Company Interviews

First Mining Gold Corp. is a Canadian project developer with its assets located in Ontario and Quebec. The Springpole project of the company, located in Ontario, is one of the largest, undeveloped, open-pit gold deposits in Canada. The projects economics include a 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, access to logging roads and power lines within 40 km of the project’s proposed plant location.

GoGold Resources (TSX: GGD) is a Canadian-based silver and gold producer focused on operating, developing, exploring and acquiring high-quality projects in Mexico. The Company operates the Parral Tailings mine in the state of Chihuahua and has the Los Ricos South and Los Ricos North exploration projects in the state of Jalisco. Headquartered in Halifax, NS, GoGold is building a portfolio of low cost, high margin projects.

Great Bay Renewables, based in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, provides capital to the renewable energy sector in exchange for royalties in renewable energy generating facilities at all stages in their life cycle. Great Bay’s management team has extensive experience in renewable energy development, financing, and operations across a range of renewable technologies located throughout the United States. Great Bay is backed by Altius Renewable Royalties Corp. (TSX: ARR) (OTCQX: ATRWF) and funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management, Inc. (NYSE: APO).

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. The company, like various other Chilean mining companies, experienced relief as the country voted against a suggested new constitution. The now rejected constitution would have seen the nationalisation of mines in the country amongst other radical changes.

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.

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.

Gold79 Mines Ltd. is a junior gold exploration company focused on its three projects in Nevada and Arizona. The three projects of the company are the Gold Chain project located in Mohave County, Arizona, the Jefferson Canyon gold-silver project located in southern Nevada and the Greyhound property located north of the community of Baker Lake.

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 Project, located in the country of Niger.

Palladium One Mining Inc. (TSXV: PDM) 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 leading mining jurisdictions. Its flagship project is the Läntinen Koillismaa (LK) Project in north-central Finland, which is ranked by the Fraser Institute as one of the world’s top countries for mineral exploration and development. LK is a PGE-copper-nickel project that has existing Mineral Resources. PDM's second project is the 2020 Discovery of the Year Award winning Tyko Project, a high-grade sulphide, copper-nickel project located in Canada.

THE Event returns in 2023. Canada’s invitation-only Tier I Conference for Mining Companies, accredited investors, institutions, and funds. Showcasing the best of Canadian mining to a global audience. Featuring a mix of exploration, development, royalty companies and producers representing all commodities. THE Event will also feature keynotes and panels with well-known industry thought leaders.

E79 Resources Corp. is an Australian gold exploration company focused on its Beaufort and Myrtleford properties in the Victorian Goldfields of Australia. The Beaufort property holds the potential to host a hard rock alluvial goldfield along a structure that is known to host gold in the region. The Myrtleford property consists of 70 past-producing gold mines with the potential to host Fosterville-type gold mineralization. The bulk of the property’s historic mining stopped at the water table.

Kingsrose Mining Limited is an Australia-based gold production and exploration company. The Company is focused on the production, exploration, and development of its gold deposit at the Way Linggo Project in South Sumatra, Indonesia. The Way Linggo Project holds approximately 100 square kilometers and is located on the Trans-Sumatran Fault, part of the Pacific Rim of Fire. The Company is primarily producing from its two operating mines in the Project area, the Way Linggo Open Cut Mine, and the Talang Santo Underground Mine. The Talang Santo is located within a cluster of epithermal veining and is situated approximately 17 kilometers from the Way Linggo processing plant.

Treasury Metals Inc. is a gold focused exploration and development company with assets in Canada and is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (“TSX”) under the symbol “TML” and on the OTCQX® Best Market under the symbol TSRMF. Treasury Metals Inc.’s 100% owned Goliath Gold Complex in northwestern Ontario has received federal government permission to proceed on final authorizations and permits, following successful completion of the environmental assessment process. Goliath Gold Complex is slated to become one of Canada’s next producing gold mines.

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.

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.

CanAlaska Uranium Ltd. is an 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.

Sovereign Metals Ltd. is an Australian exploration and development company focused on the advancement of its high-grade Rutile and Graphite project in Malawi, namely the Kasiya project. The company aims to develop the project into an environmentally and socially sustainable operation with the ability to be a major supplier of critical raw materials.

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. The company, like various other Chilean mining companies, experienced relief as the country voted against a suggested new constitution. The now rejected constitution would have seen the nationalisation of mines in the country amongst other radical changes.

Maverix Metals is a precious metals royalty and streaming company with 122 assets stretching throughout the world. The company is listed on both the Toronto and New York Stock Exchanges and expects a record revenue of approximately $55 million in 2021, while further boasting a $700 million market cap.

