Proactive - Interviews for investors

Thor Energy PLC (AIM:THR, OTCQB:THORF, ASX:THR) managing director Nicole Galloway Warland speaks with Proactive's Stephen Gunnion about the company's upcoming drilling plans for its Wedding Bell and Radium Mountain Projects in Colorado. Galloway Warland shared that drilling will commence in early October, with preparations already underway at the Rim Rock and Groundhog sites.

The program aims to follow up on successful drilling results from 2022 and 2023. Notably, the company is focusing on infill drilling at Groundhog around a previous find of five meters at 0.1% uranium and 0.6% vanadium, with plans to step out 300 meters to explore the potential extension of the mineralization. Galloway Warland emphasised that Thor Energy aims to gather enough data from this campaign to move forward with a resource estimate that complies with both JORC and NI 43-101 standards.

The necessary approvals for the project are already in place, and results from the downhole geophysics are expected to come through shortly after the first two holes are drilled.

Stay tuned for more updates as Thor Energy progresses with this exciting project. Don’t forget to like this video, subscribe to Proactive’s YouTube channel, and enable notifications for future updates.

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Eden Research PLC (AIM:EDEN, OTCQB:EDNSF) CEO Sean Smith takes Proactive's Stephen Gunnion through the company's strong performance in the first half of the year, including a 65% jump in revenue to £1.89 million.

Smith highlighted the key role of regulatory approvals in driving growth, with recent wins in markets like California, Spain, and Germany expanding Eden Research's reach. He emphasised that regulatory hurdles are both challenging and crucial, as they unlock significant new markets for products like Mevalone.

Smith also discussed the company’s partnership with Sipcam for exploring opportunities in South America and its work with Corteva on the Ecovelex project, which targets key agricultural markets like Italy. Eden Research is pursuing additional emergency approvals for 2025, which could further boost growth.

"We're very pleased with some of the more recent label extensions, for example, the Spanish label extension, which is really quite significant," said Smith, reinforcing the company’s focus on replicating these successes in other regions. With an expanded commercial and regulatory team, Eden Research aims to meet its full-year targets by continuing to grow its product portfolio and secure key approvals.

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LBG Media PLC (AIM:LBG) chief financial officer Richard Jarvis takes Proactive's Stephen Gunnion through the company's performance in the first half of the year, highlighting a significant revenue growth of 55%, with organic growth contributing 29%.

Jarvis discussed the opportunities created by the recent Betches Media acquisition and how it positions LBG Media for further growth, especially in the US market, which is eight times the size of the UK. He emphasised that the company's ambition is to grow revenue to £200 million, with a continued focus on building relationships with blue-chip brands and leveraging their strong audience engagement across multiple platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube.

“The Betches acquisition gives us a springboard into the US market,” said Jarvis, noting the synergies between brands and the potential for further M&A activity. LBG Media's core strategy remains focused on monetising its audience through engaging content, and the company aims to maintain its strong momentum into the second half of the year.

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Blackbird PLC (AIM:BIRD) CEO Ian McDonough speaks with Proactive's Stephen Gunnion about the significant milestone achieved by the company's elevate.io platform. McDonough revealed that the platform has surpassed 10,000 verified users just three weeks after launching a global marketing campaign. He explained that this milestone helps Blackbird gain insights into user interaction and platform stability, reinforcing their confidence in the product's capabilities.

“We’ve really learned how the proposition is landing and how users are starting to interact with the platform, which is invaluable,” McDonough said. He highlighted that the platform's success, tested at the highest levels of world sports and news, has confirmed its reliability and scalability.

Moving forward, McDonough shared plans to continue expanding into new markets, deepening research into user behaviour, and experimenting with features and marketing strategies to optimise the platform’s growth.

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Nexus Minerals Limited (ASX: NXM) managing director Andy Tudor joins Proactive’s Tylah Tully to discuss the company’s 10,000-metre regional aircore drilling program at its Wallbrook Gold Project, 140 kilometres northeast of Kalgoorlie, Western Australia.

This program will focus on expanding the mineralised footprint of priority target MC2.1, which yielded high-grade gold mineralisation in previous drilling. Additionally, three other priority targets (MC2.2, MC5.2, and MC1.5) will be tested within the broader project area.

The program is part of the company’s systematic approach aimed at near-surface discoveries to enhance the project's resource base. The drilling is scheduled to conclude in October 2024, with assay results expected in November.

Target MC2.1 is of particular interest, with earlier drill results returning gold intercepts, including 8 metres at 2.93g/t gold and 8 metres at 2.33g/t gold, which may indicate a resource extension of the nearby Wallbrook Gold Mine operated by Northern Star Resources.

Tudor expressed optimism, citing favourable gold prices and the project's commercial and technical potential. Mine studies at Nexus' Crusader-Templar Gold Deposit are also progressing as part of the company’s exploration and development strategy.

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American Rare Earths Non Executive Director Mel Sanderson joined Steve Darling from Proactive to announce major news that the company has received a non-binding Letter of Interest from the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) for a debt funding package of up to $456 million. This funding will support the construction and execution phase of the Cowboy State Mine (CSM) area at Halleck Creek.

Sanderson noted that this funding aligns with the entire initial capital expenditure estimate for the CSM as detailed in the March 2024 Scoping Study. The CSM project represents the first phase in the development of the Halleck Creek deposit, a significant rare earth asset crucial to the U.S. supply chain.

