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LibertyStream (LIB.V): The market sold down a 2027 producer on a 2026 commodity drop
LibertyStream (LIB.V) has been belted in the last month. From C$0.98 on October 1 to C$0.57 on November 3. Down roughly 40% in a month, market cap cut by more than a third, 50 day average left behind at C$0.81. Frankly, it’s a shit show. But LibertyStream didn’t do anything to deserve it. To be fair, lithium as a global commodity has had a proper fall. Battery grade carbonate in China started October around RMB 120k a tonne and finished it around RMB 90,000 to 97,000.
Illumisoft Lighting (UVC.V): Light work puts a ceiling on the next pandemic
You know the old saying, “Sunlight is the best disinfectant?” It’s not just a cute old saying. We’ve know for a long time that UV light, in hard enough concentrations and at the right part of the spectrum, can kill germs. Here’s something we learned during COVID that, apparently, we’re determined to forget as quickly as possible: the air we breathe indoors can be a filthy, disease-carrying soup, and we’ve spent decades pretending that opening a window occasionally is an adequate response.
The Cheap Seats: Five small drillers the market is sleeping on
Prices are from 28 Oct. Cash runway is cash divided by annual burn. “Value” is how many points a company scores above what a company of its size normally scores, according to our system. Here is the thing nobody tells you about junior mining: the stocks everyone talks about are the ones you can’t make money on anymore. By the time a name is a dinner-party topic, the juice is gone. The money is in the dull corners. It’s in the C$20M and C$80M companies, drilling holes nobody is tweeting about.
Anthropic’s $2 trillion debut: Claude tells us about its own warning signs
I’m not normally one to rely on AI to write a story, but it seemed apt to have Anthropic write about its own IPO. Well, it understood the assignment. Enjoy. Anthropic is about to ask public investors for something no AI company has asked for before: up to $2 trillion for a business that turned five this year. The Claude maker filed its public S-1 on October 26, picked the ticker ANT on the Nasdaq Global Select Market, and is reportedly targeting a debut around November 16, Thanksgiving week.
Things you missed on the mining markets: Ovintiv, SSR, Cygnus, Bannerman, KGL
The last two weeks in junior mining: Oct 12 to 27, 2026 Everyone spent the last fortnight staring at the gold and silver price. Fair enough, but while the timeline was doing that, the juniors were doing actual business. Three takeovers landed or closed. Two projects took final investment decisions. One FID ran away and hid. A dead lithium mine started making concentrate again, despite falling prices. And one promoter was made to eat its own marketing by the exchange.
Can ‘Sovereign AI’ turn Canada into a computing superpower?
Every government on Earth has learned the same two words this year: sovereign AI. It sounds like something a consultant invented but it is the single biggest shift in how countries think about computing since the cloud showed up, and Canada, for once in its technological life, is not standing at the back of the line apologizing.
InPlay Oil (IPO.T): We told you so is rude, so let’s just check the scoreboard
On August 17 I wrote that InPlay Oil was the bigger story in Canadian small cap oil, and the $54.25 million Belly River acquisition was only part of it. Be honest: You didn’t listen, did you? Well someone did because that stock is a-boomin’. The pitch was simple. A company going from about 9,000 boe a day at the start of 2025 to the doorstep of 20,000. Wells well above type curve. More wells inside the same budget, not a bigger one.
So I bought a football club. Why would anyone do such a thing?
Well, to be more accurate, I bought a piece of a football club. Actually, I bought pieces of two. So why would anyone who isn’t billionaire do such a thing? Because billionaires know what’s next. There’s something almost stereotypical about football club ownership these days.
Curaleaf (CURA.T) vs Aurora Cannabis (ACB.T) is a battle of two badly run companies
Curaleaf (CURA.T) is in a fight with Aurora Cannabis (ABC.T) and both sides are getting messy. At the root of the fight: Curaleaf made a takeover bid for Aurora with a pretty good premium on offer. But Aurora execs think the offer underpays for the assets involved, and that Curaleaf has enough skeletons in its wardrobe (or debts on its bank balance, to be more precise) that the deal should be ignored. Who’s right? Well, I think I’m in a decent position to say.
Guest post: Lithium Ionic (LTH.V) tables strong BFS even as lithium sector struggles
Few metals & mining sub-sectors are as out favor as lithium (“Li“), the polar opposite of #silver & #gold. The top quartile of gold juniors I’m tracking is up an average of roughly from 52-week lows! One might think the following chart says it all. Why would anyone invest in this tragic trajectory? Yet, the chart fails to show that demand for Li is expected to grow well into the 2030s. Pricing is depressed due to China enabling, and encouraging, excess supply, a temporary state of affairs.
