Company Interviews

Meridian Mining UK S aims to become the next mid-tier copper developer and producer in Brazil with its focus on the development of its Cabaçal copper-gold-silver project in the state of Mato Grosso. The Cabaçal copper-gold-silver project is an advanced stage district-scale VMS deposit, which was discovered in 1983 by BP Minerals. The deposit contains broad zones of coalescing Cu-Au mineralization which starts close to surface and is open at a depth of 175 m whilst extending 2,000 m along strike.

Power Nickel Inc. is a Canadian exploration and development company focused on the advancement of its Nisk Nickel Sulphide project located in James Bay Canada. The location of the project enables it to take advantage of low-cost, low-carbon hydropower to create a sustainable battery metals operation. The project is 80%-owned by the company, with Critical Elements Lithium Corp. owning the remaining 20%. The project holds a large land position of approximately 20 km in strike length as well as high-grade intercepts of copper, cobalt, palladium, platinum and class 1 nickel.

2022 will be the 2nd year of a multi-year period of double-digit underlying demand growth. Actual demand during decade to be eventually constrained by available supply. Stainless low single-digit, but EV only up 36%. Overall demand 6%. Supply growth 15% and ROW supply did grow!Nickel in surplus (but inventory is supply chain build – not stockpiles). Nickel above $22k most of 2nd half and climbed to $24K+ in Q4. Matte saw strong growth (limited now by consumption). NPI at discount, but matte also at discount. 78% sulphate feed either matte/MHP by year-end2023 will see the return of double-digit demand growth driven by high growth from EVs, a return to trend demand growth in stainless, and strong growth from alloys.

Fortune Bay Corp. (TSXV: FOR, FWB: 5QN) is an exploration and development company with 100% ownership in two advanced gold exploration projects in Canada, Saskatchewan (Goldfields Project) and Mexico, Chiapas (Ixhuatán Project), both with exploration and development potential. The Company is also advancing the 100% owned Strike and Murmac uranium exploration projects, located near the Goldfields Project, which have high-grade potential typical of the Athabasca Basin. The Company has a goal of building a mid-tier exploration and development Company through the advancement of its existing projects and the strategic acquisition of new projects to create a pipeline of growth opportunities. The Company’s corporate strategy is driven by a Board and Management team with a proven track record of discovery, project development and value creation.

Jaguar Mining Inc. is a Canadian-listed junior gold mining, development, and exploration company operating in Brazil with three gold mining complexes and a large land package with significant upside exploration potential from mineral claims. The Company's principal operating assets are located in the Iron Quadrangle, a prolific greenstone belt in the state of Minas Gerais and include the Turmalina Gold Mine Complex and Caeté Mining Complex (Pilar and Roça Grande Mines, and Caeté Plant). The Company also owns the Paciência Gold Mine Complex, which has been on care and maintenance since 2012. The Roça Grande Mine has been on temporary care and maintenance since April 2019.

Apollo Silver Corp. is a silver exploration and development company focused on the advancement of its Calico silver project located in San Bernardino County California. The project boasts as being the third-largest undeveloped silver resource in the United States and hosts a mineral resource estimate (MRE) of 166 million ounces of silver in the inferred category.

G2 Goldfields Inc. is a Canada-based resource exploration company. The Company is focused on the discovery of gold deposits in the Guiana Shield. The Company operates primarily in Guyana, where the Company owns a 100% interest in two past gold-producing mines, as well as a regional portfolio of prospective projects. The Company's projects include Oko Aremu and Puruni. The projects are located at the southern end of the Cuyuni Basin and host high-grade Orogenic Gold mineralization within the Cuyuni Basin Sediments and the underlying Barama volcanics. The Aremu Oko District covers a strike length of approximately 17 kilometers. Its Aremu/Oko and Jubilee/Peters Mine properties consist of approximately 37,068 acres and are in the Cuyuni-Mazarumi region of north-central Guyana in the Guiana Shield.

ACME Lithium Inc. is a Canadian mineral company focused on building partnerships with leading technology and commodity companies, for the acquisition, exploration and development of battery metal projects.

