Is Global Atomic Stephen Roman’s next big thing?
Serial mine builder and financier Stephen Roman cut his teeth working for Denison Mines (TSX: DML; NYSE-AM: DNN), the uranium company built by his father. After starting there as a…
Articles by Trish Saywell
Sandstorm picks up royalty on Lundin’s Fruta del Norte
Sandstorm Gold (TSX: SAND; NYSE: SAND) has purchased a 0.9% net smelter returns royalty for US$32.8 million in cash on precious metals produced from Lundin Gold’s (TSX: LUG; NASDAQ: LUG)…
Australia’s Bellevue Gold gets top marks from Macquarie
Macquarie Research has chosen Bellevue Gold (ASX: BGL) as its top explorer pick in Australia for 2019. The junior, which trades at A49.5¢ per share and has a US$143-million market…
Nordgold boosts stake in Columbus Gold
Russian billionaire Alexey Mordashov’s mining company, Nordgold, has increased its stake in Canadian junior Columbus Gold (TSX: CGT; US-OTC: CGTTF) to 9.96% on a non-diluted basis, and 11.18% if it…
Stratabound hits gold in Golden Culvert’s first drilling
When Stratabound Minerals (TSXV: SB) CEO Kim Tyler told people he wanted to drill Golden Culvert as soon as possible after optioning the Yukon gold project in October 2017, many…
Cobalt, palladium on Scotiabank’s ‘Naughty and Nice’ list of 2018
Weak production growth, steady-to-rising demand, supply deficits and falling inventories pushed prices of palladium up 19% in 2018, after a 51% jump in 2017, Scotiabank economist Rory Johnston concludes in…
Supreme Metals pinpoints large, near-surface anomaly
Junior explorer Supreme Metals (TSXV: ABJ) has found a large, magnetic anomaly on its Bloom Lake East property in Labrador, 2.5 km east of Champion Iron Mines’ (TSX: CIA) flagship…
Interview: Jeffrey Christian sums up 2018 themes and looks to 2019
Jeffrey Christian is the managing partner of CPM Group, a commodities research and management consulting and financial advisory firm in New York. He founded the company in 1986, spinning off…
Interview: Scotiabank’s Rory Johnston on ‘volatile’ 2018, outlook for 2019
Rory Johnston is a commodity economist covering energy and metal markets in Scotiabank’s Economics department. His research includes the Scotiabank Commodity Price Index (a monthly assessment of developments affecting the…
TSX posts decline, Dec. 10-14
The S&P/TSX Composite Index dropped 1.35% to finish at 14,595.07. The S&P/TSX Global Mining Index rose 1.6% to 64.51 and the S&P/TSX Global Base Metals Index increased 0.47% to 101.42….
TSX Venture falls, Dec. 10-14
Aurion Resources jumped 21¢ to $1.10 per share on drill results from its Risti project in northern Finland. The company reported that high-grade mineralization intersected in several drill holes in…
Interview: Charles Wyndham reflects on dramatic year in diamonds, 2019
Charles Wyndham has been in the diamond industry for over 40 years. He was a director of the CSO, De Beers’ selling arm, before deciding to leave De Beers to…