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
New lithium exploration startup Lithium X Energy Corp. will start trading on the TSXV on Monday, Nov. 30 under the symbol LIX. News release here: Lithium X Energy Corp. completes acquisition of NSP Lithium Claims Full disclosure: I am a shareholder and have a business relationship with the company. LIX is led by Brian Paes-Braga,… Continue Reading
HealthSpace will begin trading on Monday Nov. 30 under the symbol HS on the CSE. Article source: Nick Waddell, editor, www.cantechletter.com In the world of tech ideas, everyone has already moved on from using paper-based solutions and has been toting iPads to their job for years. But ideas are not reality, at least not yet.… 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
Canada’s Athabasca Basin is arguably the best place to look for uranium in the world, and it’s the backyard of Cameco, the world’s largest producer. A few small exploration companies have been able to find and delineate uranium deposits there and make money for shareholders by selling them to majors such as Cameco. CEO.CA has… Continue Reading
Nestled among the hills of Egypt’s eastern desert are a series of underground mines. The workings, where miners once scratched deep into the mica and talc schist of the craggy hills searching for stones, have lain dormant for over 2 millennia. Neither gold nor copper were being pulled from the mines. Instead, something far more… Continue Reading
I am thankful this year. Thankful that I have the basis to get up every morning, that my wife still loves me, that my dog is there, my kids are healthy, my fridge has food, my car has gas, and that the problems I face are in control enough to deal with. When I talked… Continue Reading
Source: Kevin Michael Grace of The Gold Report (11/23/15) After five trying years, RAB Capital Founder and President Philip Richards sees the light at the end of the tunnel. In this interview with The Gold Report, he argues that a continued zero-interest-rate policy from the Fed will be good for gold and silver, while continued… Continue Reading
Via Energy and Gold.com: With all the messiness that’s occurring in Syria it’s surprising that something worse (from a geopolitical standpoint) than this morning’s shootdown of a Russian fighter jet by Turkey hasn’t already happened. Here’s a cute graphic from Citi that hopes to explain what is a very murky situation in Syria: Crude… Continue Reading
Good morning, Some news of note on a day when Syria is heating up, with Turkish fighter jets shooting down a Russian warplane the NATO member says ventured into its air space. The international incident comes after reports that much of the oil being produced on ISIS-controlled territory – both Russia and the U.S. have been… Continue Reading
I grew up hearing the histories of the gold rushes, and the narratives of people like Chinese-American pioneer Polly Bemis were my early introduction. I read the stories of Idaho County and the gold rush of 1862, and the long-term effects of that gold rush. What I loved most was the history of the Chinese,… Continue Reading
Good morning investors, We’ve seen this movie before, but the sequels seem to be popular: Commodities are getting clobbered to start the week as the U.S. dollar surges higher in anticipation of an interest rate hike. Copper – down 1.4% to $2.06/lb (down more than 20% YTD) Nickel – down 4.8% to $3.76/lb (down more… Continue Reading
By Peter Prengaman, The Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — President-elect Mauricio Macri’s promises to revitalize Argentina’s sagging economy with free-market reforms and improve strained relations with the United States resonated with voters, carrying him to a historic win that ended 12 years of often-conflictive rule by President Cristina Fernandez and her late husband. But… Continue Reading
