A look at the mining headlines that caught my eye for today with some additional thoughts on each news release. NexGen Energy -(NXE:TSXV) – NexGen is one of the few bright spots on the TSX Venture this year for mining investors. This morning additional radioactivity results were released from th Rook 1 project in Saskatchewan.… Continue Reading

A look at news from ATAC Resources this morning with some additional comments. ATAC Resources – (ATC:TSXV) – Atac has made a new discovery at the Anubis Cluster and also released drill results from the Conrad Zone.  Drill hole ARB-15-026 is one of the better drill holes I have seen this year from a junior intersecting 47.24m… Continue Reading

A look at a few mining headlines out this morning as the global markets continue to sell off. Thanks for reading. Independence Gold – (IGO:TSXV) – Independence Gold is out with drill assays from the Boulevard project in the Yukon. A total of 1746 metres (13 holes) were completed in the last couple months. A couple promising… Continue Reading

Michael Scherb founder and general partner of Appian Capital Advisory talks to MINING.com about the particular nature of private equity in mining, how the industry if bifurcating and becoming more sophisticated and why now is the ideal time to be active in the industry. The benchmarks for private equity in mining is probably overly onerous… Continue Reading

Via Energy and Gold.com: We haven’t seen anything like this in a long time, and perhaps that’s exactly why we are experiencing such a sharp and vicious sell-off across global equity markets. Not even during the 2008-2009 Global Financial Crisis did we see the S&P futures reach limit down before the cash market open, this… Continue Reading

The price of gold reaffirmed its status as a safe haven asset as global equity markets capitulated, with most other commodities following suit. Gold continued its rise above $1,100 from last week, piercing the $1,150 support level on Thursday. Leading the push into gold, the dire state of the Chinese economy is becoming more apparent… Continue Reading

Yukon, the land of the midnight sun, is best known for the Klondike gold rush of 1896 to 1899. 100,000 prospectors migrated up north in search of gold, 30,000 arrived, and it was rumoured only 4,000 found any. This was all done through placer mining, panning for gold on the Yukon River. The origins of that mineralization is… Continue Reading

Miles Thompson had been working for major mining companies during the 1990’s. But he realized that he could reap the greatest reward from pursing projects that he controlled. That’s what led him to start Reservoir Minerals and Lara Exploration. Reservoir Minerals has become one of the top new exploration companies. It owns a well-followed copper-gold… Continue Reading

By Frank Holmes CEO and Chief Investment Officer U.S. Global Investors I always advise investors to follow the smart money, and two people high on the list are Stanley Druckenmiller and Warren Buffett. Second-quarter regulatory filings show that Stanley Druckenmiller, the famed hedge fund manager, just placed more than $323 million of his own money… Continue Reading

August 20, 2015 09:29 ET Skeena Releases Initial Drill Results VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwired – Aug. 20, 2015) – Skeena Resources Limited (TSX VENTURE:SKE) (“Skeena” or the “Company”) is pleased to provide assay results for the first six holes of its 60-hole summer drilling program. A total of 7,300 m of a proposed 12,000 m has… Continue Reading

  Sign up for Gwen’s email list at resourcemaven.ca Eldorado Invests in Integra Gold The most active junior explorer on the Venture exchange just got a major endorsement: Eldorado Gold (TSX: ELD) is buying 15% of Integra Gold (TSXV: ICG) through a private placement that will put $14.6 million into ICG’s bank account. The financing will leave… Continue Reading

A look at a few mining press releases that caught my eye. Hard to find much exciting these days as the summer doldrums are in full swing.  The TSX V continues to trade at 52 week lows and volume is light. Pretium Resources – (PVG:TSX) – Pretium has released the third set of drill assays… Continue Reading

Lou Eccleston seeks to inject new life into peer-lagging TMX Group When a group of Canada’s major banks and pension funds banded together to buy control of the country’s dominant stock exchange owner a few years ago, it was viewed as a strategic move to keep the TMX Group out of the hands of the… Continue Reading

TORONTO — China’s Tencent Holdings Ltd has taken a $50 million stake in Kik Interactive, an investment that values the Canadian mobile messaging company at more than $1 billion, Kik said on Wednesday. Kik, a Waterloo, Ontario-based company whose chat platform is popular with U.S. teens, has long said it aims to emulate the success of… Continue Reading

A look at a couple of the mining headlines that caught my eye with some additional comments. Integra Gold (ICG:TSXV) and Eldorado Gold (ELD:TSX) – Integra and Eldorado have announced that Eldorado will be making a $14.57 million dollar investment in Integra.  Eldorado will purchase 52 million shares of ICG at 28 cents per share… Continue Reading