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Bayhorse Silver: Riding the VTEM Rocket
19 Mar 2024
Not quite a rocket, yet, but a year ago Bayhorse Silver (BHS.V) was very close to the end. While it had a silver mine, a mill and an ore sorter, it did not have a final permit which would allow it to actually operate its mine. In some jurisdictions, this would not have been a […]
Eloro: Bulk Sampling for Bulk Mining…and a New, Huge, Target
5 Feb 2024
The metallurgical drill holes used at Iska Iska are larger diameter than the regular diamond drill exploration holes. For Eloro (ELO.T) and its CEO, Tom Larsen, this makes all the difference. “The more the better,” said Larsen in a telephone interview. “The Iska Iska minerals are mainly disseminated in stockworks and veinlets. A bulk sample […]
Eloro: Infill Drilling, Bulk Samples and Silver/Zinc/Tin at Iska Iska in Bolivia
1 Jan 2024
Eloro (ELO.T) CEO, Tom Larsen, has a huge job: he has to explain the geology and commercial potential of the Iska Iska project in Bolivia. An interview with Larsen needs to cover a lot of ground beginning with the market reaction to the company’s most recent news release. “We need to get back to $3.00 […]
Cartier Silver: High Grade Silver Closing in on Production in Bolivia
10 Dec 2023
Superficially, Cartier Silver (CFE.C) and Eloro Resources (ELO.T) look very similar. Same CEO, same management team, same geos, same tight share structure…silver in Bolivia! In fact, they are very different animals. Eloro’s Iska Iska deposit is a giant (over 670 million tons), silver plus tin plus zinc, polymetallic, project with complex geology and solid grades. […]
Eloro: Too Big to Understand in Bolivia
14 Nov 2023
Eloro’s (ELO.T) CEO, Tom Larsen, is “Blown away.” Eloro’s share price has been in free fall since the company put out its maiden 43-101 compliant Mineral Resource Estimate at the end of August. It was a whopper of a silver/polymetallic resource: “670 million tonnes containing 1.15 Billion In-situ Ounces Silver Equivalent”. “It’s totally unique,” said […]
Denarius Metals: Gold, Silver, Polymetallics in Colombia and Spain
18 Jun 2023
Denarius Metals (DSLV.V) is a vehicle for mining entrepreneur Serafino Iacono and his team as they moved on from GCM Mining as that company was absorbed by Aris Mining. A long time member of that team was Denarius CFO Mike Davies who I spoke with June 13. “We changed the name from Denarius Silver to […]
Clean Air Metals: Critical Metals in Thunder Bay
28 May 2023
Platinum, palladium, copper and nickel: critical metals for the transformative technologies which are powering Western economies. Clean Air Metals (AIR.V) is exploring two deposits, Current and Escape, near Thunder Bay which show great potential as sources for all four of these important metals. On May 4, 2023 the company reported a new 43-101 Mineral Resource […]
Graduation Day: Cartier Resources completes its PEA
19 Apr 2023
A Preliminary Economic Assessment (“PEA”) is a significant milestone for junior exploration companies, essentially it promotes them into a select group of “valued asset” owners in the mining industry. It is a third-party assessment of the economic viability of the project’s resource estimates which a company has completed to date and it is an outline […]
Millennial Potash: Jump Start on Gabon Potash
14 Feb 2023
Millennial Potash: Fast Tracking Potash in Gabon With a track record like Farhad Abasov’s and his team from Millennial Lithium, it was an easy call for many people to invest in the group’s Black Mountain Gold project. But it was not a complete surprise when the group announced it was changing the company into […]
Clean Air Metals: Royalty, Not Equity
15 Jan 2023
One of the challenges in the junior resource exploration/development sector is attaching a credible net asset value to potential assets in the ground. A 43-101 resource estimate is helpful, so is a preliminary economic assessment; but neither really attaches a hard cash value to a company’s project. Which is why Abraham Drost, CEO of Clean […]
Grid Metals: Cashed up and moving forward
11 Oct 2022
Raising money in the current market has been difficult for many junior exploration and development companies. So the Grid Metals team’s achievement, raising $8.52 million for Grid Metals (GRDM.V), is particularly important. “It went as planned,” said Robin Dunbar President and CEO of Grid, in a phone interview. Which takes a lot of preparation, especially as […]
Tocvan Ventures: Exploring and Developing Gold (and Silver) in Mexico
28 Jul 2022
Brodie Sutherland, CEO of Tocvan Ventures (TOC:CNX), has set a course for the company which will allow it to explore, drill and bulk sample at its two gold/silver properties in Sonora Mexico. Critically, Tocvan concluded a 5.125 million dollar financing which will fund operations for the next two years. “The market knew we have always […]
Grid Metals: Nickel and Lithium in Manitoba
18 May 2022
There is a lot of market excitement about “battery metals”, lithium, nickel, copper, cobalt and graphite. The future is all about electric vehicles and battery electrical storage to fortify the “grid”. This is where Grid Metals (GRDM.V) begins to shine. The company is developing two projects in southern Manitoba – one a lithium project, the […]
Blue Sky – Uranium in Argentina
24 Apr 2022
Back in April 2021 uranium was trading at less than $30 USD per pound. What a difference a year makes. Uranium is up to $64.50 a pound and in relatively short supply. The quick rise in the price of uranium has brought the uranium explorers and developers to the sharp attention of the market. For […]
Tocvan Ventures: Diamond Drilling for Gold in Mexico
17 Apr 2022
When you have a large, prospective, property you have to use the best, most cost effective, tools to find what you hope will be a deposit. Tocvan Ventures (TOC:CNX) has been working on its Pilar property in Mexico for a little over two years. The company had a bit of a head start as there […]
Bayhorse Silver: Mine, Mill, Production
24 Mar 2022
Shareholders of Bayhorse Silver (BHS.v) have waited a long time for all of the details and logistics of the Bayhorse Mine in Oregon to fall into place. Graeme O’Neill, BHS’s CEO has been working hard for years to plan the mining operation, integrate the ore sorter and build a milling facility to produce concentrate. Every […]
Eloro Identifies Major Bolivian Tin Discovery
8 Mar 2022
It can take the market a day or two to actually understand a technical press release. On March 1, 2022, Eloro Resources (ELO.V) put out a news release which needed to be carefully read to reveal a significant intersection with heavily mineralized rock over 373 meters at its Iska Iska property in Bolivia. This intersection […]
Clean Air Metals: Palladium, Platinum, Copper and Nickel near Thunder Bay
15 Feb 2022
The market is usually right about exploration and development companies. The good ones get cashed up, the others have a hard time raising funds. Clean Air Metals (AIR.V) recently announced that it was increasing a proposed private placement from 9 million dollars to 12.5 million dollars. This suggests a lot of confidence. The market is […]

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