A-star B2 chopper, explorers' chosen mode of transportation in remote parts of Alaska
Snowline's Valley gold project in the northeastern Yukon
Multi million ounces Ikkari gold project in Finland operated by Rupert Resources
Multi-million ounces Silicon-Merlin Gold Project, Nevada operated by AngloGold Ashanti
Kansanshi copper mine, Zambia operated by First Quantum Minerals
Old Sacaton open pit copper mine in southern Arizona is now part of the Cactus-Parks/Salyer copper project operated by Arizona Sonoran Copper Company
Drilling for Cadia-style copper-gold porphyry targets undercover in the northern extensions of the Macquarie Arc with Inflection Resources in New South Wales
High grade gold and antimony mineralization from Sunday Creek prospect in Victoria, Australia operated by Southern Cross Gold
Drill rig testing the high tonnage but low grade Haib copper deposit in southern Namibia
High grade disseminated copper sulfide and in fractures hosted by ultramfic rocks at Tamarack magmatic Ni-Cu-PGE-Au project in Minnesota
Porphyry-style high grade copper and gold stockwork veins at the Mankayan project in the Philippines
Large spodumene crystals at Wabamisk East prospect in northern Quebec

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The Premier of Ontario shelled out C$75 million of taxpayer money for a high-profile anti-tariff ad campaign during the World Series, only to hit the pause button when trade talks with the US were abruptly suspended. 

Maybe the smarter play would’ve been just to enjoy watching the Toronto Blue Jays and the Los Angeles Dodgers battle it out in the Fall Classic. Stepping back from scoring points on the political scoreboard would’ve been the best way to avoid striking out.

In the Weekly Market Digest, cooling inflation and optimism around a de-escalation in US-China trade tensions lifted broad US equities, along with energy and base metals. But that same easing of macro stress gave traders an excuse to take profits in gold and silver, pulling precious metals and the equities levered to them back from overbought territory. 

Against that backdrop, the Exploration Insights portfolio finished last week modestly down, in line with the base metal equity ETF and notably better than the precious metal one. 

In The Rant, I break down the reasons copper remains well-supported, from supply disruptions to the geological factors driving a renewed focus on hypogene enrichment in Andean porphyry systems.

In Stock Talk, I take a closer look at the updated PFS from a copper developer in southern Arizona, plus updates from a precious metals grassroots explorer in Nevada and a base metal one in Serbia.

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