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World-Class Extractions: Adding Real Value to Cannabis
22 Apr 2019
Anthony Durkacz has a unique perspective on Canada’s emerging cannabis industry. Through his First Republic Capital, he has financed FSD Pharma (C.HUGE), Canntab Therapeutics (C.PILL), Cannara Biotech (C.LOVE) and, now, World-Class Extractions (C.PUMP). In each case Durkacz has been looking for business models which go well beyond the simple cultivation of cannabis. “A lot of […]
Millennial Lithium: Towards a Pilot Plant and Feasibility Study
9 Apr 2019
The future demand for lithium is expected to accelerate as more and more car companies announce full or partial conversions to electric vehicles. Each of those vehicles will run on lithium ion batteries and so will everything from leaf blowers to laptops. While the demand for lithium is rising the supply, and thus the price, […]
Marathon Gold: Drilling to Prefeasibility
7 Apr 2019
When a whole sector of the market falls out of favour with investors even the best news can fail to move a company’s share price. Precious metals explorers and developers, no matter how good their stories, have had an incredibly hard time gaining market traction over the last couple of years. Which creates a real […]
Triumph Gold: Hunting the Porphyry Elephant
3 Apr 2019
One of the challenges the Yukon poses is to think “big enough”. As you fly over you see hundreds of placer operations, some recreational, some huge, all pulling gold in flakes and nuggets from the creeks which run between the hills and mountains. The essential geological insight is that the placer gold in the creeks […]
Cartier Resources: 2019 is Chimo’s year
18 Mar 2019
We’ve reported the progress of Cartier Resources (V.ECR) at its Chimo Mine project in Val-d’Or Quebec. It is a story which actually began long before Cartier acquired the rights to the mine. The mine was a past producer having yielded 379,012 ounces of gold before it was shut down in 1997. During its productive life, […]
Canadian Orebodies: On Ice
3 Mar 2019
Part of the challenge in exploration is matching data to theory at the tip of a drill. When Canadian Orebodies (V.CORE) purchased the Black Raven property in April 2017, the initial data that was inherited included a set of historical drill cores which had been drilled by a prior operator, Entourage Metals. This core suggested […]
Goldplay: Maiden Resource Estimate
20 Feb 2019
When you are speaking with Marcio Fonseca you actually hear two different voices: the first is the measured voice of a professional geologist on the trail of a discovery, the second is the seasoned voice of an investment banker fully aware of the economics of mining. As expected, on February 7, Goldplay Exploration (V.GPLY) released […]
White Gold: Rolling up the Discoveries
24 Jan 2019
In one sense, White Gold (TSX-V: WGO, OTC – Nasdaq Intl: WHGOF, FRA: 29W) could be considered famed Yukon prospector Shawn Ryan’s project development company. Years ago, Ryan explored and staked swaths of the Yukon’s Dawson Range to the south of Dawson City. The claims were optioned to many junior exploration companies. The companies went […]
Cartier Resources: Stepping out from the Headframe
21 Jan 2019
The great advantage of a brownfields project, within the shadow of a previous mine’s headframe, is you are almost certain to find gold. But is that enough? The Chimo Mine in the Abitibi gold belt closed because the price of gold fell far enough that the mine was no longer economic. There was still gold […]
Canadian Orebodies Hits Bonanza Grade Gold
17 Dec 2018
Canadian Orebodies (V.CORE) was very quiet over the summer and early fall. Few press releases. No hype. Just prospecting and then an October announcement of a drilling program at the company’s Wire Lake project. As Gord McKinnon put it in this release, “This first phase of drilling is designed to test six target areas, several […]
Canntab: All about the Cannabis Pill
10 Dec 2018
The Canadian Cannabis market peaked – using the Canadian Marijuana Index – in early January of 2018. The Index topped 1000. It dropped a bit from there and, the Monday before legalization on Wednesday, October 17, touched 858. The index is now hovering around 500. Reality has caught up with the recreational marijuana business and […]
Cartier Resources Update: The New 6N1 Discovery – Drill to Kill Approach
28 Nov 2018
Investors know that junior exploration companies are risky; what they often don’t know is that many juniors are not risky enough. Finding gold ounces is a matter of knowing the geology of the area you are looking in and sticking close to existing or past producing mines, or as the old adage has it “exploring […]
Marathon Gold: Full Speed Ahead in Newfoundland
19 Nov 2018
Marathon Gold (V.MOZ) has gone from being a gold explorer to a gold mine developer over the last two years. Phillip Walford, the company’s President and CEO, is supervising this transition and was very pleased with the company’s updated Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA). The updated PEA, released October 30, 2018, contained a lot of very […]
FSD Pharma: New drugs from Cannabis
14 Nov 2018
The Financial Post has an excellent article on cannabis IP. It’s long, but here’s a quote, “I don’t think the industry has fully embraced the role that intellectual property of the cannabis plant will play in the next phase of growth,” said John Kagia, chief knowledge officer at New Frontier Data, a cannabis-focused data and […]
Precipitate Gold: Gold in the Dominican Republic
7 Nov 2018
If you go to Google maps and look at the Dominican Republic you can see Barrick Gold’s huge Pueblo Viejo gold mine. It is the largest gold mine in the Americas and the fourth largest in the world. The mine has reserves and resources of over 15 million gold ounces. Surrounding Pueblo Viejo, on three […]
Aben: Moving Fast in BC’s Golden Triangle
28 Oct 2018
It is a short exploration and drilling season in BC’s Golden Triangle. Jim Pettit, CEO of Aben Resources (V.ABN), knows the company has only four or five months to accomplish its program. Aben’s property is in the North Coastal Mountains where 30 or even 40 feet of snow could fall. “Winter drilling is possible,” said […]
Honouring the Land: Golden Predator Working Together with the Kaska First Nation
21 Oct 2018
Part of the job of an exploration company CEO is doing corporate presentations. Janet Lee-Sheriff, CEO of Golden Predator (V.GPY), was in Philadelphia to do a lunch presentation to a group of high net worth individuals. She began her presentation by showing Kaska Kayeh, a video about how the First Nations on whose land GPY […]
Canntab Therapeutics: Cannabis in a Hard Pill
8 Oct 2018
Jeff Renwick and Richard Goldstein (l&r above) have been working together on the generic side of the pharmaceutical business for a decade. Developing drugs and drug delivery systems. Renwick has a total of 25 years in pharma and Goldstein was an investment banker. Their private company had two generic drugs in the pipeline and a […]

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