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May 15, 2019

Guyana Goldstrike discovers mineralized outcrops along 1,100m trend

2019.05.15 Guyana Goldstrike (TSX-V:GYA) has come across very prospective new ground at its Marudi Gold Project in […]
May 14, 2019

Three safe-haven reasons to own gold

2019.05.14 “It’s the tail that wags the dog” is defined by Urban Dictionary […]
May 14, 2019

Universal Copper batting for a double in Colombia

2019.05.14 Base metals markets have had a rough ride of late, getting tossed […]
May 11, 2019

Trade impasse threatens US lithium, rare earth imports

2019.05.11 On Friday the United States made good on its threat to ratchet […]
May 9, 2019

Make America’s economy great again

2019.05.09 A lot of Americans find themselves in a quandary over Donald Trump. […]
May 9, 2019

US is winning trade war with China…for now

2019.05.09 The ongoing battle between the United States and China for economic supremacy […]
May 7, 2019

The future of pot

2019.05.07 The passage of Bill C-45 on October 17, 2018 made Canada the […]
May 7, 2019

ROCK hits high VMS grades in first five holes

2019.05.07 Rockridge Resources (TSX-V:ROCK) is off to a flying start at its Knife […]
May 7, 2019

ROCK hits high VMS grades in first five holes

2019.05.07 Rockridge Resources (TSX-V:ROCK) is off to a flying start at its Knife […]
May 3, 2019

China’s environmental crackdown buoys lead, zinc

2019.05.03 Zinc and lead prices are movin’ on up again, following a two-week hiatus […]
May 2, 2019

Communist countries coalescing

2019.05.02 On January 29, 2017, a young man walked into a Quebec City […]
May 1, 2019

Cypress: 5 first steps to a lithium mine

2019.05.01 Building a mine is a succession of confidence-building steps. In the initial […]
May 1, 2019

Is political partisanship killing America?

2019.05.01 Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Israel’s 1981 annexation of the Golan Heights […]
April 23, 2019

Stop feeding the Chinese ‘Belt and Road’ trojan horse

2019.04.23 “Whoever has an army has power.” – Mao Zedong In March Italy […]
April 19, 2019

Battle royale brewing in Alberta

2019.04.19 Do you think the Canadian provinces have a fractious relationship with the […]
April 19, 2019

Chinese growth lights fire under copper price

2019.04.19 Copper bulls are running this week, as the red metal used in […]
April 18, 2019

Gold bull run still intact

2019.04.18 At Ahead of the Herd we love gold (and promising junior gold […]
April 17, 2019

EVs get a boost from Big Auto

2019.04.17 Is the age of the gas-powered automobile coming to an end? Doubtful. […]
April 16, 2019

Max finds high-grade gold, platinum at surface

2019.04.16 Max Resource Corp (TSX-V: MXR) is putting an extra two letters in […]
April 13, 2019

How central bank gold buying is undermining the dollar

2019.04.13 Ahead of the Herd has been digging into why central banks are […]
April 11, 2019

Palladium, darling of the PGEs, shifting into high gear

2019.04.11 The platinum group elements (PGEs) consist of six metallic elements found in […]
April 10, 2019

MMT is a spectacularly Dem idea

2019.04.10 Economists are good for one thing, and that is creating theories. The […]
April 9, 2019

Cannabis space green shoots not what most think

2019.04.09 As signs of spring emerge in the Great White North, green shoots […]
April 9, 2019

NV Gold chasing high-grade Au in Nevada

2019.04.09 NV Gold (TSX-V:NVX, US-NVGLF) has big plans for 2019 having just doubled the claims […]
April 9, 2019

Sprout-less Gold now Tier 1 Capital

2019.04.09 Gold is often criticized by Wall Street as being kind of a […]
April 5, 2019

Running on empty

2019.04.05 Mining is all around us, though invisible to urban dwellers, so it’s […]
April 3, 2019

Golden Triangles Red Line

2019.04.03 “Geologists are scrambling to understand what created the phenomenal concentrations of gold […]
April 3, 2019

Max’s conglomerate gold project expanded by 60%

2019.04.03 Max Resource Corp (TSX-V:MXR) has a lot more ground to explore at […]
April 3, 2019

Aben drills targeting hi grade gold in Golden Triangle and Yukon

2019.04.03 Aben Resources (TSX-V:ABN) is prepping for what is sure to be a busy […]
April 3, 2019

Aben drills targeting hi grade gold in Golden Triangle and Yukon

2019.04.03 Aben Resources (TSX-V:ABN) is prepping for what is sure to be a busy […]
March 30, 2019

EV and lithium battery markets to experience significant growth

2019.03.30 In North America, electric vehicles are still a niche market, with most […]
March 29, 2019

$1B for Trump’s border wall could fix crumbling military bases

2019.03.29 US military families will continue to stay in run-down accommodations while they […]
March 28, 2019

Trudeau puts Quebec ahead of Canada to protect himself and SNC-Lavalin

2019.03.28 Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is no chip off the old block […]
March 26, 2019

What if we threw a Cold War and nobody came?

