The Yukon’s New Motto: In Dixon We Trust, In Gold We Drill

The Yukon has officially entered a new era of resource development, and it starts at the top.

Premier Currie Dixon has signaled that mining is no longer something the territory tolerates; it’s something it intends to supercharge. From rewriting the Quartz and Placer Mining Acts, to faster permitting, to fixing the electrical grid, to supporting a restart of the Eagle Gold Mine, this is the most pro-mining agenda the territory has seen in decades.

With Ted Laking heading Energy, Mines and Resources and major projects like Casino back in focus, explorers and producers alike are calling this a turning point for the north.

If you’re in gold, copper, or critical minerals, keep your eyes on the Yukon. The lights just turned green.

The 2025 Thanksgiving Portfolio: Where the Real Feast Is in Junior Resources

The Thanksgiving Portfolio: Where the Real Feast Is in Junior Resources

If you’re building your 2025 portfolio, the real feast is happening where almost no one is looking: the junior resource sector.

Inspired by Jared Blikre’s Thanksgiving analogy on Yahoo Finance, we mapped the traditional holiday plate to the metals and explorers driving the next cycle. Copper is your mashed potatoes, essential and in deficit, with names like Solaris Resources Inc., Arizona Sonoran Copper Company Inc, and Midnight Sun Mining quietly preparing for the supply squeeze.

Gold is your stuffing, reliable, timeless, supported by juniors like Skeena Gold + Silver, Steppe Gold Ltd, and Heliostar Metals Ltd.

Uranium and lithium are your cranberry sauce, volatile but explosive when sentiment turns, represented by Surge Battery Metals, Premier American Uranium, and District Metals Corp.

And dessert? That’s your high-torque speculation with Trident Resources Corp. and P2 Gold Inc. offering the kind of upside that makes pumpkin pie taste sweeter.

While the crowd drowns its allocation in AI gravy, 2025’s most compelling risk-reward setup may be sitting untouched at the end of the table. The juniors are still early, and still cheap.

Copper Just Entered “Catch Me If You Can” Mode

Futures on the London Metal Exchange (LME) ripped past $11,200, while a chaotic hours-long freeze on CME’s Comex Exchange only accelerated the rally once trading resumed.

At this week’s Shanghai industry gathering, Kostas Bintas of Mercuria Energy Group issued a stark warning: surging arbitrage shipments into the US are draining global copper cathode inventories. If this continues, the rest of the world could be left scrambling for supply.

Layer in rising expectations of monetary easing from the Federal Reserve, and you get a perfect cocktail of tightening fundamentals and surging demand — the kind of setup that redefines the metals landscape for years to come.

Copper isn’t just breaking records. It’s rewriting the market playbook.

The AI Manhattan Project: Inside America’s Genesis Mission

The Genesis Mission is now real, signed, funded, and driven straight through America’s scientific core.

President Donald Trump has placed the Department of Energy at the center of a national innovation surge led by Energy Secretary Chris Wright, with Michael Kratsios shaping the AI and science roadmap.

Seventeen national labs, including the home of the Frontier supercomputer at Oak Ridge, will be fused with decades of federally funded datasets. Behind them: private-sector giants Nvidia, Oracle, Dell, and Palantir, all poised to provide compute, infrastructure, and next-generation AI models.

Biotechnology, nuclear, quantum, fusion, semiconductors, advanced materials, and space technology are all on the table. Robotic labs, autonomous agents, and specialized scientific foundation models will execute discoveries at unprecedented speed.

This is the closest America has come to launching a modern Manhattan Project, only bigger, faster, and built for the entire technological frontier.

The U.S. just moved its entire scientific arsenal to the starting line. And the rest of the world is watching.

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