This morning, Pretium Resources (PVG:TSX) hosted a web conference from Toronto’s St. Andrews Club which was intended to shed light on the Valley of the Kings resource estimate at their Brucejack project.  The presentation was led by Ivor Jones, an Executive Consultant with Snowden Mining Industry Consultants as well as Robert Quartermain (President and CEO,… Continue Reading

GCM data by YCharts Shares of Gran Colombia Gold (GCM:TSX) which came under severe pressure last year on the back of a dramatically dropping gold price and questions about their solvency, are up over 127% in February as the street feels the short squeeze.  Investors gained confidence in gold and gold equities in the early… Continue Reading

AOI data by YCharts Lukas Lundin’s oil exploration vehicle, Africa Oil (AOI:TSX), is planning to drill at least 20 exploration and appraisal wells in the South Lokichar basin which will include exploration wells targeting 4 new oil basins.  This program is fully funded as the company raised over $450 million last year in the largest… Continue Reading

Simon Ridgeway’s Cordoba Minerals (CDB:TSXV) has begun its 2014 exploration efforts with the mobilization of a RAB (rotary air blasted) rig to begin drilling their Montiel prospect on the San Matias project in Cordoba, Colombia.  The company recently closed a $15 million (expanded from $12 million) financing to consolidate the San Matias project as well… Continue Reading

There are many interesting things about Hudbay’s takeover offer for the 84% of Augusta Resource that it doesn’t already own – an offer that has breathed a bit more life into a moribund mining M&A scene that is slowly reviving. Augusta is developing the advanced-stage Rosemont copper deposit southeast of Tucson, Arizona, which is projected… Continue Reading

Source: Rabobank Interesting outlook on the global economy from Rabobank via Business Insider. Richard McGuire, Head of Strategy for Rabobank, charts the likelihood and impact of various global catalysts that could shake markets up. We see the usual suspects such as the Fed tapering too quickly, emerging market issues and Chinese growth slowing. However, McGuire… 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

This morning, Canada Carbon (CCB:TSXV) released further drill results from the winter exploration program being done at their Miller graphite project in Quebec.  Since discovering the VN3 vein in December, the company has focused exploration work there.  In hole DDH13-15, they intersected 1.8m of 48.6% Cg including a 0.5m intersection of 63.2% Cg.  This hole… Continue Reading

Vista Gold is currently working on progressing the environmental permitting of their Mt Todd project in Northern Australia.  The company burns roughly $1 million per month and was sitting on just over $4 million in cash as of September 30, 2013.  It seems, the company has evaluated its options for raising funding to continue the development… Continue Reading

Jordan Trimble joined BNN Television’s Andrew Bell earlier. Trimble is CEO of Skyharbour Resources (SYH:TSXV), a micro-cap uranium explorer focused on Northern Saskatchewan’s Athabasca Basin region. Trimble discussed his company’s exploration plans for 2014, which includes an ongoing $6 million program at Skyharbour’s flagship Preston Lake project near Fission Uranium’s Patterson Lake South uranium discovery.… Continue Reading

This morning, Continental Gold (CNL:TSX) released another batch of 13 drill holes as well as underground sampling from the Yaragua vein at the company’s Buritica gold project in Colombia.  The company has resumed 2014 drilling and is aiming for an updated NI 43-101 resource estimate which should be released this quarter.  The market is waiting… Continue Reading

Lundin Petroleum (LUP:TSX) released their fiscal 2013 numbers (although production was pre-released on January 21st) which saw them produce an average of 32,700 boe/d in the year and make $975.6 million operating cash flow on $1.2 billion of revenue.  However, EBITDA fell from $1.14 billion in 2012 to $960.9-million this year.  Q4 EBITDA fell below… Continue Reading

This morning, explorer Desert Star Resources (DSR:TSXV) announced Mark Selby would be joining the company’s advisory board.  Mr. Selby is currently the Senior VP, Business Development at Royal Nickel (RNX:TSX) and is the owner of his own consulting firm, Selby & Co.  Mr. Selby is also and has been since August, 2009, a director of… Continue Reading