5 Top Weekly TSXV Stocks: Goldbank Mining Registers 77 Percent Gain

Weekly gain: 76.67 percent; market cap: C$36.38 million; current share price: C$0.265

Goldbank Mining is a gold exploration company focused on its Klondike Leota gold project in the Eastern Klondike Goldfields near Dawson City in Canada's Yukon. The site hosts 1,049 active quartz hard-rock claims. Leota has a long history of exploration, with the first claim on the site being staked at Last Chance Creek in 1903.

Goldbank saw its shares gain ground after it announced this past Tuesday (January 2) that Jerry Lozynsky and Frank Garofalo have been appointed to the company's board of directors.

Weekly gain: 42.86 percent; market cap: C$15 million; current share price: C$0.10

Visionary Metals is an exploration company focused on its King Solomon nickel project in Wyoming, US. The asset consists of 10.25 square kilometers of mining claims spread over 80 square kilometers in Fremont County.

The site hosts a 1,500 meter by 600 meter anomaly, with highlighted drill results of up to 0.42 percent nickel and 0.02 percent cobalt over 17 meters at shallow depths.

Shares of Visionary saw gains last week, but the company hasn’t released news since December 15, when it announced the results from its annual general meeting.

Weekly gain: 41.67 percent; market cap: C$19.86 million; current share price: C$0.085

PetroFrontier is a junior energy company working on the development of assets in Cold Lake and Wabasca, Alberta. The company’s projects are focused on the recovery of heavy oil using conventional vertical and horizontal wells, along with the production of sand with oil using cold heavy oil production with sand.

Shares of PetroFrontier saw significant gains this past week, but it did not release any news.

Weekly gain: 41.03 percent; market cap: C$162.42 million; current share price: C$0.55

SouthGobi Resources is a coal-mining company with assets in Southern Mongolia near the border with China. Its flagship operation is the Ovoot Tolgoi mine, which consists of the Sunrise and Sunset pits, and has been producing since 2008. SouthGobi holds permits to mine until 2037.

The company also owns two additional properties in the region. The Soumber deposit is 20 kilometers east of the Ovoot Tolgoi mine, meaning that any potential mining of Soumber could share Ovoot Tolgoi’s infrastructure. Its third property is the Zag Suuj deposit, located 150 kilometers east of Ovoot Tolgoi and 80 kilometers from the Mongolia-China border.

The company climbed significantly this past week, but did not release news.

Weekly gain: 40.43 percent; market cap: C$16.41 million; current share price: C$0.33

Razor Energy is an oil and natural gas company with assets in Central and Southern Alberta, Canada. Its Swan Hills/Kaybob region operations northwest of Edmonton consist of a 101,414 hectare land package, while its Southern Alberta region operations southwest of Calgary consist of a 31,646 hectare package producing medium-gravity oil.

In its Q3 results, released on November 23, Razor indicates that during the first three quarters of the year it produced 2,271 barrels per day of light oil, 5.51 million cubic feet per day of natural gas and 560 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d) of natural gas liquids.

In a release this past Wednesday (January 3), Razor advised it was eliminating 1,110 boe/d of combined light oil and natural gas liquids production from its Swan Hills operation after the operator of the Judy Creek gas plant refused to process Razor’s deliveries due to a financial dispute that started on December 24. The company also said it was uncertain when or if the dispute could be resolved in the near term.