We spoke with Mike Bandrowski, President/CEO of Big Ridge Gold Corp. (TSX-V: BRAU). Big Ridge Gold is in the process of acquiring 80% interest in First Mining Gold's Hope Brook Gold Project, located in Newfoundland and Labrador. The project is a former high-grade gold producer (1987-1997), with the existing resource of indicated 844,000 oz Au, grading 4.77 g/t, inferred 110,000 oz Au at 4.11 g/t....Read More
We spoke with Dan Wilton, CEO and Director of First Mining Gold Corp. (TSX: FF, OTCQX: FFMGF, FRANKFURT: FMG), a Canadian gold developer, focused on the development and permitting of the Springpole Gold Project, in northwestern Ontario. Springpole is one of the largest undeveloped gold projects in Canada. First Mining Gold has announced a positive Pre-Feasibility Study for Springpole in January 20...Read More
Clean Air Metals (TSXV: AIR) has released new assay results from its flagship Thunder Bay North (TBN) asset, a platinum, palladium, copper and nickel project in northwestern Ontario, about 50 km northeast of the city of Thunder Bay.The 100%-owned project consists of the Escape Lake and Current Lake deposits, which are 2.5 km apart, and the drill results are from a 30,000-metre diamond drilling cam...Read More
With demand for electric vehicles, batteries, and greener energy storage options expected to rise in the years ahead, many juniors are on the hunt for so-called 'technology metals,' a broad category that includes cobalt, copper, nickel, platinum group elements, graphite, lithium, rare earth elements, and silver, among others. Here are eight companies working on properties in the tech and battery m...Read More
Giga Metals (TSXV: GIGA) has begun a 2021 work program at the Turnagain nickel-cobalt project, located in north-central British Columbia. Archaeological and wildlife surveys are underway and resource drilling has commenced.Kiera Broda, project geologist for Giga Metals, at the Turnagain Camp. Credit: Giga MetalsThe program is designed to collect all necessary exploration, geotechnical and other da...Read More
Easing Covid-19 risks and improved uranium fundamentals have prompted Western Uranium & Vanadium (CSE: WUC; US-OTC: WSTRF) to pull the trigger on a restart of uranium exploration development and mining at the Sunday mine complex in western San Miguel County, Colorado.The Sunday mine complex comprises the Sunday, West Sunday, St. Jude, and Carnation mines, all of which are interconnected.The operat...Read More
This week's episode features Evolution Mining executive chairman Jake Klein in discussion with Northern Miner editor-in-chief Trish Saywell at the Global Mining Symposium. Jake explains the benefits of remaining a mid-tier sized company, and how China owns as much as 20% of Africa's debt, particularly of resource-rich nations. He also discusses the challenges of mining, which he describes as "swee...Read More
AngloGold Ashanti (NYSE: AU) has appointed former BHP executive Alberto Calder??n as its new CEO, ending almost a year without a top boss, after Kelvin Dushnisky's sudden departure last July.Calder??n, a 61-year-old Colombian with more than two decades of executive experience in the mining sector, will be starting his new role on Sept. 1, the company said.A junior minister in a government that f...Read More
Colossal pandemic spending by governments worldwide over the past 18 months has meant inflation is back in the news, as is gold contained in pyrite following publication of academic research in Australia.Most prices rise over time. Inflation has been especially destructive in the U.K. over the past 750 years, with the Bank of England calculating that ?1 in 1270 had a purchasing-power equivalent o...Read More
Hope you all had a great Fourth of July weekend. It was top notch here in Maryland. We had a great day of sailing with blustery winds blowing up the Chesapeake. Steaks were grilled, crab cakes devoured, and the corn from the Eastern Shore never tasted better.My neighbor who owns an adjacent farm must have lit off $20,000 in fireworks, the big ones like you see after the Frederick Keys play on Frid...Read More
Here we are, on the back end of a long Fourth of July weekend on a Tuesday morning.It'll be good to be back, good to get things moving along.I've got a three-hour drive from the eastern shore of Maryland back to Baltimore ahead of me though.Right now I'm pretty jazzed about how my sandwich-in-a-bag has the good mustard on it, and that's about the extent of what I've got working for me. I'd bet we...Read More
Julian is home to San Diego County's motherlode. But also, don't miss the apple pie.Read full newsRead More
Kavango Resources (LON: KAV) on Monday announced not only an expansion of its Kalahari Suture Zone drill programme but also an almost ?2 million placing. T...Read full newsRead More
Insights is a bit later than usual this week as we are working on a special announcement.Stay tuned! Read More
Hayward retires after eight years as chairmanRead full newsRead More
It's not every day you come across a business model like MetalNRG's (LSE:MNRG). The company has everything in place for serious growth, leveraging some of...Read full newsRead More
Gold steadyRead full newsRead More
Homenaje a los Padres. Show Humoristico en Familia con Vitorino y el Grupo Two Humor Junio 2021 Mineros SA.Read More