Invictus MD Strategies (CSE:IMH) is a small public company founded in 2014 to take advantage of opportunities in the cannabis space. The company was founded by Dan Kriznic, a Vancouver-based entrepreneur and Chartered Accountant. Dan previously helped build one of the largest private education and real estate investment firms in Canada as an acquisitions-focused Executive… Continue Reading
A concerted effort by De Beers and Rio Tinto (LSE: RIO) to limit global diamond supply is forecast to be offset by stable Russian production, new mines, and production increases by Dominion Diamond Corp (TSX: DDC) and Petra Diamonds (LSE: PDL). Despite De Beers and Rio’s efforts, 2016 global diamond production by-volume is forecast to… Continue Reading
Carlin Trend gold explorer Gold Standard Ventures (GSV-V) landed a C$16.1-million investment from Goldcorp (G-T) this morning, fortifying its treasury to explore and build ounces in Nevada’s Railroad-Pinion district. The deal was done at $1/share, a gravity-defying 11% premium to Friday’s closing price. Goldcorp takes a 9.9% stake on an increasingly crowded shareholder registry. OceanaGold… Continue Reading
Thursday night the TSX Venture held a town-hall meeting to gather feedback on how best to revitalize the exchange amidst a gruelling bear market for juniors. The topic trended on chat.ceo.ca as a number of our regulars chimed in on the raucous event. In case you missed it, we tagged it#tsxvtownhall on chat.ceo.ca. You’ll find most of the… Continue Reading
“Man lives as if he is never going to die, and then he dies having never really lived” – Dalai Lama Ever wonder how your behaviour would change if you knew you were about to die? Over the holidays, I was having lunch with a friend who had recently undergone and survived an emergency surgery… Continue Reading
Tiny Aston Bay Holdings (BAY-V), a junior with a copper-zinc project in Nunavut, seized the market’s attention today by announcing a preliminary joint-venture deal with the world’s largest mining company. According to the exclusive letter of intent, BHP Billiton would pay a minimum of $40 million in exploration expenditures over 9 years – including $2.5… Continue Reading
Sierra Metals (SMC-T) looks destined to boost resources and mine grades with news it drilled into a strongly-mineralized zone at its Yauricocha mine in Peru. It looks like this: Sierra, drilling from underground, hit a zone with high copper mineralization about 400 metres north of its Central Mine area (i.e. current operations). The zone is… Continue Reading
Via Energy and Gold.com: The gold miners (GDX) rallied for a 6th consecutive trading session today making for a 14.5% gain since last Tuesday’s all-time low at $12.40: GDX (Daily) In the last few years a six session winning streak in GDX has happened only twice (August 2014 and May 2015) and both times turned… Continue Reading
Redemption. Along with diamonds, it’s what North Arrow Minerals is looking for after a disappointing 2015 that saw a lower-than-expected valuation on a coloured diamond package from Qilalugaq hammer the share price. It’s also the subject of the latest news out of the exploration company, which has sold a package of royalties on its Redemption… Continue Reading
By Stefan Wieler and Josh Crumb What a difference a month makes. As the market reassess growth and asset prices under renewed volatility – and with a more passive response from Central Banks thus far – the USD-gold price has remained remarkably stable and range-bound for over 10 weeks. Compared to most currencies and assets… Continue Reading
Brent Cook of Exploration Insights newsletter spent several minutes this morning on BNN’s Commodities show talking junior mining stocks with host Andrew Bell. Mr. Cook has been negative on the gold price in the last couple years but is warming up to the space and believes that gold will end the year higher in 2016.… Continue Reading
The core shack at Roundup is where you find serious teams who are still funding exploration projects in a harsh market. It’s also one of the better places to talk shop on existing or emerging discoveries. Monday, we did Part I. Today, in Part II, a few more stories catch our eyes. Barrick Gold (ABX-T)… Continue Reading
Early in 2016, we are witness to a “hard assets” liquidation frenzy, the likes of which have not been seen for many years. The great commodities supercycle that was supposed to accompany the rise of the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and China) to economic heavyweight status has turned into a spectacular bust. The rooms once… Continue Reading
The latest estimate of Ivanhoe’s Kipushi Big Zinc zone will not stun the market. It was already well-known that the deposit, part of the past-producing Kipushi mine, contained masses of ridiculously high-grade zinc. But in upgrading historic resources Ivanhoe, which owns 68% of the project, clearly shows that the Big Zinc zone is a quite… Continue Reading
Error: A previous version of this article incorrectly stated the grade of silver as 659 g/t. It should have read 359 g/t. An interesting hit: Yesterday Orex Minerals (REX-V) said it intercepted 61 metres @ 359 g/t Ag, essentially starting from surface, and up to 3 metres at 2,271 g/t Ag on the Sandra Escobar… Continue Reading
