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Otso Gold

Emerging Mid-Tier Green Gold Producer

Overview

Otso Gold Corp (TSXV:OTSO) is a gold company nearing production at its wholly-owned Otso Gold Mine in the premiere mining jurisdiction of Finland. The past operating mine complex, which includes the 2 million tonne per annum processing plant, is fully built, licensed, and permitted. The company has advanced through a phased redevelopment plan that is reaching its conclusion with the return to long-term, sustainable production. Moving forward, Otso Gold will launch an extensive exploration and drilling program across the lease areas with a view to expand the life of mine.

The redevelopment plan was centered on gaining an in-depth understanding of the mine areas to inform a comprehensive mine plan. Otso Gold Corp understands that a successful restart is contingent on a robust mine plan and in-depth knowledge of the deposit’s geology. Importantly, Otso Gold have built a team of diverse and highly skilled technical professionals to carry out each phase of the redevelopment plan and sustain production.

Located in Finland, Otso Gold operates within one of the world’s leading mining jurisdictions. In 2018, Forbes ranked Finland as the world’s second-best country for property rights while the Fraser Institute ranked Finland third-best in the world for mining policies, owing to the government’s support of mineral exploration and production. Finland has a 20 percent corporate tax rate and gold producers pay a low royalty of 0.15 percent. Otso Gold seek to leverage technological innovation and ESG standards to promote sustainable mining practices. This includes;

Over 70 percent of power is carbon neutral
In partnership with Neste, all vehicles on site will run on renewable diesel
Advanced, continuous environmental monitoring systems across the site.

Otso Gold received US$11.155 million from the exercise of 284,944,440 common share purchase warrants previously issued to Brunswick Gold Ltd (“Brunswick Gold”) on a private placement basis on February 8, 2021. The Company allocated the proceeds from the exercise of the Warrants toward continuing the Company’s return to production of the Otso Gold Mine, targeted in Q3.

Otso Gold’s Company Highlights

Executed redevelopment plan nearing completion in Q3, 2021.
Over 70% of power is carbon neutral with cutting-edge environmental monitoring systems in place.
Well-funded, fully-permitted and licensed past-producing mine.
Low-cost mining operation with two open pits and a 2 million tonne per annum processing plant.
Proven recoveries of 87.5 percent.
Further exploration potential.
Received US$11.155 million to start production of its Otso Gold Mine

Otso Gold’s Flagship Project

Bringing Finland’s Otso Gold Mine Back into Production

The fully-built Otso Gold Mine is located near the town of Raahe, Finland. The access to skilled labor and infrastructure in this established mining jurisdiction directly benefits the Otso Gold Mine. Infrastructure includes low-cost power on-site, a network of paved all-weather roads leading to the mine site, a seaport within twenty minutes and an airport within an hour of the mine site. The €250 million Otso Gold Mine operation includes two developed pits and a completely built 2 million-tonne throughput process plant designed by Metso and Outotec.

The well-defined mineralized zone on the Otso Gold Mine is one of the largest gold resources in the region.

*The materials remaining in the low-grade stockpile from the previous production has been included in the measured category as it is ready to be fed to the mill at start-up. The sulphidic waste rock dump (potentially acid-forming) is included in the inferred category of the estimate as it is considered to be above the planned cut-off grade of 0.3 g/t Gold.

Mine and processing plant

The Otso Gold Mine operation consists of two open pits: the 50-meter-deep North Pit and the 25-meter deep South Pit. Otso Gold Corp’s mine plan emphasizes grade control and reconciliation. Conservative estimates for mining costs come in at €506 per gold ounce.

The plant has a proven operating recovery of 87.5 percent gold at a process cost of €305 per gold ounce. Having already operated in 2019, the processing plant is production-ready with minimal CAPEX required to return to production.

Otso Gold’s Management Team

Vladimir Lelekov – Chairman of the Board

Mr. Lelekov currently serves as Chairman of Brunswick Rail, the largest railcar operating leasing company in Russia. Prior thereto, Mr. Lelekov was CEO of Brunswick Rail from 2006 to February 2013 and returned to the company in May 2017. In 2014, Mr. Lelekov acquired an interest in OOO “Liga-Trans” (one of the largest companies in the sector of collection and environmentally friendly waste disposal) and assumed the position of the Chairman of the Board of the company until 2017.

Brian Wesson – President, Chief Executive Officer & Director

Mr. Brian Wesson has extensive experience spanning a career of over 40 years in the management, operation design and construction of natural resource operations globally. He qualified as an engineer in South Africa, gained an MBA in Australia, studied Economics at the University of South Africa and is a fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and a fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Clyde Wesson – Vice-President and Director

Clyde Wesson has significant experience in all aspects of the management of corporate entities, both listed and unlisted. His expertise includes the restructuring and recapitalizing of distressed assets, corporate finance, design and execution of corporate strategy, legal management and bringing assets to market. Wesson holds bachelor’s degrees in both Law and Commerce (LLB, B.Com) and is currently a candidate for a Master’s of Law (LLM) from Melbourne University (2019). He is a solicitor and member of the Supreme Court of NSW and a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and the Law Society of NSW.

Yvette Harrison – Chief Financial Officer

Ms. Harrison is a Chartered Professional Accountant with over 20 years of experience in permanent positions as well as in bridge leadership consulting roles with organisations in “immediate-need” situations in mining, real estate investments, technology, forest products, manufacturing and not-for-profit. She has worked as Chief Financial Officer, VP Finance, Director Finance, Controller and Consultant with numerous public and private companies as well as not-for-profits. She also has worked in public practice. Ms. Harrison received her CGA designation from the Certified General Accountants Association of British Columbia in 2002.

Nicolas Pascault – Director

Mr. Pascault serves as CEO of Brunswick Rail, the largest railcar operating leasing company in Russia, a position he has held since November, 2016. Mr. Pascault joined Brunswick Rail in 2004 as Managing Partner and CFO. In January 2015, Mr. Pascault assumed the position of Deputy CEO, reporting directly to the Chairman, and was asked by the Board to support a bond restructuring. Prior thereto, Mr. Pascault served as CFO of Danone Group in Russia from 1998 to 2004 and, from 1990 to 1998, Mr. Pascault worked at Ernst & Young in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Paris in the Audit and Corporate Finance Department. Mr. Pascault graduated from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques of Paris and holds a Master of Finance degree from the University of Paris II.

Victor Koshkin – Director

Mr. Koshkin serves as General Director of Brunswick Rail Management, a management company for Brunswick Rail, the largest railcar operating leasing company in Russia. Prior thereto, from 2003 to 2010, Mr. Koshkin worked in Moscow as CFO at Integrated Energy Technologies, Deputy Head of Business Development at SUAL, and adviser to shareholders of MDM Group. Mr. Koshkin served on the board of privately owned Samara Transformer. Prior to that, from 1996 to 2001, Mr. Koshkin worked as an investment banker at JP Morgan and Lehman Brothers in New York. Mr. Koshkin holds an MBA degree from Harvard Business School and a BA degree in Economics from Wabash College.

Martin Smith – Independent Director

Mr. Smith is an Independent Mining Consultant with over 40 years’ experience in open pit mining. From 2006 to 2015, Mr. Smith was Technical Director of Petropavlovsk Plc (formerly Peter Hambro Mining) based in the Russian Far East and overseeing three large open pit gold mines and their associated processing plants producing c.500,000 ounces of gold per year. Prior thereto, Mr. Smith worked as Country Director for Joy/P&H in India; General Manager of Comedat Phosphate in Jordan and Chief Mining Engineer for Costain Mining Ltd. Martin holds a BSc in Mining Engineering from the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College of Science, London.

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Puma Exploration

Making the Next Significant Discovery in the Bathurst Mining Camp

Overview

As mineral exploration companies across Canada seek new mining locations, one location stands out every year as a top contender. New Brunswick is a province rich in natural resources with mining-friendly policies, substantial infrastructure, a comprehensive regulatory regime and a competitive tax regime. Each year, New Brunswick ranks among the top places in the world for mineral exploration in the Fraser Institute’s Annual Survey of Mining Companies.

New Brunswick is home to the Bathurst Mining Camp (BMC) which is one of the most prolific mining camps for base metals in Canada. The BMC hosts 46 mineral deposits of which 25 comprise reserves of 1 million tonnes or more. The BMC also hosted the Brunswick #12 mine, one of the largest underground zinc mines in the world. As a result, companies with mineral projects in New Brunswick’s Bathurst Mining Camp will likely be of particular interest to investors seeking upside potential.

Puma Exploration Inc. (TSXV:PUMA,OTC:PUXPF) is a Canadian mineral exploration company focused on developing a portfolio of high-grade precious and base metals projects located near and inside the prolific Bathurst Mining Camp in New Brunswick, Canada. The company is led by a highly experienced management team with decades of experience in mining exploration and development. In 2014, the company received the Prospector of the Year award from The New Brunswick Prospectors and Developers Association.

Puma Exploration’s flagship Triple Fault Gold project is a district-scale land package of over 41,500 hectares and is located approximately 60 kilometres west of the Bathurst Mining Camp. The Triple Fault Gold project consists of three highly prospective properties –– Williams Brook, Jonpol and Portage.

“We have found the best hole ever, it’s a dream come true,” said CEO of Puma Exploration Marcel Robillard.

In September 2021, the company announced impressive initial drill results of 5.55 gpt of gold over 50.15 metres from the surface of its 20,000-hectare Williams Brook Gold property. The notable property is a major discovery for Puma Exploration and is fully controlled by the company. In October 2021, the company announced high-grade gold assays recovered from its 2021 field exploration surface sampling program on its Williams Brook Gold property. The results include 199 g/t Au, 192 g/t Au, and 170.5 g/t Au. he company also drilled 1.00 g/t Au over 40.6 Meters extending the gold mineralised zone Into the sediments

Great efforts will be made by the company in the coming years to deploy its DEAR strategy (Development, Exploration, Acquisition and Royalties) to generate maximum value for shareholders with low shares dilution.

The company is currently awaiting further assay results from its 2021 drill program on the Williams Brook Gold property. The 2021 field exploration surface sampling program is currently underway. Puma Exploration is also dedicated to ESG initiatives by following the principles of sustainable development, social responsibility and social acceptability.

Puma Exploration’s Company Highlights

Puma Exploration is developing a portfolio of high-grade precious and base metals projects located near and inside the prolific Bathurst Mining Camp in New Brunswick, Canada.
Puma Exploration’s flagship Triple Fault Gold project is a district-scale land package of over 41,500 hectares located near the Bathurst Mining Camp in New Brunswick.
The Williams Brook property is a notable and major discovery that includes initial drill results of 5.55 gpt of gold over 50.15 metres from the surface.
The company will be utilizing its DEAR strategy (Development, Exploration, Acquisition and Royalties) to generate maximum value for shareholders with low shares dilution.
The company is also dedicated to ESG initiatives by following the principles of sustainable development, social responsibility and social acceptability.

Puma Exploration’s Key Projects

Triple Fault Gold

The Triple Fault Gold project is a district-scale land package of over 41,500 hectares located approximately 60 kilometres west of Bathurst. The project features excellent infrastructure and access to paved roads. The Triple Fault Gold project consists of three properties –– Williams Brook, Jonpol and Portage.

The Jonpol property features 150 claim blocks spanning 10,000 hectares. The property is located 20 kilometres east of the Williams Brook property. Drilling on the Jonpol property returned 1.13 gpt of gold over 12.0 metres, 1.37 gpt of gold over 6.0 metres, 1.37 gpt of gold over 1.4 metres, 3.89 gpt of gold over 1.0 metres and 2.78 gpt of gold over 1.5 metres. Grab sample results include 14.83 and 10.6 gpt of gold. The property features limited diamond drilling but based on gold occurrences, the property may feature additional mineralization.

The most notable property is Williams Brook which is a major gold discovery. The 100 percent controlled Williams Brook is over 20,000 hectares and features many gold occurrences over 10 gpt with significant high-grade gold veins and three known gold trends. The drilling program on Williams Brook for 2021 has already been completed with assay results currently underway on 18 drill holes. The 2021 drill program returned an impressive 5.55 gpt of gold over 50.15 metres. The 2021 field exploration surface sampling program identified more high-grade gold veins with up to 199 gpt of gold. The company is currently continuing an aggressive exploration program on the O’Neil gold trend on the Williams Brook Gold property.

The Portage property contains significant copper, nickel and cobalt mineralization. Trenching on the property in 2017 found significant iron, copper, nickel and cobalt. Grab samples on the Portage property found grades at 1.46 gpt and 0.35 gpt of gold. The company strongly believes that this property has strong potential for significant discoveries given its limited advanced work history.

Chester Project

The Chester project is a 3,600-hectare copper project located 25 kilometres southwest of three significant deposits. These three notable VMS deposits are owned by Trevali Mining (TSX:TV) and include Halfmile Lake, Stratmat and Health Steele. The property features near-surface copper deposits in three zones, including the Central Zone, the East Zone and the West Zone (Copper Stringer).

Previous operators reported historical resources totalling 16.8 million tonnes at 0.76 percent on the Chester deposit divided into the three zones. In 2014, a resource estimate based on the West Zone was produced. The estimate includes measured and indicated resources of 1,400,000 tonnes at grades of 1.38 percent of copper and 3.5 gpt of silver and inferred resources of 2,089,000 tonnes at grades of 1.26 percent of copper. The inferred resource estimate only assayed for copper which suggests that other mineralization may be inferred.

Legacy Project

The Legacy project is a 499.4-hectare copper project consisting of two blocks of claims in Restigouche County, New Brunswick. The project is approximately 100 kilometres west of Bathurst and approximately 40 kilometres from Saint Quentin. The property is owned under the company’s wholly-owned Murray Brook Minerals Inc. subsidiary. The property features the notable Legacy deposit, two main prospect zones which are Hornfels and J.J. Gold and several other geophysical targets.

A historical resource of 1,040,000 tonnes at grades of 0.74 percent of copper and 5.15 gpt of silver was estimated by SKR Consulting in 2015. Mineralization on the property is contained in three steeply dipping mineralized zones varying from 1.5 metres to 12.1 metres in width. The drilling and resource model on the Legacy project indicates that the mineralization continues with depth and that additional tonnage could be delineated with additional drilling.

Turgeon Project

The Turgeon project is a 6.7 square kilometre copper project that consists of 31 claims. The property is accessible by road year-round and has an electrical transport line. The Turgeon project is located 5 kilometres south of the Belledune deep water port. The property is owned under the company’s wholly-owned Murray Brook Minerals Inc. subsidiary. The Turgeon project features multiple notable deposits including the Powerline, Zinc Zone and Dragon Zone.

Drilling by Esso Minerals in 1983 identified a historical resource of 1.4 to 2.0 million tonnes at grades of 1.5 percent copper and 4 percent zinc. The historical resource estimate was based on the Powerline and Zinc Zone deposits only. To date, approximately 100 holes have been drilled on the deposit which has returned an impressive 25,000 metres of core.

In 2013, Puma Exploration discovered the Dragon Zone on the Turgeon property which is approximately 200 metres south of the Powerline and Zinc Zones. Drilling on the property in 2013 returned substantial sulphides at grades of 1.01 of copper and 0.78 percent of zinc. Drilling on the property in 2014 found grades even higher at 5.66 percent of zinc, 0.38 percent of copper and 2.3 percent gpt of silver. Further drilling found zinc as high as 10.05 percent.

Brunswick CARDS

The Brunswick CARDS project is a copper project that is located north of the Chester project and southeast of the past operating East Steel mine. The property is owned under the company’s wholly-owned Murray Brook Minerals subsidiary. Brunswick CARDS was secured with a prospector and a private company with the CARDS system that was developed by Windfall Geotek (TSXV:WIN).

Murray Brook West

The Murray Brook West project is a grassroots copper project that hosts two anomalous zone discoveries. The property is owned under the company’s wholly-owned Murray Brook Minerals Inc. subsidiary. Trenching was conducted on the property in 2018 with 138 samples collected. In the same year, induced polarization and resistivity geophysical surveys were completed on 28/1 kilometre lines.

Puma Exploration’s Management Team

Marcel Robillard – CEO, President and Chairman of the Board

Marcel Robillard is a geologist who graduated in 1993 from the University of Quebec in Montreal. He also holds a Master of Earth Sciences obtained in 1995. From 1998 to 2007, he acted as a project geologist and project manager for Géominex which is a consulting firm in geology and mining exploration. Since 2007, Robillard has been on the board of directors of Puma Exploration (PUMA:TSX-V) in addition to being CEO of Puma Exploration since 2010.

Richard Thibault – Director

Richard Thibault has a B.Sc. in Mining Engineering from Queen’s University in Canada. He is a Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) with over 40 years of mining experience in engineering, operations, management and consulting. Thibault’s experience is in North and South America and Southeast Asia. Thibault is the president and principal engineer at AVOT Consulting Inc. Currently, he is on a long-term assignment for MUZO Emeralds as VP of Colombian Shared Services and director of mines in Colombia. Before this, he was group chief operating officer of mining at Malaysia Smelting Company Bhd. and senior general manager of its subsidiary Rahman Hydraulic Tin Sdn. Bhd. Thibault was also the CEO of Asian Metal Mining Consultancy in Malaysia. From 2008 to 2013, he was chief executive officer and director of Antioquia Gold Inc. (AGD-V) which is a publicly traded company with mining interests in Colombia.

From 1997 to 2006, Thibault worked in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Peru and Venezuela. While based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, he held the position of president at High American Gold Inc. which is a publicly-traded junior mining company. He also held the position of managing director at Procesadora de Boratos Argentinos S.A. (PBA) which is a private industrial mineral company. In Santiago, Chile, he was the general manager of the consulting firm BGC-AVOT Engineering Inc. From 2006 to 2007, he held the position of vice president of minerals at Daleco Resources Corp. which is a United States-based publicly traded company. Before moving to South America, he worked for Fording Coal Ltd., a Canadian company, in progressively responsible positions.

Ginette Gosselin Brisson – Chief Financial Officer

Ginette Gosselin Brisson is a graduate of the University of Quebec at Rimouski (UQAR) and is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) with more than 40 years of experience in auditing public bodies, manufacturing companies and service companies. Since 2014, she has been employed by Puma Exploration Inc.

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Snowline Gold

A Cornerstone Position in a New Gold District in the Yukon

Overview

Gold mining plays an important role in the economy of the Yukon Territory in Canada. From 1978 to 2017, the single-year value of gold production in the Yukon reached peaks upwards of US$91.1 million in mineral production.

The Selwyn Basin in the Yukon, however, remains relatively underexplored and undervalued. Exploration companies looking to acquire and develop highly prospective projects in the region have the ability to leverage excellent discovery potential and exciting early-stage investment opportunities.

Snowline Gold (CSE:SGD) is an emerging Yukon Territory-based exploration company focused on exploring highly prospective gold properties with a “cornerstone position in a new gold district, and an established jurisdiction in the Yukon,” according to CEO Nikolas Matysek.

Snowline Gold’s management team includes noteworthy members: Technical Advisor Paul Matysek is a geologist with over 40 years of experience, and has sold five publicly listed exploration and development companies; Technical Advisor Dr. Quinton Hennigh led exploration at First Mining’s (TSX:FF, OTCQX:FFMGF), formerly Gold Canyon Resources, Springpole alkaline gold project near Red Lake in Ontario; and incoming Chairman Dr. Craig Hart a world-renowned scholar on gold and copper deposits. He most recently served as Director of the Mineral Deposit Research Unit at the University of British Columbia, where he initiated industry-sponsored research projects that focused on gold systems and development of novel exploration methods.

The company is currently working to develop and explore its flagship Einarson and Rogue gold projects and recently acquired Cliff, Tosh and Rainbow properties. The company’s diverse asset base covers approximately 70,000 hectares at the intersection of established mineral belts.

The Einarson property covers five primary target areas with high-grade surface grab samples and wide-scale gold anomalies in the soil. Additionally, the Rogue project hosts two prospective targets, which cover a newly-discovered Tombstone series intrusion, and a potential buried intrusion with visible gold observed within its sulfide veining structures.

Snowline Gold advantageously leverages existing geological data from exploration work completed by the previous private operator. This data helps enable fast-tracked development and more rapid, low-cost entry to exploration.

In March 2021, the company announced it had staked additional claims around the Cliff and Tosh gold properties. These claims consolidated the land positions at each project, outlining expansion by 2,121 hectares and 2,069 hectares, respectively.

Upcoming developments for Snowline Gold in 2021 include an over 4,200-meter drilling program to better gauge the full potential of its land position.

The company’s solid share structure has a post-RTO total of over 89,197,000 shares and consists of several strategic shareholders, management and insiders. It has secured over CAD$$6.2 million in working capital for the 2021 exploration season following recent financings. Snowline Gold has a committed 30 percent insider share position.

Snowline Gold’s Company Highlights:

Snowline Gold is an emerging gold exploration company focused in the Yukon Territory, Canada. The company has a diverse asset portfolio of seven gold projects covering 70,000 hectares.
Key projects include the flagship Einarson and Rogue projects and recently acquired and 100 percent owned Cliff, Tosh and Rainbow properties. The company has a cornerstone position in the prospective yet underexplored Selwyn Basin.
The Einarson and Rogue gold projects sit at the intersection of established mineral belts and host defined gold targets with high-grade potential at world-class scales.
Snowline Gold plans for an aggressive and funded field campaign in 2021. This program will focus on drilling across multiple untested high-grade gold targets.
The company has world-class management and technical advisory team with over 80 years of combined experience in geological exploration, project prospecting and global gold discovery.
Snowline Gold intersected 7.05 metres at 3.96 gt Au, including 0.7 metres at 10.65 gt Au, and 4.00 metres at 4.10 gt Au, including 0.5 metres at 17.95 gt Au in initial drill program at the Jupiter Zone on its Einarson project in the Yukon Territory, Canada.
The initial drill program has intersected mineralization in 15 of 15 holes drilled across 930 metres within a 3 kilometre soil anomaly.
Step-out drill holes up to 930 metres along the trend continue to hit mineralization.
The Jupiter property is thought to host a shallow epizonal orogenic gold system. It is one of eight target zones prospective for orogenic and/or Carlin-style gold mineralization currently recognized on Snowline Gold’s 70%-owned Einarson project

Snowline Gold’s Key Projects

Einarson Gold Project

The Einarson gold project covers 61,690 hectares across Yukon’s mineral-rich and underexplored Selwyn basin. The property encompasses multiple kilometers-long geochemical anomalies associated with thrust-faulted carbonate and Carlin-type gold deposits. Snowline Gold holds a 70 percent interest in 3,016 claims and 100 percent interest in the remaining 25 claims covering the project.

The property hosts multiple structurally controlled quartz mineralization occurrences with grab samples grading up to 34.2 g/t gold. Extensive work of past private operators Anthill Resources and 18526 Yukon Inc. include securing the property’s mineral tenure, collecting more than 25,000 soil samples and 4,500 stream sediment samples, and conducting limited preliminary drilling.

Advanced past exploration totaling upwards of C$20 million primes the company for low-cost entry and fast-tracked development across the project’s primary target areas. These areas include the Mars NE, Avalanche Creek, Mars, Misty and Odd zones. The Mars NE zone will be the initial focus of exploration efforts at the Einarson project during the 2021 field season.

As the company advances its Einarson project, it recently announced it has intersected 7.05 metres at 3.96 gt Au, including 0.7 metres at 10.65 gt Au, and 4.00 metres at 4.10 gt Au, including 0.5 metres at 17.95 gt Au in initial drill program at the Jupiter Zone. Highlights of the drill program include the following:

The initial drill program has intersected mineralization in 15 of 15 holes drilled across 930 metres within a 3 kilometre soil anomaly.
Step-out drill holes up to 930 metres along the trend continue to hit mineralization.
The Jupiter property is thought to host a shallow epizonal orogenic gold system. It is one of eight target zones prospective for orogenic and/or Carlin-style gold mineralization currently recognized on Snowline Gold’s 70%-owned Einarson project

Rogue Gold Project

The Rogue gold project comprises 105 mineral claims over 2,439 hectares in a ten by two-kilometer claim block and several nearby satellite blocks totaling 16 additional claims. All claims are 100 percent owned by Snowline Gold. The main target areas include the Valley and Gracie zones.

The main block covers a 9-kilometer trend of hornfels alteration consisting of anomalous gold in rocks, soils and stream sediment. Initial surface rock grab samples collected by previous operators and an independent qualified person contracted by the company include gold grades as high as 152.0g/t, 95.3g/t and 44.8g/t gold at Valley.

Snowline Gold suspects the main trend hosts two members of the Tombstone plutonic suite, the set of Cretaceous intrusions responsible for multi-million ounce reduced intrusion-related gold systems seen at Kinross’s Fort Knox mine and Victoria Gold’s Eagle Mine.

The company intends on conducting an aggressive follow-up exploration program for both targets in 2021, including geological mapping, soil sampling, geophysical surveying and drilling.

Tosh Gold Project

The Tosh gold project in southwestern Yukon covers 3,700 hectares in a similar geological and structural setting to Newmont’s Coffee deposits. The project has the potential to become a significant orogenic gold camp due to high-strain schists and intercalated marble geological profile. Snowline Gold owns 100 percent of the Tosh gold project.

Past exploration has revealed mineralized rock samples of up to 6.8g/t gold and 1,146g/t silver over a 15-kilometer area. Likewise, the company has reported multiple open-ended soil anomalies at least 2.1 kilometers in length, with soil concentrations grading upwards of 5.8g/t gold and 62.1g/t silver.

At Tosh, Snowline Gold expects to commence follow-up exploration and focus on delineating high-priority drill targets in 2021.

Cliff Gold Project

The Cliff gold project covers 2,724 hectares in southwestern Yukon’s Ruby Range placer gold district, a region that has produced over 50,000 ounces of gold since 1991. The property leverages a nearby road-accessible airstrip, hydroelectric station and resources from the Haines Junction township. Snowline Gold owns 100 percent of the Cliff gold project.

Early exploration on the property returned stream sediment grades of up to 480ppb gold and a gold-in-soil anomaly of up to 850ppb gold. In 2013, quartz arsenopyrite vein material found in schists assayed 7.3g/t gold with additional evidence pointing towards high-grade altered granodiorite material.

Snowline Gold remains excited to continue exploring and developing this highly prospective project.

Rainbow Gold Project

The 125-hectare Rainbow Gold Project is located within the Tintina Gold Belt. It covers a gold and pathfinder element soil anomaly associated with surface alteration caused by a recently discovered intrusion, thought to belong to the mid-Cretaceous Tombstone Plutonic Suite. Other Tombstone-related gold deposits within the Tintina Gold Belt include Fort Knox (~11 million ounces Au), and Eagle (~4.8 million ounces Au).

A program of drone surveying, geochemical sampling and structural mapping is planned to establish suitable drill targets on the Rainbow property.

Upcoming developments for Snowline Gold in 2021 include an over 4,200-meter drilling program to better gauge the full potential of its land position. Phase I drilling at the Jupiter zone is nearing completion, having achieved its initial objective of discovering a mineralized structural zone thought to be partially responsible for gold-bearing quartz float boulders that grade up to 25.2 g/t Au previously found on the surface. While encouraged by phase I drill results, which indicate the in-situ presence of an extensive epizonal orogenic gold system, the Company awaits assay results to better assess their significance.

Additionally, the Company closed a C$1,000,000 non-brokered private placement with Crescat Capital in July 2021. The proceeds of the offering will be used to advance the Ursa gold and base metals project, and fund a future 1,500 metre diamond drill programme.

The company’s solid share structure has a total of 89.2M shares and consists of several strategic shareholders, management and insiders including Keith Neumeyer of First Majestic Silver Corp, Eric Sprott, Quinton Hennigh and Dr. Craig Hart. Snowline Gold has a committed 30 percent insider share position.

Snowline Gold’s Management Team

Scott Berdahl, MSc, MBA, P.Geo. – CEO, Director & Co-Founder

Scott Berdahl is a professional geologist with over 15 years of industry experience. Born and raised in the Yukon and based in Whitehorse, he brings a solid technical grounding in discovery-stage exploration alongside in-depth local knowledge. He has business development experience with several private and listed companies focused on gold and base metals.

Berdahl earned a BSc in Geology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an MSc in Earth Science & Engineering from KAUST in Saudi Arabia, and an MBA from INSEAD in France and Singapore.

Matthew Roma – CFO and Corporate Secretary

Matthew Roma is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) with over 10 years of financial management experience working predominantly with junior mining companies. Mr. Roma articled at Deloitte LLP where he specialized in assurance and advisory services for publicly listed mining companies based both in Canada and the United States

Paul Matysek, MSc. – Technical Advisor

Paul Matysek is a geologist/geochemist by training, a successful alpha entrepreneur and creator of shareholder value with over 40 years of experience in the mining industry. Since 2004 as either CEO or Executive Chairman, Matysek has sold five publicly listed exploration and development companies, in aggregate worth over $2 billion. Currently, he is the CEO and director of Gold X Mining.

Quinton Hennigh, Ph.D. – Technical Advisor

Dr. Quinton Hennigh is an economic geologist with 25 years of exploration experience, mainly gold-related. Early in his career, he worked for major mining firms, including Homestake Mining Company, Newcrest Mining Ltd and Newmont Mining Corp. He has been involved with several Canadian-listed gold companies, including Gold Canyon Resources, where he led exploration at the Springpole alkaline gold project near Red Lake Ontario, a five million-ounce gold asset that was recently sold.

Dr. Hennigh obtained a Ph.D. in Geology/Geochemistry from the Colorado School of Mines.

Craig Hart, PhD, – Independent Director, Incoming Chair

Dr. Craig Hart is a world-renowned scholar on gold and copper deposits. He most recently served as Director of the Mineral Deposit Research Unit at the University of British

Columbia, where he initiated industry-sponsored research projects that focused on gold and porphyry systems and development of novel exploration methods. He has published over 150 technical papers and spent 14 years with the Yukon Geological Survey.

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Bam Bam Resources

Developing a Prospective High-Grade, Copper-Gold Asset with District Size Potential

Overview

The demand for copper is expected to grow nearly 600 percent to 5.4 million by 2030, according to Goldman Sachs. This rapidly growing demand for copper comes after copper futures hit the world’s highest prices in July 2021. Copper has a wide range of valuable market applications, including CO2 conversion, killing cancer cells, wind power and even the fight against COVID-19.

However, the majority of the demand growth for copper isn’t expected to come from those sectors –– it’s projected to come from the rise in electric vehicles. Specifically, a single electric vehicle requires 60 to 90 kilograms of copper compared to 23 kilograms for a gasoline-powered car. With the electric vehicle market expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 33.6 percent from 2020 to reach nearly $2.5 trillion by 2027, the associated copper market and its rising prices will likely be of significant interest to investors.

Bam Bam Resources Corp. (CSE: BBR / OTC: NPEZF / FSE: 4NPB) (“Bam Bam” or the “Company”) is a mineral company focused on acquiring, exploring, and developing a portfolio of highly prospective copper properties with high-grade potential in North America. The Company’s project is located in Nevada which is one of the top mining jurisdictions in the world and is led by a highly experienced management team with decades of experience in the finance and mining industries.

“Our best grade so far on the drill program that we ran last year is in the oxide copper – we got 2.4 percent (copper equivalent) from surface to 146 feet. That’s a significant hole and that’s a pretty significant starting point. So, we know that the oxide cap could potentially be quite rich and it has some pretty good depth as well. Now our plan is to define and increase the known mineralization in the oxide cap and publish an updated NI43-101 that will be released after the drill program is completed. “This will provide an updated report reflecting the improved understanding of the geology, size, and potential scale of the Majuba Hill Porphyry Copper System”, said VP of Communications, Joel Warawa.

The Company’s flagship Majuba Hill project is located in the mining-friendly region of Pershing County in Nevada in the United States and is 120 miles northeast of Tesla’s Giga factory. The project is a high-grade copper-silver porphyry deposit that also features gold mineralization. Majuba Hill also has a proven history of successful exploration and strong production throughout the years but is still considered to be largely unexplored.

