Company Interviews

K92 Mining Inc. is Canadian TSX-listed gold, silver and copper producer focused on its Kainantu Gold Mine located in the Eastern Highlands province of Papua New Guinea. The Kainantu Gold Mine is an underground mine with a land package of 860 km2. The mine hosts the high-grade Irumafima and Kora deposits and is one of the highest-grade mining operations in the world. The company is currently underway with various expansion initiatives aimed at increasing the annual gold production from 100,000 ounces to 350,000 ounces. 

ACME Lithium is a mineral exploration company focused on acquiring, exploring and developing battery metal projects in partnership with leading technology and commodity companies. ACME has acquired or is under option to acquire 100% interest in 266 lithium and lode mining claims totaling approximately 5,361 acres in Esmeralda County, Nevada, which are prospective for lithium contained in tertiary claystones.

ACME also owns 100% interest in 27 mineral claims totaling 11,803 acres in the pegmatite fields of the Bird River Greenstone Belt in southeastern Manitoba, Canada. Backed by an experienced management team who have successfully built and financed resource companies around the world, and with 4 projects located across North America, the building blocks of the future are our focus today.

Labrador Uranium is engaged in the exploration and development of uranium projects in Labrador, Canada. LUR has acquired the Moran Lake, Mustang Lake Joint Venture, and CMB Projects covering over 139,000 ha in the prolific Central Mineral Belt (CMB) in central Labrador and the Notakwanon Project in northern Labrador. The Moran Lake Project, which hosts historical uranium mineral resources, and both Mustang Lake and the CMB Projects, located adjacent to Paladin Energy’s Michelin uranium deposit, have had substantial past exploration work completed with numerous occurrences of uranium, copper and IOCG style mineralization. These three projects are expected to be the focus of a concentrated exploration program in 2022.

G Mining Ventures was established in 2020 to acquire direct ownership of projects and capitalize on the value upliftment that successful mine development offers.

The company is focused on developing its Tocantinzinho gold project into the third-largest gold producer in Brazil. The Tocantinzinho gold project is a fully permitted, open-pit gold deposit that hosts 2 million ounces of gold and is open at depth. The Tocantinzinho gold project was acquired by G Mining Ventures in late 2021 from Eldorado Gold Corp., which invested over USD$ 90 million into the project.

Invictus Energy Ltd is an independent upstream oil and gas company listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX: IVZ). The Company is headquartered in Perth, Australia and has offices in Harare, Zimbabwe.

Invictus is opening one of the last untested large frontier rift basins in onshore Africa – the Cabora Bassa Basin – in northern Zimbabwe through a high impact exploration program.

The Company’s principal asset is SG 4571 located in the Cabora Bassa Basin in Zimbabwe which contains the world class Mzarabani prospect – the largest undrilled prospect onshore Africa independently estimated to contain 8.2 Tcf and 247 million barrels of conventional gas condensate (gross mean unrisked basis).

Astra Exploration offers their shareholders leverage to the price of precious metals through exceptional discovery potential

Their exploration jurisdiction, the Paleocene Mineral Province of Northern Chile, lies within one of the most mineral-rich regions of the world. It has significant potential to host additional precious metals deposits like Yamana’s world-class El Peñón mine, which has a known total endowment of over 7M oz of gold and 207M oz of silver.

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.

Montem Resources is a steelmaking coal and renewable energy development company with assets in the Crowsnest Pass, Alberta, Canada. Their three main projects are the Tent Mountain Mine, the Chinook Project and the Tent Mountain Renewable Energy Complex (TM-REX).

The team is predominantly made up of Canadian and Australian coal miners, with a history of successfully building and managing coal mines. The TM-REX Steering Committee, which aims to execute the strategy to drive development of the TM-REX, is made of experienced Canadian power industry executives and consultants. Their operations are centered in their community-based office in Coleman, Alberta. They also have a small office in Calgary, Alberta and the corporate address is in Melbourne, Australia.

This panel of CEOs discusses how junior mining companies react to changing market conditions. We have a producer and two exploration companies who will have been affected in a different way by inflationary effects. But how do they react? What are the offence and defence positions that they can take? What are the important factors investors should be focused on?

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.