Company Interviews

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.