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Victoria Gold VP of exploration Rich Eliason (right) and a colleague look over Haggart Creek and the exploration camp at the Dublin Gulch gold project in the Yukon. Photo by Matthew Keevil

Victoria rules at Dublin Gulch in Yukon

It has been a three-year slog for Toronto-based Victoria Gold (VIT-V) at its wholly owned Dublin Gulch property 85 km from Mayo, Yukon, but the company is nearing the finish line to put its Eagle gold deposit into production by 2015.


The discovery hole marker at NuLegacy's Red Hill gold project in Nevada. Photo by Ian Bickis

NuLegacy gets in line on Nevada’s Cortez trend

A little over two decades ago Roger Steininger made a major gold discovery in Nevada by bucking conventional wisdom. Today he’s trying to do it again.Steininger has found himself chief operations officer and a director at Nevada-focused…


Colt Resources' vice-president and chief operating officer Declan Costelloe (far right) and president and CEO Nikolas Perrault (second from right) brief site visitors at the Tabuaco tungsten project in Northern Portugal. Photo by Salma Tarikh

Colt lights up its ambitions in Portugal

Colt Resources (GTP-V, COLTF-O) has lofty plans to bring the next gold and tungsten mines to Portugal, a country perhaps best known for its fortified wines. The junior’s motto is “A gold company created by investors for…


Wesdome Gold Mines CEO Donovan Pollitt cuts the ribbon at the Mishi gold mine opening in Wawa, Ontario. Photo by Alisha Hiyate

Wesdome goes back to the well with Mishi

While many juniors embrace a mantra of growth at any cost, pursuing pricey takeovers or drilling endlessly to produce impressive-sounding resource estimates, Wesdome Gold Mines (WDO-T) takes a ­different tack.With a decidedly conservative…


Energizer Resources senior vice-president of operations Craig Scherba (right) and a local worker examine a trench at the Green Giant graphite project in Madagascar. Photo by Matthew Keevil

Energizer puts Molo’s graphite in fast lane

It has been a story of evolution by discovery for Energizer Resources (EGZ-T), a Toronto-based explorer with significant land holdings in southern Madagascar. The company was originally billed as a prospective vanadium producer — its…


At Southern Silver Exploration's Cerro Las Minitas silver project in Durango, Mexico (from left): senior exploration manager Adrian Robles; general manager of exploration Robert MacDonald; vice-president of exploration Roger Scammell; director Jean-Pierre Colin; and Scotia Capital associate director and geologist Bob Jankovic. Photo by Ian Bickis

Southern Silver eyes next Blind zone

After waiting more than 30 years, Southern Silver Exploration’s (SSV-V) man in Durango is finally getting a crack at the Cerro Las Minitas silver property.Adrian Robles, Southern Silver’s senior exploration manager in Mexico, first…




Studying a map at Sego Resources' Miner Mountain project in Princeton, British Columbia, from left: CEO J. Paul Stevenson, project manager Curt Kauss, director Al Hilton and reclamation and site preparation manager Bob Dennis. Photo by Ian Bickis

Sego set to scale Miner Mountain

If you’ve ever been to Princeton, home to the recently opened Copper Mountain mine, you’ve also seen Sego Resources’ (SGZ-V) Miner Mountain copper property. 


Red Eagle Mining's chief project geologist Tim Neall at the colonial sluice mine at the Santa Rosa gold project, near Medellin in Colombia. Photo by Ian Bickis

Red Eagle spreads its wings

In recent years as drugs and violence fade from the headlines, Colombia has seen a deluge of juniors pouring in and looking to take part in the gold-rich country’s seemingly endless untapped potential.


Soltoro CEO Andrew Thomson (far left) gives a presentation at the El Rayo silver-gold project in Jalisco State, Mexico. Photo by Salma Tarikh

Soltoro charges ahead in sunny Jalisco

Soltoro (SOL-V) may soon be garnering more well-deserved attention for its growing primary silver resource at the El Rayo silver-gold project here in Mexico’s Jalisco State.


At Prophecy Platinum's Wellgreen nickel-copper-PGM project in the Yukon, from left: field geologist Rex Camit; senior geologist Danniel Oosterman; and project geologist Rory Calhoun. Photo by Matthew Allan

Prophecy Platinum starts winter drill program at Wellgreen

Fifteen kilometres off the paved Alaska Highway in southwestern Yukon, the Wellgreen nickel-copper-platinum group metal (PGM) project sits largely as it has since 1973, when Hudson-Yukon Mining abandoned underground mining there after one year…


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