Company Interviews

The source of Schwazze's business offering is a plant. Throughout time it has been used and viewed very differently by many people. In parts of the world it has been used as a food source. Used within religious ceremonies. And countless others.

Today, this plant represents the full vision of Schwazze. As a verb, Schwazze is the necessary pruning of a living organism to create more growth. For them, it is a call to action. A fantastic imagery of how they are taking the source of the product, and via innovation and unparalleled thinking, are not just leading the industry, but transcending it.

First Cobalt Corp is a Canada-based cobalt company. The Company's strategy is to explore, develop and refine cobalt material in North America for sale back into the American electric vehicle (EV) market. Its flagship asset is the Iron Creek Cobalt Project in Lemhi County, Idaho, the United States.

Purepoint Uranium Group Inc. is a Canada-based resource company. The Company is engaged in the acquisition, exploration and development of properties for the purpose of producing uranium. The Company operates through mineral exploration segment. 

Hot Chili is an ASX-listed copper developer focused on developing the Costa Fuego copper hub on the coastal range of Chile.  Hot Chili is actively exploring and developing the Cortadera copper-gold porphyry discovery, which has a maiden resource of 451Mt of copper grading 0.46% CuEq. The total Mineral Resource inventory for Costa Fuego (Cortadera, Productora & El Fuego) is 724Mt at 0.48% CuEq for contained metal of  2.9Mt copper, 2.7Moz gold, 9.9Moz Silver and 64kt molybdenum.

Adventus Mining Corporation is a copper-gold exploration and development company. The Company is advancing three distinct copper-gold projects in Ecuador and a partnership with South32 on its exploration portfolio in Ireland, focused primarily in Ecuador. Adventus is based in Toronto, Canada.

Sailfish is a precious metals royalty and streaming company. Within Sailfish’s portfolio are two main assets in the Americas: a gold stream equivalent to a 3% NSR on the San Albino gold mine (~3.5 sq. km) and a 2% NSR on the rest of the area (~134.5 sq. km) surrounding San Albino in northern Nicaragua; and an up to 3% NSR on the multi-million ounce Spring Valley gold project in Pershing County, Nevada.

Ionic Rare Earths is focused on developing its flagship Makuutu Rare Earths Project in Uganda into a significant long life, low-cost, supplier of high-value critical and heavy rare earths.

Makuutu is an advanced-stage, ionic adsorption clay-hosted project highlighted by near-surface mineralisation, significant exploration upside, excellent metallurgical characteristics and access to tier-one infrastructure.

The ionic adsorption clay-hosted geology at Makuutu is similar to major rare earths projects in Southern China, which are responsible for the majority of global supply of low cost heavy and critical rare earths, specifically the high value magnet metals Heavy Rare Earths. Metallurgical testing at Makuutu has returned excellent recovery rates, which provide multiple avenues for a simple process route.

Makuutu is well-supported by tier-one existing infrastructure which includes access to major highways, roads, power, water and a professional workforce.

Rare Earths will play a critical role in the future of clean energy. Rare Earths are a key ingredient in the permanent magnets found in wind turbines and electric vehicles.

IonicRE is led by an experienced and proven team, who have the capabilities to deliver Makuutu into production and realise value for all stakeholders.

Vital Metals (ASX: VML) is Canada’s first – and North America’s second – rare earths producer, with production underway at Nechalacho in June 2021. We aim to produce a minimum 5,000 tonnes of contained REO at Nechalacho by 2025.
Mining at Nechalacho’s North T Zone is underway as part of our Stage 1 production strategy. We are now crushing and sorting ore before it is sent to a Saskatoon cracking and leaching facility later in 2021.

Vital has commenced drilling to define a mine plan for Stage 2 at Nechalacho as it works to develop a larger scale, longer life rare earths project.

Vital aims to become the lowest cost producer of mixed rare earth oxide outside of China by developing one of the highest grade rare earth deposits in the world and the only rare earth project capable of beneficiation solely by ore sorting.

Vital’s other projects include the high-grade Wigu Hill rare earth resource in Tanzania.

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.

Their mission is two-fold:

Their first objective is to double their uranium resources inventory in advance of the inevitable upswing in uranium prices that will be needed to sustain the primary uranium produced resulting from the current rapid global growth in nuclear power. 

Second, UEX is advancing the West Bear Cobalt-Nickel Prospect with the goal of enhancing shareholder value through our 100% owned subsidiary, CoEX Metals Corporation.

UEX will achieve our mission through making new discoveries, by making timely acquisitions, and by using innovative techniques and methods.

Denison is a uranium exploration and development company with interests focused in the Athabasca Basin region of northern Saskatchewan, Canada. The Company has an effective 95% interest in its flagship Wheeler River Uranium Project, which is the largest undeveloped uranium project in the infrastructure rich eastern portion of the Athabasca Basin region of northern Saskatchewan. Denison's interests in Saskatchewan also include a 22.5% ownership interest in the McClean Lake joint venture ("MLJV"), which includes several uranium deposits and the McClean Lake uranium mill, contracted to process the ore from the Cigar Lake mine under a toll milling agreement, plus a 25.17% interest in the Midwest Main and Midwest A deposits, and a 66.90% interest in the Tthe Heldeth Túé ("THT," formerly J Zone) and Huskie deposits on the Waterbury Lake property. Each of Midwest Main, Midwest A, THT and Huskie are located within 20 kilometres of the McClean Lake mill.

Additionally, through its 50% ownership of JCU (Canada) Exploration Company, Limited (“JCU”), Denison also holds interests in various uranium project joint ventures in Canada, including the Millennium project (JCU 30.099%), the Kiggavik project (JCU 33.8123%) and Christie Lake (JCU 34.4508%).

Denison is engaged in mine decommissioning and environmental services through its Closed Mines group (formerly Denison Environmental Services), which manages Denison's Elliot Lake reclamation projects and provides post-closure mine care and maintenance services to a variety of industry and government clients.