Brazil Potash (GRO.NYSE-Am) nails big offtake agreement, resumes lift-off
See disclosures at bottom of the page. A few weeks ago, Brazil Potash (GRO.NYSE-Am), which we’ve written about a fair deal, announced an off-take agreement. The deal was a big one and gets GRO a big step closer to production, just the latest of a series of big deals that are moving them forward. Now, as an investor, I like being in a stock when they announce big news, mostly because that’s a great time to take some profits.
Prismo Metals (PRIZ.C): Four bets on the table, in gold, silver, and copper
Disclaimer: This article has been paid for by Prismo Metals. See disclosures at the bottom of the page. It was early Monday and my head was pounding. Market guys like to schedule meetings on the west coast on east coast time, but it wasn’t just the early hour eating my brain. My kid managed to share his flu with me and it was just beginning to take hold, so talk of drill holes and porphyrys and historic this and potential that was barely penetrating the low buzz in my front lobes.
Why'd that go up? MGMA, NOM, SYH, EMO, LTH, STND, QIM, SOMA, GRO, and more
Most of us have never been brokers, we don’t hang at the Pac Rim, we’ve never darkened the door at Brandy’s, we’re not in 700 shady Whatsapp groups, we don’t follow 400 guys who post Dow Jones graphs to their TikTok every day, and we’re not up at 5:30am to catch the Toronto news releases, so when we notice a random stock has jumped 30% in a day, our first thought is “WTF did that go up?” The dark secret is often known to the folks who DO hang at the Pac Rim, Brandy’s, @SuperStocksBruh etc...
Standard Uranium (STND.V) signs LOI to option out the Rocas project, and Corvo update!
Disclaimer: This article has been paid for by Standard Uranium. See disclosures at the bottom of the page. I dig the way STND runs its prospect generator business. In a nutshell, they like to get other companies to give them money for an option on a project, as well as a net smelter royalty, and to agree to finance a bunch of work on the project over several years. Then they get the optioner to agree to LET THEM BE OPERATORS ON THE WORK.
Lithium Ionic (LTH.C): Walking a well-trodden path in Brazil’s big lithium region
If you’ve been around mining long enough, you know how these things work: one company makes the big discovery, proves a new region works, then suddenly the whole district lights up. A few years back, Sigma Lithium (SGML.V) did exactly that in Brazil’s Minas Gerais state. The market watched a tiny company with some sweaty jungle claims turn into a multi-billion-dollar lithium producer. That playbook is now set in stone. Enter Lithium Ionic (TSXV: LTH).
Skyharbour Resources (SYH.V) & Trident Resources (ROCK.V): Turbo charged on near term potential
Long time readers know I’ve plenty of good things to say about junior mining mover/shaker Jordan Trimble. For a while, we repped his Skyharbour Resources (SYH.V), which duly climbed from the $0.25 range to $0.45 a few years back before we moved on to other things. In the years since, despite building out its project and partner portfolio, the market didn’t reward the prospect generator model the company had executed, and it had slowly fallen backwards to that earlier starting point.
Prismo Metals (PRIZ.C) surrounded by Vizsla Silver, BHP, Rio Tinto, Freeport McMoran
Word on the street is that generalist funds are looking at metals & mining companies, possibly reducing exposure to highly-valued tech names. This makes sense as many S&P500 sectors are doing poorly. Astute readers will say, sure but generalist funds will only buy the largest mining companies, not pre-production names. That sentiment ignores what’s truly happening. The mid-tiers, wanting to be acquired by Majors, will be buying top-quality project & juniors.
The Hot Hand: Mo Elsaghir's long list of winners - EMO, SOMA, IPO, LTH, and more
After a decade-plus talking about public companies, one of the hardest things for me to do on an ongoing basis has been to steer clear of easy short term wins that leave a bad taste over the long haul.
Sandher Fruit Packers help 10 at-risk YMCA kids take laps at BC race track
It was a day to remember for ten kids from Kelowna last Thursday when they were picked up at dawn, bussed to Oliver BC, fitted for safety suits, and strapped into pro race cars, as part of Sandher Fruit Packers’ ongoing Sandher Feeds Canada program, designed to repay Canada for the opportunities enjoyed by several generations of the family that founded the company.
Prismo Metals (PRIZ.C): Diving into the historic Silver King project, circled by big boys
Disclaimer: This article has been paid for by Prismo Metals. See disclosures at the bottom of the page. Prismo Metals (PRIZ.C) has been combing the old workings of the Silver King project in Arizona with maps, samples, and a portable XRF—the adult version of a metal detector—and the work done has already turned up two new veins that look a lot like the historic ore that made that project famous. That’s not hype; that’s fieldwork doing its job.
