Company Interviews

Is Brazil investable? A new seemingly anti-mining President in Lula, what do mining companies need to do and how will they be affected? These CEOs address this question head on.

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.

Baselode Energy Corp. is a Canadian uranium exploration company, focused on high-grade uranium orebodies in the Athabasca Basin area of Northern Saskatchewan, where it holds a land position of approximately 227,000 hectares. The company is focused on discovering near-surface, basement-hosted, high-grade uranium deposits, which it believes it has accomplished with the ACKIO discovery at its Hook project.

CopperCorp Resources Inc. is a mineral exploration company focused on the advancement of its AMC project, located in the northwest corner of the Australian state, Tasmania. The AMC project of the company, formerly known as the Alpine project is an iron oxide copper and gold (IOCG) type deposit, with a 1,066 km2 land package. The state of Tasmania is an island state of Australia and is powered 100% by renewable energy as well as has over 150 years of mining history. The exports of Tasmania are predominantly mining-related, with more than 60% of the state’s exports being from mining. The western part of Tasmania also hosts approximately 10 past and currently operating mining operations, including world-class mines such as the Henty Gold Mine owned by Catalyst Metals Limited.

Renforth Resources Inc. is a Canada-based gold exploration company. The Company’s owns surface gold bearing properties located in the Provinces of Quebec and Ontario, Canada. It holds the Parbec Property in the Malartic gold camp, with gold present at surface and to some depth, located on the Cadillac Break, contiguous to the East Amphi portion of the Canadian Malartic Mine property. It owns the Surimeau property, also contiguous to Canadian Malartic and the southern border of the Malartic West property. Surimeau hosts polymetallic mineralization. It also holds Malartic West property that covers approximately 53 square kilometers (km) and located within the Pontiac Sediments. Its Nixon-Bartleman project is located in the West Timmins Mining Area, in the western part of the Porcupine Mining Camp.

ValOre Metals Corp. is a Canadian exploration company with a market cap of approximately CAD$ 60 million. The company is focused on advancing its Canadian and Brazilian projects. The company’s Angilak project is one of the highest-grade uranium projects in the world. The project holds a 66,435-hectare land position in Nunavut Territory and holds 43.3 million pounds of U3O8 in Inferred resources. The company’s 100%-owned Pedra Branca project is a 56,852-hectare land package located in north-eastern Brazil and hosts approximately 2.2 million ounces of palladium, platinum and gold.

Minera Alamos is a new gold producer currently going through the ramp up of its first gold mine with its first gold production having taken place in October 2021.The Company has a portfolio of high-quality Mexican assets, including the 100%-owned Santana open-pit, heap-leach gold mine in Sonora currently ramping up toward commercial production in 2022. The 100%-owned Cerro de Oro oxide gold project in northern Zacatecas that has considerable past drilling and metallurgical work completed and where we are fast tracking the permitting process efforts. The La Fortuna open pit gold project in Durango (100%-owned) has an extremely robust and positive preliminary economic assessment (PEA) completed and the main Federal permits in hand.

Amex Exploration Inc. is a Canada-based mining exploration company, which is focused on the acquisition, exploration, and development of viable gold projects in the mining-friendly jurisdiction of Quebec. The Company's properties include Perron, Lebel-sur-Quevillon, Eastmain River South, Eastmain River North, and Eastmain River Centre. The Perron property is composed of 116 claims covering an area of 4,518 hectares located in the township of Perron and is located approximately eight kilometers northwest of the town of Normetal. The Lebel-sur-Quevillon project consist of four properties, which includes Cameron property, Madeleine West property, Madeleine East property, and Pusticamica property. The Eastmain South property is located in Quebec and composes of 77 claims covering an area of 4,055 hectares. The Eastmain Nord property is composed of 38 claims covering an area of 1,996 hectares. The Eastmain River Centre property is composed of four claims covering an area of 210 hectares.

Purepoint Uranium Group Inc. is a uranium exploration company focused on the precision exploration of its projects in the Canadian Athabasca Basin (the “Basin”), the world’s richest uranium region.Driven by an aggressive, systematic approach of identifying key projects with solid indicators and historic significance in the Basin, our objective is to enhance stakeholder value through the advancement of properties with well-defined targets of strong, high-grade uranium potential.

