Summary Vanadium is the 20th most abundant element in the earth’s crust and the 13th most available metal, but it is a challenge to recover. Heap leaching is a method that has taken low grade deposits (gold, copper, nickel and cobalt) and recovers sufficient ...
Michael Drozd
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March 29, 2019
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When we don't understand the present, we can turn to the past. It is believed the natural ratio in the earth's crust is ~10 ounces of silver for one ounce of gold. Back in 3000 BC in Mesopotamia (modern day Turkey, Iraq, Iran), silver and gold were used to enable trade ...
Streetwise Reports
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March 31, 2020
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Getchell Gold (CSE:GTCH) announced on October 17, 2019 a binding letter of agreement with Canarc Resource Corp. (TSX:CCM) to acquire Fondaway Canyon. Fondaway includes 136 contiguous, unpatented mining claims, covering about 2,220 acres (898 hectares), or 3.5 square mi...
Richard (Rick) Mills
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May 13, 2020
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The platinum group elements (PGEs) consist of six metallic elements found in the Periodic Table: iridium (Ir), osmium (Os), palladium (Pd), platinum (Pt), rhodium (Rh) and ruthenium (Ru). Platinum and palladium are the most well-known of the PGEs due to their industrial appl...
Richard (Rick) Mills
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April 12, 2019
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As the gold mining majors increasingly focus on Nevada deposits, they have taken notice of a small-cap explorer with prime properties. For billions of years, exploding neutron stars have been mass-producing cascades of the proton-heavy atom that we human...
Streetwise Reports
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June 21, 2019
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Like a Diamond in the Rough Full size / The niobium-bearing mineral pyrochlore , with the typical brown colour and, like diamonds, an octahedral habit (i.e. “square bipyramid” shape) was recovered from a piece of drill core from Saville Resour...
Stephan Bogner
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February 6, 2020
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Bigger is Better (at least in this respect) What a pleasant surprise! The Ashram Rare Earth and Fluorspar Deposit continues to grow. As announced today by Commerce Resources Corp. , recent core assays for vertical drilling at Ashram has disc...
Stephan Bogner
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November 28, 2019
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Welcome to the StockTalk Podcast…where we help listeners and investors understand more about investment opportunities in capital markets. I’m Dave Jackson. Voyageur Pharmaceuticals ( TSX-V.VM , OTC: VYYRF , Forum ) has built a successful business model fr...
Dave Jackson
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January 20, 2020
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Full size / In the C.O.D vein system, the tellurium occurs as a soft silver-grey telluride mineral, a Silver-Tellurium-Gold alloy speculated to be sylvanite (Ag,Au)Te2. Today, Ximen Mining Corp. announced that its option partner for the Gold Drop Project in sout...
Stephan Bogner
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March 7, 2019
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Mining is all around us, though invisible to urban dwellers, so it’s easy to forget that we live in a world of finite resources. Unlike forestry or agriculture, whose crops are renewable, once ore comes out of the ground and is processed into metals, it&Close...
Richard (Rick) Mills
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April 5, 2019
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