Thom Calandra

Thom Calandra of thomcalandra.com Thom Calandra of thomcalandra.com and service The Calandra Report is (was) co-founder and was chief commentator and editor-in-chief of CBS MarketWatch.com.

Small-Fry Miners Want Our Cash

This report: Aston Bay Holdings, Stuhini Exploration, Aztec Minerals, Alaska Energy Metals, others. Obscure mining-cos (approx. $100 million market value and lower) are entering a summer-autumn scramble for fresh cash. Many do not deserve it. The $ub-100s, as I label them, face larger explorer-developer-producers’ brokered equity placements, convertible debentures (BeMetals‘ $3.3 million CAD one), ‘bought’ …

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Congo Copper | Shipper Poised | Xtra Funds

Inside: European Shipper As Commodities Indicator Plus: alluvial cash funding exploration, equipment, salaries at Ghana’s Xtra-Gold. Mourning for Victor Nkansa — below. TCRs, Ivanhoe Mines’ Robert Friedland is raising a copper cup to the U.S. Department of Energy‘s placement of the metal in its yearly critical metals  review.   The inclusion of  copper in the …

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Ascending Ivanhoe | Graphite’s Rough Ride

Ivanhoe Mines Shares Extend Record Highs   SHARE DRIVERS for IVN IVPAF likely are a.) the Kamoa-Kakula copper miner’s approx. $1 billion buildout of a flash smelter at the DRC Congo complex, thus roasting and smelting sulfide concentrates in a single furnace and reducing transportation costs for copper-con; b) Kamoa Copper’s researching of profitable recoveries …

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Country Risk, Petro Envy, Land Grab?

Osino Resources’ View On A Namibia Minister’s Disruptive Comments Plus: ‘Ignored’ Developments: Val-d’Or Mining; HighGold Mining; Others   We were discussing ‘country risk’ here among miners in practically every nation on the mining planet. [See: Country Risk Overblown — Sometimes] Then, Namibia comes along and sees a regulator shoot from the hip this week. The mining and …

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