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Daniel Okoye

Mining and Resources Correspondent · 9 years covering exploration and development

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Daniel reports on Canadian mining from exploration through permitting, with a focus on gold, copper and critical minerals.

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OpinionMining and Resources

A Forest Service Clock Started for Homeland Nickel, but Drill Approval Has Not Arrived

Homeland Nickel Inc. (TSXV: SHL) said on September 17, 2026 that the United States Forest Service had accepted its plan of operation for a sonic drill programme at Red Flat, Oregon, and that environmental and cultural review was well underway, including completed fieldwork. The company hopes to drill in October. The same release was reissued the same day because its paid-promotion disclosure described a video interview with another company's chief executive.

By Daniel Okoye7 min readSHL.V

OpinionMining and Resources

Global Atomic Has a US$414.2 Million Approval From Washington and Five Conditions Before It Draws

Global Atomic Corporation (TSX: GLO) was halted on 16 September 2026 and announced that the board of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation had approved a debt facility of up to US$414.2 million for the Dasa uranium project in Niger. The shares closed at C$0.71, up 44.9 per cent on more than seven times average volume. The facility exceeds the US$327.9 million still budgeted for construction, and five conditions stand between approval and a drawdown.

By Daniel Okoye7 min readGLO.TO

OpinionMining and Resources

Prospect Ridge Has Reported 979 Metres of Excalibur Core and Not One Assay From It

Prospect Ridge Resources Corp. (CSE: PRR) reported long intervals of alteration and sulphide mineralisation in the first two holes at its Excalibur copper-gold project in British Columbia on 10 September 2026, with assays still at the laboratory. On 15 September the shares closed at C$0.09, up 38.5 per cent, on 6.18 times their average exchange volume, with nothing new filed. What the logs describe, and what they cannot, is the whole question before Wednesday's open.

By Daniel Okoye6 min readPRR.CN

OpinionMining and Resources

First Phosphate Has Two Binding Offtakes and Ottawa's Money; the Economic Study Is Next

First Phosphate Corp. (CSE: PHOS, FSE: KD0) has signed two definitive offtake agreements covering 200,000 tonnes a year of phosphate concentrate and 60,000 tonnes a year of phosphoric acid, both confirmed independently in a Government of Canada backgrounder, and has C$21.54 million of non-repayable federal funding under contract. The indicated resource at Bégin-Lamarche has grown nearly fivefold since 2024. What is still missing is the economic study that would price the mine, and neither buyer is named.

By Daniel Okoye9 min readPHOS.CN

OpinionMining and Resources

Homeland Nickel's Oregon Drill Plans Are Filed and in Review, and No Forest Service Page Shows a Decision Date

Homeland Nickel has filed four Plans of Operations on its Red Flat and Cleopatra nickel laterite properties in Oregon and, the company says, the Forest Service has them in environmental review. The September approval dates in circulation appear on no agency page, the two Forest Service project records for the ground name a different applicant, and a 2016 federal withdrawal covering about 101,000 acres of the same two counties is absent from the discussion. The placement announced on August 27 had no closing release as at September 11, 2026.

By Daniel Okoye11 min readSHL.V

OpinionMining and Resources

Apex Critical Metals Drilled 22,000 Metres in a Year After Re-Reading Core Cut in the 1970s

Apex Critical Metals Corp. (CSE: APXC) acquired rare earth rights around NioCorp's Nebraska niobium deposit in October 2025, re-logged and re-sampled drill core that Molycorp cut between 1973 and 1986, and by September 8, 2026 had completed 34 holes for roughly 22,000 metres against an original plan of 8,000. The execution is real and so are the limits: there is still no mineral resource estimate at Rift, and the company says so in the same releases that carry its best numbers.

By Daniel Okoye8 min readAPXC.CN

OpinionMining and Resources

Myriad Uranium's First Three Holes at Gem Are Shallower and Thicker Than Anything at Lucky Cliff

Myriad Uranium Corp. (CSE: M, OTCQB: MYRUF, FSE: C3Q) reported three holes for 507 metres at the Gem deposit on its Copper Mountain project in Wyoming on September 10, 2026, with 21 radiometric intervals above 100 ppm equivalent uranium oxide. The longest runs 34.90 metres at 210 ppm from 10.65 metres downhole. Every figure is a downhole gamma estimate awaiting laboratory verification, and the company has not said when those assays are due.

