Gold stocks are going through a tough time in this market, but in every tough market there are companies bucking the trend. Ewan Downie, CEO and President of Premier Gold (PG.T), came on CEO Chat regular Allan Barry Laboucan’s show and made the case that Premier was named well. Premier owns 40% of the South Arturo… Continue Reading

With the four-year-plus bear market in the natural resource sector, we are all well aware that funding has dried up severely for junior mineral exploration companies wanting to raise money to do what they do best – drilling in pursuit of new discoveries. New discoveries are then often taken over by bigger mining companies which… Continue Reading

Sabina Gold & Silver (SBB-T) Nunavut gold developer Sabina Gold & Silver has cleared another permitting hurdle with the filing and acceptance of the company’s Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for its Back River gold project. The FEIS was submitted to the Nunavut Impact Review Board (NIRB) on Nov. 23 and has been deemed conformant… Continue Reading

With stock prices in the tank and tax-loss selling here, it can be easy to forget about successes in the worlds of mining and junior exploration. They still exist, of course. And today both the Association for Mineral Exploration British Columbia (AME B.C.) and the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) announced their latest… Continue Reading

If Anglo’s woes symbolize the pain of production in a falling price environment, a property deal between two juniors announced after market close yesterday may hint at brighter days to come – the looming supply crunch and rising prices that inevitably follow a price crash. Rob McLeod’s IDM Mining (IDM-T) has signed an agreement with Oban… Continue Reading

Turns out the De Beers decision Friday to close its Snap Lake diamond mine in Canada’s Northwest Territories, eliminating more than 400 jobs, was just a preview of cuts to come at the parent company. Anglo American, one of the world’s largest mining companies, took radical action today to stem the bleeding from low commodity… Continue Reading

Wellgreen Platinum announced the departure of CEO Greg Johnson this morning, with no details in the short news release on why he left. Wellgreen is advancing a PGM-nickel project in Yukon off the Alaska Highway. The move comes less than a month after the company closed an $11.4-million financing with investors including Resource Capital Funds and Alverstoke… Continue Reading

My team is in the exploration business to find world-class assets. We are not in the tax credit business, the G/A business, the lifestyle business, or the ego business. I had a long conversation last week with someone who was selling me on doing business in a region because of a serious tax credit to… Continue Reading

Fabrice Taylor of the popular newsletter The President’s Club  made an appearance on BNN Market Call today with host Andrew Bell. Here is my quick summary of the hour-long show. Market Outlook  Fabrice does not see much joy in commodities. Alberta is suffering with low oil prices, high-end homes are now going for 50% on the dollar… Continue Reading

A quick look at news from Klondex Mines and Fission Uranium with some additional comments on each. Klondex Mines- (KDX:TSX) – Klondex is out with an updated total mineral reserves calculation for the Fire Creek project and Midas Mine in Nevada. Total mineral reserves increased by ~19% in 2015. Highlights: Total mineral reserves of 444,488 gold… Continue Reading

https://youtu.be/vQYN5aNocnA “What would you like to talk about this time?” I asked my boss, after walking into his office. “Well, I’d like to have a conversation for the issuers,” replied Rick Rule, Chairman of Sprott US Holdings, “in terms of what we look for, before giving a company our client’s money. What do you think?”… Continue Reading

Osisko Gold Royalties (OR-T) expands stake in Barkerville Gold Mines (BGM-V) Sean Roosen’s Osisko Gold Royalties has picked up a royalty and added to its stake in Barkerville Gold Mines through a $10.24-million private placement of 32 million flow-through common shares at 32 cents a share. Osisko will pay $25 million for the 1.5% NSR… Continue Reading

At the recent Precious Metals Summit in Zurich on Nov. 4, Gianni Kovacevic hosted a fireside chat with two of the most successful mining entrepreneurs in our history: Ross Beaty and Lukas Lundin. Mr. Kovacevic is chairman of CopperBank (CBK:CSE), which is accumulating copper deposits in this market. I watched the hour-long discussion and wanted to summarize… Continue Reading

The junior mining industry and those who invest in it have a friend in Ralph Sultan, the MLA for West Vancouver-Capilano. The British Columbia Liberal politician recently sounded the alarm in the provincial Legislative Assembly about the state of the junior exploration industry and the impediments to mine financing. Citing recent examples (Pretium’s Brucejack, Oyu… Continue Reading

“We’d all sit there and stare at the screen and I’d have my finger over the Enter button. I’d count out loud to five…. ‘One… ‘Two…..See, nothing’s happened. ‘Three…..Others are still there at forty-eight… ‘Four…Still no movement. ‘Five.’ Then I’d hit the Enter button and — boom! — all hell would break loose. The offerings… Continue Reading