Company Interviews

Global Atomic is a Canadian resource company advancing the large, high-grade Dasa uranium deposit in the Republic of Niger. In addition, Global Atomic benefits from the dividend stream generated by its share in the Befesa Silvermet zinc concentrate production facility in Turkey.

Rex Minerals Ltd is a minerals exploration, evaluation and development in Australia. Its project include Hillside Copper, Gold and Iron Ore mine situated in the south of the township of Ardrossan on the Yorke Peninsula, South Australia. It also holds interests in Hog Ranch Property, located in Washoe County in north-west Nevada.

Atalaya Mining is a fast-growing AIM and TSX-listed mining and development company which produces copper concentrates and silver by-product at its wholly owned Proyecto Riotinto site in southwest Spain, and is currently undertaking further expansion. In addition, the Company has a phased, earn-in agreement to acquire up to 80% ownership of Proyecto Touro, a brownfield copper project in the northwest of Spain which is at the permitting stage.

Atalaya Mining strives to become a leading multi-asset copper producer in Europe, maximising the potential value of its current low-cost, low-risk assets and further exploring new opportunities. Our expertise and knowledge of the copper market, coupled with our deep entrenchment with the communities in which we operate, ensures that we will achieve the best results for all stakeholders, employees, and local communities.

The mission at Evergold is to deliver discoveries. The company has been assembled by a team with a record of recent success in British Columbia, combining properties in prime geological real estate from one of BC’s best-known geologists, with seasoned management and a highly qualified board.

In 2020 they delivered two new discoveries, one each on their flagship Snoball and Golden Lion properties. Join them as they do the exciting, high risk / high reward work of advancing these projects.

Signature Resources Ltd. is a Canadian based advanced stage exploration company focused on expanding the 100% owned Lingman Lake Gold deposit, located within the prolific Red Lake district in Northwestern Ontario, Canada. The project has a 234,000 ounce historical high-grade gold resource estimate that is contained within the first 180 meters of surface and open in all directions. Signature is focused on rapidly expanding the known mineralized envelope with its 100% owned diamond drill rig and aims to publish a maiden NI 43-101 compliant resource in 2022.

Signature’s Founder, Consultant, and Advisory Board member, Mr. John Leliever, is the visionary who recognized and ultimately consolidated the vast potential of the Lingman Lake district to what it is today. Commencing in 2013 and into late 2020 he invested a significant amount of his personal time and capital to secure and advance the property’s significant gold assets. With key support from Signature’s Chief Geologist, Walter Hanych, Mr. Leliever successfully nurtured the Project through challenging market conditions and diminished funding. In late 2020, Mr. Leliever was instrumental in securing Signature’s current management team.

Markets were slow in 2021 for precious metals – but how was it on the ground? We talk about to three seasoned Australian executives (operators & mine builders) about: Competition for resources – people, equipment, services, restrictions. Cost of money in today’s market being influenced by ESG or zero-carbon initiatives. Can get you into production? How does that advantage you (apart from money) – eg: cost of capital or M&A (is it easier and do people trust you more). Or just a case of get your head down and deliver. Supply chain issues – anything learnt? Just in Time v Back up Inventory? Price curve on supplies – will it fall back down? Consumers saw companies take advantage us with hand sanitisers and food, but what’s it like for the companies on the ground? Pressure from shareholders to perform – head down and tight lipped, despite all the advice you were getting? How does it affect the behaviour of potential farm-in partners. What does 2022 look like for you and how do you play that compared to 2021?

Orcadian Energy was established in early 2014 by petroleum engineers and geologists. The company has four licences, three of which lie 150km due East of Aberdeen and just West of the Gannet field and the Anasuria and Triton FPSOs, in an area known as the Western Platform. These licences are rich in resources and highly prospective, sixteen of seventeen wells (and sidetracks) drilled on our blocks have encountered oil. Take a look through the history page to see when (and with which rig) all those wells were drilled.

Orcadian has focussed on viscous oil development opportunities in the Central North Sea. We know the UKCS well and the OGA is a consistent and reliable regulator. Water depths in our core acreage are relatively shallow at c. 80-90 metres and the reservoirs are also not very deep at only c. 800 metres, so wells can be drilled on wellhead platforms, with dry trees, from a typical North Sea jack-up rig. These conditions combine to minimise well cost thus enabling tight development well spacings, which are the key to a successful and profitable polymer flood approach.

District Metals Corp. is lead by industry professionals with a track record of success in the mining industry. The Company’s mandate is to seek out, explore, and develop prospective mineral properties through a disciplined science-based approach to create shareholder value and benefit other stakeholders.

The advanced exploration stage Tomtebo Property is located in the Bergslagen Mining District of south central Sweden is the Company’s main focus. Tomtebo comprises 5,144 ha, and is situated between the historic Falun Mine and Boliden’s Garpenberg Mine that are located 25 km to the northwest and southeast, respectively. Two historic polymetallic mines and numerous polymetallic showings are located on the Tomtebo Property along an approximate 17 km trend that exhibits similar geology, structure, alteration and VMS/SedEx style mineralization as other significant mines within the district. Mineralization that is open at depth and along strike at the historic mines on the Tomtebo Property has not been followed up on, and modern systematic exploration has never been conducted on the Property.

First Mining is a Canadian gold developer focused on the development of the Springpole Gold Project in northwestern Ontario, one of the largest undeveloped gold projects in Canada. 

The results of a positive Pre-Feasibility Study for the Springpole Gold Project were announced by First Mining in January 2021, and permitting activities are ongoing leading to the submission of an Environmental Impact Statement as outlined in detail on our Environmental Assessment portal. The Company is the largest shareholder of Treasury Metals who are advancing the Goliath Gold Complex in Ontario. First Mining also has active partnerships with operators advancing other Canadian projects including the Pickle Crow Gold Project (Auteco Minerals) and Hope Brook Gold Project (Big Ridge Gold). In addition, First Mining owns a growing strategic royalty portfolio along with other wholly owned properties: Cameron, Duparquet, Duquesne and Pitt.

Amex Exploration Inc. (TSX-V: AMX, FRA: MX0, OTCQX: AMXEF), a junior gold mining company, has made a significant gold discovery in Quebec at its 100% owned high grade Perron Gold Project. Amex is led by an experienced management team of gold mine finders who have invested their own capital into the company in corporate financings and are focused on building shareholder value.

The Project is well serviced by existing infrastructure, being located about an hour north of Rouyn-Noranda (~110 km), on a year-round road, 10 minutes from an airport and just outside the town of Normétal (~8 km), where a mine operated until 1975. During its operation, the Normétal mine produced 10 Mt at 2.25% copper, 5.4% zinc, 0.5 g/t Au and 44.5 g/t Ag. The Perron project is also in close proximity to a number of major operating gold mining companies and their milling operations.

The company launched an extensive drill program consisting of multiple drills on site to complete a 300,000 m drill program by the end of 2021. Since January 2019, Amex has intersected significant gold mineralization in three different gold zones that stretch over 3.6 km of lateral strike along the Perron Fault Zone.