Mining Capital's Alastair Ford asks whether we could be beginning to see a pattern of junior mining recovery emerging.

He says early 2017 saw a couple of new listings in London and a spate of activity in Canada as the gold price and mining in general found support in the utterings and policies of Donald Trump.

But as the year's gone on new money into the sector at the smaller end has been a trickle rather than a flow.

However with the listings in August of Altus Strategies (LON:ALS), Cora Gold on Monday and the planned IPO next year of Toro Gold, Ford reckons we could now have a clear direction of travel for the mining market.