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The Critical Investor, an avid and critical mining stock investor and newsletter writer from Europe, looks for high quality companies, strong short-term catalysts and deep value. In this interview with Streetwise Reports, he takes a deep dive into the drivers behind gold's appreciation, discusses several criteria he uses to evaluate mining juniors and developers, and profiles, using his numbers-based approach, 13 junior mining companies, of which most are featuring in his portfolio.

As Golden Arrow Resources (GRG.V, GARWF.US, G6A.FSE) renegotiated their Indiana gold project in Chile not too long ago into very favorable terms, I was surprised to recently read about the company dropping the project:

“The Company also wishes to report that it is not proceeding with its option of the Indiana Gold-Copper project in Chile.”

This article was republished as part of a syndication agreement between Genesis Metals and the Critical Investor. The author is James Kwantes.

Genesis Metals Corp. (GIS:TSX.V; GGISF:OTC) is building ounces and grade at its Chevrier project in Quebec's Abitibi Greenstone Belt, as Phase 1 drill results outline growing zones of higher-grade material within the existing Main Zone deposit.

As gold stocks are getting all the attention at the moment with gold firmly in an upward trend it seems, one could almost forget the existence of base metal juniors. This is not entirely justified in my opinion, as for example copper has recovered completely from its March lows, as can be seen in this chart per pound Cu by Macrotrends:

A tiny junior whose faith is closely intertwined with copper pricing is Avrupa Minerals (AVU:TSXV), as its flagship Alvalade brownfield copper-zinc project in Portugal is likely to contain significant amounts of the red metal.

Alianza Minerals (ANZ.V) was ready for their Phase II drill program at their fully owned flagship Haldane silver project, after their Phase I drill target defining program was completed earlier during the summer of last year. The company has been busy raising additional cash for 2020 exploration, and it started out with a small financing of $250,000 at 5 cents per unit on January 30, 2020.

This article by Gwen Preston has been published earlier at December 12, 2019 at Resource Maven. This republication is part of a syndication agreement with Genesis Metals.

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Genesis Metals (TSXV:GIS) has been around for a decade.

Golden Arrow Resources (GRG.V, GARWF.US, G6A.FSE) recently came out with some pretty interesting news on their Indiana gold project in Chile. They managed to amend the definitive agreement with the property owner Mineria Activa, a Chilean private equity investment management firm focused on exploration to production-stage assets in mining.

1. Introduction

At a time when tax loss selling is at its peak, Golden Arrow Resources (GRG.V, GARWF.US, G6A.FSE) seems to have bottomed, and is regrouping after the sale of its interest in the Puna operation. New exploration projects have been acquired and exploration is on its way, and with a new focus on gold this time combined with a robust gold price, and by owning a large amount of SSR Mining shares, the company seems ready to generate interesting news starting in Q1 2020.

All cashed up after raising C$1.1M in an oversubscribed financing in July, Alianza Minerals (ANZ.V) was ready for their 2019 Phase II drill program at their flagship Haldane silver project, after their Phase I drill target defining program was completed earlier this summer, and drilling begun in late August.

Despite being a hybrid prospect generator, meaning self-funding projects and also being funded by JV partners, Avrupa Minerals (AVU:TSXV) (US OTC:AVPMF) (FRANKFURT:8AM) has been trying for a long time, and finally succeeded in signing a non-binding Letter of Intent (LOI) on October 1, 2019 for a nice JV deal over their Alvalade project in Portugal, with a Spanish private mining company called MATSA, owned in joint venturebetween juggernauts Mubadala and Trafigura.