Majuba Hill has outcropping oxide copper mineralization at the surface. The total potential for the project is over 1 billion tons of sulfide oxide mineralization with grades of 0.4 to 0.5 percent for copper, 10-14 g/t of silver and 0.17-0.25 g/t of gold. Surface sampling on Majuba Hill found copper as high as 7.1 percent and silver as high as 3 oz/t. Outcrop rock sampling also found 3 to 10 g/t of gold within the copper zones.

The Company completed a successful multi-phase drilling program on the Majuba Hill project in 2020. The extensive exploration drilling program outlined an oxide copper-silver mineralization body and additional new copper porphyry target areas with the potential to expand the mineralization. Results from this program point to a potentially large and economically significant underlying sulfide deposit.

In September 2021, the Company announced that it expanded its land position by more than 300 percent for the Majuba Hill project to a total size of 15.1 square miles or 39.2 square kilometres. This incredible accomplishment vastly increased the project’s tonnage potential from 500 million tons to over 1 billion tons. The Company strongly believes that Majuba Hill has the potential to be a district size property which could further increase the asset’s resource and overall value.

The Company is fully funded for its 2021 to 2022 expanded exploration program. The exploration program includes step-out and in-fill drilling to extend the tonnage of the oxide cap and expand the scale of the sulfide deposit. The soil sampling coverage has been increased by 100% with assay results currently pending. Going forward, Bam Bam plans to continue the systematic. Phased exploration with soil and rock sampling, geophysics, and drill results.

Company Highlights

Bam Bam is a mineral company focused on acquiring, exploring, and developing a portfolio of highly prospective copper properties with high-grade potential.
The Company’s flagship Majuba Hill project is located in the mining-friendly region of Pershing County in Nevada which was the top mining jurisdiction in the world in 2020. The property is 120 miles northeast of Tesla’s Giga factory.
Majuba Hill is a high-grade copper-silver porphyry deposit that also features gold mineralization and a proven history of successful exploration and strong production throughout the years. The has high-grade, outcropping oxide copper mineralization.
In September 2021, the Company announced that it expanded its land position by more than 300 percent for the Majuba Hill project to a total size of 15.1 square miles or 39.2 square kilometres. This vastly increased the project’s tonnage potential from 500 million tons to over 1 billion tons. The Company strongly believes that Majuba Hill has the potential to be a district size property which could further increase the asset’s resource and overall value.
The Company is fully funded for its 2021 to 2022 expanded exploration program. The company believes that previous results point to a potentially valuable underlying sulfide deposit.
The Company is led by a highly experienced management team with decades of experience in the finance and mining industries.

Key Projects

Majuba Hill

The flagship Majuba Hill is a high-grade copper-silver porphyry project that features gold. It is located in the mining-friendly region of Pershing County in Nevada in the United States. The project is located 120 miles northeast of Tesla’s Giga factory. Bam Bam controls 100 percent of the Majuba Hill Project with extensive mineral and surface rights held by private ownerships, patented mining claims, and Federal Lode Mining claims. The property is accessible all year round through roads and features a favourable physical setting and climate.

Majuba Hill has had historic exploration dating back to the early 1900s with production continuing into the 1950s. Historic production in and around the project includes 2.8 million pounds of copper, 184,000 ounces of silver, 21,000 pounds of tin, 5,800 ounces of gold as well as lead and zinc reported. Majuba Hill has outcropping copper mineralization in the oxide cap. Today, the total potential for the project is more than 1 billion tons of sulfide oxide mineralization at grades as high as 0.4-0.6 percent of copper, 10-14 g/t of silver and 0.17-0.25 g/t of gold based on historic drillings. Surface sampling on Majuba Hill found copper as high as 7.2 percent and silver as high as 3 oz/t.

Bam Bam has conducted drilling, wide spread Drone Magnetic surveys, 3D GIS modeling, rock and soil sampling and deep IP/Resistivity geophysics at Majuba Hill. The Company recently completed a multi-phase drilling program on the property in 2020 that identified an oxide copper-silver mineralization body and target areas with the potential to significantly expand the mineralization prospect. The 2021 to 2022 exploration program is currently underway, including soil sampling which has already begun and drilling which is set to begin shortly.

Management Team

David Greenway – CEO & Director

David Greenway brings more than two decades of experience in managing, financing and developing growth strategies for various TSX Venture Exchange- and Canadian Securities Exchange-listed companies. Greenway has been involved in acquisitions, business valuations, investor relations and his key expertise lies in the management and development of junior public resource companies, especially in the mining and oil and gas sectors. He has held directorships, senior management and business development positions. Greenway was the CEO of Stamper Oil & Gas Corp., Veritas Pharma Inc., Chief Consolidated Gold Mines, SNS Silver Corp., Moneta Resources Inc. and Sterling Mining Company. Greenway also held a board position at Mountain View Conservation Centre. Greenway attended University in Bournemouth in England where he studied accounting and finance.

Natasha Sever – CFO

Natasha Sever is a CPA in both Canada and Australia with a Bachelor of Commerce from Edith Cowan University. She joins the Company with more than 10 years of experience in senior finance roles over a wide range of industries, including mining, retail and technology. Sever has held officer positions at many publicly-listed companies in both Canada and Australia and has a proven record of working in alignment with and to the benefit of the board and associated stakeholders. Sever has extensive experience with company financings as well as Toronto Stock Exchange and Australian Securities Exchange regulatory compliance. This experience will serve to ensure the Company manages its affairs transparently and properly.

Joel Warawa – VP Corporate Communications

Joel Warawa has over 20 years of experience in public and private businesses as a financial and marketing consultant. Warawa;s experience includes business development, negotiations, mergers and acquisitions and increasing brand awareness in the commodities, automotive dealerships and mining sectors. Warawa assisted in productivity and efficiency with the largest automotive group in Canada at the dealership level, including Audi, BMW, Infiniti and Mercedes-Benz. He also has experience running successful businesses, including owning and operating multiple small businesses throughout Canada.

Kelly Pladson – Corporate Secretary

Kelly Pladson has provided corporate governance and regulatory compliance services to many TSX Venture and CSE listed companies since 2009. Pladson has also served as the corporate secretary at many of these companies. She works closely with the company’s CEO and legal counsel in maintaining corporate records, managing the day-to-day operations of the company and ensuring the company’s filings with the securities commissions and exchanges are accurately filed and by their deadlines. Before 2009, Pladson was an assistant to an investment advisor for two years.

Yari Nieken – Director

Yari Nieken has an extensive range of public company and capital market experience. Nieken is a founder of Foremost Capital Inc. which is an exempt market dealer. Today, Nieken provides in-depth consulting for numerous publicly-listed issuers in the health care, mineral extraction, technology and wellness industry. Throughout the years, he has served as an officer of several public and private issuers, including holding board positions. His involvement in those companies led to numerous financings that raised substantial capital. He was formerly an investment adviser at Union Securities Corp. during which he gained significant knowledge in the public market. Nieken holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the Sydney Graduate School of Management and a Bachelor of Arts (BA) from the University of British Columbia.

Bryson Goodwin – Director

Bryson Goodwin is a practiced international executive with over 25 years of experience in finance, management, investor relations and operations with both private and public companies. Goodwin has an operational, market and banking track record in the resource, oil and gas, technology and biotechnology sectors. He has been engaged by many resource, energy, cleantech and technology firms, including holding “C” level executive positions in the resource and energy sectors. Goodwin also sits on the board of several public and private companies. He is well known for his early involvement and corporate turnaround of Klondex Mines. Goodwin held an instrumental role in the transition from explorer to producer of Klondex Mines as well as its finance and marketing.

Brad Dixon – Director

Brad Dixon is an attorney based in Boise, Idaho and a partner with Givens Pursley LLP. He is the co-chair of the Givens Pursley Litigation Group and focuses his practice on a variety of complex commercial litigation matters. Dixon has 20 years of experience in trial procedures involving a variety of significant commercial disputes, including construction litigation, secured transactions, real estate, employment and natural resources. He is a graduate of Boise State University where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Political Science in 1997 with an emphasis on constitutional law and public policy. Dixon received his Juris Doctor from Willamette University College of Law in 2000 in Salem, Oregon.

John Ryan – Advisory Board

John Ryan has been an active entrepreneur in the resources sector for over 20 years. He has extensive experience in the natural resource sector having served as either officer or director of companies such as Bunker Hill Mining, Premium Exploration, Cadence Resources, High Plains Uranium, U.S. Silver Corporation and Western Goldfields Inc. Ryan has public company expertise and extensive executive experience with start-up companies. Ryan also provides valuable insights regarding mining and other operations. Ryan obtained a B.S. in Mining Engineering from the University of Idaho in 1985 and a Juris Doctor from Boston College in 1992.

John Percival – Advisory Board

John Percival is an accomplished entrepreneur and board member of several private and public mining companies in Australia, Canada and the United States. Percival previously served as general manager of investments with Barclays Bank New Zealand Ltd. and was a successful fund manager where he managed over $450 million. Recently, he has played an integral role in raising over $100 million for resource investments in both Australia and New Zealand.

Percival has over 50 years of experience in the financial markets with a focus on mining. He is considered an expert and specialist in investment strategies with a special interest in precious metals, commodity markets and global investments. His experience and well-established network have assisted in funding numerous private and public mining companies. He is considered by many to be a “go-to” source for advice on mining assets globally.

Dr. Mike Ressel – Advisory Board

Dr. Mike Ressel currently works with Mine Development Associates (MDA). MDA is a consulting company, a division of RESPEC, that conducts mineral resource studies for the mining industry. Before MDA, Ressel was an economic geologist and assistant professor for the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR). In these roles, Ressel led field-based studies and published numerous papers on ore deposits of the Great Basin, conducted quadrangle mapping, taught courses, advised graduate and undergraduate students in economic geology and engaged in extensive public service. Before UNR, Ressel spent more than 15 years working in mining and exploration. He was the chief geologist in North America at Newmont for several years. Before working at Newmont, Ressel worked in mine production and development as well as near-mine and generative exploration for Newmont, Kinross, and Victoria Resources in the Great Basin, Alaska and other parts of the U.S., Western Canada, Mexico, Africa and Australia. He also worked for 5 years in geotechnical and groundwater consulting. Ressel obtained his Ph.D. from UNR. He is a fellow with the Society of Economic Geologists and an AIPG certified professional geologist. Ressel is active in many professional geoscience and mining organizations.

Buster Hunsaker – Technical Advisor

Buster Hunsaker has been engaged in the exploration and evaluation of quality mineral deposits for 40 years in the Western United States, Mongolia and Argentina. In 1995, Hunsaker Inc. was formed as a full-service geological consulting business providing field services and all aspects of prospecting, early-stage exploration and project management for mineral exploration companies. Hunsaker Inc. has been retained by numerous junior Canadian mining and exploration companies as well as major Nevada gold companies, including Barrick Gold Corporation, Newmont Exploration, AngloGold Mining, Vista Gold and Kennecott. Before forming Hunsaker Inc., Hunsaker was employed by mid-size and major mining companies, including Newmont, Atlas Precious Metals and Echo Bay where he served as a project geologist, senior geologist, and chief mine geologist.

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Graycliff Exploration

High Grade Gold in the Shadow of a Historic Headframe

Overview

Sudbury, Ontario is like no other mining district in the world. The Canadian jurisdiction boasts a rich history rooted in mining and widespread mineralization that leverages advantageous positioning on the iconic Canadian Shield, land that is located right on the third-largest known impact crater on earth.

Known famously for its high-yield copper and nickel production, the mining-friendly district also hosts tremendous precious metal exploration and production across its many historic and past-producing mines. With such diverse mineralization and unique rock formations dating back millions of years, Sudbury presents investors and exploration companies with a perfect storm of discovery potential and rich historical production records.

Graycliff Exploration (CSE:GRAY,FSE:GEO,OTC:GRYCF) is a Canadian-based junior exploration company exploring highly prospective gold projects in this historic gold-producing district of Ontario, Canada. The Company’s project portfolio consists of its flagship Shakespeare gold project and the newer Baldwin project.

The flagship Shakespeare project is located around the historic Shakespeare gold mine 88 kms west of Sudbury,Ontario. The 1, 025 hectare property leverages the region’s deep mining roots and high-grade mineralization in the shadow of a historic headframe. Historic and current exploration demonstrates exciting discovery opportunities and promising gold grades across multiple quartz vein and quartz vein stockwork targets.

The Baldwin project is just East of the Shakespeare property and both projects are transected by the prolific Murray Fault. Both projects are also situated in a well-known geological zone of the Canadian Shield, where the Archean, Southern and Superior geological provinces intersect. This boasts tremendous exploration opportunities for both projects

The next steps for Graycliff include continuing extensive drilling and further exploration programs for high-grade gold at Shakespeare and prospecting, sampling and geophysics at Baldwin. Historic work at Baldwin was for uranium only and historic reports suggest similar geology to Shakespeare. . The Company already initiated its Phase Three drilling program at its flagship property and remains excited uncover future gold discoveries.

Graycliff has a tight capital structure with 25 million shares outstanding with close to 40% being held by management, insiders and strategic shareholders. In April 2021, the Company announced the completion of a C$2.4 million non-brokered private placement. The net proceeds from the financing mean that Graycliff’s exploration programs at Shakespeare and Baldwin are fully funded through 2022. The Company hopes to find gold at Baldwin in 2022 and create a new Ontario gold camp

Graycliff Exploration’s management team and technical advisors bring together deep exploration experience and a pedigree across multiple major projects in Ontario. A notable technical advisor driving Graycliff’s mining operations is Bruce Durham, a significant figure credited with the discovery of several significant economic mineral deposits, including the David Bell mine, the Golden Giant mine, the Redstone Nickel mine and the Bell Creek Mine. Together, this leadership roster primes Graycliff for tremendous discovery and economic upside.

Graycliff’s Company Highlights

Graycliff Exploration is a Canadian junior exploration company engaged in acquiring, exploring, developing and extracting precious metals in prolific mining districts. Its property portfolio includes the Shakespeare and Baldwin gold projects located on the prolific Canadian Shield west of Sudbury, Ontario.
The flagship Shakespeare project is located around the historic Shakespeare gold mine. Current exploration includes the third phase of drilling to identify further high-grade, near-surface gold and identifying new targets along it’s SW-NE trending mineralized horizon of over six kilometers.
Historic reports suggest that the adjacent Baldwin project has similar geology to Shakespeare and initial field work is being carried out in 2021..
The Company has a tight share structure with close to 40% of its shares management, insiders and strategic shareholders.
Graycliff has an impressive management and technical advisory team with deep roots in exploration, project development and corporate finance.

Graycliff Exploration’s Key Projects

Shakespeare Project

The Shakespeare and Baldwin Projects have excellent infrastructure with close proximity to the Trans-Canada highway, utility networks and a strong, local workforce. Many of Graycliff’s workforce are shareholders and therefore very loyal to the Company.

Graycliff has now completed Phase One and Phase Two of its drilling program, which totalled of 2,800 metres and 5 of the first 7 holes returned anomalous gold values, including: 8.1 metres (“m”) of 3.2 grams of gold per tonne (“g/t Au”), 6.0 m of 4.6 g/t Au, 5.5 m of 8.6 g/t Au. The Company has recently released the first two holes of the 14 hole phase two drill program and both were spectacular with hole 8 being 16.0 m of 16.4 g/t Au and hole 9 being 16.0 m of 13.3 g/t Au. The rest of the results from phase two are expected over the next couple of months. . The Company is also working on a 3D model of the current mineralization, which is expected to be completed in early 2022.

Baldwin Project

The Baldwin project comprises three mining blocks totalling 1,500 hectares located east of the Company’s flagship Shakespeare project. The property has not been historically explored for gold, but historic reports from uranium exploration suggest it has similar geology to the Shakespeare Project.. The next steps for Baldwin include preliminary surface sampling and geophysics planned for late-2021.

Should Graycliff find gold at Baldwin, its proximity to Shakespeare could be the making s of a new Onatrio Gold Camp.

Graycliff Exploration’s Management Team

James Macintosh – President & Director

James Macintosh has over 35 years of experience in mineral exploration, mining research analysis, corporate finance and management of private and public resources companies. He is also currently the president, CEO and director of privately-held Kingsview Minerals and a seed investor and director of CircuitMeter. He was the lead director and Chair of the Audit Committee of Carlisle Goldfields prior its sale to Alamos Gold.Macintosh has a B.Sc. (Geology) and is a member of Queen’s University Geology Council.

Julio DiGirolamo – CFO & Director

Julio DiGirolamo is a Chartered Professional Accountant with over 25 years of senior-level public company experience, 15 years of it in the mining sector. He is also the CFO and director of several junior exploration and development companies. DiGirolamo’s key areas of experience include corporate governance and regulatory matters. He was the CFO of Carlisle Goldfields prior to its sale to Alamos Gold.

David Lees – Director & Non-Executive Chairman

David Lees is the managing director of Peninsula Investments (WA) Pty Ltd and Casey Lees International Pty Ltd. He is also the non-executive director of Sultan Resources Ltd.

Nicholas Konkin – Director

Nicholas Konkin has extensive business experience with over a decade of developing successful private and public resource and technology start-up’s combined with a strong background in wealth management and investor relations spanning resources, technology and medical services. Mr. Konkin is currently Vice President of Corporate Development for Grove Corporate Services, a Toronto based firm specializing in full-service aftermarket support for public and private companies, including providing stock exchange listing services.

Bruce Durham – Technical Advisor

Bruce Durham is credited with the discovery of several significant economic mineral deposits including the David Bell Mine (Hemlo), the Golden Giant Mine (Hemlo), the Redstone Nickel Mine (Timmins) and the Bell Creek Mine (Timmins).

Don McKinnon Jr – Technical Advisor

Don McKinnon Jr. is a very experienced prospector who has worked all over the world with deep experience in Ontario, who has been involved in managing all aspects of exploration from property acquisition and grassroots exploration, to seeing projects through to development.

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Orogen Royalties

Unique Royalty Generation Through Joint Venture Exploration & Strategic Acquisitions

Overview

The price of gold hit all-time highs in 2020 when it reached US$2,070 per ounce. This surge in prices benefited gold producers who reported record-high margins as a result. However, this upswing in prices and increased margins for gold producers means that they are also subject to downswings in prices and decreased margins.

Gold royalty companies, on the other hand, effectively outperformed gold based on a 12-month analysis due to their robust business model. In the analysis, gold royalty companies produced attractive revenues and shareholder value while relying on less debt when compared to their gold counterparts. As a result, gold royalty companies present an exciting opportunity for investors seeking to invest in gold and hedge the market volatility of gold prices.

Orogen Royalties (TSXV:OGN) is a junior royalty company that is focused on creating, identifying and acquiring highly prospective precious metal royalties. Orogen Royalties was created from the merger of two very well-established exploration companies called Evrim Resources and Renaissance Gold. The company is led by a highly experienced management team with over a decade of experience working in executive roles with major and junior mining companies.

The company established shareholder value and long-term value creation as an organic royalty generator through project generation and strategic partnerships. Orogen Royalties grows their exploration assets in highly prospective and prolific gold and copper regions, including the Golden Triangle in northwestern British Columbia in Canada, the Laramide Belt in Mexico, and the Walker Lane in Nevada, USA.

Orogen differs from other gold royalty companies in three distinct ways:

Mineral exploration: The company boasts a “boots on the ground” team with deep expertise in rich mineral exploration, as well as exploration teams in Vancouver, Canada, Nevada, the United States, and Hermosillo, Mexico.
Organic royalty generation: Funding for the company’s exploration programs comes from joint venture partners, meaning partners can acquire projects for royalties, cash or shares, or obtain a minority equity interest.
Acquire royalties strategically: Orogen takes a strategic approach to royalty discovery by using its business development and industry expertise to identify projects that are likely to go into production.

Orogen has two flagship royalty assets.

The Ermitaño project, owned and operated by First Majestic Silver Corp. (TSX:FR). has impressive inferred resources of 11 million ounces of silver and 522,000 ounces of gold which is a whopping 59 percent increase from the resources that were inferred in 2019. Orogen has a 2 percent NSR on the project and is located near the producing Santa Elena mine. First Majestic is putting together a Pre-Feasibility Study and prepares to start production at the end of 2021.

The second key royalty asset is Silicon Gold project, located in the mineral-rich Southwest Nevada Volcanic Field that hosts reserve and production resources of more than 60 tonnes of gold and 150 tonnes of silver. Orogen Royalties has a 1 percent NSR on the project. The Silicon Gold project also leverages strategic positioning near the Lynnda Strip owned by Corvus Gold Inc. that has significant mineral resource estimates. Significant gold discoveries have been made in the last four years along a newly defined north-south trending belt at least 6 kilometers long. From north to south, these discoveries include the Central Silicon zone, being drilled by AngloGold Ashanti, the Merlin zone, also being drilled by AngloGold Ashanti, the Lynnda Strip zone, drilled by Corvus Gold, the C-Horst zone, being drilled by Coeur Mining, and the Mother Lode zone, also drilled by Corvus Gold.

In 2021, Anglogold Ashanti announced they would acquire Corvus Gold for approximately US$370 million. The transaction implied a total equity value for all Corvus common shares and outstanding options to acquire common shares of approximately US$450 million.

Total reported production and resources for the greater Beatty area are now more than 8 million ounces gold, not including resource estimates by AngloGold at Silicon or Merlin, Coeur Mining at C-Horst or Corvus at Lynnda Strip. Exploration work by AngloGold is ongoing to delineate the ore bodies at both Silicon and Merlin in greater detail. AngloGold intends to report an initial mineral resource in 2022, followed by a conceptual development plan for the district. Production is anticipated to start between 2024 and 2025 on the North Bullfrog deposit followed by Silicon and Merlin, including Lynnda Strip.

Orogen Royalties boasts a strong cash position with over $9 million on hand. The company expects to become cash-flow positive in 2022. The company also has a tight share structure with 177.1 million shares outstanding, including 23 million warrants and 5.4 million options.

Exploration and development have been conducted on its joint venture projects since the company’s inception; joint venture partners have funded over $65M on Orogen’s exploration projects. Drilling programs have also been completed on the Ermitaño and Silicon Gold projects.

Orogen Royalties’ Company Highlights

Orogen Royalties is a junior royalty company that is focused on creating, identifying, and acquiring highly prospective precious metal royalties.
Orogen Royalties differentiates itself from other gold royalty companies by generating royalties organically through exploration, and strategic royalty acquisition.
Orogen Royalties has a robust portfolio of assets, including royalties, joint ventures and alliances located in highly prospective and prolific gold and copper regions, including the Golden Triangle in northwestern British Columbia in Canada, the Laramide Belt in Mexico, and the Walker Lane in Nevada USA
Flagship royalty Ermitaño project has inferred resources of 11 million ounces of silver and 522,000 ounces of gold. The company holds a 2 percent NSR.
Flagship asset Silicon project is located in the mineral-rich Southwest Nevada Volcanic Field that hosts reserve and production resources of more than 60 tonnes of gold and 150 tonnes of silver. The company holds a 1 percent NSR.
The company boasts a strong cash position and share structure. Orogen Royalties expects to become cash-flow positive in 2022.
The company is led by a highly experienced management team with over a decade of experience working in executive roles with major and junior mining companies.

Orogen Royalties’ Key Royalty Assets

Ermitaño Project

The Ermitaño project is located approximately 145 kilometres from Hermosillo in Sonora in Mexico. The property is accessible through a paved highway and secondary roads. The project has indicated resources of 5 million ounces of silver and 335,000 ounces of gold which is a 19 percent increase from the resource that was indicated in 2019. The project has inferred resources of 11 million ounces of silver and 522,000 ounces of gold which is a 59 percent increase from the resource that was inferred in 2019. The Ermitaño property is also located near the gold-producing Santa Elena Silver Gold mine owned and operated by First Majestic Silver Corp.

The project is owned by First Majestic Silver Corp. In 2018, First Majestic Silver entered into an option agreement with Orogen Royalties to acquire a 100 percent interest in Ermitaño and paid US$1.5 million for a 2 percent NSR royalty. As a result, the company was able to complete over US$500,000 in exploration expenditures in the first year and delivered a production notice specifying mine and construction plans with accompanying permits.

First Majestic strongly believes that the size of the resource has the potential to continue increasing with further exploration, particularly to the east of the Ermitaño ore body. Orogen believes the project is near-term revenue and may provide revenue for at least eight years. The company has already completed a drilling program in 2020. The pre-feasibility study on the property and initial production are expected at the end of 2022.

Silicon Gold Project

The Silicon Gold project is located in the Southwest Nevada Volcanic Field on the western margin of the Timber Mountain caldera in Nevada. The Silicon project is currently at medium-term development and is expected to be a long-term asset for AngloGold Ashanti. The property features multiple historic pits and underground mines. Over 28,000 metres of drilling has been completed on the property to date which has targeted structural zones. The company is permitted to construct 109 drill sites under the phase 1 permit and plans to expand the drilling program in 2021.

Current exploration results indicate the potential for significant oxide ore bodies at Silicon and Merlin, as well as additional sulphide potential at Silicon at depth. AngloGold Ashanti anticipates it will publish a Mineral Resource at Silicon for the year ending 31 December 2021. Exploration work is ongoing to delineate the ore bodies at both Silicon and Merlin in greater detail.

AngloGold Ashanti’s conceptual development plan for the district envisions North Bullfrog being developed first, with production in the next three to four years, followed by Silicon, Merlin (including Lynnda Strip) and Mother Lode.

(source for last 3 paragraphs) : http://www.corvusgold.com/news/releases/index.php?content_id=372)

Joint Ventures and Alliance

Orogen Royalties strongly believes that any one of its joint ventures has the potential for an economically significant discovery. The company’s joint venture portfolio includes active exploration and development as well as future drilling plans.

Orogen Royalties’ Management Team

Paddy Nicol, President – CEO and Director

Paddy Nicol has over 25 years of experience in public company management serving on the boards of Abacus Mining Corp., Redstar Gold Corp., Niblack Mining Corp., Cobre Exploration Ltd., and Spanish Mountain Gold. Before joining Orogen, Nicol was the President and CEO of Niblack Mining Corp. which successfully merged with Committee Bay Resources in 2008. During his tenure, Nicol developed an extensive network of contacts throughout the institutional and retail investment community. Nicol was the president & CEO of Evrim Resources before it merged with Renaissance Gold to form Orogen Royalties.

Justin Quigley – Director

Justin Quigley is an internationally experienced business development executive with multi-commodity expertise in the natural resources sector. Most recently he served as vice president for Rio Tinto Exploration in the Americas with the responsibility of formulating and executing commercial strategies for acquisitions and divestments. Before this, Quigley served in various legal roles for Rio Tinto Exploration and Placer Dome, including general counsel for Rio Tinto Exploration North America and Kennecott Minerals Company where he managed the legal and commercial affairs of these companies. Quigley also serves as a director of a private Canadian nature resource company.

Roland Butler – Director

Roland Butler was a co-founder, officer and director of Altius Minerals Corporation, a leading diversified mineral royalty company, from 1997 to 2010. He was then president and CEO of Callinan Royalties Corporation, which was subsequently acquired by Altius in 2015. Currently, he is a non-executive director of Millrock Resources which is based in Alaska, Adia Resources in Canada and Aurum Global Exploration which is based in Ireland and active in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Butler was also co-recipient of the Entrepreneur of the Year Award by the P. J. Gardiner Institute at Memorial University on behalf of Altius Minerals Corporation and is an Honorary Member of the Newfoundland and Labrador Brand of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum.

Robert P. Felder – Director

Robert Felder has worked as an exploration geologist and in senior management for major and junior mining companies for the past 35 years. His experience has been largely in Nevada, where he has been directly involved in the discovery or resource development of five gold deposits through technical and leadership roles in exploration. Most notably, he was involved in the Long Canyon deposit with Pittston Nevada Gold, New West Gold and Frontier, and the Twin Creeks, Lone Tree, Trenton Canyon and Valmy deposits with Santa Fe Pacific Gold. For the past 20 years, Felder has served in corporate management and executive positions, where he was involved in corporate financing activities, investor relations, and presenting technical and corporate information to the markets. Most recently, Felder was the president and CEO of Renaissance Gold.

Timothy M. Janke – Director

Timothy Janke is a highly-skilled, experienced and award-winning general manager. He has a broad range of expertise in mining operations throughout the USA, Canada and Australia. Janke also has a proven track record of professionalism in leading teams to succeed in start-ups and shut-downs as well as effecting change to improve production, costs and safety performance. In addition, Janke ran the acquisition program for Homestake Mining Corporation in Canada that included evaluation of potential acquisitions and due diligence review for major business transactions. Janke has over 40 years of experience principally in gold operations at Homestake Mining Corporation, Barrick Gold Corporation and most recently at Goldcorp. At Goldcorp, he served as general manager of the Marigold Mine and as a chief operating officer of Pershing Gold. Janke served as a director of Renaissance Gold before it merged to form Orogen Royalties.

Marc Tran – Chief Financial Officer

Marc Tran is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CGA) with over 20 years of experience in finance leadership with public organizations. He has completed over $100M of financing for mining projects and is a strategic executive who is experienced in transforming and scaling growth-stage companies. He also has a strong background in project financing, M&A, compliance, regulatory management, corporate governance and marketing. Tran also holds a Bachelor of Commerce in Finance and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Calgary.

Rosana Batista – Corporate Secretary

Rosana Batista is a professional business administrator with over 20 years of experience in corporate and information technology governance. Batista holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration. Batista built her career in the information technology area working for international public companies in demand management, process review and budget management. Since 2012 she has been specializing as a corporate secretary. She is a graduate of the Chartered Governance Institute of Canada, awaiting to receive her Chartered Secretary designation.

Marco LoCascio – Business Development

Marco LoCascio has 14 years of experience as an analyst, fund manager and executive in the metals and mining space. Since 2018 he has been a director and member of the audit committee for Orezone Gold Corporation. Until recently, LoCascio was CEO of Adia Resources, a private diamond exploration company. Previously, LoCascio spent 11 years as an analyst and portfolio manager with Equinox Partners. He focused on the firm’s investments in metals and mining, evaluating exploration, development, production and royalty companies. He received a B.A. in Economics from Amherst College.

Laurence Pryer – Exploration Manager

Laurence Pryer joined Orogen in 2017 after graduating from the University of Alberta in Canada with a Ph.D. in Economic Geology. He also holds an MA in Earth Sciences from the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Pryer brings his understanding of Northern Cordilleran geology and mineral deposits to Orogen.

Ignacio Camarena – Exploration Manager

Ignacio Camarena has 14 years of experience in mineral exploration, project generation, mapping sampling and both diamond and RC drilling, mainly in porphyry, skarn and epithermal projects. He graduated from the University of Sonora with a Bachelor’s Degree in Geology. He has worked for Orogen since 2013.

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CAT Strategic Metals

Using a Hybrid Model to Develop Diverse, High Value Mineral Projects

Overview

As investors attempt to mitigate the risks associated with the commodities cycle while still gaining exposure to its rich opportunities, resource companies with diversified portfolios may provide an exciting solution.

Diversified metal portfolios, as opposed to limited individual metal sectors, are hedged against price declines for a given commodity providing a less risky and more valuable investment for investors. Portfolio diversification also allows mining companies to improve cash flow and capitalize on the width and breadth of metal and mineral markets while managing fluctuating commodity values.

One such company is CAT Strategic Metals (CSE:CAT, OTC:CATTF, FRA:8CH), a mineral exploration company focused on the acquisition and exploration of diversified and strategic North American mineral projects. The company’s current projects include a wide range of minerals and metals including gold, silver, uranium, copper and tellurium.

“We look for undervalued projects that have already had exposure, that already had some work done in the past, that maybe had been abandoned over time for a variety of reasons, but still have good potential going forward,” said CAT Strategic Metals CEO Robert Rosner in an interview with INN.
CAT Strategic Metals employs a hybrid model that seeks out, analyzes, and acquires projects that have strong potential given past diverse mineral outputs and supporting samples. This hybrid model saves the company from spending time and resources on discovery and exploration of uncharted areas like other mining companies do. The company also takes advantage of strategic positioning by locating projects in mineral-rich regions of the world and near high-yielding mines such as Hecla Mining Company’s Hollister Nevada and Midas Nevada gold-silver mines.

