Articles by Lesley Stokes


Newsletter writers and analysts wait for the helicopter at Atac Resources' Rackla gold property in the Yukon. Photo by Lesley Stokes.

Atac hunts for more Carlin-style gold at Rackla

VANCOUVER — Geologists quickly learn not to lick the rocks when visiting Atac Resources’ (TSXV: ATC; US-OTC: ATADF) Rackla gold property, 100 km northeast of Keno City in eastern Yukon….



Aston Bay hunts for copper, zinc in Arctic

VANCOUVER — A newly released gravity survey at Aston Bay Holdings’ (TSXV: BAY) Aston Bay copper-zinc property on Nunavut’s Somerset Island has unveiled a potentially larger footprint of mineralization at…


Fireweed Zinc CEO Brandon Macdonald (background) and consulting geologist Scott Dorion from SGDS Hive on a talus slope at the Macmillan Pass zinc-lead-silver property in southeastern Yukon. Photo by Robert Cameron.

Fireweed prepares for PEA at Tom and Jason

VANCOUVER — Shares of Fireweed Zinc (TSXV: FWZ) have been on a run — rising 58% to an all-time high of $1.06 at press time — ever since the company began…


An excavator moves earth at Novo Resources’ Beaton’s Creek gold property in Western Australia. Credit: Novo Resources.

More exploration needed, MinEx’s Schodde says

VANCOUVER — A looming decline in production from Australia’s gold mining industry could be a wake-up call for explorers worldwide, MinEx Consulting managing director Richard Schodde says. The industry soothsayer…


The team at Group Ten Metals’ newly-acquired Stillwater West PGM-nickel-copper project in Montana, from left: Mike Ostenson, geologist; Justin Modroo, geophysicist; Michael Rowley, president and CEO; Greg Johnson, executive chair; Craig Bow, chief geologist. Credit: Group Ten Metals.

Group Ten acquires claims in Stillwater complex

VANCOUVER — It would be rare to find a geologist who went through university without studying the Stillwater complex in southern Montana. The complex is a world-class example of layered…



The landscape at Novo Resources’ Comet Well property immediately southwest of Novo’s Purdy’s Reward project area in Western Australia’s Karratharegion. Credit: Novo Resources.

Novo shares tumble on sampling woes at Purdy’s Reward

VANCOUVER — Novo Resources (TSXV: NVO; US-OTC: NSRPF) is “uncomfortable” with the experimental, bulk-sampling technique it has been using for grade estimation at the company’s Purdy’s Reward paleoplacer joint-venture gold project…




Contact Gold explores upside at Pony Creek

VANCOUVER — Expect to hear a lot more about Contact Gold (TSXV: C), president and CEO Matthew Lennox-King says. The new junior explorer is more than halfway through an 8,000-metre…


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