How to Be an (Educated) Optimist: Ivan Lo on the Enduring Value of Gold and Silver
May 24, 2013 by prospectingjournal · Leave a Comment
GUEST COMMENTARY — Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report (5/24/13) Do you follow your own advice? Ivan Lo, editor and founder of Equedia.com and The Equedia Weekly Letter, does. Lo doesn’t just follow companies in the gold and silver space, he actually paused this interview with The Gold Report to receive a shipment of silver [...]
Buy Gold Stocks Like a ROTH Capital Price Taker
February 13, 2013 by prospectingjournal · Leave a Comment
GUEST COMMENTARY — Sally Lowder of The Gold Report (2/13/13) http://www.theaureport.com/pub/na/15010 The risk-reward profile of resource companies resemble those of healthcare and biotech companies, according to Brian Post, an analyst at ROTH Capital Partners, an investment bank dedicated to the small-cap public market. Part of Post’s mission is to educate his institutional clients about the [...]
Orestone Outlines Two Prominent Magnetic Highs at Captain
February 12, 2013 by prospectingjournal · Leave a Comment
NEWS — Orestone Mining Corp. (TSX Venture Exchange-Symbol: ORS) is pleased to report that the Company has completed the 50 line kilometer detailed magnetic survey at the Captain Project in north central BC announced on January 25, 2013. The survey was designed to detail the Admiral (East Mag) target area where recent drill hole C12-05 [...]
Gold Miners vs. the S&P – Surprising Conclusions
February 6, 2013 by prospectingjournal · Leave a Comment
GUEST COMMENTARY — Louis James, Chief Metals & Mining Investment We often hear the claim that gold producers have not met investors’ expectations for the past couple years. While there are many potential reasons for this, one explanation for their underperformance lies in the fact that producers diluted their share structures, leaving shareholders with smaller [...]
Chen Lin Places His Bets on Self-Financing Producers
February 4, 2013 by prospectingjournal · Leave a Comment
GUEST COMMENTARY — Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report (2/4/13) http://www.theaureport.com/pub/na/14984 The tough financing markets of the past few years have taken their toll on many junior resource companies, as continuing needs for capital have led to dilution and lower stock prices. In this tricky environment, Chen Lin likes to place his bets on companies [...]
Benoit Gascon: An Insider’s Take on the Complicated Graphite Market
January 30, 2013 by prospectingjournal · Leave a Comment
GUEST COMMENTARY — Brian Sylvester, The Metals Report (1/29/13) http://www.theaureport.com/pub/na/14956 Ten years ago, Benoit Gascon would have said there’s no money in graphite investment. But the former CEO of the only North American graphite producer to survive Chinese competition has changed his tune, thanks to increasing graphite consumption in China and India. Gascon, who argues [...]
The World According to Doug Casey
January 28, 2013 by prospectingjournal · Leave a Comment
GUEST COMMENTARY — Karen Roche of The Gold Report (1/28/13) http://www.theaureport.com/pub/na/14952 Doug Casey’s new book is entitled “Totally Incorrect,” and, true to form, the chairman of Casey Research doesn’t mince words. “Most Europeans believe the state owes them a living; the society is corrupt through and through.” “Government acquires income by theft.” “Nobody reads a [...]
Gold Carpet Treatment Promised for Miners in the Dominican Republic: Alexander Medina
January 25, 2013 by prospectingjournal · Leave a Comment
GUEST COMMENTARY — Peter Byrne, The Gold Report (1/25/13) http://www.theaureport.com/pub/na/14949 The Gold Report caught up with Alexander Medina, the newly appointed director of mining for the Dominican Republic. With gold discoveries popping up all over Hispaniolathe country shares the metal-rich island with HaitiMedina is a very busy government minister. But he was happy to spare [...]
Separating the Gold Mining Haves from the Have-Nots: Paolo Lostritto
January 23, 2013 by prospectingjournal · Leave a Comment
GUEST COMMENTARY – Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report (1/23/13) http://www.theaureport.com/pub/na/14944 After months of turmoil that has lasted longer than investors could have imagined, the mining world has been divided into haves and have-nots. There are gold companies that managed their balance sheets wisely and there are those that burned through cash and are left [...]
Endeavour Mining Delivers 310,000 Oz Gold Production Exceeding 2012 Guidance and Provides 2013 Forecast
January 22, 2013 by prospectingjournal · Leave a Comment
NEWS — Endeavour Mining Corporation (“Endeavour” or the “Corporation”) (TSX:EDV, ASX:EVR, OTCQX:EDVMF ) announces total annual production for 2012 of 310,778 ounces of gold exceeding the 2012 production guidance range of 282,000 to 304,000 ounces. For 2013, Endeavour expects gold production in the range of 310,000 to 345,000 ounces at a cash cost per ounce [...]