Update: Rogues Gallery: Racist 'Gangsterism Out' blogger Daryl Grant MacAskill wanted for arrest
This is Daryl Grant MacAskill, a homeless, mentally challenged, white nationalist blogger who has a cellphone, some racist ideas, a penchant for extortion, and a Starbucks wifi signal. He uses these to write defamatory claims about people he doesn’t like, accusing them of crimes, making up evidence, and posting slanderous claims that he refuses to delete unless he’s paid to do so. He sometimes goes by the name Ace Ventura. Other times he goes by Dr Stoxxman.
Equity Round-Up: Stuff we talk about sometimes - AIAI, SOMA, EMO, BNXT, ARGO, AIAI, NOM
Emerita Resources Corp. (TSXV: EMO) — Eric Sprott, through 2176423 Ontario Ltd., has acquired 4.76 million units of Emerita Resources in a private placement at $1.05 per unit, totaling just under $5 million. With this move, Sprott’s position increases to 25.2 million shares and 2.38 million warrants, representing 8.7% ownership on a non-diluted basis and 9.5% on a partially diluted basis, though still under the 10% insider threshold.
Geo Translation: What Standard Uranium (STND.V) just announced, in layman's terms
Disclaimer: This article has been paid for by Standard Uranium. See disclosures at the bottom of the page. Mining exploration terminology is often completely incomprehnsible to the layman investor.
Soma Gold (SOMA.V) hits all its milestones, eliminates debt, raises fat cash
Soma Gold Corp. (SOMA.V) has closed the first tranche of its previously announced non-brokered private placement under the Listed Issuer Financing Exemption (LIFE), raising $15.5 million to advance its Colombian gold operations, and that comes with a twist. The company issued 13,489,566 units at $1.15 per unit, generating gross proceeds of approximately $15.51 million, including a partial greenshoe exercise.
Hydrograph Clean Power (HG.C) go boom boom boom, shaved 50% in two days
The promoter’s dream, Hydrograph Clean Power (HG.C) was definitely grabbing the attention of investors, promoters, and regulators this past week, as it roared past $2 to $3.75 in a couple of days, up from $0.60 a few weeks back. The promote was undeniably in full swing over the last month, with cheerleaders of the deal claiming it could be the first trillion dollar penny stock.
Looking back: Vitalhub (VHI.T) doubled on our articles, then went 10x in the years since
Back in 2018, I wrote often about a medtech company called Vitalhub (VHI.T). Essentially, they were at the starting point of what we now know as TELE-MEDICINE. Here’s me, back before it moved to the big board: We talked these guys up and the stock doubled. Then it drifted because people didn’t really get telemedicine’s importance yet. But we never wavered. In fact, we wrote up Vitalhub a whopping 44 TIMES.
Quimbaya Gold (QIM.C): Digging for gold in Colombia with a novel business plan
The usual story in mining is as old as mining itself: a company finds out a hill is full of shiny stuff, they roll in with lawyers and excavators and lay claim to it, and the people who’ve been scratching out a living there for decades get told to pack up their shovels. Let’s be clear: That’s not the plot here. Quimbaya Gold (QIM.C) is playing this one differently, and in Colombia’s Segovia gold district, that’s earning them a lot of social capital.
Standard Uranium’s (STND.V) big swing at Davidson River — and how they're paying for it
Disclaimer: This article has been paid for by Standard Uranium. See disclosures at the bottom of the page. Standard Uranium (TSX-V: STND) is gearing up to put drill steel back into the ground at its Davidson River project in Saskatchewan’s southwest Athabasca Basin — ground they’ve been polishing for years in the hope of hitting something that registers heavy on the machines that go ding.
The Big Dig: HydroGraph Clean Power (HG.C): Just a pump or next level investment?
HydroGraph Clean Power Inc. (HG.C) is a nanomaterials company focused on producing graphene – a one-atom-thick “super material” – using a novel detonation-based process. It’s also on an absolute fucking tear, backed by a promotional campaign that has been nothing if not persistent. HG is up, like, a bunch. $0.20 to $3.20 in under a month. Shell guys are buying yachts, no doubt. Most recent financings are all ridiculously in the money. Warrants? Long ago cashed in. Paper: All free trading.
Rogues Gallery: Racist 'Gangsterism Out' blogger Daryl Grant MacAskill wanted for arrest
Daryl Grant MacAskill is a homeless, mentally challenged, white nationalist blogger who seemingly has a tent in a field, some racist ideas, and a wifi signal somewhere around Kelowna. We know this because he calls the Sandher Fruit Packers facility, just outside Kelowna, his neighbours. He also has a warrant out for his arrest by the BC Courts for contempt. These two things are not unrelated.
