CEO Chat lived up to its slogan – “the investment conference in your pocket” – last night as newsletter writers Brent Cook, Eric Coffin and Gwen Preston shared their thoughts on junior mining projects and companies that are in the news. Geologist Rob McLeod and engineer Tim Oliver also weighed in. Junior resource plays that… Continue Reading

Rick Rule on BNN Market Call (November 12, 2015) Rick Rule, chairman of Sprott Global, made an appearance on BNN Market Call last night discussing precious metals stocks. BNN host Catherine Murray sat in for regular host Mark Bunting. Rule said that weak global demand is the cause of the price slide in many commodities. For investors with… Continue Reading

Thursday evening, Gran Tierra Energy (GTE) announced a friendly deal to acquire Petroamerica Oil (PTA) for cash and shares worth about US$84 million based on a C$3.32 GTE price. PTA shareholders can elect to receive .40 of a GTE share or C $1.33 in cash for each PTA share, up to 70% payable in cash. That’s about… Continue Reading

I had the chance to visit once again with Rick Rule, Chairman of Sprott US Holdings. It was a great conversation, focusing on the state of metals and mining, a $20 billion opportunity now available due to market chaos, and ‘multiples of potential return’ in mining equities, should historical measures reassert themselves. “I’ve seen this… Continue Reading

People-projects-capital are the three pillars of the mining business, according to Teck Resources founder Norman Bell Keevil. The formula is a simple but effective high-level filter to identify promising early-stage mining opportunities. I was reminded of the formula with the emergence of Brian Paes-Braga as the CEO of Royce Resources, a new lithium exploration play.… Continue Reading

Barrick Gold – (ABX:TSX) – Barrick continues to deliver on its promise to reduce company debt by $3 billion in 2015. This morning Barrick announced they have sold non-core assets in Nevada for US$720 million in cash. On completion of the deal Barrick will have met its goal, with $3.2 million of asset sales, joint… Continue Reading

Dear HRA Free List Readers, If you’ve been on the list for a while you would have seen two earlier emails about Sunridge Gold (SGC-V; SGCNF-OTCQX). The first was in April when the stock was trading at about 14 cents on the TSX. The second came in September after Sunridge received its mining licences for… Continue Reading

Via Energy and Gold.com: Noted market technician and fund manager J.C. Parets is a long time friend of CEO.CA and EnergyandGold.com. We had the pleasure of sitting down with J.C. and picking his chart filled brain as to what he’s seeing right now across global markets and asset classes. As is his style, J.C. did… Continue Reading

“Doch dyn plicht en lit de lju mar rabje.” (Do your duty, and just let people talk) Late 1943 was a dangerous time to be a German Jew in occupied Europe, but Flora Heinrich was one of the lucky ones. Surviving up until that point meant she had already beaten long odds. November 11, 1938:… Continue Reading

Second in a series on currency and monetary default by Benjamin Cox The flaw with U.S. debt is that you are really just buying a sovereign currency with a yield. There is no intent to ever repay the debt — at best, there may be an intent to roll it. The assumption is that the… Continue Reading

Good morning, investors, a few news releases of note on a quiet-ish day in the markets. Shares of Nevada explorer Nexus Gold are halted pending company news, but they won’t be releasing it until tomorrow, chairman Alex Klenman confirmed in an email. The delay prompted some chatter in CEO Chat, but we’ll see tomorrow. GoldQuest… Continue Reading

Lucara Diamond Corp’s (TSX: LUC) third quarter results, released on November 5th, showed a strong average price-per-carat sold in the period, primarily driven by the previously released results from the first “exceptional” diamond sale of the year (those estimated to sell for at least $1 million) and a overall greater recovery of higher-value stones in… Continue Reading

RENO, Nevada — ​Mac Jackson is Gold Standard Venture’s exploration chief. Like the Nevada prospector’s CEO, he and his co-workers are youngish — late 30s, early 40s. I imagine most of them were not born when the Carlin Trend “became” a gold trend in Nevada sometime in the 1960s. Gold Standard Ventures’ ​latest reverse-circulation drill… Continue Reading

Mining cycles are Doug Eaton’s stock in trade, which helps explain why the Strategic Metals CEO is remarkably zen given the state of junior mining markets – and his company’s share price. The veteran Yukon geologist has made a career out of using cycle bottoms to sow the seeds of success before harvesting closer to the… Continue Reading

One Venture-listed company trying to make the next discovery is Garibaldi Resources (GGI:TSXV). A company update was provided this morning on the first-ever drilling campaign at the Grizzly property in the Sheslay district of northwestern British Columbia. Junior mining speculators know the TSX Venture Exchange is desperate for a major discovery that could turn the… Continue Reading