By Daniel Okoye8 min readM.CN

OpinionMining and Resources

Juggernaut Exploration Fell 35 Per Cent the Day Its First Big One Gold Assays Replaced the Visuals

Juggernaut Exploration Ltd. (TSXV: JUGR) published its first drill assays from the Big One property in British Columbia on September 10, 2026, reporting a best result of 3.08 g/t gold over 5.03 metres of core length in hole BO-26-11. The two holes the company had headlined in August for their visual mineralisation returned 0.47 g/t over 1.16 metres and no gold interval at all. The shares closed at C$0.63, down 35.0 per cent, on roughly seven times average volume, with no financing, halt or exchange bulletin behind the move.

By Daniel Okoye8 min readJUGR.V

OpinionMining and Resources

Surge Battery Metals Cleared a Water Protest at Nevada North and Is Still Two Studies From a Mine

Surge Battery Metals announced on September 8, 2026 that the Salmon River Cattlemens Association had withdrawn its protests against water appropriation applications at the Nevada North lithium project and granted long-term access across roughly 880 acres of private land. The shares closed at C$1.04 on September 9, 2026 for a market value near C$340.6 million. The project holds a measured and indicated resource of 10.51 Mt of lithium carbonate equivalent at a 1,250 ppm cut-off and no reserve.

By Daniel Okoye8 min readNILI.V

OpinionMining and Resources

Myriad Uranium (CSE: M, FSE: C3Q) Now Owns All of Copper Mountain. It Still Has No Current Resource

Myriad Uranium finished buying out its partner on August 21, 2026 and now owns 100 per cent of the Copper Mountain uranium project in Wyoming. The day before, it reported early readings from four new drill holes. The project sits on roughly 2,000 holes drilled by a railway company in the late 1970s, plus a 1979 estimate that is not a current resource and does not add up on its own numbers. This is a plain-English look at what is proven, what is not, and what would settle it.

By Daniel Okoye8 min readM.CN

OpinionMining and Resources

Power Metallic (TSXV: PNPN) Published Its First Resource Estimate for Lion and the Shares Fell 15.8 Per Cent

Power Metallic Mines published its first mineral resource estimate for the Lion deposit in Quebec on September 8, 2026: about 4.75 million tonnes at close to 4 per cent copper equivalent, with more than 85 per cent of it in the more confident category. The shares fell 15.8 per cent to C$1.28 the same day. This is a plain-English explanation of why a good result can still knock a stock down, and what the company itself says is still unproven.

By Daniel Okoye8 min readPNPN.V

OpinionMining and Resources

Apex Critical Metals (CSE: APXC, FSE: KL9) Drilled 197.5 Metres of 2.12 Per Cent Rare Earths. Here Is What That Does and Does Not Mean

Apex Critical Metals reported a drill hole at its Rift project in southeast Nebraska on September 8, 2026: 2.12 per cent rare earth oxides over 197.5 metres. It is a strong number, and the company says plainly that the 197.5 metres is the length of core, not the thickness of the rock. This is a plain-English walk through what the assay sheet actually shows, what the company has promised for early 2027, and which numbers floating around online are simply made up.

By Daniel Okoye7 min readAPXC.CN

OpinionMining and Resources

Oceanic Iron Ore (TSXV: FEO) Gained 8.7 Per Cent on Heavy Volume With No News Release Behind It

Oceanic Iron Ore last traded at C$0.815 on September 8, 2026, up 8.7 per cent on 1.19 million consolidated shares, with no company disclosure on the day and none since July 20. What the 2026 filings do show is a C$50.0 million financing priced at C$0.75, warrants struck at C$0.95, and three separate paid investor-relations mandates. This piece separates the disclosure record from the tape.

By Daniel Okoye9 min readFEO.V

OpinionMining and Resources

Homeland Nickel (TSXV: SHL) Raises C$3.04 Million a Cent Under the Tape. The Patriot IPO Still Has No Date

Homeland Nickel Inc. (TSXV: SHL) closed unchanged at C$0.39 on September 4, 2026, six days before a non-brokered placement of up to 8,000,000 units at C$0.38 is due to close. The document that matters more is the August 24 agreement with RAB Capital, which swapped 10,000,000 shares and 2.5 per cent of Patriot Nickel for a 2 per cent royalty and C$15 million of milestones. The Patriot IPO the discussion prices has no date, exchange, size or valuation in any release, and the Cleopatra and Red Flat estimates remain unpublished 2009 figures.