Energy Fuels Inc. is the leading producer of uranium in the United States, a major US vanadium producer, and an emerging supplier of commercial rare earth elements (REE). The company aims to aid electrification and drive the reduction of carbon emissions through its commodity supply.

Magna Mining Corp. is a Canadian exploration and development company focused on the advancement of its nickel, copper and PGM projects in the Sudbury Region of Ontario, Canada. The flagship project of the company, the Shakespeare project, is a past-producing Nickel, Copper and PGM mine located 70 km southwest of Sudbury. The project has a mineral resource of 20.34 million tons of mineralisation at 0.55% NiEq in the indicated category and 2.36 million tons of mineralisation at 0.57% NiEq in the inferred category. The project also holds permits for the construction of a 4,500 tpd mill and the recommencement of its open pit mining operations.

Founded by the team that developed and sold Continental Gold Inc. to Zijin Mining for approximately $2 billion in enterprise value, Collective Mining is a copper, silver and gold exploration company based in Canada, with projects in Caldas, Colombia. The Company has options to acquire 100% interests in two projects located directly within an established mining camp with ten fully permitted and operating mines.The Company’s flagship project, Guayabales, is anchored by the Apollo target, which hosts the large-scale, bulk-tonnage and high-grade copper, silver, and gold Main Breccia discovery. The Company’s near-term objective is to continue with expansion drilling of the Main Breccia discovery while increasing confidence in the highest-grade portions of the system.Management, insiders and close family and friends own nearly 35% of the outstanding shares of the Company and as a result, are fully aligned with shareholders. The Company is listed on the TSXV under the trading symbol "CNL" and on the OTCQX under the trading symbol “CNLMF”.

Cassiar Gold Corp. is focused on the 100% owned, district-scale Cassiar Gold Property located in northern BC, Canada. Spanning 590 km2, the property consists of two main project areas: (1) Cassiar North, which hosts a substantial bulk-tonnage orogenic gold resource with significant expansion potential over a 6 km strike length; and (2) Cassiar South, which hosts numerous high-grade epizonal quartz gold vein systems, 25 km of historical underground workings, and rich exploration prospects over 9 km of strike.The Property is highly accessible by Highway 37 and has a permitted 300 tpd mill, 160 km of property access roads, permanent camp, and established mine permits.

Marimaca Copper Corp. is a Canadian copper company, focused on the advancement of 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.

First Mining Gold Corp. is a Canadian project developer with assets located in Ontario and Quebec. The Springpole project of the company is one of the largest, undeveloped, open-pit gold deposits in Canada. The project’s economics include an 11-year life of mine, post-tax NPV5% of CAD$ 995 million and a post-tax IRR of 29%. The company’s 100%-owned Duparquet gold project located in Quebec is an advanced exploration asset, which holds 3.4 million ounces of gold in the measured and indicated category as well as 1.6 million ounces of gold in the inferred category. The project offers the opportunity to consolidate approximately 5 million ounces of gold in the Abitibi gold district at less than CAD$ 5 per ounce of gold.

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.

Bonterra Resources Inc. is a Canadian gold exploration company, with a large portfolio of exploration projects in Quebec, Canada. The asset portfolio of the company holds the Barry, Gladiator, Moroy and Bachelor deposits, as well as the only permitted and operational gold mill in the region, namely the Bachelor Mill.

Revival Gold Inc. is a growth-focused gold exploration and development company. The Company is advancing the Beartrack-Arnett Gold Project located in Idaho, USA.Beartrack-Arnett is the largest past-producing gold mine in Idaho. Engineering work has been initiated on a Preliminary Feasibility Study (“PFS”) for the potential restart of heap leach operations. Meanwhile, exploration continues focused on expanding the 2022 Indicated Mineral Resource of 65.0 million tonnes at 1.01 g/t gold containing 2.11 million ounces of gold and Inferred Mineral Resource of 46.2 million tonnes at 1.31 g/t gold containing 1.94 million ounces of gold. The mineralized trend at Beartrack extends for over five kilometers and is open on strike and at depth. Mineralization at Arnett is open in all directions.Revival Gold has approximately 86.9 million shares outstanding and a cash balance of C$9.1 million as of March 31, 2022. All figures presented here are in metric units and in $US unless stated otherwise.

