Featured Guides
The Junior Mining Index (JMI): What It Measures
The five JMI indexes of Canada's listed juniors: what a level of 726 means, how members are chosen and capped, the quarterly reviews, and how to use the index to judge a stock, a commodity and the sector's mood.
How to Evaluate a Junior Mining Stock
A ten-point checklist for junior mining due diligence: management, share structure, cash runway, jurisdiction, stage, drill results, resource quality, who else owns it, valuation against peers, and the promotion red flags.
TSXV Mining Stocks: How the Venture Exchange Works
Why the world's junior miners list in Canada, Tier 1 vs Tier 2, capital pool companies, graduation to the TSX, the .V suffix and OTC dual listings, and how to build a junior mining companies list by exchange.
Flow-Through Shares Explained
How Canada's exploration tax incentive works for investors: CEE renunciation, the 15% and 30% federal credits, the premium and the four-month hold, flow-through vs common shares, and where to buy them.
Junior Uranium Stocks
How to evaluate uranium exploration companies: what U3O8 is, why the Athabasca Basin grades are so high, ISR economics, term vs spot price, permitting timelines, and how to screen a uranium mining companies list.
Junior Mining Newsletters
Paid stock-pick letters, company-sponsored letters, data services and aggregators: what each one is for, the disclosures to look for, and how to build a free daily routine around them.
How to Read an NI 43-101 Report
A plain-English guide to skimming a 300-page technical report and extracting the five things that actually matter. Covers resource categories, reserves vs. resources, PEA/PFS/DFS, and 10 red flags that signal a weak report.
Inferred vs Indicated vs Measured Resources
The three NI 43-101 resource categories explained. What drill spacing produces each, why Inferred can't be used in PFS or DFS, and how to read a category-mixed resource table.
How to Read Mining Drill Results
A plain-English guide to drill press releases. What g/t means, why width matters as much as grade, the press-release tricks that make ordinary intercepts look spectacular, and how to spot real winners.
Gold Grade Explained
What g/t, oz/t, and ppm actually mean. What 'high grade' looks like by mining method (heap leach, open-pit, underground, narrow-vein). Why a 30 g/t deposit can be worth less than a 1 g/t deposit.
How Junior Mining Companies Raise Money
The complete guide to junior mining financing: private placements, bought deals, flow-through shares, warrants, ATMs, streams, and royalties — with the dilution math worked out and 10 red flags.
Private Placements & Warrants Explained
How junior mining private placements are structured as units of shares plus warrants. What a unit is, how warrants work (strike price, expiry, half vs full warrants), and how to read a placement announcement line by line.
The Complete Guide to Junior Gold Mining Companies
Learn how to evaluate, invest in, and track junior gold mining companies. Covers development stages, risk assessment, NI 43-101 reports, and investment strategies.
Critical Minerals Investment Guide 2026
Comprehensive guide to investing in critical minerals including lithium, copper, rare earths, nickel, cobalt, and graphite. Understand supply chains, demand drivers, and top companies.
More Guides Coming Soon
Reserves vs Resources: Why Reserves Can Shrink at Lower Metal Prices
Coming SoonFlow-Through Shares: A Canadian Investor's Complete Guide
Coming SoonJunior Mining Due Diligence: The 12-Point Checklist
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