By Daniel Okoye9 min readSHL.V

OpinionMining and Resources

First Phosphate (FSE: KD0) Trades on Three Kinds of Numbers, and Only One Describes the Deposit

First Phosphate Corp. (CSE: PHOS, FSE: KD0) told shareholders on September 1, 2026 that holders of record had risen 861 per cent since the 2025 meeting, three weeks after its ADRs began trading on Nasdaq and a week after it filed an updated NI 43-101 resource of 198.5 Mt indicated at 6.00 per cent P2O5. A September 2 flash report that cut the discount rates in its model was paid for by the company at US$1,500. Of the numbers in circulation, only the resource is a filed statement about the rock, and construction financing for Bégin-Lamarche has not been announced.

By Daniel Okoye9 min readPHOS.CN

OpinionMining and Resources

The Title Changed, the Drill File Did Not: Reading F3 Uranium's (TSXV: FUU, FSE: GL7) 10 Per Cent Day

F3 Uranium Corp. (TSXV: FUU, FSE: GL7) closed at C$0.16 on September 4, 2026, up 10.34 per cent on 1.84 times its average volume, the first session after a 5:00 p.m. release naming president Raymond Ashley as VP Exploration in place of Sam Hartmann. The release changed who signs the technical disclosure and nothing in the drill file. Ranked from the top, the filed record is 11.8 million lb U3O8 indicated at the JR Zone, one assayed Tetra Zone hole, C$21.4 million of cash at March 31, a C$15 million Denison debenture and an unused shareholder authority to consolidate at up to 40-for-1.

By Daniel Okoye9 min readFUU.V

OpinionMining and Resources

The quote is not the margin: what a copper and gold week is worth to a Canadian mine in loonies

Copper traded at US$6.58 per pound on September 6, 2026, gold near US$4,331 per ounce on September 1, and the Bank of Canada's metals and minerals index rose 4.2 per cent in August. None of those is a Canadian producer's margin. This piece walks the arithmetic from the US-dollar quote through the exchange rate to the Canadian-dollar cash margin, shows what a five per cent stronger loonie does to it, and explains why a pre-revenue explorer reads the same week as a financing window.

By Daniel Okoye9 min read

OpinionMining and Resources

World Copper (TSXV: WCU) Closed at C$0.175. The Financing Behind the Move Is Priced at C$0.075

World Copper Ltd. (TSXV: WCU) closed at C$0.175 on September 4, 2026, up 84.21 per cent on 16 times its average volume, after a morning release named two Westhaven Gold co-founders as executive chair and chief executive and announced up to 13,333,333 units at C$0.075 for up to C$1,000,000. The stock finished at more than twice the unit price of a financing that has not closed and would double the share count. Fully raised, the money is less than the C$1,150,000 the Brassie Creek option still requires, and the release does not say how many units the people who set the price will take.

By Daniel Okoye9 min readWCU.V

OpinionEnergy

The Pressure Event Is the Result: Reading QIMC's 30.0% Hydrogen Update at Bennett Hill

Québec Innovative Materials Corp. (CSE: QIMC) reported a record 30.0% H2 field reading at 413 metres in DDH-26-05 — then reported free gas reaching surface under apparent pressure between 413 and 416 metres, triggering repeated hydrogen alarms and halting the hole. Evidence for a mobile hydrogen-bearing system has strengthened. Evidence for reservoir performance has not. Benchmarked against MAX Power's completed-interval flow test at Lawson.

By Daniel Okoye9 min readQIMC.CNMAXX.CN

OpinionEnergy

QIMC Extends the Bennett Hill Hydrogen System: Reading DDH-26-05

Québec Innovative Materials Corp. (CSE: QIMC) has reported a company-record 27.8% hydrogen measurement at approximately 374 metres in DDH-26-05 at Bennett Hill, Nova Scotia. The readings are preliminary field measurements. Concentration establishes presence; it does not establish pressure, flow or recoverable volume.

By Daniel Okoye6 min readQIMC

Mining and ResourcesCopper

First Quantum Stock: Building a Scenario Model for Cobre Panamá

First Quantum trades on the TSX as FM. Its main active mines are Kansanshi and Sentinel in Zambia and Guelb Moghrein in Mauritania. Cobre Panamá has been under preservation and safe-management arrangements since late 2023, although processing of stockpiled ore was authorized in 2026. Q2 2026 revenue was US$1.52 billion and EBITDA was US$400 million; net debt was approximately US$5.41 billion.