Grid Metals is an exploration and development Company currently focused on exploration and resource growth at its properties in Manitoba and Ontario. Grid has a diversified portfolio of properties where it is actively exploring for Nickel-Copper-PGM-Cobalt, palladium and lithium. The Makwa Mayville Project 145 km from Winnipeg MB has a significant NI 43-101 compliant resource of nickel copper and platinum group metals and a highly prospective lithium property. Properties are located in areas with good access and infrastructure.

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.

Lodestar Battery Metals Corp. is a Canadian company exploring for the next generation of clean energy metals. Through additional project acquisitions and claim expansions, Lodestar Battery Metals will continue to expand and develop its property portfolio with a targeted focus in the battery metals space. Lodestar management and board have experience identifying and evaluating acquisition targets and exploration prospects. The company intends to build a strong portfolio of battery metals projects to drive future growth by exploration success and from later-stage projects with production potential. To achieve this growth the Lodestar business plan calls for a dynamic combination of development of its existing properties, acquisitions and partnership.

Nordic Nickel Limited (ASX:NNL) holds a district-scale landholding of highly prospective nickel sulphide tenements in the world-class Central Lapland Greenstone Belt (CLGB) of Finland. The CLGB hosts several Tier-1 deposits including Agnico-Eagle’s 6.9Moz Kittilӓ gold mine, Boliden’s 307Mt Kevitsa nickel-copper-gold open pit mine and Anglo American’s high-grade 44Mt Sakatti copper-nickel-PGE underground development project.Nordic Nickel is focused on the advanced Pulju Project, where historical drilling has confirmed widespread nickel sulphide mineralisation, and the earlier-stage Maaninkijoki 3 (MJ3) Project. In partnership with local stakeholders, Nordic Nickel will utilise best-practice, modern exploration techniques on drill ready targets, with the aim of expanding known mineralisation and making new discoveries.

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.

Baroyeca Gold and Silver Inc. is a mineral exploration company, focused on its high-grade silver and gold projects located in Colombia. The company’s flagship project the Atocha project is a 2,585-hectare silver and gold project located in the Falan Municipality of Columbia. The Santa Barbara project of the company holds a land position of 320 hectares and is located at the northern tip of the Serranía de San Lucas, which is considered one of the richest gold belts in Colombia. The Zepatoca project of the company holds a land position of 4000 hectares and lies 40 km southwest of the departmental capital city, Bucaramanga in Columbia.

Azure Minerals Limited is an Australia-based mineral exploration company. The Company is focused on exploration and development of its portfolio of precious and base metal projects in Mexico. Its projects include the Andover Nickel-Copper Project, Turner River Gold Project, Coongan Gold Project, Barton Gold Project and Meentheena Gold Project. The Andover Nickel-Copper Project is located approximately 35 kilometers southeast of Karratha and immediately south of the town of Roebourne. The Turner River Gold Project consists of two exploration license applications covering approximately 450 square kilometers located south of Port Hedland. The Coongan Gold Project is located in the eastern Pilbara, approximately eight kilometers to the west of Nullagine, and covers an area of 141 square kilometers. The Meentheena Gold Project is located in the eastern Pilbara, approximately 80 kilometers east of Marble Bar, and covers an area of 223 square kilometers.

Labrador Uranium Inc. is a Canadian junior exploration and development company focused on the advancement of its projects located in the region of Labrador, Canada. The company’s asset portfolio consists of its CMB project, Moran Lake deposit and Mustang Lake project, located in the central mineral belt of Labrador. The projects of the company in the central mineral belt hold a land position of approximately 139,000 hectares. The Notakwanon project of the company hosts near-surface uranium and has shown grab samples of up to 3.5% U3O8.

CanAlaska Uranium Ltd. is a junior exploration company that prides itself on its hybrid model of project generation and active exploration. The Company is focused on the exploration of uranium, copper and nickel deposits in both the Athabasca and Thompson Nickel Belt regions.

Steppe Gold Ltd is a Canada-based company engaged in precious metals and minerals exploration sector. The Company is focused on development of its flagship ATO project, a gold and silver mine. In addition, the Company has approximately 20,000 meter drill program underway at Mungu, northeast of the ATO resource. The Company has also commenced exploration at the Uudam Khundii property.The Uudam Khundii property is comprised of one exploration licence covering around 14,500 hectares. The project area is located 800 km south-west of Ulaanbaatar.

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.

