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Almost exactly two years ago I was on the Yukon Mining Alliance Media Tour and went to the Victoria Gold (V.VIT) Dublin Gulch Eagle Mine project, 80 bumpy kilometres from Mayo, Yukon. There, VP Exploration, Paul Gray took us on a tour of the proposed mine site. There were some roads bulldozed out of the bush, drill collars, a large camp which was somewhat empty and a vision. John McConnell’s vision of a 200,000 ounce per year gold mine.
White Gold Corp’s (V.WGO) exploration and geological team led by legendary Yukon prospector, Shawn Ryan, and quarterbacked by VP Exploration, Jodie Gibson, is already in the field and as CEO David D’Onofrio said in a recent interview with MotherlodeTV: “This season is our most exciting yet and we are well underway.”
There are huge advantages to a brownfield project. Past producing mines come with a valuable legacy of geological and engineering data that is backed by production numbers and, sometimes, leftover mineralization. On the Chimo Mine project this is the case since the mine was closed due to weak gold prices and not lack of mineralization. Factor that in with underground infrastructure that can be readily rehabilitated and it becomes a manageable challenge to prove up the “blue sky”. That’s what Cartier Resources (V.ECR) has been up to in the last two years.
Part of running a successful resource exploration company is working on complementary projects. Projects which mesh with one another so that the exploration resources, the drillers, the geos and the logistical support can be deployed efficiently. A big part of that is combining projects which have different drilling seasons.
There is a lull in the precious metals junior markets and it makes sense for investors to look at a few of the alternatives out there. One of which is nuclear energy.
Goldplay’s (V.GPLY) San Marcial project consists of 1,250 hectares, located south of the La Rastra and Plomosas historical mines in one of most important multi-million ounces (Au-Ag) mine district in Sinaloa – Mexico. It is a large concession and Marcio Fonseca, the company’s President and CEO, together with Goldplay’s team based in the regions are driving the exploration program towards discoveries of large Au-Ag deposits.
Anthony Durkacz has a unique perspective on Canada’s emerging cannabis industry. Through his First Republic Capital, he has financed FSD Pharma (C.HUGE), Canntab Therapeutics (C.PILL), Cannara Biotech (C.LOVE) and, now, World-Class Extractions (C.PUMP). In each case Durkacz has been looking for business models which go well beyond the simple cultivation of cannabis.
The future demand for lithium is expected to accelerate as more and more car companies announce full or partial conversions to electric vehicles. Each of those vehicles will run on lithium ion batteries and so will everything from leaf blowers to laptops.
When a whole sector of the market falls out of favour with investors even the best news can fail to move a company’s share price. Precious metals explorers and developers, no matter how good their stories, have had an incredibly hard time gaining market traction over the last couple of years. Which creates a real challenge for CEO’s like Phil Walford of Marathon Gold (T.MOZ).
One of the challenges the Yukon poses is to think “big enough”. As you fly over you see hundreds of placer operations, some recreational, some huge, all pulling gold in flakes and nuggets from the creeks which run between the hills and mountains. The essential geological insight is that the placer gold in the creeks came from somewhere and the logical place to look are the valley walls surrounding the creeks. Which is fine as far as it goes, but where did that gold come from?