3 March 2025

Tag: Osisko Mining

Why did Pfizer’s (PFE.NYSE) vaccine news kick gold in the gonads? Under $20-million gold juniors in focus: BRG.V, FRE.V, GLM.C, SNL.C, TOC.C, XTT.V

“Basically, we are seeing an unwind of the trade we have been building up for the last six months,” he said. “But there is still plenty of uncertainty to support gold’s new regime. A vaccine is positive news, but it doesn’t change the narrative.”

10 November 2020
An Equity Guru roundup – the sub-$20M ExplorerCos on our shortlist (1 of 4)

The junior mining sector has been mired in a holding pattern for the past two months. The metal itself is consolidating sharp gains registered since the beginning of the year. The larger stocks in the junior arena, as measured by the GDXJ… same thing (nice bit of price/volume violence surrounding the mid-March crash day lows).…

17 October 2020
Goldseek Resources (GSK.C) pushing three highly prospective Ontario-Quebec projects aggressively along the curve

In the junior exploration arena, a tight cap structure + low G&A expenses + a technically competent management team + a disciplined approach to exploration + a geologically prospective (mining-friendly) jurisdiction = a prime candidate for an ExploreCo shortlist. The above wish list is a rare combination of elements in this era of blown-out cap…

16 July 2020
The IMF suddenly got very gloomy: what does that mean for the price of gold?

Today, The International Monetary Fund (IMF) released a statement predicting that the global economy will take a $12 trillion hit from the Covid-19 pandemic. $12 trillion is 60% the size of the U.S. economy – or $1,500 for every man, woman and child on the planet. The 189-country organisation says it will take a minimum…

25 June 2020
Nova Gold (NG.T) Chairman invokes The Clockwork Orange in folksy clap-back to short-seller report

the answer to a metals-analyst “when-question” should never include allusions to wine, chickens or pornography (a date would be more instructive).

10 June 2020
2 million new investors are buying stocks on their cellphones

Stuck at home, but armed with online trading apps, individual investors helped drive the historic comeback for stocks

28 May 2020
Guru’s shortlist of producing and advanced stage ExploreCos (those with endgame potential)

“Ball of confusion, that’s what the world is today”. Back in January of this year, we presented a solid case for approaching the broader markets with extreme caution in a piece titled, A “skies the limit” stock market = a house of cards? An excerpt: “Equities appear invincible. Indestructible. It would seem nothing—not a damn…

20 May 2020
Deflation is here! Is that a bad thing?

Today, the U.S. Labor Department reported a general decline in underlying prices during April, 2020 – causing financial pundits to freak out about the possibility of further deflation. Deflation – at first glance – appears to be a good thing. Stuff gets cheaper – great! However, deflation spooks stock markets because it is a sign…

12 May 2020
Senior Royalty and Streaming companies screaming higher – Metalla (MTA.V) and soon to debut Nomad (GV.V)

Streaming and royalty companies are a fascinating lot. While gold and the Senior Producers have put on quite a show over the past few months, the royalty and streaming Co’s—those higher up on the food chain in particular—have been screaming higher as if the metal had just launched a successful assault on all time highs.…

6 May 2020
Gaining traction – our $100M-plus market cap junior exploration company shortlist

A translation of this article is available in Chinese at our content partner NAI500 here. With this entry, I’m two-thirds of the way into a series of roundup pieces that cover three distinct categories: 1) sub-$100M market cap ExplorerCos with 43-101 resources; 2) $100M-plus market cap ExplorerCos that are, for the most part, further along…

3 February 2020