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Yamana Gold is a Canadian-based precious metals producer with a high quality, diversified portfolio, including significant gold and silver production; long-life production assets – including development stage properties and exploration properties – located throughout mining-friendly jurisdictions across the Americas, in Canada, Brazil, Chile and Argentina. Yamana plans to build on this base through sustainable expansion and optimization initiatives at existing operating mines, development of new mines, the advancement of its exploration properties and, at times, by targeting other consolidation opportunities with a primary focus in the Americas. 

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EMX Royalty Corp. generates royalties utilising the ropects generation business model and recently the company has become a good acquirer of royalties too.

EMX's generative exploration properties are optioned to quality partners for advancement, with EMX retaining a royalty interest and receiving pre-production cash payments. EMX supplements royalty generation with the prudent acquisition of royalty interests in production and advanced development assets.

Cash flow from royalties, advance royalties, and other mineral property payments provides ongoing revenue for EMX's sustainable growth and value creation. EMX invests in upside mineral exploration opportunities, with exit strategies that favor royalty positions or equity sales.

EMX has recently announced its agreement to acquire the royalty portfolio from SSR Mining. The Royalty Portfolio consists of 18 geographically diverse royalties, with four royalty assets at advanced stages of project development, and also includes U.S. $18 million in future cash payments to be made to the owner of the Royalty Portfolio. Upon closing of the transaction EMX will pay to SSR Mining U.S. $33 million in cash and U.S. $33 million in common shares of EMX. EMX will also make deferred and contingent payments to SSR Mining of up to U.S. $34 million if certain project advancement milestones are achieved. 

This Royalty Portfolio acquisition is well aligned with EMX’s corporate growth strategy, whereby the Company leverages its in-region expertise in identifying opportunities in jurisdictions where EMX already has a strategic presence.

Danakali is a resource company focused on Colluli SOP Project in Eritrea, East Africa. Our strategy targets development of a world class potash project that will become pivotal for Global and African agriculture. Colluli is expected to provide an outstanding economic, social and community dividend through positive impact on infrastructure, job creation and sustainability in Eritrea.

Bushveld Minerals is a low-cost, vertically integrated primary vanadium producer. It is one of only three operating primary vanadium producers, owning 2 of the world’s 4 operating primary vanadium processing facilities. Our target is to organically grow production to more than 8,400 mtVp.a. in the medium term.

Bushveld Minerals owns a diversified vanadium product portfolio serving the needs of the steel, energy and chemical sectors. Bushveld Minerals participates in the entire vanadium value chain through its two main pillars: Bushveld Vanadium, which mines and processes vanadium; and Bushveld Energy, a leading energy storage solutions provider. Bushveld Energy is focused on developing and promoting the role of vanadium in the growing global energy storage market through application in vanadium redox flow batteries.

Chesapeake Gold Corp. is a development-stage company. The Company is a mining company focused on the exploration, development and recovery of precious metals. Its operations are the development of its Metates gold-silver project (Metates) and generating a pipeline of exploration projects in north western Mexico.

Vango Mining is exploration focused on drilling near-term development and production targets to build the resource base, in parallel with targeting significant high-grade discoveries at depth. Location of Marymia Gold Project in the Yilgarn block of Western 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.

Bannerman Energy Limited, formerly Bannerman Resources Limited, is an Australia-based uranium development company. The Company is focused on Etango Uranium Project located in the Erongo Region of Namibia, 30 kilometers (Km) south-east of Swakopmund. The Company holds uranium interests in Namibia. It possesses a uranium mineral resource endowment of approximately 227 Mlbs of contained U3O8. Etango is an undeveloped uranium deposit. The Company is focused on the development of an open pit uranium operation at Etango. The Etango tenements possess a uranium mineral resource. It has completed definitive feasibility study (DFS) and environmental permitting on the Etango Project. The Company constructed and operated a Heap Leach Demonstration Plant at Etango, which de-risked the acid heap leach process to be utilized on the Etango ore. Etango has de-risked through drilling, technical evaluation and operation of a process demonstration plant facility.

E2Gold Inc. is a publicly traded Canadian junior exploration company committed to unlocking gold potential and growth through exceptional management and technical expertise. Founded in 2020 by father-daughter duo Dr. Eric Owens and Ellie Owens, E2Gold completed an oversubscribed Initial Public Offering in 2020 after a successful initial exploration campaign. Dr. Owens is a seasoned professional with over thirty years’ experience in mineral resource exploration. Ms. Owens (B.Sc., M.Sc. geology) is a geologist-turned-lawyer with over 7 years’ experience in the industry.

The company is committed to delivering shareholder value through growth of gold resources on its Northern Ontario properties. Focusing on their flagship Hawkins Project, E2Gold has re-invested shareholder funds back into the ground by completing geophysical surveys, trenching, and commencing local and regional mapping campaigns. The company’s May 2020 seed financing raised over $500K for exploration activities and “$3.4M through its December 2020 initial public offering.

Critical Elements Lithium Corporation is a mining exploration company owning several mining properties in Quebec. The Company is focused on lithium. It has achieved its objective with the Rose Lithium-Tantalum project, which is currently at the advanced exploration stage.