West African gold developer, True Gold Mining (TGM:TSX), is developing one of the most intriguing gold projects held by a junior cap company, and has received its final exploitation permit for the company’s Karma gold project in Burkina Faso.  This represents the final permitting hurdle after announcing, earlier this month, that they had received the environmental go ahead… Continue Reading

According to a Bloomberg article last week, ‘Big Mick’ Davis, the former CEO of Xstrata Plc, is seeking to raise $3 billion for his private, X2 Resources, prior to him acquiring any assets.  Davis, the 55 year-old South African, has raised $1 billion from investors including private equity firm TPG and Asia’s largest metals trader, Noble Group. … Continue Reading

Fission Uranium Corp (TSXV:FCU) released the first five holes from its winter drill program at the Patterson Lake South (PLS) uranium project in the Southwestern Athabasca Basin region of Northern Saskatchewan. Hole PLS14-129 (line 600E), with 36.72 meters of off-scale (>9999 cps) mineralization at shallow depth, was the best hole drilled at PLS to date by… Continue Reading

This morning Dalradian Resources Inc. (TSX:DNA), a Toronto, Canada-based junior mining company developing the Curraghinalt gold deposit in Northern Ireland, announced a $12.075 million bought deal financing of $0.70 units with a $0.90 half warrant good for 12 months from the closing date which is anticipated to be Feb 19, 2014. The syndicate of underwriters will be… Continue Reading

This morning, $6 million market cap junior, West Kirkland Mining (WKM:TSXV) (halted at open)announced they intended to acquire Allied Nevada Gold’s (ANV:TSX) Hasbrouck gold project in Nevada for $30 million.  The deal is subject to West Kirkland being able to obtain the necessary financing.  According to their third quarter financials, West Kirkland had less than… Continue Reading

After a roller coaster of a year in 2013, Armenian gold developer Lydian International (LYD:TSX) has found a replacement for their founding President and CEO, Dr. Timothy Coughlin who announced his retirement last year.  The company has elected Howard H.J. Stevenson to its Board as well as to lead the company as President and CEO… Continue Reading

Four of the biggest names in commodities finance face-off to discuss the state of the global economy and where stocks are going. Includes Fiore Financial’s Frank Giustra, Sprott’s Rick Rule, US Global Investors’ Frank Holmes and Murray John from Goodman & Company. A must-watch!

Cambridge, England is a university town that hosts a house of higher learning. Cambridge House is a Howe Street abode, a dwelling where hope, fear and greed each have rooms on the same floor (and share a bathroom). And floors and bottoms, of the TSX Venture variety, were something of a theme at this year’s… Continue Reading

“Like venture capital, it’s not about cheap paper, it’s about ‘first mover advantage’, the speed to have the vision and ability to attract talent, money and an outstanding asset… Few people are able to do all three like Frank G [Giustra]. He has the know how and the know who with the energy to make… Continue Reading

Mason Graphite (LLG:TSXV) has announced the closing of its previously announced $700,000 equity financing which was announced in accordance with their 40% investment in NanoXplore Inc, the graphene producer.  The offering was fully subscribed for by Mason’s management as well as Forbes and Manahattan executives and was completed at a significant premium to the market price and… Continue Reading

I just had a call with my friend John-Mark Staude, CEO of Riverside Resources (TSXV:RRI). John-Mark is such an enthusiastic, fun and positive guy and we laughed about the state of the markets while promoting each other on our latest endeavours. Riverside, for those unaware, has a pretty genius business model for a junior mining… Continue Reading

Pilot Gold (PLG:TSX) has released their maiden resource for the KCD deposit on the TV Tower project.  The resource estimate focused on the Kucukdag gold-silver-copper deposit which is the first of several targets on the TV Tower property (40% Pilot Gold/60% Teck Resources).  The estimate was divided into a lower gold zone and an overlying silver… Continue Reading

Coming off a spectacular 2013 which saw the company’s share price increase over 100%, Canacol Energy (CNE:TSX), announced its plan for 2014.  The company expects to spend $150 million in capex this year to grow production by 30-40% to  11,500 and 12,500boe/d.  The company produced 8,796 boe/d (5,827boe/d and 17.2Mscf/d of gas). The production split… Continue Reading

When searching for opportunities in the junior sector, we like the focus to be on quantitative and empirical data. Sure, everyone likes a good anecdote about geologists kicking over rocks in the middle of nowhere, but the truth is nothing makes us happier than cold, hard numbers. The most difficult aspect of a company to… Continue Reading

This morning, Clive Johnson’s B2Gold (BTO:TSX) released an inferred resource estimate for the Wolfshag zone near the company’s Otjikoto gold project in Namibia.  The Wolfshag zone sits adjacent to the east and northeast portion of the pit for the Otjikoto deposit.  This initial resource estimate was comprised of 703,000 ounces of gold at an average… Continue Reading