AfriTin Mining Limited is a London-listed technology metals mining company with a vision to create a portfolio of globally significant, conflict-free, producing and exploration assets. The Company's flagship asset is the Uis Tin Mine in Namibia, formerly the world's largest hard-rock open cast tin mine.AfriTin is managed by an experienced board of directors and management team with a current strategy to ramp- up production at the Uis Tin Mine in Namibia to more than 10,000 tonnes of tin concentrate and 350,000 tonnes of lithium concentrate in a Phase 2 expansion, having reached Phase 1 commercial production in 2020. The Company strives to capitalise on the solid supply/demand fundamentals of tin and lithium by developing a critical mass of resource inventory, achieving production in the near term and further scaling production by consolidating assets in Africa.

DRDGOLD Limited is a South African gold producer and a world leader in the recovery of the metal from the retreatment of surface tailings. DRDGOLD has a network of assets that is unrivalled in South Africa and, with its consolidated businesses operating as a single entity, is focused on optimising these assets in order to increase gold production.

Peninsula Energy Limited is an ASX listed company that owns the Lance Uranium Projects in Wyoming, USA which are in transition from an alkaline to a low pH in-situ recovery operation, with the aim of achieving the operating performance and cost profile of the industry leading uranium projects.

Elixir Energy Ltd. is an Australian gas exploration and development company focused on the exploration of natural gas in the form of coal-bed methane (CBM) in Mongolia. The asset portfolio of the company consists of its 100% owned Nomgon IX Coal Bed Methane (CBM) Production Sharing Contract (PSC) project, located in the South Gobi region of Mongolia and the Gobi H2 green hydrogen production project, located in the Gobi Desert.

Galan owns two Tier 1 lithium brine projects located on the world-class Hombre Muerto salar in Argentina. Perfectly positioned within South America’s ‘lithium triangle’, the Hombre Muerto salar is proven to host lithium brine deposition of the highest grade and lowest impurity levels within Argentina. The region is home to the established El Fenix lithium operation (Livent Corporation) and the Sal de Vida (Allkem) and Sal de Oro (POSCO) lithium brine projects.

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.

Enduro Metals holds one of the largest junior land positions in the heart of British Columbia’s Golden Triangle, a world-class mineral district hosting multiple successful mines. Enduro’s 648km2 Newmont Lake Property contains at least four large, distinct mineralized systems with district-scale potential—all starting from surface. The project’s geology, mineralization, exploration results and proximity align with some of the Golden Triangle’s richest known deposits.

American Lithium Corp. is a developer of advanced lithium projects 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.

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Aurion Resources Ltd. (Aurion), is a Canadian exploration company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange (TSX-V:AU). Aurion’s strategy is to generate or acquire early stage precious metals exploration opportunities and advance them through direct exploration by our experienced team or by business partnerships and joint venture arrangements. Aurion’s current focus is exploring on its Flagship Risti and Launi projects, as well as advancing joint venture arrangements with B2 Gold Corp. and Kinross Gold Corporation in Finland.

Exploits Discovery Corp. “Exploits” is a Canadian exploration company with one of the largest and most strategic land packages in Newfoundland, Canada where we are in active pursuit of world-class gold discoveries. Exploits holds 100% interest in seven known exceptional gold projects with geological, geochemical and structural settings comparable to New Found Gold’s Queensway discovery (DDH 19m at 92.86 g/t Au); and controls one of the largest land package in Newfoundland with over 200km of interpreted deep regional fault structures which include the Appleton Fault, Dog Bay Line, GRUB Line and the Mt Peyton Linear.

Strathmore Plus Uranium Corp. is a Canadian junior exploration company with assets in Wyoming, USA. The company changed its name to Strathmore Plus Uranium Corp. in September 2022, after being previously known as Strathmore Plus Energy Corp.

Puma Exploration Inc. is a Canadian exploration and development company focused on the advancement of its precious metals projects close to the Bathurst Mining Camp (BMC) in New Brunswick, Canada. The Bathurst Mining Camp (BMC) is located within the Iapetus Suture geological fault zone and is historically known to host lead, zinc, copper and gold. Puma Exploration Inc. is underway with the development of a new and emerging gold camp in the area.

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 mineralization is primarily clay-type Rare Earth Element (REE) mineralization.

