Resumen de Junior mining: : Banking on bargains

Industrial Minerals

• With many metals and minerals prices hitting five-year highs in early January on the strength of optimistic expectations for global economic growth over the next 12 months, the mining industry has good reasons to be cheerful at the start of 2018. First Mining Finance Corp. (FMF), which describes itself as a mineral property ‘bank’ focused on acquiring, enhancing and monetizing high-quality mineral assets, is one of these new businesses that saw a chance to turn the bleak state of the market to its advantage. Vancouver-headquartered Wealth Minerals is a public Canadian company listed on the TSX-V, an exchange with a high level of exposure to the exploration industry, meaning that it was probably the hardest hit of all the equities markets by the commodities crash.