Company Interviews

Erdene is the leading explorer in an untested portion of the prolific Central Asia Orogenic Belt (CAOB), host to some of the world’s largest gold and copper-gold deposits. They have discovered multiple gold and base metals deposits and prospects within our 170km2 Khundii Gold District.

To date Erdene has discovered two gold deposits, Bayan Khundii and Altan Nar, and multiple prospects, including Dark Horse, Ulaan and Altan Arrow within its Khundii Gold District.

Over the past decade, Erdene has built the largest proprietary geological database of the region, which combined with its proven, systematic approach to exploration positions the Company for continued exploration success in this emerging gold district. 

Akora Resources Limited ("AKO") is a Melbourne based mineral exploration company which was incorporated in October 2009. AKO has three prospective exploration target areas comprising some 308 km2 of iron ore tenements.

Bekisopa is the flagship project with its high grade ~65% lump iron ore suitable for Direct Ship Ore (DSO). Our focus post the successful capital raising on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) is to build on the quality historical geological knowledge and drill to define a +100 million tonne JORC CODE 2012 compliant high grade lump direct ship iron ore maiden resource.

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.

Anaconda Mining is a TSX and OTCQX-listed gold mining, development, and exploration company, focused in the top-tier Canadian mining jurisdictions of Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. The Company is advancing the Goldboro Gold Project in Nova Scotia, a significant growth project with Measured and Indicated Mineral Resources of 1.9 million ounces (16.0 million tonnes at 3.78 g/t) and Inferred Mineral Resources of 0.8 million ounces (5.3 million tonnes at 4.68 g/t) (Please see The Goldboro Gold Project Technical Report dated March 30, 2021), which is subject to an ongoing Feasibility Study. Anaconda also operates mining and milling operations in the prolific Baie Verte Mining District of Newfoundland which includes the fully-permitted Pine Cove Mill, tailings facility and deep-water port, as well as ~15,000 hectares of highly prospective mineral property, including those adjacent to the past producing, high-grade Nugget Pond Mine at its Tilt Cove Gold Project.

The Metals Company was founded in 2021 through the merger of DeepGreen and the Sustainable Opportunities Acquisition Corporation (NYSE: SOAC), to scale our nodule collecting and onshore processing systems.

They produce metals from polymetallic rocks to power electric vehicles. For over a decade, they've been exploring the planet’s largest known deposit of battery-grade metals: nodules on the seafloor of the Clarion Clipperton Zone in the Pacific Ocean. During this time, the onshore team has developed and successfully run a metallurgical process to derive key battery metals from these remarkable rocks while generating zero solid processing waste.

The team is made up of scientists, environmentalists, engineers, architects, and business leaders who see the climate crisis as the biggest challenge of our time. Electric vehicles and renewable energy are a key part of the solution, but scaling these technologies will require hundreds of millions of tons of new metals. Polymetallic nodules represent the cleanest source of battery grade metals on the planet and the best path forward.

1911 Gold Corporation is a junior gold producer focused on the exploration and development of new gold deposits on the Company’s flagship asset in Rice Lake, Manitoba. The Company has significant upside potential, with existing infrastructure and a consolidated land position extending along the crustal-scale Wanipigow fault. Historic exploration activity has been narrowly focused, limited by the fragmented land position and a focus on near mine mineralization. The new exploration model uses a belt-scale exploration focus to identify and test geology comparable to the existing True North mine as well as structures similar to those found further east along the West Uchi Greentstone Belt, in the Red Lake district. The Company also owns the Apex property near Snow Lake, Manitoba and the Denton-Keefer and Tully properties near Timmins, Ontario. 1911 Gold intends to focus on both organic growth opportunities and accretive acquisition opportunities in North America.

1911 Gold Corporation presents an attractive opportunity for investors looking for an entry into one of the most prolific trends for gold, in an area that is vastly underexplored compared to other regions along the belt.

Chakana Copper Corp. is a Canadian based minerals exploration company and through its wholly owned Peruvian subsidiary, Chakana Resources S.A.C., is currently advancing the Soledad project near Aija, in the Ancash region of the highly prolific Miocene mineral belt of Peru. The goal is to find and advance mineral projects to an economic resource within a single commodity cycle for further development by mid-tier and or major mining companies. They are highly selective in our approach, looking for de-risked projects that have the characteristics of large above average grade mineral systems with significant upside potential. They employ the latest technological innovations to test the upside potential of projects with aggressively funded exploration programs. The Executive Management Team and Board have a proven track record of success in the minerals industry, from capital raising, exploration, discovery, development and monetizing the asset through divestment.

Val-d’Or Mining Corporation is a junior natural resource issuer involved in the process of exploring and evaluating its mineral property assets, most of which are situated in the Abitibi Greenstone Belt of NE Ontario and NW Québec.

The Company holds a 100% interest in a group of grassroots properties located in Ontario and Quebec

The Company focuses on the generation of new projects (“project generator”) and early-stage exploration. The mineral interests are broad and range from precious and base metals, to industrial and energy minerals. After the initial value creation in 100% or majority-owned properties, the Company seeks partners with the technical expertise and financial resources to conduct more advanced exploration funding of key projects. To complement its current strategic property interests, the Company regularly evaluates new opportunities for staking and/or acquisitions. Outside of its principal regional geographic focus, the Company holds several other properties in Northern Québec (Nunavik) covering different geological environments (Ni-Cu-PGE’s).

Vital Metals (ASX: VML) is Canada’s first – and North America’s second – rare earths producer, with production underway at Nechalacho in June 2021. We aim to produce a minimum 5,000 tonnes of contained REO at Nechalacho by 2025.

Mining at Nechalacho’s North T Zone is underway as part of our Stage 1 production strategy. We are now crushing and sorting ore before it is sent to a Saskatoon cracking and leaching facility later in 2021.

Vital has commenced drilling to define a mine plan for Stage 2 at Nechalacho as it works to develop a larger scale, longer life rare earths project.

Vital aims to become the lowest cost producer of mixed rare earth oxide outside of China by developing one of the highest grade rare earth deposits in the world and the only rare earth project capable of beneficiation solely by ore sorting.

Vital’s other projects include the high-grade Wigu Hill rare earth resource in Tanzania.

Bannerman Energy is an Australian listed uranium development company (ASX: BMN, OTCQB: BNNLF, NSX: BMN). The flagship Etango Project is one of the world’s largest undeveloped uranium assets. It is located in the highly established uranium mining jurisdiction of Namibia and we have environmental permits in place for development. Etango has been strongly de-risked through extensive drilling, technical evaluation and operation of a process demonstration plant facility.

They are an established Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) leader within Namibia and the global uranium sector, exercising best-practice governance in all aspects of our business.