Are Junior Gold Investors Living the Movie ‘Groundhog Day’?: David Skarica
January 16, 2013 by prospectingjournal · Leave a Comment
GUEST COMMENTARY –Alec Gimurtu of The Gold Report (1/16/13) http://www.theaureport.com/pub/na/14930 Gold stocks, especially juniors, have been undervalued for longer than most investors thought possible. The result is what David Skarica, founder of Addicted to Profits, calls a Maximum Pessimism Trade. In this interview with The Gold Report, Skarica summarizes his analytical tools and provides clear [...]
Orestone Intersects Strong Gold Mineralization in Captain Drilling
January 14, 2013 by prospectingjournal · Leave a Comment
NEWS — VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwire – Jan 14, 2013) – Orestone Mining Corp. (TSX VENTURE:ORS) (the “Company”) is pleased to report assay results for the recently completed 912 metre diamond drill program on the Company”s 100% owned Captain Project. Vertical hole C12-05 was drilled to a depth of 550.2 metres and is the most significant of [...]
Scaling the Heights with Peruvian Miners: Ricardo Carrión
January 14, 2013 by prospectingjournal · Leave a Comment
GUEST COMMENTARY — Alec Gimurtu for The Gold Report (1/14/13) http://www.theaureport.com/pub/na/14921 The Peruvian mining sector has lots of promising developers and producers, but don’t ignore the smaller companies2013 may surprise to the upside in Peru. In this interview with The Gold Report, Ricardo Carrión, managing director for capital markets and corporate finance for Kallpa Securities [...]
Mark Lackey Homes in on Golden Mining Opportunities in West Africa
January 7, 2013 by prospectingjournal · Leave a Comment
GUEST COMMENTARY — Zig Lambo of The Gold Report (1/7/13) http://www.theaureport.com/pub/na/14906 Gold has been produced in Africa for thousands of years in places like Ghana and neighboring countries whose names have changed over the centuries. One thing that has not changed is that there’s still a huge amount of gold to be found and mined [...]
The Rare Earth Sector Needs These Three Things to Prosper
December 18, 2012 by prospectingjournal · Leave a Comment
GUEST COMMENTARY –Brian Sylvester of The Critical Metals Report (12/18/12) http://www.theaureport.com/pub/na/14865 For too long, the rare earth space has operated in obscurity. Greater clarity on prices, inventory levels and demand will create more market stability, according to Matt Gibson, institutional research analyst with CIBC World Markets. In this Critical Metals Report interview, Gibson emphasizes that [...]
Rick Mills: Low-Cost Producers Trump Larger Mines in Costly Market
December 3, 2012 by prospectingjournal · Leave a Comment
GUEST COMMENTARY – Sally Lowder of The Gold Report (12/3/12) http://www.theaureport.com/pub/na/14805 Rick Mills isn’t looking for huge producers with so much overhead that they can’t profitably mine an ounce of gold. Instead, Mills, the publisher, editor and president of Aheadoftheherd.com, seeks out the smaller mines with low capital costs. That’s where the money will be [...]
TroyMet Resumes Exploration on Key Project
November 29, 2012 by prospectingjournal · Leave a Comment
GUEST COMMENTARY — Kathrine Moore, Resource World – TroyMet Exploration Corp. [TYE-TSXV] had halted its exploration program at the Key Project in northern British Columbia this summer as Canfor was on the property logging and putting in roads. On a recent site visit, I saw firsthand the extensive network of roads and clearings left by [...]
Saturn Minerals CEO Stan Szary about Oil & Coal in Western Canada
November 27, 2012 by prospectingjournal · Leave a Comment
GUEST Q&A — Kapitalerhoehungen.de – Today Kapitalerhoehungen.de had the opportunity to meet Stan Szary. Mr. Szary is the CEO of Saturn Minerals and based in Vancouver, Canada. The company owns ca. 275 km² of coal rights and ca. 1,500 km² of oil & gas rights in the western Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The [...]
Fund Managers Face Off in the Quest for Mining Profits
November 26, 2012 by prospectingjournal · Leave a Comment
GUEST COMMENTARY – JT Long of The Gold Report (11/26/12) http://www.theaureport.com/pub/na/14779 Buy and hold or go for the tenbagger? Two successful money managers, Adrian Day and Brian Ostroff, sat down with The Gold Report at the Hard Assets Conference to share their forecasts for 2013. Although the two have very different investing approaches, they came to [...]
Orestone Begins Drilling on Captain Copper-Gold Porphyry Project
November 20, 2012 by prospectingjournal · Leave a Comment
NEWS — Orestone Mining Corp. (TSX Venture Exchange–Symbol: ORS) is pleased to announce that the Company has commenced a core drilling program on the 100% owned Captain Project. As of this date the first drill hole in this program, four hundred meters to the east of the discovery hole C11-01, is well advanced and is [...]
