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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 […]
Goldplay Exploration: Updating Silver in Mexico
30 Sep 2018
Reaching Marcio Fonseca, CEO of Goldplay Exploration (V.GPLY), at the Beaver Creek Precious Metals Conference, gave us an opportunity to discuss the company’s San Marcial project where the company has been reporting a steady stream of drill results. The San Marcial project in the historic Rosario Mining District in Sinaloa, Mexico. “When we bought the […]
Advantage Lithium: Proving up a Lithium Resource in Argentina
23 Sep 2018
Argentina has been in the news. 60% interest rates, a recession and a temporary 8% export tax are not good news for miners. However, at this point, David Sidoo, CEO of Advantage Lithium (V.AAL) is cautiously optimistic. “It’s effecting all the juniors working in Argentina,” said Sidoo. “it surprised the market and it is going […]
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 […]