Company Interviews

Interview with Timothy Froude, President & CEO of Sokoman Minerals (TSX-V:SIC)Sokoman Minerals Corp. is a junior Canadian exploration and development company focused on gold and critical minerals in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The company’s flagship project, the Moosehead Gold project is located next to the Trans-Canada Highway and holds a land position of 2,450 hectares. The company also holds a strategic alliance with Benton Resources Inc. which includes the Grey River Gold project, the Kepenkeck Gold project and the Golden Hope project which is located in Southern Newfoundland, holding a land position of approximately 78,650 hectares and hosting gold, lithium and critical minerals.

Interview with Dr. Andreas Rompel, Executive Chairman, and Rene Bharti, President & CEO of Jourdan Resources (TSX-V: JOR)Jourdan Resources Inc. is a Canadian junior mining exploration company trading under the symbol “JOR” on the TSX Venture Exchange and “2JR1” on the Stuttgart Stock Exchange. The Company is focused on the acquisition, exploration, production, and development of mining properties. The Company’s properties are in Quebec, Canada, primarily in the spodumene-bearing pegmatites of the La Corne Batholith, around North American Lithium’s Quebec Lithium Mine.

Interview with Dale Ginn, Managing Director of Aston Minerals (ASX: ASO)Aston Minerals Limited (ASX:ASO) is a nickel-cobalt and gold exploration company focused on the exploration of the Edleston Project, Ontario, Canada. Edleston is surrounded by world-class mining projects, and benefits from widely available skilled labour, specialised services, and first world infrastructure, including hydro power.

Interview with Morgan Poliquin, President & CEO of Almadex Minerals (TSX-V: DEX)Almadex Minerals Ltd. is a Canadian exploration company, focused on its various projects and NSR royalties located in Canada, Mexico and the United States. The company’s asset portfolio is the result of many years’ worth of prospecting and deal-making and consists of the El Chato, Nueva Espana, San Carlos, Lajas, Mezquites, San Pedro, Viky, Yago, Merit, Nicoamen River, Lac de Gras, Ponderosa, Monte Cristo, Davis/Paradise Valley, Veta, Willow and recently acquired Logan projects.

Interview with Mike Haynes, CEO of New World Resources (ASX: NWC)New World Resources Limited is an Australian company focused on the exploration and development of mineral resources projects in North America. It is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange under the code NWC.

Interview with Guy Le Page, Executive Director of Conico Ltd (ASX: CNJ)Conico Limited is an Australia-based mineral exploration company. The Company's projects include Ryberg, Mestersvig, Sortekap and Mount Thirsty. The Ryberg Project located within the North Atlantic Igneous Province is a multi-element project spanning an area of approximately 4,521 square kilometers (km2) on the east coast of Greenland and 350 kilometers (km) north-west of Iceland. Ryberg is an under-explored mineral province with a significant amount of magmatism that has intruded the sulphur-rich sediments of the Kangerlussuaq Basin. Mestersvig Project is located on the east coast of Greenland, approximately 620 km North West of Iceland. The license covers an area of 1,447 km2. The Sortekap Project is located on the east coast of Greenland, within the Ryberg Project license package. Mineralization in this area is classified at orogenic style in quartz vein hosted. The Mount Thirsty Project is located 16 km northwest of Norseman in Western Australia is a 50/50 joint venture project.

Interview with Dr Mike Jones, MD of Impact Minerals (ASX:IPT)Impact Minerals is an Australian Exploration Company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX-IPT). The company is a project generator and developer and explores a portfolio of tenement holdings within major mining regions of Australia.

Interview with Brendan Yurik, CEO of Electric Royalties Ltd. (TSX-V:ELEC)Electric Royalties Ltd. is a mining royalty company that aims to take advantage of the worldwide transition to clean energy by buying royalties on the mines which supply clean energy commodities. Energy commodities include metals such as lithium, vanadium, manganese, tin, graphite, cobalt, nickel and copper, which saw increases of up to 400% depending on the commodity in 2022.

Interview with Chris Reed, Managing Director & CEO of Neometals Ltd. (ASX: NMT)Neometals Ltd. is an Australian mineral development company, involved in the recovery of a large array of battery metals including lithium, titanium and vanadium. The company’s core projects consist of its lithium-ion battery recycling process in Germany, its Barrambie titanium and vanadium project in Western Australia and its vanadium recovery project in Scandinavia.

