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Great Deposits
Mountain Pass: America’s Once and Future Rare Earth King
Mountain Pass, California once produced the majority of the world’s Rare Earth Elements (REEs). The 2002 closure of the mine…
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Prospects and Projects
Delta Resources: Small Company, Big Potential
The potential of a property can be a hard thing to access during the early stages of exploration. Working in…
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Knowledge Base
In-situ leaching: a cleaner, greener, cheaper way to mine
Industrial mining is the foundation of modern society, everything that isn’t grown as a crop is ultimately derived from minerals…
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Prospects and Projects
Can Theta Gold Mines revitalize South Africa’s oldest gold mines?
Introduction South Africa is famous for gold, with paleoplacer deposits of the Witwatersrand Basin having produced a large fraction of…
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Geology
Metamorphism of Ore Deposits: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
We usually think of rocks as being unchanging, but sooner or later the heat and pressure of tectonic forces, volcanic…
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Deposits and Projects
Australia: The Next Frontier in Rare Earths
By now, you’ve probably heard of China’s dominance in the production of strategically important rare earth elements (REEs). Recently Australia…
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Deposit Types
MIAC: the next big thing in Mineral Deposits?
Deposit models are the cornerstone of economic geology. They help us classify, understand, and find mineral deposits. Some deposits, however,…
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Knowledge Base
The Dixie Project: A New Gold Camp on the Horizon?
It’s rare enough to discover a completely new deposit, never mind a new gold (Au) camp in a tier-one jurisdiction.…
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Deposit Types
Five-Element Veins: A Little-Understood Silver & Cobalt Source
Five-element (silver (Ag) – cobalt (Co) – nickel (Ni) – bismuth (Bi) – arsenic (As)) vein deposits have been mined…
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Prospects and Projects
Lithium Americas: Critical Time, Critical Element
Most junior miners focus their efforts on advancing a single project, but after acquiring Millennial Lithium, Lithium Americas is poised…
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