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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 […]
Lucky Minerals: Enter the Drills (and the Driller)
13 Feb 2022
Lucky Minerals (LKY.V) takes channel sampling seriously. The company, led by CEO François Perron, holds a set of mineral concessions in Ecuador. It has been working on the Wayka High Sulfidation Epithermal (‘HSE’) Gold Discovery where a program of trenching has defined a large area of HSE gold mineralisation at surface. Like any greenfields exploration […]
Renforth Resources: Building Asset Value
8 Feb 2022
In the middle of roiling markets, strange metal prices and slow assay labs, Renforth Resources’ (RFR:CNX) CEO Nicole Brewster is pressing forward. Right now her focus is on a small 6 km long section of the company’s >300 km2 Surimeau District Property the company refers to as Victoria West. Renforth completed a flow through private […]
Tocvan: Exploring and Expanding in Mexico
27 Jan 2022
Junior exploration companies go through distinct stages of development. When they are founded there is a need for financial and promotional expertise to “sell” an as yet untested geological theory to a sceptical market. Once the geology begins to be proven up, the focus shifts to extending and confirming that geology. For Tocvan Ventures (TOC:CNX), […]
Cartier Resources: 3 Gold Projects in the Abitibi Greenstone Belt
8 Dec 2021
Cartier Resources (ECR.V) is a multi-project exploration company operating in Quebec’s prolific Abitibi Greenstone Belt. CEO Philippe Cloutier spoke to me on the phone a few days ago. “This is a very busy year-end,” said Cloutier. “We are working on several fronts from preparing a drill program to monitoring progress on the Chimo Mine PEA. […]
GR Silver: Exploration on a District Scale in Mexico
23 Nov 2021
GR Silver (GRSL.V) holds 100% of the key concessions over an area 25 kilometers wide and 35 kilometers long in the Rosario District in Sinaloa Mexico. The company refers to this as the Plomosas Project and is in the midst of drilling the property. “We have a pipeline of targets,” said Marcio Fonseca, GR Silver’s […]
Tocvan: Two Gold-Silver Properties in Mexico
22 Nov 2021
Brodie Sutherland is a very happy geologist. As Tocvan Ventures (TOC:CNX) VP Exploration he is exploring two highly prospective properties, Pilar and El Picacho, in the Sonora State of Mexico and he is liking what he is seeing so far. The Pilar Project is the more advanced of the two projects. A couple of weeks […]
Renforth Resources: Gold plus Battery Metals in Quebec
8 Sep 2021
On August 24 Renforth (RFR.C) put out a news release detailing “positive assay results from the 2021 portion of the >15,000m drilled into the wholly owned Parbec surface gold deposit in Malartic, Quebec, contiguous to the Canadian Malartic Mine.” Nicole Brewster, Renforth’s CEO, is a very straightforward, no-nonsense person. Where other companies would be touting […]
Grid Metals:Three Solid Properties
25 Aug 2021
There are not a lot of junior exploration companies which have survived for 25 years. Grid Metals (GRDM.V) has, and Robin Dunbar, CEO and President of Grid was happy to speak about the company’s history and prospects in a phone interview. “Our three main properties were acquired from 1998 to 2005,” said Dunbar. East Bull […]
Gran Colombia: Getting bigger in Colombia and Guyana
15 Aug 2021
Gran Colombia Gold (GCM.T) is going big, Executive Chairman Serafino Iacono told me over the phone. “We mine gold in Colombia, but our operations have expanded. As well as gold in Colombia, we are recovering silver, and will have a new plant coming online which will process our tailings and extract lead and zinc as […]

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