The Rimrock project is located in the mining-friendly jurisdiction of Nevada in the US, only 15 km southeast of Hecla Mining’s (NYSE:HL) high-grade Midas gold-silver mine and 3 km north of the Hollister gold-silver mine. Near-surface mineralization shows the potential for the property to host several high-grade, low sulfidation, gold and silver deposits, as well as for Carlin-style gold deposits at greater depths.

The Gold Jackpot is located in the prolific Elko district in northeastern Nevada, 100 km north of Nevada Gold Mines’ Long Canyon gold mine. Other notable projects in the same region are Phoenix Copper-Gold, Roninson porphyry copper-gold, Turquoise Ridge/Getchell Mine, Twin Creeks, Goldstrike and Carlin-Mike Cu-Bluestar-Exodus gold. The company believes that Gold Jackpot has potential for Porphyry Copper-, Emperor, Fiji-, Carlin- and Midas Style deposits and Exploration Models.

CAT Strategic Metals also has two other strategic projects: the Burntland project (copper, silver and gold) in New Brunswick and South Preston project (uranium) in Saskatchewan.

CAT Strategic Metals has completed geologic mapping, sampling, Gravity-, MAG- and now is conducting Induced Polarization surveys of large-scale gold-silver targets on the Rimrock and Gold Jackpot projects. The company intends to define drill targets on both projects based on the results from these diverse programs.

CAT Strategic Metals links its success to a few key factors including its strategic alliances and acquisitions and its highly skilled management team. The company has relatively low overhead when compared to its counterparts in the industry, which has made the company highly efficient in obtaining funding and operationalizing its projects.

The company’s management team is well-experienced in the mining and exploration industry, maintaining current positions at Lucky Minerals Inc. (TSXV:LKY), EMGold Mining Corporation (TSXV:EMR) and Tarku Resources Ltd. (TSXV:TKU) and former management positions at Stria Lithium (TSXV:SRA) and Osisko Mining Corporation Canada (TSX:OSK).

CAT Strategic Metals’ Company Highlights

CAT Strategic Metals’ current projects focus on a wide range of minerals and metals including gold, silver, uranium, copper and tellurium in mining-friendly areas.
CAT Strategic Metals employs a hybrid model of acquiring mines that have been abandoned but maintain strong potential given past mineral outputs and sample indications which allows for bypassing of the discovery phase.
The company has two projects in Nevada: Rimrock and Gold Jackpot; and two projects in Canada: Burntland (copper, silver and gold) in New Brunswick and South Preston (uranium) in Saskatchewan.
The Rimrock project is located in the prolific Carlin and Midas trends and hosts near-surface mineralizations with the potential for high-grade, low sulfidation gold and silver deposits, as well as larger Carlin-style gold deposits at depth. The property is only 15 km southeast of Hecla Mining’s high-grade Midas gold-silver mine.
The Gold Jackpot is located in the prolific Elko district in northeastern Nevada, 100 km north of Nevada Gold Mines’ Long Canyon Gold Mine. Gold Jackpot potentially has porphyry copper, Emperor gold-tellurium, Carlin- and Midas-style exploration models.
The company’s management team has a long history of success in the mining and exploration industry including currently held positions at reputable mineral exploration companies.

CAT Strategic Metals’ Key Projects

Rimrock Project

The Rimrock project is located in the Elko district of Nevada, US near Hecla Mining Company’s Hollister Nevada and Midas Nevada mines, which to date have yielded 0.5 million ounces of high-grade gold-silver and 2.2 million ounces of high-grade gold and 25 million ounces of silver, respectively. The property sits on the Carlin Trend and the Midas Trend, which are prolific gold mine producing areas. The project also has an extensive infrastructure to support year-round operation on the 1,162-hectare land package.

The Rimrock project is a multi-target gold and silver system situated 15 km southeast of Hecla Mining’s high-grade Midas gold-silver mine, 13 km from new high-grade Green Racer Sinter gold-silver discovery and 3 km north of its Hollister gold-silver mine. Rimrock has the potential for shallow epithermal systems, similar to the Midas and Hollister mines, which are low sulfidation, high-grade gold deposits, and the potential for deeper Carlin-type gold deposits.

Mapping, sampling, gravity, and drone MAG survey programs have been completed in 2021, and a high resolution deep-seeking Induced polarization survey is now underway. Geologic mapping and rock-chip sampling has uncovered three new gold-silver drilling targets, bringing CAT Strategic Metals a total of five drilling targets to pursue in coming months.

Gold Jackpot Project

The Gold Jackpot project is located in the Elko district in northeastern Nevada, US which is believed to host a porphyry copper-, Emperor, Fiji-style Au-Te, Carlin-style Au, and Midas-style gold-silver exploration models. The project’s region is highly mineralized and sits on the Pequop Gold-Copper Trend, located east of the Battle Mountain-Eureka Trend, Getchell Trend and Carlin Trends, which are copper- and gold-rich areas. The project is located near high-yielding copper and gold mines such as Long Canyon, Robinson Copper-Gold, Phoenix Copper-Gold, Turquoise Ridge/Getchell Mine, Twin Creeks, Goldstrike and Carlin-Mike Cu-Bluestar-Exodus.

Gold Jackpot has had substantial historical exploration completed from the 1980s to the early 2000s including 27 drill holes completed by Tenneco from 1988 to 1989. The project has multiple exploration targets including the Carlin-style gold target that sampled up to 16 g/t of gold, a diatreme-porphyry copper-gold system and the gold-silver-tellurium-gold-silver target that yielded up to 4 kg/t of tellurium.

Interpretation of a drone-based magnetic, ground-based gravity surveys and induced polarization lines at the have been completed and defined two distinct geophysical anomalies in two locations. The surveys have also confirmed that the southern anomalies represent a diatreme-porphyry-style target, while the northern anomalies represent a Carlin-style gold target.
Planning for a follow up exploration program is underway.

South Preston Project (Uranium)

The South Preston project is located southwest of the uranium-rich region of the Athabasca Basin in Saskatchewan, Canada.

The project has more than 10 km of adjacent property bordering NexGen Energy Ltd. which recently discovered the high-grade Arrow uranium deposit. Another recent discovery in the region belongs to Fission Uranium Corp. which discovered the Triple R uranium Lake South deposit. The project also has more than 18.5 km of a continuous boundary with Orano which is a leading global uranium producer. Additionally, South Preston has 50 km of contiguous claim border with Azincourt Energy Corporation.

The South Preston project could potentially host the extension of a priority uranium exploration corridor extending from NexGen Energy Ltd.’s Rook-1 Project to Azincourt Energy Corp.’s East Preston Uranium project nearby.

Burntland Project (Copper, Silver and Gold)

The Burntland Project is located in the northern portion of New Brunswick, Canada in a region with high-grade silver, gold and copper potential. The project is accessible year-round with highways and logging roads. Burntland is located near the large-scale VMS Bathurst mining district and is adjacent to McKenzie and Rocky Brook regional fault systems.

Mineralization in the area is hosted within skarns, proximal to intruding porphyry dykes. Assay results show high-grade copper mineralization as high as 16.3 percent Cu and silver mineralization as high as 220 g/t Ag. The project has five targets that are believed to contain copper mineralization in porphyry systems based on associated geological factors.

The company has completed a drone MAG survey in 2021 to detect and delineate key geological targets. Additional high resolution Quadri-MAG, VLF, Heli Borne Survey is planned for the fall, with diamond drilling planned for fall/winter of 2021.

CAT Strategic Metals’ Management Team

Robert Rosner – Chairman of the Board, President & CEO

Robert Rosner has over 30 years of extensive experience as a mining industry entrepreneur and executive. Rosner is acting Chairman and CEO of CAT Strategic Metals Corporation. Rosner is also the director and former executive of Lucky Minerals Inc. and a director and CFO of EMgold Mining Corporation. He was instrumental in founding several junior exploration mining companies where he played significant roles in the management and growth of these companies. These included multiple resource ventures that were involved in early-stage exploration, resource location, delineation and development.

Rosner has been an officer and director of both Canadian and U.S. listed companies, providing senior management of compliance reporting, oversight and other fiduciary capacities and directing corporate activities. He also has significant experience in initial public offerings (IPO), mergers and acquisitions and reverse takeovers (RTO).

Steven Cozine – CFO & Corporate Secretary, Director

Steven Cozine has over 25 years of experience as an officer and director of numerous publicly listed companies in the mining, industrial and high-tech sectors. His experience spans a wide range of corporate management responsibilities with a focus on governance and regulatory compliance, project management and corporate finance including private funding and prospectus offerings, human resources, strategic planning and corporate operations.

Sebastian Tang – Chief Financial Officer

Sebastian Tang has been involved in the accounting and preparation of the Company’s financial statements for the past several years and is well acquainted with CAT Strategic Metals and its projects. Additionally, Sebastian has significant experience in the financial management and planning of publicly listed issuers. He has held executive positions, including CFO and corporate controller in other public and private ventures. Before starting his own firm, he worked in public practice for 7 years, including two years at Ernst & Young, and 8 years in private practice with Hunter Dickinson Inc.

Julien Davy – Director

Mr. Davy began his career as an exploration geologist in the summer of 1996. His tenure includes assessing numerous projects at the exploration and/or advanced stages of development throughout Canada and abroad. Davy has been involved in numerous acquisitions and mining investment activities. Davy is currently the President & CEO of Tarku Resources Ltd. and concurrently has held the positions of President at Stria Lithium and a senior exploration geologist at Osisko Mining Corporation Canada.

Additionally, Davy was an investment consultant for SIDEX s.e.c. of Montréal. Davy also has been employed by numerous companies including NioGold Mining Corporation in Val-d’Or, Hecla Mining in Venezuela, Cambior Exploration Canada, Anglo-American Exploration and the Ministry of Natural Resources of Québec. In 2015, Davy co-founded, with Benoit Lafrance, Eureka Exploration, a private exploration company that was sold to Tarku Resources in June 2017. Davy is a member of the OGQ and Qualified Person (QP) according to National Instrument 43-101. Mr. Davy has a Master’s degree from the Université du Québec à Montréal and an MBA from HEC in Montréal.

Luis Martins – Director

Luis Martins is a geologist with over 30 years of experience in the exploration and mining sector. He graduated from the Faculty of Sciences of Lisbon in 1973 and has an MSc in Economic Geology from the same faculty in 1995 and also has completed several other national and international post-graduation courses. Martins previous roles include Director of the Mineral Resources Department at the Geology and Mining Institute, Director of the Mines and Quarries Department at the Directorate-General of Energy and Geology (the mining authority), Vice President of Colt Resources Inc., CEO of Ozdogou Portugal Mining and Exploration Lda. and Director of Assimagra (a Portuguese mining association). He has participated in numerous national and international research projects, especially in the mineral exploration, environmental geology and mining heritage fields. Martins is currently the President of the Cluster Portugal Mineral Resources.

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Nobel Resources

Developing The Next World-Class IOCG Project In Chile

Overview

The idea that copper is “the new oil" may seem strange at first, but there's good reason for these claims. With the copper industry facing a potential 4.7 million metric ton deficit by 2030—experts like Trafigura Group are now saying new mines will need to be built to supply the estimated 10 million tonnes required to meet global demands for this metal.

There's no denying how much global demand there is for copper. In the last year alone, prices have surged from US$2.50 per pound to US$4.58. This has led investors to shift their attention to Chile, the world's top copper producer, as they look to invest in companies capable of supplying this increasing demand.

Nobel Resources (TSXV:NBLC) (OTCQB:NBTRF) is a mining company that's looking to take advantage of mineralized IOCG deposits in Chile through its flagship Algarrobo project. The company is operating in northern Chile, a strategic and relatively unexplored project that boasts past production that has persisted for decades and continues today. Presently artisanal miners are are direct-shipping ore grading at least 12 percent copper to the plant in Copiapo for processing.

An Iron oxide copper gold ore deposit (IOCG) deposits tend to be large in size, metallurgically simple, relatively high-grade, and suitable for highly profitable mines. The famous Candelaria Mine in the region which is owned by the lundin Group is a member of this deposit classification.

Nobel Resources CEO, David Gower, notes that the area has “never really been explored from a modern perspective" and hopes that “we'll be the first group to go in and apply modern techniques to prove up what's a very large system of mineralization."

Gower also explained to INN how the “Chilean coastal copper belt… is one of the most prolific copper belts in the world." It boasts “exceptional grades," with initial underground sampling with values as high as an approximately 15-30 percent copper range. Copper and, to a lesser extent, gold make Chile the ideal location for a new mining investment project.

The Company is planning a drill campaign, commencing September 10, to test 5 large targets comprising magnetic and coincident IP anomalies and with associated copper mineralization identified near surface in most cases (Figure 2 below shows the targets and approximate locations of the planned drilling). The campaign will comprise 40-50 diamond drill holes ranging in depth from 100 meters to approximately 500 meters for a total of 10,000 – 12,500 meters of drilling. Given the large scale of particularly the Central Target, several long holes per section will be required to evaluate the anomalies. The configuration used for the IP survey penetrates to at least 400 meters and the anomalies persist to that depth. Typically, IOCG deposits have a large vertical extent that can exceed 1 km.

Chile is a world-class, top mining country that contains valuable IOCG deposits. The country's mining potential is even more lucrative when you consider that a large portion of the high-grade mineralization occurs close to the surface. The Algarrobo project is located within 25km of a port and a smelter, plant and mill are located 45km south by road in the nearby city of Copiapó.

Gower describes the opportunity as “a very unique story" and believes Nobel Resources's main project has “a bright future at least for the next few years." Drilling operations have already begun, and the physical program for the project is halfway to completion. The business has achieved a National Instrument (NI) 43-101 from Canada with this progress.

Having started with a C$5 million budget, the company successfully raised over C$9 million, allowing it to accelerate the project and deliver further results over the next 12 months, according to the CEO. As of April 2021, the company maintains a strong cash position. Nobel Resources boasts a fully-funded and permitted exploration program.

Fully diluted, the company has 71,440,690 shares outstanding, which includes 3,755,000 and 1,907,400 shares worth of options and warrants respectively. Nobel Resources can be an excellent opportunity for investors, as it allows them access to an advanced, high-grade IOCG project in an active region with great discovery potential.

Nobel Resources's Company Highlights

Nobel Resources has a fully funded and permitted exploration program with a tight capital structure and shareholder alignment.
The company boasts a proven leadership team, with CEO David Gower bringing over 20 years of industry experience through his time at Falconbridge (now Glencore), and serves as a current Director of Alamos Gold (TSX:AGI).
Initial samples taken at the Algarrobo project site revealed mineralized veins that may be capable of producing up to 14MM tonnes of copper and gold.
The company is operating in a mining-friendly jurisdiction with access to critical infrastructure and additional copper mines in the area.
Nobel Resources has the right to acquire 100 percent of the Algarrobo IOCG property.
Nobel Resources also received approval from the TSX Venture Exchange to acquire 100 percent of the La Salvadora project.

Nobel Resources's Key Project

Algarrobo IOCG Project in Chile

Algarrobo is an extensively mineralized iron oxide copper gold (IOCG) ore region with significant large-scale potential.

The project is strategically located in Chile because the country is a top mining jurisdiction. Chile's mining capabilities benefit from mineralization that is high-grade and close to the surface. Permits are already in place for the operation as well.

Algarrobo is also an ideal mining environment thanks to a low elevation of less than 1,000m above sea level. It's covered and surrounded mainly by a shallow sand cover in the Atacama desert. The ores are of exceptional grade, with mineralized structures in the northeast trend extending at least 6 km. A new mineralized trend called the Gloria Trend has been discovered in thesouth part of the property. Where the two mineralized trends intersect is precisely where the large Central target has been identified in an area that is dune covered and completely unexplored.

Geophysical anomalies and planned drilling at Algarobbo. Partiularly note the Central Target which is 4 km by 2.5 km in an area where the two mineralized structural trends intersect.

The region offers developed infrastructure that's capable of supporting the project. The operation in Algarrobo is within 25 km of port Caldera on the Pacific Ocean, and the world-class IOCG deposits are part of the Major Candelaria coastal belt. A smelter, plant and mill all owned by ENAMI (Chile's National Mining Company) are available for use within 45 km in Copiapó. Paved roads are accessible throughout for easy access.

The deposit type is comparable to that of the major Candelaria deposit 60 km down south or Michilla in the north

Algarrobo contains significant high-grade copper mineralization near the surface. An oxide layer extends over 100 meters in depth, and sulphide mineralization is making its way down 500 meters in adjacent mines. The materialized stockpile has a cut-off grade below 12 percent copper.

Related projects both in the surrounding area and in the past point to the region's high potential for profitable mining operations. Algarrobo is surrounded by mid and large-sized operations; 6 active copper mines can be found within 100 km. For instance, Lundin Mining's Candelaria mine is indicative of IOCG deposits in the district: a 2019A production boasting 320 Mlbs Cu and 88 Koz Au.

The Property has been undercapitalized and possesses a significant upside potential. Nobel is conducting the first systematic evaluation on the 6,161 ha land package and its ample mineralization potential. Deposit mining has only been completed up to 40m, compared to over 500m in adjacent properties. The veins range in thickness between 1m and 8m. The big prize however would be a large tonnage system of the scale Chile is renowned for and targets have been identified with that scale associated with the extensive copper mineralization on the Property.

Nobel Resources' Management Team

David Gower, P.Geo. – CEO

Mr. Gower has held Executive and Director positions with several junior and midsize mining companies for the past 12 years. He has worked with Emerita Resources Corp. and has served as President of Brazil Potash Corp. David spent over 20 years with Glencore (formerly Falconbridge) as Director of Global Nickel and PGM exploration and as a member of the Senior Operating Team for mining projects and operations. He led exploration teams that made brownfield discoveries at Raglan, Sudbury, Matagami and Falcondo and greenfield discoveries at Araguaia in Brazil, Kabanga in Tanzania and Amazonas in Brazil. Mr. Gower is a Director of Alamos Gold.

Lawrence Guy – Director

Mr. Guy is Chief Executive Officer of North 52nd Asset Management Inc. and Chair of Emerita Resources Corp. Previously, Larry was a Portfolio Manager with Aston Hill Financial Inc. Prior to Aston Hill, Mr. Guy was Chief Financial Officer and Director of Navina Asset Management Inc., a company he co-founded that was subsequently acquired by Aston Hill Financial Inc. Mr. Guy has also held senior offices at Fairway Capital Management Corp. and First Trust Portfolios Canada Inc. Mr. Guy holds a Bachelor of Arts (Economics) degree from the University of Western Ontario and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Jeff Glass – Director

Jeff Glass is a partner at Blakes, Cassels & Graydon LLP where he advises leading investment dealers and senior issuers on public financings and securities regulatory matters. He also founded the Firm's Investment Products & Asset Management Practice. Jeff has been involved in the reformulation of the regulations and policies of the Ontario Securities Commission and has assisted the Toronto Stock Exchange in a review of its policies and procedures for the regulation of listed entities.

Michael D. Shuh – Director

Michael leads Canaccord Genuity's Financial Institutions Group in Canada. Before he joined Canaccord Genuity in 2017, he was Head of Financial Institutions Investment Banking at CIBC and also worked at National Bank Financial. As well as covering traditional financial institutions, Michael has deep expertise in structured products and special purpose acquisition corps ( SPACs). He also provides advice on raising capital and M&A to alternative financiers and FinTech companies. Michael has a Bachelor of Business Administration Honors from the Lazaridis School of Business & Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University and a Master of Business Administration from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario.

Vernon Arseneau, P.Geo. – COO and Director

Mr. Arseneau has over forty years of experience in exploration, project management and development, of which the last twenty-five have been in South America, principally in Peru, Chile and Argentina. Vern spent 20 years working as exploration manager and senior geologist for Noranda Inc. in Canada and South America. He was general manager of Noranda's Peru office and project manager of the El Pachon porphyry Cu-Mo project in Argentina. He has consulted on numerous base and precious metals projects, including work as Vice President of Exploration for Zincore Metals Inc. Arseneau was responsible for the exploration and feasibility studies of two zinc deposits and the discovery of the Dolores Cu-Mo porphyry in Peru. More recently, he was COO of Royal Road Minerals Ltd. exploring for gold in Colombia and Nicaragua. Vern holds a Bachelor of Science in geology.

Greg Duras – CFO

Mr. Duras is a senior executive with over 20 years of experience in the resource sector in corporate development, financial management and cost control positions. He's held the position of CFO at several publicly traded companies, including Savary Gold Corp., Nordic Gold Corp and Avion Gold Corp. He is currently CFO of Red Pine Exploration. Greg is a Certified General Accountant and a Certified Professional Accountant and holds a Bachelor of Administration from Lakehead University.

Damian Lopez – Corporate Secretary

Mr. Lopez is a corporate securities lawyer who works as a legal consultant to various TSX and TSX Venture Exchange listed companies. He previously worked as a securities and merger & acquisitions lawyer at a large Toronto corporate legal firm, where he worked on a variety of corporate and commercial transactions. Mr. Lopez obtained a Juris Doctor from Osgoode Hall and has received a Bachelor of Commerce with a major in Economics from Rotman Commerce at the University of Toronto.

Paul Pint – Director

Paul Pint is a Chartered Professional Accountant with over 30 years of capital markets experience. Mr. Pint started his professional career in 1991 with Ernst & Young in the Financial Services Group. Beginning in 1995, he moved into Institutional Equities with CIBC World Markets. Over the next 20+ years he worked in various senior roles in the investment banking and equity sales industry, holding several senior roles with large Canadian banks as well as boutique investment banks and dealers.

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Raindrop Ventures

Former Ivanhoe COO Builds Startup with Great Nevada Assets

Overview

Portfolio diversification is an important strategy when investing in exploration and mining companies as it reduces investment risks and increases the chance of discovery upside across different commodities and projects. However, not all mining companies and their assets are created equally.

Building a robust and diversified portfolio takes finding junior mining companies with attractive projects, but also requires the leadership to raise capital, obtain property and see geological trends worth investing shareholder money into. Investors seek to gain the perfect storm of top mining expertise and highly prospective mineral assets in precious and base metal mining when choosing a company with a strong management team that has a proven track record of success and an outstanding portfolio of projects under its belt.

Investors can find the perfect storm of top mining expertise and highly prospective mineral assets in precious and base metal mining in the Raindrop Ventures Inc (CSE:RAYN), an emerging company of highly experienced mining and capital markets executives whose objective is to create value by exploring and developing mineral properties in North America’s top mining districts. The company currently has a robust portfolio of gold, silver and polymetallic projects in the prolific mining jurisdictions of Nevada and Idaho.

Over the last 20 years, Raindrop’s leadership has uncovered major mineral discoveries, built a successful geothermal company and additional business developments valued over US$5 billion in value. Notable figures in this team include the company’s chairman, Daniel Kunz, who has been one of the driving forces of several multi-billion dollar valued mining companies such as US Geothermal (NYSE:HTM) and Ivanhoe Mines (TSX:IVN). Mr. Kunz was a part of Ivanhoe Mines’ effort in Mongolia where, in 2001, the company discovered Oyu Tolgoi, one of the world’s largest copper-gold deposits. During his seven-year tenure, the market capitalization value of Ivanhoe Mines increased from $400 million to $4.4 billion. Mr Kunz is currently CEO of Prime Mining Corp, a member of the TSX Venture 50, a near-term gold-silver producer at the historically productive Los Reyes project in Mexico.

On the technical side of the company, Raindrop’s VP of Exploration, G. Peter Parsley brings over 32 years of experience in mining and exploration. Mr. Parsley led the evaluation, drilling and initial economic assessment of the Guarichie Gold deposit in Venezuela, Illinois Creek Gold Project in Alaska, and several projects in the Goldstrike District in Utah and Nevada. He has extensive geologic experience at projects in Nevada, Idaho and Utah.

Raindrop’s accomplished management team and portfolio of highly prospective gold and silver projects positions the company as an attractive junior mining exploration company that is being led by mine finders and who have experience at producing significant shareholder returns.

Raindrop’s key Clover Mountain project in Idaho leverages exceptional exploration potential across 350 hectares of widespread mineralized land. The property lies in close proximity to successful projects such as Integra Resources’ Delamar and LLC’s gold mine in Nevada, which has produced over eight million ounces of gold since 1981. Clover Mountain could see similar high-grade gold yield as the company progresses its exploration efforts on the property.

In March 2021, Raindrop Ventures announced the acquisition of Liberty Gold’s Nevada gold project portfolio, which consists of three 100 percent owned projects (Anchor, Stateline and Sandy) and three 49 percent owned projects (Brik, Viper and Easter). The acquisition helps expand Raindrop’s access to the prolific Great Basin gold exploration projects and pushes the company beyond what other junior companies might achieve in such a short timeframe.

“We are a little bit unique given we have a lower burn rate than most with senior expertise. We’re lean and we had financing completed in February of this year, so we’re well-funded. That essentially allows us to have more patience and to make decisions without constantly chasing,” commented Raindrop Ventures CEO Alexander Kunz.

Building on its highly attractive project portfolio, Raindrop also announced the signing of a letter of intent to acquire the Jessup gold-silver exploration project in Churchill County, Nevada from JMX, LLC. The project has already revealed over 349 historic drill holes with numerous high-grade intercepts exceeding 5g/t gold grades and a 2018 measured and indicated resource of 275,000 ounces of gold and over 3.93 million ounces of silver( 331,800 ounces gold equivalent at 0.606 grams per tonne at a 69:1 silver-gold ratio).

The next steps for the company include completing acquisition of Jessup and undertaking extensive exploration there and atits newly acquired Anchor gold project, located in the Cortez gold trend in Nevada. The team likes the geology of the region and property and is optimistic that a new exploration thesis could expand the mineralization.

Raindrop Ventures’ Company Highlights

Raindrop Ventures Inc. is led by industry leaders in mining, mineral exploration and capital markets to acquire and explore high-quality projects across North America.
The company’s management team consists of mining experts and executives who bring years of combined experience in related fields and a proven track record of business development success valued at over US$5 billion.
The key Clover Mountain project in Idaho presents the company with exceptional exploration and high-grade gold discovery potential.
Raindrop acquired the Nevada gold project portfolio from Liberty Gold Corp. in March 2021. This portfolio consists of six high-quality gold and silver projects ranging from 100 percent and 49 percent ownership.
The company announced its letter of intent to acquire the Jessup gold-silver exploration project in Churchill County Nevada. The high-grade gold-silver asset would be an exceptional addition to Raindrop Ventures’ robust project portfolio
The next steps for the company include completing the acquisition of Jessup and exploration there and across its Anchor project and Clover Mountain property.

Raindrop Ventures’ Key Projects

Jessup Gold-Silver Project

The Project has had several historic campaigns of exploration and drilling starting in the 1980s and in 2018 a pit-constrained, heap leach modeled measured and indicated and inferred gold resource was estimated. The Project consists of 163 BLM claims, options on private ground including water rights and right of way for power, historical drill core and reverse circulation chips, historical and current drilling and assay data, geophysical studies, right of ways, federal and state permits, and other relevant data. 91percent of the resource is oxide with leach test recoveries between 75 percent to 89 percent for Au and 14 percent to 40 percent for Ag;

Clover Mountain Project

The Clover Mountain project is a greenfield exploration asset and epithermal gold-silver stockwork deposit approximately 60 miles southwest of Boise, Idaho. The property consists of 43 unpatented claims totaling 350 hectares and leverages strategic positioning in what Raindrop believes is the “Jarbidge Trend,” which hosts successful mining projects like Integra Resources’ Delamar and Florida Mountain and War Eagle gold-silver properties in Idaho.

The underexplored trend of Clover Mountain hosts several multi-million-ounce gold-silver and silver-gold deposits, including several polymetallic gold-silver-copper-zinc-lead deposits. Past exploration programs revealed rock chip samples upwards of 1.99g/t gold, 19.95g/t silver, 1.25 percent copper and 1.54 percent zinc grades. Recent trench sampling and field mapping have confirmed widespread mineralization and potential drill targets based on new geological assessments.

After its acquisition in 2018, the company has been quick to begin the exciting exploration and development of Clover Mountain. The first steps for this highly prospective asset included a US$133,000 Phase One exploration program, with geological mapping, prospecting, ground magnetic surveys, trenching and more.

Anchor Project

The Anchor Project is a Carlin-type sedimentary rock-hosted gold target located in the region of Devil’s Gate and the prolific Battle Mountain in Nevada. The project is advantageously positioned at significant intersection points with west-northwest striking fault zones, which could reveal exceptional mineralization potential. Anchor also consists of 54 unpatented federal lode claims and is 100 percent owned.

Anchor hosts several undrilled gold targets, which the company projects could mimic the discoveries of nearby projects like the four million ounces Ruby Hill gold deposit located 11 kilometers to the southwest. Historic exploration highlights gold grab samples of 1.83g/t gold grades, 11,000ppm arsenic and 1,030ppm antimony.

The next steps for the Anchor project include planning an extensive exploration program to unlock the property’s true gold discovery potential.

Nevada Gold Project Portfolio

The Nevada gold project portfolio consists of six highly prospective and high-quality gold properties acquired from Liberty Gold Corp. in March 2021. The portfolio includes three 100 percent owned and three 49 percent owned properties: Anchor, Stateline and Sandy and Brik Viper and Easter, respectively.

The Anchor project is a Carlin-type gold property with undrilled gold targets
The Stateline project is a low sulphidation gold-silver asset with high-grade gold values hovering 1.46 to 4.55g/t gold
The Sandy project is a sediment-hosted gold property with extensive exploration potential
The Brik project is a low sulphidation gold asset with drill intersections highlighting gold grades around 2.41g/t gold over 16.7 meters and 14.95g/t gold over 1.5 meters.
The Viper project is a low sulphidation epithermal gold asset with demonstrated gold grades upwards of 1.09g/t gold over 33.5 meters.
The Easter project is a low sulphidation epithermal vein-breccia-stockwork gold-silver deposit with existing historic resources and exceptional exploration potential.

Raindrop Ventures’ Management Team

Daniel Kunz — Chairman

Daniel Kunz has significant experience in mining, renewable energy, exploration, finance and operations. He is currently the CEO and President of Prime Mining Corp a successful exploration company that has grown significantly under his leadership. In addition to founding and working ten years to build U. S. Geothermal, Inc. into a successful energy producer that was sold in 2018 for C$200 million, Kunz was senior VP and COO of Ivanhoe Mines, Ltd. from November 1997 to October 2000. He was later president, CEO and director until March 2003.

Kunz was one of the driving forces in taking Ivanhoe mines into Mongolia where the company discovered Oyu Tolgoi, one of the world’s largest copper-gold deposits, in 2001. During his seven-year tenure, the market capitalization value of Ivanhoe Mines increased from C$400 million to C$4.4 billion.

Alexander Kunz — President, CEO & Director

Alexander Kunz brings to the company more than seven years of experience in the management and operations of precious metals exploration and development.

Kunz has been involved in management, corporate governance and operations; both in exploration and development. He has experience in both public and private companies and has been part of the management team or serving in an advisory role to several junior mining companies. Previous project jurisdictions include Alaska, Nevada, Idaho, Oregon, Bolivia, Mexico and Canada.

Kunz holds has business and legal experience in government and private practice as well as a J.D. and M.Sc. from the Creighton School of Law and a B.Sc. from Seattle University.

Satvir Dhillion — Corporate Secretary & Director

Satvir Dhillon has been involved in the development of companies primarily listed on the TSX Venture Exchange for about 20 years. He has held a variety of positions including investor relations, business development, senior management and board directorships.

As part of the management team at U.S. Geothermal Inc., the market capitalization value increased from C$2 million to C$250 million and it successfully became an Independent Power Producer. Dhillon is currently the president, CEO and director of iMetals Resources Inc and also sits on the Board of Equatorial Exploration Corp., UC Resources Ltd., and Earl Resources Ltd..

Scott Davis — CFO & Director

Scott Davis is a partner of Cross Davis & Company LLP Chartered Professional Accountants, a firm focused on providing accounting and management services for publicly-listed companies.

Davis’ 22 years of experience includes CFO positions of several companies listed on the Canadian Securities Exchange and the TSX Venture Exchange; senior management positions, including four years at Appleby as an assistant financial controller, two years at Davidson & Company LLP Chartered Professional Accountants as an auditor and five years with Pacific Opportunity Capital Ltd. as an accounting manager.

