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gold · Sep 4, 2026
Getchell files a billion-dollar PEA at Fondaway Canyon
A first economic study pins a $905M post-tax NPV on a Nevada gold project — built on a $3,200 gold price and a lot of Inferred rock.
Getchell Gold Corp. · GTCH.CN
uranium · Sep 4, 2026
Laramide files the paperwork behind its Westmoreland uranium plan
The NI 43-101 report backs a PEA disclosed in July with no material changes. The gate is still a Queensland policy that hasn't moved.
Laramide Resources Ltd. · LAM.TO
copper · Sep 4, 2026
Mogotes wraps its Filo Sur season and books two new porphyry targets
The Luz del Sol assays we were waiting on are in — thin. The company now points to 20,000 metres of drilling for 2026–2027.
Mogotes Metals Inc. · MOG.V
silver · Sep 3, 2026
Bonanza silver in hole 432 at Langis, and a wider story beneath
Brixton drills 6,199 g/t silver over 1.00 m in the Cobalt camp — but the real signal is the broad, moderate-grade rock flanking the veins.
Brixton Metals Corporation · BBB.V
copper · Sep 3, 2026
A different kind of hole at Moby Dick: wide, but thin-tenor
Pirate Gold drills 299.4m of copper-gold — the width is real, the grade is low, and the stock kept sliding while copper rose.
Pirate Gold Corp · YARR.V
copper · Sep 3, 2026
Palmer VMS returns 49.2 m of 4.7% copper-equivalent in Alaska
Two holes confirm a thick, high-grade copper-zinc core and extend it deeper — from a project Vizsla acquired in December 2025.
Vizsla Copper · VCU.V
rare earths · Sep 3, 2026
Volta drills 275 m below its Springer pit — and grade grows going down
Two holes at the Ontario rare-earth project stayed mineralized over their full ~400-metre lengths, and the stock is up 72% while the sector fell.
Volta · VLTA.CN
other · Sep 3, 2026
Western Resources heads to court as TSX weighs delisting
The potash developer is under creditor protection, its stock frozen at four cents, while a judge oversees a hunt for a buyer of the Milestone project.
Western Resources Corp. · WRX.TO
gold · Sep 2, 2026
Mirado West step-out doubles Kirkland Lake footprint to 1,300 m
A broad near-surface hole extends gold 600 m west in a proven camp — while the stock sank as the junior gold index rallied.
Kirkland Lake Discoveries · KLDC.V
hydrogen · Sep 2, 2026
QIMC hits record 30% natural hydrogen at Bennett Hill
A single Nova Scotia hole read 30% hydrogen in circulating drill mud and set off gas alarms — while the stock ran against a falling peer index.
Quebec Innovative Materials Corp. (QIMC) · QIMC.CN
gold · Sep 2, 2026
Scorpio Gold steps out 50 metres at Goldwedge — and finds more gold
Two step-out holes at Manhattan, Nevada extend the Reliance Fault system: 3.02 g/t over 48.92 m and a wide 1.19 g/t over 99.94 m.
Scorpio Gold Corp · SGLD.V
copper · Sep 1, 2026
DLP puts a number on Aurora: $2.7B NPV, and a moly project in disguise
The Peru copper-moly project gets its first economic study — big scale, thin returns, and revenue riding on one volatile metal.
DLP Resources Inc. · DLP.V
copper · Sep 1, 2026
Independent expert stands by its yes on the Cygnus takeover
Grant Thornton says fresh financials don't change its view: Central Asia Metals' A$232 million all-share bid for Cygnus is fair and reasonable.
Cygnus Metals Ltd · CYG.V
uranium · Sep 1, 2026
Geiger's first hole at Fox Zone lights up the scintillometer
A greenfield hole on the same fault as Orano's 133-Mlb Kiggavik hit ~50 m of radioactivity — but no assays yet.
Geiger · BEEP.V
antimony · Sep 1, 2026
NSJ upsizes flow-through raise for its New Brunswick antimony ground
A financing, not a discovery: NSJ lifts its flow-through target to C$2,625,000 while the stock runs up 267% on soil anomalies and nearology.
