“We expanded our exploration budget significantly to accommodate additional geophysics and up to 9,000 meters of diamond drilling at Smart Creek. This follows the discovery of high-grade mineralization (from the 2025 field campaign), including up to 102 grams per tonne gold, 23 percent copper and 3,810 grams per tonne silver,” said Director, President and CEO Gord Neal.
Domestic Metals (TSXV:DMCU,OTCQB:DMCUF) Director, President and CEO Gord Neal said that the company will commence drilling at its flagship Smart Creek project in Montana by late March or early April 2026.
Smart Creek is a 60/40 joint venture with mining giant Rio Tinto (ASX:RIO,NYSE:RIO,LSE:RIO). It is a copper porphyry project located 100 kilometers southeast of Missoula, Montana, and is considered prospective for copper-gold-silver enriched carbonate replacement deposits.
Rio Tinto previously drilled 26 of 40 permitted sites at the target and conducted an initial geophysical program, which Domestic Metals is now completing with the help of Rio Tinto ’s resources and expert technical committee.
“It’s really great to have a company (Rio Tinto) with a billion-dollar market flux — the third largest mining company in the world — as your partner. And they've handed us a project that we look like we're going to make a major discovery on in the next two to three months with the drill program. It’s a very exciting time for us.”
A non-brokered private placement was announced by Domestic Metals in February to raise C$3.5 million, at a price of C$0.28 per unit. Neal said that this is currently the biggest catalyst for the company as it will fund exploration activities at Smart Creek, allowing it to move the project to drilling and then see results.
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Tavi Costa, CEO of Azuria Capital, explains where he's looking to deploy capital right now, mentioning mining, energy and emerging markets.
"When I apply macro analysis into markets, there's a few things that look exceptionally cheap today that could be extremely asymmetric," he commented.
"Again, I could be wrong in three of them, but if I get one right it's going to go up."
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Brixton Metals (TSXV:BBB,OTCQB:BBBXF) Chairman, CEO, President and Director Gary Thompson revealed that following drilling commencement at Langis, the company is seeking to advance all its assets.
Its flagship project, Thorn, is located in Northwest BC, and assays from recent sampling returned up to 2.16 percent copper and 39 grams per tonne silver at the Cirque East target.
Langis, on the other hand, is located within the Timiskaming First Nation's traditional territory in Ontario and has demonstrated promising silver-cobalt recoveries ranging from 88 to 98 percent, with assays showing values of up to 18 percent silver and 16 percent cobalt.
Thompson said the company is also pushing to get enough drilling at Hudson Bay mine and Langis, two past-producing high-grade silver mines. “We're looking to get enough drilling on those to get them into a resource category,” he shared.
Watch the full interview with Brixton Metals Chairman, CEO, President and Director Gary Thompson above.
Spartan Metals (TSXV:W,OTCQB:SPRMF) CEO Brett Marsh said he previously worked directly with the US Department of Defense and Department of Energy, discussing critical metals projects and understanding the funding process. He said that the company has “the connections to get into,” and will hopefully be able to set up meetings when the time comes for the Eagle project in Nevada.
“Some of the leaders from the Department of Energy called us to understand, learn about the project and its tungsten and rubidium potential, and simply talk with us about how they could help us progress. They really got the mandate to go as far upstream as they can now. So we're leveraging that relationship to see if there's something that can be done there," he said.
As well, the Fraser Institute’s 2025 Annual Survey of Mining Companies named Nevada as the top jurisdiction in the world for investment attractiveness.
Spartan Metals’ 100 percent owned Eagle project is located in White Pine County, Nevada. It consists of the past-producing Tungstonia mine and the Rees/Antelope tungsten mines, which held operations from 1915 to 1942 and produced a combined total of 8,379 units at tungsten trioxide grades of between 0.6 and 0.9 percent.
The company recently expanded its land package at Eagle, including the acquisition of the Yellow Jacket mine, located approximately 2 kilometers east-northeast of the legacy Tungstonia mine.
“The interesting thing about the Yellow Jacket mine is that it was a past producer at about 1 percent, and we’ve actually seen that number show up fairly consistently throughout the Eagle package. Because of that, we're very confident that as we continue our exploration (that) we'll encounter excellent grades along with it,” Marsh shared.
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Byron King, editor at Paradigm Press, shares his approach to the gold and silver sectors as tensions in the Middle East intensify, also touching on oil and gas.
Overall he sees hard assets becoming increasingly key as global uncertainty escalates.
"Own gold, own silver — physically own the metal for your own benefit," said King.
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She leads the Investing News Network's video and event coverage, and guides a team of writers reporting on niche investment markets.
Jaime Carrasco, senior portfolio manager and senior financial advisor at Harbourfront Wealth Management, shares his outlook for gold and silver, saying prices must rise much higher.
He also talks about how to build a strong precious metals portfolio.
"We're moving from a credit-based economy, a bubble that is blowing up, to a resource-based economy — and that's very healthy going forward," Carrasco said.
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