Company Interviews

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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