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Rick Mills, Editor/ Publisher, Ahead of the Herd: Last year, about this time, we started talking about gold, silver and copper and the junior resource companies focused on them. And it turned out we had …

Drills could soon be turning at Rackla Metals’ (TSX-V:RAK) Lentung (known previously as Lened) tungsten property in the Northwest Territories it acquired by claim staking in 2025. According to the Vancouver-based company, an extensive historical dataset supports a …

Canada’s three northern territories represent ~40% of Canada’s landmass, but less than 0.1% of its population, or approximately 135,000 residents. That’s the size of a small city in southern Canada. The desolation and far-flung nature of …

US President Trump has reneged on his promise to the American people of making life more affordable by starting a war with Iran that has entered its fourth week. Iran’s closure of the Strait of …

Certain metals are essential for maintaining a country’s warfighting capabilities. Three are tungsten, graphite and rare earths. Tungsten Tungsten (W) is one of the world’s hardest and hardest-to-source materials. It tolerates the most extreme-temperature environments, …

Silver had a phenomenal 2025, more than doubling from around $30/oz to above $70 by late December, and the rally continued into the new year. Since then, however, silver and gold have both been volatile. From …

A severe heat wave hit the just-completed 2026 Indian Wells professional tennis tournament in California, with temperatures soaring toward 39 degrees Celsius or 102 Fahrenheit. Players faced stifling conditions, with temperatures exceeding 90F in the shade. A …

Mercado Minerals (CSE:MERC) has begun its first drill program at Copalito, the company’s flagship project in Sinaloa state, Mexico. The 3,000-meter program encompassing about 25 holes will target five segments of known veins at 5 Señores, …

Rick Mills, Editor/ Publisher, Ahead of the. Herd: You recently cut a deal with Canadian Goldfields Discovery (TSXV:CGM), you’re selling Miminiska, the project that we were going to work on first. I’d like to know …

Inflation, higher interest rates and a strong dollar are bad for gold prices. On the other hand, war, geopolitical stress, bad job reports and stagflation are good for gold. The consensus on gold prices for …

Stagflation is an economic event in which the inflation rate is high, economic growth rate slows, and unemployment remains steadily high. (Corporate Finance Institute) Commodity prices influence the prices of manufactured goods, whether the end users …

  A country’s ability to mine minerals and turn them into metals depends on two distinct but connected phases: mining and smelting/ refining. (To clarify, smelters extract metal from ore or scrap using high …

Last Saturday, Feb. 28, the United States and Israel struck Iran, killing the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, along with three members of his family and several high-ranking figures in the regime. Iran retaliated with missile and drone attacks across …

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Rick Mills, Editor/ Publisher, Ahead of the Herd: Louis, you’ve been in the exploration development business for many years. Could you please tell us where your knowledge base lies and a little bit about yourself. …

LME copper hit an all-time high of 13,300 per tonne ($6.03/lb) on Jan. 6, marking a 50% year-on-year increase. Source: Trading Economics Along with all the usual applications for copper — in construction, transportation …

Gold mines have been mining at a higher grade than the reserve grade for much of the last decade. Purposely mining areas of the orebody with the highest-grade material is known as high grading. Mining …

Torr Metals (TSX-V:TMET) has expanded the mineralization at its Kolos Copper-Gold Project in south-central British Columbia. Results from a geochemical program completed in late 2025 from the undrilled Sonic Zone have nearly doubled the anomalous footprint …

Rick Mills, Editor/ Publisher, Ahead of the Herd:  It’s good to be talking to you again Quinton. We had an exceptional year in 2025 and I’m looking for a repeat for my readers in ‘26. …

Some are thinking copper, gold and silver are getting toppy and that has them calling for a pullback in prices. I believe the elements underpinning the commodities bull market are intact and unlikely to fall apart in 2026. Here I’ll …

Rick Mills, Editor/ Publisher, Ahead of the Herd:  We’re going to the Salta province in Argentina, 80 kilometers northwest of the city of Salta, where mapping has outlined an oxide gold stockwork mineralized trend. Why don’t you tell us …

Hundreds of millions of Americans are facing a weekend of wild winter weather as a storm gathered strength Friday, bringing sub-zero temperatures, snow and ice to the eastern two-thirds of the country. Forecasters quoted by PBS have the storm …

Rick Mills, Editor/ Publisher, Ahead of the Herd:  Malcolm, tell us how you developed this Bertha North target. What led you up there? Malcolm Dorsey, CEO, Torr Metals:  What led me up into this area was, number one, …

Rick Mills, Editor/ Publisher, Ahead of the Herd:  It’s been six weeks since our last news release, December 4th. We have talked since then, but I want to go back to that news release because you just put out …

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Rick Mills, Editor/ Publisher, Ahead of the Herd:  We’re going to the Salta province in Argentina, 80 kilometers northwest of the city of Salta, where mapping has outlined an oxide gold stockwork mineralized trend. Why don’t you tell us …

Rick Mills, Editor/ Publisher, Ahead of the Herd:  Simon, Grad had a geochemical signature typical of a Reduced Intrusion-Related Gold System, a RIRGS. But in the end, the drill results disappointed. You just put out a report, and you …