Interview with Paul Gow, CEO, and Thomas Schmidt, President of Tribeca Resources (TSX-V: TRBC)Tribeca Resources is a copper exploration company focused on discovering and developing assets in the Coastal IOCG Belt of northern Chile. The company’s management team, whose members are significant shareholders of the Company, has world-leading expertise and a discovery history with iron oxide copper-gold deposits in the world’s great IOCG Belts of the Carajás district in Brazil and the Gawler and Cloncurry provinces of Australia.

Interview with Dave Reeves, MD of Calidus Resources (ASX: CAI)Calidus Resources (ASX:CAI) is an ASX-listed gold exploration and development company that controls the 1.7Mozs (incl Blue Spec) Warrawoona Gold Project located in the East Pilbara district of the Pilbara Goldfield in Western Australia.

Interview with Gary Harvey, Managing Director of Rincon Resources (ASX: RCR)Rincon has interests in three highly prospective copper-gold projects in Western Australia, South Telfer, Laverton and Kiwirrkurra. Each project has been subject to historical exploration which has identified major mineralised systems which Rincon intends on exploring in order to delineate copper and gold resources.

Interview with Anthony Rovira, MD of Azure Minerals (ASX: AZS)Azure Minerals Ltd. is an ASX-listed junior mining company focused on the advancement of its Western Australian projects. The company’s flagship project is the Andover project located in the West Pilbara region of Western Australia. The project hosts nickel, copper and lithium mineralisation.

Interview with Jason Stirbinskis, MD of Los Cerros (ASX: LCL)Los Cerros Limited is an Australia-based gold/copper exploration company. The Company is focused on the Quinchia and Andes Portfolios in Colombia, which are approximately 70 kilometers apart and located in Colombia’s Mid- Cauca copper/gold porphyry belt. The Company's projects include Quinchia Gold Project and Andes Gold Project. The Quinchia Gold Project is located in central west Colombia, 100 kilometers south of Medellin in the department of Risaralda and in a district known for its high grade epithermal and breccia hosted gold/silver, and porphyry hosted gold/silver/copper systems. The Andes Gold Project is located in Antioquia, Risaralda and Choco, Departments of Colombia. It covers a larger area of early-stage exploration in the state of Antioquia 70 kilometers north of Quinchia. The Company’s Andes and Quinchia Gold Projects sits on the Miocene aged, Mid-Cauca Gold Belt in a sub-section of the belt that hosts many copper gold porphyry discoveries.

Interview with Thomas Line, CEO of Taruga Minerals (ASX: TAR)Taruga Minerals Limited (Taruga or the Company) is a mineral exploration company listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX:TAR) with a focus on discovering world-class copper systems in Tier-1 jurisdictions in Australia. CEO Thomas Line is supported by a highly credentialed Board, and has provided the Company with exposure to the exciting, under explored, High-Grade Flinders, Torrens and Mt Craig Copper-Gold-Silver Projects on the margin of the Gawler Craton, South Australia.

Interview with Dr Matthew Greentree, MD of Ausgold Limited (ASX: AUC)Ausgold Limited is a Perth-based gold exploration and development company with a suite of projects located in some of Australia’s most prospective mineral provinces. Its primary focus is the 100%-owned Katanning Gold Project (KGP), which covers +4,000km2 of the underexplored Katanning greenstone belt in south-western Western Australia.

Interview with Siobhan Lancaster, MD & CEO of 92 Energy (ASX:92E)92 Energy Ltd is an ASX-Listed uranium exploration company focused on the exploration of its Athabasca based assets. The assets of the company are its Gemini, Tower, Clover, Powerline and Cypress River uranium projects.

