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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 step of the way cost money and O’Neill has raised that money.
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 is particularly important because, while it certainly contains silver, it has an abundance of tin.
The market is usually right about exploration and development companies. The good ones get cashed up, the others have a hard time raising funds.
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.
