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Enforcer: Moving On, Making a Mine
5 Sep 2018
Success in junior exploration depends on good management. Management which is able to find and acquire prospective properties and management which can evaluate those properties. But also management which can make the hard call to let a property go when it no longer makes sense for the company and its shareholders. Enforcer Gold (V.VEIN) had […]
Cartier Resources: Brown Field Gold in the Abitibi
5 Sep 2018
The great thing about “brownfields” exploration is what could be called predictable success. If you are drilling next to the shaft of a mine which was a successful gold producer it is a pretty good bet that you will hit mineralized rock. For Phillippe Cloutier, CEO of Cartier Resources (V.ECR), the fact that Abitibi’s Chimo […]
FSD Pharma: Indoor, Medical Grade, Cannabis
27 Aug 2018
As the companies come up to the starting gate for the great Canadian recreational cannabis sweepstakes we are seeing huge interest in the sector. The investment of 5 billion dollars in Canopy Growth by Constellation Beverages re-ignited the marijuana stock market in Canada. All of a sudden, Canada’s world-wide lead in the creation and financing […]
Millennial Lithium: Lithium Resource, Infrastructure, Margins
14 Aug 2018
Farhad Abasov, President and CEO of Millennial Lithium (V.ML), has experience with shifting markets for the resource he’s looking for. As the President and CEO of Allana Potash, as he explored in Ethiopia for potash, he watched as the entire potash market changed in a couple of years. Now he is watching the lithium marketplace […]
Bayhorse Silver: Q&A about old workings and resource expansion
8 Aug 2018
Bayhorse Silver (V.BHS) has recently re-opened old workings at its silver mine in Oregon. The company has always known the workings were present on the site but, until breaking through into those workings it had no idea of their condition. Given that it costs an average of $1,000 a lineal foot to create new workings, […]
Nickel Creek: “What sort of mine we’ll be when we grow up”
7 Aug 2018
When we were at Yukon’s Destruction Bay last year the weather was bad enough that we never saw the beauty of Kluane Lake or the snow-capped mountains in the distance. Entirely spectacular and well worth the visit if you are driving the Alaska Highway. Because it was the end of June the sun pretty much […]
Goldplay: “Is this a mine?”
31 Jul 2018
People have been mining gold and silver in Mexico for hundreds of years. The Rosario mine in Sinaloa Mexico operated from the 1700s to 1944 on the western edge of the Sierra Madre Occidental. A few kilometers away, Goldplay Explorations (V.GPLY) is looking for gold and silver at its El Habal and San Marcial projects. […]
Skyharbour: Last Man Standing
15 Jul 2018
On Monday March 11, 2011 the Fukushima nuclear plant was severely damaged by a 15-metre tsunami which disabled the power supply and cooling of three Fukushima Daiichi reactors. All three cores largely melted in the first three days. The uranium market went into a tailspin. Before the accident uranium futures were selling above $68, after […]
ATAC: Carlin on Edge
11 Jul 2018
One of the best things about the Yukon Mining Tour is the opportunity to revisit amazing places like ATAC (V.ATC) Resources’ Rackla property to the northeast of Keno City. When I went last year the sheer beauty of the place was overwhelming. And the geology, frankly, flew over my head. This year I was much […]
Aben Resources: Deep in BC’s Golden Triangle
8 Jul 2018
Aben Resources has gold properties in Saskatchewan, the Yukon and the Northwest Territories, but its flagship property is in British Columbia’s hugely prospective, Golden Triangle. In the upper left-hand corner of British Columbia, there is an imaginary triangle which contains some of the most prolific mines in Canada: Valley of the Kings, Galore Creek, Eskay […]
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, […]