Slowly but surely, consolidation of gold miners in West Africa is picking up again. While we are far from the days when chunks of land in Mauritania sold for more than US$7-billion, there have been two interesting deals announced in the past six weeks: B2Gold Corp.’s US$63-million offer for Volta Resources Inc., and Centamin PLC’s $39.3-million… Continue Reading
Want to take advantage of the resource sector downturn? Find a billionaire backer and a management team from a top tier producer… Warwick Smith’s Western Pacific Resources (TSXV:WRP), a Vancouver-based junior miner with a $3.3 million market cap, has raised $10 million via a convertible debenture, and an additional $8.5 million via a base metals streaming agreement… Continue Reading
Congratulations are in order to Ari Sussman and his team at Continental Gold Limited (TSX:CNL). They have been awarded the Mines and Money London 2013 Exploration Award for their Buriticá high grade gold project in Colombia, beating out the likes of Fission Uranium, Robust Resources and Sirius Resources for the honour. Mines and Money London is… Continue Reading
A new mineral exploration company to watch, Kaizen Discovery, will commence trading in Toronto tomorrow under the symbol KZD. Kaizen was born out of an amalgamation with HPX TechCo (50% owned by Robert Friedland) and Concordia Resource Corp. Kaizen will be 85% owned by HPX TechCo (Private) and 15% by Concordia shareholders. The company will… Continue Reading
Calandra: Junior Miners Need Consolidating By Hannah Tool | Index Universe Thom Calandra was co-founder and chief columnist of MarketWatch before it was sold to Dow Jones in 2005. After taking a few years off, he returned with The Calandra Report, a mining-focused newsletter. Calandra spoke to IndexUniverse contributing writer Hannah Tool about the downturn of… Continue Reading
“You want me to be a wilting flower? I mean, wilting flowers don’t build companies.” “If nobody would try, of course nobody would make it,” Mr. Munk said. “I must have given 25 lectures at business schools and my theme number one is: dream big, dream big. Put all your efforts into realizing your dreams.… Continue Reading
Click here to watch the BNN interview. Andrew Bell: We’ve seen a couple of downgrades, BMO and RBC, they say nothing wrong with the company, just the stock’s got above their valuation. William Lamb: I think the way we would see that is they are basing on information which is available in the market. The… Continue Reading
In the mining game, one dumb mistake can lead to years of decline. See Mining, Baja. Baja Mining? More like Ba-ha-ha-ha-ha Mining. “Shares of Vancouver-based Baja Mining Corp. (TSX:T.BAJ, Stock Forum) climbed 37% to 35 cents after the company provided revised capital cost estimates for its Boleo Project in Mexico after Monday’s market close,” –… Continue Reading
By James Kwantes, World of Mining Eric Friedland’s Peregrine Diamonds released news this morning that moved the stock 52%, to 64 cents, by the time markets closed. A 222-dry-tonne bulk sample from the company’s CH-6 kimberlite returned an impressive grade of 2.7 carats per tonne and 48 diamonds larger than 1 carat, including a 3.54-carat stone. CH-6… Continue Reading
Shareholders of Turquoise Hill Resources (TSX:TRQ) would be wise to participate in an upcoming rights offering, according to company founder and billionaire mining entrepreneur Robert Friedland, who lost control of Turquoise Hill in 2012, and says he still owns 8-9% of the company. “People should buy the rights and exercise them hand over fist,” Mr. Friedland… Continue Reading
Canada Carbon (TSX-V: CCB), a Vancouver-based firm engaged in the acquisition and exploration of mineral properties in Ontario and Quebec, announced today that the company had commenced the second phase of drilling at their Miller Graphite project located in Quebec. According to the news release, the campaign is intended to define the graphite mineralization at… Continue Reading
An investment advisory group from PI Financial Corp. in Vancouver are writing a solid junior resource client newsletter, called Digging Through The Dirt (DTTD). The authors are Bill Whitehead, 56, Senior Vice President, Adam Simmons, 33, Ph.D. Geology, and Justin Hayek, 29, Certified Investment Manager (CIM). Nine companies are discussed in this month’s DTTD: Macro Enterprises (MCR-v), Desert Star… Continue Reading
Anchor Andrew Bell sported an arm sling on his Commodities program on BNN television earlier, citing a cycling accident. The show must go on, however and three CEOs joined Bell this morning to tell their stories. Brian McLachlan, President and CEO of Yoho Resources (TSXV:YO), was the first guest on the program. Yoho are developing oil… Continue Reading
Ryan Gold Corp. (RYG) added three cents to 14 cents on 925,000 shares. Interim president David Schmidt has moved to vice-president of corporate development so executive chairman Murray John can take over as president. Mr. John is also the president of Corona Gold Corp. (CRG: $0.41) and a director of Dundee Precious Metals Inc. (DPM:… Continue Reading
The Globe and Mail reports in its Tuesday edition that RBC analyst Nathan Piper upgraded Parex Resources ($5.95) to “outperform” from “sector perform.” The Globe’s Darcy Keith writes in the Eye On Equities column that the upgraded came in the wake of Parex posting a cash-flow funded 2014 capital plan that is expected to deliver… Continue Reading
