[audio:https://blog.ceo.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Mark-ODea-Podcast-Nov-15-2013.mp3] Track record is everything in junior mining. Mark O’Dea took Fronteer Gold from a $1 million shell in 2001 to a diversified mine developer that sold for $2.3 billion to Newmont in 2011. The Vancouver-based, 45-year-old Newfoundland-born geologist also created Aurora Energy in 2006, and sold its Labrador uranium assets for $260 million to… Continue Reading

Burkina Faso gold developer, True Gold Mining (TGM:TSXV) received its environmental permit for its Goulagou I, Goulagou II and Rambo deposits which make up the company’s Karma gold project.  The next and final step to bring Karma into production is the receipt of the exploitation permits which the company expects getting in 2 months.  In… Continue Reading

Dr. Mark O’Dea’s True Gold Mining (TGM:TSX) continues to have drilling success at its Liguidi project in Burkina Faso and is being rewarded in the markets for it, with the stock up 15% at the time of writing.  The company released more assays from its current drill campaign which returned “widespread near-surface gold mineralization and expanded… Continue Reading

Dr. Mark O’Dea’s True Gold Mining (TGM:TSXV) continues to drill good heap leach gold intercepts and this morning announced assay results from a recent 9 hole campaign at the Watinoma zone of the Karma gold project in Burkina Faso.  The company twinned a couple previously drilled RC holes and encountered the same widths with improved… Continue Reading

Huge volume on Mark O’Dea’s True Gold Mining (TSX:TGM) yesterday, 24.521 million shares traded via House 62, Haywood Securities. Golden Star Resources had owned a similar sized stake (24.521 million shares as of Nov 21, 2012), and this looks like them getting out. However there appears to be a strong appetite for True Gold’s shares, despite… Continue Reading