Company Interviews

Atacama Copper is a copper exploration and development company with two copper exploration projects located in Chile, comprising eight high-conviction targets across three tenement packages in well know mining districts.

The company is primarily focused on Placeton’s four identified targets, located directly between Teck/Newmont’s NuevaUnión (Relincho and El Morro Deposits). The El Cofre project is located 700 km north of Santiago in the San Juan mining district (central Chile’s cobalt belt) comprising more than 6,228 ha of exploitation claims, in an historic cobalt-copper producing area but relatively untested for medium size-scale copper-gold potential.

Frontier Lithium is an emerging lithium mineral and chemicals company focused on the development of its 100%-owned PAK Lithium Project in Ontario. With increased ‘local’ supply chain desires around the world the Company's objective is to become a strategic domestic supplier. The company is aiming to produce battery-grade lithium hydroxide and other chemicals to the growing electric vehicle and energy storage markets in North America as well as premium mineral concentrates supplier for high quality glass manufacturers.

Frontier maintains the largest land position and resource in a new premium lithium mineral district located in Ontario’s Great Lakes region. The region is advantaged by favourable geology, proven metallurgy with access to intermodal hubs, infrastructure, power, and mining along with downstream lithium processing expertise for auto OEM's future Li-Ion battery requirements. 

Invictus Energy is an independent upstream oil and gas company listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX: IVZ). Our asset portfolio consists of a highly prospective licence, Special Grant 4571, in the Cabora Bassa Basin in Zimbabwe, one of the largest under-explored interior rift basins in Africa.

SG 4571 contains the Mzarabani conventional gas-condensate prospect, the largest undrilled prospect onshore Africa with an independently estimated 8.2 Tcf + 247 million barrels (gross mean unrisked basis) of conventional gas-condensate in a stacked target.

Adyton Resources Corporation focuses on the development of gold and copper resources in Papua New Guinea. Its flagship project is its 100% owned Feni Island Copper Gold project. The company is headquartered in Brisbane, Australia.

Electra Battery Materials is a Canada-based cobalt company. The Company is in the business of cobalt refining and the acquisition and exploration of resource properties. The Company provides cobalt to the electric vehicle industry. The Company’s assets include the First Cobalt Refinery located in Ontario, Canada and the Iron Creek cobalt-copper project located in Idaho, United States, and Cobalt Camp. Its First Cobalt Refinery is a hydrometallurgical cobalt refinery. The Company’s Iron Creek Project in Idaho, United States is its flagship mineral property, which includes patented and unpatented claims totaling of approximately 1,820 hectares. The Company holds an interest in a land package in the silver-cobalt mining camp of Cobalt, Ontario. It also owns mining claims known as the West Fork Property to the west of its Iron Creek cobalt-copper deposit.

Gold Royalty Corp is a precious metals-focused royalty and streaming company offering creative financing solutions to the metals and mining industry. Their mission is to acquire royalties, streams and similar interests at varying stages of the mine life cycle to build a balanced portfolio offering near, medium and longer-term attractive returns for investors.

Jaguar Mining Inc. is a Canadian-listed junior gold mining, development, and exploration company operating in Brazil with three gold mining complexes, and a large land package with significant upside exploration potential from mineral claims covering an area of approximately 65,000 hectares. The Company’s principal operating assets are located in the Iron Quadrangle, a prolific greenstone belt in the state of Minas Gerais and include the Turmalina Gold Mine Complex and Caeté Gold Mine Complex (Pilar and Roça Grande mines, and Caeté Plant) which combined, produce more than 95,000 ounces of gold annually. The Company also owns the Paciência Gold Mine Complex, which has been on care and maintenance since 2012.

Tinka Resources is an exploration and development company. Its flagship property is the 100%-owned Ayawilca carbonate replacement deposit (CRD) in the zinc-lead-silver belt of central Peru, 200 kilometres northeast of Lima. The Ayawilca Zinc Zone Inferred Mineral Resource estimate consists of 42.7 million tonnes grading 7.3% zinc equivalent (comprised of 6.0% zinc, 0.2% lead, 17 g/t silver & 79 g/t indium), and a Tin Zone Inferred Mineral Resource of 10.5 Mt at 0.63 % tin, 0.23 % copper & 12 g/t silver. The Company will drill approximately 20,000 metres in 2018 for resource growth and to test new targets. A PEA is planned for the end of 2018 or early 2019.

Silver Tiger Metals Inc. is a Canadian company whose management has more than 25 years’ experience discovering, financing and building large hydrothermal silver projects in Mexico. Silver Tiger’s 100% owned 28,414 hectare Historic El Tigre Mining District is located in Sonora, Mexico.  Principled environmental, social and governance practices are core priorities at Silver Tiger.

The El Tigre historic mine district is located in Sonora, Mexico and lies at the northern end of the Sierra Madre silver and gold belt which hosts many epithermal silver and gold deposits, including Dolores, Santa Elena and Las Chispas at the northern end.  In 1896, gold was first discovered on the property in the Gold Hill area and mining started with the Brown Shaft in 1903.  The focus soon changed to mining high-grade silver veins in the area with production coming from 3 parallel veins the El Tigre Vein, the Seitz Kelley Vein and the Sooy Vein.  Underground mining on the middle El Tigre vein extended 1,450 meters along strike and was mined on 14 levels to a depth of approximately 450 meters.  The Seitz Kelley Vein was mined along strike for 1 kilometer to a depth of approximately 200 meters.  The Sooy Vein was only mined along strike for 250 meters to a depth of approximately 150 meters.  Mining abruptly stopped on all 3 of these veins when the price of silver collapsed to less than 20¢ per ounce with the onset of the Great Depression.  By the time the mine closed in 1930, it is reported to have produced a total of 353,000 ounces of gold and 67.4 million ounces of silver from 1.87 million tons (Craig, 2012).  The average grade mined during this period was over 2 kilograms silver equivalent per ton.

The El Tigre silver and gold deposit is related to a series of high-grade epithermal veins controlled by a north-south trending structure cutting across the andesitic and rhyolitic tuffs of the Sierra Madre Volcanic Complex within a broad silver and gold mineralized prophylitic alteration zone developed in the El Tigre Formation that can be up to 150 meters wide. The veins dip steeply to the west and are typically 0.5 meter wide but locally can be up to 5 meters in width. The veins, structures and mineralized zones outcrop on surface and have been traced for 5.3 kilometers along strike in our brownfield exploration area.  Historical mining and exploration activities focused on a 1.5 kilometer portion of the southern end of the deposits, principally on the El Tigre, Seitz Kelly and Sooy veins. The under explored Caleigh, Benjamin, Protectora and the Fundadora exposed veins continue north for more than 3 kilometers.  Silver Tiger has delivered its maiden 43-101 compliant resource estimate and is currently drilling to update its resource estimate and publish a PEA.

Appia’s management, directors and consulting team have extensive experience with uranium exploration in the prolific Athabasca Basin district of northern Saskatchewan, and uranium and rare earth development and mining in the historic Elliot Lake mining camp.