G. Peter Parsley — VP of Exploration

Peter Parsley is a professional geologist with over 32 years of experience in the mineral exploration business as both an exploration geologist and a mining executive. He has been an associate at Daniel Kunz & Associates, LLC since 2015 and before that served as VP of Exploration for Thunder Mountain Gold. In the mid-2000s Parsley served as CEO of TSXV-listed Triumph Gold Corporation and led the company through evaluation, drilling and initial economic assessment of the Guarichie Gold deposit in Venezuela and conducted gold and silver project evaluations throughout South America.

In the 1990s, he led a USMX, Inc. team that conducted approximately US$6 million of exploration work in the Thunder Mountain District in Idaho and was responsible for property evaluations in the western U.S. and the Illinois Creek gold project in Alaska. Before working for USMX, Inc., Parsley worked for Tenneco Minerals as the chief geologist responsible for regional exploration programs and mine development in the Goldstrike District in southwestern Utah and conducted regional reconnaissance programs in Nevada.

Parsley holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Geology from the University of Idaho.

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1844 Resources

Revitalizing Mineral Exploration and Development in the Prolific Gaspe Peninsula, Quebec

Overview

The Gaspe Peninsula in southeastern Quebec covers approximately 11,390 square miles of thick forest and free-flowing rivers and lakes. Despite its humble appearance, this region stands as one of the definitive districts for geological and mineral exploration in Canada, a reputation in the midst of making a strong comeback.

In 1844, Sir William Logan, founder and first director of the Geological Survey of Canada mapped the majestic Gaspe Peninsula, unknowing the exceptional copper mining opportunities the region would later present. After decades of under exploration, Gaspe presents investors and active copper and polymetallic companies the opportunity for exciting discovery and economic success.

1844 Resources Inc. (TSXV:EFF) is an exploration company with a focus on grossly underexplored regions of Gaspé and Chibougamau in Québec. The company’s robust project portfolio includes the Vortex, Native Copper, Davidson and Lac Arsenault projects.

1844 Resources’ strategic positioning in the Gaspe Peninsula allows it to leverage its rich past-producing mining history. The prolific Gaspe Copper Mine, a subsidiary of Noranda Mines Limited in Murdochville, produced approximately 141 million tons at 0.85 percent copper from 1954 to 1999. 1844 Resources could likely see similar margins with exploration and project development today.

The company’s other region of operation in Chibougamau presents exceptional exploration upside potential with its established roadways, railroad transportation access and widespread gold and copper mineralization discovered in the early 1950s. Both Chibougamau and Gaspe are primed for extensive revitalization and exciting first-mover exploration opportunities.

After finalising a purchase agreement to acquire 100 percent undivided interest of nine claims in the Chibougamau region in 2020, 1844 Resources began its initial exploration and prospecting work program on the Davidson Project.

1844 Resources’ secondary asset is the Native Copper project in the Municipality of Chandler, which is comprised of 156 claims. The project is part of the Mont Alexandre syncline, associated with an important metallotect volcanic horizon part of the Lake McKay Member, which lies within the greenstone belt present in the Gaspe Peninsula.

1844 Resources’ management team consists of world-class experts in the mining sector. The team combines over 100 years of experience in copper resources, finance and geological exploration. These attributes prime the company for outstanding economic success and mineral yield potential in the growing copper market.

1844 Resources’ Company Highlights

1844 Resources is focused on the underexplored regions of Gaspé and Chibougamau and its exciting portfolio of copper and polymetallic projects, including the Vortex, Native Copper, Davidson and Lac Arsenault Gold projects.
The Gaspe Peninsula has a rich history of past-producing successes, stemming mainly from its Gaspe Copper mine. The company has strategic positioning close to this especially valuable copper resource.
1844 Resources’ management team consists of strong leaders in the copper and mineral exploration sector, who bring over 100 years of combined expertise in financial resource development and project acquisition.

1844 Resources’ Key Projects

Vortex Project

The Vortex project is a copper, molybdenum and gold project, which adjoins the Glencore and Soquem property, situated at Sullipek East and 25 kilometers west of Murdochville. The project has seen extensive exploratory and developmental work since 2000, which significantly benefits 1844 Resources’ future plans for the project.

Between 2009 and 2011, the Vortex had over 4,700 meters of combined drilling, geophysics and soil surveys and an exciting discovery of 0.94 percent copper at 29 meters in 2012. Strategically positioned near the Glencore and Soquem portion of the property, estimated resources hover between 2,240,000 tons at 1.09 percent copper and 5,500,000 tons at 0.88 percent copper.

The next steps for Vortex include a 7,000-meter drill program planned for 2021. 1844 Resources remains excited for the future of this project and could see similar mineralization and discovery success as past projects from the prolific Gaspe Copper mine.

Native Copper Project

The Native Copper project is an exceptional greenfield copper exploration opportunity situated within the Gaspe greenstone belt, west of Chandler, Quebec. The property comprises 156 claims divided into four sectors: Native Copper South, North-west, North-East and Central. 1844 Resources has 100 percent undivided interest in the entirety of these claims.

This strategically positioned asset spans 28 kilometers in length on a horizon that is known to generate multiple mineralized copper zones and has already shown nine indicators in the area. To date, the project has seen extensive prospecting, trenching and drilling, which has revealed copper grades upwards of 5.38 percent.

The company intends to conduct an exciting Airborne geophysics program in mid-2021.

Davidson Project

The Davidson project comprises 33 claims situated within the historic Chibougamau mining district. The asset is strategically located directly south of the past-producing Icon Mine. 1884 Resources has a 50/50 joint venture with J.A. MacLeod Exploration Reg’d for Davidson.

The project has produced over 1,616,567 tons of copper at grades of 3.07 percent copper across several known sources on the property. Davidson displays exceptional exploration upside with its close proximity to Route 167 North East of Chibougamau and several prospective copper showings, including Clero, Blondeau and Bouzan-Cuivre targets.

The company remains excited to continue exploring this highly prospective project.

Lac Arsenault Gold Project

The Lac Arsenault gold project consists of 75 mining claims equivalent to 3,918 hectares in the southern part of the Gaspé Peninsula and situated North-West of Port-Daniel and North-East of Bonaventure. 1844 Resources has 100 percent undivided interest in the entirety of these claims.

The project sits along the Grand Pabos Fault, which is known for high-grade gold, silver, copper and lead showings North of the Riviere Garin Fault. Between 2005 and 2006, Lac Arsenault saw preliminary prospecting and drilling on the property, but end results were not made available in any government report. In March 2021, the company also announced the commencement of a 2,000-meter diamond drilling program for the project.

1844 Resources’ Management Team

Sylvain Laberge — President, CEO & Director

After obtaining a degree in Hotel management Sylvain Laberge entered into a sales career in a different sector. He became part of a new company founded in 1999, Renmark Financial Communication, an enterprise specializing in Investor Relations, where he became VP and developed an interest in emerging companies and especially mining exploration. Laberge has been managing Gespeg since 2013 and also managed other junior companies during that period. He is presently a director of Omineca Mining.

Andrew Davidsoni CA — CFO, Secretary & Director

A graduate of the University of Calgary (BComm), Andrew Davidson is a Chartered Accountant with Certification in both Saskatchewan and Alberta. Davidson’s extensive experience in junior natural resource finance and international financial reporting standards has been gained through years of experience in the Canadian junior resource markets and in public practice accounting in both the Alberta and Saskatchewan markets, focusing specifically on assurance for publicly listed enterprises. He is also involved as an officer or director in several other junior resource exploration and production.

Bernard-Olivier Marteli — Manager of Exploration

Bernard-Olivier Martel graduated from the University of Quebec in Montreal in 1999. He is a member of the Geologist Order of Quebec and acts as a qualified person under the National Instrument 43-101. His experience includes government services, engineering and geological and mineral exploration. Before and after graduation, he worked on various mapping projects for the Quebec Department of Natural Resources. Since 2004,

Martel has worked exclusively for the mining industry as a consulting geologist for various exploration companies in Quebec and Ontario. In addition to his duties as technical director of geology for Gespeg Copper Resources, Martel acts as a geologist responsible for the exploration work for Explo-Logik Inc., a mineral exploration services company. projects in recent years: Nouveau-Monde Graphite, Maple Gold Mines, Laurion Mineral Exploration Inc. Tarkus Resources, Fancamp Exploration Ltd., Jourdan Resources and many others.

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Opawica Explorations

Gold Exploration in the Prolific Canadian Jurisdictions of Quebec and Newfoundland

Overview

Eric Sprott, touted as a “Canada's biggest gold enthusiast," has injected somewhere between $200 and $300 million into the junior mining space in recent times. Sprott's investment strategy has recently shifted from investing in major mining companies towards investing in junior mining companies which he believes could provide him with big returns.

Sprott's investments may be of particular interest to investors considering the coattail investing strategy—this refers to mimicking the trades of well-known and historically successful investors to metaphorically 'ride the coattails' of respected investors in the hopes of realizing returns.

One company that Sprott has invested in recently is Opawica Explorations (TSXV:OPW) (FSE:A2PEAD) (OTC:OPWEF), a Canadian junior mineral exploration and development company focused on Quebec and Newfoundland. The company is backed by a management team with decades of experience and success in the mining industry and lead investors GoldSpot Discoveries (TSXV:SPOT,OTCQX:SPOFF) and Eric Sprott.

Opawica Explorations has strategically located projects near high-yielding mines in the gold-rich and mining-friendly Rouyn-Noranda camp in the Abitibi gold belt in Quebec and the Rogerson structural gold corridor in Newfoundland. The Abitibi gold belt is the world's largest mineral-rich greenstone geological belt and hosts more than 170 million ounces of produced gold while the Rogerson structural gold corridor is well-endowed in gold deposits and showings.

The company has three early-stage projects including Arrowhead, Bazooka and McWatters which have shown promising drill and sample results for significant high-grade gold mineralization. Opawica Explorations may have the potential to replicate the success of several high-yielding nearby mines including Agnico Eagle's Mouska, Yamana Gold's Wasamac and Yourbeau Resources Astoria.

The company is fully funded, having recently raised C$5.3 million in June 2021 through non-brokered private placement despite only seeking to raise C$4 million. As a result of this successful funding round, the company is fully equipped to extend drilling programs without financial constraints.

Opawica Explorations recently signed a service agreement with GoldSpot Discoveries Corp. to assist in the exploration of its projects. The strategic partnership will maximize the chances of mineral discovery through the use of GoldSpot's proprietary technology and geoscience expertise. GoldSpot Discoveries has been granted a 0.5 percent NSR royalty on the Bazooka project and multiple royalty options on various projects.

Opawica Explorations is currently in the process of gaining permits in Quebec and prospecting the Newfoundland property. The company plans to begin drilling no later than October 2021 after sufficient geological assessments are completed on its properties.

Opawica Explorations' Company Highlights

Opawica Explorations is a Canadian junior mineral exploration and development company focused on identifying and acquiring gold in Quebec and Newfoundland.
Opawica Explorations has strategically located projects near high-yielding mines in the gold-rich and mining-friendly Abitibi gold belt in Quebec and the Rogerson structural gold corridor in Newfoundland.
The company has three early-stage projects including Arrowhead, Bazooka and McWatters which have shown promising drill and sample results for significant high-grade gold mineralization.
Opawica Explorations recently entered into a strategic partnership with GoldSpot Discoveries to assist in mineral exploration with its proprietary technology. GoldSpot Discoveries was granted a 0.5 percent NSR royalty on the Bazooka project and multiple royalty options on various projects as a result.
The fully-funded company is backed by a management team with decades of experience and success in the mining industry and lead investors, Eric Sprott and GoldSpot Discoveries Corporation.

Opawica Explorations' Key Projects

Bazooka Project

The Bazooka project is located in the high-grade gold region of the Abitibi gold belt in Quebec on the Cadillac Larder Lake Break. The property spans 1200 hectares including seven kilometres of strike length. The project is contiguous to the south-western border of Yamana Gold's Wasamac gold property that has proven and probable mineral reserves of 1.8 million ounces of gold at 2.56 g/t. Additionally, the Bazooka property is directly west of the IAMGOLD Corporation option which has produced high grades in the past.

From 2003 to 2005, drilling on the Bazooka property yielded widespread gold mineralization from a few hundred ppb to as high as 316.23 g/t of gold over 1.0 m in a singular hole. In 2017, drilling and historical holes confirmed a wide gold zone extending from the west to east at 275 m deep.

The property is believed to host higher-grade gold and will be operated on in three phases. The first phase will consist of a review of drill cores to establish a more consistent lithological code. The second phase will consist of drilling to obtain additional results in the central part of the high-grade gold zone associated with the four mineralized gold zones outlined by previous workings. Lastly, the third phase will conduct a resource estimate, metallurgical testing and preparation of the resource estimate report.

Arrowhead Project

The Arrowhead project is also located in the high-grade gold region of the Abitibi gold belt in Quebec. The property is fully surrounded by Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd. which recently conducted a significant drilling campaign to the west and north of Arrowhead.

The Arrowhead project has a history of exploration and drilling work which includes 34.29 g/t of gold sampled in 1929. Previous drill holes on the property intercepted 40 gold-copper mineralized zones, enhancing the potential for quartz-carbonate auriferous veins associated with E-V trending on the shear zone, gold-rich VMS deposits and gold-rich polymetallic veins. Fine visible gold was seen throughout the historical drilling and on the surface including 4000 ppb of gold at 0.37 m depth.

The property is believed to host new mineralized veins as a result of previous exploration work that was conducted but the economic potential has not yet been proven.

McWatters Project

The MacWatters project is located in the Abitibi gold belt region of Quebec. The project is continuous to the Long Bars Zone Break, the Yourbeau Rouyn property and the Granada Gold property that contains a gold resource of 2.3 million ounces. The project is associated with quartz veins in deformation zones.

The property has a limited exploration history including an MMI survey, walking IP and soil sampling. Several gold showings have been identified both within and in the surrounding area including visible gold reported. Historical drill results done by Opawica Explorations include 7.79 g/t of gold over 3 metres.

The property is believed to host significant gold opportunities for the company.

Opawica Explorations' Management Team

Blake Morgan — CEO, Director

Blake Morgan has 15 years of experience in the mining industry including 10 years dedicated to the mining and natural resource sector in Australia working with Rio Tinto, BMA Metals (a subsidiary of BHP) and Santos Ltd. Gaining first-hand knowledge, culture and an understanding of mining operations, Morgan then made the move from Australia to Canada and has been instrumental in consolidating significant exploration land packages and financing their development for private resource exploration companies in British Columbia.

Sandra Wong — CFO

Sandra Wong is a Chartered Professional Accountant with over 10 years of working experience with several TSX Venture Exchange- and Canadian Securities Exchange-listed companies in the area of financial reporting and company management.

Chris Reynolds — Director

Chris Reynolds has been investing in the natural resource sector for over 10 years. Delivering solutions for corporate structure, strategy and communications for small-cap juniors, Reynolds was an instrumental part in the incubation of Lithium Consolidated Mineral Exploration which went public on the ASX in 2017. He started his career at Longview Capital Partners in corporate development, then worked as an investment advisor at Mackie Research. He is currently the Founder of Progenitor Metals Corp.

Owen King — Director

Owen King has 20 years of experience in the financial markets and management consulting fields. King was employed at Mackie Research as an investment advisor focusing on venture capital financings. Since 2014, King has been working with public companies in business development and assisting with capital raises and IPOs. Before this, King was a management consultant working in the high-tech industry installing auditable quality management systems in small businesses.

Philippe Harvard — Director

Philippe Harvard has been involved in the mineral exploration industry since 2008 and is one of the principals of Investissements Gema Inc., a private company engaged in the purchase and sale of mineral properties in the Province of Quebec. Harvard is also the president of TelKel, an independent telecommunications company in the province of Quebec. Harvard is also the President of Cubicule Studio, a software engineering company.

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i-80 Gold

Nevada's Newest and Fastest Growing Gold Miner

Overview

There’s no shortage of demand for gold. This precious metal has appreciated by over 55 percent over the past five years alone. So, what options do you have when it comes to investing in gold’s growth story? One of the best opportunities is investing in gold exploration, mining, and production companies.

And when it comes to gold, few regions compare to the perfect storm of conditions that exist in Nevada. From proven past-production, large yields, pro-mining regulations, and everything in between — Nevada continues to play a key role in the surging gold markets.

i-80 Gold (TSX:IAU,OTCQX:IAUCF) is Nevada’s newest and fastest-growing gold miner. The company holds a diverse portfolio of assets from exploration to production, offering investors a unique opportunity to stake a claim in multiple sectors of the gold industry through projects that operate in one of the safest mining jurisdictions in the world.

i-80 Gold’s location is primed for growth in exploration and production. After all, location is crucial to success in the industry, and Nevada was ranked by the Fraser Institute as the #1 most attractive gold-mining jurisdiction in the world.

Nevada is unrivalled in terms of combining mineral potential and the policy required to capitalize on it. i-80 Gold holds more than 5 million ounces of gold in reserves and resources in Nevada, with 350,000 ounces in proven and possible reserves, 2.6M measured and indicated resources and 2.3M ounces inferred resources. They have one producing mine and two permitted development-stage assets and significant resource upside, with all of their deposits open for expansion.

“South Arturo continues to deliver positive exploration success and mining results,” said Ewan Downie, Chief Executive Officer of i-80 Gold “2021 will be a pivotal year for the project as we incorporate the 2020 drill results into an updated reserve estimate and the joint venture progresses its work on the phase 3 trade-off study and planning for the development of the phase 1 open pit operation.”

The company is also in a fantastic financial position through the first half of 2021. A recent top-up subscription from Equinox Gold for around 5.4 million shares brought in over C$14 million for i-80 Gold, bringing their cash reserves up to C$65 million with no debt on record.

Furthermore, a combination of exploration and M&A has allowed i-80 to expand its resource base tenfold since entering the Nevada region in 2014. The company’s ability to grow and thrive in the competitive Nevada market speaks to the quality of its assets, as well as the strength of its management team.

Management at i-80 is made up of experienced leaders in several key areas, including exploration, mining, production M&A and industry-specific entrepreneurship. The company’s wide range of proficiencies in mining operations and business and track record of returning value to shareholders is why they have been able to grow their asset base and company so quickly.

i-80 Gold’s Company Highlights

i-80 is Nevada’s newest and fastest-growing gold mining company that holds a diverse portfolio of assets, from exploration to production.
Nevada was ranked by the Fraser Institute as the #1 gold mining jurisdiction in the world due to its combination of geology and development-friendly policy.
A recent top-up subscription from Equinox Gold for 5.4 million shares brought in over $14 million for i-80, bringing their cash reserves up to $65 million with no debt.
i-80 holds more than 5 million ounces of gold in reserves and resources in Nevada, with 350,000 ounces in proven and possible reserves, 2.6M measured and indicated resources and 2.3M ounces inferred resources.
The company has one producing mine and two permitted development-stage assets, all with significant resource upside and expansion potential.
i-80’s management team has decades of experience in exploration, mine operations, production, M&A and mining entrepreneurship.
i-80 Gold is now a Nevada-focused growth company with the acquisition of the Ruby Hill Mine from Waterton Nevada Splitter and Waterton Nevada Splitter II and with the previously announced closing of the Lone Tree complex.

i-80 Gold’s Key Projects

South Arturo Mine

i-80 holds a 40 percent interest in the South Arturo Mine Property, located along the northern section of the productive Carlin Trend, in partnership with Nevada Gold Mines, a joint venture between Barrick Gold Corporation and Newmont Corporation. South Arturo includes both open-pit and underground mineral reserves and resources that remain open for expansion.

The El Niño underground mine at South Arturo achieved commercial production in the third quarter of 2019. Gold production in 2020 exceeded plans by 30 percent through a highly successful drilling program focused on expanding reserves and resources.

The partnership is currently advancing several additional potential development opportunities, including the phase 1, phase 3 and potential heap leach projects. An updated mineral reserve and mineral resource estimate is expected to be completed later on in 2021.

Granite Creek Property

i-80 holds a 100 percent interest in the Granite Creek Property located at the Intersection of the Getchell and Battle Mountain Trends. The Granite Creek Property will host both high-grade open-pit and underground mineral resources that remain open for expansion.

Mineral Resources at the Granite Creek Underground Mine

The underground mine on the Granite Creek Property is permitted and in care & maintenance with underground infrastructure in place to assist in expediting the development process. Granite Creek underground represents some of the highest grade, fully-permitted gold deposits in all of North America.

McCoy-Cove Project

i-80 also holds 100 percent interest in the McCoy-Cove project, a large and underexplored land package of over 30,000 acres located on the Battle Mountain Trend, located near Nevada Gold Mines’ Phoenix operation.

With historical production totalling approximately 3.3 million ounces of gold and more than 100 million ounces of silver, the McCoy-Covey property hosts some of the highest-grade undeveloped gold deposits in all of Nevada.

A Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA) for McCoy-Cove was completed in 2020 that indicates strong economics. Future work will include the construction of a decline to complete definition drilling from underground drill stations in advance of completing a full feasibility study.

i-80 Gold’s Management Team

Ewan Downie – CEO & Director

Ewan Downie is an accomplished company builder and entrepreneur with more than 25 years’ experience in the mining sector.

Downie served as founder, President & CEO of Premier and prior to this, founder President & CEO of Wolfden Resources Inc. Both companies enjoyed significant value appreciation following inception resulting in both being acquired with spinout vehicles to the benefit of shareholders.

In his extensive career Downie has participated in several gold and base metal discoveries and has been awarded accolades to reflect this success including the 2003 recipient of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada, Bill Dennis Prospector of The Year and several Exploration and Development acknowledgements from the Northwestern Ontario Prospectors Association.

Matthew Gili – President & COO

Matthew Gili is a professional mining engineer with experience spanning Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Technical Officer and General Manager roles.

His deep technical experience includes previously serving as Executive General Manager for the Cortez District, leading one of Barrick’s top mining operations in Nevada. Following this Gili was promoted to Chief Technical Officer for Barrick Gold Corporation.

Additional operational experience includes roles with Rio Tinto as the Managing Director of the Palabora Mining Company in South Africa and Chief Operating Officer of Oyu Tolgoi in Mongolia. Most recently, as the Chief Executive Officer of Nevada Copper Corporation, Gili leveraged his broad experience in leading a publicly listed mining corporation.

Passionate about Safety & Environmental Stewardship Mr. Gili was previously Chairman of the Palabora Foundation, Chairman of Mongolian Safety Association (MISA) and is currently on the Management Advisory Board of the University of Nevada – Mackay School of Earth Sciences and Engineering.

Matt Gollat – Executive Vice President of Business & Corporate Development

Matthew Gollat is an accomplished executive with more than 12 years public company experience in many aspects of the mine development cycle.

Prior to i-80, Mr. Gollat held the position of Vice-President Business Development at Premier Gold Mines limited and participated in multiple corporate and strategic development projects including the friendly acquisition of Premier Gold Mines, the spin out of i-80 Gold Corp and the earlier creation of Premier Royalty Corp.

Gollat holds an Honours Bachelor of Commerce degree from Lakehead University and completed the Certificate of Mining Studies Program through the University of British Columbia. He currently serves as an independent director for Nomad Royalty Company Ltd.

Ryan Snow – CFO

Ryan Snow is a mining finance professional with over 15 years of experience in financial management and reporting in both Canada and the United States (IFRS and US GAAP), internal controls, M&A, risk management and taxation.

Prior to joining i-80 Gold Snow served most recently as Vice-President of Finance for Nevada Copper, where he helped to secure project financing and restructure debt during the construction and production ramp up of the Pumpkin Hollow mine.

Snow was the Vice-President, Finance and Controller for Tahoe Resources during which time he oversaw the financial aspects of the Sarbanes-Oxley implementation, two business acquisitions and progressed the Escobal mine in Guatemala and the Shahuindo Mine in Peru through construction to commercial production.

He began his professional career at Hecla Mining Company and holds a B.B.A. in Accounting (with distinction) from Gonzaga University.

Brent Kristof — Executive Vice-President Projects & Evaluations

Brent Kristof is a professional engineer with 40 years of leadership and team-building successes in technical, operations, maintenance, and business improvement in underground and surface mines and projects in Canada, the United States, Australia, Papua New Guinea, and Mexico.

Kristof was formerly the Senior Vice-President, Operations for Premier Gold Mines, responsible for operations and project development in Mexico and Nevada. Prior to i-80 and Premier, Brent was the Chief Operating Officer for Klondex Mines, part of the executive team that created and grew the junior gold producer.

He has significant experience in Nevada, including 5 years as General Manager for Barrick at the Turquoise Ridge Mine located immediately north of the i-80’s Getchell Project and 8 years as a General Manager for Newmont at the Midas and Deep Post Mines, as well as the Holloway and Golden Giant Mines in Ontario.

While in Canada, Brent represented Newmont on the Ontario Mining Association and while with Noranda he was Co-Chair of the Minister’s National Advisory Council to CANMET (the Canada Centre for Mineral & Energy Technology).

Brent earned his Bachelor of Science Degree in Geological Engineering from the University of Manitoba and is a graduate of the University of Toronto Executive Programs in Management.

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Aldebaran Resources

Unlocking A District of Copper-Gold Deposits in Argentina

Overview

Argentina is moving up the ladder as one of the hottest mining jurisdictions in the world. With new legislation and pro-mining support from the national government, investors should expect to see an uptick in exciting mineral exploration and project development opportunities, especially in the mining friendly provinces within the South American country.

Argentina sits along the Andes mountain range giving it access to one of the world’s metal-rich jurisdictions. In 2021, Argentina created a program to incentivize production for exports, facilitating the flow of foreign currency companies that would be allowed to send abroad for loan and dividend payments. This program comes at a prime time as Argentine authorities estimate that the country could triple its mining exports from US$3.4 billion in 2019 to US$10 billion by 2030. Copper, lithium, gold and silver mining especially present exciting investment opportunities for potential investors in the coming years.

Aldebaran Resources (TSXV:ALDE) (OTCQX: ADBRF) is a Canadian mineral exploration company specializing in identifying and exploring highly prospective copper-gold projects with the potential to become large-high-quality deposits or mines in the future. The same core management team leads the company Regulus Resources (TSXV:REG) and is the former management of Antares Minerals Inc, which they founded in 2004 and sold to First Quantum Minerals in 2010 for C$650 million.

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The company’s flagship Altar copper-gold project sits in the mining-friendly jurisdiction of San Juan province in the Argentina Andes. Altar is a district of copper-gold deposits and with a Measured & Indicated Mineral Resource of 1,198.2 million tonnes grading 0.43 percent copper, 0.09 g/t gold and 1.00 g/t silver at the Altar Central & Altar East deposits as well as an early-stage gold deposit at the QDM gold deposit. The company also has additional promising projects in Argentina, including its Rio Grande copper-gold porphyry project and the Aguas Calientes gold project in Salta province.

“The Altar project is an extremely large copper system with an interesting amount of additional gold as a byproduct with it. The project was acquired by Stillwater Mining in 2011 for almost US $500 but then fell off the map as it became a non-core asset for Stillwater. We made a deal with Stillwater in 2018 to acquire up to an 80% in the project on terms that are very favorable compared to the previous sale price. We have been quietly doing a lot of technical work to re-evaluate the potential of the project over the past few years. I think it’s an outstanding moment to take a look at us as being an extremely undervalued company with plenty of potential for the project to move forward,” said Aldebaran Resources CEO John Black.

The Altar copper-gold project leverages strategic positioning nearby several existing large mines and advanced-stage copper projects. Notable geographic neighbors include the Antofagasta Minerals’ Pelambres copper mine, Glencore Xstrata’s El Pachon copper project and McEwen Mining’s Los Azules copper project. Altar has the potential to mimic the success of these large established copper projects and boasts regional expansion potential across the mining-friendly San Juan province.

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After two years of conducting extensive fieldwork and geological data collection, the next step at Altar includes an exciting large-scale drilling campaign to drill out higher-grade mineralized zones and to test new greenfield targets expected to commence in Q4 2021.

Aldebaran Resources currently has a joint venture and option agreement with Sibanye-Stillwater Ltd. (JSE:SSW) to earn up to 80 percent interest in the Altar copper-gold project, subject to cash and expenditure conditions. The company is currently earning up to 60 percent interest by spending US$ 30 million over five years and has the right to earn an additional 20 percent interest in the project by spending an extra US$25 million over three years.

Aldebaran Resources has a strong shareholder base consisting of two strategic partners who collectively own about 70% of the company (Sibanye-Stillwater [19.9%] and Route One Investment Corp [46.34%]) along with management and a group of loyal shareholders. This strong shareholder base provides the company with favorable access to capital.

Much of the company’s success can be attributed to its strong technical capabilities and experienced management team. Their decades of experience in project management, copper-focused exploration and corporate governance pushes Aldebaran ahead of the game.

Aldebaran Resources’ Company Highlights

Aldebaran Resources is a Canadian mineral exploration company focused on identifying, acquiring and exploring large high-quality copper projects throughout mining-friendly jurisdictions in South America.
The company has its large flagship Altar copper-gold project in mining-friendly San Juan province, Argentina.
The Altar project consists of several higher-grade copper-gold porphyry deposits over a sizable 8,444-hectare land position. Its currently reported resource estimate stands at over 15.2 billion pounds of copper equivalent with a significant portion of gold by-product and excellent potential for expansion.
Aldebaran has identified higher grade copper-gold cores to several of Altar’s porphyry centers and will focus additional exploration on increasing the size of these higher grade zones.
The company’s management team has a long history of working together as a core group of experts in copper discoveries and project exploration. They share the same leadership team with Regulus Resources and were the former management of the highly successful Antares Minerals.

Aldebaran Resources’ Key Projects

Altar Copper-Gold Project

The flagship Altar copper-gold project is located in San Juan, Argentina, and hosts a cluster of porphyry deposits. The company has identified outstanding revitalized exploration opportunities for the rising copper and gold markets.

The project consists of eight mining concessions covering over 8,444 hectares, two exploration permits and nine mining rights of way. Aldebaran can earn up to 80 percent interest in Altar under joint venture and option agreement with Sibanye-Stillwater.

The vast copper-porphyry system consists of at least four mineralized centres: Altar Central, Altar East, QDM & Radio and Altar North. In 2019, Aldebaran drilled 5,400 meters in four-diamond core holes to explore and expand the higher-grade zones. Discoveries from the campaign revealed a new, highly prospective porphyry center and several new target areas of higher-grade mineralization. The new 2021 resource at the Altar Central and East deposits stand at upwards of 15.2 billion pounds of copper equivalent at average grades of 0.5 percent copper equivalent. The new resource was calculated using an improved geologic model and better structural data which resulted in a better characterization of the distribution of arsenic in the primary copper-gold mineralization at Altar Central and Altar East and demonstrated that arsenic levels are much lower than previously thought. The new resource revealed that the majority of the arsenic is constrained to unmineralized waste material and the secondary supergene mineralization, closer to surface, which could be amenable to a lower CapEx starter operation with SX/EW heap-leach processing.

After extensive data collection in 2020 and a moderate 2021 drill program, Aldebaran is preparing the Altar project for more expansive and exploratory drilling to test prospective extensions to zones of higher-grade mineralization as well as new targets that have never been drill tested before. Aldebaran remains very excited about Altar’s potential for more higher-grade copper-gold discoveries.

Aldebaran Resources’ Management Team

John E. Black — CEO & Director

John E. Black is an economic geologist with more than 30 years of exploration experience in the Americas, Central Asia, the Southwest Pacific and Eastern Europe/Western Asia. He first worked in South America in 1993 and has been actively involved in mineral exploration throughout the continent for several companies since that time. His professional credentials include a B.Sc. degree in Geology from Stanford University in 1983 and an M.S. degree in Geology – Ore Deposits Exploration from the same University in 1988.

Black was the founding president of Antares Minerals Inc. and was instrumental in acquiring the Haquira project in Peru for Antares. He was the key driver in negotiating the sale of Antares to First Quantum Minerals for CAD$650 million. Black’s early career included work with Bear Creek Mining Company, Kennecott Minerals Corporation, Rio Tinto and Western Mining Corporation. He also cofounded and is currently the CEO and director of Regulus Resources Inc and Aldebaran Resources Inc.

