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White Gold: Science and Soil in the Yukon
19 Jun 2018
You don’t have to be in the Yukon for very long before you hear about Shawn Ryan. Last year, I’d just landed and was in the hotel pub with two great people who are legends in the placer business and was asked, “So are you going to see Shawn?” I had no clue. And as […]
What do you do with a Doré bar?
17 Jun 2018
Back in September of 2017 the Government of the Yukon and the Yukon Mining Alliance held an event in Toronto. The star at the event – other than Premier Sandy Silver – was a doré gold bar protected by a real Mountie in the real, scarlet, dress uniform of the RCMP. The bar was owned […]
Marathon Gold: Step by Step to Gold in Newfoundland
13 Jun 2018
Phil Walford, CEO of Marathon Gold (T.MOZ), has been working on mining projects for four decades. When he looks at a flow sheet he can spot the potential bottlenecks. “If you are mining underground and your hoist breaks, you’re down,” said Walford. “And you stop processing material if your crusher is out of commission.” Which […]
Bayhorse Silver: Moving Parts to Build a Business
27 May 2018
I spoke to Bayhorse Silver (V.BHS) CEO Graeme O’Neill (pictured above) as he was getting ready to fly down to Oregon to spend time at the Bayhorse Silver mine over the weekend. It’s a frequent trip. Vancouver to Boise Idaho and then an hour or two driving to get to the mine site on the […]
Standard Lithium: Going where the right brine project is
17 May 2018
Towards the end of our interview, Robert Mintak CEO of Standard Lithium (V.SLL), laid out Standard’s criteria for evaluating lithium opportunities, “You have to get the right project,” he said, “There needs to be infrastructure. You need a workforce. You need to access to water and reagents. You have to consider the jurisdiction and the […]
Bayhorse Silver: Actuals vs. Estimates
1 May 2018
How can an investor find a company which has real potential but is trading at a knock down price? Junior mining investors can be forgiven for frustration in the face of a market where even the best stories don’t seem to get much traction. The Canadian junior mining is locked into a “one size fits […]
Enforcer Gold: Exploring in the Abitibi
9 Apr 2018
The Abitibi is one of the world’s premier gold camps. Whether it is deep beneath an old mine or a fresh look at a former exploration site, the Abitibi offers tremendous opportunities for creative gold explorers. A fact which Steve Roebuck, CEO of Enforcer Gold (V.VEIN), is fully aware of. Last year Enforcer began work […]
Millennial Lithium: Moving to Lithium Off Take in Argentina
2 Apr 2018
One of the extraordinary aspects of Canada’s junior mining sector is just how international it actually is. Millennial Lithium (V.ML) is headquartered in Vancouver, is advancing two lithium projects in Salta province in Argentina but its CEO, Farhad Abasov is based much closer to the lithium markets in China. Abasov’s last project, Allana Potash Corp, […]
Cartier Resources: Deep Gold in the Abitibi
27 Mar 2018
When the gold price crashed to less than $300 an ounce in the late 1990s many gold mines in Canada went into “care and maintenance”. And when that price failed to recover these mines were, effectively abandoned. When the Chimo mine was shut down in 1997 it had produced 379,000 ounces of gold from 19 […]
AbraPlata: The silver (and gold) in Argentina
25 Mar 2018
The name “Argentina” comes from the Latin term “argentum”, which means silver. For AbraPlata (V.ABRA) the silver (and a good deal of gold) is found at the Diablillos property, which contains a Ag-Au epithermal deposit called Oculto, located in the far south of a province called Salta located in the northwestern part of the country. […]
Turning Money into Gold | Victoria Gold
18 Mar 2018
Mining Victoria Gold’s (V.VIT) Eagle Gold Project at Dublin Gulch in Yukon literally means taking off the side of a small mountain. That mountain hosts a National Instrument 43-101 compliant Reserve of 2.7 million ounces of gold at .67 gpt. Operating costs are estimated at US$550 per ounce and the mine is designed to produce […]
Grizzly Discoveries: Gold in British Columbia
15 Mar 2018
“I am not your typical CEO,” said Brian “Griz” Testo. “I was a prospector/developer during the Alberta diamond rush. One year I was flying down to PDAC and I met Pam Strand. She introduced me to Mike Dufresne. They told me if I wanted to develop properties the way I thought they should be developed […]
Copper with a Low CAPEX: Crown Mining
11 Mar 2018
Whenever a company comes out with a PEA I always look at the CAPEX first. The fact is that, regardless of the size of the resource, the estimated mine life or the internal rate of return, the CAPEX number gives a good first approximation of whether a project is actually feasible. 513 Million dollars is […]
Consolidating the Kootenay Arc: Margaux Resources
28 Feb 2018
Gold, zinc, tungsten: Tyler Rice, CEO of Margaux Resources (V.MRL) has a true polymetallic property to explore. Located in South Eastern British Columbia, the Margaux properties follow the rich geology of the Kootenay Arc. On February 27, 2018 the company announced that it had completed two significant consolidations of lands, projects and mineral tenures in […]
Looking for Hemlo II: Canadian Orebodies
27 Feb 2018
A lot of exploration is about looking for pointers, for clues, as to where a deposit might be. For Canadian Orebodies, a train of boulders, a number of which had high-grade gold mineralization pointed in a particular direction. If you look at the map above you can spot the boulder train. Angular boulders which suggest […]
Bayhorse Silver: Old Mine, New Technology
25 Feb 2018
The Bayhorse Property, located near Huntington in south eastern Oregon, was the location of the largest silver deposit ever found in the state. It was mined in the early twenties and then again in 1984 when the price of silver dropped below $5 per ounce. Bayhorse Silver (V.BHS) acquired the right to mine the property […]
Blue Sky Uranium: At Surface in Argentina
14 Feb 2018
Did you know that Argentina is the largest generator of electricity from nuclear energy in South America? Or that it imports all of the 500,000 pounds a year of uranium that its three nuclear reactors use? Or that Argentina has one additional nuclear reactor under construction and two in the planning stages? Speaking with Nikolaos […]
MGX: Riding the Energy Transition
13 Feb 2018
To get a handle on MGX Minerals (C.XMG) and its frenetic CEO Jared Lazerson you have to understand Lazerson’s underlying vision of energy technology in transition. For Lazerson the renewables revolution, the need for efficient energy storage solutions and the broad range of “battery” metals all coalesce into a set of opportunities. So many opportunities […]