Interview with David Cataford, CEO of Champion Iron (TSX/ASX:CIA)Champion, through its subsidiary Quebec Iron Ore Inc., owns and operates the Bloom Lake Mining Complex, located on the south end of the Labrador Trough, approximately 13 km north of Fermont, Québec. Bloom Lake is an open-pit operation with two concentrators that primarily source energy from renewable hydroelectric power. The two concentrators have a combined nameplate capacity of 15 Mtpa and produce a low contaminant high-grade 66.2% Fe iron ore concentrate with a proven ability to produce a 67.5% Fe direct reduction quality concentrate. Bloom Lake’s high-grade and low contaminant iron ore products have attracted a premium to the Platts IODEX 62% Fe iron ore benchmark. The Company ships iron ore concentrate from Bloom Lake by rail, to a ship loading port in Sept-Îles, Québec, and has sold its iron ore concentrate to customers globally, including in China, Japan, the Middle East, Europe, South Korea, India and Canada. In addition to Bloom Lake, Champion owns a portfolio of exploration and development projects in the Labrador Trough, including the Kamistiatusset Project, located a few kilometres south-east of Bloom Lake, and the Consolidated Fire Lake North iron ore project, located approximately 40 km south of Bloom Lake.

Interview with Stephen Stewart, CEO of QC Copper & Gold (TSX-V: QCCU)QC Copper is focused on advancing its its past-producing Opemiska Copper Mine Complex in the Chapais-Chibougamau region of Quebec. The company recently announced its robust Maiden Resource Estimate with 81.7M tonnes @ 0.88% CuEq of pit constrained Measured and Indicated Mineral Resources and 21.3M tonnes @ 0.73% CuEq of Inferred Mineral Resources.

Interview with Tim Moody, CEO of Pan Global Resources (TSX-V: PGZ)Pan Global Resources Inc. is a junior exploration and development company focused on its assets located in Southern Spain. The Águilas project of the company is located 300 km south of the city of Madrid and has a land position of approximately 16,333 hectares. The project is accessible year-round and hosts copper, silver, lead as well as gold and silver. The Escacena project of the company is located approximately 40 km northeast of Seville, Spain. The area is known for hosting one of the world’s largest volcanic massive-sulphide mineralisation zones. The project holds a land position of 5,458 hectares and has been actively explored by the company since 2019. The project hosts the La Romana copper-tin discovery and various other targets.

Interview with Taso Arima, CEO & Managing Director of IperionX (ASX: IPX)IperionX’s mission is to be a leading developer of US-based sustainable critical mineral and critical material supply chains, to facilitate the global transition towards a closed-loop, low-to-zero carbon, resource efficient and socially inclusive green economy.

Interview with Thomas Lamb, CEO of Myriad Uranium (CSE: M)Myriad Uranium Corp. is a Vancouver-based mineral exploration company with an option to earn a 100% interest in over 1,800 km² of uranium exploration licenses in the Tim Mersoı̈ Basin, Niger. Myriad also has a 50% interest in the Millen Mountain Property located in Nova Scotia, Canada, with the other 50% held by Probe Metals Inc.

Interview with Fabian Baker, Managing Director of Kingsrose Mining (ASX: KRM)Kingsrose Mining Limited is an ASX listed (ASX: KRM) discovery focused exploration company with 100% interest in two PGE-Ni-Cu Nordic Projects: the Penikat Project in Finland, and the Porsanger Project in Norway. The Company is focused on exploration for minerals that are critical to decarbonisation and new energy technologies in Europe, in line with the aims of the EU Green Deal. Sustainable and responsible operations, as well as high standards of sustainability are integral to the strategy and potential of Kingsrose.

Interview with Joe Walsh, MD of Lepidico (ASX:LPD)Lepidico is a lithium exploration and development company, with offices in both Perth and Toronto. The company is listed on the ASX as well as various German stock exchanges. Lepidico aims to become a vertically integrated business from mining at its 80% owned Karibib project in Namibia to the production of battery-grade lithium chemicals at its Phase 1 chemical plant in Abu Dhabi. The company implements its L-Max® process technology to extract lithium and various other valuable by-products from lithium-mica and phosphate minerals

Interview with Dan Major, CEO of GoviEx Uranium (TSX-V: GXU)GoviEx Uranium Inc. is a Canadian-based uranium development company focused on its projects located in Africa. The company boasts a resource inventory of over 220 million pounds (lbs) of U3O8 in measured, indicated and inferred resources. The company’s asset portfolio consists of the Madaouela project, located in Niger, the Mutanga project, located in Zambia and the Falea project, located in Mali.

