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Otish Energy goes from hot spot to clear skies

As newly named uranium explorer Otish Energy (OEI-V, OEIGF-O) mobilized two drills in Quebec’s Otish basin in late March, the snowy conditions were a far cry from the company’s past experience develop…


STRATECO RESOURCESThe summer camp at Strateco Resources' Matoush uranium project in northern Quebec's Otish basin, about 300 km north of Chibougamau.

Otish basin seeing increased activity

Uranium exploration activity is at a 25-year high in the Otish sandstone basin of north-central Quebec. While that would probably still be true if one prospector was carrying a scintillometer, the dis…



Uranium Resuscitates Icon

Icon Industries (ICN-V) has neither a geologist nor a website, and its new uranium property, in the Otish basin of Quebec, has no name, but the market’s recent infatuation with uranium has forced the …



BY VIRGINIA HEFFERNANStrateco Resources president Guy Hbert wets core from hole MT-06-1, which yielded a 10.5-metre section grading 1.12% uranium. The hole was drilled on the Matoush uranium project in Quebec's Otish Mountains.

Strateco’s hits attract juniors to Otish

Success in drilling new mineralization at the Matoush uranium prospect in the Otish basin of Quebec has drawn a number of junior companies eager to try and find a lookalike in the Proterozoic sediment…



Photo by Anthony VaccaroMoto Goldmines geologist Guillaume Kiza overlooks a gold-rich valley in the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Nearby, a member of a government-sanctioned private police force acts as security -- a quiet reminder that danger is never far off in the developing world. In our 4-page feature on Mining in Africa, staff writer Anthony Vaccaro talks with a company that helps junior exploration companies like Moto decide to move forward or simply walk away.

The DRC: Unlimited potential or relentless turmoil?

The recent killings of eight UN peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo reminded the world of the chaotic flux at work in the country. Every time optimism begins to take hold in the DRC,…



Anglo American geologist Dan MacNeil examines the Discovery gossan at the Frontier South property in far-northern Quebec.

Knight, Anglo report high grades in Ungava

The Raglan area in the Ungava Peninsula region of northern Quebec is emerging as a highly prospective nickel camp in light of discoveries by Canadian Royalties (CZZ-V) and, more recently, Anglo Americ…



Map credit: Canadian RoyaltiesA map outlining Canadian Royalties' deposits and targets in the Expo-Ungava region of far northern Quebec.

Cdn Royalties envisages open-pit mining at Mesamax

Ungava-Nunavik District, Que. — There is no huge gossan, just a few frost-heaved, weakly mineralized rustic boulders. In fact, it’s quite an unspectacular showing . . . but within a few metres of sur…


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