Related: Watch mining legend Robert Friedland send Ivanplats shares over $2 in the near term

Last week I bought some Ivanplats at $1.56 thinking it was too beaten up for the calibre of people and projects it has. Summer months are also historically the best times to pick up junior mining shares. I also just learned that IVP Chairman Robert Friedland (who owns some 135 million IVP shares) will be… Continue Reading

Today I got tired of looking at Nevada Copper NCU in my portfolio. The copper junior was promoted to me last year as a no-brainer for M&A (Apparently not yet)… So I sold it and began accumulating Robert Freidland’s Ivanplats IVP. While nothing against NCU’s Pumpkin Hollow project, IVP has three of the best development stage projects in… Continue Reading

TORONTO — Ivanplats Robert Friedland needs no introduction. For one, he is North America’s greatest mining showman. Second, he is almost surely a billionaire. Third, he is a miner’s mining exec. “He knows his metals, and his black box works,” platinum prospector and Ivanplats board member William Hayden told me the other day over fizzy… Continue Reading

Robert Friedland returned to the mining spotlight with a vengeance this week on news of IPO plans for Ivanplats, his private company with copper and zinc projects in the Congo and platinum and nickel projects in South Africa. Friedland showed his Midas touch with the discoveries of Voisey’s Bay nickel deposit in Canada, purchased by… Continue Reading