Company Interviews

Ur-Energy owns and operates the Lost Creek in-situ recovery uranium facility in south-central Wyoming. In 2021, Lost Creek received an amendment to its license allowing expansion of mining activities within the existing Lost Creek Project and the adjacent LC East Project. The license now allows annual plant production up to 2.2 million pounds U3O8, which includes wellfield production of up to 1.2 million pounds U3O8 and toll processing of up to one million pounds U3O8. Additional approvals for this expansion are expected in 2022. The second uranium in‑situ recovery facility, Shirley Basin Project, has received all major authorizations and is construction ready.

Ur-Energy engages in the identification, acquisition, exploration, development, and operation of uranium projects. Shares of Ur Energy trade on the NYSE American under the symbol “URG” and on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol “URE." Ur-Energy’s corporate office is located in Littleton, Colorado; its registered office is in Ottawa, Ontario.

Goldshore Resources is an emerging junior gold development company, and owns the Moss Lake Gold Project located in Ontario. Wesdome Gold Mines is currently a strategic shareholder of Goldshore with an approximate 30% equity position in the Company. Well-financed and supported by an industry-leading management group, board of directors and advisory board, Goldshore is positioned to advance the Moss Lake Gold Project through the next stages of exploration.

Cabral Gold is a junior resource company engaged in the identification, exploration and development of mineral properties, with a primary focus on gold properties located in Brazil. The Company has a 100% interest in the Cuiú Cuiú gold district located in the Tapajós Region, within the state of Pará in northern Brazil. Two gold deposits have so far been defined at Cuiú Cuiú and contain 43-101 compliant Indicated resources of 5.9Mt @ 0.90 g/t (200,000 oz) and Inferred resources of 19.5Mt @ 1.24 g/t (800,000 oz).

The Tapajós Gold Province is the site of the largest gold rush in Brazil’s history producing an estimated 30 to 50 million ounces of placer gold between 1978 and 1995. Cuiú Cuiú was the largest area of placer workings in the Tapajós and produced an estimated 2Moz of placer gold historically.

Transition Metals is a multi-commodity exploration company using the project-generator business model. This approach maximises shareholder exposure to discoveries and capital gain while minimising shareholder equity dilution by selling interest in the projects rather than ownership in the Company. Funding to advance the projects and make discoveries comes from partners that receive an interest in a project in exchange for cash payments, exploration expenditures, royalties and shares.

Minbos is an exploration and development company with a vision to build a nutrient supply and distribution business that stimulates agricultural production and promotes food security in Angola and the broader Middle-Africa region, through the development of its world-class phosphate ore project within the Cabinda province.

Altech Chemicals is a specialty battery materials technology company that is developing a 10,000 tpa silicon graphite anode plant in the state of Saxony, Germany, using its proprietary high purity alumina coating technology. The Company is positioning itself to supply battery material products to the burgeoning European electric vehicle market.

Paycore Minerals is a Toronto-based junior exploration company which holds a 100% interest in the FAD Project located on the Eureka-Battle-Mountain mining trend located in Nevada, USA. The FAD Project is a high-grade poly-metallic (gold, silver, lead and zinc) project with historical production from the 1940’s and 1950’s. 

SPC Nickel Corp. is a Canada-based mineral exploration company. The Company is principally focused on exploring for nickel and Copper in the Sudbury Mining District of Ontario. The Company is exploring its key 100% owned exploration projects, Aer-Kidd and Lockerby East both located in the heart of the historic Sudbury Mining Camp and holds an option to acquire 100% interest in the Janes project located approximately 50 kilometers (Km) northeast of Sudbury, Ontario. The Aer-Kidd project is located approximately 20 km southwest of Sudbury, Ontario along the Worthington Offset Dyke. The property consists of five mining patents representing approximately 403 hectares. The Lockerby East Property is located approximately 20 km west of Sudbury, Ontario within the southwest corner of the Sudbury Basin, and consists of approximately 397 hectares of freehold patents.

Treasury Metals Inc. is a gold focused exploration and development company with assets in Canada. The Company’s projects include Goliath Gold, Goldlund Mine and Miller Mine projects. The Goliath Gold Project consists of the construction, operation, decommissioning, and remediation of an open-pit and underground gold mine and associated milling infrastructure, including a tailings storage facility located approximately 20 kilometers east of the City of Dryden, Ontario. The Goldlund Mine Project is a proposed open pit mine with no associated processing infrastructure and is located approximately 35 kilometers southwest of Sioux Lookout. The Miller Mine Project is a proposed open pit mine with no associated processing infrastructure and is located approximately 25 kilometers southwest of Sioux Lookout.

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.