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

Many analysts are claiming that new platinum ETF and trust products such as Sprott’s physical products have begun to wreak havoc on an already beat up and battered South African platinum industry.  Just as the gold ETFs did in the gold run over the last decade, these new platinum products could rip billions of investment… Continue Reading

Looking at this week’s photographs of a convoy of trucks heading out on the first delivery run of exports of copper and gold concentrate from the Oyu Tolgoi mine, I am reminded that it was almost exactly 12 years ago that Ivanhoe Mines announced the first of a series of five world-class mineral discoveries at… Continue Reading

“One drill hole changes the game. It’s very hard to decide who gets to make it and who doesn’t. It’s a big gate, and yet very few make it through. But you have to let them try.” — Lukas Lundin “Did you know you were getting the better end of that deal with Kinross?” I… Continue Reading

A World of Mining special – Part 2 of 2 Part 1: Chasing the carat: Canada’s Queen of Diamonds comes full-circle Stornoway Diamonds’ hostile takeover of Ashton Mining and Quebec’s Renard diamond project in January 2007 was followed by an exodus of Ashton executives and managers. Several departed for Peregrine Diamonds, which is advancing its flagship… Continue Reading

Rick Rule rules the junior resource world with his checkbook. The acclaimed speculator has been financing mining and energy companies for nearly forty years and has the big scores and scars to prove it. From his perch as chairman of Sprott USA, the world’s best known natural resources & precious metals focused investment firm, Rule… Continue Reading

Congo took measures to block exports of the metals to force mining companies to add value to the commodities before shipping them outside the country, Mines Minster Martin Kabwelulu said today in a phone message. Article: National Post

Robert Friedland’s Ivanplats has summarised the latest data on its exciting Kamoa, Platreef and Kipushi mining projects.  Article: Lawrence Williams, Mineweb

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

“By 2025, which is tomorrow morning in geologic time, and at the scale in which we invest in mining, 630 million people, or 14 per cent of the world’s urban population, and 8 per cent of all the people walking on this planet, will live in 37 megacities,” he said. “As you build those cities,… Continue Reading