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Star Royalties Ltd. is a precious metals royalty and streaming investment company. The company’s objective is to provide wealth creation through accretive transaction structuring and asset life extension with superior alignment to both counterparties and shareholders. With a strategy to also invest in green opportunities, Star Royalties pioneered the first forest carbon credit royalty and is pursuing a pipeline of additional green investments.

The company’s objective is to be uniquely aligned with royalty and streaming counterparties as well as to provide investors with superior risk-adjusted returns and wealth creation through asset life extension. Star Royalties specializes in bespoke and operator-friendly financing solutions, including the repurchase and restructuring of existing royalties and streams. The company aims to structure mutually beneficial agreements that optimise the counterparties’ capital structure, while generating a return well above the company’s cost of capital for its shareholders. Star Royalties looks to become the trusted financing partner for mining companies throughout the various stages of mine development, and the commodity and capital markets cycles.

Management’s experience stems from more than 100 years of prior senior mining-specific roles held in portfolio management, equity research, corporate development, investment banking, mining operations, mineral exploration and corporate finance. Management have been recognized for best-in-class risk-adjusted mining investment returns and mining research, and have amassed an award-winning track record of successful capital allocation and risk assessment, leading to 13 Lipper awards and seven Brendan Wood International Top Gun awards, through a strict and disciplined investment philosophy.

Furthermore, the Star Royalties team has worked together in various capacities for more than 20 years. Management’s experience and time spent within the industry have allowed them to cultivate strong industry relationships over decades of engagement, resulting in a pipeline of opportunities and an extensive global asset knowledge base. Management believes the combination of these factors will provide the team with access to unique investment opportunities that will lead to future growth and shareholder returns.

Led by a team recognized for discovering, building, operating, and growing major gold deposits in West Africa, Montage Gold is a well-funded exploration and development company focused on unlocking the potential of its flagship asset, the Koné Gold Project. Discover the Montage story and the incredible team behind it.

Kodiak Copper Corp. (TSX.V:KDK, OTCQB: KDKCF) is focused on its portfolio of 100% owned copper porphyry projects in Canada and the USA.

The Company’s most advanced asset is the MPD copper-gold porphyry project in the prolific Quesnel Trough in southern British Columbia, Canada, where in 2020 the Company made a high-grade discovery at the Gate Zone, which is part of a zoned, copper-gold enriched envelope of significant size. 

Kodiak also holds the Mohave copper-molybdenum-silver porphyry project in Arizona, USA, near the world-class Bagdad mine. Both of Kodiak’s porphyry projects have been historically drilled and present known mineral discoveries with the potential to hold large-scale deposits.

The Company's  Kahuna diamond project in Nunavut, Canada, hosts a high-grade, near surface inferred diamond resource and numerous kimberlite pipe targets. Kodiak is considering strategic options for the Kahuna project.

Kodiak’s founder and chairman is Chris Taylor who is well-known for his district-scale Dixie gold discovery in Red Lake, Ontario with Great Bear Resources.  Kodiak is also part of Discovery Group led by John Robins, one of the most successful mining entrepreneurs in Canada.

Baselode Energy Corp is a fully-funded Uranium exploration company looking for the next world-class deposit in the Athabasca Basin area of northern Saskatchewan, Canada.  The company is focused on discovering near-surface, basement-hosted, high-grade Uranium orebodies outside of the Athabasca Basin.  Baselode plans to utilize a combination of innovative technology, well-understood geophysical methods, and thoughtful geological interpretations to map deep structural controls to identify shallow targets for diamond-drilling.  By doing so, the company can make a discovery that could go into production at an expedited rate.

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.

The Company is a publicly listed corporation headquartered in Toronto, Canada. Global Atomic trades under symbol ‘GLO’ on the TSX Main Board in Canada, under symbol GLATF on the OTX:QX in the USA; and under symbol G12 on the Frankfurt Exchange.

Base Resources is an Australian-based, African-focused, mineral sands producer and developer with a track record of project delivery and operational performance. They operate on the established Kwale Operation in Kenya which produces a suite of mineral sands products, namely ilmenite, rutile and zircon. They are also developing the Toliara Project in Madagascar. Base Resources is headquartered in Perth, Western Australia.

Condor Gold Plc is a UK based AIM and TSX-listed exploration company focused on developing and further proving a large commercial reserve on its 100% owned La India Project in Nicaragua ("La India"). In August 2018 Condor received an Environmental Permit for the development, construction and operation of a processing plant with a capacity of up to 2,800 tonnes per day and associated mine site infrastructure at La India.

Following the grant of the Environmental Permit the Company’s objective is to progress the redesigned mine site infrastructure for La India Open Pit to a bankable level of Feasibility Study.  In addition, under the conditions of the Environmental Permit, the Company has to submit to MARENA final engineered designs for several key components of the mine prior to construction. Subject to financing, completion of a BFS and completion of the final engineering designs, construction is expected to commence within 18 months of the grant of the Environmental Permit. The construction period is expected to take 18 to 24 months.

From 2011 to 2017 Condor drilled 397 drill holes for circa 59,000 metres and over 18,000 metres of trenching. The data was combined with the historic exploration and mining data and included in the latest mineral resource estimate completed by independent geologists at SRK Consulting (UK) Ltd and announced in January 2019. The current mineral resource estimate on the La India project area is prepared in accordance with NI 43-101 and comprises an indicated mineral resource of 9.85Mt at 3.6 g/t gold for 1.140M oz gold and 5.9 g/t for 1.88M oz silver and an inferred mineral resource of 8.48Mt at 4.3 g/t for 1.179 M oz gold  and 8.2g/t for 1.201M oz silver, all contained within a 9km radius within the La India Project area. A NI 43-101 compliant pre-feasibility study dated December 2014 on open pit mining on the principal La India Vein has defined a probable open pit mineral reserve of 6.9Mt at 3.0g/t gold for 675k oz gold and 5g/t silver for 1.185M oz silver. Mineral resources are inclusive of mineral reserves. The CIM-compliant Mineral Resource Statement was reported to NI 43-101 guidelines by independent geological consultants SRK (UK) Ltd and signed off by SRK's Ben Parsons, a Competent Person as defined by the CIM Code. 

Condor's management team have extensive experience in mineral exploration, project development and project financing, ensuring that the Company has the best possible opportunity to achieve exploration success and take La India Project through to a bankable feasibility study.

The Company was successfully admitted to the London Stock Exchange, AIM Market, on 31st May 2006 and listed on the TSX on 15th January 2018.

African Gold Group Inc is a Canada-based company, which is engaged in the identification, acquisition and exploration of properties for mining of precious and base metals. The Company’s principal asset is a mining license located in Mali, West Africa, namely the Kobada Project. The Kobada Project is a gold exploration project with the potential to produce more than 50,000 ounces of gold per annum. The Company’s other project is the Madougou Gold Project in Burkina Faso. The Madougou Gold Project is a mid-stage exploration project, located in the north-western region of Burkina Faso. The Company’s subsidiaries are: 2516232 Ontario Inc, AGG Barbados Ltd, AGG Ghana Ltd, AGG Mali SARL and Arziki Mining Ltd.

Predictive Discovery Limited is engaged in mineral exploration with the objective of identifying and developing economic reserves in West Africa and Australia. The Company's segments include Corporate, Gold Aust, Gold Burkina Faso and Cote d'Ivoire. The Company focuses principally on exploration for gold in West Africa with a additional project for gold in Australia. 

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.