While gold continues to form a bullish consolidation pattern just below resistance ($1355-$1360): Click to enlarge Another precious metal, albeit a less popular one, is shining brightly after breaking out from a 3-year symmetrical triangle last week: This breakout has all the makings of one that investors should not take lightly (volume, duration, and price… Continue Reading

Robert Friedland’s Ivanhoe Mines has just shared a photo album documenting progression at the company’s three Africa projects: · The Kamoa copper discovery in a previously unknown extension of the Central African Copperbelt in the DRC’s Province of Katanga. · The Platreef Discovery of platinum-group elements, nickel, copper and gold on the Northern Limb of… Continue Reading

CCJ Weekly (Cameco Corp.)  One of our top picks for 2014, CCJ is ready to power higher from its 2+ year base. IVN.TO Daily (Ivanhoe Mines Ltd.) Definitely one of our favorite names in the Canadian resource space, over $2.10 IVN can easily rally another 20% in the near term   FCU.V Weekly (Fission Uranium Corp.)… Continue Reading

The Rant Thank you Toronto, and other observations Your neighbours to the south will be eternally grateful for your crackpot mayor providing considerably better entertainment value than your mining markets of late. The comic relief is greatly appreciated– keep it coming. The relentless hammering of the junior mining markets and gold price continues despite the… Continue Reading

Robert Friedland’s Ivanhoe Mines (Disclosure: Long) has provided an update on its Kipushi copper-zinc-germanium project in the DRC. Kipushi is one of three flagship assets that Ivanhoe is currently developing, and today’s news release shared a lot of news. Here it is in its entirety: Ivanhoe Mines Reports Ongoing Dewatering at Historic Kipushi Mine in… Continue Reading

According to our CEO Technician, Ivanhoe Mines has a $3 short term technical target if shares in the African mine developer close above $2.50 today. Related: What is a Cup and Handle pattern? Last week, Ivanhoe was upgraded by CIBC World Markets analyst Leon Esterhuizen from “sector perform” to “sector outperform” with a $4.50 price… Continue Reading

Readers may remember I jumped on the Ivanhoe Mines (TSX:IVN) bandwaggon on August 16th when the shares were $1.56. They rallied all the way to $2.59 on September 20th, before falling to where they are today, $2.06, because the company announced a $108 million financing at $2, the gold price has been sucking (a proxy for… Continue Reading

“Most great discoveries have to climb a wall of worry and disbelief,” says a geologist who has worked with the Ivanhoe group in Mongolia, R. Edward Flood. “Especially when it comes to Robert Friedland — because all the seasoned investors who follow this sector cannot allow themselves to believe he has done it again.”

THE CALANDRA REPORT: Subscribe $91 yearly ELKO, Nevada — Last week, in a presentation panel in Toronto, I told an audience of 200 that Gold Standard Ventures’ (GSV in Canada and USA) Dave Mathewson and another Nevada stalwart, geologist Roger Steininger at NuLegacy Gold (NUG in Canada), were of a type: good old Nevada boys… Continue Reading

I was able to catch up with billionaire Ivanhoe Mines (TSX:IVN) Executive Chairman Robert Friedland in Toronto yesterday. The Singapore-based mining legend was in Toronto this week to announce the launch of Ivanhoe Pictures, a new film and TV finance and production company, and to host the first investor presentations for his Ivanhoe Mines after… Continue Reading

With excerpts from today’s Ivanhoe Mines news release. Robert Friedland, Executive Chairman of Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN), and Lars-Eric Johansson, Chief Executive Officer, announced today that the company is proceeding with the sinking of a bulk-sample shaft to access the underground Flatreef platinum, palladium, nickel, copper, gold and rhodium discovery at its Platreef Project in… Continue Reading

THE CALANDRA REPORT: Subscribe $91 yearly and rising JOHANNESBURG — Ivanhoe Mines (TSX:IVN) this week began what looks like a two-year strategy to fortify deposit estimates and tune technical criteria for its Platreef/Flatreef platinum group metals properties in South Africa’s Limpopo Province. A bulk mining permit is in the works, one of perhaps 16 applications,… Continue Reading

No time to write. May be surprise assays soon from Ivanhoe Mines’ Gabon gold property. Attached are photos from Drc Kamoa and Kipushi projects. Kamoa is likely biggest high grade copper property in world. In SA now at Flatreef Platreef … the African Minerals property that has been in Ivanhoe family since 1991. Platinum nickel… Continue Reading

Back on March 20th, 2013, when Alpha Minerals was trading in the $4 range, I put a $15 price target on the company’s shares (source). With the announcement yesterday that Fission Uranium will be swallowing Alpha for roughly $7.67 per Alpha share my prediction has fallen short. Shares of the combined company could still double on a… Continue Reading

Just a friendly reminder that Robert Friedland’s Ivanplats has been renamed Ivanhoe Mines and has commenced trading under the symbol IVN on the TSX. Mr. Friedland is touring investors around his properties in South Africa and the DRC this week. Our August 22, 2013 prediction that he would soon send Ivanhoe’s shares above $2 has… Continue Reading