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Vancouver Perspectives
Vancouver, 1907 To some, Vancouver is a collision of condo towers, a mecca for mining companies or a promoters’ paradise. It is all of these, of course, and much more. Last night I tweeted this photo...
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Mining Titans Nolan Watson, Mark O’Dea To Watch At #VRIC13 By @JamesKwantes
Source: World of Mining The annual Vancouver Resource Investment Conference goes Sunday and Monday at Vancouver Convention Centre West. If you’re prospecting for investment ideas and kicking tires on...
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Lumina Copper’s PEA shows NPV of $2.1 billion
Geologist and project manager Guillermo Almandoz (left) and investor Ross Beaty at Lumina Copper’s Taca Taca project in Argentina’s Salta province. Photo by Trish Saywell Lumina Copper on Tuesday...
View ArticleBarkerville Gold: No volume as shareholders fume
Seven months after the B.C. Securities Commission slapped a cease-trade order on shares of Barkerville Gold Mines (BGM), the stock remains halted. The regulatory slapdown came after Barkerville, helmed...
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Chasing the carat: How Canada’s Queen of Diamonds came full circle
A World of Mining Special - Part 1 of 2 This is a story about Eira Thomas, dubbed the “Queen of Diamonds” for her role leading the geologists who discovered the kimberlite pipes that became the Diavik...
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Love and Diamonds: Part 2
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...
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World of Mining’s James Kwantes sees signs of life
By James Kwantes, World of Mining Rebalancing, Part 2: Signs of life (click here for part 1) In my last post, I detailed the positions that I’ve sold (Amerigo Resources, Sandstorm Gold/Metals &...
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SBB / RVM – For resource speculators, “deals” abound but value is elusive
“History does not repeat itself but it does rhyme.” Mark Twain (or somebody else) For resource speculators, “deals” abound as a result of the great junior mining shakedown of 2008-2013. And therein...
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PGD – Diamond partners Peregrine, DeBeers no longer dancing
Peregrine Diamonds stock was introduced to a cliff earlier today when the company disclosed that DeBeers has elected not to exercise its option for 50.1% of Peregrine’s Chidliak diamond project on...
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Chidliak grade gives Peregrine Diamonds an “A”
By James Kwantes, World of Mining Photographs of select diamonds recovered from the 2013 CH-6 bulk sample (Peregrine) Eric Friedland’s Peregrine Diamonds released news this morning that moved the stock...
View ArticleLatest Peregrine Diamonds batch confirms it: CH-6 is a gem
Originally posted on WorldofMining.com Diamond explorer Peregrine Diamonds (PGD) released the second and final batch of results from its bulk sample of the CH-6 kimberlite pipe at its 100% owned...
View ArticleA Random Walk Down Howe Street
Cambridge, England is a university town that hosts a house of higher learning. Cambridge House is a Howe Street abode, a dwelling where hope, fear and greed each have rooms on the same floor (and share...
View ArticleRoss Beaty a big winner in Hudbay/Augusta offer
There are many interesting things about Hudbay’s takeover offer for the 84% of Augusta Resource that it doesn’t already own – an offer that has breathed a bit more life into a moribund mining M&A...
View ArticleSherritt and Clarke: Nickel for your thoughts
by James Kwantes, World of Mining Resources and resource allocation are at the centre of a boardroom battle between Sherritt International ($S.TO), which mines nickel in Cuba and Madagascar, and George...
View ArticlePeregrine Diamonds: (Barely) buried treasure on Baffin Island
by James Kwantes, World of Mining Peregrine Diamonds released its maiden resource estimate for Chidliak Wednesday, and it sparkled. The diamond exploration company led by Eric Friedland reported an NI...
View ArticleChasing the carat: How Canada’s Queen of Diamonds came full circle
A World of Mining Special - Part 1 of 2 This is a story about Eira Thomas, dubbed the “Queen of Diamonds” for her role leading the geologists who discovered the kimberlite pipes that became the Diavik...
View ArticleArmoyan’s Clarke books $17.5-million gain on Sherritt foray
by James Kwantes When I last wrote about Canadian value investor George Armoyan, he was licking his wounds after losing a bid to install three directors on the board of nickel miner Sherritt...
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