EV Nickel is exploring and advancing the next generation of high grade, Clean Nickel™ projects to deliver the metal needed to power the electric vehicle revolution.EV Nickel is targeting the lowest possible carbon cost per unit of Nickel and has applied for the trademark Clean Nickel™ across several jurisdictions. Clean Nickel™ will be EVNi questioning all parts of nickel production and making low-carbon production central to the business EVNi intends to develop in the Shaw Dome.The Shaw Dome is accessible by road and only 25 km southeast of Timmins, Ontario. Langmuir is 7 km by road from the Redstone Mill which has a capacity of 2,000 tonnes/day. After recent land acquisitions, EVNi now has more than 30,000 hectares of the Shaw Dome.

Skeena Resources is a Canadian gold silver mining exploration and development company focused on revitalizing the past-producing Eskay Creek gold-silver mine located in Tahltan Territory in the Golden Triangle of northwest British Columbia, Canada. The Company released a Feasibility Study for Eskay Creek in September 2022 which highlights an open-pit average grade of 4.00 g/t AuEq, an after-tax NPV5% of C$1.4B, 50% IRR, and a 1-year payback at US$1,700/oz Au and US$19/oz Ag. Skeena is currently continuing exploration drilling at Eskay Creek.

ION Energy Ltd. is a TSX-V-listed lithium exploration and development company focused on the development of its lithium brine assets in Mongolia. The company’s asset portfolio consists of the Baavhai Uul and the Urgakh Naran Lithium Brine Project. The Baavhai Uul Lithium Brine project is one of the largest exploration licences in Mongolia and consists of more than 80,000-hectares of highly prospective Lithium brine deposits. The Urgakh Naran Lithium Brine project is an approximately 20,000-hectare land package, situated in the South Gobi Desert, approximately 150 km from the Baavhai Uul Lithium project.

TUDOR GOLD Corp. is a precious and base metals exploration and development company with properties in British Columbia’s Golden Triangle (Canada), an area that hosts producing and past-producing mines and several large deposits that are approaching potential development. The 17,913 hectare Treaty Creek project (in which TUDOR GOLD has a 60% interest) borders Seabridge Gold Inc.’s KSM property to the southwest and borders Newcrest Mining Limited’s Brucejack property to the southeast. In April 2021 Tudor published their 43-101 technical report, “Technical Report and Initial Mineral Resource Estimate of the Treaty Creek Gold Property, Skeena Mining Division, British Columbia Canada” dated March 1, 2021, on the Company’s Sedar profile. The Company also has a 100% interest in the Crown project and a 100% interest in the Eskay North project, all located in the Golden Triangle area.

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.

Pensana Plc is a United Kingdom-based rare earth exploration and development company. The Company’s flagship assets are the Saltend rare earth refinery project in the United Kingdom (UK) and Longonjo neodymium and praseodymium (NdPr) Project in Angola. Saltend is an independent, sustainable supplier of the magnet metal oxides to a market which is dominated by China.

Altech Chemicals Limited is an ASX-listed company focused on the supply of battery materials for the lithium battery industry. The company is actively advancing its technologies which will enable the incorporation of silicon into lithium-ion batteries solving both the expansion and first cycle loss challenges faced by traditional lithium-ion batteries. The company aims to solve the challenges through the coating of silicon with a 2 nm thick layer of high purity alumina (HPA) which it will produce at its processing plant in Johor, Malaysia.

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.

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.

A lively debate about the Russian Ukraine conflict affect uranium investors thinking. We tackle lots of questions that may affect investors thinking and timing. Geopolitical commentary on the sabotage on the Nordstream 2 and what that does to Europe and US relations, Russia and China relations. How is US political narrative helping uranium juniors n North America. How does Canada benefit and when? Will all juniors get into production? And what could stop them?

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 project holds an estimated 4 Moz of gold.

Orford Mining Corp. is a Canadian mineral resource company, focused on the advancement of its base and precious metal assets. The company is primarily focused on underexplored areas within Northern Quebec. The asset portfolio of the company consists of the Qiqavik and West Raglan projects as well as three property positions in the Joutel region of the Abitibi District of northern Quebec. The Qiqavik project of the company is a 39,000-hectare land package that hosts multiple gold discoveries. The West Raglan project of the company holds a land position of 70,700 hectares and hosts nickel, copper and platinum group mineralisation.

World Copper Ltd. is a Vancouver-based junior copper mining company with projects in both Chile and Arizona. The company’s Chilean projects are the Escalones and Cristal projects. The Zonia project of the company lies in central Arizona. The company believes that it understands both the near and long term needs of the copper market and is positioning itself to be able to supply those needs.

Canada Nickel Company Inc. is a Canadian exploration company focused on its flagship asset, the Crawford Nickel Sulphide project, located in the Timmins mining camp, Canada. The project is a bulk tonnage opportunity with mineralisation similar to the Dumont Nickel Deposit.

Puma Exploration Inc. is a Canadian exploration and development company focused on the advancement of its precious metals projects in the Bathurst Mining Camp (BMC) in New Brunswick, Canada.

