In this exclusive video roundtable with management, we have 4 officers of Stillwater Critical Minerals (TSX.V: PGE – OTCQB: PGEZF), review the evolving geological understanding, key exploration initiatives, and value proposition at the Stillwater West Ni-PGE-Cu-Co + Au project in Montana. Michael Rowley, President & CEO, Dr. Danie Grobler, Vice President of Exploration, Albie Brits, Senior Geologist, and Justin Modroo, Project Geophysicist, all provide different layers of input to this roundtable discussion.

Mike outlines that their Stillwater West Project is a very large polymetallic resource with a substantial copper inventory and the largest nickel project in an active U.S. mining district, in addition to palladium, platinum, rhodium, chromium, cobalt, and gold; plus as yet unquantified amounts of ruthenium and iridium. Overall, Stillwater West is uniquely positioned to become a primary source of nine commodities now listed as critical, given their location immediately adjacent to Sibanye-Stillwater’s operating mine complex in Montana.

Albie shares an overview of the structural controls of the geological environment that hosts the mineralization, and why their exploration initiatives will have high-confidence through this understanding of the parameters and character of the mineralized trend.  This understanding ties into the approach taken to exploring and understanding it as a Bushveld analog, and how their five “Platreef-style” (or contact-type) Ni-Cu-Co-PGE+Au deposits may tie together in a larger sense.

Danie then gets into the different data sets being utilized for the testing of multiple large-scale magmatic sulphide targets generated from a property-wide MobileMTm magneto-telluric (“MMT”) geophysical survey that were completed in late 2024. Data from the 2024 MMT survey was processed and incorporated into the Company’s 3D geological model of the lower Stillwater Igneous Complex to prioritize targets with a focus on expanding current mid-grade and high-grade mineral resources.  He also shares how there are several mineralized events in the sulphides bringing in pockets of higher-grade polymetallic zones within the overall bulk tonnage type of deposit.

Justin highlights the deeper holes (over 2,000 feet deep) being drilled at the both Iron Mountain and Chrome Mountain in this year’s program, and how the exploration team will be utilizing downhole borehole EM to look for the footwall basal sulphide mineralization and look for off-hole anomalies that may become future targets for follow-up drilling.

1,500 meters and 4 holed have been drilled thus far in this year’s program, where there are thousand of meters of drilling planned focused on those higher-grade targets.  After drill is completed, there will be an update to the resources that will include both 2023’s drilling and 2025’s drilling. Then this updated resource will be combined with other #development studies to move towards a Preliminary Economic Assessment in 2026.

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