Company Interviews

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.