Company Interviews

Newcore Gold offers investors a unique combination of top-tier leadership and prime exploration opportunities in one of the world’s most attractive gold jurisdictions.

The vision is to build a responsive, creative and powerful gold enterprise that maximizes returns for shareholders. The Newcore team, which includes some of the industry’s most successful entrepreneurs, is focused on advancing its 100%-owned Enchi Gold Project in Ghana. Enchi, with over a million ounces of inferred resources lies along one of West Africa’s most prolific and developed gold trends.

92 Energy is an ASX Listed exploration company exploring for high grade unconformity related uranium in the Athabasca Basin, an area that has some of the largest and highest grade uranium deposits in the world, including the Cigar Lake and McArthur River mines.

92 Energy has five uranium project areas in the the Athabasca Basin region - Gemini, Tower, Clover, Powerline and Cypress River.

Maverix provides upfront payments to mine operators in need of capital in return for a percentage of the future revenue generated from the mine (a royalty), or the right to either purchase all, or a fixed percentage of, future precious metal production for a pre-determined price (a stream). These royalty and streaming agreements provide exposure to precious metals price appreciation, fixed operating costs and exploration and expansion upside without the associated capital, operating and environmental costs. In five years Maverix has acquired 5 major royalty portfolios from senior mining companies and along with a number of additional bolt on acquisitions has grown its portfolio to over 100 total royalties and streams. With its experienced and knowledgeable leadership team, support from key stakeholders and track record of adding value through acquisitions, Maverix is well positioned to continue its growth.

Maverix was founded in 2016 by Geoff Burns and Daniel O’Flaherty with the sole purpose of becoming a successful mining royalty and streaming company. In July 2016, Maverix acquired a package of 13 royalties and precious metal streams from Pan American Silver and began trading on the TSX Venture Exchange shortly after.

MineHub is an open, enterprise-grade platform for digital trade, bringing efficiency, security and responsibility to mining and metals supply chains. MineHub connects the many parties involved in a physical commodity transaction in a digitally integrated workflow, operating on the basis of shared information.

Users of MineHub are in full control of their supply chains, enabling them to optimize their use of resources, respond better and faster to customer needs and have confidence in the resilience, security and compliance of their operations.

Tesoro Resources (ASX: TSO) is an Australian public company with exploration stage gold assets in Chile. The company is focused on acquiring developing high grade gold assets that have potential to be district scale mining projects.

​Tesoro is managed by experienced mining professionals with strong geological and finance backgrounds as well as significant in-country expertise.

Tesoro was established with a strategy of acquiring, exploring and developing mining projects in the Coastal Cordillera region of Chile. The Coastal Cordillera region is host to multiple world class gold mines, has well established infrastructure, service providers and an experienced mining workforce. Large areas of the Coastal Cordillera remain unexplored due to the unconsolidated nature of mining  concession ownership,  but Tesoro, via its in-country network and  experience has been able secure rights to the emerging El Zorro Gold Project inline with the company’s strategy.

Tesoro owns 85% of the El Zorro Gold Project.

UEX Corporation has made significant advancements in the discovery and development of existing and new uranium and cobalt deposits in the Athabasca Basin. The company has four flagship projects.

The West Bear Cobalt-Nickel project is a shallow, open-pit amenable and very high-grade cobalt-nickel deposit in the eastern Athabasca Basin that remains open in all directions for expansion.  It ranges from 15 – 55 m in vertical depth and is hosted in clay-altered rocks that extend into the basement below the unconformity.  

The Christie Lake property in the eastern Athabasca Basin is located only 9 km northeast and along strike of the McArthur River Mine, the world's largest uranium mine. The property is host to significant historical uranium resources within three known deposits, including the newly discovered Ōrora Zone, located along the under-explored mineralized 1.5 km long Yalowega Trend. UEX currently holds a 65.55% interest in the project in a joint venture with JCU (Canada) Exploration Company Limited.

The Horseshoe and Raven Deposits located in the eastern Athabasca Basin are in close proximity to existing mining infrastructure, roads, and power. UEX is currently evaluating the use of heap leach recovery to improve the economics of these very shallow conventional open pit and underground amenable deposits.

The Shea Creek property is host to one of the largest undeveloped uranium resources in the Athabasca Basin. The Shea Creek Deposits remain open for expansion and were the first of the new wave of discoveries in the newly emerging Western Athabasca Uranium Camp.

Capella Minerals Ltd is a Canadian gold and copper exploration and development company with highly-prospective properties located in the favourable jurisdictions of Canada and Scandinavia.

Capella’s portfolio includes three high-grade gold projects in Canada (Domain, Manitoba and Savant Lake, NW Ontario) and Sweden (Southern Gold Line), the Katajavaara and Aakenus gold-copper projects in Finland, and two high-grade copper (VMS) projects located in the past-producing Løkken and Kjøli mining districts of central Norway. 

Capella’s management team has a wealth of technical and market experience, and a proven track record of success in finding, growing and advancing mineral discoveries. Recent success stories for the Capella team include Mariana Resources Ltd (for the discovery of the high-grade Hod Maden gold-copper deposit in NE Turkey, which was sold to Sandstorm Gold in 2017) and Extorre Gold Mines (for the discovery of the high-grade Cerro Moro gold-silver deposit in Argentina, which was sold to Yamana Gold Inc.).

Aldebaran is a mineral exploration company that was spun out of Regulus Resources Inc. in 2018 and has the same core management team. Aldebaran acquired the Rio Grande copper-gold project located in Salta Province, Argentina from Regulus along with several other early-stage projects in Argentina. Aldebaran also has the right to earn up to an 80% interest in the Altar copper-gold project in San Juan Province, Argentina from Sibanye Stillwater.

Energy Fuels is the leading U.S. producer of uranium – the fuel for carbon- and emission-free nuclear energy. Nuclear energy is expected to see strong growth in the coming years, as nations around the world work to provide plentiful and affordable energy, while combating climate change and air pollution. 

Energy Fuels is also a major U.S. producer of vanadium and an emerging player in the commercial rare earth business where its work is helping to reestablish a fully integrated U.S. supply chain.

With a truly unique portfolio, Energy Fuels has more production capacity, licensed mines and processing facilities, and in-ground uranium resources than any other U.S. producer. It boasts diverse cashflow-generating opportunities, including vanadium production, uranium recycling and rare earth processing.

Baselode Energy Corp is a Canada-based uranium exploration company. The Company is focused on discovering near-surface, basement-hosted, high-grade Uranium orebodies outside of the Athabasca Basin. looking for the next world-class deposit in the Athabasca Basin area of northern Saskatchewan, Canada. The Company’s projects include Shadow project, Hook project, and Catharsis project. Shadow project is located in Northern Saskatchewan, the Virgin River Shear Zone and its property encompass approximately 46,000 hectares along the Virgin River Shear Zone 30 kilometers (km) south of the Athabasca Basin margin. Hook project is located 40 km southeast of the McArthur River mine, 60 km northeast from the Key Lake uranium mill, and 16 km west of all-season Provincial highway 905 and powerlines. Catharsis is located 75 km southwest of the Key Lake uranium mill. The Company’s Athabasca 2.0 is located in Saskatchewan, Canada, the Athabasca Basin area hosts the highest-grade uranium deposits.