Dr. Kevin B. Heather — CGO & Director

Dr. Kevin B. Heather is an economic geologist with more than 35 years of field experience in North and South America. Dr. Heather was a founding member of Antares and directed the exploration that led to discovering the high-grade Haquira East deposit in Southern Peru, which was sold to First Quantum Minerals in December 2010 for CAD$650 million. His professional credentials include a BSc. (honors) degree in Geology from UBC in 1982, an MSc. degree in Geology from Queen’s University in 1985 and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Keele in 2001.

Dr. Heather cofounded and is currently the CGO for Regulus and Aldebaran and is the qualified person (FAusIMM) responsible at a corporate level to oversee the technical aspects of both the companies’ exploration activities.

Mark Wayne — CFO & Director

Mark Wayne is a co-founder, director and the CFO of Aldebaran. He is also currently CFO of Regulus and former CFO of Antares Minerals Inc. Wayne has a law degree and is a Chartered Financial Analyst, specializing in corporate and securities law. Mr. Wayne has raised money for, and served as a director or officer of, a number of public and private companies over the years in the mining, oil and gas and technology sectors

Megan Cameron-Jones — Corporate Secretary

Megan Cameron-Jones has 30 years of experience in providing regulatory and management services to public companies. She is also the corporate secretary of Regulus Resources Inc. and a director and officer of Highway 50 Gold Corp. For 23 years, Cameron-Jones was a director and officer of Goldrock Mines Corp., acquired by Fortuna Silver Mines in 2016 for CAD$130 million. She was also a director and officer of Pachamama Resources Inc., which merged with Regulus in 2012.

Adam Greening — VP of Corporate Development

Adam Greening is a professional geologist with over 12 years of experience in corporate development, exploration and strategy. Before joining Aldebaran, Greening worked at Yamana Gold, where he helped evaluate and execute successful acquisitions and divestitures valued at approximately CAD$4.5 billion. Before Yamana Gold, he worked at Goldcorp and MPH Consulting as a geologist. Adam has an MBA from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto and a B.Sc (honors) from the Memorial University of Newfoundland. Greening is also the VP of Corporate Development for Regulus Resources.

Stanford Foy — VP of Project Development

Stanford Foy is a geological engineer with a B.Sc. from the Montana College of Mineral Science & Technology, Butte, focusing on resource and reserve estimation, mineral economic modeling and advancing exploration projects towards feasibility. His unique 28-year experience combining mineral exploration with operational and technical roles from both open-pit and underground operations provides valuable insight for his new role in Aldebaran as VP of Project Development.

Most recently, Foy was director of Corporate Development for Sibanye-Stillwater and responsible for the Altar project, managed a feasibility study for the Marathon Project in Ontario, and was involved in numerous M&A due-diligence of potential business opportunities.

Laura Brangwin – Manager, Investor Relations

Laura Brangwin has over 6 years of experience working with natural resource companies in South America on marketing and communications strategies. Laura previously worked as international relations manager for Kura Minerals and in media as a project director leading marketing campaigns for executives in the mining sector globally with Global Business Reports (GBR) She has worked and lived across the Americas and Africa including in Argentina, Peru and Brazil. Laura graduated from the University of Manchester in the UK with a First-Class BA Honours in Spanish and Distinction in Portuguese, and speaks both languages fluently. Laura Brangwin is also the Manager of Investor Relations for Regulus Resources Inc.

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Edgemont Gold Corp

Exploring Compelling Copper-GoldPorphyry Opportunities in British Columbia

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Overview

Approximately 60 percent of the world’s copper and 95 percent of its molybdenum come from porphyry deposits. Despite making up such a substantial portion of these reserves, these deposits have historically been underexplored and overlooked due to their lower grades.

Companies with copper porphyry assets in mining-friendly jurisdictions like British Columbia have made strides to upgrade infrastructure across their projects in recent years.

Edgemont Gold (CSE:EDGM | FRA: EG8 ) is a Canadian exploration company focused on exploring and developing high-quality copper-gold porphyry assets in Canada. It is currently exploring the Dungate copper-gold porphyry project located 6 kilometers south of Houston in the Omineca mining division of Northern British Columbia. The company has the option to earn 100 percent interest in the project.

The flagship Dungate project hosts exceptional discovery opportunities and widespread mineralization. Groundwork and geological sampling have identified a 1.2 meter high chargeability IP anomaly and a known copper-gold-porphyry intrusive.

“The copper component is compelling. For gold, we are seeing the same mineralized zones as the geology that Sun Summit has. There’s an abundance of opportunity here,” CEO Stuart Rogers commented.

The company is excited about its 2021 development plans for the Dungate project. Projected programming includes permit acquisition, drill testing and fully funded drilling across six holes.

Edgemont Gold has an advantageously low market cap, which sits at C$5.9 million, and a treasury of C$1.94 million.

Edgemont Gold has a proven management team with years of experience in mineral exploration, mining, and financing. The company’s vested interest in the development and economic growth of its high-quality exploration projects preps them for significant mining success.

Edgemont Gold’s Company Highlights

Copper-gold exploration in British Columbia, a safe, established mining district
Focused on the Dungate Project. Accessible by road, with year-round drilling
Drilling 7 km north of high-grade gold/silver discovery, recently announced by Sun Summit Minerals
Permit filed for drilling to test mineralization at depth in Q3 2021
Compelling targets identified by magnetic & IP surveys, soil & outcrop sampling Mineralization at depth confirmed by historic drilling. Only one deep hole (333m long) drilled in 1975 – 142 m of chalcopyrite at bottom of hole
Tight share structure (24M shares outstanding) and low market cap (~$5 Million)
Led by experienced industry professionals with an extensive track record of exploration success
Fully funded for extensive drilling in 2021 with ~$2M

Edgemont Gold’s Key Project

Dungate Copper-Gold Project

The Dungate copper-gold project sits 6 kilometers southeast of Houston, British Columbia, with 1,035.8 hectares of claims staked in 2020 and 546.4 hectares under option. The property sits advantageously in the Omineca mining division, and leverages clear power lines, year-round roadways and close proximity with the closed Equity mine site.

Exploration history on the property dates back to the 1960s with an initial discovery of chalcopyrite and molybdenite mineralization made on the property. In 2018, Edgemont conducted a brief exploration program that collected six rock samples and eight soil samples. This program also confirmed the presence of copper-gold mineralization with grade highlights of 1.7 g/t gold, 0.8 ppm silver and 1,500 ppm copper across multiple samples.

Additional exploration on the property includes a ground magnetometer survey, a soil sample survey, geological mapping and prospecting. The project’s 2020 development campaign explored the main Quartz Feldspar Porphyry intrusive, which hosts promising mineral anomalies and drill target possibilities.

Edgemont has filed a permit application for a six hole drill program intended to test mineralization at depth in 2021.

Edgemont Gold’s Management Team

Stuart Rogers — President & CEO

Stuart Rogers has been involved in the venture capital space since 1987. He is the founder and president of West Oak Capital Group, a privately held investment banking firm specializing in the early-stage financing of resource and technology projects through the junior capital markets in Canada and the United States. Rogers has served as a director of client companies listed on the TSX Venture Exchange, the Toronto Stock Exchange and NASDAQ Small Capital Market.

Rogers currently serves as the president of Elysee Development, an investment issuer with a focus on the junior mining sector, and as a director of Gold Terra Resource, a gold exploration company that he co-founded in 2007.

Gordon Steblin, B.Comm, CPA, CGA — CFO

Gordon Steblin has over 25 years of financial experience in the junior mining and exploration sector. He serves as the CFO of Elysee Development and Freegold Ventures. Steblin obtained a Bachelor of Commerce degree in 1983 from the University of British Columbia and became a Certified General Accountant in 1985.

Kevin Arias — VP of Corporate Development

Kevin Arias has worked in the investment sector since 2003. He began his career at CIBC Capital Markets and worked in institutional trading at Scotia Capital and then later at Dundee Securities. Since 2015, Arias has worked directly with several publicly-traded companies active in the mining and mineral exploration sector in Alberta, Australia, Ontario, Idaho, Nevada, Colombia, Brazil and Kazakhstan. His roles have included management positions in corporate finance, business development and institutional investor relations.

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Marvel Discovery

Exploring a Multi-metal Portfolio of Projects in Canada’s Prolific Mining Jurisdictions

Overview

Project diversity has become one of the resource industry’s best strategies for minimizing risks and maximizing exposure to exceptional discoveries associated with mineral exploration projects. Companies with a diversified portfolio covering battery metals, gold, energy and rare earths demonstrate that mining players don’t always have to put all their eggs in one basket.

Diversification across world-class mining countries like Canada presents even more exceptional economic upside. Investors can gain exposure from Ontario’s prolific multi-million-ounce gold camps while leveraging the country’s hottest iron and copper mines in Newfoundland. With the right company, operating a broad portfolio presents the best of all worlds.

One such company is Marvel Discovery (TSXV:MARV), a Canadian mineral exploration company focused on generating, acquiring and exploring mineral opportunities across Canada. The company holds a robust project portfolio covering gold, nickel, PGE’s rare earth and battery metals.

The company’s projects host mineral richness across a wide spectrum of metals and leverage lengthy histories of mining and exploration in prolific jurisdictions, which many are seeing an exciting revitalization of.

Its outstanding gold project portfolio provides the company even more upside potential. Leveraging advantageous positioning in two of Canada’s hottest gold mining provinces, its Blackfly and Camping Lake properties in Ontario and Slip and Victoria Lake gold projects in Newfoundland pose exceptional exploration and high-grade gold mineralization opportunities.

Marvel Discovery’s flagship Blackfly gold property is located in the historic Atikokan district in Ontario. Blackfly is strategically positioned in one of the province’s earliest gold camps and in proximity to Agnico Eagle’s Hammond Reef gold deposit, which has an estimated open pit mineral reserves of 3.3 million ounces of gold (123.5 million tonnes grading 0.84 g/t gold).

The Slip gold project is 10km west of New Found Gold’s (TSXV:NFG) Queensway project, which is “the largest ever consolidation of property within the Central Newfoundland Gold Belt.” Recent drill results at Queensway continue to demonstrate its potential to be a significant high-grade gold discovery. Historic work at Slip Gold indicate that both Queensway and Slip Gold are hosted in similar structural settings.

The Victoria Lake gold project in Newfoundland is also another one to highlight from Marvel Discovery’s portfolio. Historic work at Victoria Lake has indicated that it is hosted within similar structural settings to Marathon Gold’s (TSX:MOZ) Valentine Lake gold deposit, which is only 18 km away. Valentine Lake is poised to be the largest gold mine in Atlantic Canada. Preliminary grab samples from Victoria Lake ranged in value from 15.5 to 24.9 g/t gold and 18.6 g/t to 139.9 g/t silver.

Future plans for the company include the continued development of its flagship Blackfly and secondary Slip gold project. In May 2021, Marvel Discovery received its work permit issued by the Ontario Ministry of Northern Development and Mines for Blackfly and its 2021 exploration program is ongoing. First results have been reported, with 40 of the 78 samples returned assays greater than 100 ppb gold, and 7 samples graded from 1.00 g/t and up to 2.99 g/t gold.

The company also acquired a significant land position within the Hope Brook Area where it staked 763 claims (19,075 hectares) which are strategically located and contiguous to First Mining Gold and to Sokoman Minerals-Benton joint venture. The new land position is hosted within the Exploits Subzone of the central Newfoundland gold belt. The property is proximal to two major structures linked to significant gold prospects (Cape Ray, Matador Mining) and deposits (Hope Brook, First Mining) in southern Newfoundland.

Marvel Discovery’s six rare earth, nickel and uranium projects span across the entire country. This diverse spread of assets includes the Serpent River, Wicheeda North, Duhamel, Uranium City and Ungava & Overtime properties. The projects offer the company excellent exposure to Canada’s most prospective base and battery metal mining jurisdictions, including Ontario, British Columbia, Quebec and Saskatchewan.

Marvel Discovery’s Company Highlights

Marvel Discovery is an emerging Canadian mineral exploration company focused on generating, acquiring and exploring opportunities in Canada. The company’s robust project portfolio includes ten highly prospective properties covering gold, nickel, PGE’s rare earth and battery metals.
Its six rare earth metal, nickel and uranium portfolio spans across Canada, which offers excellent exposure and mineral diversity from the country’s most prolific mining jurisdictions, including Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia and Saskatchewan.
Marvel Discovery holds four highly prospective gold properties, including the flagship Blackfly property in Ontario and the secondary Slip gold project in Newfoundland. All projects prime the company for remarkable gold discovery and development possibilities.
The flagship Blackfly gold property is located in proximity to Agnico Eagle’s Hammond Reef gold deposit, which has an estimated open pit mineral reserves of 3.3 million ounces of gold.
40 of the 78 samples from the exploration program at Blackfly returned assays greater than 100 ppb gold, and 7 samples graded from 1.00 g/t and up to 2.99 g/t gold.
Marvel Discovery has a strong management team, which combines years of experience and a proven track record in corporate finance, project development and resource-based operations.

Marvel Discovery’s Key Projects

Blackfly Gold Property

The Blackfly gold property comprises 64 unpatented mining claims totaling 1,296 hectares near the historical Atikokan gold camp in Ontario, Canada. The property is located along and within the Marmion Lake fault zone, approximately 13.6 kilometers southwest along the strike of Agnico Eagle’s Hammond Reef gold deposit, which has an estimated 208 million tonnes grading 0.67 grams/tonne gold containing 4.5 million ounces of gold

Initial work documented by D.K. Burke in 1941 reported two gold vein shoots to the north and south of the property. The southern shoot averaged 11.9g/t gold over a thickness of 0.33 meters along a strike of 21.6 meters and the northern shoot averaged 13.44g/t gold over 0.27 meters within a 32-meter strike length.

The next step for the Blackfly gold project is to validate the 2012 drilling results through exploration. The first batch of 78 assay results from Blackfly were released in June 2021, and 40 of the 78 samples returned assays greater than 100 ppb gold.

The project presents exciting exploration potential as a high-grade system that has never been drilled to depth. Marvel has the option to earn 100 percent in the project subject to cash and exploration conditions.

Slip Gold Project

The Slip Gold project spans approximately 3,700 hectares in the mining-friendly and resource-rich province of Newfoundland, Canada. The property leverages strategic positioning within the Exploits Subzone, a hotspot for a potential district-scale gold camp. Likewise, Slip Gold boasts similar structural settings to New Found Gold’s Queensway project and is tied to Marathon Gold, which is the northern Atlantic’s largest gold deposit hovering 4.6 million ounces.

The project hosts gold mineralization within altered intrusive rocks and quartz veins, historically sampling up to 44.5g/t gold at surface level. Additionally, Slip lies along a major regional structural thrust feature known as the Dog Bay Line and displays characteristics and gold values aligned with possible orogenic epizonal-type deposits. This unique geological profile warrants further exploration and development of the tremendous land package.

Marvel plans to begin exploration immediately and conduct the first phase of prospecting along the gold-bearing trends. The company plans to initiate soil and rock geochemistry and structural mapping to narrow down prospective grids for airborne magnetic and TDEM geophysical surveys and later drill targeting with the data collected.

Serpent River Project

The Serpent River project is located in Elliot Lake, Ontario and hosts a 20 million tonne uranium historical resource. This geological profile is consistent with high levels of chromium and nickel as well. With established mining companies nearby, the company is hopeful Serpent River will demonstrate similar high-quality mineralization and development opportunities.

Marvel has spent upwards of CAD$300,000 in VTEM surveying across the property’s six-kilometer-long and three-kilometer-wide anomaly. This unique Pecor anomaly is a strong regional magnetic high that has never been drilled at depth.

Wicheeda North Project

The Wicheeda North project is a rare earth elements property that spans 1,444 hectares of claims in the Cariboo mining division, British Columbia. The claim block adjoins the Defense Metals (TSXV:DEFN) Wicheeda rare earth mineral project hosts an indicated 4.9 million tonne rare earth deposit in Prince George, British Columbia.

Past exploration on the property includes airborne geophysical surveying from 2010, which successfully mapped Wicheeda’s magnetic and conductive geological properties across a 29.4 square kilometer area. The property remains highly prospective for Marvel.

Marvel Discovery’s Management Team

Karim Rayani — CEO & Director

For the past 15 years, Karim Rayani has focused on financing domestic and international mineral exploration and development. Most recently, Rayani was head of Bloomberry Capital Group, a Vancouver-based merchant bank and capital advisory firm. Prior, he worked independently as a management consultant and Financier. He is currently chair of R7 Capital Ventures Ltd; director of Fiber Crowne Manufacturing Inc., chair of District 1 Exploration Corp. Rayani has developed an extensive network of contacts throughout North America and Europe, focusing on Corporate Development and Finance.

Geoff Balderson — CFO

Geoff Balderson has over 20 years of capital markets experience, having worked in public and private practice. Balderson is a senior officer and director of several TSX Venture listed companies and currently runs a private consulting practice Harmony Corporate Services Ltd., providing corporate advisory, accounting, filing and secretarial services to many publicly traded companies. Before, Balderson was an investment advisor at Union Securities and Georgia Pacific Securities and a University of British Columbia graduate in Marketing and Sales Management.

Gary Musil — Chairman of the Board & Director

Gary Musil has more than 30 years of management and financial consulting experience and has served as an officer and director on numerous public companies since 1988. This experience has resulted in overseeing the financial aspects and expenditures on exploration projects in Peru, Chile, Eastern Europe, British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec, and New Brunswick (Canada). Prior, he was employed for 15 years with Dickenson Mines Ltd. and Kam-Kotia Mines Ltd. as a controller for the producing silver-lead-zinc mine in the interior of British Columbia, Canada.

Mark Luchinski — Director

Mark Luchinski holds degrees in Biochemistry & Microbiology from the University of Victoria and an Associates degree in Chemistry from Camosun College in British Columbia. Luchinski is an experienced board member, having served as an officer and director of many TSX Venture listed issuers. He is well versed in corporate governance, compliance and the administration of publicly traded companies.

Fraser Rieche — Director

Fraser Rieche has a BA in Economics and has 25 years of experience in international project management, logistics planning and corporate finance, having worked with resource-based industries and financial institutions worldwide. He has helped develop and finance mining projects in both North America and South America along with energy projects, oil and gas projects, fisheries projects and forestry projects in many different areas of the world.

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Genius Metals

Precious and Base Metal Projects inQuebec, Nova Scotia and New-Brunswick.

Overview

Quebec hosts one of the most diverse precious base metal mining profiles in Canada. The province stands as the country’s second-biggest producer of gold, the largest producer of iron and one of the rare producers of niobium, titanium, dioxide, cobalt and platinum in the world.

With such a robust mineralization profile, it comes as no surprise that Quebec’s current mining output makes up one-fifth of the national total. Investors looking to get into the mining space stand to gain significant mining and economic upside potential in this jurisdiction of mineral discovery and mining investment opportunities.

Genius Metals Inc. (CSE:GENI) is a young mineral exploration company focused on acquiring, exploring and developing precious and base metal resource properties in Quebec, Nova Scotia and New-Brunswick. Its robust portfolio contains several strategically positioned early-stage mining projects, including its flagship Sakami gold project in Quebec, the Meaghers gold property in Nova Scotia and the A-Lake Cu-Sn-Zn property in New-Brunswick. The company has recently produced an updated NI 43-101 technical report on the Sakami property and will migrate its shares from the CSE to the TSX.V at some point during summer of 2021.

Genius Metals’ extensive portfolio of Quebec properties consists of the flagship Sakami gold property, Iserhoff Gold, Dissimieux phosphate and the KM 381 Lithium Project. These properties leverage mining-friendly conditions of a prolific mining jurisdiction and present the company with highly prospective discovery potential.

The Sakami Property (100% owned by Genius) is composed of a set of claims which straddles the structural contact between the Opinaca and La Grande geological sub-provinces in the James Bay area (Quebec). This contact is associated with many important gold mineralized zones such as Quebec Precious Metals’ La Pointe prospect and most notably the Eleonore gold mine operated by Newmont. Its close proximity to Newmont’s Eleonore gold mine and extensive drilling histories in the surrounding area suggests Sakami could see similar high-yield and high-quality gold mineralization as its geographic neighbors.

Genius Metals has an early-mover advantage as the 100 percent owned Sakami gold asset remains underexplored with no historical drill holes.

Immediately northeast of the Property, O3 Mining’s La Grande Sud Property hosts substantial gold mineralization within Zone 32 (310,000 Oz Au). To the southeast, Quebec Precious Metals has recently completed a 25,000m drilling program and will follow-up with 15,000m this year with an expected resource calculation to come out in a near future.

In April 2021, Genius Metals announced a non-brokered private placement offering for gross proceeds of CAD$1.5 million. Common share units stand at CAD$0.20 per unit and flow-through share units at CAD$0.30 per unit. The company intends to put private placement proceeds towards developing the Sakami property.

Genius Metals has a tight capital structure with 29,098,953 shares outstanding and a proven ability to raise capital with over CAD$150 million collectively raised by its management team in

the last 20 years. The company also presents investors with exceptional entry-level investment opportunities as an emerging company operating in districts occupied by mining heavyweights with comparatively much higher market capitalizations.

Genius Metals is dedicated to mining best practices and applying high environmental and safety standards to all its activities. Likewise, it emphasizes respecting and contributing to communities in which it operates to uphold high standards in corporate governance and professional performance.

The company’s management team comprises mining experts prepared to advance Genius’ shareholder value and project development across its robust asset portfolio. Guy Goulet, Genius Metals president & CEO, was co-credited for the restart of the Wrightbar gold mine in Val d’Or, Quebec and he founded Aya Gold & Silver Inc. (TSX:AYA) in 2008, later co-credited for the restart of the historic Zgounder silver mine in Morocco. He is also credited with founding H2O Innovation, the largest publicly traded water-treatment company in Canada (TSV.V: HEO). This world-class leadership poses exceptional growth potential and economic success for the company.

Genius Metals’ Company Highlights

Genius Metals Inc. is an emerging mineral exploration company aimed to make the most shareholder value through the discovery, exploration and development of gold and base metals properties that will be economically viable.
The company has a robust portfolio of precious and base metal assets in the prolific mining districts across Canada, including Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. The Sakami gold property is Genius Metals’ flagship project.
The 100 percent owned Sakami project is located in James Bay Territory, an emerging and underexplored gold camp in the mining-friendly jurisdiction Quebec. Close proximity to major established mines and successful exploration companies suggests high-yield potential and significant gold mineralization.
Genius Metals operates a tight capital structure and strong shareholder portfolio with under 30 million shares outstanding held largely by close individuals to the company.
The company’s market capitalization is comparatively much lower than neighboring mining operators and explorers, which presents investors a compelling entry-level investment opportunity in the development of its highly prospective projects.
Genius Metals’ strong leadership and geological team consist of industry experts with extensive mining, finance and project development experience. Big names like Genius Metals president & CEO Guy Goulet and his team prime the company for exceptional growth and economic prosperity.

Genius Metals’ Key Projects

Sakami Gold Project

The Sakami gold project consists of 399 claims covering 20,519 hectares in James Bay Territory, Quebec. The property straddles the prolific contact between the geological subprovinces of La Grande and Opinaca, which is known for outstanding levels of gold mineralization. Genius Metals owns 100 percent of Sakami.

Over the last two years, Genius Metals has conducted multiple airborne and ground-based geophysical surveys, as well as multiple prospecting campaigns. Prospection work included overburden stripping with the use of a mechanical excavator, rock sampling, channel sampling and mapping.

Two highly prospective drill targets have been established through the exploration program mentioned above: Lamarche (13g/t Au, 266g/t Ag, 0.47% Cu, 19.2% Zn, 5.56% Pb) and GoldenEye (up to 2.55 g/t including 1.02 g/t over 4.1m in channel sample). Both targets have been tested at surface and are well-defined with high-resolution geophysical surveys.

The main Lamarche zone on the property boasts gold mineralization across a large 500 meter by 350-meter share zone/ deformation corridor.

Additionally, its Golden Eye zone presents highlighted gold grades of 1.02 g/t gold over 4.1 meters with evidence of gold mineralization across every channel.

The property remains highly prospective and underexplored.

In May 2021, the company entered into an agreement with Forage G4 based in Val d’Or, Quebec, to carry out a 2,000m to 3,000m diamond-drilling campaign focused on the gold-prospective Lamarche and GoldenEye prospects. Drilling targets were defined using the data provided by recently completed mapping, rock sampling, channel sampling and geophysical surveys. The campaign is set to begin at the end of June after the company completes additional exploratory fieldwork.

A-Lake Property (Cu-Sn-Zn)

Meaghers Gold Property

The Meaghers gold property holds six mineral licenses totaling 100 claims across 1,620 hectares in South-Central Nova Scotia. Strategic positioning places Meaghers less than ten kilometers from St. Barbara’s Touquoy mine, which hosts a total measured and indicated reserves of 10.1 million tonnes of gold at 1.48 g/t gold grading.

The property reveals similar geological and structural characteristics to that of the Touquoy mine, such as exposures of the gold-bearing Goldenville Formation, the presence of warped and folded anticlines and a comparable magnetic signature. Meaghers also reveal gold-arsenic prospects and a discrete magnetic anomaly associated with the Atlantic Four Gold mines. This discovery suggests potential widespread mineralization across the property.

On December 4, 2019, Genius Metals entered into an option agreement with MegumaGold Corp., whereby MegumaGold has the option to earn a 70 percent interest in the Meaghers property. The agreement covers 70 percent interest in six Genius Metals mineral exploration licenses totaling 100 claims across 1,620 hectares.

Genius Metals’ Management Team

Guy Goulet — President, CEO & Director

Guy Goulet graduated from Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal in 1986 in geological engineering. He has been active in the mining sector for more than 30 years. In 1996, he was co-credited for the restart of the Wrightbar gold mine in Val d’Or, Quebec. In parallel, he has conducted with the collaboration of Hydro-Québec and Group STAS the only project leading to the production of lithium metal from high purity lithium carbonate.

In 2000, Goulet co-founded H2O Innovation, the largest water treatment company in Canada, which he later served as president and chairman until 2008. Later in 2008, he founded Maya Gold & Silver and was co-credited for the restart of the historic Zgounder silver mine in Morocco while serving as CEO. Throughout his career, Goulet has raised over CAD$150 million in equity capital to advance associated public companies.

Robert Boisjoli — CFO

Robert Boisjoli is a Fellow Chartered Professional Accountant with over 30 years of operational and advisory experience. Boisjoli is currently the CEO of AKESOgen, Inc., an integrated genomics services company. He is also chairman of Palos Management Inc. and managing director of Atwater Financial Group, a company specializing in mergers and acquisitions and a partner at Robert Boisjoli & Associates S.E.C., a consulting firm specializing mainly in business valuations. Boisjoli has been the founder of two life science companies where he has acted as CFO, COO and CEO. Boisjoli sits on the boards of directors of various public and private companies, where he is also the audit committee chairman. He was also an investment banker with various Canadian securities firms. Boisjoli also is a board member of various not-for-profit organizations in the community and within the profession.

Michel Boily — VP of Exploration

Dr. Michel Boily is an expert geochemist and metallogenist specializing in interpreting precious and rare metal deposits in Precambrian volcano-plutonic terranes for the last 25 years. Before consulting for the mining industry and government agencies, Dr. Boily was involved as a research associate at MERI/McGill in the study of several rare metals deposits located in the Quebec province; notably the Strange-Lake deposit in Labrador, the St-Honoré mine in the Saguenay area and the Québec Lithium Mine in the Abitibi Greenstone Belt. Since 1992, Dr. Boily has conducted exploration and technical evaluation of gold, base metals and rare metal properties located in Archean greenstone belts and the Grenville Province of Quebec and Ontario in the Anti-Atlas Proterozoic windows of Morocco, Northern Mexico, Argentina and Nicaragua.

Dr. Boily graduated from the Université de Montréal in 1988 with a Ph.D. in geochemistry and carried out postdoctoral studies at the University of Chicago. Since 1984, Dr. Boily has been the author of various publications in international scientific journals and has written numerous technical reports. Dr. Boily is currently a registered Professional Geologist in good standing with l’Ordre des Géologues du Québec.

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Platinex

District-Scale Potential in the Prolific Abitibi Gold Camp in Ontario

Overview

Many deem the prolific Abitibi Greenstone Belt to be one of the world's most valuable gold mining districts. Since the 1990s, the geological marvel has yielded over 180 million ounces of gold and millions more in specialty and industrial metals.

In recent years, the southwestern portion of the Greenstone belt has been a prime hotspot for international investor attention and gold discoveries. Several multi-million-ounce gold deposits, mainly along the Ridout-Tyrrell deformation zone, present prospective mining companies with unparalleled exploration potential in the Abitibi.

Platinex Inc. (CSE:PTX) is focused on its 100 percent owned Shining Tree gold project near the prolific Abitibi Greenstone Belt in Ontario, Canada. The Shining Tree gold project is a consolidation of 21,720 hectares adjacent to the Côté Gold-Gosselin development project owned by IAMGOLD and 2.3-million-ounce Juby gold deposit hosted by Aris Gold Corp. (TSX:ARIS).

Additionally, the Shining Tree property intersects the same north-south fault with the West Timmins mine and the Ridout-Tyrrell deformation zone. The property itself hosts some 20 historic gold prospects with several underexplored areas across the prominent land package.

The next steps for the company include line cutting and IP surveying to prepare for an extensive drill program in 2021. The two-phase program will involve drilling 2,500 meters to test IP anomalies and drilling of an additional 5,000 meters for deeper definition exploration on the Herrick, Churchill and Ronda mines.

Platinex also operates a robust royalty portfolio, which provides gold, PGE, nickel, copper and chromium exposure. Key royalties include a 2.5 percent NSR royalty on production from the former Big Trout Lake property in northwestern Ontario. This asset is one of the largest known PGE and chromium deposits in Canada.

The company has a solid capital structure with an attractive CAD$10 million market cap and a CAD$1 million cash position with no debt. Its tight shareholder portfolio consists largely of board members & family, HNW/institutions and strategic partnerships with companies such as Treasury Metals Inc. (TSX:TML).

World-class management and a top-tier technical team lead Platinex. Their track record of success and extensive experience in mining, capital markets and finance sectors primes the company for tremendous economic growth and high-grade discovery potential.

Platinex's Company Highlights

Platinex Inc. is a mineral exploration company focused on acquiring, exploring and developing highly prospective mineral projects across mining-friendly jurisdictions.
The company has created the largest combined gold-focused property package in the Shining Tree District with its 100 percent owned Shining Tree gold project. The property spans 21,720 hectares southwest of the prolific Abitibi Greenstone Belt in Ontario, Canada.
The Shining Tree gold project sits strategically between the Côté Gold-Gosselin development project owned by IAMGOLD and 2.3-million-ounce Juby gold deposit hosted by Aris Gold Corp. The project boasts district-scale potential.
The company plans to conduct extensive diamond drilling and prospecting campaigns in 2021. Priority targets include the Caswell, Ronda, Herrick and Churchill mines.
Platinex also has an impressive royalty portfolio on gold, PGE and base metal properties in Canada Chile. This collection includes a 2.5 percent NSR royalty on production from the former Big Trout Lake property, one of Canada's largest known PGE and chromium deposits.
Platinex boasts an impressive capital structure and tight shareholder portfolio. An advantageous CAD$10 million market cap and strategic shareholder ownership pose significant growth for the company.

Platinex's Key Projects

Shining Tree Gold Project

The Shining Tree gold property spans 21,720 hectares in the southwest portion of the Abitibi Greenstone Belt in northern Ontario, Canada's largest gold-producing region. The asset hosts excellent infrastructure, strategic positioning amongst some of the world's most successful gold mines and initial discoveries of high-grade gold showings.

Shining Tree has seen limited modern exploration compared to other gold camps in the Abitibi Greenstone Belt but poses exceptional exploration potential. Its unique local intrusion structures have demonstrated the proliferation of known gold occurrences.

