Category: Rare Earths
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Everything is up: Eat, drink, be merry… for tomorrow we die
When the history books are written on this passage of our lives, under pandemic lockdown and with once-in-three-generations levels of unemployment, they’ll note that in order to save us from economic collapse, the government printed trillions of dollars and just fired it all into the markets out of a bazooka, only to establish a decades-long…
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![Defense Metals (DEFN.V) announces updated and increased resource estimate for its Wicheeda REE deposit in mining friendly B.C.]()
Defense Metals (DEFN.V) announces updated and increased resource estimate for its Wicheeda REE deposit in mining friendly B.C.
Definition of Myopia: my·o·pi·a – /mīˈōpēə/ – noun – nearsightedness, a lack of foresight or intellectual insight. That about sums up the market’s current malfunction where Defense Metals (DEFN.V) is concerned. The newsflow coming out of the Defense camp of late should be generating significant share price trajectory. The DEFN chart depicts price strength in…
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![Companies on the Highballer shortlist in the news – Defense (DEFN.V), HighGold (HIGH.V), and Skeena (SKE.V)]()
Companies on the Highballer shortlist in the news – Defense (DEFN.V), HighGold (HIGH.V), and Skeena (SKE.V)
Even though virus-related shutdowns have hindered the pace of mineral exploration in recent weeks—some regions more than others—progress is still being made on multiple fronts. Creating shareholder value is the primary objective of the companies we follow here at Highballerstocks… virus be damned. Three of the companies on our shortlist dropped headlines last week. Two…
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![Defense closes PP – sets the stage for rapid REE development]()
Defense closes PP – sets the stage for rapid REE development
Defense Metals (DEFN.V) stoked its treasury to the tune of nearly $600k yesterday (April 29), the proceeds of which “will be used for exploration on the Company’s Wicheeda rare earth element (REE) project located in Prince George, British Columbia…” The company also intends to close an additional non-brokered private placement of up to 1,000,000 units…
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![Market mayhem and deep value in the junior exploration arena part two]()
Market mayhem and deep value in the junior exploration arena part two
We’ll dispense with a recap of yesterday’s financial headlines, cept to say, it was an across-the-board bloodbath. Yesterday, in part one of a two-part roundup, we focused on hard-hit junior companies—co’s with market caps > $50M—with significant assets underpinning their beaten up valuations. Today, we’ll take a look at a number of companies a little…
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![Market mayhem and deep value in the junior exploration arena part one]()
Market mayhem and deep value in the junior exploration arena part one
Recent general market disorder and mayhem has wreaked havoc on the junior exploration arena over the past few weeks. For those holding junior ExplorerCos, the sector has been a world of hurt, assuaged only by the occasional rally… shades of bull markets past. Investors holding gold and silver stocks just want that hurt to stop,…
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AMPD, PAT, MTA, HIVE, MILE: Contrarian investing as the zombies climb over the walls
Okay, so the world is burning, the Russians and Saudis are pouring low-cost fuel over it, the Americans are shocked that a reality TV show host with a penchant for scams didn’t make a clever President, Italy is in total lockdown, the Japanese are thinking of holding a spectator-free Olympics, Israel is putting anyone coming…
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![Defense Metals (DEFN.V) builds momentum with another key milestone towards REE resource development]()
Defense Metals (DEFN.V) builds momentum with another key milestone towards REE resource development
In a recent offering, we suggested that Defense Metals is advancing its 1,708-hectare Wicheeda Rare Earth Element (REE) Project at a pace that should begin attracting a much wider audience. The momentum continues to build. Last week, the company dropped final bench-scale hydrometallurgical test results for Wicheeda: Defense Metals Hydrometallurgy Test Program Achieves ~90% Rare…
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Defense Metals’ (DEFN.V) Wicheeda metallurgy tests achieve an eye-popping 90% REE extraction
“Samples of Wicheeda flotation concentrate used in a hydrometallurgical test program led to the successful development of a flowsheet capable of processing the concentrate to a high grade mixed REE hydroxide precipitate,” stated Defense Metals.
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Defense Metals (DEFN.C) to hit the gas on marketing after three-month triple
A year ago, if you’d told me a rare earths explorer was going to be a three-bagger through tax loss season, I’d have called you a madman, taken away your belt and shoelaces, and called in Social Services to make sure you weren’t a threat to yourself and others. And yet, here we are, with…