Golden Reign Outlines High-Grade Initial Resource of 95,000 Indicated Gold Equivalent Ounces and 805,000 Inferred Gold Equivalent Ounces at San Albino Mine Area, Nicaragua
November 20, 2012 by prospectingjournal · Leave a Comment
NEWS — Golden Reign Resources Ltd. (TSX-V: GRR) (the “Company” or “Golden Reign”) is pleased to announce an initial mineral resource estimate from the first 15 months of drilling completed the San Albino Mine area of its San Albino-Murra Property (the “Property”), Nicaragua. Highlights: Indicated resources of 95,000 ounces gold equivalent at 8.47 g/t contained [...]
Sunset Cove Mining Discovers 13 New Silver Veins
August 24, 2012 by prospectingjournal · Leave a Comment
GUEST COMMENTARY — Rockstone Research–Mr. Lorne Woods, formely with Osisko Mining Corp. (TSX: OSK; market cap: $4 billion), started his own endeavours with Sunset Cove Mining Corp. (TSX.V: SSM; market cap: $9 million) operating an interesting exploration project in Peru. In our recent article “Follow the Money – Latin America is the Place to Be”, [...]
Bienvenido a Nacionalización: Bolivia Nabs Silver Deposit
July 9, 2012 by prospectingjournal · Leave a Comment
COMMENTARY—ProspectingJournal.com—These days, it seems the best thing to do if you are a miner who hits a big deposit in [enter foreign country here] is to try to keep the deposit as hush-hush as possible. Of course, pesky regulations prevent this secrecy from happening, as all those nosey shareholders demand “full and true disclosure” after [...]
Deadly Clash in Peru Continues PR Nightmare for Newmont
July 4, 2012 by prospectingjournal · Leave a Comment
COMMENTARY—ProspectingJournal.com—If the image of mining in Peru wasn’t already on shaky ground, it is now: on Tuesday, 3 protestors died and 21 were injured as clashes between police and locals over Newmont’s $5 billion gold mine turned ugly. Again, Peru had to declare a state of emergency in the mineral-rich Cajamarca region where Newmont’s Conga [...]
Rio Tinto Puts $4+ Billion Where its Mouth is: Iron Ore
June 20, 2012 by prospectingjournal · Leave a Comment
COMMENTARY—ProspectingJournal.com—Defying the current trend of economic uncertainty, which has mainly focused around growing fears of a slowdown in China, Rio Tinto has stayed its bullish course towards iron ore. In today’s media release, Rio announced that it will spend US$4.2 billion to develop its iron ore business in Australia and West Africa. According to Rio, [...]
Endeavour Mining Delivers Strong First Quarter Results Including 49,531 ozs Gold Produced
May 9, 2012 by prospectingjournal · Leave a Comment
NEWS–GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands – Endeavour Mining Corporation (“Endeavour” or the “Corporation”) (TSX: EDV) (ASX: EVR) (OTCQX: EDVMF) is pleased to report the financial and operational results for the first quarter of 2012. Endeavour’s two operating mines exceeded guidance by producing 49,531 ounces during the quarter at a cash cost (excluding royalties) of $664 per [...]
Indonesia Implements Export Taxes on Miners: The Investment Exodus
May 3, 2012 by prospectingjournal · Leave a Comment
COMMENTARY–ProspectingJournal.com– What was once a prominent mining destination is perhaps not so much anymore. Last month Indonesia surprised many of us when it declared Government Regulation No. 24, a rule that would compel all foreign mining companies to sell majority stakes in their mining operations to locals. Compounding matters, today Indonesia announced it would start [...]
Iamgold Corp. Acquires Trelawney Mining: An Opportune Strategy towards Stability
April 30, 2012 by prospectingjournal · Leave a Comment
COMMENTARY–ProspectingJournal.com–At Iamgold Corp. (IMG-T) there was always a lingering inevitability about last Friday’s acquisition announcement. The company had announced it would pay C$585 million to acquire Canadian gold junior Trelawney Mining (TSX-V:TRR), in effect giving Iamgold full control of Trelawney’s flagship project, the Cote Lake deposit in northern Ontario. The acquisition has since proven a [...]
Strong Drilling Results from Endeavour Mining’s Youga Gold Mine
April 30, 2012 by prospectingjournal · Leave a Comment
NEWS–MONACO–Endeavour Mining Corporation (“Endeavour”) (TSX:EDV, ASX:EVR, OTCQX:EDVMF) is pleased to report positive results from the ongoing exploration programs along the Brassiere Trend at its Youga Gold Mine in Burkina Faso. Drill intercepts from the southern extension of the Zergoré deposit on the Brassiere Trend included YZRCâ€201 with 42 metres (m) of 3.4 grams per tonne [...]
Indonesia Mining Law: Setting a Dangerous Precedent
March 18, 2012 by prospectingjournal · Leave a Comment
COMMENTARY-ProspectingJournal.com-When it comes to mining Indonesia is a massive player. The country is characterized by its massive exports of coal, tin, gold and copper. Abundant resources and favorable government policies have historically marked it as an attractive destination for foreign investments. But Indonesia has just jeopardized this image, and may have drastically altered the outlooks [...]