A 2020 channel sampling program revealed a collection of 21 grab samples of quartz vein material, which were assayed for gold. Sample highlights include returned gold grades between 0.1g/t and 5.43g/t gold.

Since 2018, the company has completed a NI 43-101 report, permit acquisition, test pitting program and exploration agreements with local indigenous communities. Platinex intends on conducting recommended gradient magnetics, LIDAR and 3,500-meter diamond drilling on the property in 2021. Recent discoveries of significant gold in till anomalies warrants very exciting advanced exploration of Shining Tree.

Platinex's Management Team

Greg Ferron — Interim CEO

Mr. Ferron has 20 years of mining industry and capital markets experience. He has held various senior level roles in mining, corporate finance, corporate development including Laramide Resources Ltd., Treasury Metals Inc., TMX Group and Scotiabank. He currently serves on the board of directors at Fancamp Exploration Inc. and Platinex Inc.

Graham C. Warren, CPA, CMA — Director, CFO & Corporate Secretary

Graham C. Warren is a senior financial executive with over 30 years of experience in the resource sector both domestically and internationally. Warren has served as CFO and director of numerous public and private companies. He has had extensive involvement in all facets of organizations, including finance, human resources, sales, marketing and operations and has guided boards in their corporate governance obligations.

Felix Lee, P.Geo — Director

Felix Lee is an economic geologist and senior executive with over 30 years of experience both in Canada and internationally. Lee was the former president of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada.

Christophe Vereecke, MBA — Director

Christophe Vereecke is a businessman and entrepreneur based in Paris. He has a background in finance, oil and gas, mine royalties and renewable energy. Vereecke is currently a director of Treasury Metals Inc.

James R. Trusler, P. Eng. — Non Executive Chairman

James R. Trusler is a Chair Exploration Committee geological engineer with over 45 years of exploration experience and a history of discovery and strategic acquisitions of world-class gold, uranium and nickel-copper-platinum deposits. He has been involved in the discovery and drill definition of five nickel-copper-platinum deposits on the Raglan Nickel mine site hosted by the Glencore Group. Trusler has also supervised over ten field parties searching for uranium in the Athabasca Basin and led the exploration across 43 large properties throughout North America.

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Inomin Mines

Gold-Silver and Nickel Exploration Across the Americas

Overview

Mexico has been a hot spot for gold production for over 500 years. Home to prolific mining districts like Sonora, Chihuahua and Durango, the North American nation is seeing a revitalization of gold and silver exploration, as the country leverages its favorable mining jurisdiction status.

The Mexican state of Oaxaca offers a unique geological profile containing exceptional precious metal discovery potential. Considerably less explored than northern states, several established companies like Gold Resource Corporation and Fortuna Silver Mines are active in the region including operating gold-silver mines. Blending world-class deposits and high mineral discovery potential, Oaxaca offers tremendous rewards for explorers.

Inomin Mines Inc. (TSXV: MINE) is a mineral exploration company focused on identifying, acquiring and developing high-quality mineral properties in the Americas. The company currently owns and operates a portfolio of advanced-stage gold-silver and nickel projects in Oaxaca, Mexico and British Columbia, Canada which offer strong potential for significant growth.

As an emerging player in the precious and base metal space, Inomin presents an early-stage, high-growth opportunity given the company’s assets and relatively low market capitalization. Inomin expects the company’s shareholder value to increase considerably as its mineral properties’ are advanced and further complementary project acquisitions are made.

In March 2021, the company announced the closing of the acquisition of its flagship La Gitana gold-silver project, as well as the nearby Pena Blanca gold-silver property in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Drilling at the La Gitana gold-silver property.

“La Gitana and Pena Blanca provide us with two highly prospective gold-silver properties in a prolific mineral belt. We look forward to completing drilling to delineate resources at La Gitana and expand the mineral footprint. Pena Blanca is a large, gold-silver mineral system with several exploration targets. We expect these transformational acquisitions and our future exploration work will create significant value for all stakeholders,” commented Inomin Mines president & CEO John Gomez.

The company’s two nickel projects in British Columbia are the highly prospective Beaver and Lynx properties. Together they total approximately 20,000 hectares and are ideally located near the world-class Gibraltar mine. Inomin’s strategic, large property position in this highly mineralized, infrastructure-rich region, are strong attributes for these projects.

Beaver and Lynx host potential for multi-billion, bulk-tonnage, sulfide nickel deposits with cobalt. Initial drilling at Beaver and metallurgy studies have returned positive results. The company intends to advance these properties and attract a larger partner to develop these assets.

Through the acquisition of new attractive properties and the advancement of projects, Inomin is positioned to create significant value for shareholders and participating communities.

Inomin Mines’ Company Highlights:

Inomin has a portfolio of advanced gold-silver and nickel exploration projects hosting substantial mineralization with excellent potential to delineate significant resources.
The company’s flagship La Gitana gold-silver project leverages drilling completed by past joint property owners Chesapeake Gold and Goldcorp (now Newmont Corporation).
The Beaver and Lynx nickel properties host sulphide (class 1) nickel mineralization with cobalt credits; they leverage established hydropower and modern mining regulations, providing a preferred clean nickel source.
Inomin owns two advanced gold-copper-zinc-silver VMS exploration projects called Fleetwood and King’s Point in British Columbia and Newfoundland, respectively.
Inomin has a strong management team dedicated to creating value for shareholders and the communities where the company operates.

Inomin Mines’ Key Projects

La Gitana Gold-Silver Project

Inomin’s flagship La Gitana gold-silver project is situated in the Oaxaca Gold-Silver Belt, a prolific mineral trend that hosts several operating mines and prospects, including Gold Resource’s (NYSE: GORO) Arista and Mirador gold-silver mines, and Fortuna Silver’s (TSX: FVI) San Jose gold-silver mine. Initial drilling at La Gitana completed by past joint property owners Chesapeake Gold and Goldcorp (now Newmont) confirmed the discovery of significant epithermal gold-silver mineralization.

The Oaxaca Gold-Silver Belt extend over 100 km and contains numerous prospects, deposits and mines.

Drilling confirmed La Gitana discovery – a “mountain of gold and silver”.

A 38 hole diamond drilling program at the main Cerro Di Oro zone confirmed near-surface gold and silver mineralization in a zone 400 – 500 meters long, 50 to 150 meters deep with grades ranging from 0.25 to 27.8g/t gold and 5.0 to 2,330g/t silver. The gold-silver system remains open to expansion.

Next planned exploration at La Gitana involves lab analysis of selected drill core samples, airborne magnetic survey, and drilling. After this exploration program, the company expects to complete a preliminary resource calculation.

Pena Blanca Gold-Silver Project

Prospecting at Pena Blanca.

The Pena Blanca property, situated just 15 kms from La Gitana, hosts similar geology with an even larger mineral footprint. Exploration at Pena Blanca has discovered widespread gold and silver mineralization on surface associated with an extensive area of hydrothermal alteration and mineralized structures. Inomin owns a 100% interest in the Pena Blanca project.

Initial exploration has identified gold-bearing, hydrothermal alteration over approximately nine square kilometers, of which only one area has been systematically mapped and sampled. Pena Blanca’s previous operator, Chesapeake Gold Corp. (TSX.V:CKG), reported sediment anomalies ranging between 276 ppb to 2,200 ppb gold across a 2.5 kilometer by 3.5-kilometer area surrounding the Pena Blanca ridge. Additional exploration highlights returned 2.26g/t gold and 178g/t silver grades from a 23.5-meter-long trench.

Pena Blanca consists of numerous prospective mineralized zones marked by stream sediment and soil and rock chip anomalies. The style of alteration and mineralization at Pena Blanca indicates strong evidence of a large, epithermal gold-silver mineral system.

Beaver Nickel-Cobalt Project

The Beaver property spans 7,528 hectares and is situated in south-central British Columbia, 15 kilometers east of the Gibraltar Mine, the second-largest open-pit copper mine in Canada. In addition to its favorable location, the nickel-rich property has the advantage of excellent infrastructure such as hydro-electricity and roads to access all parts of the property. Inomin owns a 100% interest in the property, presenting an attractive partnership opportunity.

Initial exploration and metallurgical studies at Beaver, including geophysical surveys and diamond drilling programs during 2013 – 2014, demonstrated the property’s potential to contain large areas of near-surface, disseminated nickel and cobalt, amenable to conventional extraction methods. Furthermore, as the mineral hosting rocks break down quite readily, alternative low-cost recovery methods such as heap leaching may be possible.

In 2021 ground magnetic surveys and drilling is planned to continue to test large areas for nickel mineralization.

Lynx Nickel Project

The 12,662-hectare Lynx property is situated approximately 12 kilometers south of the Beaver project. Similar to the Beaver property, Lynx hosts multiple large areas prospective for nickel and cobalt. These targets have the potential for hosting bulk-tonnage nickel deposits. Inomin owns a 100% interest in the property.

The Lynx property is within the Cache Creek Terrane surrounded by upper Triassic-aged rocks of the Quesnel Terrane. Regional Stream Sediment (RGS) data, collected by province of British Columbia geologists, identified a ten by five-kilometer nickel anomaly with rock samples grading up to 0.27% nickel. These findings point to the.property’s potential to host widespread, nickel mineralization. Together with the Beaver project, the region has the potential to develop into a major nickel-cobalt mining district.

Inomin Mines’ Management Team

John Gomez, President and CEO

Mr. Gomez is an entrepreneur that has founded and managed private enterprises in mining, technology, and sports. Prior to being a founder of Inomin, Mr. Gomez founded and was president of a private gold exploration company in Colombia. Under his leadership, the company acquired strategic land and mining interests in some of the country’s top gold districts. Mr. Gomez also founded and was President of U3O8 Media Inc. a leading news provider for investors on the uranium market. The U3O8.biz model was used to establish the Investing News Network. His consulting company, Oro Grande Capital Inc., provides marketing, corporate development and funding services to select public and private companies. Mr. Gomez has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Victoria.

George A. Pietrobon, Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Pietrobon holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of British Columbia (1975) and has been a member of the Canada as well as the B.C. Institute of Chartered Professional Accountants since 1978. Mr. Pietrobon brings to the Company considerable business, accounting and audit experience, with both public and private companies, including experience performing audits for publicly listed companies.

Ari M. Shack, Corporate Secretary

Mr. Shack has practiced throughout his career as a commercial solicitor advising both public and private companies. Mr. Shack has extensive experience advising clients in relation to day-to- day commercial transactions and operations. In addition, Mr. Shack has experience advising private and public companies on corporate finance matters, including securities issuances and secured lending. Mr. Shack also assists clients with corporate structuring and reorganizations, including transactions involving amalgamations, continuations, dissolutions and tax motivated transactions. Ari is qualified to practice law in British Columbia and holds both a Bachelor of Commerce degree (1993) and a Bachelor of Laws degree (1997).

Eduardo Ortiz, Senior Exploration Geologist

Mr. Ortiz evaluates the company’s gold-silver properties in Mexico and new acquisition opportunities in the country. Mr. Ortiz, who started his career as a geologist in Oaxaca State, has worked throughout Mexico. His immediate previous position was Senior Exploration Geologist for a Mexican subsidiary of First Majestic Silver Corp. Prior to this position he worked as Senior Geologist at Endeavour Silver Corp. He also was Chief Geologist at Goldgroup Mining Corp.’s Cerro Colorado mine in Sonora.

Carlos Torres, Community and Government Relations Representative

Mr. Torres represents the company with local communities, government officials and other stakeholders. Mr. Torres is a civil engineer who worked as a mine manager and field engineer at Gold Resource’s El Aguila gold-silver mine in Oaxaca State. At El Aguila he was involved in developing infrastructure for the project including road access, mining camp, open-pit and under-ground mine development, and tailings dam. Mr. Torres also worked as Habitat Program Supervisor in Oaxaca with SEDESOL, a Mexican Federal Government Ministry of Social Development agency in charge of urban development to improve living standards in rural communities.

John Peters, Director

Mr. Peters, P.Geo, has over 30 years of experience in the mining industry. He is currently a geological consultant for junior mining companies including Westhaven Ventures Inc, Commander Resources Ltd, and Fjordland Exploration Inc. Following four years as mine geologist for Homestake Canada, he spent 25 years as Exploration Manager for over ten junior companies with projects located across Canada, West Africa, South America, United States, and Greenland. He has also acted as project manager during joint ventures with Sumitomo Mining, Capstone Mining, and Gold Fields Canada. Notable discoveries in British Columbia, Canada Mr. Peters has been involved with include the Woodjam porphyry copper-gold deposit, the Shovelnose gold discovery, and the Beaver-Lynx nickel discoveries.

Bill Yeomans, Director

Mr. Yeomans, P.Geo, is a gold exploration professional with over 36 years’ experience in all stages of gold exploration throughout the Americas. He gained extensive exploration management experience across the entire Guiana Shield of South America with BHP, along with several junior mining companies. Mr. Yeomans has worked as a senior exploration manager throughout all the major gold mining camps in Canada. He has generated projects which resulted in significant NI 43-101 compliant gold resources on three different projects including the Duquense-Ottoman gold project in Quebec. Mr. Yeomans has worked as a consultant to IAMGOLD and Dundee Precious Metals, evaluating advanced gold projects across Canada, western USA and Alaska. He obtained his HBSc. in Geological Sciences from Queen’s University in 1982.

Victor Jaramillo, Advisor

Mr. Jaramillo, M.Sc., P.Geo, is an international geological consultant with over 30 years of experience in the mining industry. Mr. Jaramillo has worked for major and junior mining companies as senior project geologist, technical director, chief mine geologist and exploration and mine manager. His work has included regional exploration, property assessment, resource estimation and mine operations. He has worked in Canada, the United States and Latin America. Most of his experience in the last 25 years has been focused on precious metal deposits. Mr. Jaramillo was directly responsible for the discovery of the Langosta porphyry copper-gold deposit in Mexico, and the discovery of the Las Lomas porphyry copper-gold deposit in Peru. He holds an M.Sc.A. degree in Mineral Exploration from McGill University and a B.Sc. degree in geology from Washington & Lee University.

Bruce Winfield, Advisor

Mr. Winfield, M.Sc., P.Geo, has more than 40 years of experience in the minerals industry as a geologist, corporate executive and consultant. Following 14 years with major mining companies Texasgulf Inc. and Boliden Inc., he held the position of VP Exploration for Greenstone Resources and Eldorado Gold Corporation leading to the exploration and development of five gold deposits. Subsequently as President and or CEO he has led companies exploring primarily in South America for the last twenty years.

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Sonoro Gold Corp

Developing Highly Prospective Precious Metal Projects in Mexico’s Historic Sonora State

Overview

Mexico’s Sonora State demonstrates why the country stands as a global leader in gold and silver production. This mining-friendly and resource-rich jurisdiction boasts excellent infrastructure, high-grade access roads and exceptional climate conditions, and hosts several world-class gold and silver mines that contribute millions towards Mexico’s aggregate mining GDP. Mining companies operating out of Sonora present investors with exciting discovery potential and leading economic gold prospects that rank amongst the highest in the world. Notable names in the area include Equinox Gold’s (TSX:EQX) Mercedes gold mine, Goldgroup Mining’s (TSX:GGA) Cerro Prieto gold mine, Agnico Eagle’s (NYSE:AEM,TSX:AEM) Santa Gertrudis gold project and Magna Gold Corp’s (TSXV:MGR) San Francisco mine.

One notable junior exploration company focused on Sonora State, Mexico is Sonoro Gold (TSXV:SGO,OTCQB:SMOFF), currently operating its flagship Cerro Caliche gold project and San Marcial gold & silver project. Sonoro Gold intends to develop a heap leach pilot operation at the Cerro Caliche gold project.

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“We not only have all the essential components to make a company successful, i.e., the people, the property and the ownership, but we have a very clear business plan of how to take this company forward, which is to move to production as quickly as we can, as professionally as we can, in order to generate cash flow. From cash flow, we can continue to expand the company,” commented Sonoro chairman & director John M. Darch.

In January 2018, the company’s wholly-owned Mexican subsidiary, Minera Mar De Plata, S.A. de C.V., entered into the first of five option agreements to acquire a 100 percent interest in Cerro Caliche’s mineral concessions and historical data. This agreement combines past data with results from Sonoro’s current exploration activities, now totaling 47,500 meters of drilling and more than 9.000 soil and rock samples. Comprehensive exploration has confirmed the existence of a broadly mineralized low-sulfidation, epithermal vein system, which could develop into a large tonnage resource suitable for open-pit mining.

In April 2021, the company announced the closing of its oversubscribed non-brokered private placement of 17,283,586 units at US$0.18 per unit for total gross proceeds of US$3,111,045. Sonoro intends to apply the net proceeds from the offering towards the development of its flagship Cerro Caliche project, including funding of its metallurgical testing, preparation of a 43-101 resource update and PEA, in addition to property maintenance payments.

As a junior mining company, Sonoro boasts an attractive capital structure and robust shareholder profile. The company’s market cap currently stands at US$17 million and the number of fully diluted shares stands at 131.39 million.

Sonoro Gold’s leadership is composed of top experts with years of combined experience in finance, construction, mine operations, international resources, venture capital and community relations. Its resource development and production heavyweights include notable names like John M. Darch, Kenneth MacLeod, Jorge Diaz and Melvin Herdrick.

Sonoro Gold’s Company Highlights

Sonoro Gold is focused on developing its highly prospective precious metal projects in the prolific mining district of Sonora, Mexico.
The Cerro Caliche gold project consists of four main high-grade gold zones that leverage exceptional infrastructure, mining-friendly conditions and fast-tracked production potential.
The San Marcial gold & silver project boasts strategic positioning near historic mine structures and resource-rich mineralization across the asset.
The company intends to conduct extensive drilling across Cerro Caliche and complete necessary environmental review and permitting.
The commencement of near-term production at Cerro Caliche is set for early 2022.
Sonoro Gold’s world-class management team consists of experts across numerous mining-related industries and primes the company for fast development and economic success.

Sonoro Gold’s Key Projects

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Cerro Caliche Gold Project

The flagship Cerro Caliche gold project sits in the municipality of Cucurpe, Sonora and hosts a group of concessions containing eight historic gold mining sites. The property takes advantage of strategic positioning in a pro-mining jurisdiction with first-class infrastructure and successful neighboring gold mines.

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The property has four major gold mineralized zones: El Rincón-Veta de Oro-Abejas; Japoneses-Buena Vista-Cuervos; Buena Suerte; and El Colorado-Cabeza Blanca. Each zone boasts approximately kilometer lengths of highly prospective high-grade gold mineralization. Assay highlights across the property include 12.19 meters at 11.3 g/t gold (El Colorado). 21 meters at 1.13 g/t gold equivalent (El Rincon) and 10.67 meters at 2.74 g/t gold equivalent (Veta de Oro).

Since project acquisition, Sonoro Gold has been quick to begin metallurgical testing, PEA and 43-101 resource reporting and an extensive 433 hole drilling program across 47,500 meters. It has already identified 18 gold mineralized targets with an additional four major mineralized zones with higher-grade gold discovery potential.

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Potential resource estimates for the property hover between 75 million and 100 million tonnes with a 0.3 to 0.5 g/t average gold grades and bottle roll testing demonstrating an average of 80.3 percent gold recovery. The Cerro Caliche gold project is on course to near-term production with the development of a heap-leach mining operation and mine development plan.

San Marcial Gold & Silver Project

The San Marcial property is located in the northern region of Sonora state, Mexico and leverages strategic positioning 20 kilometers east of the San Francisco mine, owned and operated by Magna Gold Inc. The property boasts excellent road access and infrastructure with locally high-grade gold and silver mineralization. Sonoro Gold Corp. owns 100 percent of over 1000 hectares of the property.

Previous work on the asset includes air track drilling and old mine development dating back to the early 1900s. The historic mine workings at Soledad and San Marcial mines demonstrate exceptional discovery potential with the presence of broader low-grade zones of disseminated-to-stockwork forms of mineralization. The property’s geological profile consists mainly of Jurassic sedimentary rocks, consisting of quartzite, shale, limestone and younger porphyritic intrusive rocks.

Sonoro is conducting a significant surface exploration program intended for data compilation and geochemical sampling to delineate anomalous zones for drilling. The company remains excited to continue exploring this highly prospective gold and silver asset.

Sonoro Gold’s Management Team

John M. Darch – Chairman & Director

John M Darch brings over 35-years of experience in the financing and management of natural resource-related projects in both the public and private sectors. In 1981, he co-founded the Vancouver-based Crew Group of Companies which created various natural resources companies including gold, diamonds, geothermal, coal, antimony, nickel and copper, tin and potash. Darch has successfully secured over US$300 million in private and public funds from North America, UK and Europe, through listings on the Stock Exchanges in Canada, USA, UK, Germany, Norway and South Africa.

Kenneth MacLeod – President, CEO, Director

Kenneth MacLeod has 35 years of experience as an entrepreneur, financier and executive officer in the resource and energy sectors, having served as the president, CEO and director of various public and private companies operating in the Americas, Asia and Africa. He served as president & CEO of Kakanda Development Corp. from 1994 until 2001 and for Western GeoPower Corp. from 2001 until its acquisition by Ram Power Corp. in 2009. MacLeod also launched and recently sold a private, successful Renewable Energy company currently operating in the Philippines.

Melvin Herdrick – Vice-President, Exploration

Melvin Herdrick is a professional geologist and a member of the SME-AIME professional mining organization. He has over 35 years of experience in mineral exploration in the US and Mexico. He has been involved in the successful discovery and re-evaluation of six economically viable deposits, with three in production and one in pre-production. He has extensive experience exploring gold, silver and copper deposits, uranium, iron, and nickel resource evaluations.

Herdrick has spent the past 20 years focused on discovering and developing gold and silver mineralized deposits in Northern Mexico. He is currently overseeing exploration at Sonoro’s Cerro Caliche deposit, where he recently identified a cluster of eight northwest-trending gold-dominant structures surrounded by parallel sheeted veinlets and stockwork veinlets. Herdrick also performed surface and underground sampling of the main mineralized shear vein at the company’s former Chipriona concession, which led to the project’s acquisition by Agnico Eagle Mines in 2016. From 2006, he served as VP of Exploration for Pediment Gold Corp. until its takeover by Argonaut Gold in 2011. During this time, he discovered the two-million-ounce Los Planes deposit at the San Antonio gold project in Baja California Sur and discovered one-million ounces of gold with significant silver at the formerly closed La Colorado mine, which is now back in operation.

From 1994 until 2002, Herdrick served as chief geologist for Phelps Dodge Mexico. He was the exploration geologist at the Morenci and Tyrone open-pit copper mines. He was involved in exploring and discovering multiple deposits, including the La Florida-Barrigon and Piedras Verdes copper deposits. Herdrick also served as the senior exploration geologist at Kennecott Copper, where he was part of the discovery team for the Vermillion River deposit and the Spar Lake deposit, now the Troy copper-and-silver underground mine.

Jorge Diaz – VP Operations Manager, Mexico

Jorge Diaz is a professional mining engineer with over 25 years of experience developing and constructing gold and copeer mines in Sonora, Mexico. He is also the founder of Interminera, S.A de C.V., a mining consulting, engineering design and construction service company based in Sonora, Mexico. In 2011, Diaz began exploring a gold property in Quiriego, Sonora bringing it to production in 2016 as a small-size open pit gold producer.

From 2009 to 2016, he served as the general manager of the San Antonio project for Argonaut Gold, overseeing land negotiations, environmental studies, engineering and operations design. From 2004 to 2006, Diaz was the general manager of the El Cairo project for Morgain Minerals overseeing design, construction and initial production. From 2002 to 2004, he served as general manager of the Mulatos Mine project for Alamos Gold, playing a leading role in developing a new mineral resource model and reengineering the project.

Curtis Turner – Director

Curtis Turner has over 15 years of experience in business and finance, including mergers and acquisitions, public reporting and operations, as well as community and government relations. He is currently the CFO for Rawhide Mining LLC, a producing heap-leach gold mine in Nevada, majority-owned by Coral Reef Capital, a private investment firm. Previously, Turner was the CEO and director of Candelaria Mining Corp. and held a senior management position at Argonaut Gold Inc., where he was a vital member of the team that completed four acquisitions totaling over $700 million. Before his position at Argonaut Gold, Turner was CFO at sodium cyanide manufacturer Cyanco International LLC., director of Finance at Yamana Gold Inc. and corporate controller at Meridian Gold Inc.

Stephen Kenwood P. Geo. – Director, Qualified Person

Stephen Kenwood has over 20 years of experience in the global mining sector, including 12 years in the management of junior exploration companies. He worked as a geologist with Cominco Ltd. on the Snip gold mine and as a project geologist on Eskay Creek’s polymetallic massive sulfide deposit. He also worked as a geologist at the Petaquilla copper-gold porphyry deposit in Panama.

Salil Dhaumya, CPA, CMA – Chief Financial Officer

Salil Dhaumya previously served as the CFO, principal accounting officer and secretary of Pan American Goldfields Ltd. He also served as a controller and general manager of Aquilini Investment Group, a private real estate development company. Dhaumya earned a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) Degree from Panjab University, India, in 1985 and obtained a certified management accountant designation in British Columbia in 2004.

Neil Maedel – Executive Director, Corporate Finance

Neil Maedel is a Southeast Asia-based venture capitalist with an extensive background in the analysis and finance of small-cap companies beginning with The Minicap Analyst in 1988 and later Protrader Finanz AG, which were based in Switzerland and associated with numerous highly successful start-ups in North America. Maedel was the director of Business Development at Switzerland-based Manas Petroleum when it assembled a 5-country portfolio of large light oil prospects, ranging from high-risk exploration to discovery appraisal.

Maedal was also chairman of Pan American Goldfields, directing the executive team which turned around the troubled company, doubling its interest in its principal asset to 80 percent, while more than doubling the size of the resource from 800,000 to 2,000,000 AuEq ounces, as defined in a NI 43-101 compliant Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA). In 2014, Maedel co-founded Kenadyr Resources, which is currently drilling to define high-grade gold zones now demonstrated to extend from ZiJin Mining’s TBL mine in the Kyrgyz Republic.

Katharine Regan – Corporate Secretary

Katharine Regan has over 25 years of experience in generating Business Development Programs across multiple industries in both the private and public sectors. Her particular expertise is in project development, administrative operations and corporate communications. As an independent consultant, Regan also assists companies in implementing and maintaining corporate governance, regulatory compliance and corporate social responsibility.

James Taylor – Director

James Taylor spent over 35 years as an investment advisor with several firms, including Canaccord Investment Corp and Yorkton Securities from 1980 to 2011; Richardson GMP from 2011 to 2014; and Dundee Goodman from 2014 to 2016. During his employment as an investment advisor, he participated in the financing of numerous exploration and venture companies that grew to success as significant mineral producers. Taylor also serves as a director at Auston Capital and Captiva Verde Land Corp.

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Nevada Sunrise Gold

Developing High-Quality Mineral Exploration Projects in Nevada

Overview

The State of Nevada offers much more than deserts and playing your luck along the famous Las Vegas strip. For companies looking to bet on highly prospective mining opportunities, this resource-rich area offers a very attractive hand.

Operating out of Nevada offers a great discovery potential for mining companies and their investors alike. Aside from being a top mining jurisdiction, Nevada hosts existing infrastructure, a local skilled workforce and favorable weather so mining operations can run near year-round.

Nevada Sunrise Gold Corp. (“Nevada Sunrise”) (TSXV:NEV) is a junior mineral exploration company focused on exploring a robust portfolio of gold, copper, cobalt and lithium projects, exclusively in Nevada.

Nevada Sunrise maintains interests in several highly prospective mineral exploration properties and water rights in Nevada. This portfolio includes the company’s flagship Kinsley Mountain gold project, the Lovelock Cobalt Mine property, the Treasure Box copper property and the Coronado VMS property. The company also operates the Jackson Wash and Gemini lithium brine exploration properties in the Lida Valley in Esmeralda County.

Kinsley Mountain operates as a joint venture with New Placer Dome Gold Corp. (TSXV:NGLD), with Nevada Sunrise holding a 20.01 percent interest in the project. “There is significant upside potential for new high-grade gold discoveries and for expansion of the footprint of known mineralization and contained resources at Kinsley,” states Nevada Sunrise CEO Warren Stanyer said.

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In February 2021, Nevada Sunrise Gold closed the second and final tranche of its non-brokered private placement. The company intends to put the proceeds from the placement toward funding exploration of its precious metals, copper and lithium properties in Nevada.

Additionally, the company understands the importance of water in conducting mining operations in Nevada. Nevada Sunrise currently owns water rights within the Clayton Valley basin and the Lida Valley basin, which strategically positions the company to leverage these valuable natural resources.

The company’s expert leadership and technical team apply world-class exploration experience and technical skills to acquire and develop new highly prospective mineral exploration projects. This perfect combination of individuals primes the company for growth and mining success.

Nevada Sunrise Gold’s Company Highlights

Nevada Sunrise Gold is a mineral exploration company focused on developing and acquiring highly prospective projects in the mining-friendly jurisdiction of Nevada.
The company’s flagship gold asset is its share of the Kinsley Mountain gold project. In 2018, Nevada’s production of gold was approximately 5.58 million ounces, representing approximately 83 percent of US total gold production.
Its project portfolio also includes the Lovelock Cobalt Mine property, the Treasure Box copper property, the Coronado VMS property and the Jackson Wash and Gemini lithium brine exploration properties in the Lida Valley basin.
The Coronado VMS copper project is prospective for volcanogenic massive sulphide (“VMS”) deposits, with a historical open pit copper mine located nearby. Nevada Sunrise is currently exploring the potential for VMS deposits on the property.
The company has valuable water rights within the Clayton Valley basin and the Lida Valley basin.

Nevada Sunrise’s Key Projects

Kinsley Mountain Gold Project

The Kinsley Mountain gold project is located in Elko County of Eastern Nevada and consists of 513 claims plus five leased patents totaling 4,160 hectares (10,280 acres)..

Kinsley Mountain hosts Carlin-style, near-surface mineralization as well as a past-producing open pit mine with an extensive exploration database and numerous untested gold targets. Following exploration drilling carried out since 2011, current and compliant resource estimates calculated in 2020 state Kinsley Mountain hosts indicated resources of 418,000 ounces of gold grading 2.63 g/t gold and inferred resources of 117,000 ounces of gold averaging 1.51 g/t gold. These grades point to exciting upside potential for further discoveries and development for the project.

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Coronado VMS Project

The Coronado VMS project consists of 133 unpatented claims covering approximately 1,104 hectares over an interpreted trend next to the historic Big Mike open-pit copper mine. Discovered in the 1960s, today Big Mike is classified as a VMS deposit, and as these deposits commonly occur in clusters there is good potential for the presence of other volcanogenic massive sulphide (“VMS”) deposits along trend from the past-producing mine.

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In November 2020, the company concluded its second reconnaissance diamond drilling program. Drill collars were identified from the VTEM geophysical survey and a total of 250.76 meters was drilled in the two diamond drill holes. Each of the drill holes encountered difficulty penetrating through the overburden and viscous clay layers, and the bedrock targets were not intersected. A leading-edge soil sampling survey and the 2018 airborne geophysical survey show potential for sulphide mineralization that Nevada Sunrise Gold intends to explore further in 2021.

Lovelock Cobalt Mine Project

The Lovelock Cobalt Mine property currently consists of 70 unpatented lode claims in the Cottonwood Canyon area of the Stillwater Range, totaling approximately 567 hectares. In April 2020, Nevada Sunrise agreed to an accelerated ownership agreement with Global Energy Metals Corp. (“Global Energy Metals”) (TSXV:GEMC) for the Lovelock cobalt project, whereby Global Energy Metals purchased an 85 percent interest in the property and Nevada Sunrise retained a 15 percent interest.

In January 2018, the company completed an initial geochemical rock sampling program and a reconnaissance geophysical survey at the Lovelock mine. Geochemical sampling revealed a sample with promising mineralization of cobalt at 1.81 percent, nickel at 3.05 percent and copper at grades of 0.65 percent. Other samples saw copper grades of 4.91 percent and 5.99 percent. The geophysical survey results detected chargeability features related to structure and possible mineralization to a depth of approximately 200 meters.