Soma Gold (SOMA.V): Fully funded, profitable, and undervalued
If there’s one thing we like to see more than a big, fully subscribed financing, it’s a big, fully subscribed financing that commits early, and bangs down debt into the bargain. Soma Gold (TSX-V: SOMA / OTCQB: SMAGF) just closed in on a fully committed $15 million financing — and they did it early. This is being done under the Listed Issuer Financing Exemption (LIFE), which means no four-month hold.
BioNxt (BNXT.C) rips as European Patent Office backs Cladribine thin-film
BioNxt Solutions (CSE: BNXT) received a share price boost today after announcing the European Patent Office and its Eurasian counterpart have waved through core claims tied to the company’s sublingual cladribine thin-film formulation — a treatment aimed at relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS). The pending patents don’t just cover the MS-specific delivery tech. They also stretch across a broader range of chemotherapy drugs in oral-dissolvable formats for neurological autoimmune diseases.
Video: Alta Copper CEO is buying ATCU as the stock rocks
Disclaimer: This article has been paid for by Alta Copper. See disclosures at the bottom of the page. A few weeks back we took a position in Alta Copper (TSX: ATCU) and told you it was cooking — and for the past few weeks, the company has been on the move; investors and insiders have quietly been scooping up stock: • In May 2025, Fortescue’s Nascent Exploration paid C$1.5 M, snapping up nearly 3 million shares at C$0.51, signaling institutional-level validation of the Cañariaco project.
Prismo Metals (PRIZ.C) raises half a mill; now It’s time to put it to work
Disclaimer: This article has been paid for by Standard Uranium. See disclosures at the bottom of the page. Prismo Metals (CSE: PRIZ) is not a big resource explorer. In fact, at a $6m market cap, it’s on the smaller side. So when a little guy like that can raise a half million bucks in a sluggish market, and be fighting off more, that’s noteable. Prismo just announced it closed an upsized financing of $575,000, a notable boost for a junior looking to impress upon folks that it’s uhdervalued.
NetraMark Holdings (AIAI.C): Failed FDA trials cost billions, NetraAI may prevent them
I see a lot of company pitches in my job. I also see a lot of AI pitches. I don’t see a lot of good ones of each. Last week I chatted with the folks behind NetraMark Holdings (AIAI.C) and I’ve rarely moved so swiftly from “Okay, so what’s actually new here” to “Why haven’t I heard of this before” to “Are you fucking kidding me.” Every investor presentation starts with a big problem, and NetraMark’s is a familiar one: most new drugs fail in clinical trials.
Paul Bilzerian denies SEC allegations tied to the Ignite Brands dumpster fire
Some people just can’t stay out of trouble, and members of the Bilzerian family seem determined to be regulars at Club Fed. Disgraced corporate raider Paul Bilzerian — now living comfortably in St. Kitts — is denying fresh allegations from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that he engineered a bogus $4.6‑million revenue boost for Ignite International Brands Ltd.
Standard Uranium (STND.V) takes another step forward at the Corvo Project
Disclaimer: This article has been paid for by Standard Uranium. See disclosures at the bottom of the page. Standard Uranium (STND.V) has taken another step forward in its hunt for high-grade Canadian uranium, this time thanks to a high-tech airborne survey over its Corvo project in Saskatchewan’s famed Athabasca Basin. The company recently completed a Time-Domain Electromagnetic (TDEM) survey — think of it as a giant metal detector in the sky.
15 mining explorers that are interesting right now, and why
A year ago, we set to work on an artifical intelligence-based platform that could take public company documents and filter them to quickly determine detailed information about companies – specifically mining explorers – and the people, money, and projects behind them. We used this platform in the months since for our own research as we’ve finetuned it and added to it, and it’s turned out to be great at picking out interesting deals we might otherwise have missed.
Alta Copper (ATCU.T): A slow-burn copper story on the cusp of ignition
Disclaimer: This article has been paid for by Alta Copper. See disclosures at the bottom of the page. If you were to glance at the news cycle over the last few months, you’d be forgiven for thinking nothing much is happening at Alta Copper (ATCU.T). The company has been quiet of late — no flashy headlines, no deal-making frenzies, no splashy promotions. Just retooling, raising dollars, and the occasional boardroom shuffle.
