Research Articles

Iceland lies within the North-Atlantic Igneous Province and owes its existence to an underlying mantle plume and to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge that runs through the country. The trace of the mantle plume runs from the eastern coast of Greenland in the west across to Faeroes and Scotland in the southeast. However, the crustal structure of Iceland differs somewhat from the...

Written March 2019 by Tony and Graeme Bishop Between 1903 and 1904, an extraordinary diamond was found somewhere in the area around Cobalt, Ontario. This diamond, while not widely known about, remains one of the largest diamonds ever discovered, and was named after the district in which it was found: the Nipissing Diamond. Here are the facts about the Nipissing...

Windfall Geotek (TSX.V: WIN) has been providing Artificial Intelligence Analysis, using the Computer Aided Resources Detection System (CARDS) for exploration companies worldwide for over 15 years. During that time they have worked on more than 85 different projects and are the world leaders in AI Exploration. As with any machine learning, the more information you run through the system, the...

Windfall Geotek (TSX.V: WIN) has been providing Artificial Intelligence Analysis, using the Computer Aided Resources Detection System (CARDS) for exploration companies worldwide for over 15 years. During that time they have worked on more than 85 different projects and are the world leaders in AI Exploration. As with any machine learning, the more information you run through the system, the...

Northern Ontario is world famous for its mining operations and for good reason considering the geological nature of the province. The mining rush in Northern Ontario, started in the silver mining camps of Cobalt and Gowganda, which historically produced over 600 million ounces of silver before gold discoveries were made a little further north. Gold quickly became the sought after...

We recently took a 4,000 kilometre, 7 day drive from Ontario to Nevada to visit the Pamlico Ridge property, owned by Newrange Gold. The Project is located just outside of Hawthorne in Mineral County and it sits within a geological feature known as the Walker lane Trend. It also sits on the Pancake Range Lineament which is a well known...

2019 was a year filled with ups and downs across the market. We've seen the cannabis sector get demolished, gold spike over $1,500, some major new discoveries were made as well as some very large mergers and acquisitions by majors. Almost every CEO, analyst and professional we have spoken to this year agrees that a bull market in metals is...

In the first segment of the Top 20 of 2020, we covered 10 of the 20 junior miners we have identified as companies to watch in 2020. This article is a continuation of part one and the companies are listed in no particular order. We hope you have found value in our articles and look forward to bringing you new...

Growing up in Cobalt, Ontario, I heard the stories about the 800-carat Nipissing Diamond found in the 1900’s but being that it is the Silver Capital of Canada, the story was often overshadowed. However, in recent years there has been a flurry of activity in the area and the local community is buzzing because an unnamed company (DeBeers) has been...

Mining companies often overlook the fact that not everyone is a geologist, nor do they understand the terminology used to describe mining activities. After listening to some of the questions presented to RNC management of late and reading some of the concerns of the retail market on various social media trading platforms, it has become quite apparent that a large...