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Equipment at Canadian Zinc's Prairie Creek zinc-lead-silver project in the Northwest Territories. Photo by Anthony Vaccaro

Unfinished business at Prairie Creek, part II

When and if the final water licence and road permits are issued, Canadian Zinc (CZN-T) will at last be in a position to get its Prairie Creek zinc-lead-silver project here in the southwest corner of the Northwest Territories into…


Canadian Zinc VP of exploration and COO Alan Taylor (left) and equipment operator Jason Matt at the Prairie Creek zinc-silver-lead mine in the Northwest Territories. Photo by Anthony Vaccaro

Unfinished business at Prairie Creek

The paint dried over 30 years ago, but a “wet paint” sign still hangs on the metal railing that was erected to stop the uninitiated from falling into the crushing circuit below.


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. 


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