By Daniel Okoye2 min readFM

Mining and ResourcesCopper

Lundin Mining and Vicuña: How Much Is the Copper District Worth?

Lundin Mining trades on the TSX as LUN and in Stockholm as LUMI. Its operating portfolio includes Candelaria and Caserones in Chile and Chapada in Brazil. It owns 50% of Vicuña with BHP, encompassing the Josemaria and Filo del Sol deposits in Argentina and Chile. Q1 2026 revenue was US$1.16 billion and adjusted EBITDA was US$626.7 million. Cash was US$565 million, total debt was approximately US$302 million, and net cash was about US$249 million.

By Daniel Okoye2 min readLUN

Mining and ResourcesGold

Kinross Gold: Cash Returns, Great Bear and the Next Growth Cycle

Kinross trades on the TSX as K and on the NYSE as KGC. Its principal producing assets include Tasiast in Mauritania, Paracatu in Brazil, Fort Knox and Manh Choh in Alaska, and Round Mountain and Bald Mountain in Nevada. Its development portfolio includes Great Bear in Ontario, Curlew in Washington and Lobo-Marte in Chile. In Q2 2026, Kinross produced approximately 492,000 gold-equivalent ounces, generated US$2.24 billion in revenue and US$726.8 million in free cash flow, and ended the quarter with US$2.7 billion of cash and US$1.9 billion of net cash.

By Daniel Okoye2 min readK

Mining and ResourcesGold

Agnico Eagle Stock Analysis: Is Canada’s Gold Leader Worth Its Premium?

Agnico Eagle Mines trades on the TSX and NYSE under AEM. It is a senior gold producer with major Canadian operations including Detour Lake, Canadian Malartic, LaRonde, Goldex, Macassa, Meliadine and Meadowbank, supplemented by mines in Finland, Australia and Mexico. Its portfolio is predominantly producing, with large expansion and underground-development opportunities at Detour Lake, Odyssey and Hope Bay. In the second quarter of 2026, Agnico reported approximately US$2.76 billion of EBITDA and US$1.6 billion of net income. Long-term debt was only US$197 million and the company reported net cash of approximately US$3.27 billion. TMX showed a market capitalization near C$103 billion and an average target of approximately C$312.51 from 11 analysts.

By Daniel Okoye2 min readAEM

Mining and ResourcesGold

Agnico Eagle's Detour Lake Expansion and the Cost of Growth

Expanding Detour Lake is cheaper and lower-risk than a new mine, but underground development and rising strip ratios push sustaining capital per ounce higher. The growth headline and the capital cost behind it need to be read together.

By Daniel Okoye4 min readAEM

Mining and ResourcesExplainer

Understanding All-In Sustaining Cost and What It Leaves Out

All-in sustaining cost is the mining industry's standard cost metric, but it is guidance, not an accounting standard, and companies apply it differently. This piece explains what it captures, what it leaves out, and where by-product credits and jurisdictional differences can distort comparisons.

By Daniel Okoye3 min read

Mining and ResourcesGold

Lundin Gold's Fruta del Norte and the Single-Asset Discount

Lundin Gold trades at a discount to diversified producers despite owning one of the highest-grade gold mines built this century. This piece unpacks why single-asset concentration and Ecuadorian country risk drive that gap, and what capital allocation choices could eventually close it.

By Daniel Okoye3 min readLUG

BusinessAgriculture

Nutrien and the Potash Price Floor Nobody Can Agree On

Potash prices are set through negotiated annual contracts rather than a continuous market, which is why analysts disagree so sharply on where the price floor actually sits. This piece looks at Nutrien's low-cost and retail-diversified position within that unusually concentrated market structure.

By Daniel Okoye3 min readNTR

Mining and ResourcesRoyalties

Wheaton Precious Metals and the Streaming Model, Explained

Wheaton Precious Metals buys future mine production at a fixed price instead of operating mines itself, trading operating-cost exposure for counterparty and asset-quality risk. That structural swap explains its cash-flow margins, its valuation premium over producers, and why portfolio diversification matters so much to how the risk actually plays out.

By Daniel Okoye4 min readWPM

Mining and ResourcesGold

Barrick Mining: What the Reserve Replacement Numbers Actually Show

Barrick's flat headline reserve figure conceals a modest decline in grade at several large open pits and a rising share of reserves in jurisdictions with renegotiated fiscal terms. Both factors bear directly on future unit costs and the capital allocation choices management faces this year.

By Daniel Okoye4 min readABX

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