Lithium Ionic (LTH.V): Advancing project fast in Brazil’s spod-lithium belt
Lithium Ionic (LTH.V) is positioning itself as Brazil’s next major lithium producer, and that’s not just a tagline — they’re making meaningful strides. With strong economics at their flagship Bandeira project, rapid resource growth, and an ESG strategy aligned with global standards, the pieces are falling into place. But as with any pre-production story, there are hurdles. Here’s a breakdown of what’s working and what still needs tightening. The Bandeira project anchors the entire company.
Brazil Potash (GRO.NYSE) up 33% on $200m power line agreement
Brazil Potash (CSE: GRO) just dropped a bomb. And the market lit up like it was 2010 again. The stock surged over 31% today. Why? Because they finally solved the single biggest problem every potash miner in the Amazon basin faces: how the hell do you power a billion-dollar mine in the middle of the jungle? The answer, apparently: you don’t. Somebody else does. Brazil Potash signed a $200 million non-binding memorandum of understanding with a Brazilian private equity group called Fictor Energia.
Emerita Resources (EMO.V) vs. the state: A decade-long legal saga nearing its end
Emerita Resources (EMO.V) is involved in a long running legal fight in Spain, but while that may be something most investors would shy away from, EMO’s fight was one they took up after being allegedly rooked out of a deal for one of the biggest mining projects in Continental Europe. If they lose, well, they have other things going on they’ve been working for years and should be just fine. It’s almost a win/win. But let’s get into the details.
Standard Uranium (STND.V) gears up Corvo project, eyes new drill targets
Disclaimer: This article has been paid for by Standard Uranium. See disclosures at the bottom of the page. Standard Uranium (STND.V) is mobilizing crews to its Corvo Project in the eastern Athabasca Basin, kicking off summer exploration with boots on the ground, rock hammers in hand, and a clear focus: find the next shallow high-grade uranium hit before the market really wakes up to how much nuclear it’ll need.
Saga Metals (SAGA.V) is back with radar buzz - early, but active
Let’s get one thing out of the way first: we were early on SAGA Metals (TSXV: SAGA). Before the stock listed, before the drill hit ground, before anyone could pronounce “vanadiferous titanomagnetite” without pulling a muscle, we were writing them up. We saw the value in a project with scale, near-term drillability, and strong proximity to infrastructure. They had Labrador land, critical minerals, and marketing-ready sizzle. So we were in their corner.
Nordique Resources (NORD.C): Finland gold hunt begins-but let’s not forget the Balbir Johal stain
Nordique Resources (CSE: NORD), newly rebranded from its former incarnation as Brascan Resources, has officially launched its exploration program at the Isoneva Gold Project in Western Finland. It’s a big step forward for a company that once pitched itself as everything to everyone—lithium, nickel, gold, even Brazil. Now? It’s apparently boots on glacial ground in Europe with a gold story, an exploration plan, and (finally) a clear direction.
Argo Graphene (ARGO.C) using graphene for eco-concrete - up 4x since we mentioned it
A few months back we wrote a piece on a company purporting to make graphene from bio-waste. We dug in and found that, while early, the tech appeared real. It wasn’t a client company, and we didn’t have a dog in the hunt, but it was interesting enough to plant a flag on it when the stock was at $0.20. It had been thereabouts for most of the previous year, so I think our story brough a wave of investor sentiment considering it’s now at almost a dollar.
Bitcoin heat meets strawberries? Affinor’s (AFI.C) latest idea sounds green - But is it ripe?
Long time readers (and I mean loooonnng time readers) will recall the tale of Affinor Growers Inc.
Prismo Metals (PRIZ.VC) grabs Silver King: The Resurrection of a Forgotten Giant
Disclaimer: This article has been paid for by Prismo Metals. See disclosures at the bottom of the page. There’s silver in the ground many places you look—lots of it. Always has been. The trouble isn’t finding it, it’s getting people to believe in it. That’s what makes Prismo Metals’ latest move so compelling. They’re not just talking about the future of silver—they’re standing on it. Literally.
Short seller Andrew Left fights fraud charges, cites Namaste short as a market service
Andrew Left, the infamous short-seller behind Citron Research, is asking a California judge to throw out criminal charges accusing him of manipulating U.S. and Canadian stocks for personal profit. In a motion filed July 2, Left argues that his conduct—issuing negative reports on overhyped companies and shorting their stock—has long been seen as legal and beneficial to the integrity of financial markets. Prosecutors claim otherwise.
Sandher Fruit Packers sponsors Vancouver Canadians game on Canada Day
Bill Sandher arrived in Canada’s Okanagan region as an 18-year-old fruit picker from India nearly forty years ago. Today he’s the patriarch of one of the country’s great fruit growing and distribution companies, sending multiple varieties of apples and cherries around the world.
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