Northwest Territories & Nunavut: vast, mineral-rich and underexplored
By Ellsworth Dickson The Northwest Territories and Nunavut, two of the three of Canada’s Arctic…
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Spain & Portugal: The Iberian Pyrite Belt is an unparalleled depository of mineral wealth
By Ellsworth Dickson The Iberian Pyrite Belt is a vast geographical area that is one of the…
Canada’s Maritimes; don’t overlook this metals-rich region
By Ellsworth Dickson While the Maritimes is well known for fishing, there is also an…
Big Shifts for Latin America’s Mining Sector
By Gordon Feller Latin America has the planet’s largest reserves of copper, lithium and silver,…
Central Canada hosts wide variety of valuable mineral deposits
By Ellsworth Dickson When most people think of Central Canada, they think of the vast…
Western USA offers more than gold, silver and copper
By Ellsworth Dickson In Part I of our Western USA Feature, we noted the large…
Alaska: North America’s final frontier
A vast prospective and underexplored jurisdiction Although large scale mines such as the Teck Resources…
Ontario features a widespread array of valuable minerals
By Ellsworth Dickson Ontario has an illustrious history of mineral discoveries and mining. In the…
Western USA: treasure chest for the nation
By Ellsworth Dickson West of the Mississippi, historically, there have been huge metal discoveries and…
Exploration heating up in Quebec’s Chicobi Gold Belt
By Ellsworth Dickson Most of us are aware of the tremendous gold mining history (190…
Abitibi Gold Belt: Canada’s primary source of gold
The Abitibi Gold Belt is a region extends from Wawa, Ontario in the west to past Val-d’Or, Quebec in the east….
Uranium: a carbon-free solution for base load power
By Ellsworth Dickson The ability of uranium to generate a great deal of electric power…
British Columbia: An important producer and exporter of copper, gold, silver, lead, zinc, moly, steel-making coal and industrial minerals
While there are ups and downs in the British Columbia mining industry due to various…
British Columbia: still prospective after all these years
By Ellsworth Dickson Canada’s westernmost Province of British Columbia was built on gold when back…
Peru: Over 500 years of mining and counting
The mining industry in Peru, particularly gold and silver, has been historically important from the…
Bolivia courting foreign explorers and mine builders
By Ellsworth Dickson Bolivia, a South American, land-locked country of 11.6 million, has had a…
Ecuador encouraging foreign mining investment
Ecuador is expected to increasingly emerge as a ‘go to’ jurisdiction for mining investment in…
Quebec: Great discovery potential for major gold deposits in the Abitibi Gold Belt
PART II In the introduction to PART I of our Quebec feature, we describe the…
Quebec: a powerhouse of gold production
PART I By Ellsworth Dickson The Province of Quebec produces about 33% of Canada’s gold…
Australia: Mineral-rich and still under-explored
PART II In PART I, we provided an overview of the opportunities exploring for minerals…
Arizona: An important source of essential minerals and more to be discovered
Arizona is home to an abundance of critical and strategic minerals capable of meeting America’s…
Exploring Australia – Mineral opportunities abound down under
PART I By Ellsworth Dickson Since the mid-1800s, Australia’s mining industry has grown to the…
Central Newfoundland Gold Belt becoming major gold camp
The Canadian Maritime province of Newfoundland and Labrador has caught the eye of both resource…
BC’s Quesnel Trough: 1,000 km of mineral potential
By Ellsworth Dickson The Quesnel Trough, also known as the Quesnel Terrane, is a Triassic/Jurassic-age…
Explorers targeting Saskatchewan’s diversified mineral prospects
By Ellsworth Dickson Saskatchewan is the largest exporter of agri-food products in Canada; however, it is also notable…
Nevada: One of the world’s premier exploration destinations
By Ellsworth Dickson After the discovery of the Comstock Lode in 1859, the first major…
Chilean miners keen to ramp up copper production with higher copper prices despite some opposition
By Eugene Gerden Chile, the world’s largest copper producer, has no plans to reduce its…
Outstanding Red Lake gold prospects attracting more explorers
By Ellsworth Dickson The important mining camp of Red Lake in northwestern Ontario, located 535…
Canada’s Yukon: An underexplored world-class gold district
Around the turn of the 20th century, American prospector George Carmack discovered gold on Bonanza…
Great Canadian gold camps: untapped gold deposits still awaiting discovery
By Ellsworth Dickson Canada is noted for its rich gold camps that have produced huge…