Category: Zinc
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![Gaining traction – our $100M-plus market cap junior exploration company shortlist]()
Gaining traction – our $100M-plus market cap junior exploration company shortlist
A translation of this article is available in Chinese at our content partner NAI500 here. With this entry, I’m two-thirds of the way into a series of roundup pieces that cover three distinct categories: 1) sub-$100M market cap ExplorerCos with 43-101 resources; 2) $100M-plus market cap ExplorerCos that are, for the most part, further along…
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![Undervalued and underappreciated – our sub $100M market cap junior exploration company shortlist]()
Undervalued and underappreciated – our sub $100M market cap junior exploration company shortlist
A translation of this article is available in Chinese at our content partner NAI500 here. The junior exploration arena promises to be a mosh pit of activity in 2020. The merger and acquisition activity we witnessed over the past year demonstrates a growing appetite by gold Producers’—predators if you will—to devour smaller, resource-rich quarry. Why…
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![The Golden Triangle – an update on a handful of advanced-stage exploration plays]()
The Golden Triangle – an update on a handful of advanced-stage exploration plays
Junior exploration companies—ExplorerCos, if you will—are high-risk propositions. It can take up to 1,000 grassroots projects to generate 100 targets worthy of a probe with the drill bit. Of those, perhaps five or ten will evolve into development projects. And of that small group, only one will become an actual (profitable) mine. Not great odds.…
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![Rockridge Resources (ROCK.V) tables first resource at Knife Lake, prepping to hit the ground running]()
Rockridge Resources (ROCK.V) tables first resource at Knife Lake, prepping to hit the ground running
Rockridge Resources (ROCK.V) just announced its inaugural NI 43-101 compliant resource estimate for the high-grade Knife Lake copper-zinc-silver-cobalt deposit in Saskatchewan. Before we dive into the numbers, let’s explore some of ROCK’s more compelling attributes. Rockridge’s 85,196-hectare flagship Knife Lake project is strategically located in the prolific Flin Flon-Snow Lake mining district. Mining infrastructure abounds…
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![Falcon Gold (FG.V) sets sights on gold, cobalt and vanadium]()
Falcon Gold (FG.V) sets sights on gold, cobalt and vanadium
On June 19, 2019, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) concluded a meeting leaving U.S. interest rates unchanged, but signaled their intent to lower rates in the coming months should U.S. economic growth grind to a halt. The FOMC’s message was decidedly dovish. And the market hangs on every damn word. In their parting statement,…
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![Rockridge Resources (ROCK.V) taps high-grade copper at Knife Lake]()
Rockridge Resources (ROCK.V) taps high-grade copper at Knife Lake
In our maiden article featuring Rockridge Resources (ROCK.V), we explored every aspect of the company, from management pedigree to geological merit: Rockridge Resources (ROCK.V): one of Canada’s newest copper exploration companies Today, we were served up a taste of what the company has percolating just below the surface at its flagship Knife Lake project in…
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5 Reasons Zinc One (Z.V) stock price is jumping
This summer, Zinc One (Z.V) closed a deal on two Peruvian zinc assets for a final cash payment of US $1,150,000. Zinc One now controls the Bongará Zinc-Oxide Project and the Charlotte Bongará Zinc-Oxide Project which lie at the end of a 6 km trend of known zinc. There is an impending shortage of zinc…
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Second Set of Eyes: Timing the cycle with Zinc One (Z.V)
When Vena Resources (name since changed to Forrester) was the on-the-button Toronto mover and shaker that it started out as, it was the kind of thing that smart, connected people put together in a hot resource market. Fine talent with big name partners going after smart opportunities, often in brownfields areas, that could be enormous…
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Zinc One (Z.V) ramps up in Peru
Snap quiz: who knows what zinc is? No – too easy (it’s a metal). Who knows what zinc does? Answer: it’s an anti-corrosive added to iron or steel to prevent rusting. According to a report by the International Lead and Zinc Study Group (ILZSG) 2017 global demand for refined zinc rose 3.6% with mine output…
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How to find a buttload of zinc: First, you miss, then you miss less
Okay, mining newbies, we’re going to play a little resources 101 today, because some interesting stuff is happening out there in the big bad world that may necessitate your learning something outside of the weed market. Master Trump, the first Presidential boy, is making noises like he’s going to slap away on the nuclear football…
