Miranda Gold CEO Ken Cunningham sees 2-3 more difficult years ahead for mining investors, which gives his company more time to acquire and advance its projects with less competition.

Today Andrew’s talking about the ebbs and flows of his MRG business. He tells me President and CEO searches are not where he’s making his money these days, it’s the operations roles.

A very important step in the moving the high grade Brucejack project forward to production was announced this morning with a signed agreement between Pretium and the Nisha’a Nation.

The stock does have some issues but I will explain those as well.

The mining exploration business is very risky, with about 3 out of a 1000 good looking prospects becoming mines.

Popular exploration analyst Brent Cook is not yet convinced Klondike Gold Corp represents a good opportunity.

Arguably the most exciting gold discovery of 2015 belongs to London listed Mariana Resources at the Hot Maden project in Eastern Turkey.

The Democratic Republic of Congo, a big, lush, mineral-rich country in the heart of Sub Saharan Africa, currently produces roughly 6% of the world’s copper.

The South American nation has a long and storied history of gold mining, but no modern gold mine has been permitted in the country.

A tight community of stock brokers, promoters and Canadian diamond investors saw some excitement today as North Arrow Minerals (NAR.V), a diamond explorer with active projects in Nunavut, Saskatchewan and elsewhere in Canada, halted its stock pending news.

Chad Ulansky cut his teeth on Ekati, Canada’s first diamond discovery, but it’s uranium that he’s hunting for now in Canada’s frozen North.

Kaiser believes the easiest way to bolster the sector, which exists to provide capital to find and develop new mines, is to abolish Accredited Investor Exemption rules that currently restrict non-rich people from giving money directly to the treasuries of these companies.