NSJ Gold Corp. · NSJ.CN
uranium · Sep 1, 2026
PTX spins its uranium project into a new listing, keeps a 28.46% stake
Marshall goes into Green Canada Uranium Corp.; PTX retains a 28.46% stake and refocuses on Ontario copper-nickel-PGE and gold.
PTX Metals · PTX.V
copper · Sep 1, 2026
Stakeholder drills 498 metres at Loki — grades tell a quieter story
One long hole in the Yukon confirms a fertile intrusion, but the copper and PGE numbers read in ppm and ppb, not percent.
Stakeholder · SRC.V
gold · Sep 1, 2026
West Point drills out at Gold Chain, waits on resource
The Arizona explorer finished a 21,079-metre program and is compiling toward a first resource. The stock is up 19.3% while gold slipped.
West Point Gold · WPG.V
rare earths · Aug 31, 2026
Defense Metals drills 65 m at 2.86% TREO inside Wicheeda pit
Infill holes near Prince George intersected 65 metres of rare earths, with a 20-metre core running double the deposit's usual grade.
Defense Metals · DEFN.V
gold · Aug 31, 2026
Deeper drilling extends Spyglass to 330 meters at Dryden Gold
Four holes hit visible gold where the model said they would, roughly doubling the interpreted footprint of the Spyglass zone.
Dryden Gold · DRY.V
gold · Aug 31, 2026
Fredonia puts numbers on El Dorado Monserrat gold
A preliminary study pins EDM at US$1.49B NPV10 and 65% IRR — on aggressive prices, preliminary metallurgy, and a third Inferred rock.
Fredonia Mining Inc. · FRED.V
gold · Aug 31, 2026
Gold in all seven holes at Stavaträsk — and the vein runs deeper
Hannan's maiden drill program hit gold across 650 metres of strike in Sweden, with the two deepest holes confirming the system continues down-dip.
Hannan Metals · HAN.V
gold · Aug 31, 2026
Sprott writes Cerrado Gold a C$10M cheque
A private placement, not a drill hole — mining investor Eric Sprott buys four million units at C$2.50 apiece.
Cerrado Gold Inc. · CERT.V
gold · Aug 31, 2026
Sterling closes QcX deal, adds gold ground to a copper story
An all-share acquisition consolidates 35,000+ hectares across three belts — land and location, no new drill numbers yet.
Sterling Metals Corp. · SAG.V
uranium · Aug 30, 2026
Energy Fuels closes ASM deal, adds Korean rare-earth metal plant
The US$299M acquisition hands Energy Fuels an operating metal-and-alloy plant in South Korea and a rare-earth project in Australia.
Energy Fuels · EFR.TO
gold · Aug 30, 2026
Inventus buys a historic high-grade gold mine 14 km from Pardo
An all-paper deal adds a past-producing mine with strong historic numbers — none of them yet confirmed by Inventus.
Inventus Mining Corp · IVS.V
silver · Aug 30, 2026
Santo Domingo gets a new resource number — smaller than the old one
Silver Hammer and Stroud publish an updated silver-gold count: about 20 million ounces of silver-equivalent, down from a 2017 figure.
Silver Hammer Mining Corp. · HAMR.CN
copper · Aug 30, 2026
Washington buys into Trilogy's Alaska copper play
The U.S. Department of War signs off on a US$35.6 million stake to advance the Ambler district's copper — governance strings attached.
Trilogy Metals · TMQ.TO
copper · Aug 28, 2026
McEwen Copper lands US$240M loan to push Los Azules toward decision
A high-cost bridge loan carries the Argentine copper project toward a mid-2027 investment decision — but the full ~US$4B still isn't assembled.
McEwen Inc. · MUX.TO
gold · Aug 28, 2026
Pirate Gold hits 30.6 g/t at Moosehead and finds a new fault
Two grade-rich holes and a fresh gold structure — Caribou — at the Newfoundland project run by the New Found Gold alumni.
Pirate Gold Corp. · YARR.V
copper · Aug 28, 2026
Rio Tinto buys into Mogotes and its frontier Vicuña ground
A major has put US$15M and its geoscience toolkit into an exploration-stage porphyry company on the Argentina–Chile border, forming a technical alliance on the Filo Sur project.
