Gold Dips Below $1,200 As “Grexit” Concerns Ease On Friday, euro zone finance ministers drafted an agreement that could see Greece’s financial rescue package extended; however, there are still significant hurdles to any agreement, with Greece’s biggest creditor, Germany, demanding “significant improvements” to reform commitments by the leftist Greek government. The draft comes as the… Continue Reading
Via Energy and Gold.com: While most market participants have been focused on crude oil, natural gas is poised for a powerful upside move over the coming weeks: A fairly impressive rounding bottom pattern has formed during the last month in front month natural gas futures – a breakout above $3.00 would target a move up… Continue Reading
Lucara Diamond (LUC:TSX) has been one of the better performing mining stocks over the last couple years. This morning the company held their Q4/ 2014 year end conference call, and we listened in to get the latest from CEO, William Lamb. Lucara is coming off a strong year with revenues of $265.5 million on sales of 412,136… Continue Reading
In the good old days of Howe Street, venture stock-brokers would act as an intermediary between junior mining companies and investors. This is a somewhat murky ethical practice of the brokers having two masters, both the companies they were helping to get off the ground, and the clients with which they were to serve. Investors… Continue Reading
Peeyush Varshney’s Canada Zinc Metals (CZX:TSXV), one of the very few premier zinc development companies, is well positioned to benefit from an upturn in the zinc price, which many analysts are predicting will start in the next few years. The main catalyst for an increase in the price of zinc will be the closing of major… Continue Reading
The other day I went out at night and fell asleep on a park bench near the beach in Miami. When I opened my eyes I pretended I had just landed on the world. I knew nothing. Now I had to learn everything. That’s the way I should’ve been when I was younger. Maybe I… Continue Reading
Via Energy and Gold.com: All indications are that we are at a very interesting moment for crude oil. Oil market analysts have been calling for a supply glut during Q2 2015 that would continue to weigh on crude oil prices. However, we are seeing reasons to believe that the supply issues may be overstated and may… Continue Reading
Via Energy and Gold.com: Thus far, front month WTI Crude Oil futures have been unable to breakout above resistance near $54: A further pullback to the $52 area would still keep the uptrend from the January 29th low intact and it’s quite likely, given that it will be at least the 4th attempt in the… Continue Reading
Investing in junior mining is highly speculative, but a thriving business model which significantly de-risks a company in this industry is the prospect generator. A prospect generator partakes in the business of exploration through powerful partner-funded networks to pay for the majority of exploration costs. The core model is to build a portfolio of targets… Continue Reading
Sandstorm Gold (SSL:TSX) has purchased Gold Royalties Corp (GRO:TSXV) this morning in a share based deal worth $5.7 million. The deal involves 0.045 of a Sandstorm share for each one Gold Royalties share held. The proposed arrangement values Gold Royalties shares at ~20 cents per share. Gold royalty shareholders receive a 70 percent premium on the 20 day… Continue Reading
NexGen Energy (NXE:TSXV), one of the most promising uranium juniors in the Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan is out with impressive news (yesterday) that the strike length of the Rook 1 (Arrow) property has been extended. Drill hole AR-15-38 has extended the current strike length by 81 meters to the southwest from blockbuster hole AR-14-30 (46m grading… Continue Reading
The following article was adapted from the August 27, 2014 issue of Resource Opportunities, our premium newsletter (the video below was taped in December 2014 and just released this morning). North Arrow is a presenting sponsor at our upcoming Subscriber Investment Summit in Toronto on February 28th, at a truly critical time for the company. Only a… Continue Reading
Early this morning Timmins Gold (TMM:TSX) announced they have entered into an agreement to acquire Newstrike Capital (NES:TSXV). This is the second acquisition in the last few months by Timmins as they had previously acquired Caballo Blanco from Goldgroup. Timmins is a junior gold producer that operates the San Francisco mine in northern Sonora, Mexico.… Continue Reading
Azarga Uranium’s Richard “Dick” Clement has retired as CEO, President and Corporate Secretary of Azarga Uranium (AZZ.TO), and has been appointed deputy chairman of the company’s board of directors. He’s being replaced by current Azarga chairman Alexander Molyneux, 39, a former investment banker and CEO of SouthGobi Resources. The move comes less than 6 months… Continue Reading
Via EnergyandGold.com, The mining industry is continually depleting its inventory, which is why it has always been an M&A led business. Junior companies find and develop new deposits and then mid-tiers and majors take them out. This has been the way of the miners for generations. There are few undeveloped high quality gold projects in… Continue Reading
