Archive for Gold business

Where have all the junior miners gone?

By : April 15, 2009

This year’s corporate mantra for a crowd of junior explorers and miners is quite simple: “get us some near term gold production fast” (or some variation thereof). The motive of course is pure: get the share price up. For companies with $2 million to $200 million in the bank the magic bullet to riches is [...]

Junior miners problems with new funding

By : April 15, 2009

Some junior oil and natural gas companies with large debts are starting to have their financial problems go public. See these examples: 1.    On February 17, Canadian Superior (SNG-TSX) just had their $47 million loan called by the Western Canadian Bank. Canadian Superior along with partners including British Gas has made some very large offshore [...]