Mogotes Metals Inc. · MOG.V
gold · Aug 28, 2026
AngloGold nearly doubles its Thesis stake in C$58.5M raise
A major gold producer topped up to 9.7% while Thesis banked cash for a 20,000-metre drill campaign in BC's Toodoggone district.
Thesis Gold & Silver · TAU.V
gold · Aug 28, 2026
West Point closes its drill program at Gold Chain — resource next
The 21,079-metre program is done, a maiden resource is due late Q3 or early Q4, and the founder-CEO has handed off the reins.
West Point Gold · WPG.V
gold · Aug 28, 2026
White Gold clears court for W2 spin-out, upsizes raise to $10M
A Yukon gold explorer splits off its critical-minerals unit, tweaks its PEA math, and drills 11,500 metres with assays still pending.
White Gold Corp. · WGO.V
copper · Aug 27, 2026
Copper Giant drills 771 metres in one hole at Mocoa
A long, low-grade copper-molybdenum intercept extends the Colombian porphyry southeast and at depth — width and formula still unverified.
Copper Giant · CGNT.V
copper · Aug 27, 2026
Massive sulphide hits at Mary March, and the market noticed
Canstar's first Mary March drilling since 2019 cut 15.6 m of massive sulphide at 2.3% CuEq — its widest ever, ~100 m along strike from the 1999 discovery hole.
Canstar Resources Inc. · ROX.V
gold · Aug 27, 2026
High-grade gold, shallow and narrow, at Imwelo's Area C
Two of eight holes hit 28.71 g/t and 12.20 g/t near surface. Four hit old artisanal voids. This is grade control, not discovery.
Lake Victoria Gold Ltd. · LVG.V
copper · Aug 27, 2026
Wedge hole 10 hits 31.95m of 2.52% copper-equivalent
A step-out drill hole at a historic New Brunswick camp lands a wide massive-sulphide zone, but the stock sat out a strong copper rally.
Nine Mile Metals Ltd. · NINE.CN
rare earths · Aug 27, 2026
Crater Lake drilling confirms the scandium is where the model said
Scandium Canada hits 124.9 m at 232 ppm scandium oxide from near surface, and maps a ~3 km magnetic corridor to chase next.
Scandium Canada · SCD.V
copper · Aug 27, 2026
Viridian raises up to $1.0M as Kraken assays stay pending
A $0.45 unit placement funds the drill program and an IR budget, while the stock has moved sharply ahead of any assay numbers.
Viridian Metals Inc. · VRDN.CN
copper · Aug 26, 2026
ATEX extends B2B breccia 200m south; hole ends in 1.72% CuEq
Final Phase VI assays stretch the high-grade copper breccia to about 600m of strike, still open south and at depth. The stock sat out the copper rally.
ATEX Resources Inc. · ATX.TO
gold · Jul 9, 2026
High-grade steps out at Northeast Tyro — and the market is paying attention
West Point Gold's latest Arizona drill holes stretch a high-grade zone past 400 metres while the stock shrugs off a 25% sector drawdown.
West Point Gold · WPG.V
gold · Jun 18, 2026
A step-out west of N2's A-Zone finds gold where no one had drilled
Formation Metals extended its Quebec gold zone 200 metres into untested ground, returning 1.05 g/t over 31 metres — with the drill program fully funded through a maiden resource due in Q3.
Formation Metals · FOMO.CN
copper · Jun 15, 2026
A billion-tonne BC copper deposit gets its first reserve — and a price tag with strings attached
Surge Copper's Berg pre-feasibility study defines a 28-year mine and a maiden reserve of 5.8 billion pounds of copper, alongside economics that lean heavily on the company's long-term price assumptions.
Surge Copper · SURG.V
gold · Mar 12, 2026
The highest-grade hole Cabral has ever drilled — and it's not in the resource yet
Cabral Gold's DDH372 at Jerimum Cima returned 9.5 metres of 87.4 g/t gold, a result the company says is unlike anything in the district's nine known deposits and discoveries.
Cabral Gold · CBR.V