Company Interviews

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.

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.

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.

Prismo Metals is engaged in the business of mineral exploration and the acquisition of mineral property assets in Mexico. Its objective is to locate and develop economic precious and base metal properties of merit. Further to this objective, the Company entered into an option agreement, effective May 7, 2019, pursuant to which it was granted the option to acquire a 75% interest in the Palos Verdes Property, which constitutes the material property of the Company.Over the next 12 to 18 months, the Company intends to complete its recommended exploration program on the Palos Verdes Property and its initial commitments thereon.

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.

With approximately 90 million pounds of U3O8 estimated in the Measured and indicated categories and 9 million pounds of U3O8 estimated in the inferred category, enCore is the most diversified in-situ recovery uranium development company in the United States. enCore is focused on becoming the next uranium producer from its licensed and past-producing South Texas Rosita Processing Plant by 2023. The South Dakota-based Dewey Burdock project and the Wyoming Gas Hills project offer mid-term production opportunities, with significant New Mexico uranium resource endowments providing long-term opportunities. The enCore team is led by industry experts with extensive knowledge and experience in all aspects of ISR uranium operations and the nuclear fuel cycle. enCore is committed to engaging and working with local communities and indigenous governments to create positive impact from corporate developments.

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 a high-grade uranium mine development as well as a cash-flowing zinc concentrate production. The company’s flagship project is the Dasa Project, located in the country of Niger.

Spey Resources is a Canadian mineral exploration company which has an 80% interest in the ‎Candela II lithium brine project located in the Incahuasi Salar, Salta Province, Argentina. Spey ‎also holds an option to acquire a 100% undivided interest in Pocitos II and 20% interest in the ‎Pocitos I lithium projects‎. Spey also holds interests in four lithium exploration projects located ‎in the James Bay Region of ‎Quebec‎. Spey has a 100% interest in the Silver Basin Project located ‎in the Revelstoke Mining Division of British Columbia as well as an option to acquire a 100% ‎interest in the Kaslo Silver project, west of Kaslo, British Columbia.‎

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.

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 company was founded in 2016 and has since then built an asset portfolio with a land position of approximately 180 km2. 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 NI 43-101 compliant 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 as well as the recommencement of its open pit mining operations.

American Eagle Gold is focused on advancing its NAK property located in the Babine Copper-Gold Porphyry district in central British Columbia. NAK's known copper-gold porphyry mineralization is open at depth and is defined by a compelling geophysical signature analogous to Newcrest's Red Chris Mine and Newmont's Tatogga project located in Northwest BC. The company is currently drilling to test the property's geophysical features in search of a robust underground block cave copper-gold porphyry deposit.

Karora Resources Inc. is a Canadian gold producer predominantly based in Western Australia. The assets of the company include the Beta Hunt Mine, the Higginsville Gold Operations (HGO) and the Spargos Reward Gold Mine.

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, the capital city of Mali, which is the 3rd largest gold-producing country globally. The project boasts a mineral resource estimate of 1.7 million ounces of gold in the measured and indicated category. The project also holds 1.4 million ounces of gold in the inferred category and 1.3 million ounces in the proven and probable category.

Arizona Sonoran Copper Company Inc.’s (“ASCU”) principal business objectives are the identification, acquisition, exploration, development and sustainable production of base metal properties in geographic regions known to have low geopolitical risk. The Company's principal asset is a 100% interest in the Cactus Project, which is situated on private land and which the Company acquired from ASARCO Trust in July 2020.Headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, the Company’s Cactus Mine is located 70 km south of Phoenix International Airport and just outside of the city of Casa Grande. Geologically, the project is situated at the convergence of three major porphyry copper belts and benefits from excellent nearby access to a skilled workforce and local infrastructure (including water, onsite power, highways and rail networks).

Denison is a uranium exploration and development company with interests focused in the Athabasca Basin region of northern Saskatchewan, Canada. The Company has an effective 95% interest in its flagship Wheeler River Uranium Project, which is the largest undeveloped uranium project in the infrastructure rich eastern portion of the Athabasca Basin region of northern Saskatchewan. Denison's interests in Saskatchewan also include a 22.5% ownership interest in the McClean Lake joint venture ("MLJV"), which includes several uranium deposits and the McClean Lake uranium mill, contracted to process the ore from the Cigar Lake mine under a toll milling agreement, plus a 25.17% interest in the Midwest Main and Midwest A deposits, and a 66.90% interest in the Tthe Heldeth Túé ("THT," formerly J Zone) and Huskie deposits on the Waterbury Lake property. Each of Midwest Main, Midwest A, THT and Huskie are located within 20 kilometres of the McClean Lake mill.