2019.03.26 Russia just can’t seem to keep itself from stepping on America’s toes […]
March 26, 2019

Zinc cupboard nearly bare as price soars

2019.03.26 Zinc inventories have fallen to the point where there is less than […]
March 22, 2019

A recession is coming, buy gold explorers with scale

2019.03.22 Mining has a well-worn adage, “grade is king”. While that may be […]
March 22, 2019

Push for more LNG overshadows fracking-caused earthquakes

2019.03.22 LNG Canada is getting more ambitious in its plans to build BC’s […]
March 22, 2019

Push for more LNG overshadows fracking-caused earthquakes

2019.03.22 LNG Canada is getting more ambitious in its plans to build BC’s […]
March 21, 2019

ROCK ready to roll in Saskatchewan

2019.03.21 Drills are turning at the Knife Lake Project in Saskatchewan, where Rockridge […]
March 21, 2019

Guyana Goldstrike aims to add ounces at gold-bearing iron formation

2019.03.21 Wedged between two resource giants on the north coast of South America, […]
March 21, 2019

ROCK ready to roll in Saskatchewan

2019.03.21 Drills are turning at the Knife Lake Project in Saskatchewan, where Rockridge […]
March 19, 2019

Cannabis tester FluroTech is a market disruptor

2019.03.19 The legalization of cannabis in Canada – only the second country after […]
March 8, 2019

Boreal Metals hunting high-grade VMS in mining-friendly Sweden

2019.03.08 Among the most important criteria in deciding which junior mining companies to […]
March 8, 2019

Codelco lithium fizzle: Chile’s loss is US’s gain

2019.03.08 The world’s largest copper miner is sticking to what it knows best […]
March 8, 2019

Gold M&A

2019.03.08 On Monday Newmont Mining rejected a $17.8 billion hostile takeover by Canada’s […]
March 8, 2019

Why the record US trade deficit is good for commodities

2019.03.08 On Monday a headline that must have put Donald Trump in a […]
March 5, 2019

Veg out on asparagus to resist cancer

2019.03.05 The health effects of “superfoods” have been touted for nearly 30 years, […]
March 1, 2019

Gold-rich banded iron formations

2019.03.01 Three and a half billion years ago, the earth’s atmosphere had no […]
February 28, 2019

All you need to know about VMS

2019.02.28 Between 4,000 million and 2,500 million years ago, the earth had cooled […]
February 28, 2019

As copper soars, capital markets specialist joins Rockridge board

2019.02.28 Copper was trading at its highest since June on Wednesday, hitting $2.95 […]
February 27, 2019

Max runs up 30% on gold- satellite survey correlation

2019.02.27 Max Resource (TSX-V:MXR) briefly hit a fresh 52-week high today after publishing […]
February 26, 2019

Cypress moving forward to Phase ll Prefeasibility

2019.02.26 Cypress Development Corp (TSX-V:CYP) has achieved its objective of confirming that recent […]
February 23, 2019

Called for lithium tsunami cancelled

2019.02.23 The prevailing theme for the lithium market over the past several months […]
February 22, 2019

Max Resource Corp (TSX-V:MXR) survey says?

2019.02.22 Max Resource Corp (TSX-V:MXR) continues to gather more data on the mineralization […]
February 22, 2019

Resource nationalism could further choke metal supplies

2019.02.22 Three of the most important metals surged on Wednesday due to a […]
February 22, 2019

Resource nationalism could further choke metal supplies

2019.02.22 Three of the most important metals surged on Wednesday due to a […]
February 16, 2019

All the macro factors in place for a big gold run

2019.02.16 Gold markets were rocking on Tuesday, lifted by a basket of factors […]
February 16, 2019

Chilean water fight casts doubt on ‘Saudi Arabia of lithium’

2019.02.16 Everybody in the lithium game knows about the lithium triangle. Straddling three […]
February 16, 2019

The Big Lies perpetuated by Big Oil & Gas

2019.02.16 I always enjoy watching the Alberta government’s television ad on the Kinder Morgan […]
February 15, 2019

Max Resources free gold elephant

2019.02.15 Max Resources (TSX.V:MXR) latest update explains the sampling protocol being used on […]
February 14, 2019

The global infrastructure deficit – the road not yet taken

2019.02.14 Infrastructure is the physical systems – the roads, power transmission lines and […]
February 14, 2019

Where will the US get its lithium from?