Sovereign Metals Ltd. is an Australian exploration and development company focused on the advancement of its high-grade Rutile and Graphite project in Malawi, namely the Kasiya project. The company aims to develop the project into an environmentally and socially sustainable operation with the ability to be a major supplier of critical raw materials.

Meridian Mining is focused on becoming the next mid-tier copper-gold developer. Our priority is on the resource development and exploration of our Cabaçal project, an advanced VMS district-scale Cu-Au project located in Mato Grosso, Brazil.

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.

Condor Gold Plc is a UK based exploration company focused on developing and further proving a large commercial reserve on its 100% owned La India Project in Nicaragua which is a 2.3million oz resource. In August 2018 Condor Gold received an Environmental Permit for the development, construction and operation of a processing plant with a capacity of up to 2,800 tonnes per day and associated mine site infrastructure at La India. From day one of production, Condor Gold aims to be a 100,000oz gold producer per annum, ramping up to 150,000oz per annum.

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.

First Mining Gold Corp. is a project developer with a portfolio of projects in Canada. The company’s flagship project, the Springpole gold project is one of the largest undeveloped open-pit gold deposits in Canada. The project hosts 3.8 million ounces of gold as well as 20.5 million ounces of silver. The pre-feasibility study of the project shows positive economics with an 11-year life of mine, a post-tax NPV5% of CAD$ 995 million and a post-tax internal rate of return (IRR) of 29%.

Raiden Resources Limited (ASX:RDN / DAX:YM4) is a copper-gold exploration company focused on discovering large scale Cu-Au porphyry and high-grade epithermal deposits in the world class Western Tethyan Belt in Eastern Europe, as well as, major gold deposits in the emerging province of Pilbara in Western Australia.Raiden operates in unique jurisdictions which host the potential for tier-one, world class discoveries and that are located in mining friendly jurisdictions with excellent infrastructure, but have remained relatively underexplored.In both Europe and in Australia, the Company has set itself up as one of the leading strategic land holders in each district and is geared for exploration success.

Lepidico Ltd is an Australia-based lithium exploration and development company. The Company is a developer of sustainable lithium hydroxide and other critical minerals, and is also engaged in lithium mica processing. Its 100% owned clean-tech L-Max process technology extracts lithium and recovers valuable by-products from less contested lithium-mica and phosphate minerals. Its S-Max technology produces amorphous silica from concentrates sourced from a range of mica minerals, including lithium micas. The LOH-Max process produces high purity lithium hydroxide from lithium sulfate. Its Phase I project development includes Chemical Conversion Plant, Abu Dhabi, and Karibib Project, Namibia. It has secured an approximately 57,000-meter square site for the Phase I chemical plant located within Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi (KIZAD). It holds an 80% interest in the Karibib Project, located within the Karibib Pegmatite Belt in central Namibia in southwestern Africa.

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.

Endeavour Silver Corp. is a mid-tier precious metals mining company listed on the NYSE:EXK and TSX:EDR. Endeavour operates two, underground, silver-gold mines in Mexico. Endeavour is currently advancing their 3rd asset, the Terronera Mine Project towards a development decision and exploring its portfolio of exploration and development projects in Mexico and Chile to facilitate its goal to become a premier senior silver producer.

ATEX Resources Inc. is a TSX-V-listed copper-gold exploration and development company focused on the development of its Valeriano copper-gold project, located in the Atacama region of Chile. The project consists of a large copper-gold porphyry system which is overlain by near-surface oxidised epithermal gold.

Chesapeake Gold Corp. is a Canadian exploration and development company focused on the advancement of its precious metal deposits in North and Central America. The company’s flagship Metates project is a 100%-owned gold and silver project located 175 km northeast of the city of Mazatlán in Durango state, Mexico.

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.

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 has three core projects, namely its lithium-ion battery recycling process in Germany, its Barrambie titanium and vanadium project in Western Australia and its vanadium recovery project in Scandinavia.

Trillion Energy is an international gas and oil producer. The Company has a simple clear strategy to add value to shareholders by ramping up production in extremely profitable proven non-produced gas reserves on the SASB gas field through existing infrastructure and facilities commencing in 2022. With current natural gas prices at all-time highs of US$13 (Jan 2022), and with production costs less than $1 + 12.5% royalty for its 17 well programs, Trillion is well poised to capitalize on the energy shortage gripping Europe in 2022.

Palladium One Mining Inc. is an exploration stage critical minerals company with assets in both Finland and North America. The company aims to position itself to be a part of the critical mineral sector and provide the expanding green transportation industry. The Läntinen Koillismaa (LK) project of the company is a platinum group element (PGE), nickel and copper project located in north-central Finland and is 100% owned by Palladium One Mining Inc. The Tyko property of the company is a nickel and copper project located in Northwestern Ontario. The newly acquired Canalask Property is a nickel, copper and PGE project located in the Whitehorse Mining District of the Yukon.