With inflation finally going down to the point the Federal Reserve almost certainly intends to announce the first rate cut in September, and the gold price reacting favorably as it hovers around the US$2,400 levels since April, Aztec Minerals (AZT: TSX-V, OTCQB: AZZTF) profited from slowly increasing gold junior sentiment, and managed to raise C$2.575M in a non-brokered LIFE offering.

After a period of markets awaiting more definitive signals from the macro-economic side of things, we finally witnessed inflation coming down more than expected, and downward revisions of job reports and a significant increase in unemployment figures. This leads to a probability of over 90% for a September rate cut, which will likely be a positive for not only the markets but also metals, as the US Dollar usually goes down.

Summary

• Very experienced team (exploration and mine building), Technical Advisor and significant shareholder Peter Megaw
• Underexplored 1,420ha greenfield Hot Breccia project in Arizona, adjacent to former Christmas Mine and nearby the colossal Resolution deposit
• Prismo Metals management believes Hot Breccia could represent the same geological concept as the Resolution deposit at depth, combined with evidence pointing towards mineralization directly on the other side of an intrusion, separating Hot Breccia from the Christmas deposit
• This evidence encompasses information about sampling, mapping, stratigraphy and mineralization at depth

• Known historic intercepts include 26m @ 0.54%Cu, 20m @ 1.4%Cu, 8m @ 1.73% Cu plus 5m @ 1.4% Cu, but most data on grades from historic drilling are missing.

As the Israel-Hamas conflict quickly escalating with Iran’s involvement at the moment, and Russia chipping away diligently at Ukraine’s defences due to outnumbering men and weapons, precious metals are doing very well at the moment. Silver North Resources (SNAG.V), focused on silver, profits from this as the share price doubled from the recent bottom levels, and managed to raise another C$650k to pay the bills and prepare for drill programs at their fully owned flagship Haldane silver project.

With the Federal Reserve indicating doubts about retreating inflation levels, postponing a potential first rate cut to at least May, the US stock markets drifted lower initially, but found strength again soon that same day, and gold didn’t even faze and marched up to US$2083/oz anyway, the highest level of this year.

With the world around us being in a flux regarding conflicts, inflation, BRICS expansions and the revival of Trump with impending US elections, planned for November of this year, Silver North Resources (SNAG.V) actually experienced more of a standstill since their name change, a 5 to 1 roll back, renewed focus on their fully owned silver projects and leaving the prospector generator model back in August of last year.

As Dolly Varden Silver (DV.V)(DOLLF.US) has completed their 55,000m drill program at Kitsault Valley a month ago, the treasury could use some freshly incoming capital, and since the company has no shortage of strong backers, this time shareholder Hecla Mining (HL.US)

In uncertain times, where the Fed gradually seems to be pushed closer and closer to a rate hike pause, potentially followed by rate cuts somewhere in 2024, the Russian conflict keeps aggrevating, and the Chinese government keeps coming with soft measures to restart their economy, Dolly Varden Silver (DV.V)(DOLLF.US)

After a long period of non-material events, management and Board of Alianza Minerals (ANZ.V) decided it was time for a thorough change in many aspects. On August 10, 2023 they announced a name change into Silver North Resources, with a new ticker to go with that (SNAG.V),

After reporting an excellent 125m @ 1.631g/t AuEq including 1.52m @ 3,477g/t Ag from 126.5m depth (residual grade of 54g/t Ag) on their first hole at Tombstone Project in Arizona, Aztec Minerals (AZT: TSX-V, OTCQB: AZZTF) delivered more strong results on June 5, 2023.