Tinka is an exploration and development company with its flagship property being the 100%-owned Ayawilca zinc-silver-tin project in central Peru. The Zinc Zone deposit has an estimated Indicated Mineral Resource of 19.0 Mt @ 7.15% Zn, 16.8 g/t Ag & 0.2% Pb and Inferred Mineral Resource of 47.9 Mt @ 5.4% Zn, 20.0 g/t Ag & 0.4% Pb (dated August 30, 2021 - see news release). The Ayawilca Tin Zone has an estimated Inferred Mineral Resource of 8.4 Mt grading 1.0% Sn. Tinka holds 46,000 hectares of mining claims in Central Peru, one of the largest holders of mining claims in the belt. Tinka is actively exploring for copper-gold skarn mineral deposits at its 100%-owned Silvia project.

Integra Resources is a development-stage mining company focused on the exploration and de-risking of the past producing DeLamar Gold-Silver Project in Idaho, USA. Integra Resources is led by the management team from Integra Gold Corp. which successfully grew, developed and sold the Lamaque Project, in Quebec, for C$600 M in 2017. Since acquiring the DeLamar Project, which includes the adjacent DeLamar and Florida Mountain gold and silver Deposits, in late 2017, the Company has demonstrated significant resource growth and conversion while providing a robust economic study in its Pre-feasibility Study. The Company is currently focused on resource growth through brownfield and greenfield exploration and further de-risking of the Project.

Thor Explorations Ltd. is a TSX-V as well as AIM-listed West African focussed gold producer. The company’s flagship project, the Segilola gold project is located approximately 120 km northeast of Lagos. The project is forecast to produce 100,000 ounces of gold annually over the next five years from its open-pit operation. The project’s open-pit resource holds 517,800 ounces of gold in the probable category and 532,000 ounces of gold in the indicated category, with its underground resources showing 76,000 ounces of gold in the indicated category.

Electric Royalties Inc. (“Electric Royalties”) is royalty company set to take advantage of the demand for a wide range of commodities (lithium, vanadium, manganese, tin, graphite, cobalt, nickel & copper) that will benefit from the drive to electrification (cars, rechargeable batteries, large scale energy storage, renewable energy generation and other applications). Electric vehicle, battery production capacity and renewable energy generation is slated to increase significantly over the next several years and with it the demand for our target commodities. This creates a unique opportunity to invest in and acquire royalties over the mines and projects that will supply the materials needed to feed the electric revolution.

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 project also hosts existing infrastructure such as a 70-person camp, and access to logging roads and power lines within 40 km of the project’s proposed plant location. 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.

Canada Silver Cobalt Works, a unique and rapidly growing silver-cobalt focused company, is an exploration, development, technology, and environment leader in the prolific Northern Ontario Silver-Cobalt District. Canada Silver Cobalt’s flagship silver-cobalt Castle mine and 78 sq. km Castle Property feature strong exploration upside for silver, cobalt, nickel, gold, and copper. With underground access at the fully owned Castle Mine, an exceptional high-grade silver discovery at Castle East, a pilot plant to produce cobalt-rich gravity concentrates on site, a processing facility (TTL Laboratories) in the town of Cobalt, and a proprietary hydrometallurgical process known as Re-2Ox (for the creation of technical-grade cobalt sulphate as well as nickel-manganese-cobalt (NMC) formulations), Canada Silver Cobalt is strategically positioned to become a Canadian leader in the silver-cobalt space.

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.

Serabi Gold PLC is a UK-based junior gold mining company, which is focused on its operating asset the Palito Gold complex and its Coringa Gold project located in Brazil. The Palito Gold complex of the company is a high-grade, narrow vein underground mine, which is currently producing approximately 40,000 ounces of gold per annum. The Coringa project, when in production, is estimated to add approximately 40,000 ounces of gold per annum.

Jervois Mining (ASX: JRV) (TSX-V: JRV) (OTC: JRVMF) is focused on becoming a global supplier in the emerging battery metals market. A leading cobalt company with significant nickel and copper exposure, with strong development stage assets, growth opportunities and exploration projects.

Troilus Gold Corporation is a Canadian copper and gold development company focused on the advancement of the Troilus Gold Mine located northeast of the Val-d’Or district in Northern Quebec. The Troilus project has access to infrastructure which includes a network of maintained roads, a substation and tension power lines maintained by Hydro-Quebec. The project also has a permitted tailings facility as well as an operating water treatment plant.