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Wellgreen Platinum president and CEO Greg Johnson in the core shack at the company's namesake project in southwest Yukon, 315 km west of the capital Whitehorse. Photo by Matthew Keevil.

Site visit: Wellgreen eyes revival under new management

DESTRUCTION BAY, YUKON – Roughly 30 km southeast from the small settlement of Destruction Bay along the Alaska Highway, which traces the picturesque shores of Kluane Lake in southwestern Yukon, lies Wellgreen Platinum’s (TSX: WG;…


The terminal station at Jorf Lasfar for OCP's 187 km slurry pipeline in Morocco, which can move 38 million tons of phosphate per year. Source: OCP

Morocco’s OCP aims to dominate phosphate industry

MARRAKESH, MOROCCO — It’s hard not to be struck by the juxtaposition of tradition and progress when sitting in the back of a worn taxi cab winding its way through the maze-like confines of the medina quarter in the high-profile…



Scott Broughton (left), Roca Mines president and CEO, and John Gardiner, Taranis Resources president and CEO, tour the Max mill facility, 60 km southeast of Revelstoke, British Columbia. Photo by Lesley Stokes

Site visit: Taranis hopes to take Thor to the Max

REVELSTOKE, B.C. — Taranis Resources (TSXV: TRO; US-OTC: TNREF) is eyeing an option to buy 65% of FortyTwo Metals, a subsidiary of Roca Mines, in a move to secure the Max mill facility, 60 km southeast of Revelstoke, B.C. 





Standing on the Hasbrouck peak at West Kirkland Mining's gold project in Nevada, from left: Frank Hallam, CFO; Richard Histed, U.S. exploration manager; Michael Jones, president and CEO; Kevin Falcon, director; Pierre Lebel, director; Michael Allen, vice-president of exploration; and Sandy McVey, COO. Photo by Matthew Keevil.

West Kirkland brings new life to Hasbrouck, Three Hills

TONOPAH, NEVADA — There’s a wealth of history in the ground at West Kirkland Mining’s (TSXV: WKM; US-OTC: WKLDF) recently acquired Hasbrouck and Three Hills gold properties in Esmeralda county, Nev., but new ideas are what the…


Sealing the deal, from left: Grand Chief Matthew Coon Come, Grand Council of Crees; Chief Matthew Wapachee, Cree Nation of Nemaska; and Guy Bourassa, Nemaska Minerals president and CEO. Photo by Trish Saywell.

Cree Nation on board for Nemaska’s Whabouchi lithium mine

THE CREE NATION OF NEMASKA, QUEBEC — It took five years and more than 40 meetings, but Nemaska Lithium (TSXV: NMX; US-OTC: NMKEF) and the Cree Nation of Nemaska have signed an impact benefits agreement (IBA) that paves the way…


At Pure Gold Mining's historic Madsen gold property in northwestern Ontario, from left: Darin Labrenz, president and CEO; Blaine Monaghan, director of investor relations; Phil Smerchanski, director of geoscience; Sean Tetzlaff, CFO; Lenard Boggio, director; and Darren O'Brien, vice-president of exploration.  Photo by Matthew Keevil.

Pure Gold joins Red Lake’s ‘exploration renaissance’

RED LAKE, ONTARIO — For the management team at newly minted Pure Gold Mining (TSXV: PGM; US-OTC: LRTNF), picking up the past-producing Madsen gold project marked a return to a gold camp that has played a formative role in their…


A truck underneath a frac sand silo beside a storage house at Victory Silica's Seven Persons frac sand plant. Photo by Matthew Keevil.

Victory enters frac sand fray with Seven Persons plant

MEDICINE HAT, ALTA — When it comes to open-pit mining, having more than 100 million tonnes of overburden sitting on top of your deposit is typically a situation best avoided, but for junior Victory Nickel (TSX: NI; US-OTC: VNCKF)…


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