Goldplay: “Is this a mine?”

Goldplay (V.GPLY): “Is this a mine?”

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. The San Marcial project has a historic 43-101 compliant silver resource with upside opportunities for expansion. The El Habal is at drilling stage with recent attractive results from trenching supporting exploration potential. read more

ATAC: Carlin on Edge

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ATAC VP Exploration, Julia Lane, on the edge of a Carlin structure after a hail storm

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 more prepared. read more

White Gold: Science and Soil in the Yukon

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 I travelled to the now Goldcorp Coffee deposit the geo who was running the tour said, “Shawn was over this property.” read more

What do you do with a Doré bar?

Golden Predator Coin, V.GPY
Yukon Mining Alliance, gold, Golden Predator
Janet Lee-Sheriff and Bill Sheriff with a million dollar Doré gold bar at Yukon Mining Lunch in Toronto

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. read more

Standard Lithium: Going where the right brine project is

V.SLL, Standard Lithium

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 permitting rules. Utilizing modern selective extraction, you need to not only pump large volumes of brine, you need to know if you will be allowed to re-inject the processed brine.” read more