When Glencore and Xstrata merged earlier this year in a $30 billion deal, the Chinese regulators demanded that Glencore sell its Las Bambas mine in Peru by September 30, 2014 in order for them to approve the massive merger.  It appears that Chinalco Mining, the listed copper arm of the state-owned Aluminum Corp of China is interested… 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

Fission Uranium (FCU:TSXV) and Alpha Minerals (AMW:TSXV) announced this morning, after being halted late yesterday, that they had discovered a fourth mineralized zone at their Patterson Lake South Discovery.  The fourth zone, R945E, is located 165m grid east of R780E zone and extends the total strike length of the PLS deposit to 1.05km.  Hole PLS13-084 hit… Continue Reading

The best story in mineral exploration today is the PLS uranium discovery by Fission / Alpha, which has created a land rush in the Southwestern region of Northern Saskatchewan’s Athabasca Basin. Click here for a high res map by way of Rivador Consulting Ltd. Fission / Alpha continue to deliver outstanding market performance and are halted… Continue Reading

B2Gold (BTO:TSX) announced its Q2/2013 results which appeared, on the face, to be weak.  However, a dig deeper illustrates that most of the downward earnings adjustments were related to one-time charges related to the closing of the acquisition of CGA Mining and the Masbate gold project in the Philippines.  Adjusted EPS came in below consensus of $0.03… Continue Reading

Aug. 9 (Bloomberg) — Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp., Latin America’s most valuable non-state crude producer, said buying a light crude producer in Colombia would help reduce transport costs for the mostly heavy oil producer. Increasing low-density crude output would reduce purchases of diluents needed to transport heavier oils by pipeline, Chief Financial Officer Carlos Perez… Continue Reading

Fission Uranium (FCU:TSXV) and Alpha Minerals (AMW:TSXV) announced further results from their $6.95 million, 44 hole, 11,000m drill and ground geophysics program at their Patterson Lake South (PLS) deposit in the Athabasca Basin of Saskatchewan.  The companies announced drilling results including hole PLS13-080 which encountered 13.41m composite off-scale mineralization including 7.6m of continuous off-scale mineralization.  This… Continue Reading

Alamos Gold (AGI:TSX) announced that it has received final signatures from the Turkish Ministry of the Environment and Urbanization for its Kirazli gold project located in Turkey.  The EIA on the Agi Dagi project has been progressing as well and is now at the final stages for approval.  With no debt and approximately $475 million… Continue Reading

Pacific Rubiales (PRE:TSX) the Colombian oil producer, headed by Co-Chairman Serafino Iacono, announced its second quarter results which were somewhat mixed.  PRE saw its net earnings diminish from $224 million ($0.76 per share) in Q2/2012 to $58 million ($0.18 per share) in Q2/2013.  The reason for the reduced earnings was foreign exchange losses as well… Continue Reading

Capstone Mining (CS:TSX) announced today that it would acquire the right to earn up to 70% of the Project Providencia from Sociedad Quimica y Mineral de Chila S.A. (SQM).  The property is somewhat strategic in that it sits approximately halfway between Capstone’s Santo Domingo Project and Anglo American’s Mantos Blancos copper mine. SQM is a… Continue Reading

Fission Uranium (FCU:TSXV) and Alpha Minerals (AMW:TSXV) announced the results of an additional four drill holes from their Patterson Lake South Deposit (50/50 Joint Venture) in the Athabasca region of Saskatchewan.  The two are in the process of completing a $6.95 million, 11,000m drill and ground geophysics program on the project.  Drilling highlights included 18.5m… 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

Visual Capitalist has taken on uranium in Saskatchewan’s Athabasca Basin in their latest infographic. Sprott USA Chairman Rick Rule calls the Basin, “The Persian Gulf of Uranium.” Read our past coverage of exploration companies in the area. Source.

David Talbot, Senior Mining Analyst at Dundee Capital Markets, is one of the foremost uranium analysts in Canada. He sat down with the Energy Report to discuss a few of his favourite names. Read: Top Ten Stocks for a Uranium Price Rebound: David Talbot On the uranium price’s recent poor performance, Mr. Talbot commented, “What we… Continue Reading

Kip Keen at Mineweb has a new interview with Dave Lowell, Chairman & CEO of Lowell Copper (TSXV:JDL), discussing the Ricardo property in Chile. Finding an ore body at Ricardo will be challenging, Lowell says. “We’re looking for vertical tabular slabs of ore with no alteration halo on either side and it probably will be deep,… Continue Reading