EXIM, the official export credit agency of the U.S. Federal Government, issued the Letter of Interest based on preliminary information provided by American Rare Earths, highlighting expected U.S. exports and job creation. The funding offer comes under EXIM’s Make More In America Initiative, with a proposed repayment tenor of 15 years. This financial backing underscores the strategic importance of the CSM project and its potential to bolster the U.S. rare earths industry.

EXIM will now conduct its due diligence before proceeding with any final financing arrangement. The Company will update the market upon finalizing a definitive funding agreement with EXIM.

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Evaxion Biotech CEO Christian Kanstrup joined Steve Darling from Proactive to announce the launch of an enhanced version of the company’s clinically validated AI-Immunolog platform, featuring an updated EDEN AI prediction model. The upgraded model enhances the prediction of toxin antigens, which is critical for the development of next-generation bacterial vaccines.

Kanstrup explained that the new EDEN model significantly improves the speed and accuracy of predicting bacterial toxins, enabling Evaxion to rapidly identify the key toxin targets for vaccine development. This advancement represents a major step forward in the company’s mission to address unmet medical needs in infectious diseases.

Evaxion’s AI-Immunology platform leverages advanced AI and machine learning technologies to design novel vaccine candidates for cancer and infectious diseases. The platform’s AI prediction models are adaptable to other therapeutic areas, offering delivery modality flexibility and unmatched predictive capabilities.

Remarkably, the platform can deliver a new target within just 24 hours, a process that traditionally takes years. The platform's predictions are robustly validated, with strong correlations between the AI-generated prediction scores and clinical outcomes, underscoring the potential impact of this technology in vaccine development.

Kanstrup also provided an update on the company’s cancer pipeline, particularly the personalized cancer vaccine *EVX-01*, which is in phase two trials for metastatic melanoma. Early clinical data revealed a promising 69% overall response rate, with tumor size reductions in 15 out of 16 patients.

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Dr Aled Roberts, CEO of Deakin Bio, a Frontier IP Group PLC (AIM:FIPP) portfolio company, joined Steve Darling from Proactive to announce a successful £693,000 equity funding round for the company’s portfolio business, Deakin Bio-Hybrid. This oversubscribed round will drive forward the development and scaling of their low-energy process aimed at creating sustainable bio-based materials as alternatives to traditional ceramics. The funding now values Deakin Bio at £2.69 million post-transaction, with Frontier IP holding a 24.8% equity stake.

Dr. Roberts explained that Deakin Bio’s innovative technology involves recycling organic waste, such as chickpea broth or algae, and combining it with waste minerals like crushed limestone. The resulting composite materials closely mimic the look, feel, and properties of ceramics but are produced without the need for high-temperature firing or glazing. Additionally, the technology can be integrated into existing mass-manufacturing equipment, making it highly adaptable for the industry.

Deakin Bio's eco-friendly solution offers a remarkable 94% lower carbon footprint than conventional ceramic tile production, with products containing over 95% recycled content. The company envisions a broad range of applications for these bio-based materials, expanding their use into various molded ceramic-like products, offering a more sustainable alternative to traditional manufacturing methods.

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HANetf Head of Research Tom Bailey talked with Proactive about the rapid growth and future of active ETFs, highlighting how global assets in this category are expected to reach $4 trillion by 2030.

Bailey explained the key differences between active and passive ETFs, emphasising that an ETF is simply a fund wrapper, and the investment strategy inside can be either passive or active.

He noted that active ETFs have grown significantly, with over a third of global ETF inflows going to active strategies in the first half of 2024. Bailey discussed the unique advantages of ETFs, such as real-time pricing and greater transparency compared to mutual funds, making them increasingly attractive to modern investors.

HANetf currently offers four active ETFs, including its Saturna Al-Kawthar Global Focused Equity UCITS ETF (AMAL), screened for Sharia compliance, and a renewable energy ETF with Guinness Global Investors. HANetf also recently partnered with Harbor Capital Advisors to launch the Harbor Health Care UCITS ETF (WELL).

Bailey hinted at more active ETF launches by the end of the year, including fixed-income strategies.

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Midnight Sun Director of Marketing and Communications Adrian O’Brien joined Steve Darling from Proactive to announce the start of exploration work at the Kazhiba Target on the company’s Solwezi Property in Zambia. This initiative is part of the Cooperative Exploration Plan with First Quantum Minerals, designed to define near-surface oxide copper resources that could serve as a potential feed source for First Quantum’s nearby Kansanshi Mine, located less than 10 kilometers away.

O’Brien highlighted that the current work program includes 3,000 meters of reverse circulation drilling, partial ionic leach sampling, and an induced polarization (IP) survey. The drilling will target an average depth of 50 meters per hole, with spacing planned at 100 meters between holes in peripheral areas and 50 meters over the core mineralized zone.

Additionally, a wide-spaced IP survey will be conducted over a previously untested anomaly at Kazhiba. This survey aims to detect stratigraphic-bound copper sulphide mineralization, potentially identifying the source of the existing copper oxide blanket. Seven survey lines, each spaced 200 meters apart, will cover a total of 6.5 line-kilometers. The results from this work are expected to provide valuable insights into the potential of the Kazhiba Target and its contribution to the overall resource potential of the Solwezi Property.

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