Coupled with ever greater resources being devoted to mitigating climate change and significantly cutting back global greenhouse emissions, junior uranium explorers such as Vancouver’s Atomic Minerals Ltd. (TSX.V:ATL) are raising capital and gearing up to follow through on ambitious acquisition and development plans.

When Teryl Resources (TSX.V: TRC) announced the initiation of drilling on its Gold Hill copper-gold-silver project located near Bisbee, Arizona, investors familiar with the area sat up in their chairs. Their interest was piqued, firstly, because Gold Hill is four miles from Phelps Dodge’s Copper Queen/Lavender Pit Mine, which produced in excess of 75 million tonnes of copper, silver and gold ore between 1954 and 1974.

John Whittier Greenleaf, the American Quaker poet and abolitionist, was noted for saying, “I’ll lift you and you lift me, and we’ll both ascend together.” It looks as if Ascendant Copper (TSX:ACX) has taken some of his sage relationship advice as it ushers in a new phase of its ascendancy with its friendly takeover of St. Genevieve Resources (CNQ:SGVL) of Montreal.

Yale Resources (TSX.V: YLL) has received further indication from its past producing La Verde Grade mine that a high-grade, potentially multi-million tonne resource may remain in and around the historic workings on the company’s 100% owned property.

With the ink barely dry on its latest African acquisition, PMI Gold Corp. (TSX.V: PMV) is now looking for the big money that will get its gold properties into production.

ValGold Resources’ (TSX.V:VAL) latest news suggests that management has hooked a big one with its newest acquisition in Guyana.

Although Goldcliff has thus far focused on reporting drilling results from a few high-grade zones on the property, according to Sanders, Panorama Ridge in fact has substantial bulk tonnage, open pit potential. In addition to the high-grade gold that Goldcliff is drilling, Sanders explains that in today’s gold market the low-grade material at Panorama is becoming economic, and in turn substantially increasing the potential size of the Panorama resource.

Instead of running with risk in view of huge oil findings, the company maintains a conservative approach based on guaranteed opportunities and diversification on drill-ready or existing wells within Canada.

Some ten-plus months of exploration work, negotiations and due diligence came to successful conclusion on Tuesday, Nov. 6 as ValGold Resources (TSX:VAL) announced that it had closed on its Honnold Corp. acquisition.

In a meritocracy, the pure, rich cream floats to the top. It’s where people are selected competitively according to merit, talent, motivation and effort, based on the idea that positions of responsibility and prestige should be earned. Kootenay Gold and its team are an example of just that.

NioGold Mining (TSX.V:NOX) has just finished drilling over 10,000 metres of a planned 40,000 metre drill program on its wholly owned Marban Block property. This initial round of the program is investigating gold mineralization in the area immediately surrounding the past-producing Marban Mine. All of the holes indicated that the geologic features that helped establish the Marban Mine are also present in the ground around the mine.

All dreams, rumors, and other Fleetwood Mac references aside, Bayfield Ventures (TSX.V:BYV) really is at the “Edge of 17” as it gets set to drill its newly acquired parcel of land adjacent to Rainy River Resources’ (TSX.V:RR) #17 gold zone. Management has successfully negotiated a deal to tie up certain patent mineral rights totaling 80 acres (known as Parcel #15961) in the Richardson Township.