Interview with Dr Stephen Groscott, MD & CEO, and Duane Woodbury, CFO of Queensland Pacific Metals (ASX: QPM)Queensland Pacific Metals is an Australian company listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX:QPM). The head office is in Brisbane, Queensland and the company also has an office in Townsville, North Queensland. The company is focused on developing the 100% owned Townsville Energy Chemicals Hub (TECH) Project. The TECH Project will be a modern and sustainable, battery metals refinery, 40km south of Townsville, in northern Queensland. The TECH Project will produce critical metals for the rapidly emerging lithium-ion battery and electric vehicle sector. Queensland Pacific Metals shareholders include global battery manufacturing leader LG Energy Solution and major Korean conglomerate POSCO. Queensland Pacific Metals has secured binding offtake agreements for the sale of nickel and cobalt with LG Energy Solutions and POSCO.

Interview with John Borshoff, Managing Director of Deep Yellow Ltd. (ASX:DYL)Deep Yellow Ltd. is an advanced exploration and development uranium company focused on its Uranium assets in Australia and Namibia. The company’s Namibian projects include the Tumas project, which is currently being progressed through a definitive feasibility study (DFS), and the Omahola project undergoing various exploration initiatives. The Australian assets of the company consist of the Mulga Rock and Alligator River projects. The Mulga Rock project is one of Australia’s largest undeveloped uranium resources and consists of two mining areas over a total length of 30 km. The Alligator River project is the largest granted uranium exploration package in the world and covers a total area of 3,895 km2.

Interview with Simon Clarke, CEO of American Lithium Corp (TSX-V:LI) American Lithium Corp. is an advanced lithium project developer throughout North and South America and uranium projects in Peru. The Falchani Lithium project as well as the Macusani Uranium project are located in south-eastern Peru and were brought into the company through the acquisition of Plateau Energy Metals Inc. in 2021. The TLC lithium project of the company is located in Nevada, close to the town of Tonopah.

Interview with Phil Russo, CEO of Toubani Resources (TSX-V:TRE)Toubani Resources Inc. is a Canadian gold exploration and development company focused on the advancement of its Kobada gold project in Southern Mali. The Kobada gold project is located approximately 126 km southwest of Bamako, Mali’s capital city. The project hosts 1.7 million ounces of gold in the indicated category, 1.4 million ounces of gold in the inferred category and 1.3 million ounces of gold in the proven and probable category.

Interview with Patrick Downey, President & CEO of Orezone Gold Corp. (TSX-V: ORE)Orezone Gold Corporation (TSX: ORE OTCQX: ORZCF) is a Canadian mining company operating the open pit Bomboré Gold Mine in Burkina Faso. In 2023, Bomboré is forecasted to produce 140,000 – 155,000 ounces of gold from its Phase I free-dig oxides. Significant drilling was undertaken in 2022 to expand and upgrade inferred resources to support a substantially larger Phase II sulphide operation. In Q3-2023, the Company plans to issue an updated feasibility study on the Phase II expansion which will include a revised mineral resource and mineral reserve estimate, life-of-mine plan, and project economics. Orezone is led by an experienced team focused on social responsibility and sustainability with a proven track record in project construction and operations, financings, capital markets and M&A.

Interview with Luke Alexander, President & CEO of Newcore Gold (TSX-V:NCAU)Newcore Gold is advancing its Enchi Gold Project located in Ghana, Africa’s largest gold producer. The Project currently hosts an Inferred Mineral Resource of 1.41 million ounces of gold at 0.62 g/t. Newcore Gold offers investors a unique combination of top-tier leadership, who are aligned with shareholders through their 24% equity ownership, and prime district scale exploration opportunities. Enchi’s 216 km2 land package covers 40 kilometres of Ghana’s prolific Bibiani Shear Zone, a gold belt which hosts several 5 million-ounce gold deposits, including the Chirano mine 50 kilometers to the north. Newcore’s vision is to build a responsive, creative and powerful gold enterprise that maximizes returns for shareholders.

