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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 well. Then we have acquired the Toroparu gold and copper property in Guyana, which has almost 11 million ounces of gold and significant copper. So now we are adding diversification with polymetallic and multi-jurisdictional.”
“We have too much geology for our geologists,” Francois Perron, CEO of Lucky Minerals (LKY.V) told me in a telephone interview. It is a problem many junior exploration companies would like to have. Having 12 contiguous exploration concessions covering 550 Km2 means there is a lot of ground to cover. So much ground that Lucky Minerals has only been able to focus on a few “hot spots” on its Fortuna property in Ecuador.
