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Mining 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

Mining and Resources

Coyote Copper's Arizona Drill Permits Started a 30-Day Clock on 17.5 Million Warrants

Coyote Copper Mines Inc. (TSXV: CCMM) received Phase 1 drill permits for its wholly owned Copper Springs project in Arizona on 15 September 2026 and, in the same release, gave notice accelerating 17,501,296 warrants to a 15 October expiry. Exercise brings in C$3,143,386.58 and adds about 13 per cent to the share count. The shares closed down 33.33 per cent at C$0.44 on 281,072 shares, 1.57 times their 30-day average.

By Priya Sandhu7 min readCCMM.V

Mining and Resources

Banyan Gold Joins the GDXJ With 8.6 Million Ounces and No Economic Study of Them

Banyan Gold Corp. (TSXV: BYN) said on 14 September 2026 that it joins the index behind the VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF on 21 September. Its AurMac project in the Yukon holds 3.639 million indicated ounces and 4.985 million inferred ounces of gold. There is no preliminary economic assessment yet. At Tuesday's close the market valued the company at about C$98 for every ounce in the ground, or C$233 for each indicated ounce.

By Élise Galarneau6 min readBYN.V

Mining and Resources

A US$5.22 Million Cost Share for Bitterroot's Michigan Nickel Project, and an Unnamed Matching Half

Bitterroot Resources Ltd. (TSXV: BTT) said on 15 September 2026 that the U.S. Department of War will invest up to US$5,223,431 in its Michigan nickel-copper project on a 50/50 cost share basis. A cost share has two sides. The release sets out the government's side in detail and says nothing about who funds the matching half, which on the same arithmetic runs to roughly C$7.3 million against a company worth C$17.1 million at Tuesday's close.

By Élise Galarneau8 min readBTT.V

Mining and Resources

No Assays and 20.5 Million Cancelled Options: What Hercules Metals Reported Before Tuesday's Open

Hercules Metals Corp., listed on the TSX Venture Exchange as BIG, reported on September 14, 2026 that its first reconnaissance hole at the Hook target in Idaho hit strong alteration and pyrite. Assays are pending, and the company said they should be more useful for pointing at the system than for returning copper. The same release cancelled 20.5 million stock options granted six weeks earlier, without giving a reason.

By Élise Galarneau8 min readBIG.V

Mining 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

Technology

Volatus Aerospace's Defence Contract Commits Canada to 100 Drones, Not 5,000

Volatus Aerospace Inc. announced on September 10, 2026 a five-year Canadian defence contract for tactical ISR drones covering up to 5,000 systems. The committed portion is 100 systems. The remaining 4,900 are options exercisable at Canada's sole discretion, and the company states plainly that they are not purchases, backlog or revenue. At a stated maximum of C$5,000 per system, the entire ceiling is C$25 million over five years.

By Priya Sandhu8 min readFLT.TO

Mining and Resources

QIMC Buys the Picture: Seismic Contractors Engaged for 42 Kilometres at Bennett Hill

Quebec Innovative Materials Corp. (CSE: QIMC, FSE: 7FJ) engaged Echo Seismic and Strum Consulting on September 14, 2026 for 42 line-kilometres of 2D seismic across Bennett Hill and Apple River in Nova Scotia, the larger half of a 78-kilometre campaign and the biggest geophysical programme it has funded. It follows five drill holes that measured up to 30.0 per cent hydrogen at two centres about fifteen kilometres apart. The structural picture arrives this autumn; a flow test, the step that would settle deliverability, has still not been announced.

By Priya Sandhu8 min readQIMC.CN

Mining and Resources

A Seville Court Restarts Emerita Resources' Aznalcóllar Case After a Quarter That Used C$6.4 Million of Cash

Emerita Resources said on September 11, 2026 that the High Court of Justice of Andalusia had lifted the suspension of the administrative case over the Aznalcóllar tender, frozen since November 2018. That restarts the case; it does not decide it, and Emerita does not own Aznalcóllar. What it owns is an 18.96 million tonne indicated resource in Huelva, a June 30 cash balance of C$9.1 million after a quarter that used C$6.4 million, warrants struck at C$1.30 against a C$0.33 share price on delayed market data, and an unresolved proceeding before Ontario's Capital Markets Tribunal.

By Élise Galarneau11 min readEMO.V

Mining 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

Economy

Four of the Worst Falls on the Toronto Exchange This Week Were Funds, and Three Held One Stock

On September 9, 2026 four of the ten largest declines on the Toronto exchange were exchange-traded funds. Three of them hold nothing but Shopify, and they fell 27.83, 14.97 and 14.90 per cent respectively on the same day, against the same company. A fourth, a target-maturity bond fund, had printed a 38.59 per cent gain five sessions earlier on 2,000 units and gave all of it back. Here is what each of those numbers was actually measuring, and where the manager publishes the figure that is not a quote.

By Marc Belzile7 min readRUQO.TOSHPE.TO

Mining 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

Economy

Why a Canadian Explorer Can Sell New Shares Above Its Own Market Price, and Who Pays for That

Junior exploration was the busiest corner of the Canadian market this week, and almost none of it is paid for out of revenue. It is paid for by placements, and those placements are priced two different ways at once: flow-through shares above the market, ordinary units below it. The difference is a tax deduction the Canada Revenue Agency lets an exploration company hand to the buyer. Here is what that deduction is worth in dollars, why the calendar pushes the cheques into the autumn, and what each kind of financing does to the share count.