Nevada Sunrise and Global Energy Metals have a current exploration permit issued by the US Bureau of Land Management for exploration drilling to test this highly prospective asset.

Treasure Box Copper Project

The Treasure Box copper project consists of 56 unpatented lode claims over 453 hectares in the Stillwater Range near Lovelock, Nevada. The property hosts mine workings from limited copper production that occurred in the late 19th century into the early 20th century.

A historical diamond drill hole drilled at the Treasure Box in 1910 reportedly intersected 1.52 percent copper mineralization over 85 feet at surface. Additional drilling in 1976 returned 1.55 percent copper grades over 40 feet from a depth of 85 to 125 feet.

The Treasure Box claims are subject to the same terms of the Global Energy Metals option agreement for the Lovelock Cobalt Mine.

Nevada Water Rights

In January 2016, Nevada Sunrise announced an agreement for an option to purchase Permit 44411, water right in the Clayton Valley basin. The certificated water right allows for 1,770 acre/feet of water use for mining and milling per year. In 2017, the company obtained an additional grant for water rights from the State of Nevada totaling 80.09 acre/feet per year for mining and milling in the Lida Valley, located adjacent to the Clayton Valley in Esmeralda County.

Nevada Sunrise believes that its acquisitions of water rights is an important step for an exploration company searching for mineral deposits in the Clayton and Lida valleys. Without a source of water, mining and milling operations in Nevada are not possible.

Jackson Wash Lithium Project

Jackson Wash consists of 28 unpatented placer claims totaling approximately 227 hectares and is located in the Lida Valley. Nevada Sunrise owns a 100 percent interest in Jackson Wash.

The exploration target for Jackson Wash is a brine deposit at depth containing dissolved lithium. Past surveying revealed a layered sequence of unconsolidated, saturated alluvial sediments filling a deep basin beneath the valley floor. The next steps for the Jackson Wash lithium project include drilling and sampling the sediments and groundwater in the interpreted basin.

Gemini Lithium Project

The Gemini lithium project is located approximately 10 kilometers east of Lida, Nevada, and consists of 39 placer claims totaling 316 hectares. Nevada Sunrise Gold currently holds a 100 percent interest in the project.

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The exploration target for Gemini is a brine deposit at depth containing dissolved lithium. Detailed gravity survey results from 2013 indicated strong gravity lows within two faulted sub-basins approximately 7 kilometers apart and interpreted to be hundreds of meters deep. Likewise, the results from a 2016 TDEM survey interpret conductive brines at depth, located well below the non-conductive sediments at the surface.

Nevada Sunrise has a drilling permit to test for lithium brines at Gemini, good to June 2022.

Nevada Sunrise Management Team

Warren W. Stanyer — President, CEO & Director

Warren Stanyer is a mineral exploration industry executive with over 24 years of Canadian public company administration experience. He previously served as an officer of Pioneer Metals Corporation, which Barrick Gold Corporation acquired in 2006, and as an officer of UEX Corporation until 2007. Stanyer was president, CEO and a director of Northern Continental Resources Inc. when Hathor Exploration acquired it in November 2009, and was an officer and director of Alpha Minerals, which Fission Uranium acquired in 2013. He is currently CEO andChairman of ALX Resources Corp. (TSXV: AL) and an officer and director of New Moon Minerals and Trailblazer Exploration, both private mineral exploration companies.

Jonathan Fung — CPA, CFO

Jonathan Fung provides accounting, financial reporting and regulatory compliance services to publicly listed and private companies as a financial reporting manager at ACM Management. He obtained his Bachelor of Commerce degree in accounting from the University of British Columbia in 2013. Jonathan articled at D&H Group LLP Chartered Professional Accountants, where he provided accounting, assurance and income tax services to publicly listed and private companies. After working in Assurance Services at Ernst & Young LLP, he joined ACM Management Inc. of Vancouver, BC, in 2019. Jonathan is a member of the Chartered Professional Accountants of British Columbia.

Christina Boddy — Corporate Secretary

Christina Boddy is a member of the Canadian Society of Corporate Secretaries and has acted as corporate secretary for many public companies in recent years, including Resinco Capital Partners, Teslin River Resources, Cue Resources and Prophecy Platinum. Ms. Boddy acts as a consultant to public and private companies through Rhodanthe Corporate Services, a BC-based private company.

Michael D. Sweatman — Director & Chairman

Michael Sweatman is a Chartered Professional Accountant and has operated MDS Management Ltd., a Vancouver-based management consulting company, since November 1992. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and commerce from Simon Fraser University, gained his CA designation in 1982 and is a CPA in British Columbia and the Yukon Territory. He has served as a director and officer of several public companies over the past 30 years and is currently a director Lithoquest Resources. Sweatman is also the chairman of the Nevada Sunrise Audit Committee.

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Vanstar Mining Resources

Vanstar Mining Resources: World-Class DiscoveryPotential in Quebec

Overview

Quebec is one of the world’s most prolific mining jurisdictions. World-class mining districts like Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Chibougamau and Grand-Nord in the Canadian province host some of the most prominent players in the gold, copper, nickel and zinc mining spaces. To date, Quebec has 25 producing mines.

The province of Quebec is politically stable, provides government support for mining and exploration and is one the most prolific producers of gold in the world after the Witwatersrand in South Africa.

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Vanstar Mining Resources (TSXV:VSR) is a Canadian gold exploration company focused on developing its high-quality mineral properties located in Quebec. The company has strong project fundamentals and leverages Quebec’s world-class mining-friendly conditions and high-grade mineralization prospects.

Vanstar Mining Resources’ stable of gold projects offer investors exposure to different stages of development. Its flagship Nelligan project is a largely de-risked asset and one of Quebec’s largest gold projects containing approximately 3.2 million ounces of gold. The project is located near excellent infrastructure and, through a joint venture with Vanstar, is operated by one of Canada’s premiere gold producers, IAMGOLD Corp.

The Nelligan project is being developed with IAMGOLD Corp. (TSX:IMG, NYSE:IAG) which currently owns 75 percent with Vanstar retaining 25 percent ownership. IAMGOLD has the option to increase its ownership to 80 percent by completing a feasibility study, which would allow Vanstar Mining Resources to retain a 20 percent undivided non-contributory carried interest until production, as well as a one percent NSR on the eight original claims on the property. The project has inferred resources of 3.2m oz @1.02 g/t Au and is located in the NE of the Abitibi region. Vanstar’s agreement with IAMGOLD is somewhat unique, as it ensures that Vanstar will participate in a production scenario without the burden of raising capital to fund development. This is a key differentiator and distinguishes this partnership from typical joint ventures.

In addition to the Nelligan Project, Vanstar owns 100 percent of the Felix project, the Amanda project, the Frida and the Eva projects. All have had geophysical groundwork, and/or drilling programs and have significant exploration potential.

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Vanstar Mining Resources currently has CAD$5.8 million in total cash which advantageously presents it with the ability to advance its exploration assets without the need to access the capital markets at inopportune times.

Vanstar Mining Resources’ management team comprises world-class experts in capital markets, geology, and mineral exploration. The company’s solid leadership sets the stage for significant mining and exploration success and economic prosperity.

Vanstar Mining Resources’ Company Highlights

Vanstar Mining Resources’ robust asset portfolio includes the flagship Nelligan project, as well as the Felix, Amanda, Frida and Eva gold exploration projects.
The Nelligan project hosts world-class discovery potential that is largely de-risked with approximately 3.2-million-ounce inferred gold resource. The project has widespread high-grade mineralization with growth potential and is located near excellent infrastructure.
Nelligan is carried through to production by IAMGOLD requiring no further dilution to Vanstar.
Future plans for the company include an extensive diamond drill programs at Nelligan, as well as geophysical, geochemical and drilling campaigns on its other assets to unlock the full potential of its gold assets.
Vanstar Mining is well capitalized with a tight share structure and supportive long-term shareholders.

Vanstar Mining Resources’ Key Projects

Nelligan Project

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The property is located in proximity to extensive infrastructure and resources such as electricity, railroads, airport and year-round road access.

The project hosts a recognized world-class discovery with initial inferred resources of 3.2 million ounces Au, with highlighted mineralization reaching 96.9 million tonnes at 1.02 g/t Au. The resource has considerable potential for growth with the mineralized area having recently been extended along strike by at least 700m. Nelligan’s four major gold zones, Renard, Liam, Dan and 36 zones, have transformed the asset from a grassroots discovery into a sizable resource in only three years of exploration.

Additionally, IAMGOLD intends on conducting IP geophysical surveying, mapping, sampling, and metallurgical testing over the summer as well as an updated resource calculation later this year.

Felix Project

The 100 percent owned Felix project consists of 69 claims covering 3,259 hectares on-trend with Amex Exploration’s Perron asset and BMEX’s King Tut project. The property has a skilled local workforce and benefits from a mining-friendly jurisdiction.

Felix has been historically explored for iron and gold in the mid to late 1900s. Assays from all nine 1.5 meters samples from historical drill hole 728-06-01 returned gold grades ranging from 0.9 g/t Au to upwards of 1.5 g/t Au over a 70-meter interval. Other groundwork on the property includes geophysical and high-resolution magnetic surveying and banded iron formation identification.

Plans for a 2021 exploration program include a 3,000-meter diamond drill program to confirm historical results, as well as to test MEGATEM conductors, in highly prospective iron formations.

Amanda Project

The 100 percent owned Amanda project consists of 145 claims covering 7,677 hectares, located 275 kilometers northeast of Chibougamau. The property hosts a sedimentary rock profile with interbedded iron formations, andesite lava, and five known gold showings associated with iron formations. Historical results include 5.4 g/t Au over 7 meters and 1.15 g/t Au over 18 metres in boreholes and 1.69 g/t Au over 13.8 meters and 8.34 g/t Au over 1.6 meters in trenches. A prospecting and surface sampling program conducted in 2020 identified additional gold showings with up to 1.8 g/t Au found in mineralized sediments.

Future plans for the project include high-resolution airborne magnetic surveying, mapping, stripping, and a drill campaign.

Frida and Eva Projects

These highly prospective 100 percent owned projects consist of 107 claims with a total surface area 5,517 hectares in the James Bay area. The projects are adjacent to Quebec Precious Metals’ Sakami project and on-trend between Genius Metal’s gold discovery and QPM’s JR zone. A recent high resolution magnetic survey highlights a prominent folded iron formation on Eva, as well as a number of magnetic anomalies on Frida.

2021 exploration plans will follow up on the magnetic survey, with field prospecting, and sampling.

Vanstar Mining Resources’ Management Team

JC St-Amour — CFA, President & CEO

JC St-Amour has over 20 years of mining industry experience in executive leadership roles, corporate finance, and mergers & acquisitions. He has a master’s degree in geology and is a Chartered Financial Analyst with expertise in capital markets, financial and investment analysis, asset valuation, capital raising, and M&A transactions in the natural resource sector. During his career, St-Amour has held various executive leadership roles at the management and Board of Directors level in junior mining and investment banking firms.

Martin Nicoletti — CPA, CGA, CFO

Martin Nicoletti is a chartered professional accountant with more than 31 years of experience. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration, accounting specialization. Nicoletti is also president of Corporation Financière SKTM Ltée and chief financial officer of several other mining companies.

Gilles Laverdière, P.Geo. — Consulting Geologist & Qualified Person Under NI 43-101

Gilles Laverdière holds a B.Sc in geology from Université de Montréal and a certificate in Environment from Université du Québec in Abitibi-Témiscamingue. He worked for various mining exploration companies, including Aur Resources inc., until 1984 when he founded his geological consulting business. He then managed numerous exploration and development projects in Abitibi and raised funds for mining companies. From 1991 to 1997, Laverdière was part of exploration projects in the Philippines, Nevada (USA), and Brazil. From 1997 to 2006, he worked in China, where he started HMZ Metals, a polymetallic producer operating a copper smelter with revenues exceeding CAD$15 million per year. Since 2006, Laverdière has been a consulting geologist working on projects in Abitibi, Central America and Africa.

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Bald Eagle Gold

Acquiring and Exploring Early-Stage Gold Assets in Mining-Friendly Gold Districts of North America

Overview

It can be difficult finding a viable asset to develop for emerging mining and exploration companies. Luckily, the right management team operating in the right jurisdiction can push even junior players into the big leagues.

One of the US' most prolific mining districts is Nevada. According to the Fraser Institute, the state ranks as one of the top mining jurisdictions in the world. Nevada hosts the perfect mix of existing infrastructure, a skilled local workforce and favorable warm weather year-round, which presents emerging mining companies with exceptional discovery potential and economic prospects.

Bald Eagle Gold (TSX:BIG,OTCQB: BADEF) is an emerging mineral exploration and development company focused on exploring gold districts in North America. The company is currently developing its high-quality Hot Springs gold property in Nevada, which leverages a stable operating environment, rich resource networks and widespread mineralization.

The company's management team and board have a successful track record of growing companies through formation, listing, development and exit. Collectively, the team has raised over US$405 million in capital with companies such as UNX Energy (TSX:UNX), IC Potash (TSX:ICP), Namaste Technologies (TSXV:N) and Khiron Life Sciences (TSXV:KHRN).

With Bald Eagle Gold, the leadership team applies its expert exploration experience and technical skills to develop new highly prospective mineral exploration projects. This management team primes the company for growth and mining success.

Bald Eagle Gold has generated a high-quality pipeline through long-standing relationships with local operators, key decision-makers and market participants. These connections help Bald Eagle advance its objective to acquire, expand and enhance its asset's resources to reserves over the early stages of its current commodity cycle.

The Hot Springs property is a historically explored property with a significant source of gold mineralization first discovered in the 1890s. The property hosts two main targets: the Dutch Flats shear zone and the mid-Paleozoic calcareous and limestone zones.

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The project's exploration history for the project is primarily shallow drilling and surface sampling, with the discovery of quartz-gold nuggets at surface. Bald Eagle theorizes that much of the high-grade gold discovery lies deeper into the property. The company is excited to explore its multiple drill targets across the property. The Battle Mountain and Getchell-Comstock gold trends intersect through the district and host world-class epithermal and Carlin-type deposits. Eighteen mines have been discovered across the district — including mines ones from well known companies such as Hecla (NYSE:HL), Newmont (NYSE:NEM,TSX:NGT) and Barrick Gold (NYSE:GOLD,TSX:ABX) — and considerable exploration and development potential remains.

The company's goal is to expand its portfolio of high-grade mineral assets through organic exploration and development. Immediate plans for the Hot Springs property involve developing new geologic models to test the property and continuing drilling to uncover the property's discovery possibilities at depth.

In 2021, Bald Eagle received TSX Venture Exchange and other regulatory approval for the acquisition of a 100 percent interest in the Hercules Silver Property located in Washington County, Idaho. The Hercules Property is a significant brownfield land package of nine square kilometers within the underexplored Cuddy Mountain Mining. Its silver-rich terrane has been prospected for silver occurrences since the late 19 ^thcentury, with six historically identified silver-mineralized zones. Hercules Silver has historic drill intercepts including hole 80-13 with 10.7 meters of 825 grams/tonne (“g/t") silver, hole PH 42 with 29.3 meters of 259 g/t silver and hole PH 33 with 14.6 meters of 562 g/t.

Bald Eagle Gold's Company Highlights

Bald Eagle Gold is an emerging mineral exploration and development company focused on exploring, acquiring and operating highly prospective gold assets in North America, focused primarily on Nevada.
Its impressive management team has collectively raised over US$405 million in capital and has a proven track record of success.
In 2018, Nevada's production of gold was approximately 5.58 million ounces, representing approximately 83 percent of U.S. total gold production.
The company's flagship gold asset is its Hot Springs gold property. The asset hosts high-grade gold mineralization and strategically positions the company around well-known gold mines as well as Carlin-type and epithermal gold deposits.
Eighteen gold mines have been discovered within 100 kilometers of the Hot Springs property, including ones from well-known mining companies such as Hecla, Newmont and Barrick.
In March 2021, Bald Eagle Gold began trading on the TSXV.
The company entered into a share purchase agreement to acquire a 100 percent interest in the Leviathan Property in the Heath Mining District of Washington County, Idaho USA. The Leviathan is located immediately east of and adjoins the Company's recently acquired Hercules silver property.

Bald Eagle Gold's Key Projects

Hot Springs Property

The Hot Springs property spans 11,894 acres and is strategically located at the intersections of Getchell-Comstock and Battle Mountain, which is part of gold trends found in the prolific Arkosic Triangle in Nevada. The trend hosts well-known gold mines as well as Carlin-type and epithermal gold deposits.

Historical exploration of the property confirms multiple occurrences of gold, both at surface and depth, uncovered through surface sampling and drilling. Drilling campaigns from 2007 returned mineralization estimates of 16 million tonnes at 0.18 g/t grade for 91,750 ounces of gold. Recent exploration indicates exceptional grades above 1 ounce per tonne gold at surface and quartz-gold nuggets at surface, indicating a source within two miles.

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Mid-paleozoic limestone and calcareous sediments indicate the high probability of Carlin-type deposits, similar to the nearby Turquoise Ridge mine and neighboring mines from companies including Hecla, Newmont and Barrick.

In 2020, the company completed deep structural geophysics and a drilling campaign over the property. The next steps for the project include a proposed US$1.8 million drilling campaign that would involve up to 5,000 meters of drilling, IP and CSAMT and claims staking, for which Bald Eagle has expressed excitement.

Bald Eagle Gold's Management Team

Raymond Harari – President, CEO & Director

Mr. Harari is the founder of Canalis Capital, a merchant bank focused on disruptive industries. Prior to founding Canalis Capital, Mr. Harari worked at Credicorp Bank in its private wealth group in Panama and Nomura's consumer and retail investment banking group based in New York City . Mr. Harari graduated with honors from the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Science in systems engineering and a minor in engineering entrepreneurship and mathematics. Mr. Harari is an active angel investor across the mining, technology, fashion, cannabis, e-commerce, and energy sectors. Mr. Harari also serves as CEO of IM Exploration (CSE:IM) and CEO of Momentous Capital Corp. (TSXV:MCC.P), a Capital Pool Company which is in the process of completing its qualifying transaction. Mr. Harari also served as the deputy director of the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture of Panama.

Sidney Himmel – Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors

Mr. Himmel has 30 years of experience in Corporate Finance, mineral development and exploration, and is also an experienced finance executive having worked in Canadian and international investment banks in the resource and technology sectors. He was previously Founder, President, and CEO of a United States potash development company leading a team of geologists, engineers, and mineral finance professionals, taking the potash asset in New Mexico from concept to completion of feasibility and environmental approval. He has led exploration and development companies focusing on diamond exploration and Uranium exploration in Canada and the United States

Darren Collins – CFO & Director

Darren Collins has over 15 years of corporate finance and public company experience with a background in corporate finance, M&A, corporate, governance and public accounting. He has previous experience with Scotia Capital, Quest Capital, currently renamed Sprott Resource Lending, and various public issuers.

Mark Smethurst – Senior Geologist

Mark Smethurst is a professional geologist with over 25 years of experience. He has held previous executive appointments as VP and COO of Resource Development for public companies and is currently a Qualified Person defined by National Instrument 43-101.

Terra Lane, B.S. – Mining Engineer

Ms. Lane is a Mining Engineer with more than 35 years of experience. Her experience includes feasibility studies, mine and process engineering and project development for surface and underground mines. She has managed projects in the US, Canada, Mexico, Ireland, Russia, China, Bolivia, Peru and Africa.

Hamid Samari, Ph.D. – Senior Exploration Geologist

Mr. Samari is a geologist with more than 30 years of experience. He has experience in structural geology, mining geology, economic geology, and seismic assessment. His project experience spans multiple jurisdictions and includes exploration and resource definition for gold, silver, copper and other metals

Michael Feinstein, Ph.D. – Senior Exploration Geologist

Mr. Feinstein holds a Ph.D. in Geological Sciences and an M.Sc. in Economic Geology from the University of Texas El Paso, as well as a B.Sc. in Geology and Geography from Sam Houston State University. He is president of Mineoro Explorations, leading exploration and development of mineral properties in the US, Mexico and Canada.

Nicholas Tintor – Executive Director

Nicholas Tintor, a geologist, and mining executive will be an active Executive Director of the Company. He has more than 35 years of experience in the Canadian mining industry and has been involved in all aspects of the junior mining sector including executive management, project generation, corporate finance, and investor relations.

He holds a B.Sc., Geology from the University of Toronto and is a Qualified Professional Member of the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America and a Qualified Person as defined by NI 43-101. He is also a lifetime member of the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada , and a member of PDAC's Securities Committee.

Michael Bandrowski – Independent Director

Michael Bandrowski, an executive and former research analyst, will be an Independent Director of the Company. For the past 16 years, he has been active in the mineral exploration and development industry as a mining research analyst and mineral exploration and development corporate executive. He holds a B.Sc. in geology and an MBA and has previously served on numerous public and private company boards. He is currently President and Chief Executive Officer of Big Ridge Gold Corp., a company which is acquiring an 80 per cent interest in Hope Brook Gold Project of Newfoundland and Labrador , an advanced stage, high-grade gold project. He was Founder of Escarpment Capital Advisors, a premier Canadian mining advisory firm. Over a nine-year period, he was a mining Research Analyst at Beacon Securities Inc., a mining Research Analyst at Clarus Securities Inc., and a Research Associate at Paradigm Capital.

Dr. Laurence Curtis – Senior Technical Advisor

Dr. Laurence Curtis is an economic geologist with over 45 years of experience in exploration, mine development, and financing of precious metals resources . He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto and is a licensed Professional Geologist ( Ontario ) and a Lifetime Member of the PDAC.

Dr. Curtis is currently a director of Excellon Resources Inc. and formerly a Director of Wheaton River Minerals, High River Gold and Breakwater Resources. In 1996 he founded Intrepid Minerals Corporation as a mineral exploration and development company and was with the company through to 2014. During that period, he operated as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer. Under his tenure, the company advanced projects in Argentina , Central America , and Western Australia . During the transition to Intrepid Mines Ltd., he effected substantial financings and negotiated significant joint ventures with major international mining companies.

Jean Depatie – Senior Technical Advisor

Jean Depatie has had a distinguished career in the mining industry in Canada and internationally for the past 45 years. He is an internationally recognized expert in mineral exploration and development and minerals and mining corporate finance including financing and mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Depatie is a graduate of the University of Montréal where he obtained a B.A in Mathematics and Physics and a B.Sc. in Geology. He received an M.Sc. from Laval University in Québec City. He was a Director of Glamis Gold (which was sold to Goldcorp creating a $21.3 billion company), a Director of Novicourt Inc. (which was acquired by Xtrata), and a Director of Consolidated Thomson Iron Mines (acquired by Cliff Resources in a $4.9 billion acquisition transaction). Mr. Depatie has served many public companies at the highest levels. As President and CEO of Louvem Mines he was instrumental in the discovery of the Louvicourt base metal mine and the development of the Beaufor gold mine in Quebec. As a Director of Gold Hawk Resources, he was involved in the acquisition and reactivation of the Cobre San Juan base metal mine located in San Mateo, Peru.

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Cross River Ventures

District-Scale Potential in Northwest Ontario

Overview

Having the right team to push the development and exploration of mineral-rich assets sets a great mining company apart from the good ones. Particularly for precious metal properties, striking gold can sometimes be half the battle.

Cross River Ventures (CSE:CRVC) is a gold exploration company focused on developing high-quality exploration properties in top-tier mining districts. The company currently has a robust project portfolio in Northwest Ontario, Canada, along prolific, gold-bearing greenstone belts.

The Cross River Ventures leadership combines unparalleled expertise and technical experience across its all-star team of accomplished individuals. Dr. Rob Carpenter and Dr. Alan Wainwright, the company’s leading technical advisors, helped lead the Kaminak team to success with the multi-million-ounce discovery Coffee gold project in the Yukon.

Likewise, Cross River Ventures’ exploration manager, Lori Paslawski, has a proven history with volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) ore and gold districts, and she was instrumental in the target generation, delineation and expansion of Westhaven Gold (TSXV:WHN) Shovelnose gold discovery.

The company’s flagship property is the McVicar Lake gold project, which spans over 11,500 hectares in the Lang Lake Greenstone belt in Northwest Ontario. The rest of Cross River Ventures’ portfolio currently consists of the Manitou project, the Fuchsite gold project, the Tahsis copper-gold project and its four properties in the Uchi Belt, including the Dent-Jackson project.

map of cross river ventures' uchi belt projects

Exploration plans for 2021 include continued compilation efforts of historical data and assessment of all projects, acquisition of remote sensing data through LIDAR imagery and airborne magnetic surveys, field work and analytical sampling. Projected drilling phases are to begin at priority projects starting at the end of the year.

Cross River Ventures’ Company Highlights

Cross River Ventures is a gold exploration company focused on developing top-tier exploration properties in Ontario and British Columbia.
Its flagship McVicar gold project is a dominant land position that spans the main structural elements of the entire Lang Lake Greenstone Belt in Northwestern Ontario. The project hosts high-grade gold mineralization with extensive gold discovery potential.
Cross River’s project portfolio also consists of several highly prospective early-stage properties along the Uchi Greenstone Belt. This collection includes the Dent-Jackson, Shabu, Maskooch and Ear Falls properties.
The company also operates the Dryden Area Manitou project and Fuchsite gold project in Ontario and the Tahsis copper-gold project on Vancouver Island.
Cross River Ventures has a stellar technical team that includes big names such as Dr. Rob Carpenter, Dr. Alan Wainwright, Lori Paslawkshi and Daniel MacNeil.

Cross River Ventures’ Key Projects

McVicar Gold Project

The flagship McVicar gold project has a dominant land position of over 11,500 hectares in the Lang Lake Greenstone Belt, approximately 80 kilometers west of Pickle Lake, Ontario. The project covers all the major fertile structural and geologic elements of the belt and leverages an excellent mining-friendly jurisdiction and resource-rich conditions.

Cross River has uncovered over 26 mineral occurrences on the property despite its limited testing and drilling history. Earlier developments revealed several potential structural splay zones with discovery possibilities and a 2002 discovery of a smoky-grey quartz vein grading 827.4g/t gold.

map of cross river ventures mcvicar project

The property’s unique geophysical profile consists of three known styles of gold mineralization, including altered tonalite intrusions, discrete auriferous quartz veins and mineralized shear zones. Additional drill intercepts to-date at McVicar include 6.46g/t gold over 10.09 meters, 9.3 g/t gold over 2.02 meters and 11.72g/t gold over 1.52 meters.

The property hosts valuable geophysical characteristics that point to potential gold systems across its mafic-felsic contacts, shear zones. Fold hinges and iron formations. These elements on the McVicar land position suggest that its untested traps and structures are highly-prospective for new high-grade gold discoveries.

Uchi Belt Properties

Cross River controls four early-stage properties within the Archean Uchi Greenstone Belt, located approximately 90km east of Red Lake.

The Dent-Jackson property is a 1,233 hectare claim block in the west-central portion of the Uchi Belt. Similar volcanic stratigraphy as neighboring gold and base metal mines underlines the property. Recent discoveries from January 2021 revealed high-grade trench samples from the Cariboo Vein in the western part of the property, measuring estimates of 26 g/t gold over 8 meters.
The Shabu property is a 1,973 hectare claim block covering a narrow wedge of greenstone located along the Uchi Belt’s northwest margin. The best historic drill hole intersection saw grades of 1.065 ounces per ton gold over 15 centimeters. Systematic exploration work is being planned for the gold and copper bearing shear zones and the known mineral occurrence areas.
The Maskooch property is a 1,480 hectare claim block along the southeastern margin of the Uchi Belt. The geophysical profile consists of mafic and felsic volcanic rocks with narrow intervals of banded iron formation. Previous exploration on the property has shown high potential for significant base metal sulfide mineralization and lode gold deposits.
The Ear Falls property is a 2,936 hectare claim block located southwest of the Uchi Belt and consists of favorable rock formations that have been relatively unexplored.

Fuchsite Lake Project

The Fuchsite Lake project is located 20 kilometers north of Armstrong, Ontario, and comprises approximately 3,750 hectares. The property’s main target is an Archean shear zone within deformed and altered ultramafic and mafic volcanic rocks. This type of geophysical conditioning points to potential gold mineralization that mimics some world-class gold camps in the superior province of Ontario and Quebec.

map of cross river ventures' fuchsite project

In 2020, Cross River conducted a high-resolution airborne magnetic survey at the Fuchsite gold project, which successfully defined and extended a key structural zone associated with the project’s Lette gold and base metal prospect. The prospect remains relatively unexplored, which provides Cross River a first-mover advantage in exploring and developing this highly prospective project.

Tahsis Copper-Gold Project

The Tahsis copper-gold project is a 4,866 hectare gold exploration property located in Northern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. The property leverages a rich exploration history with past production at the nearby Zeballos gold camp, which produced 287,811 ounces of gold and 124,700 ounces of silver from 13 deposits between 1930 and 1948. The geology of the Tahsis project is similar to the Zeballos camp.

map of cross river ventures' tahsis project

Cross River has discovered three target areas at Tahsis, which it intends to assess for subsequent excavator trenching. Cross River Ventures owns an option to acquire 100 percent undivided interest in the Tahsis property.

Manitou Gold Project

The Manitou project spans 5,156 hectares along the possible extensions of gold-bearing shear zones in the Manitou Lake area, 40 kilometers south of Dryden, Ontario. Neighboring mining companies have found several north-northeast structural zones that rank high for gold potential near the property.

Historic production has reported drill intercepts of 216.85 g/t gold over 0.3 meters and 15.5 g/t gold over 6.9 meters. The company is currently compiling historical data and interpreting property geology to further develop and analyze the project.

Cross River Ventures’ Management Team

Alex Klenman — CEO and Director

Alex Klenman is an experienced junior mining executive whose career spans over 30 years of experience in the private and public sectors. Over the past decade, he has held leadership roles with numerous publicly traded resource companies, including senior officer and director positions with Nexus Gold, Leocor Gold, Azincourt Energy, Arbor Metals, Manning Ventures and others. As a consultant in the past, he has also worked with Roxgold, Forum Uranium, Integra Gold and Midnight Sun Mining, among others. Klenman began his professional career in television broadcasting, which evolved in the late 1990s into communications, finance and marketing roles principally for publicly traded companies.

John Fraser — President and Director

John Fraser has over 20 years of experience in the Canadian capital markets. Fraser worked as an investment advisor at several Canadian brokerage firms with a focus on the mining sector. Since transitioning to the business’s public company side, he has held board positions and advised several mining and technology companies.

Alex Tong — CFO

Alex Tong is a highly qualified finance professional with extensive senior management experience in the mining space. He has worked directly with companies operating in North America and Africa and was most recently the Director of Finance at Lucara Diamond. Before Lucara, Tong held senior finance roles with development resource public companies Energy Metals and Novagold Resources, where he was responsible for achieving operational performance, leading mergers and acquisitions and involved with various financing strategies. Tong is a Chartered Professional Accountant who articled with Deloitte LLP, where he managed a portfolio of clients in both the Canadian and US public markets, primarily in the brokerage and mining industry.

Cross River Ventures’ Technical Team

Lori Paslawski, MSc — Exploration Manager

Lori Paslawski is an economic geologist specialized in field-based exploration for base and precious metal deposits. Her expertise includes three-dimensional lithological/structural/ore deposit modeling, project evaluation and grassroots through in-mine exploration targeting. She has worked in VMS, epithermal gold, orogenic gold and structurally controlled silver-zinc-lead districts and was instrumental in the target generation, delineation and expansion of the Shovelnose gold discovery.

Lori completed her MSc at St. Francis Xavier University, where she worked in the Rio Tinto VMS district in Spain. She is currently a project geologist with Vector Geological Solutions.

Dr. Rob Carpenter, Ph.D.

Dr. Rob Carpenter is a professional geoscientist with more than 30 years of corporate and technical mineral exploration experience. He has founded and played critical roles in several successful junior mining companies, including Kaminak Gold Corporation. Dr. Carpenter led the Kaminak team as CEO from inception in 2005 through acquisition, discovery and maiden resource calculation of the multi-million-ounce Coffee Gold Project, Yukon. Goldcorp acquired Kaminak in 2016 for over US$500 million.

