As the Israel-Hamas conflict quickly escalating with Iran’s involvement at the moment, and Russia chipping away diligently at Ukraine’s defences due to outnumbering men and weapons, precious metals are doing very well at the moment. Silver North Resources (SNAG.V), focused on silver, profits from this as the share price doubled from the recent bottom levels, and managed to raise another C$650k to pay the bills and prepare for drill programs at their fully owned flagship Haldane silver project.

With the Federal Reserve indicating doubts about retreating inflation levels, postponing a potential first rate cut to at least May, the US stock markets drifted lower initially, but found strength again soon that same day, and gold didn’t even faze and marched up to US$2083/oz anyway, the highest level of this year.

With the world around us being in a flux regarding conflicts, inflation, BRICS expansions and the revival of Trump with impending US elections, planned for November of this year, Silver North Resources (SNAG.V) actually experienced more of a standstill since their name change, a 5 to 1 roll back, renewed focus on their fully owned silver projects and leaving the prospector generator model back in August of last year.

As Dolly Varden Silver (DV.V)(DOLLF.US) has completed their 55,000m drill program at Kitsault Valley a month ago, the treasury could use some freshly incoming capital, and since the company has no shortage of strong backers, this time shareholder Hecla Mining (HL.US)

In uncertain times, where the Fed gradually seems to be pushed closer and closer to a rate hike pause, potentially followed by rate cuts somewhere in 2024, the Russian conflict keeps aggrevating, and the Chinese government keeps coming with soft measures to restart their economy, Dolly Varden Silver (DV.V)(DOLLF.US)

After a long period of non-material events, management and Board of Alianza Minerals (ANZ.V) decided it was time for a thorough change in many aspects. On August 10, 2023 they announced a name change into Silver North Resources, with a new ticker to go with that (SNAG.V),

After reporting an excellent 125m @ 1.631g/t AuEq including 1.52m @ 3,477g/t Ag from 126.5m depth (residual grade of 54g/t Ag) on their first hole at Tombstone Project in Arizona, Aztec Minerals (AZT: TSX-V, OTCQB: AZZTF) delivered more strong results on June 5, 2023.

After Aztec Minerals (AZT: TSX-V, OTCQB: AZZTF) commenced drilling at Tombstone in Arizona at the end of February, the first result came in on April 26, 2023, and it was pretty spectacular. As the company was drilling for oxidized gold in order to expand the mineralized envelope, estimated by me at about 600koz Au, high grade gold was also hit in first hole TC23-01, generating 125m @ 0.577g/t Au and 72g/t Ag from 53.3m depth, including an impressive 7.65m @ 733.92g/t Ag, which included an excellent 1.52m @ 3,477g/t Ag from 126.5m depth (residual grade of 54g/t Ag).

After hitting impressive intercepts like 25m @ 46,3g/t Au at Homestake Ridge and 15,94m @ 1499g/t Ag at the Wolf Vein, Dolly Varden Silver (DV.V)(DOLLF.US) seems to have taken the main stage of successful exploring juniors.

Beside the headline-grabbing results, this has also a lot to do with the increasing tonnage potential because of these stellar results, as beforehand years of drilling under different management didn’t seem to make much of an impact, since the resource barely increased.

At a time where sentiment seems to be turning into risk-off, with the markets contemplating whether the Fed options for a 50 basis points rate hike instead of the earlier telegraphed 25p raise as the latest inflation figures came in higher than expected despite solid market fundamentals, Aztec Minerals (AZT: TSX-V, OTCQB: AZZTF) doesn’t seem to bother too much, as it raised C$1.1M, outlined drill programs for their Cervantes and Tombstone projects, and very recently commenced drilling at Tombstone in Arizona.