Company Interviews

The company was formed in 2016 and in early 2017, acquired Ursa Major Minerals, a private company that owned the past producing Shakespeare Mine and Shining Tree project. Shakespeare is situated 70 km to the south-west of the Sudbury Basin.  Magna has since assembled a contiguous land package of over 180km², much of which has seen little exploration work and yet remains prospective for further nickel, copper and PGM discoveries.

Bluestone Resources was created in 2017 with the purchase of the Cerro Blanco gold & Mita Geothermal projects. The Cerro Blanco project is a near surface high grade gold deposit, with a total of 3.1 Moz (M&I). A Feasibility Study illustrated an asset capable of +300 koz/yr at first quartile cash costs over an initial 14 year mine life. The Mita Geothermal project is an advanced-stage, renewable energy project licensed to produce up to 50 megawatts of power.

Kingfisher Metals is a discovery driven team comprised of experienced geologists, backed by a solid management group with decades of corporate and capital markets experience.

The Kingfisher team has extensive experience with early stage exploration in British Columbia, public company management and capital markets.

At Banyan Gold Corp., the purpose is simple:  Build a reputable exploration company through value driven acquisition, discovery and development. 

Banyan is focused on advancing two Yukon gold properties, the Hyland Gold Project and the Aurex-McQuesten Gold Project. 

The Hyland Gold Project has a National Instrument 43-101 Technical Report (NI-43-101) indicated mineral resource of 8.6 million tonnes grading 0.85 gram per tonne gold equivalent (AuEq) for 236,000 AuEq ounces with an inferred mineral resource of 10.8 million tonnes grading 0.83 g/t AuEq for 288,000 AuEq ounces at a 0.3 g/t AuEq cut-off.  This resource is located in its entirety on what is known as the “Main Zone”, is open in all directions and at depth, and has the potential to host a multi-million ounce deposit.

Lotus Resources Limited (LOT:ASX) is a minerals exploration and development company. The owns a 65% interest in the Kayelekera Uranium Project in Malawi. The project is held via a 76.5% holding in Lily resources Pty Ltd. Kayelekera hosts a high-grade resource with an existing open pit mine and demonstrated excellent metallurgical recoveries (87.5%) having historically produced over 10.9MIb of uranium between 2009 and 2014. 

Electric Royalties Inc. (“Electric Royalties”) is royalty company set to take advantage of the demand for a wide range of commodities (lithium, vanadium, manganese, tin, graphite, cobalt, nickel & copper) that will benefit from the drive to electrification (cars, rechargeable batteries, large scale energy storage, renewable energy generation and other applications). 

Electric vehicle, battery production capacity and renewable energy generation is slated to increase significantly over the next several years and with it the demand for our target commodities. This creates a unique opportunity to invest in and acquire royalties over the mines and projects that will supply the materials needed to feed the electric revolution.

Lepidico (ASX:LPD) is a global lithium exploration and development company with offices in Perth and Toronto. Differentiated by its 100% owned clean-tech L-Max®process technology that extracts lithium and recovers valuable by-products from less contested lithium-mica and phosphate minerals. Lepidico’s strategic objective is to become a vertically integrated business, from mine to production of battery grade lithium chemical.

In a relatively short period of time, Lepidico has established a global footprint in lithium via projects, joint ventures and alliances in Australia, Canada and Portugal. The Company’s shares are traded on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) and also on German stock exchanges.

Centaurus Metals (ASX: CTM) is an Australian-based minerals exploration company focused on the near-term development of the Jaguar Nickel Sulphide Project, located in the world-class Carajás Mineral Province in Northern Brazil – one of the world’s premier mining addresses.

Centaurus completed its acquisition of the Jaguar Project from global mining giant, Vale SA, in April 2020, delivering the Company with an exceptional exploration, growth and development opportunity in the international nickel sulphide sector.

Following completion of the acquisition, Centaurus immediately commenced a major drilling program, and has since defined a global Mineral Resource Estimate (MRE) totalling 58.9Mt grading 0.96% Ni for 562,600t of contained nickel.

Battery Mineral Resources (BMR) is a supplier working to bring battery minerals and metals to the market from new sources in a more cost-effective, socially responsible and sustainable way.  

BMR is focused on discovering, mining and bringing to market essential battery minerals. They are differentiated in the LIB raw materials market by the size and quality of their asset portfolio and quality of their experience.

Guanajuato Silver (GSilver) is engaged in reactivating past producing silver and gold mines near the city of Guanajuato, Mexico. The company currently has two mines: El Cubo, which is currently producing and El Pinquico, which is advancing to restart.