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Bernie Roseke, P.Eng., PMP is an engineer with approximately 12 years of experience investing in junior mining stocks. The Junior Gold blog is dedicated to finding junior mining companies that hold the keys to the mines of tomorrow, while being sensitive to market ups and downs. We feature fundamental analysis of engineering reports such as Scoping Studies, Prefeasibility and Feasibility Studies and others. Also, we analyze drill results and put them under the microscope with regards to possible project feasibility.

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Gold Exploration Explained

posted on 2/23/2013 3:21:26 PM | 344 reads | overall quality: 3

Exploration is the life blood of the junior mining industry, and the reason why many investors invest. I will divide it into the following steps:Pre-drillingDrilling Pre-drilling Before hiring a drilling contractor, determining the drill hole locations is a very sophisticated process. If it’s a new property, all information sources are reviewed, especially government geological department ...

NI 43-101 Explained

posted on 2/4/2013 11:54:38 AM | 1064 reads | overall quality: 5

In 1995, Bre-X Minerals publicly announced that they had discovered a gold deposit containing about 200 million ounces, or about 8% of the world’s reserves. The deposit was in Indonesia, and the ruling dictator’s son decided that he should have a piece of the action. He forced Bre-X into a joint venture with himself and the mining company Freeport-McMoran (owner of the giant Grasbe ...

Copper Fox Metals - Feasibility Study

posted on 1/21/2013 3:03:44 PM | 904 reads | overall quality: 3 | 2 comments | latest comment : 1/21/2013 5:50:37 PM

Just before christmas, Copper Fox Metals released their long awaited Feasibility Study for the Schaft Creek deposit. This “ground breaking” deposit puts the company on the forefront of defining viability in the so called “Golden Triangle” in northern Canada. No doubt many eyes are watching the next steps.The golden triangle is in the northwest corner of British Columbia. It ...

Junior Gold Outlook 2013

posted on 1/10/2013 2:39:43 PM | 216 reads | overall quality: 1

The year 2012 showed yet again how brutal the junior gold business can be, for company executives as well as investors. Lawrence Roulston recently compiled the stats showing the total amount of financings on the TSX Venture Exchange. Granted not all companies on the exchange are junior mining related, but most are. The important thing to note is that 2012 was lower than 2009, the bottom of the ...

Has the Source of the Klondike been found?

posted on 12/17/2012 4:21:47 PM | 325 reads | overall quality: 3

During the summer of 1896, prospectors George Carmack, Skookum Jim, and Dawson Charlie had moved further up the Klondike River in the Yukon, Canada, because their gold panning was turning up less and less gold. Accounts vary as to the exact course of events, but we know that they travelled up the Rabbit Creek, now known as Bonanza Creek, and the gold pans began turning up zingers (1 cm +). The ...