Featured Image: Heli-supported camps are standard practice across Northern BC (Image: Bob Quinn Airstrip BC, Spotlight Mining, 2019) FYI I’m starting with one of those dull ‘Liam learning to business’ moral stories, there’s mining related grumbling further down if that’s what you subscribed for… Today is one of those days where I am still only […]
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With a family background in African mining exploration and a degree in geology, Liam brings a mix of technical ‘on-the-ground’ ore hunting and suit-booted office experience to the team. Liam worked in Liberia with Hummingbird Resources and spent 4 years as a geochemical analyst, before focusing on streamlining communications and development in exploration businesses, through the founding of ‘Spotlight Mining’.
Tales from Beaver Creek: A Day Late, a Buck Short, I’m Writing the Report…
Featured Image: Drill pad on MTB’s American Creek prospect… Drilling began this week! Morning all, A few fellow ‘millennials’ will complete the title lyric in your heads, it’ll be circling mine for the rest of the day! Yesterday I had to shift my meetings and couldn’t make the show, buried in editing work and regular […]
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Tales from Beaver Creek: Day 1
Featured Image: A rubbish picture I took at last year’s show in Colorado Hey y’all, from Nuss Café in Vienna, and also from Beaver Creek, Colorado. We’re still here in the Rockies in spirit! I’m penning this quickly to get it to you before we hit the conference floor again, so please excuse likely spelling, […]
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Featured Image: A rubbish picture I took at last year’s show in Colorado Liam goes on a ramble again… Today I’ll be logging into the Beaver Creek Precious Metals Summit show, normally in the stunning mountains of Colorado, today, streamed online into my home office. On the one hand, this has saved me hassling with […]
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Vangold Mining: Entering El Pinguico
Featured Image: The first steps in over 100 years into El Pinguico Morning all! Vangold Mining (TSXv – VGLD): Very few companies can say they’ve made it to bulk sampling and reopening of underground workings in their operational time. There are only a handful who can claim to have done it in <5 years… Vangold […]
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Not all Royalty Co’s are Born Equal…
Tis the year of the royalty company. I’ve seen 4 junior royalty companies launch in 2020, all with a boom and interest, advertising themselves as the next Osisko, or EMX, but is the space overcrowded? Absolutely, yes. We normally joke around conference bar tables about how few of our projects will ever even make it […]
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Liam’s Monday Morning Coffee Break (29-6-20)
Featured Image: Faithful rock-hound Sitka out in the field after a long winter’s wait with the Mountain Boy Minerals team. We had an awesome final heat in our ‘King of the (Junior Mining) Ring’ tournament with Prospech Limited sneaking past the competition by just two votes, with a tie for second place! Catch up here […]
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Spotlight’s Bed-Time Stories: The Golden Triangle
Featured Image: View up above Stewart today (Image: District of Stewart) THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE of Northern BC has probably had more holes drilled into it that anywhere else on the planet in the last c.40 years, with millions of investor $$$ invested/wasted on inaccessible plays by companies just looking to finance their own lifestyles and […]
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TGI Spotlight Friday 12-6-20
Featured Image: Panning for gold with Prospech in Slovakia this week, our first ‘post-corona’ site visit. Filét-o-Friday: Vangold Mining complete bulk sampling at El Pinguico and present results: NR (PDF) – Video Riverside Resources update on North American Exploration – KER Podcast Golden Opportunity become ‘Silver Sands Resources’ – Website Brixton Metals Identify New targets and hit the field – NR Fireweed Zinc […]
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Not A Mining Essay: Revolution is Only Bad if You’re the Establishment…
Personal Note: I always say check a variety of sources for information and listen to formal government advice in the time of a crisis, but right now I can’t find any suitable sources holding together logical reporting and the governments are seemingly the enemy trying to block access to good information. This is my personal […]
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