NGEx Minerals is a Lundin Group copper and gold exploration company based in Canada with projects in Chile and Argentina. NGEx Minerals holds the large-scale Los Helados copper-gold deposit, located in Chile's Region III, as well as other early-stage projects located in Argentina. NGEx Minerals is the majority partner and operator for the Los Helados Project, subject to a Joint Exploration Agreement with its joint exploration partner in Chile, Nippon Caserones Resources Co., Ltd (formerly, Pan Pacific Copper Co., Ltd.). NGEx Minerals is actively seeking to add to its portfolio of projects as part of its overall growth strategy. The Company is listed on the TSXV under the trading symbol "NGEX".

Gold Bull’s mission is to grow into a US focused mid-tier gold development Company via rapidly discovering and acquiring additional ounces. The Company’s exploration hub is based in Nevada, USA, a top-tier mineral district that contains significant historical production, existing mining infrastructure and an established mining culture. Gold Bull is led by a Board and Management team with a track record of exploration and acquisition success.Gold Bull is driven by its core values and purpose which includes a commitment to safety, communication & transparency, environmental responsibility, community, and integrity.

Cypress Development Corp. (TSX.V: CYP) (OTCQX: CYDVF) is a Canadian based advanced stage lithium company, focused on developing its 100%-owned Clayton Valley Lithium Project in Nevada, USA. Cypress is in the pilot stage of testing on material from its lithium-bearing claystone deposit and progressing towards completing a Feasibility Study and permitting, with the goal of becoming a domestic producer of lithium for the growing electric vehicle and battery storage market.

West Wits Mining Limited is an Australia-based company, that is engaged in exploration of gold at the mining tenements situated in Western Australia and South Africa. The Company operates through two segments: South Africa and Australia. The Company projects include Witwatersrand Basin Project (WBP) and Mt Cecelia Project. Its WBP comprises two mining centers on the Northern Edge of the Witwatersrand Basin in the Central Rand Goldfield immediately southwest of the city of Johannesburg. Its WBP is located in the gold region of Central Rand Goldfield of South Africa. Its Mt Cecelia Project is located approximately 150 kilometer(km) ENE of Marble Bar, 150 kilometer NW of Telfer Mine, and 120 kilometer(km) NNW of Nifty mine (aerial distance). The Company is exploring for gold and copper at the Mt Cecilia Project in Western Australia.

Pan Global Resources Inc. (TSX.V : PGZ) is a Vancouver based junior resource company actively engaged in base and precious metal exploration in Spain.Pan Global's Board of Directors and Leadership Team bring decades of knowledge and global exploration experience to the Company. The team has led their respective organizations to successful exit strategies or into production, generating hundreds of millions in shareholder value.

Reyna Gold Corp. is a gold exploration company focused on district-scale exploration on two major gold belts in Mexico. The Company has a portfolio of assets on the Mojave-Sonora Megashear and the Sierra Madre Gold and Silver Belt consisting of over 57,000 hectares/ 570 sq km. The Company has an experienced management team with a proven track record of wealth creation in Mexico through project discovery, advancement and monetization. La Gloria the Flagship project is 24,215 hectares/242 sq km on the prolific Mojave-Sonora Megashear, where over 35million ounces of gold have been discovered.

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.

Warrior Gold is an exploration company that has consolidated a significant and prospective land package in the world class Kirkland Lake gold camp, Ontario, Canada. The company’s properties are hosted in the Abitibi Greenstone Belt, one of the world’s best-endowed greenstone belts with +200 million ounces of gold produced to date.

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.

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.

Investigator Resources Limited is an Australia-based metal exploring company. The Company is focused on silver, copper, and gold discovery in South Australia. The Company’s projects include the Paris Silver project, Peterlumbo project, Maslins Iron Oxide Copper Gold Project, and Eyre Peninsula projects. The Paris Silver Project is located approximately 70 kilometers north of the rural township of Kimba on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula. Peterlumbo project is located in the pastoral country of northern Eyre Peninsula district approximately 350 kilometers northwest of Adelaide and 60 kilometers northwest of the town of Kimba. The Maslins Project is located in the Olympic Domain belt of the Stuart Shelf in the Gawler Craton, South Australia, and presents as an untested geophysical anomaly with the potential to host Iron Oxide Copper Gold (IOGC) mineralization.

Signal Gold Inc. is a TSX and OTCQX -listed gold mining and development company, focused on the advancement of its projects in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. The Goldboro project of the company is a 592-hectare land package located 175 km northeast of the city of Halifax. The company published a feasibility study of the Goldboro gold project in 2021, which includes highlights such as an 11-year life of mine with an average gold production of 100,000 ounces annually. The after-tax NPV5% of the project is CAD$ 328 million with an after-tax internal rate of return (IRR) of 25.5%. The projected after-tax payback period is 2.9 years.

O3 Mining Inc. is a gold exploration and development company focused on its assets located in Québec, Canada. The company’s Marban Engineering Gold project is located approximately 15 km west of the town of Val-d'Or in the Abitibi-Temiscamingue region of Quebec, Canada. The project is a 1,023-hectare land package, consisting of approximately 30 mining claims and three mining concessions.

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.

