorp will sweeten their bid. The China Gold Stone Mining Development /… Continue Reading

Skyharbour Resources (SYH:TSXV), the Patterson Lake South (PLS) explorer, is diversifying outside of the PLS play by acquiring a 60% interest in the Mann Lake project located on the east side of the Athabasca Basin.  The exploration project is roughly 25km SW of Cameco’s (CCO:TSX) McArthur River mine and 15km along strike from their Millennium deposit.  Skyharbour will… Continue Reading

Teck Resources (TSX:TCK.B) CEO Don Lindsay made a brilliant comment on BNN Television earlier about long life mining assets. “Whether it’s copper, whether it’s oil, whether it’s zinc, it’s a cyclical business, and you know that you’re going to get all of your money back in 2 or 3 good years. What you don’t know… Continue Reading

Colombian copper-gold explorer, Cordoba Minerals (CDB:TSXV) has announced plans to raise $12 million to finish acquiring the Cordoba project and other exploration work being done there and the San Matias proejct.  And, guess who is behind this financing?  If you guessed GMP Securities, you are right.  This financing is being done on a best efforts basis… Continue Reading

Encanto Potash (TSXV:EPO) Chairman Gordon Keep anticipates an off-take agreement between his firm and a consortium of India potash importers will be ratified in the first quarter of 2014. Details of the agreement first surfaced in January 2013 and again in June, 2013 on an Indian government Web site, calling for 1.8 to 2 million… Continue Reading

The Nevada gold developer, Midway Gold (MDW:TSX), has broken ground at their Pan project after receiving the final environmental permit from the authorities south of the border.  This morning the company announced that they have broken ground and that construction is now underway at Pan.  They expect the build out to take less than 9 months… Continue Reading

Africa Oil (AOI:TSXV) has continued its extraordinary success in Kenya with the discovery of two new large oil fields in their most recent two exploration wells. The discovery of these two new fields make it seven discoveries in seven exploration wells in Kenya. A perfect record. Although we have seen that the oil industry is… Continue Reading

The China Gold Stone Mining Development tender offer for Allied Nevada appears to be bogus. Allied Nevada just put a press release out calling into question the credibility of the offer. Newswires have begun removing the original release from their Web sites following a retraction from China Gold Stone citing a failure to consult counsel… 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

CRITICAL UPDATE: Allied Nevada has called into question the credibility of the offer from China Gold Stone Development… ANV data by YCharts China Gold Stone Mining Developments Ltd., which owns three gold mines in China, began a tender offer for all of Allied Nevada’s outstanding shares for $7.50 per share in cash. The move represents… Continue Reading

Lucara Diamonds (LUC:TSX), the African diamond producer and Lundin Group company, announced its 2014 operational and financial outlook.  The company is forecasting revenues of $150 – $160 million in 2014 on 400,000 – 420,000 carats of diamonds being sold.  This includes the assumption that Lucara will have two ‘exceptional’ stone tenders, although this may be conservative given… Continue Reading

Indonesia, considered the Saudi Arabia of nickel production, has banned exports of unprocessed material, meaning domestic producers won’t be able to ship their cheap ore to China for processing anymore. The move has huge implications for the global nickel market, according to the Financial Post’s Peter Koven: Miners in Indonesia have provided roughly a quarter… Continue Reading