Many people have said to me in the past month, “I’m going to buy a home.” Or, “What do you think of the idea of me buying a home?” I like the second batch of people. They are my friends and it seems like they are sincerely asking for my advice. And I’m going to… Continue Reading

Elephant hunting for huge international oil plays usually means going into (very) politically risky areas. That’s what makes junior Petromanas (PMI-TSXv) stand out from the crowd. They’re chasing a potential 500-800 million barrel target in Europe—Albania to be exact. Lots of energy investors are familiar with Bankers Petroleum and their heavy oil play there—it’s the… Continue Reading

NexGen Energy (TSXV:NXE) announced a potential uranium discovery in the SW Athabasca Basin region of Northern Saskatchewan yesterday. Visible uranium was seen in the first hole drilled into the Arrow target at the Western side of NexGen’s Rook 1 project, which caused shares in the junior explorer to rise over 90% Wednesday. “There’s an element of luck,”… Continue Reading

What a difference a new year makes! It wasn’t long ago that despondency and gloom permeated the junior resource sector. Now, just 7 weeks later there is optimism in the air and the animal spirits are beginning to awaken ever so slowly. Today the TSX Venture Composite closed above 1000 for the first time since… Continue Reading

Recently, we had the pleasure of sitting down with two of exploration geology’s brightest young stars; Dr. Alan Wainwright and Daniel MacNeil.  Dr. Wainwright (Chief Geologist) and Mr. MacNeil (Project Acquisition and Development) allowed us to visit them in the humble Vancouver offices of their current venture, Desert Star Resources (DSR:TSXV). Mr. MacNeil has over… 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

After announcing a victorious proxy vote in late January which saw a dissident group of shareholders led by FrontFour Capital lose in their battle to take control of Renegade Petroleum (RPL:TSXV), the company has now decided to merge with Alexander Energy (ALX:TSXV).  Renegade drew the attention of the activist shareholder after management announced plans to… Continue Reading

Orvana Minerals (ORV:TSX) has found a buyer for their Copperwood project in Highland Copper (HI:TSXV).  Orvana has been considering divesting the asset for sometime now in order to focus on its two producing assets and to strengthen its balance sheet.  Orvana announced this morning they have signed a definitive agreement with Highland Copper which will… 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

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

Junior graphite explorer, Graphite One (GPH:TSXV) has been able to attract a legend in the resource business; Robert Cross, to their Advisory Board.  Mr. Cross is the chairman of B2Gold (BTO:TSX) and founder of Bankers Petroleum (BNK:TSX) and BNK Petroleum (BKX:TSX).  He was also chairman of Northern Orion Resources leading to its takeover by Yamana… Continue Reading

Reservoir Minerals (TSXV:RMC), which has been one of the best performing mineral exploration stories of recent years, climbing 1000+% since 2012 following successful exploration results at its Timok project in Eastern Serbia, may have gotten ahead of itself, according to PI Financial’s Digging Through The Dirt Newsletter. The authors are Bill Whitehead, 56, Senior Vice President,… Continue Reading

If we had to title a book describing the market environment of the past few months it would be appropriately entitled “A Market of Complacency”. Today for the first time much of that complacency was washed away as fear took its place front and center: Click to enlarge VIX (daily) E-mini S&P futures (hourly) 30-Year… Continue Reading