OutCrop Silver and Gold is a Canadian junior exploration and mining company, focused on the advancement of its precious metal projects in Columbia. The company also aims to expand its asset portfolio into various other high-opportunity jurisdictions in the future. The company’s Columbian asset portfolio consists of the Santa Ana, Mallama, Antares, Oribella and Argelia projects.

KGL Resources Limited is an Australian mineral explorer and developer focused on the delineation and development of the high grade Resource at the Jervois Copper Project in the Northern Territory, Australia and establishing a high grade, sustainable copper mine.Using modern, cost effective exploration methods, the Company has successfully defined a current JORC Resource of 23.80 Million tonnes at 2.02% Copper, 0.25g/t Gold and 25.3g/t Silver.The Company is currently focused on completing Project studies that will determine the optimal development scenario at Jervois, with environmental approval recommended in October 2019, and the Jervois Mining Management Plan approved by the NT Government in January 2021.

Banyan Gold Corp. is engaged in exploration and development of mineral properties. The Company's projects include AurMac Project and Hyland Gold Project. Its Hyland Gold Project is located in the Watson Lake Mining District in southeast Yukon, approximately 74 kilometers northeast of the town of Watson Lake within the traditional territory of the Kaska Dena Nation (Liard First Nation). The Hyland Gold Project consists of approximately 927 active Yukon-registered quartz mineral claims totaling over 18,620 hectares in an area that is road accessible from Watson Lake. The AurMac Gold Project is located in the Mayo Mining district, approximately 56 kilometers northeast of the village of Mayo and approximately 356 kilometers north of Whitehorse, within the traditional territory of the First Nation of Na-Cho Nyak Dun. The AurMac Gold Project consists of approximately 506 active Yukon registered quartz mineral claims totaling over 9,230 hectares.

Orford Mining Corp. is a Canadian mineral resource company, focused on advancing base and precious metal assets. The company is primarily a gold-focused exploration company with nickel optionality as can be seen through its West Raglan project, in which the company holds an earn-in agreement with Wyloo Metals Pty Ltd.

Cabral Gold Inc. is a TSX-V and OTC-listed gold exploration company focused on advancing its flagship Cuiú Cuiú gold project. The Cuiú Cuiú gold project is a 36,000-hectare land package, located in the Tapajos region of Brazil northwest of the TZ project owned by Eldorado Gold Corporation.

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.

Hot Chili Ltd. is a senior copper developer focused on its Costa Fuego Copper Project located on the coastline of Chile. The project is a consolidated land package consisting of the Cortadera porphyry copper-gold deposit and the Productora copper-gold deposit. The project boasts as one of the largest copper mineral resources in any ASX-listed emerging company and contains a high-grade mineralisation component.

Abcourt Mines Inc. is a gold producer and a Canadian exploration corporation with strategically located properties in northwestern Québec, Canada. Abcourt owns the Sleeping Giant mill and mine where it concentrates its activities.

Chakana Copper Corp. is a Canadian junior minerals exploration company, focused on the advancement of its Soledad project near the town of Aija in the Ancash province of central Peru. The project forms part of the Ticapampa-Aija mining district in the Cordillera Negra, which has a long history of mining. The Soledad project consists of high-grade copper, gold and silver mineralisation initiating at the surface.

Kodiak Copper Corp. (TSX.V:KDK, OTCQB:KDKCF) is focused on its 100% owned copper porphyry projects in Canada and the USA. Kodiak Copper is backed by John Robins’ Discovery Group, founded by Chairman Chris Taylor (President and CEO of Great Bear Resources), and led by Claudia Tornquist (former GM at Rio Tinto and former VP Business Development at Sandstorm Gold). The team has shown the ability to raise capital while protecting a tight share structure, and attracting strategic investors such as Teck Resources. The strategy behind Kodiak’s portfolio is to apply Great Bear’s successful approach to the copper space – unlock the value of historically drilled, underexplored assets in prime locations using new interpretation and technology.