2019.02.14 The lithium bears took another bullet to the backside on Tuesday with […]
February 13, 2019

Plunging inventories have zinc bulls ready to run

2019.02.13 On Tuesday zinc inventories in London Metal Exchange (LME) warehouses sunk into […]
February 12, 2019

We are the Lemmings

2019.02.12 What were you doing on August 1, 2018? Likely it was just […]
February 9, 2019

ETFs are the modern-day fools gold

2019.02.09 Gold was up slightly on Friday, due partly to continued weakness in […]
February 8, 2019

Max upscales potential gold-bearing conglomerates by 4.5X

2019.02.08 Scale does matter. Max Resource Corp (TSX-V: MXR) has identified a second […]
February 7, 2019

Uranium bellwether Cameco on the march

2019.02.07 On February 5 Cameco (TSX:CCO) broke through $13.00 for the first time […]
February 6, 2019

Citi sees copper rising 10% on coming trade deal

2019.02.06 Citi Bank is bullish on copper and appears to be brimming with […]
February 6, 2019

We have a problem, spodumene

2019.02.06 Over the next four years, lithium from Western Australia is expected to […]
February 4, 2019

The new Cold War and gold

2019.02.04 In December President Trump pounded out a tweet that raised a lot […]
February 2, 2019

Venezuela trying to sell gold to stay afloat

2019.02.02 Venezuela is reaching for its last card as the deck collapses on […]
February 1, 2019

Max Resources has found its El Dorado

2019.02.01 In the 1500’s, Spanish explorers set foot on a strange new land, […]
January 30, 2019

New Brunswick nuclear energy vs BC LNG

2019.01.30 The nuclear powered energy train has left the station in the Eastern […]
January 29, 2019

Top down bottom up on lithium

2019.01.29 Remember playing that game to see how fast your muscle car could […]
January 23, 2019

Big copper mines cutting output

2019.01.23 Some of the world’s largest copper mines are slashing production, thus feeding […]
January 23, 2019

Defense Metals has sights set on rare earths, uranium

2019.01.23 Today, the world is a dangerous place. Between Russian aggression in the […]
January 22, 2019

Aussie lithium miners tapped out; who else is there?

2019.01.22 Battery and automakers hoping to lock up a supply of lithium for […]
January 21, 2019

Dr. Corby G. Anderson expert in extractive metallurgy and mineral processing has joined Cypress Development Corp. (TSX-V: CYP) Advisory Board.

2019.01.21 Dr. Corby Anderson Joins Cypress Advisory Board Vancouver, BC – Cypress Development […]
January 18, 2019

Choose thorium-fueled reactors instead of Site C

2019.01.18 I was flying through the Twitterverse when I came across this doozy […]
January 17, 2019

Mining Hall of Famer appointed to Rockridge technical advisory board

2019.01.17 In junior mining, having deep expertise at the management and board level […]
January 15, 2019

Goldcorp-Newmont deal points to more M&A

2019.01.15 More gold mines will be going on the block thanks to a […]
January 15, 2019

Volkswagen to drag Tesla, making EVs in Tennessee

2019.01.15 Watch out Elon Musk, Herbert Diess is pulling up beside you at […]
January 12, 2019

Commodities are the right story for 2019

2019.01.12 The markets are up and down like a bride’s nightgown, as my […]
January 11, 2019

Lithium-ion batteries to become cheapest form of energy storage by 2030

2019.01.11 Lithium-ion batteries find their most common applications in small electric devices, power […]
January 10, 2019

How the BC NDP sold the environment down the river

2019.01.10 There once was a time when the New Democratic Party of British […]
January 10, 2019

SK Innovation mulling another $5B for America’s first EV battery plant

2019.01.10 Most North Americans equate electric vehicles with Tesla, whose “Gigafactory” in Nevada […]
January 10, 2019

SK Innovation mulling another $5B for America’s first EV battery plant

2019.01.10 Most North Americans equate electric vehicles with Tesla, whose “Gigafactory” in Nevada […]
January 10, 2019

Why Chile’s plan to expand copper output is a farce

2019.01.10 A headline in the mining news this week caught my attention: “Chile copper […]
January 9, 2019

ETF holders, China piling into gold

2019.01.09 Gold is once again in vogue, with the precious metal attracting investor […]
January 8, 2019

Rare earths deja vu: Chinese crackdown = higher prices

2019.01.08 In a scene awfully familiar to those who follow the rare earths […]
January 8, 2019

Rare earths deja vu: Chinese crackdown = higher prices

2019.01.08 In a scene awfully familiar to those who follow the rare earths […]
January 7, 2019

Uranium was the best metal performer of 2018

2019.01.07 2018 was a down year for many commodities, with oil, coffee and […]
December 30, 2018

Rockridge Resources resumes trading after exchange approval of option agreement to acquire copper VMS project

2018.12.30 A new copper and battery metals play in Saskatchewan is out of […]
December 30, 2018

Rockridge Resources resumes trading after exchange approval of option agreement to acquire copper VMS project

2018.12.30 A new copper and battery metals play in Saskatchewan is out of […]
December 30, 2018

Saving our Canadian bacon

2018.12.30 For the Trudeau haters out there, this was the moment they’d all […]
December 22, 2018

Bolivia: Where revolutionaries and lithium miners go to die

2018.12.22 Other than being the country where Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara was killed, […]
December 22, 2018

Skyharbour rocks Moore’s basement with new high-grade zone

2018.12.22 Skyharbour Resources Ltd. (TSX-V:SYH) (OTCQB: SYHBF) (Frankfurt:SC1P)delivered some exciting results to the […]
December 16, 2018

BC earthquakes and fracking

2018.12.16 There is no fracking going on right now in northeastern British Columbia, […]
December 8, 2018

Ghost Empires

2018.12.08 Drought is a normal recurring feature of the climate in most parts […]
December 8, 2018

Human body plug and play

2018.12.08 One of the most perplexing issues to confront modern medicine has been […]