Scott Wright

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• Emerging Mexican Silver

  Published 01 May 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Mexico has long been a silver juggernaut. The indigenous peoples had been successfully mining this shiny-white metal since well before the Spanish colonials swarmed the…

• Silver Fortunes

  Published 03 April 2015 | viewed 0 times

  The Spaniards of centuries past controlled the world's elite maritime fleet. And this fleet's colonization of the Americas is well-documented. The Spanish Crown would have…

• Going for Mexican Gold

  Published 27 February 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Mexico's massive precious-metals belts are some of the world's finest. As global #1 in silver production they are obviously quite well known for the shiny-white…

• Yukon Gold

  Published 31 January 2015 | viewed 0 times

  It was in 1896 when prospectors stumbled across large quantities of gold in one of the tributaries of the Yukon's Klondike River. Word of this…

• New African Gold Miner

  Published 26 December 2014 | viewed 0 times

  The 2000s gold bull has brought a lot of attention to West Africa. This attention has not always translated to success given the unstable geopolitical…

• Guyana Gold

  Published 28 November 2014 | viewed 0 times

  South America has been a major beneficiary of the 2000s gold bull, party to some big discoveries by the mining companies flocking there. Some of…

• Canadian Golden Elephant

  Published 31 October 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Elephants are the world's largest land animals. And though there aren't many, they can still be found scattered across the planet. In the mining industry,…

• Nevada's Newest Gold Miner

  Published 03 October 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Nevada is well known as the United States' top gold-mining jurisdiction. The numerous mines within its massive gold trends combined to produce a whopping 5.4m…

• Low-Cost Transcontinental Gold

  Published 29 August 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Back in 2001 Turkey produced less than 50k ounces of gold, an insignificant amount considering the geological potential of this transcontinental country. The prolific Tethyan…

• Canadian Junior Gold Thriving

  Published 01 August 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Canada's prolific Abitibi greenstone belt is one of the world's top jurisdictions for gold mining. And by far its most productive district is the famous…

• Top Junior Gold Producer

  Published 03 July 2014 | viewed 0 times

  The Timmins gold district is by far the most productive within Canada's prolific Abitibi greenstone belt. It has produced in the neighborhood of 70m ounces…

• Top Mexican Mid-Tier Gold

  Published 30 May 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Mexico has been a popular destination for mining companies seeking out their fortunes amidst gold's secular bull market. And considering the huge lack of modern…

• New Gold in the Pipeline

  Published 02 May 2014 | viewed 0 times

  New Gold's 2014 midpoint guidance has it producing 400k ounces of gold at all-in sustaining costs of $825 per ounce. This production profile, which is…

• Gold Mid-Tier Set for Growth

  Published 28 March 2014 | viewed 0 times

  In 2014 B2Gold is targeting gold production of 410k ounces from three different mines. This would be record output for this new mid-tier, a whopping…

• New Silver Major Is Born

  Published 28 February 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Just last month Tahoe Resources announced the achievement of commercial production at its Escobal mine. And sounding the trumpets on such an exploit most certainly…

• Silver-Junior Struggles

  Published 31 January 2014 | viewed 0 times

  It's been an incredibly tough last couple years for the miners. Not only have they had to endure sharply falling metals prices, they've had to…

• Silver Stocks 5

  Published 27 December 2013 | viewed 0 times

  2013 has been a brutal year for silver. And a brutal year for a metal obviously doesn't bode well for its mining stocks. Companies that…

• Junior-Gold Rabbit Hole

  Published 29 November 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland is a timeless tale that chronicles the journey of a young girl into a psychedelic fantasy land. This tale is…

• Global Gold-Mining Trends 3

  Published 01 November 2013 | viewed 0 times

  In 2012 more gold was extracted from the Earth than ever before in history. And even with 2013's anomalous gold panic devastating the mining industry,…

• Junior Gold Exploration 3

  Published 27 September 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Gold's price multiplying by over fivefold since 2001 has unleashed an onslaught of exploration all over the globe. Countless mining companies, both old and new,…