Interview with Tim Harrison, Managing Director of Ionic Rare Earths Ltd. (ASX: IXR)Ionic Rare Earths Ltd. is an Australian mineral exploration and development company focused on advancing its flagship Makuutu Rare Earths project towards production. The project consists of approximately five licenses covering approximately 242 km2 and is located 120 km east of the capital city of Kampala in eastern Uganda. The project mineralisation is primarily clay-type Rare Earth Element (REE) mineralization. The company is a member of the UN Global Compact, the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative.

Interview with Brandon Munro, MD/CEO, and Gavin Chamberlain, COO of Bannerman Energy (ASX: BMN).Bannerman Energy is an Australian listed uranium development company. Their flagship Etango Project is one of the world’s largest undeveloped uranium assets. It is located in the highly established uranium mining jurisdiction of Namibia and they have environmental permits in place for development. Etango has been strongly de-risked through extensive drilling, technical evaluation and operation of a process demonstration plant facility.

Coda Minerals is an exploration company focused on the exploration, discovery and development of minerals in the base metals, precious metals and battery minerals sector. Coda owns a 100% interest in the Elizabeth Creek Copper Project in South Australia. The Elizabeth Creek Copper Project has a long history of Cu production, established JORC 2012 compliant Resources and excellent exploration upside potential. The Company listed on the ASX in October 2020, following a heavily oversubscribed IPO and is actively progressing exploration at its flagship Emmie Bluff Copper-Cobalt-Silver prospect.In June 2022, Coda completed an off-market takeover offer to acquire all of the ordinary shares in Torrens Mining Limited (ASX code: TRN) (Torrens) to consolidate 100% ownership of the Elizabeth Creek Copper Project.

Marimaca Copper Corp. is a Canadian copper company, focused on the Marimaca copper oxide project located in the Antofagasta region of Chile. The project is an open-pit, low capital and low-risk operation, boasting as the only major copper discovery globally in the last five years.

Roscan Gold Corporation is a Canadian gold exploration company focused on the exploration and acquisition of gold properties in West Africa. The Company has assembled a significant land position of 100%-owned permits in an area of producing gold mines (including B2 Gold’s Fekola Mine which lies in a contiguous property to the west of Kandiole), and major gold deposits, located both north and south of its Kandiole Project in West Mali.

Andrada Mining Limited, formerly Afritin Mining Limited, is a London-listed technology metals mining company with a vision to create a portfolio of globally significant, conflict-free, production and exploration assets. The Company's flagship asset is the Uis Mine in Namibia, formerly the world's largest hard-rock open cast tin mine.

Global Atomic Corp. is a Canadian and TSX-listed resource company with assets in Turkey and Niger. The company’s portfolio provides access to both high-grade uranium mine development and cash-flowing zinc concentrate production. The company’s flagship project is the Dasa uranium project. The Dasa uranium project is a high-grade uranium deposit, located in the Adrar Emoles III licence area, approximately 105 km south of the town of Arlit, in the Republic of Niger. The project hosts 129.1 million pounds of U3O8 in the indicated category as well as 128.4 million pounds of U3O8 in the inferred category, at a cut-off grade of 100 ppm U3O8.

Empire Metals is an AIM-listed exploration and resource development company.The Company's primary focus has been the Eclipse Gold Project in Western Australia, in which the Company has a 75% interest with the option to acquire 100%. Since taking an option in the project, Empire has successfully expanded the known mineralisation both at depth and along strike, including in the vicinity of other old workings north-west of the Eclipse shaft. The Company is now assessing the potential for an open pit operation at the old Eclipse shaft, whilst seeking further extensions to the resources.

Cartier Resources Inc. is a Canada-based exploration company. The Company's activities primarily include the acquisition and exploration of mining properties in Canada. The Company focuses on the Chimo Mine property, which is situated approximately 50 kilometers (km) south east of Val-d’Or. Chimo Mine consists of approximately 12 contiguous claims covering an area of about 334 hectares (ha). Its Benoist property consists of approximately of 73 claims, which is located in Miquelon, Quebec. Its Fenton property consists of approximately 18 contiguous cells, which is located in Chapais, Quebec. Its Wilson property consists of approximately 42 contiguous claims covering a surface area of about 1,660 ha. Its Cadillac Extension property consists of approximately 39 claims. Its Dollier property consists of approximately 40 map staked contiguous cells covering an area of about 2,228 ha. Its MacCormack property consists of approximately 89 claims covering an area of about 3,808 ha.

