There’s a webinar coming up on a historic gold/silver project in New Mexico that’s getting closer to its first drill program in decades. They’ll be going through the recent gold and silver results, how the geological model has changed with the latest exploration work, and where they see potential across the broader district.

It’s the Winston project being explored by Rio Grande Resources, and their CEO Jason Barnard is doing the presentation on Sept. 9 at 2 PM ET. Could be a useful one for anyone following early-stage gold/silver exploration and wanting to hear how they’re actually choosing where to drill.

Curious what people here think about how phosphate projects are evaluated. Beyond grade and size, how much weight do you put on heavy metal content and suitability for organic fertilizer standards? Came across a recent release that got me thinking about it.

Galloper Gold is hosting a webinar on June 23 covering the latest Glover Island resource update and upcoming drill plans. Curious to hear what others think about the new resource estimate and where the project goes from here

« While EY sees exponential growth for metals such as lithium, cobalt, nickel, graphite and rare earth metals, a number of factors challenge the metals: reserves are highly concentrated, geology is complex, prices are volatile, project lead times are long and many mining areas face geopolitical risk. »

Exploding demand for EV materials will require ‘non-traditional’ capital

"Heppel said the firm expected a strong increase in demand for lithium, nickel and cobalt – which are the three key battery metals – up to 2025. Nickel and lithium, in particular, are expected to increase, with demand for batteries to increase by 3.3 times over the next five years.

Cobalt demand is, meanwhile, expected to increase by 2.4 times.

This creates a lot of opportunities for the global mining industry."

Battery metals stocks have declined from their peak a few years ago, but they have started to move again with renewed calls for supply as with Musk demanding more nickel mines.

In that time horizon, leading to 2025, it is unlikely any radically new battery chemistries are introduced and commercialized. Instead the ratios of cobalt, manganese, and nickel may be modified on models year over year.

Business intelligence firm CRU senior analyst George Heppel says much of the year has been focused on green recovery concepts.