As the Prosper Gold (TSXV:PGX) team gears up to explore a recently consolidated land package around Alamos Gold’s Young-Davidson mine in the Abitibi gold belt near Timmins, Ontario, they're thinking big.

These are early days at Storm. But if Aston Bay can prove up a high-grade copper deposit there, the impact on Nunavut’s economy could be considerable.

K92 Mining (KNT.V) is poised for production at its Papua New Guinea (PNG) gold project and lists on the TSXV tomorrow under the symbol KNT.

What a difference 9 months makes.

Can the team behind Richfield Ventures' $500-million sale to New Gold do it again?

"We're not under the gun."

It's a bit of a silver lining for Robinson, who seems to be finished as Eastmain CEO regardless of the outcome of the proxy fight.

This is a story about past, present and future in a mineral-rich corner of the North American continent.

If you are one of the 15 cent Lithium X placees, your stock comes free trading on March 27 and congratulations.

It hasn’t been much fun for base metal producers in recent years. As Karl Simich, Managing Director and CEO of Sandfire Resources, puts it bluntly, the price of copper has made the business of mining the stuff “hard work.”

A large and high-grade lithium brine lake and associated salar with low contaminants has recently been discovered in Argentina.

Serial entrepreneur Paul Matysek got involved with the Lindero gold project in Argentina on Nov. 1, 2012. “People are now thinking that Argentina may become the darling of South America,” Matysek said.