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After publishing the results of the Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA) for its Ivana uranium/vanadium project in Argentina on February 27, 2019, and filing this study recently on April 12, 2019, Blue Sky Uranium (TSXV: BSK; US-OTC: BKUCF) positioned itself immediately as a low cost development play in the uranium mining sector.

Usually the standard modus operandi for juniors doing a financing revolves around three things if they can get the money: take it, take it and take it. Golden Arrow Resources (GRG.V, GARWF.US, G6A.FSE) realized that raising the money in very negative sentiment in Q4, 2018, with tax loss selling projected to have significant impact last year for most companies and probably dragging along everything with it until mid December, wasn’t the smartest thing to do.

It took Avrupa Minerals (AVU.V) a few weeks longer than anticipated to release the first drill results of the Q4 2018 program on the Sesmarias project, part of their Alvalade license located in Portugal, as bringing good news right before PDAC usually generates healthy attention, but the numbers came out pretty interesting anyway in my view.

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Alianza Minerals (ANZ.V) is the second hybrid prospect generator I am discussing in a short period of time, after closely related Avrupa Minerals (AVU.V). Both companies are guided by Pacific Opportunity Capital, a Vancouver financial consulting and merchant banking firm, led by Mark T.

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One of my favorite holdings, Adriatic Metals, is still under the radar for a lot of North American investors, being an Australia listed company. It is my strong conviction this is not really deserved, and this situation might potentially not last very long.

After having completed a 10,150m 58 hole drill program on the Main Zone, plus 25 new trenches and re-sampling of 11 historic cores, it seems that Genesis Metals is well on its way to get more insight in the complex geology of Chevrier, therefore an update is warranted.

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After a year which saw not a lot of enthusiasm in the mining sector to put it mildly, topped off by a resulting brutal tax loss selling season, sentiment for mining and gold in particular seems to be recovering, so in my view it is time to look at one of the more remarkable gold exploration stories around.

Penasquito Mine; source Goldcorp

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After a year of preparations, Kutcho Copper’s (KC.V) CEO Vince Sorace was finally ready to finalize the paperwork, and disclose the names of the consortium partners for the MineHub blockchain initiative, of which he is also the CEO, and founder.

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As Avrupa Minerals (AVU.V) was experiencing delays in finalizing their option agreement on their Portuguese projects with a major copper producer, time was running out on one of their most important claims. A certain amount of exploration work had to be completed on their flagship project Alvalade by the end of 2018, so Avrupa decided to raise the necessary cash on their own, in order to initiate the intended drill program.

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Although Kutcho Copper remains under the radar of most it seems, it doesn't seem to lose a lot of time, and continues doing the heavy lifting in order to advance their flagship project, the Kutcho high grade copper-zinc project in British Columbia, Canada.