Category: Mining for Millennials
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Saga Metals Corp (SAGA.V): Set to go public as Rio Tinto JV drops
NOTE TO READER: This is an article about a mining exploration company and I know that’s going to make half of you cross your eyes in expectation of weird terminology and technical talk. I hear you, so here’s my commitment to you; take the time to read and I promise you I’ll explain things in…
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Uranium explorers frustrated as good results/Fission buyout fail to lift all boats
Two days ago, uranium folks were agonizing about how dumping by China had driven down the commodity market, just as uranium prices had started on an upward swing. Then, yesterday, Fission Uranium (FCU.T) announced that it had welcomed a $1.1 billion bid from Australian mining giant Paladin Energy to walk away from its Athabasca Basin…
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Mining for beginners: 13 explorers that’ll teach you the biz
I’ve been meaning to do a story like this for a while, to help folks that can see the commodities markets are blowing up and would like to get in on some higher risk, higher upside opportunities. It’s tough to get into resource investing from scratch. Indeed, before you make money on resources you almost…
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Ramp Metals (RAMP.V) rockets up 227% on bonanza drill hole
Don’t say we didn’t warn you – Ramp Metals (RAMP.V), which we told you about right before they went public, has been jumping into its drill program quickly and today announced an absolute beauty. RAMP METALS ANNOUNCES NEW HIGH-GRADE GOLD DISCOVERY OF 73.55 G/T AU OVER 7.5M AT ITS ROTTENSTONE SW PROJECT Ramp Metals Inc.…
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Bargain of the Day: $7m Standard Uranium (STND.V) has $31m in cash and commitments
I’m going to run through a list of assets that the $7m market cap explorer Standard Uranium (STND.V) has in its portfolio right now, and you can stop me when you think I’m making things up or it’s just too bananas to follow without laughing. Let’s go. 11 projects around the prolific Athabasca Basin, including:…
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Discovery: We found a soon-to-production gas company that nobody knows about
We’ve been talking up this platform we’ve been working on for a while, that we’re using to go through every damn exploration company we can find, trawl through their paperwork, and extract easy-to-understand details so folks can get an at-a-glance idea of what lurks beneath the paperwork. We feel that, if we can perfect it,…
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Ashley Gold (ASHL.C) hits paydirt with 82.3 g/t Sakoose gold sample
Ashley Gold (ASHL.C) CEO Darcy Christian was out in the mountains again this past month, and when he wasn’t fighting off bears and mosquitoes, he was taking gold samples. His company recently attached itself to a uranium play that can quickly advance if all goes well, but while that’s coming together, the geo-ceo decided to…
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Alaska Energy Metals (AEMC.V) sets a price base as new projects come into the fold
Smallcap resource explorers go through phases. Everyone likes to think investors jump on and never get off, riding one ticker all the way to production, but that’s just not true in practice. Some investors like the early ‘roulette wheel’ stages, where share prices move in half cent increments that offer 20+% gains. Some don’t want…
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EuroPacific Metals (EUP.V) hits a beauty hole first time out
We have a system we use when looking at drill results of resource explorers. Looking over drill intercepts is tedious work, so we’ve shrunk it down to a checklist, to create a layman’s idea of whether a hole is good, great, or insane.. It’s our system, built by us for us, so others may declare…
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GoldON Resources (GLD.V) is a low downside, crazy upside play on the back of Great Bear and West Red Lake
This year, the hot gold stock – the one everyone has heard of and a lot of people have made money on – is West Red Lake Gold Mines (WRLG.V). Though it’s come off the heat in May after a double since November, West Red Lake is a bona fide beast – a Frank Giustra-fueled…
