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‘Peak diamonds’ on the horizon?

The fracking boom in North America may have made “peak oil” somewhat of a dated phrase, but could “peak diamonds” take its place as the catchphrase for resource investors?


At the West Raglan nickel sulphide exploration project in northern Quebec's Cape Smith belt, from left: True North Nickel's Phil Smerchanski, vice-president of exploration; Donald McInnes, co-chair and CEO; Sean Tetzlaff, chief financial officer; and Alex Holmes, vice-president of business development. Credit: True North Nickel

Royal Nickel strikes again with True North

Less than two months after Royal Nickel (TSX: RNX; US-OTC: RNKLF) acquired a strategic 25% stake in Sudbury Platinum, which is advancing the Aer-Kidd nickel–cobalt–platinum group metals project in the Sudbury basin, the junior has…



The view from Kinsley Mountain showing Long Canyon 90 km away. Credit: Pilot Gold

Pilot hits oxide gold at Kinsley, pursues Cadillac

VANCOUVER — With just a few holes Pilot Gold (TSX: PLG; US-OTC: PLGTF) has defined another gold zone at its Kinsley Mountain gold project in Nevada, just a kilometre away from the high-grade Western Flank zone it discovered less than a…


Pilot Gold geologist April Barrios examines a zone of phyllic alteration and quartz veining cross-cutting potassic-altered granodiorite in the central part of the Valley porphyry soil anomaly, at the TV Tower project in Turkey. Credit: Pilot Gold

Another Turkish porphyry for Pilot and Teck

VANCOUVER — With its first hole into a new target, Pilot Gold (TSX: PLG; US-OTC: PLGTF) has found a copper–gold porphyry at its TV Tower project in Turkey, reinforcing the district-scale potential of the large land package.



Denison bulks up Wheeler River

Denison Mines (TSX: DML; NYSE: DML) has lifted the average grade of the Phoenix deposit by 11% and the contained pounds of uranium by 19% at its 60%-owned Wheeler River project in northern Saskatchewan.



The crushing facility at Sierra Metals' Yauricocha mine in Peru.

Sierra Metals unleashes Yauricocha’s full potential

LIMA, PERU — Sierra Metals (TSX: SMT; BVL: SMT) is proving up the underground potential of its Yauricocha silver–lead–copper–zinc–gold mine in west-central Peru. The low-cost underground mine is the company’s…


Roughrider rises again

VANCOUVER — “We were shocked the land was available,” says Dale Wallster, a director of Kivalliq Energy (TSXV: KIV), in an interview. “So we staked it — but when you stake land in Saskatchewan, other interested…


Drill core from the 2201 Zone at Premier Gold Mines' Cove project in Nevada. Credit:  Premier Gold Mines

Cove makes the grade for Premier

It may have made its name on its Hardrock gold project in Ontario but Premier Gold Mines (TSX: PG; US-OTC: PIRGF) is bolstering its project pipeline in Nevada.


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