Lemieux provides some perspective on several brownfield exploration projects he recently visited in Québec's Abitibi and Val-d'Or regions, while providing updates on other Québec gold and other mining projects with near-term catalysts.

With Japan finally restarting some of its nuclear reactor fleet (two reactors have come online since August) and China continuing its breakneck reactor build-out (with 29 reactors in operation and 22 under construction), the one commodity in the natural resource space that is actually carrying some positive fundamentals today is uranium.

Oil, copper and silver all beaten up.

Weighing in after last month's failed merger.

If all of this year's approved coal plants get built, they will have a total capacity of 123 gigawatts, equivalent to building 61 Hoover Dams.

Stuck.

Wages were too high?

State prosecutor for the region says the companies were negligent and he has opened an investigation.

“Although the primary focus of this current drilling phase is to outline the gold resources of the BCV, I am particularly encouraged by the quantity and also the gold tenor of the hangingwall veins that we are encountering in this first pass of drilling.” says Tom Obradovich, President and CEO of BGM.