Mercado Mineral’s’ (CSE:MERC) properties, Copalito and Zamora, are located within the Western Mexico Silver Belt in Sinaloa state, Mexico. The properties are near power, roads, infrastructure and local workforces in a mining-friendly jurisdiction. This emerging belt of …

Kodiak Copper (TSX-V:KDK) (OTCQB:KDKCF) (Frankfurt:5DD1) had a phenomenal 2025, releasing a maiden mineral resource estimate on its MPD property in south-central British Columbia, and the share price up 205% over the last year. Kodiak Copper doesn’t feel …

On July 24 Harvest Gold announced they identified 23 priority drill targets in the central and north parts of its flagship property, Mosseau, located in the Urban Barry Belt of Quebec’s Abitibi region. The company has now completed …

Cassiar Gold (TSX-V:GLDC) (OTCQX:CGLCF) recently announced results from nine initial diamond drill holes of the 2025 exploration program at the Taurus deposit. According to Cassiar, the results expand mineralization near surface and beyond the extent of the current …

Silver North (TSX-V:SNAG) (OTCQB:TARSF) completed its 2025 drill program in mid-November at its flagship Haldane Project, located within the historical Keno Hill Silver District in the Yukon territory. The road-accessible, 8,579-hectare Haldane property is 25 km …

2025 was historic in that gold, silver and copper all rose significantly at the same time — the first time this has happened in 45 years. With one trading session to go before 2025 is …

The incentive price for copper is the minimum market price needed for mining companies to justify investing in new, large-scale mining projects or to significantly expand existing production. It represents the cost threshold required for a project to …

Rick Mills, Editor/ Publisher, Ahead of the Herd:  Bruce, why don’t you tell us about gold in banded iron formations.   Bruce Counts, CEO, Storm Exploration: It is important to understand that gold is …

Rick Mills, Editor/Publisher, Ahead of the Herd:  Simon, I would really like to talk about the results from the BiTe Zone and the Grad Project, its future and what’s next for Rackla Metals. I …

Cassiar Gold’s (TSX-V:GLDC) (OTCQX:CGLCF) flagship project of the same name is a large orogenic gold property located in the Cassiar Mining District of northern British Columbia. The project has substantial upside potential for both bulk-tonnage resources …

Silver North Resources (TSX-V:SNAG) (OTCQB:TARSF) has released the final results of the 2025 field exploration program at Veronica — one of three properties comprising the GDR Project in the southern Yukon Territory (Figure 1). The …

Kodiak Copper (TSX-V:KDK) (OTCQX:KDKCF) (Frankfurt:5DD1) has made good on its promise by the end of 2025 to publish an initial mineral resource estimate on its MPD Copper-Gold Project, located in an long-established mining region in the Quesnel …

Rick Mills, Editor/ Publisher, Ahead of the Herd:  Malcolm, you just wrapped up a drill program on the Bertha target. Your model is a New Afton lookalike. And you found a large zone of …

Rick Mills, Editor/ Publisher, Ahead of the Herd:  We’re with Mark Brown today. Mark’s the President of Pacific Opportunity Capital, a financial consulting and merchant banking firm, headquartered in Vancouver. Mark, you’re active in …

The possibility of a major Atlantic Ocean current collapsing within the next two decades has the government of Iceland deeming it a national security concern, with officials strategizing worst-case scenarios. Reuters reports Climate Minister Johann Pall Johannsson saying that Iceland’s …

Northern Mosseau Drilling Below is a look at known gold mineralization in Mosseau North, the Morono and NW areas of Mosseau. If another junior released the below results out of the blue, as a new discovery of …

Americans might be surprised to learn that China possesses 80% of the rare earth elements (REEs), and almost 100% of the technology used to refine the oxides and then manufacture such essential military equipment as night …

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Assay results have been received for the first three holes of Silver North Resources’ (TSX-V: SNAG) (OTCQB:TARSF) summer drill program at its Haldane Project, located within the historic Keno Hill Silver District of Canada’s Yukon Territory. The …

Graphite One (TSX-V:GPH) (OTCQX:GPHOF)  has found rare earth elements at its Graphite Creek graphite deposit in Alaska, potentially making the mine, once it’s advanced to production, even more valuable than when graphite was the only mineral …

Opponents of nuclear power ignore a simple but powerful truth: nuclear is the only viable solution for the energy demands of the modern world. While nuclear and renewable energies both offer low-carbon electricity generation, nuclear plants have the highest capacity …

Where radioactive waste from uranium-based reactors lasts up to 10,000 years, residues from the thorium reaction will become inert within 500. Nuclear waste from uranium-fueled reactors can be recycled and reused in Thorium powered SMRs Thorium is what we …

White Gold (TSX-V:WGO) (OTCQX:WHGOF) (FRA:29W) this week reported assays from the first drill hole of the 2025 drill program at its Golden Saddle deposit, part of the company’s flagship White Gold Project located in Canada’s Yukon Territory. White Gold Project location According …