I guess, when you’re a jet, you’re a jet all the way. This from Frank Holmes, CEO of US Global Investors and creator of the new JETS Airline ETF, the only airline ETF in the world. JETS is 80% weighted to US airlines, but it also owns aircraft manufacturers, airports and terminal services companies globally.… Continue Reading

Orezone Gold (ORE:TSX) – Orezone has released a feasibility study for the Bomboré  gold project in Burkina Faso.  The study shows economics of a 24.4% after tax IRR and a NPV (5%) of $196 million using $1250 gold. Initial capital costs have risen since the PEA and now come in at $250 million.  The rise… Continue Reading

Bakken oil production has already declined in 2015.  There is compelling evidence that this decline is going to accelerate significantly in the next couple of months. If that happens the recovery we have seen in oil prices in recent weeks is also going accelerate. Being as the market likes the fact that U.S. production growth… Continue Reading

Bob Quartermain has been one of the most successful resource sector investors of the last 20 years. He ran Silver Standard, acquiring silver projects and making discoveries during the precious metals bear markets of the early 90’s and early 2000’s. Rick Rule was involved in financing the company in 1992 when it was a small… Continue Reading

A look at my top news releases from this morning with additional comments on each. Copper Mountain – (CUM:TSX) – Copper Mountain shares are up 10% so far this morning after releasing first quarter results. First quarter production saw 18.4 million pounds of copper, 7,800 ounces of gold and 80,300 ounces of silver. Revenues came… Continue Reading

Via Energy and Gold.com: Shares of the world’s largest company, Apple (AAPL), have traded very methodically recently. Pulling up the daily and weekly charts of AAPL we can see a stock that has risen methodically since last summer while finding support at key Fibonacci levels: AAPL (Weekly) During the last year AAPL shares have nearly… Continue Reading

When a CEO of a publicly traded startup natural resource or technology company changes the colour of his or her shirt, it can be material to its share price. I can’t remember who I stole that line from. Many investors stay on top of investments in micro-cap companies by creating a portfolio at Stockwatch.com. Some… Continue Reading

Via Energy and Gold.com: Gold marginally broke below support on Friday, breaking down from a small H&S top pattern: The breakdown from this pattern targets a test of the March lows ($1140-$1150). However, the “break” was not as clear or as powerful as we would usually like to see when chart patterns resolve. $1180 has… Continue Reading

This week saw the continuation of M&A activity in the junior mining/exploration space with two proposed deals announced during the week (see Page 14), following 15 other similar transactions involving gold juniors over the last 12 months. Many consider such M&A activity a leading indicator for positive sentiment in the mining sector; studies certainly do… Continue Reading

GoldQuest Mining – A new study will turn this market around and bring new focus to an underappreciated mineral belt. GoldQuest Mining (GQC-V, GQCMF-OTC) is about to issue a new Preliminary Economic Assessment (“PEA”) for its Romero gold-copper resource.  Management indicated the report would be complete in Q2.  Companies can issue the results of these studies… Continue Reading

Three years into a bear market in precious metals, are resource companies still reeling from low metals prices? Are they still hunkering down? When the dust settles, who will be left standing? You’ll hear from some of the best participants from the resource sector this summer, at our special event. Rick Rule, Chairman of Sprott… Continue Reading

This is not a recommendation to buy or sell any security. Please independently verify the information contained herein and all figures approx. Mid-tier gold producer Yamana Gold (YRI) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Canadian junior company Mega Precious Metals (MPG) under a plan of arrangement for… Continue Reading

Khan Resources Inc. (“Khan” or the “Company”) (CSE:KRI) regrets to announce the passing of Jim Doak, its beloved Chairman. Mr Doak passed away at his hotel in Ulaanbaatar awaiting a flight home to Canada following the completion of a second series of meetings with representatives of the Government of Mongolia (See Press Release dated April… Continue Reading

A book that has not yet been published has caused the New York Times to publish a wildly speculative, innuendo-laced article about the Clinton Foundation and my role in contributing money to it. There is not one shred of evidence to back up the Times‘ conclusions. This is not about me, but rather an attempt… Continue Reading

“There are three types of people,” astronaut Chris Hadfield told me, “-1, 0, and +1”. Chris Hadfield spent 166 days in space in the space station ISS. While there he also sang “Space Oddity” and uploaded (or can you say “downloaded” in this case) the video to YouTube where it was viewed 25 million times.… Continue Reading