The theme running our mailbag this morning was one of distress as various investment strategies based around the performance of the junior gold mining sector appear not to be working out as planned.

A more standardized, "all-in" cost figure has been proposed, to include operating costs, sustaining capital expenditures, and general and administrative costs.

Don McKinnon and partner John Larche played a key role in the discovery of the Hemlo gold mining camp in Ontario, one of Canada’s richest gold districts. Don McKinnon, one of Canada’s best known mineral prospectors, died Thursday in a Timmins, Ont., hospital. He was 83.

The fast-growing nuclear industry has never been open to China and will create a boom in Canada’s Athabasca Basin for uranium explorers.

The improbable feat of commercializing Latin America’s second largest undeveloped gold deposit has achieved a major milestone validation for its unlikely owner, a small Canadian explorer named Exeter Resource.

Golden Fame (V.CFA) has stepped in as the newest participant in the mineral-rich Guanajuato district with its historical Algun Dia gold-silver-copper project