May 31 – June 1, 2015 8:30 am – 5:30 pm Vancouver Convention Centre West 1055 Canada Place Vancouver, BC, V6C 0C3 Canada View Map #Canvest15 Here’s the full agenda. Cambridge House’s Canvest 15 conference kicks off in Vancouver tomorrow. This is a solid event for public venture capital professionals in the mining and technology… Continue Reading

Following the Q1’15 financial reporting period, two miners announced the suspension of operations during the week; on Thursday, a major diversified miner announced it would implement temporary halts to six Canadian metallurgical coal mines for about 3 weeks during Q3. While only a brief period, the Company has not ruled out additional closure periods during… Continue Reading

Four of the top newsletter writers in the junior mining industry are hosting a free conference in Vancouver this Saturday (Details), and they’ve brought along ten of their best stories with them. Eric Coffin of Hard Rock Advisory, Gwen Preston of Resource Maven, John Kaiser of Kaiser Research and Brien Lundin of Gold Newsletter will… Continue Reading

A look at few of my top headlines from this morning with some additional comments. BitGold – (XAU:TSXV) – BitGold has announced a $18.2 million dollar bought deal at $3.65 per share. A syndicate of underwrites led by GMP Securities and including Clarus Securities,Canaccord Genuity, and Dundee Securities Ltd has agreed to purchase the 5 million… Continue Reading

French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte is quoted throughout the Internet as having once said a leader is a dealer in hope. That’s what you are when you lead: a hope dealer. Out of everything you do to achieve your vision, one of the most important is writing like a leader. Too many times, it’s the face-to-face… Continue Reading

Recently I called Anthem the “rising star” of the Toll Milling industry… Today we might have to revise that to simply: The Star. Earlier today Anthem United announced that they will be purchasing a second 350 tpd mill in Chaparra, Arequipa, Peru. So quickly what does this means for Anthem, and Toll Milling in Peru? Size… Continue Reading

Via Energy and Gold.com 4 troubling charts:   1. Chicago PMI at levels which have historically almost always correlated with recessions     2. Producer prices offer a strong whiff of deflation…   3. U.S. 1st quarter GDP was absolutely dreadful regardless of all the excuses we may want to make     4. U.S.… Continue Reading

by Jennifer S. Getsinger, PhD, PGeo – Resource World June/July 2015 Desert Star Resources Ltd. [DSR-TSXV] of Vancouver, in its newly streamlined form, is concentrating all of its exploration ener- gies on three projects in the southwestern United States: two copper porphyry proj- ects in Arizona and the Anchor gold project in Nevada. Having recently… Continue Reading

A look at some of the top mining stories out this morning and some additional comments on each. Ivanhoe Mines – (IVN:TSX) – Ivanhoe hosted a conference call this morning discussing the transaction announced with Zijin Mining. Ivanhoe and Zjin struck an agreement on Tuesday (May 28th) where Zijin would acquire a 49.5% stake in… Continue Reading

Bob Moriarty Archives Back in 1993 silver crashed as low as $3.52 in late February/March. A silver company based in Canada was faced with a serious business decision. What kind of business model do you use when the price of your commodity is sitting at 5000-year lows? A decision was made by the company that… Continue Reading

Fabrice Taylor, editor of the President’s Club newsletter, shared some smart small-cap selling strategies in the May 26 edition of his influential newsletter. The following is edited slightly to remove company names and for brevity. “I am constantly reminding investors to TAKE PROFITS. We invest in some riskier names, and we do much better than the… Continue Reading

Via Energy and Gold.com: The TSX-Venture has spent the last 6 months putting in a bottoming pattern (ascending triangle) and running into resistance just above the 700 level. However, a breakout could be close at hand…   The series of higher lows remains intact and the pullbacks have become shallower. The current pullback is testing… Continue Reading

A look at some news releases this morning that caught my eye. Guyana Goldfields – (GUY:TSX) – Guyana Goldfields will be one of the next gold producers worldwide. This mornings press release has announced that mill testing has started at the Aurora gold project in Guyana. Initial production is expected in mid 2015. Project construction… Continue Reading

Bob Moriarty Archives I’m going to keep saying exactly what I have been saying for years about Red Eagle. They are financed, they are permitted and they will be in production in a year. I wrote about a new gold mining company in Colombia over three years ago named Red Eagle (RD-V) that went public… Continue Reading

I haven’t done a mining story in a while. Mostly because, mining. If you know a lot of mining guys, you know a lot of guys who have been downsizing for a while now. A few less receptionists, maybe squeeze a couple of companies into one office space, maybe hit a few less conventions this… Continue Reading