Company Interviews

Bonterra is a Canadian gold exploration company with a large balanced portfolio of exploration and mining assets including the Gladiator, Barry and Moroy deposits, Urban-Barry Mill and multiple highly prospective exploration prospects. Bonterra controls the only permitted gold mill in the region with a large land position of over 38,000 hectares in the Urban Barry Camp. Bonterra is located in the mining-friendly province of Quebec, within the Abitibi Greenstone Belt.

Baru Gold Corp. (formerly East Asia Minerals) (BARU:TSX-V) is a Canadian publicly listed mineral resource exploration company focused on developing producing precious metals projects in Indonesia. The company’s focus is on developing precious metals projects with significant resource upside potential and near-term production capabilities. Currently, Baru Gold is working on developing the Miwah Project and the Sangihe Project.

E3 Metals is a lithium development Company with 7.0 million tonnes of lithium carbonate equivalent (LCE) inferred mineral resources1 in Alberta and an NPV8% on its Clearwater Lithium Project of USD 1.1 Billion with a 32% IRR pre-tax and USD 820 Million with a 27% IRR after-tax1. Through the successful scale up its DLE technology towards commercialization, E3 Metals' goal is to produce high purity, battery grade, lithium products. With a significant lithium resource and innovative technology solutions, E3 Metals has the potential to deliver lithium to market from one of the best jurisdictions in the world.

Altius Minerals Corporation is a mining royalty and mineral project generation company. The Company is engaged in the generation and acquisition of mineral resource projects, royalties and investments. The royalty interests cover mining operations producing copper, zinc, nickel, cobalt, precious metals, potash, and thermal (electrical) and metallurgical coal. It holds royalty interests in approximately 10 producing assets in Canada that include over 4% net smelter return (NSR) royalty on 777 copper-zinc mine in Manitoba, approximately six potash mines and over five coal mines located in western Canada, and a royalty on the Bay nickel-copper-cobalt mine in Labrador, as well as interests in the Chapada Mine in Brazil. It also holds equity interests in non-precious metals royalty companies, as well as various junior mineral exploration companies. Its exploration assets also include Natashquan River-Nickel, Julienne Lake Iron Ore deposit, Taylor Brook-Nickel and others.

Marimaca is an exciting TSX-listed copper company. The Company’s flagship asset is the Marimaca Copper Project in Chile’s Antofagasta region. It is the only copper discovery globally of the last five years and is a low risk project, with substantial exploration potential.

Elixir Energy Limited is an Australia-based gas exploration and development company. The Company is focused on exploring in Mongolia for natural gas in the form of coal-bed methane (CBM). It operates through three segments: oil and gas exploration in Mongolia and United States of America, and clean energy in Mongolia. The Company is focused on its 100% owned Nomgon IX CBM Production Sharing Contract (PSC) project in the South Gobi region of Mongolia. The Nomgon Project license area covers 30,000 square kilometers. The CBM wells drilling was a combination of strat-holes and core-holes. The core-holes deliver core samples at the surface and are analyzed for gas desorption and can be Injectivity Fall-Off Testing (IFOT) tested to determine gas content and permeability.

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.

Elemental Royalties is an emerging, rapidly-growing gold royalty company with world-class, producing assets on four continents.

They started in 2017 and made money out of the gate - doubling revenue each year - yet they're currently undervalued with a low market cap relative to their peer companies.

Serabi is a gold mining and exploration  company focused on the evaluation and development of gold projects in Brazil. The Company commenced development of the Palito orebody late in 2012 and the gold process plant was started up at the end of 2013. The Company declared commercial production of the Palito orebody effective from 1 July 2014.   The Company has also declared commercial gold production at its satellite Sao Chico orebody effective as of 1 January 2016.  Combined gold production from the Palito Mining Complex is approximately 40,000 ounces per annum .

Ceylon Graphite is a public company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange (CYL:TSX-V) involved in the exploration and production of graphite in historic resource jurisdictions in Sri Lanka. It holds a land package constituting 121 km² grids containing historic vein graphite deposits. These unique and comparatively higher margin vein (lump) deposits currently make up less than 1% of the world graphite production. These exploration grids represent the majority of known historic graphite resources in Sri Lanka. The relevant areas in which these grids reside have previously had historical production dating back to the 1920s and 1930s.