How the sausage is made

Methodology

Junior mining moves fast and buries readers in jargon — assay tables, NI 43-101 language, permitting minutiae. Metals Playbook translates it. Every story answers three questions in plain English: what happened, why it matters, and what to watch. Here's exactly how stories get chosen, because a news service you can't audit isn't one you should trust.

How stories are surfaced

Software scans the newswires where Canadian juniors actually publish, plus market data, search trends, and social chatter. Four signals feed the queue: materiality (is the news itself substantive — real width and grade, a definitive transaction, a maiden resource?), relative strength (is the stock outperforming both its commodity and its peer index — a name refusing to fall with its own sector is telling you something), attention (what are readers actually searching for and talking about right now), and freshness (does this add something you haven't already read this week).

How stories are checked

Flagged stories get a research pass covering the geology (including gram-meter math and the caveats a press release won't volunteer, like unstated true widths), the people (verifiable track records only — if we can't source it, we say "not established in public record"), the disclosed investor-relations machinery, and the company's own stated plan. A separate fact-check pass then audits every number and name against the sources before anything reaches a human editor, who makes the final call on every entry. Performance figures are computed by code from market data, never written by hand.

Where the money comes from

The feed is free and stays free. Companies can pay for a company hub — a persistent page we keep current from their public disclosure. Paid relationships never buy coverage in the free feed, and every paid relationship is disclosed on the page it touches. Editorial is earned on merit; that separation is the product.

What this is not

Not investment advice. Not recommendations. We report what happened and explain why it matters, from public disclosure. What you do with it is your call — our job is making sure you actually understand it first.