Resource Opportunities
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Resource Opportunities
11M ago
Visionary now drilling at Wolf project, a neglected historical gold camp in Wyoming
By James Kwantes
Resource Opportunities
Junior exploration projects are notorious for their pitfalls. Lack of minerals is the obvious fatal flaw; others run the gamut from geology and geography to social licence and permitting, with other risks in between.
Venomous snakes slithered onto that list at the last gold project Wes Adams worked on, deep in the jungles of Guyana. This was no metaphorical jungle: one day Adams had a close encounter with a parrot snake, a nocturnal serpent that relies on ambush, not hunt ..read more
Resource Opportunities
11M ago
By James Kwantes
Resource Opportunities
Trade and the resulting prosperity set the stage for the tulip bulb mania of the 1630s. Businessmen who became wealthy buying shares in the Dutch East India Company would decorate their estates with lavish flower gardens of tulips, which had been introduced from Turkey. The rarest and most valuable tulips were the ones with genetic impurities, which produced vibrant colours and unique patterns. Human beings love natural beauty.
In diamonds as in tulips, the rarest and most beautiful are the most valuable. Lucara Diamond Corp. (LUC-T) has been demonstrat ..read more
Resource Opportunities
11M ago
Assays pending on deep holes drilled by GSP Resource Corp. (GSPR-V)
Building pounds at the Alwin copper mine project adjacent to Teck’s Highland Valley Copper mine
by James Kwantes
Resource Opportunities
GSP Resource Corp. is one of three Resource Opportunities sponsor companies.
Dwight Eisenhower was in the Oval Office and America was still on the gold standard when British Columbia prospector Dick Billingsley first staked mining claims. Then 14, Billingsley pounded in wood stakes north of Rossland in B.C.’s West Kootenays on behalf of an uncle who worked in the mining industry and speculat ..read more
Resource Opportunities
11M ago
High-grade silver discovery takes shape at Selena
Ridgeline (RDG-V) has $3.5M in treasury to drill Nevada projects
Nevada Gold Mines is hitting boomers near Ridgeline ground
By James Kwantes
Resource Opportunities
Nevada’s silver-laden history branded it “The Silver State” but the present is paved with gold. The more valuable precious metal is Nevada’s top export, worth US$2.7 billion in 2019 (casino games is a distant second at $550 million).
Since the 1962 discovery of Carlin-type gold by John Livermore and Alan Coope, more gold has been discovered in Nevada than almost anywhere on Earth ..read more
Resource Opportunities
11M ago
by James Kwantes
Editor and publisher,
Resource Opportunities
Site visit: Kodiak Copper MPD project (October 17, 2020)
Sent to Resource Opportunities Premium Subscribers pre-market on Oct. 20
Dear subscriber,
My final site visit of the year — on Saturday, Oct. 17 — took me to Kodiak Copper’s MPD project and core facility outside Merritt, in the heart of southwestern B.C.’s copper porphyry country. It’s a three-hour drive from Vancouver. En route, the snow was already flying at the summit of the Coquihalla Highway pass — elevation 1,244 metres (4,000 feet). But at site, the only winter weather ..read more
Resource Opportunities
11M ago
by James Kwantes
Resource Opportunities
Genesis Metals is one of three Resource Opportunities sponsor companies.
Genesis Metals is building ounces and grade at its Chevrier project in Quebec’s Abitibi Greenstone Belt, as Phase 1 drill results outline growing zones of higher-grade material within the existing Main Zone deposit. The drill results are changing the profile of the deposit, which hosts current indicated mineral resources of 395,000 ounces (8.5 Mt averaging 1.45 g/t gold; cutoffs 0.5 g/t open pit and 0.95 g/t underground) and inferred mineral resources of 254,000 ounces (5.9 Mt avera ..read more
Resource Opportunities
11M ago
By James Kwantes
Resource Opportunities
Well-run project generators are brick houses in a speculative corner of the market, where the winds of commodity prices and dilution are often house wreckers. Their share prices are typically backstopped by healthy treasuries, royalties and equity stakes, as well as extensive claims holdings. They are businesses, not cash-burning lottery tickets like most junior explorecos.
But for many speculators, that level of diversification is a knock. Those bricks provide stability but weigh down the “rocket ship” when a junior exploration company hits a bona fide ..read more
Resource Opportunities
11M ago
Drilling later this year will test new targets identified by last year’s property-wide soil sampling.
By James KwantesResource Opportunities
For veteran speculators, the latest hits to junior mining share prices feels like deja vu all over again. Sentiment is gloomy and market capitalizations are depressed. But gold in U.S. dollar terms is still up more than 25% year-over-year. And US$1,500 gold translates to more than $2,150 Canadian, an exceptional price for Canadian projects whose expenses are measured mostly in loonies.
Gold producers that deplete their reserves with every shift and every ..read more
Resource Opportunities
2y ago
By James Kwantes
Resource Opportunities
Serendipity – the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way.
The German pilot who survived a remote plane crash and stayed alive during an Arctic winter by eating a dead passenger. A Yukon pioneer who joined the gold rush with her dad and still lived in the log cabin she and her husband had built in 1910. And a young baritone named Tom Woodward, aka Tom Jones, just before he became an international singing sensation.
We meet each of these colourful characters and more in the pages of Gren Thomas’s memoir, Serendipity: F ..read more
Resource Opportunities
2y ago
Visionary now drilling at Wolf project, a neglected historical gold camp in Wyoming
By James Kwantes
Resource Opportunities
Junior exploration projects are notorious for their pitfalls. Lack of minerals is the obvious fatal flaw; others run the gamut from geology and geography to social licence and permitting, with other risks in between.
Venomous snakes slithered onto that list at the last gold project Wes Adams worked on, deep in the jungles of Guyana. This was no metaphorical jungle: one day Adams had a close encounter with a parrot snake, a nocturnal serpent that relies on ambush, not hunt ..read more