Investigator Resources Ltd. is an Australian exploration company focused on the advancement of its South Australian projects. The Paris Silver project of the company is 100% owned and holds a mineral resource estimate of 53.1 million ounces of silver and 97.6 kt of lead. The MRE consists of 73% of the resources in the estimated category, with the operation envisioned to be an open-pit mining operation. The project also hosts the Apollo prospect which has recently shown REE mineralisation. The company believes that the projects that will show growth once the market starts to change will be those that not only have high-grade mineralisation such as the Paris silver project but also those that host multiple metals.

Southern Palladium Limited is an Australian public company which has acquired a 70% interest in the Bengwenyama palladium/rhodium dominated PGM project located on the Eastern limb of the Bushveld, South Africa.

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.

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.

GR Silver Mining Ltd. is a junior exploration and development company focused on the advancement of its Mexican assets, the Plomosas project. The Plomosas project consists of the Plomosas an San Marcial properties. The Plomosas property is an 8,515-hectare land package consisting of various mining concessions with numerous drilled areas as well as the past-producing Grupo Mexico S.A de C.V. underground mine. The San Marcial property of the company is a 1,250-hectare project, located 98 km southeast of the city of Mazatlan. The property has a current NI 43-101 compliant mineral resource estimate of 36 million ounces of silver equivalent (AgEq) in the indicated category and 11 million ounces of AgEq in the inferred category.

Rupert Resources Ltd. is a Canadian-based gold exploration and development company primarily focused on its Rupert Lapland project in Northern Finland. The Ikkari gold deposit of the company lies within the Rupert Lapland project and holds an estimated 4 Moz of gold.

Cobalt Blue Holdings Ltd. is an ASX-listed, cobalt development and technology company focused on advancing its Broken Hill Cobalt project which is located in the western region of New South Wales in Australia. The company aims to become the world's premier producer of ethical cobalt, which is a key component of EV batteries and plays a large role in energy storage systems. The Broken Hill Cobalt project covers an area of approximately 37 km2 and holds 18.3 kilotons (kt) of Cobalt in the measured category, 37.1 kt in the indicated category and 25.6 kt in the inferred category, leading to a total of 81.1 kt of cobalt mineralisation contained within the project.

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.

Heliostar Metals Ltd. is a Canadian gold exploration and development company with projects in both Mexico and Alaska. The company’s Unga project in Alaska is a high-grade gold project which covers both the Unga and Popof Islands along the Aleutian Island chain of Alaska.

Critical Elements Lithium Corporation is a mining exploration company owning several mining properties in Quebec. The Company is focused on lithium. It has achieved its objective with the Rose Lithium-Tantalum project, which is currently at the advanced exploration stage. Based on the work programs developed and positive results, Critical Elements Lithium Corporation is aiming to put the Rose lithium-tantalum project into production rapidly. The Company flagship project is well located in Quebec with on-site access to infrastructures like: powerline, roads, airport, railway access and camp. The Rose Lithium-Tantalum Project currently contains reserves of 26,8 million tonnes of Probable Reserves at a grade of 0.96% Li2O Eq. or 0.85% Li2O and 133 ppm Ta2O5.

Vision Lithium (TSX.V – VLI) is a junior exploration company focused on exploring and developing high quality battery mineral assets including lithium and copper in safe jurisdictions, primarily Canada. The Company is led by skilled and qualified mineral exploration and business professionals with a deep understanding of the lithium battery materials market which is driven by lithium ion batteries.

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.

Fission 3.0 is a uranium project generator and exploration company, focusing on projects in the Athabasca Basin, home to some of world's largest high grade uranium discoveries. Fission 3.0 currently has 16 projects in the Athabasca Basin. Several of Fission 3.0's projects are near large uranium discoveries, including, Arrow, Triple R and Hurricane deposits.