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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.

GoviEx Uranium is a Canadian based uranium development company focused on its projects located in three different African countries. 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.

Silvercorp Metals Inc. is a diversified precious metals producer, with its main assets situated in China. The company’s asset portfolio contains several active mines which produce, silver, lead, gold and zinc which are implemented towards feeding the Chinese solar panels and windmill equipment manufacturing industry demand. The company also has a significant investment in other companies including New Pacific Metals Corp. which has a portfolio of projects in Bolivia. The company believes its operations in China will not be affected by geopolitical concerns; this is due to the production phases of various international companies being intimately tied to China.

Westhaven Gold Corp is focused solely on the southwestern region of British Columbia on the Spences Bridge Gold Belt. The company owns a 100%-interest in 4 properties within its 35,000 hectares land package, namely its Prospect Valley, Shovelnose, Skoonka Creek and Skoonka North Gold Properties.

Gen Mining’s focus is the development of the Marathon Project, a large undeveloped palladium-copper deposit in Northwestern Ontario. The Company released the results of the Feasibility Study on March 3, 2021 and published the NI43-101 Technical Report dated March 25, 2021. The Marathon Property covers a land package of approximately 22,000 hectares, or 220 square kilometres. Gen Mining owns a 100% interest in the Marathon Project.

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 hosted in high-grade quartz-tourmaline-sulfide breccia pipes that initiate at surface.

Allegiance Coal is a publicly listed (ASX:AHQ) Australian company focused on the development, operation and supply of steel making coal to the seaborne market. With operating mines in southeast Colorado, central Alabama, as well as a development project in northwest British Columbia, Allegiance is well placed to supply steel making coal to both the Pacific and Atlantic markets.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mawson Gold is a Canada-based exploration and development company listed on the TSX. Its Rajapalot gold-cobalt project is its flagship, which covers approximately 17,989 hectares (ha) of exploration permits located just south of the Arctic Circle in Finnish Lapland. Rajapalot has a 1.04moz AuEq inferred mineral resource, with a Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA) under way, as well as an active exploration program on its property. Mawson also has an option to acquire up to 85% of the Skelleftea North gold project in Skelleftea, Sweden, 4.5hrs south west of its Rajapalot project, where maiden drilling has commenced. Mawson recently IPO’d and now holds 60% of ASX listed Southern Cross Gold, which owns or controls 47,100 ha of epizonal goldfield tenements in Victoria, Australia, most notably the high grade Sunday Creek discovery. Its subsidiaries include Southern Cross Gold, Mawson Oy and Mawson AB among others.

Sitka Gold Corp. is a Canadian based mining exploration company focused on maximizing shareholder value through the discovery and development of district-scale mineral deposits. The Company currently owns a 100% interest in the Alpha Gold Property, located in Nevada's prolific Carlin-type gold domain, the Mahtin Gold Property which is part of the RC Gold Project, an Intrusion Related gold target in the heart of the Tintina Gold Belt in Yukon, and the Coppermine River Property located in northwestern Nunavut. The Company also has an option to acquire a 100% interest in the RC, Barney Ridge and Clear Creek Properties, which together with the Mahtin Gold Property comprise the RC Gold Project in Yukon, the OGI Silver-Zinc-Gold Property, also located in Yukon, and the Burro Creek Gold Property, a low sulphidation epithermal gold and silver project located in west-central Arizona that contains a historical gold/silver resource estimate and was permitted for production in the late 1980's.

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.

Lotus Resources (ASX: LOT, OTCQB: LTSRF) owns an 85% interest in the Kayelekera Uranium Project in Malawi. The Project hosts a current resource of 37.5M lbs U3O8, and historically produced ~11MIb of uranium between 2009 and 2014. The Company completed a positive Restart Study in late 2020 which demonstrated that Kayelekera can support a viable long-term operation and has the potential to be one of the first uranium projects to recommence production in the future. The Company is currently working through a Feasibility Study that will be completed in mid 2022.

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Strathmore Plus Uranium Corp., an exploration stage company, engages in the acquisition, exploration, and development of resource properties. The company was formerly known as Strathmore Plus Energy Corp. and changed its name to Strathmore Plus Uranium Corp. in September 2022. Strathmore Plus Uranium Corp. was incorporated in 2007 and is based in Kelowna, Canada.

Giga Metals Corporation is a Canada-based mineral exploration company. The Company is focused on the acquisition and exploration of mineral properties in Canada. The Company is engaged in developing the Turnagain project, a nickel sulphide deposit in north-central British Columbia.

Argentina Lithium & Energy Corp is focused on acquiring high quality lithium projects in Argentina and advancing them towards production in order to meet the growing global demand from the battery sector. The management group has a long history of success in the resource sector of Argentina and has assembled a first-rate team of experts to acquire and advance the best lithium properties in the “Lithium Triangle”. The Company is a member of the Grosso Group, a resource management group that has pioneered exploration in Argentina since 1993.