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

The official Yukon Mining Tour kicked off (read part 1 from Friday here) with a 6:30 AM checkout in Whitehorse. We made our way to the Alkan Air Hangar which services northern Canada and Alaska, based out of Whitehorse. The group boarded a 15 person fixed wing airplane to make the 1.5 hour journey to ATAC… 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

Via Energy and Gold.com: After a promising start to the year copper has been in a steady downtrend since May and the red metal has just touched the rising 200-month simple moving average for the first time since late-2008:   While it is true that copper prices quickly reversed higher the last time this moving average… 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

Few majors and juniors are willing to deploy exploration capital in this market but even less are prepared to prospect on virgin ground. One junior Company with a mandate to pursue grassroots exploration is Westhaven Ventures (westhavenventures.com). Westhaven (TSX.V – WHN) is the vehicle legendary prospector Grenville Thomas and his team are using to define… Continue Reading

I hate writing about finance. The most violent, ugly people in the world work in the traditional finance industry. I write something and instead of responding with a well-reasoned argument, they write things like “James Altucher is a wacko” or “James Altucher is a scumbag”. I’ve written for or appeared on the Wall St Journal,… Continue Reading

Via Energy and Gold.com: 8 days ago I sent out a tweet calling for $1150 gold within a couple of weeks based upon strong seasonal tailwinds and the likelihood that we would get some significant short covering after futures speculators had become over zealous in piling on short positions: This morning we’ve traded as high… 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