By Élise Galarneau8 min read

Mining and Resources

Two Years In, F4 Uranium Has 17 Projects and a Partner-Paid Drill Program, and Wales Lake Still Owes a Grade

F4 Uranium was carved out of F3 Uranium by court-approved arrangement in August 2024. It now reports 17 Athabasca Basin projects, has had a 4,092 metre drill program at Murphy Lake paid for entirely by an option partner, and has raised C$1.0 million in flow-through money without a discounted common raise. The Wales Lake holes drilled to date have returned no better than 21 parts per million uranium, the 2025 core assays are unreported, and the September 2, 2026 survey mapped two conductor trends without dimensions. The company-building is real; the uranium is still to be shown.

By Priya Sandhu11 min readFFU.V

Mining and Resources

A Return of Capital, Not a Result: Lightning Resource (TSXV: LTNG) Fell 18.9 Per Cent on 11 September

Lightning Resource closed at C$0.385 on 11 September 2026, down 18.9 per cent on roughly fifty times its recent average volume. No Lightning release was issued that day. What landed the day before was a return of capital from Prospector Metals that distributed 29,400,000 Lightning shares, and the arithmetic of that distribution explains the tape better than anything in the company's own disclosure.

By Élise Galarneau9 min readLTNG.V

Mining 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

Mining 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

Mining and Resources

Hemlo Mining Drills 89.9 g/t Gold 50 Metres From a Working Stope, and Changes Its True-Width Estimate

Hemlo Mining Corp. (TSX: HMMC) reported 89.89 g/t gold over 3.0 metres of core length in hole 6702608 at South-Rim on September 10, 2026, from a zone 50 to 150 metres from active C-Zone mining. The release also revises the estimated true-thickness conversion to 65 to 90 per cent of downhole length, from 30 to 70 per cent in the May 14, 2026 release on the same zone, without stating why. South-Rim carries no resource, no reserve and no economics.

By Priya Sandhu9 min readHMMC.TO

Mining and Resources

Aya Gold and Silver's Updated Boumadine Study Doubles Its Value to US$3.5 Billion Before Reserves

Aya Gold & Silver Inc. (TSX: AYA) released an updated preliminary economic assessment for Boumadine in Morocco on September 9, 2026, lifting the after-tax NPV at a 5 per cent discount rate to US$3.5 billion from US$1,475 million, with a 93 per cent IRR, a 0.7-year payback and initial capital of US$463 million. Mine life goes to 14 years from 11. The study also raises the metal price deck to US$3,500 per ounce gold from US$2,800, holds no mineral reserves, and draws 79 per cent of its ounces from the inferred category.

By Élise Galarneau9 min readAYA.TO

Mining 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

Technology

Record LNG Volumes and a 30 Per Cent Drop in Total Contracts: Abaxx Fell 17.1 Per Cent on Its Own News

Abaxx Technologies closed at C$18.04 on September 9, 2026, down 17.1 per cent on roughly 1.2 times its thirty-day average volume, the day it published a release headed by record August LNG futures volumes. The body of that release put total August volume at 377,949 contracts against July's record 543,100. The August 17 quarterly filing shows why the distinction matters: transaction and clearing fees of C$4,496,409 in the second quarter against liquidity credits of C$4,494,753.

By Priya Sandhu7 min readABXX.TO

Mining and Resources

Talon Metals Sells Nickel Today From a Mine With Reserves to 2030, and Tamarack Is Still in Scoping

Talon Metals closed at C$8.37 on September 9, 2026, up 9.7 per cent on a day with no company news. Since January it has owned the Eagle mine in Michigan, the only active primary nickel mine in the United States, and it reported US$51.5 million of second-quarter revenue on August 13, 2026. The technical report released April 30, 2026 puts Eagle's proven and probable reserves at 3,486 kilotonnes and ends mining in the second half of 2030. Tamarack, the larger asset, is at environmental scoping.

By Priya Sandhu7 min readTLO.TO

Mining and Resources

Four Holes, Three Intrusions and No Assays: What Perseverance Metals' 93.8 Per Cent Day Rests On

Perseverance Metals reported on September 9, 2026 that three of four diamond drill holes into the blind Osprey target at its Voyageur project in Michigan had intersected a mafic-ultramafic intrusion up to 50 metres thick carrying 3 to 8 per cent magmatic sulphides, with portable XRF confirming nickel and copper. Assays are pending. The shares closed at C$0.93, up 93.8 per cent, adding roughly C$17.4 million of market value on a release that contains no grade.

By Élise Galarneau8 min readPMI.V

Mining 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

Mining 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

Mining 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

Mining 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

Mining 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

Mining 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

Economy

The Loonie Has Two Engines: Why a 1.4-Point Rate Gap Is Only Half of the Canadian Dollar Story

The Bank of Canada's policy rate sat about 1.4 percentage points below the US effective federal funds rate in early September 2026, metals prices rose 4.2 per cent into August, and the loonie ended the week close to where it began. That stops being a puzzle once the currency is read as the net of two forces, the rate gap and the terms of trade. Here is how each one works, what the Bank's commodity index says about August, and what a five per cent move in the loonie does to a US$10,000 position.

By Hannah Kuan8 min read

Mining 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

Mining 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

Mining 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

Economyproductivity

GDP Growth Is Not Productivity Growth

Real GDP by expenditure grew 0.8% in the second quarter of 2026. That says nothing about whether output per hour worked improved — and for long-horizon investors, the second question is the important one.

By Priya Sandhu2 min read

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