Blue Sky Uranium Corp. is a leader in uranium discovery in Argentina. The Company's objective is to deliver exceptional returns to shareholders by rapidly advancing a portfolio of surficial uranium deposits into low-cost producers, while respecting the environment, the communities, and the cultures in all the areas in which we work. Blue Sky has the exclusive right to properties in two provinces in Argentina. The Company’s flagship Amarillo Grande Project was an in-house discovery of a new district that has the potential to be both a leading domestic supplier of uranium to the growing Argentine market and a new international market supplier. The Company is a member of the Grosso Group, a resource management group that has pioneered exploration in Argentina since 1993.

Tesoro Gold Limited was established with a strategy of acquiring, exploring, and developing mining projects in the Coastal Cordillera region of Chile. The Coastal Cordillera region is host to multiple world class copper and gold mines, has well-established infrastructure, service providers, and an experienced mining workforce. Large areas of the Coastal Cordillera remain unexplored due to the unconsolidated nature of mining concession ownership, but Tesoro, via its in-country network and experience has been able secure rights to a district scale gold project in-line with the Company’s strategy. Tesoro’s 95% owned Chileansubsidiary owns 85% of the El Zorro Gold Project.

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Sokoman Minerals Corp. is a junior exploration and development company focused on its projects in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The company’s flagship project, the Moosehead Gold project is located next to the Trans-Canada Highway and consists of 98 claims totalling a land position of 2,450 hectares. The project has historically shown gold values of up to 442 g/t of gold from boulders and 170 g/t of gold over an intercept of 1.53 m. The company also holds a strategic alliance with Benton Resources Inc. which includes the Grey River Gold project and the Kepenkeck Gold project located in southwest Newfoundland.

Kavango is a mineral exploration company focused within mining-friendly Botswana. Its shares are listed on the London Stock Exchange (Standard List) with ticker KAV.L.

Carbon Streaming aims to accelerate a net-zero future. The Company pioneered the use of streaming transactions, a proven and flexible funding model, to scale high-integrity carbon credit projects to accelerate global climate action and advance the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. This approach aligns the strategic interests with those of project partners to create long-term relationships built on a shared commitment to sustainability and accountability and positions them as a trusted source for buyers seeking high-quality carbon credits.The Company’s focus is on projects that have a positive impact on the environment, local communities, and biodiversity, in addition to their carbon reduction or removal potential. The Company has carbon credit streams and royalties related to over 20 projects around the world, including projects involving nature-based solutions, the distribution of fuel-efficient cookstoves and water filtration devices, sustainable community projects focused on waste avoidance and energy efficiency, agricultural methane avoidance and biochar carbon removal.

Palladium One Mining is focused on discovering environmentally and socially conscious Metals for Green Transportation. A Canadian mineral exploration and development company, Palladium One is targeting district-scale, platinum-group-element (PGE)-copper-nickel deposits in Canada and Finland. The Läntinen Koillismaa (LK) Project in north-central Finland, is a PGE-copper-nickel project that has existing NI43-101 Mineral Resources, while both the Tyko and Canalask high-grade nickel-copper projects are located in Ontario and the Yukon, Canada, respectively.

Adventus Mining Corporation is an Ecuador-focused copper-gold exploration and development company. Adventus Mining is majority owner of the 215 sq. km Curipamba copper-gold project, which has a completed feasibility study on the shallow and high-grade El Domo deposit. In addition, Adventus Mining is engaged in a country-wide exploration alliance in Ecuador, which has incorporated the Pijili and Santiago copper-gold porphyry projects to date. Outside of Ecuador, Adventus Mining owns an exploration project portfolio in Ireland with South32 Limited as the funding participant. Its strategic shareholders include Altius Minerals Corporation, Greenstone Resources LP, Wheaton Precious Metals Corp., and the Nobis Group of Ecuador. Adventus Mining is based in Toronto, Canada, and is listed on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol ADZN and trades on the OTCQX under the symbol ADVZF.

Fireweed is a Canadian mineral development company focused on sustainably exploring and developing critical metals projects while creating value for their shareholders, partners, and stakeholders.

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.