Graham Farquharson of Strathcona Mineral Services tells The Northern Miner why his company made such a stink about Pretium (TSX:PVG)’s resource model and bulk sample test, ultimately resigning from the project. “Farquharson does not believe that Brucejack is a fraud. He does believe the resource model is wrong and that the actual resource at Brucejack… Continue Reading

Rob Pease’s Sabina Gold and Silver (TSX:SBB) is getting hit hard this morning, down over 8% today, and 80% on the year, last at $.57. A few reasons why the stock is falling off: 1) tax loss selling -since the beginning of 2013 SBB has gone from $2.50+ to ~$0.55 (new 52 week low) -investors… Continue Reading

Canada Carbon (TSX-V: CCB), a Vancouver-based mineral exploration and acquisition firm operating in Ontario and Quebec, released trenching and drilling assay results from their past producing Miller graphite project located in Quebec. According to the news release, results showed that graphite mineralization extended from the surface to a depth of 39 metres. There were untested… Continue Reading

The Rant Thank you Toronto, and other observations Your neighbours to the south will be eternally grateful for your crackpot mayor providing considerably better entertainment value than your mining markets of late. The comic relief is greatly appreciated– keep it coming. The relentless hammering of the junior mining markets and gold price continues despite the… Continue Reading

Cordoba Minerals (TSXV:CDB) announced a significant but early stage copper-gold porphyry discovery in Colombia earlier, and it caught our attention enough to pick up a few shares at the open this morning (Do your own due diligence!). Read: Cordoba Minerals Announces the Discovery of a New High-Grade Copper and Gold Porphyry System Drilling 101.1 metres… Continue Reading

Simon Ridgway’s Cordoba Minerals (TSXV:CDB), which is in the process of combining with Ari Sussman’s Sabre Metals, and Paul Dias’s Minatura, has discovered a new high grade copper and gold porphyry system at the company’s 26,000 hectare San Matias project in Colombia’s Mid Cauca Gold Belt, drilling an impressive 101.1 meters @ 1.0% copper and… Continue Reading

[audio:https://c03c06.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Mark-ODea-Podcast-Nov-15-2013.mp3] Track record is everything in junior mining. Mark O’Dea took Fronteer Gold from a $1 million shell in 2001 to a diversified mine developer that sold for $2.3 billion to Newmont in 2011. The Vancouver-based, 45-year-old Newfoundland-born geologist also created Aurora Energy in 2006, and sold its Labrador uranium assets for $260 million to… Continue Reading

LUBUMBASHI, The Democratic Republic Of The Congo – Mining promoter Robert Friedland has released a preliminary economic assessment for a major Congolese copper discovery that he says could be one of the world’s lowest-cost producers. A preliminary economic assessment released Monday by Friedland says a two-phase mine at the site could be worth US$4.3 billion… Continue Reading

News release: Silver Bull Files Preliminary Economic Assessment Technical Report on SEDAR for the Sierra Mojada Project, Coahuila, Mexico. Related: Silver Bull CEO Tim Barry Discusses Sierra Mojada PEA SVB data by YCharts We seek Safe Harbor.

Rightfully, many investors in the junior sector look at stock recommendations from analysts or experts with a great degree of skepticism. The junior sector is small and there are always potential conflicts of interest evident in these types of recommendations. For example, sell-side analysts may cover a company for which their firm also provides investment… Continue Reading

Disclosure: Author has no formal or informal pecuniary interest in Mega Uranium. However, author has acquired hundreds of thousands of Mega Uranium [MGA.TO] shares in the past three weeks. This investment opportunity is very high risk and is not suitable for most investors. Always do your own due diligence and please consult an investment advisor.… Continue Reading

Glenn McNamara’s Petromanas Energy had its heaviest volume day in history Tuesday. Over 59 million PMI shares traded hands, closing at $.13, up 13%, after the company announced positive testing results at their Shpirag-2 well yesterday (Read: Petromanas and Shell strike oil deep in Albania). Petromanas also announced this morning that Heinz J. Scholz and Werner Ladwein have… Continue Reading

D. Grenville Thomas’s North Arrow Minerals Inc. (TSXV-NAR) has made Canada’s newest diamond discovery at the Pikoo project in central eastern Saskatchewan. North Arrow tested a 209.7 kg sample of drill core from the PK150 kimberlite, which has returned 745 diamonds larger than the 0.106 mm sieve size, including 23 diamonds larger than the 0.85 mm sieve size, according… Continue Reading

Seventeen months after the Shpirag-2 well started drilling in Southern Albania, Petromanas Energy (TSXV:PMI) and joint venture partner Royal Dutch Shell have finally released testing results from the $75 million exploration well on Albania’s Blocks 2-3. PMI and Shell announced a discovery at Shpirag-2 today, with flow rates of 1,500 to 2,200 barrels per day… Continue Reading

[audio:https://c03c06.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Rick-Rule-CEO.CA-Nov-4-2013-Tommy-Humphreys-Audio.mp3] Sprott USA Chairman Rick Rule, the Carlsbad, California based natural resource financier with nearly four decades of experience, joined us for a conversation earlier today on the current mining bear market, which is approaching its third anniversary. As expected, Mr. Rule was upbeat, and sounds to be making the most of the opportunities being… Continue Reading