Altaley Mining Corporation is a Canadian based mining company with two 100% owned Mexican gold, silver and base metal mining projects. Altaley provides its investors uncorrelated exposure to the mining sector with a defensive asset class (linked to precious metals returns), and a cyclical return asset class (base metals; Zinc, Lead & Copper).

Canada Nickel Company Inc. is a Canadian exploration company focused on its asset portfolio located in the Timmins mining camp, Canada. The company’s flagship Crawford Nickel Sulphide project is one of the top five nickel sulphide projects globally with mineralisation similar to the Dumont Nickel Deposit.

E3 Lithium is a lithium resource and technology company aiming to power the growing electrical revolution. Based in Alberta, E3 Lithium’s combined resources, including the Clearwater project are being developed on the backbone of the mature and sophisticated oil and gas industry that will allow the Company to accelerate its development.

Reunion Gold Corporation is a leading gold explorer in the Guiana Shield, South America. In 2021 the Company made an exciting new gold discovery at its Oko West project in Guyana, where to date it has outlined continuous gold mineralization at the Kairuni zone over 2,000 meters of strike and to a depth of 575 meters. The mineralization appears to be open-pit amenable with a strong grade profile and favourable initial metallurgy. In addition to Kairuni there are several additional priority exploration targets on the Oko West project area that the Company is exploring. The Company's common shares are listed on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol 'RGD' and trade on the OTCQB under the symbol 'RGDFF'.

Precipitate Gold is a Canada-based mineral exploration company. The Company is focused on exploring and advancing its mineral property interests in Newfoundland Canada and the Dominican Republic. The Company’s projects include Ace, Motherlode, Ponton, Pueblo Grande and Juan de Herrera. The Ace Project is located at the northern end of the Exploits Subzone of north-central Newfoundland, Canada. The project mineral claims cover approximately 2,500 hectares. It has an option to acquire a 100% interest in all mineral exploration licenses making up the project, subject to a 1.5% net smelter return (NSR). The Motherlode Project is located in southeastern region of Newfoundland’s Burin Peninsula approximately 3.5 hours by road from Gander and/or St. John’s. The project mineral claims cover approximately 12,350 hectares, south coast Newfoundland. The Ponton Project is located approximately 35 kilometers due east of Barrick's Pueblo Viejo mining operation.

Scottie Resources Corp. is an exploration stage company engaged in the exploration and evaluation of gold and silver properties located in the “Golden Triangle” of British Columbia, Canada, an area which has shown great potential to host high grade gold and silver deposits.

Aduro Clean Technologies is a developer of patented water-based technologies to chemically recycle waste plastics; convert heavy crude and bitumen into lighter, more valuable oil; and transform renewable oils into higher-value fuels or renewable chemicals. The Company’s Hydrochemolytic™ technology activates unique properties of water in a chemistry platform that operates at relatively low temperatures and cost, a game-changing approach that converts low-value feedstocks into 21st-century resources.

Grid Metals Corp. is a Canadian exploration and development company focused on the exploration of its mineral resources at its properties in Manitoba and Ontario. The company’s asset portfolio holds nickel, copper, PGM, cobalt, palladium and lithium mineralisation.

Talisker is a junior resource company involved in the exploration of gold projects in British Columbia, Canada. Talisker’s projects include two advanced-stage projects, the Bralorne Gold Complex, and the Ladner Gold Project, both advanced stage projects with significant exploration potential from historical high-grade producing gold mines, as well as its Spences Bridge Project where the Company holds ~85% of the emerging Spences Bridge Gold Belt, and several other early-stage Greenfields projects. With its properties comprising 304,931 hectares over 500 claims, three leases and 197 crown grant claims, Talisker is a dominant exploration player in south-central British Columbia.

Metal Energy is a nickel and battery metal exploration company with two projects, Manibridge and Strange, in the politically stable jurisdictions of Manitoba and Ontario, Canada, respectively. The Manibridge Project is 85% owned by Metal Energy and 15% owned by Mistango River Resources Inc. (CSE: MIS). The Strange Project is subject to earn-in agreements where the Company can acquire 100% exploration rights to approximately 12,000 hectares.