BlackRock’s tips for raising money as a private firm
Six years ago Sean Cleary raised a million dollars from family and friends and acquired an iron–titanium–vanadium property, 30 km southeast of Chibougamau in northern Quebec.
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B2Gold, AngloGold put Gramalote on ice
Gramalote’s chances of becoming one of the first modern commercial scale gold mine in Colombia have been diminished, as B2Gold (TSX: BTO; NYSE-MKT: BTG) released a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) of the project and said it…
More disciplined M&A on tap for gold miners in 2014
When the market was hot from 2010 through 2012, mid-tier Alamos Gold (TSX: AGI; NYSE: AGI) stayed on the sidelines of an otherwise active M&A scene because valuations for companies were “through the roof,” says the…
Franco-Nevada’s Harquail: Short-term investment focus has to go
David Harquail, president and CEO of gold royalty company Franco-Nevada, first came to the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) convention when he was a kid in the sixties. His job was to transport rye and scotch from his…
Global uncertainty weighs on TSX, March 10-14
China’s first corporate bond default and fears of a slowdown in the Chinese economy and concern over the crisis in the Ukraine ahead of a referendum in Crimea combined to send the S&P/TSX Composite Index down 0.50% to 14,227.66 and…
Murenbeeld ‘mildly bullish’ on gold in 2014
Martin Murenbeeld, chief economist at Dundee Capital Markets, says he’s “mildly bullish” about this year’s gold price.
TSX Venture loses ground, March 10-14
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index lost 9.35 points during weekly trading en route to a 1,033.64-point close. Reports out of China indicated growth rates across industrial sectors had dropped to multi-year lows, while markets also…
Enexco jumps on uranium hit at Mann Lake
International Enexco (TSXV: IEC) saw its shares climb 23% after announcing the thickest and highest grade hit yet from its 30%-held Mann Lake uranium property in Saskatchewan’s prolific Athabasca basin.
U.S. markets falter while gold rises, March 10-14
Investors turned jittery over the period, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 388 points to 16,065.67, the S&P 500 Index shedding 36 points to 1,841.13 and the Nasdaq Composite Index 87 points lower to 4,245.40.
Sweden, Finland, Alberta, atop Fraser Institute rankings
VANCOUVER — Canadian non-profit research group the Fraser Institute has released its annual Survey of Mining Companies, which gauges the geographic investment temperature by polling 690 exploration, development and other mining-related…
Editorial: Oliver rises to finance minister
Although the move was long anticipated due to his chronic ill health, it still felt surprising that Canada’s third-longest serving finance minister, Jim Flaherty, was finally resigning from cabinet after eight years in the post.
Metals, mining and money markets
Spot pricesCourtesy of Scotiabank Tuesday, March 11 2014Precious MetalsPrice…