Dr. Alan Wainwright, Ph.D.

Dr. Alan Wainwright is an economic geologist with over 20 years of mineral exploration and research experience in North America, South America, Europe and Asia, focused on base metals and gold. He was the H.H. Spud Huestis Award co-recipient for the Coffee gold discovery.

Daniel MacNeil, MSc

Daniel Macneil is an economic geologist specializing in precious and base metals with over 19 years of experience from Continental-scale project generation to in-mine resource expansion in various geological settings in the Americas, Europe, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. His expertise includes project evaluation, target and opportunity identification, exploration strategy, district entry strategy, business development, strategic evaluation of geologic terranes and execution of target testing. MacNeil is the founder of Vector Geological Solutions.

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Canex Metals

Multiple Bulk Tonnage and High Grade Gold Targets in Northern Arizona

Overview

Legendary investor Warren Buffet once suggested that when evaluating stocks, one of the key factors investors should look at is a company’s management team. He said, “Look at what they have accomplished.”

CANEX Metals (TSXV:CANX) CEO Dr. Shane Ebert has been involved in the discovery of three notable porphyry and bulk tonnage style deposits and he hasn’t stopped there: the Bahuerachi copper porphyry deposit in Chihuaua, Mexico, which lead to the takeover of Tyer Resource in 2008; the Viking project in Newfoundland, which paved the way for Northern Abitibi Mining to be awarded the Prospector/Explorer of the Year Award in 2010 by the Newfoundland Branch of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum; and Surge Copper’s (TSXV:SURG) Ootsa property in British Columbia, specifically the West Seel deposit, Ootsa’s larger zone of copper-gold-molybdenum-silver mineralization.

Ebert’s newest company, CANEX Metals, is focused on identifying, acquiring and developing highly prospective explorations projects throughout North America. The company is currently developing a new gold discovery at its flagship Gold Range project in Arizona.

Arizona is currently ranked second overall in the Fraser Institute’s list of the world’s top jurisdictions for investment based on the Investment Attractiveness Index. Arizona’s favorable regulatory conditions, widespread exploratory potential and unexplored resource-rich geology combine for spectacular investment opportunities.

CANEX is in the exploration phase with ongoing work on the property already identifying a 5 kilometer long fault zone containing numerous mineralized zones and exploration targets.

Management has a good understanding of the local geology and structural controls at the Gold Range property. Of particular interest are the multiple bulk tonnage gold targets that CANEX has identified from first pass drilling and sampling on the property. Drilling into this type of target on the property is relatively low-risk and low-cost with a high reward proposition. Thus, presenting a unique opportunity for investors.

In addition, when combined, these targets have the potential to deliver an attractive project with scale that would be of interest to many. Regionally, CANEX’s Gold Range property is quickly developing into a key piece of the puzzle in what appears to be a new emerging bulk tonnage gold district in Northern Arizona.

Ebert enthusiastically discussed the next steps for the project. “The geology here is prospective for big deposits. We have multiple large mineralized footprints and indications of intrusion-related mineralization, a model that is known to host large gold deposits .”

“We are drill testing near surface bulk tonnage type targets. If successful, this type of target will be of interest to several players in the region that are looking to buy and consolidate and build these heap leach operations,” he further shared.

Regional Consolidation

Northern Vertex Mining (TSXV:NEE) owns and operates the nearby Moss mine, currently the largest pure gold and silver mine in Arizona with a low cost, open pit mine and heap leach processing. On February 16 2021, Northern Vertex agreed to combine with Nevada-based exploration company Eclipse Gold Mining Corporation (TSXV:EGLD) to form an emerging mid-tier gold producer with a focus on growth through M&A.

In July 2020, Argonaut Gold (TSX:AR) acquired the Nevada-based oxide gold heap leach project Florida Canyon, through its acquisition of Alio Gold (TSX:ALO). Over the last decade, Argonaut has successfully developed and operated several open pit heap leach mines. Argonaut’s strategy involves harvesting cashflows from current operations and using them for sustainable growth and replacement of resources. Argonauts’ current operations are in Western USA, Canada and Mexico.

Other notable regional developers and operators of gold heap leach projects include:

Americas Gold and Silver (TSX:USA) is a high-growth North American focused precious metals mining company. The company’s newest asset, the Relief Canyon gold heap leach project in Nevada is expected to reach commercial production by mid 2021.

Fiore Gold (TSXV:F) is a growth-oriented US gold producer. Its flagship asset is the Pan mine, a heap leach gold project based in Nevada. Fiore’s goal is to build a mid-tier US gold mining company through internal growth and strategic M&A.

CANEX Metals’ Company Highlights

The company’s flagship Gold Range project in Arizona leverages the state’s resource-rich history and mineralization. The company could see large bulk tonnage and high-grade gold resources that mimic nearby deposits.
The relatively underexplored gold mining district in Northern Arizona presents CANEX with a first-mover advantage for gold discovery and the development of potential exploration targets.
CANEX completed its Phase Two drill project at Gold Range in 2021. The first phase drilling program has indicated favorable heap-leach potential.
The company is headed by a world-class technical and geology team, which primes Gold Range for expert analysis and expert targeting.

CANEX Metals’ Key Project

gold range location map

Gold Range Property

The Gold Range property is located in Mohave County, Arizona, which has seen widespread small-scale lode and placer gold production but limited modern lode gold exploration. The 1,415 hectare property consists of 192 lode mining claims and leverages great geological structuring, multiple bulk tonnages, high-grade gold targets and useful resource networks.

A gold system footprint has been identified and mapped over 5 kilometers by 3 kilometers. Over this mapping, the company has identified several large gold targets, including the Eldorado Zone, Central Zone and Excelsior mine. Additionally, the property’s Adit shear zone has returned 8.47 g/t gold grade over 5.6 meters from a favorably large quartz vein.

In January 2021, CANEX Metals signed a letter of intent to option the Excelsior Mine property, which adds three historic past producing gold mines to the Gold Range property and provides multiple drill ready targets. In a recent interview, Ebert shared, “There’s a zone at Excelsior that’s seen historic underground mining and then some more recent open pit mining. It’s got a beautifully exposed high-grade vein with a 20 to 50 meter wide halo of veining and good alteration and mineralization that could really have some bulk tonnage potential, as well as that high-grade element.” He further stressed, “We’re not just a high-grade target, we’re really a high value, heap leach type, low-cost mining target.”

In March 2021, the company completed Phase Two of the project’s drill program with 34 holes. The project’s next steps include additional testing of the Excelsior mine and developing a larger deposit definition program.

CANEX Metals’ Management Team

Dr. Shane W. Ebert, P.Geo. — President & Director

Dr. Shane W. Ebert has 30 years of gold, copper and base metal exploration experience in North America, South America, Australia and Europe. Dr. Ebert was involved in discovering a large copper deposit in Mexico, a gold deposit in eastern Canada and copper-gold porphyry in British Columbia and has worked with numerous major and junior exploration companies. His experience includes exploration and research on epithermal and porphyry deposits in Canada, the USA, Mexico and Europe, reduced intrusion-related gold deposits in Yukon and Alaska and polymetallic carbonate-hosted deposits in Peru. Dr. Ebert is also president and director of Surge Copper Corp. and a director of Jade Leader Corp. Dr. Ebert was VP of Exploration and a director of Tyler Resources Inc. until March 2008, when the company was sold to a large multinational mining consortium. He is a registered professional geoscientist with the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia.

Jean Pierre Jutras, P.Geol. — Vice President & Director

Jean Pierre Jutras is a professional mineral exploration geologist with 30 years of experience in the exploration industry. He has worked in over 15 countries on four continents, with numerous public companies, including Placer dome, Prism Resources, Golden Star Resources and Jade Leader Corp. He was the president and director of Tyler Resources Inc. from 2001 until March 2008, when Jinchuan Group Ltd. of China took over Tyler for C$214 million. Jutras then remained as Feasibility Study coordinator from 2008 to 2010 for Tyler Resources Inc., post-takeover transaction. He is also currently a president and director of Jade Leader Corp.

Barbara O’Neill — Corporate Secretary

Barbara O’Neill has been corporate secretary for several TSX and TSX Venture corporations, primarily in the mining industry, both nationally and internationally, for the last 30 years. She has extensive experience in public offerings, public listings and Exchange matters, share and asset acquisitions and dispositions, restructurings, securities regulatory requirements for public issuers and other related business transactions. She is currently corporate secretary of Jade Leader Corp., Canex Metals Inc. and CanadaBis Capital Inc.

Chantelle Collins, CPA, CGA — CFO

Chantelle Collins holds a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and is a member of the Chartered Professional Accountants Association of BC (CPA, CGA). Collins has over 12 years of experience working in the public sector and is well versed in the financial reporting requirements of public companies and currently serves as an officer for three other public companies.

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Green Battery Minerals

Exploring Highly Prospective Graphite and Gold Assets in North America

Overview

Goldcore Resources Ltd. has changed its name to Green Battery Minerals Inc. The new name has been chosen to better reflect the company’s new strategic focus of working toward supplying green, clean (environmentally safe) produced elements for the battery market. This new chapter in the company’s growth and development will be reflected in the company’s corporate governance as it works toward being an ESG (Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance) company.

Green Battery Minerals (TSXV:GEM,FSE:BK2P,WKN:A2QENP,OTCQB:GBMIF) is building test batteries to prove their graphite can be used in battery making. This entails verifying the sphericalizing and coating of their graphite, which if achievable, will add value to their end product.

The world is in the midst of an electric vehicle revolution. Market research projects the electric vehicles market to reach over 26 million units by 2030, with a CAGR of 21.1 percent from 2019 to 2030. With the increasing popularity and affordability of greener energies and alternatives to transportation and power, the world’s electrification is a movement that shows no signs of slowing down any time soon.

To meet this industry’s demands, investors need to look at the materials that power these green alternatives. Graphite, one of the most prominent elements of electric vehicle batteries, is predicted to remain a dominant component in these power sources for the foreseeable future. As the electric vehicle market grows, so will the demand for this material, which could rapidly increase to 15 times today’s demand by 2030.

Green Battery Minerals is an exploration company focused on developing its highly prospective graphite and gold assets. Leveraging excellent mining-friendly conditions and resource-rich geological profiles primes the company for success in the booming graphite and gold industries.

The company is currently operating mineral exploration in the mining-friendly jurisdiction of Quebec within relatively close proximity to one another. The projects leverage excellent infrastructure, easy access via forest roads and rich local resource networks.

Green Battery Mineral’s flagship Berkwood Graphite project sits near the Manicouagan regional county municipality in Quebec. The asset is also adjacent to the Mason Graphite (TSX:LLG) graphite deposit, which has seen over 10 million tonnes of contained graphite mineralization. The strategic positioning in relation to this deposit allows Green Battery Minerals to take advantage of Mason Graphite’s testing campaign results and much of the preliminary groundwork in determining the viability of the project.

The Berkwood Graphite deposit hosts surface-level graphite mineralization and some of the richest graphite quality in the world. Metallurgical testing on the asset has produced 97.8 percent grades from extraction and determined the host ore has minimal pollutants that could limit graphite yield.

The company is now one of the largest landholders in the surrounding Quebec area.

Recently, the company has also added gold exploration to its portfolio. Green Battery Mineral’s Stallion gold property in British Columbia strategically positions the company in a mining-friendly jurisdiction with great accessibility, world-class gold mines and past-producing gold deposits in the famous Golden Triangle.

In February 2021, Green Battery Mineral announced it had contracted ProGraphite, one of the world’s leading graphite research and development laboratories in Germany, to build several sample lithium-ion batteries using graphite from the company’s Berkwood Graphite deposit.

“I am very pleased to be one of the first North American graphite companies actually to build sample lithium-ion batteries from its own graphite,” Green Battery Mineral CEO Thomas Yingling said. This contract is an exciting step for Green Battery Mineral’s growth and leadership in the Western graphite market.

Green Battery Mineral Resources’ management team brings over 100 years of collective professional and field experience in the resource, engineering and financial sectors. Together, the deeply connected team primes the company for significant economic growth to meet the world’s increasingly high demand for graphite.

Green Battery Minerals’ Company Highlights

Focused on developing its graphite projects and highly-prospective gold asset.
The company currently operates their flagship Berkwood Graphite project.
The material hosted on the Berkwood Graphite property is very suitable for the production of expandable graphite, having achieved densities of 380 to 390 milliliters per gram and can be purified to 99.95 percent by the standard alkaline process.
ProGraphite, one of the world’s leading graphite R&D laboratories, is currently under contract with Green Battery Mineral to build sample lithium-ion batteries with the company’s graphite.
Stallion gold project is Green Battery Mineral’s gold asset. Leveraging favorable mining conditions of British Columbia, this project holds significant discovery potential.

Green Battery Mineral Resources’ Key Project

Berkwood Graphite Project

The project, previously known as the Lac Guéret graphite project, sits in the geological Grenville Province and part of the Plan Nord region in Quebec. Green Battery Mineral holds a 100 percent interest in the 2,052 hectare property. The company also has an option to earn a 100 percent interest in the Berkwood south block, which consists of 106 claims totaling 5,714 hectares.

The property’s location strategically positions the project adjacent to mining heavyweights like Mason Graphite. Like its geographic neighbors, the property hosts high-grade graphite mineralization and potentially high-yielding mineral targets. The company has already identified six conductive targets associated with magnetic anomalies, sulfides and iron formations.

Since 2018, Green Battery Minerals has conducted 3D modeling and extensive drill programming and has completed geophysical surveying for 44 holes. The surface-level deposit is averaging 80% large to jumbo flakes over the property, where concentration of graphite grades are from 6.81 to 15 percent. The above-average flake size and grades are exciting discoveries for production and near-perfect purification potential that warrant additional exploration.

Stallion Gold Property

The Stallion property covers over 30 square kilometers in the northeastern region of the prolifically metal-rich Stikinia geological terrane of British Columbia. The project shares the same regional trend with several past-producing mines, such as the world-class Kemess gold-copper mine. Green Battery Mineral expects to complete a resource estimate and preliminary economic assessment early in 2021.

Green Battery Mineral Resources’ Management Team

Thomas Yingling — President, CEO & Director

Thomas Yingling benefits from over 23 years of experience managing publicly traded companies. He has served as President and CEO and a director of other resource-based public companies. During that time, Yingling has specialized incorporate finance, assisting in raising capital, corporate communications and strategic planning for the companies. Yingling has built and maintained strong business relationships in North America, Europe and Asia.

Ian Graham B.Sc. (Hons) — Director

Ian Graham is a mining professional with over 20 years of experience in the technical characterization and financing of mineral deposit exploration and development. His experience with the major mining companies Anglo American and Rio Tinto has been followed by experience in founding and financing public companies in the minerals sector. In his roles with both the primary and junior companies, Graham has been involved in modeling project economics (DCF) and the structuring of project and company financing. His project roles have taken him to Southern Africa, Canada, the US, India and Russia; as chief geologist with the Project Generation Group at Rio Tinto, his focus was global. His corporate roles have involved establishing Canadian companies with projects active in Canada, the US, Colombia and Peru. These companies have completed financing in the Americas, Europe and China. Graham graduated from the University of Natal in Durban, South Africa, with a B.Sc. in Geology and Applied Geology and B.Sc. (Hons) in Geology.

Binny Jassal CPA, CGA, FCCA — CFO

Binny Jassal brings over 20 years of accounting and management experience to the company. Jassal is qualified as a Certified Public Accountants (CGA) in Canada and fellow member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants in London, England, and holds a Certificate in Accounting and Finance from Ryerson University. Jassal is currently serving as a director and CFO for several public companies in the mining sector. Jassal will be an essential team member working on its financial and corporate side.

Charn Deol — Director

Charn Deol has over 35 years of experience in the financial markets. Deol currently serves on private and public company boards as a director or in a management capacity. His past and present experience include providing management and consulting services to companies, project analysis, investor relations, technical market analysis and international projects financing. Deol has extensive experience in international business development, having previously been a senior partner in a futures trading firm with operations in Canada and Asia and negotiating mining projects internationally.

Michel Robert — Technical Advisory Committee

Michel Robert has 45 years of experience in mining operations with significant companies, including Quebec Cartier Mining Ltd., Teck Corp., SNC, Lac Minerals, AMEC, MineroPeru, Fluor Daniel and Pan American Silver Corp., where Robert¹s roles have ranged from foreman to president. He has practical experience in operation, commissioning, design, construction, finance and due diligence and graphite experience from due diligence and start-up of the ND-du-Laus graphite mine of Asbury Graphite Ltd. and as VP of Quinto Mining Corp. responsible for the formation of the team and management of the Lac Guéret project until the sale of the company.

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Omai Gold Mines

Rebuilding the Success of the Historic Omai Gold Mine in Guyana

Overview

Base and precious metals mining make up a significant portion of Guyana’s economy. The country’s mineral heritage not only includes high-quality copper, iron and nickel occurrences but well-known deposits of gold, bauxite and diamonds. Leveraging Guyana’s pro-mining government and the country’s stable Mining Act, resource companies operating in the country could offer investors significant returns.

In 2019, the country declared the production of 634,905 ounces of gold, up slightly from its 2018 output. For junior mining companies operating out of this prospective jurisdiction, potential discoveries offer an exciting opportunity for economic success.

Omai Gold Mines (TSXV:OMG) is a mineral exploration company focused on developing the high-grade past-producing Omai gold mine in Guyana. Once the largest operating mine in Guyana and one of the largest producing gold operations in South America, the Omai gold mine has produced approximately 3.7 million ounces of gold over its 13-year mine life.

“We’re building on this past success with new tools, relationships and vision to bring this under-explored gold district back to life, providing a unique opportunity for all stakeholders to participate in value creation,” Omai Gold Mines CEO Mario Stifano commented. The project also leverages well-established infrastructure, a stable mining jurisdiction and a history of proven production.

Located in the highly prospective Guiana Shield, the gold-rich Omai mine strategically positions the company for excellent discovery and development potential. Omai Gold Mines intends to revitalize and explore deeper into the main Fennell Pit zone, and below and on strike along the shallow Wenot Pit on the property to identify more high-grade gold mineralization.

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Guyana’s government has directly granted the company a 100 percent interest in Omai. This project primes Omai Gold Mines for fast-tracked exploration and commencement of future drilling plans.

Compared to surrounding gold mines, the Omai mine and its mineralized trend are significantly under drilled. As development advances, the company is excited to test the extent of gold mineralization over the property.

Magnetic inversion and geophysical surveying have already mapped the profiles of Omai’s primary Fennell and Wenot pits. Both zones host complex intrusives with extensive veining and multiple shears. This valuable geological structuring could point to numerous avenues for high-grade gold discovery and prolonged mine yield and production.

Likewise, the long continuous intervals could mean more widespread gold mineralization. Early sampling programs reported 143 meters at 2.6 grams per tonne (g/t) gold and 49 meters at 25.7 g/t gold. Three intervals on the property have also reported 1,130 to 3,350 g/t gold grades.

A 5,000-meter drill program commenced in February 2021, focused on expanding the open-pit potential of the Wenot Pit that produced 1.8 million ounces of gold at 1.6 grams per tonne to a depth of 190 meters. The company has reported positive initial drill results and is planning its inaugural 43-101 mineral resource estimate later this year.Omai Gold Mines’ management team is a world-class team of experts in mining, project management, and exploration. This deeply connected team and its strategic shareholders prime the company for mining and economic success. Currently, Silvercorp Metals (TSX:SVM,NYSEAMERICAN:SVM), Sandstorm Gold Royalties (TSX:SSL,NYSE:SAND) and Gold Spot Discoveries (TSXV:SPOT) are strategic shareholders of Omai Gold Mines.

Omai Gold Mines’ Company Highlights

Omai Gold Mines is a mineral exploration company focused on developing the highly prospective high-grade Omai gold mine in Guyana. This asset was once Guyana’s largest gold mine, producing 3.7 million ounces of gold from 1992 to 2006.
The company currently has 100 percent interest in Omai, which was granted by Guyana’s government. This grant offers fast-tracked development and drilling potential.
The Omai asset includes two open pits: the main Fennell pit and the Wenot pit. Omai Gold Mines expects to engage in productive exploration and advance drilling campaigns starting in 2021.
Omai Gold Mines is also owns the high-quality Grenfell property in the Kirkland Lake region of Ontario, Canada. The limited exploration history poses exciting gold discovery possibilities for the company.
The company presently has just under 200 million shares issued, and strategic shareholders that include Silvercorp Metals at 15.1 percent, Sandstorm Gold Royalties at 9.9 percent and Gold Spot Discoveries at 3 percent.

Omai Gold Mines’ Key Projects

Omai Mine Project

Located on the northeastern coast of South America along the Essequibo River, the Omai gold mine is a historic gold producer in Guyana. Between 1992 and 2006, the mine produced approximately 3.7 million ounces of gold at an average grade of 1.5 g/t gold. The property also hosts excellent existing infrastructure, has road access to Guyana’s capital city and features a rich resource network.

The project includes the Fennell pit and Wenot pit. Fennell has been the focus of many gold exploration campaigns and spans the top portion of an irregularly shaped pluton known as the Omai Stock. Fennell’s past operation history has reported 1.9 million ounces of gold production at 1.6 g/t gold to a maximum depth of 250 meters.

Discovered in February 1989, the Wenot pit is a mineralized corridor that hosts surface level and hard rock gold mineralization. In December 2020, the company reported high-grade assays of 3.55 g/t gold over 20.6 meters with mineralization extending 150 meters to a depth below the historic pit. These are exciting results for Omai Gold Mines and warrant further exploration and drilling into the project’s future. Exploration plans include an advanced 5,000-meter drill campaign.

Grenfell Property

The Grenfell property sits in the Kirkland Lake region of Ontario, Canada. The well-established Kirkland Lake gold mining camp has produced over 25 million ounces of gold at grades of 0.44 ounces per tonne across seven mines. The property leverages major road and rail access, and an abundance of mining-related services.

10 prospective vein systems have been identified at both at surface level and underground. In 1934 exploration at these veins indicated an average grade of 8.57 g/t gold across 2.38 meters for a length of 61 meters. Since then, the property has seen limited exploration and development, giving Omai Gold Mines an exciting opportunity to revitalize the project.

Omai Gold Mines’ Management Team

Elaine Ellingham ― Interim CEO

Ms. Ellingham is a seasoned mining executive and veteran geologist (P.Geo.) with over 35 years of experience in the mining and exploration business. She has held numerous roles with junior and major mining companies, from field geologist to corporate development, and investor relations. Elaine worked for the Toronto Stock Exchange for 8 years in corporate finance and as National Leader, Mining. As a consultant since 2005, she has been a strategic advisor working with numerous international companies and private equity groups. She has extensive board experience of over 14 years. As a director of Richmont Mines Inc., Elaine stepped in as interim CEO, introducing a new chapter for the gold producer, where Renaud Adams (Omai’s Chairman) then led the company as CEO through to the successful near-billion-dollar acquisition by Alamos Gold Inc. three years later.

Dennis Lapoint, Ph.D. ― VP of Exploration

Dr. Dennis LaPoint is an experienced exploration geologist and project manager with more than 40 years’ experience in project generation, exploration, management and mining, including 18 years working in the Guiana Shield. He was then an exploration manager for Suriname at Cambior and later IAMGOLD. He was instrumental in new discoveries and resources for Rosebel Gold Mine and supervised the Omai geologists after Omai closed. Dr. LaPoint initiated, managed and discovered the Merian Gold Mine for Alcoa in Suriname, South America.

Jason Brewster, BA, MSc ― VP of Operations & Technical Services

Jason Brewster is President and CEO of Anconia Resources, as well as serving as Partner of Billiken Management Services, a full-service exploration management consulting company. Brewster received his M.Sc. in mining engineering from the Camborne School of Mines in Cornwall, England and his B.A. from the University of Western Ontario. For over 20 years, Brewster has been active in all facets of the mining industry, from grassroots prospecting to being instrumental in bringing the Aguas Tenidas mine in Southern Spain out of care and maintenance and back into production.

John Ross ― CFO and Corporate Secretary

John Ross is a Chartered Accountant with over 30 years of experience in the financial management of publicly-listed exploration and mining companies. He holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Western Ontario.

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TomaGold

Exploring and Developing High-Quality Gold Interests in Northern Quebec and Ontario

Overview

Quebec and Ontario are more than Canada’s most populous provinces. These provinces are also hosts to some of the country’s most prolific mining jurisdictions, combining the perfect storm of stability, government support in mining and high-grade mineralization discovery potential. Jumping onto investment opportunities in these provinces can present investors with a head start on the next new commodity cycle. With a forecasted call for a 30 percent return increase on commodities like copper and gold in 2021, investment interest in Canada’s biggest provinces is very much warranted.

TomaGold (TSXV:LOT,OTCQB:TOGOF) is a well-funded mineral exploration company focused on acquiring and developing highly prospective gold mineral properties. The company combines an excellent asset profile with impressive strategic partnerships and trading volume.

The company currently has five gold projects under development near the Chibougamau mining camp in Northern Quebec: Obalski, Monster Lake East, Monster Lake West, Hazeur and Lac Doda. These assets leverage great infrastructure and resource networks within Northern Quebec’s safe mining-friendly jurisdictions.

TomaGold’s expertly chosen projects have fast-track potential, with many groundwork milestones already achieved. Ongoing GIS data collection and 3D modeling have helped determine overarching geochemical properties and recalibrate future drilling campaigns.

In January 2021, the company reported positive preliminary results from its 2,500-meter drilling program at its wholly owned flagship Obalski gold project. Discoveries of massive sulfides and pyrrhotite, pyrite and chalcopyrite passages point to potential high-grade silver, gold and copper discoveries.

Commencing drill campaigns for this property could present similar copper-gold mining success as seen in the project’s past-producing history and neighboring development projects. The Obalski is strategically positioned near the highly prospective Philibert deposit and the Nelligan gold project currently operated by IAMGOLD (TSX:IMG) and Vanstar Mining Resources (TSXV:VSR).

TomaGold has a joint venture with Evolution Mining (ASX:EVN) and New Gold (TSX:NGD) that gives the company 24.5 percent interest in the resource-rich Baird property near the Red Lake mining camp in Ontario. Exploration work on the property from the 1980s returned assay values of 172 g/t gold over 1.2 meters and 19 g/t gold over 1.8 meters. TomaGold believes that additional high-grade gold discoveries merit further drilling campaigns set for early February 2021.

TomaGold is very well positioned for growth and project advancement as a junior mining company. It currently has over C$8 million in liquidity and cash for intended project funding and operates with a tight and deeply connected shareholder structure. Major shareholders include IAMGOLD, closely tied family offices, family members and management.

TomaGold’s management team comprises world-class experts in capital markets, geology and mineral exploration. The company’s solid technical team primes it for significant mining success and economic prosperity.

TomaGold’s Company Highlights

TomaGold is a Canadian company focused on acquiring, exploring and developing highly prospective gold mineral properties. The company currently has interests in five gold properties close to the resource-rich Chibougamau mining camp in Northern Quebec.
The company’s valuable project profile includes Lac Doda, Monster Lake East, Monster Lake West and Hazeur, as well as its flagship Obalski project.
TomaGold also has a joint venture and 24.5 percent ownership in the Baird property with Evolution Mining and New Gold. The property is located in the prolific Red Lake gold belt 14 kilometers southwest of the Goldcorp Red Lake mine.
The company is well-funded, with over C$8 million in cash and short-term investments. Funds are intended for project advancement and development.
TomaGold has strong management and stakeholder foundations. The company has a tight-knit shareholder portfolio with significant shareholders, including family offices, family members and the mining heavyweight IAMGOLD.

TomaGold’s Key Projects

Obalski Project

TomaGold’s wholly owned Obalski property hosts seven separated mineralized zones, one mining concession and one 85 meter shaft adjacent to two ramps. The property had seen limited exploration since the late 1980s when it was a considerable copper-gold producer. Covering approximately 345 hectares south of Chibougamau, Quebec, the project leverages strong government support, access roadways and rich resource networks close to major populous areas.

In 1964, United Obalski Mining mined 90,093 tonnes grading 3.0 g/t gold, 6.2 g/t silver and 1.53 percent copper. Since then, extensive drilling campaigns have resulted in 230 new open targets on the property for a total of more than 60,000 meters, most of which involves shallow drilling. A 2017 drill campaign later presented grades of 15.0 g/t gold, 46.8 g/t silver and 10.4 percent copper over 2 meters.

The property hosts widespread gold-copper mineralization with sulfide-rich quartz-carbonate veins and pyritized shear zones. This favorable geological profile primes the project for advanced development, including the continuation of a 2,500 drilling program to better define Obalski’s main PO zone.

Lac Doda Project

The highly prospective Lac Doda project operates in the resource-rich Chibougamau mining camp in Northern Quebec. The property consists of eight mineral claims over an area of 4,478 hectares. Located approximately 20 kilometers southwest of the Monster Lake property, the Lac Doda property leverages many of the same existing infrastructure and geographical advantages.

TomaGold owns 100 percent interest in the project. In July 2020, the company announced an option agreement to sell up to 80 percent interest in the Lac Doda property to Goliath Resources (TSXV:GOT). This agreement presents an exciting stage in the project’s growth.

Monster Lake East and Monster Lake West Properties

TomaGold strategically positions both projects to leverage the valuable mineralization of the Monster Lake property. Monster West consists of 21 mineral claims covering an area of 1,172.51 hectares and Monster East consists of 69 mineral claims covering an area of 4,269 hectares. The company owns 100 percent interest in both properties.

Monster Lake East is separated into three main sectors: Cookie Monster, Little Monster and Monster Island. A July 2018 IP survey revealed a large copper geochemical anomaly with a striking distance of several kilometers. Surveying also identified gold assay results just below 1 g/t gold and 14 potential high-priority gold and copper targets at depths of 100 to 350 meters.

Future plans include detailed airborne and ground geophysical surveying data compilation. TomaGold intends on using this analysis for drill recommendations and target generation for both properties.

Hazeur Project

The Hazeur project consists of 61 mineral claims and covers 2,863 hectares along the southern border of the Monster Lake property. TomaGold currently has 70 percent interest in the property and is strategically positioned as the project operator. The project covers the Joe Mann-Guercheville corridor with numerous gold occurrences along the property’s deformation zone.

Regional mineral grades include 0.24 g/t gold over 80.4 meters and 0.30 g/t gold over 70.0 meters. The company hopes to mimic some of its best drilling results of 24.55 g/t gold over 0.50 meters and 7.66 g/t gold over 1.25 meters in future development campaigns.

Since 2015, Hazeur has seen successful high-definition magnetic VTEM-type airborne surveying over the property and advanced drilling. This exploration reported significant gold intersections across seven drill holes. TomaGold intends to continue exciting exploration and property assessment of this valuable project into 2021.

Baird Property

TomaGold is currently in a joint venture with Evolution Mining and New Gold for the Baird property. The company holds a 24.5 percent interest in Baird, with Evolution owning a majority 51 percent as the project operator.

The Baird property lies in the prolific Red Lake gold belt 6 kilometers north of the Madsen Mine and 14 kilometers southwest of the Red Lake mine. The asset’s geological profile includes volcanic rock coverage and the famous structural and alteration system characteristics of Red Lake and Campbell mines. This profile could explain the impressive assay values of 172 g/t gold over 1.2 meters and 19 g/t gold over 1.8 meters reported from early drilling programs.

TomaGold plans to continue property assessment and development work for early 2021.

TomaGold’s Management Team

David Grondin — President & CEO

David Grondin has worked in the financial and mining sectors for over 20 years. He has been the president and CEO of TomaGold since December 2011 and is a director of AM Resources. He was also president and CEO of NQ Exploration Inc. and has acted as a financial analyst for CTI Capital Inc. Grondin has a bachelor degree in business administration (finance) from HEC Montréal and experience in initial public offerings, mergers and acquisitions and reverse takeovers.

Martin Nicoletti, CPA, CGA — CFO

Martin Nicoletti is a certified general accountant with more than 22 years of experience. He has been involved in global exploration activities with public junior mining companies since 2004. His duties include financial controls and financial reporting. He presently acts as CFO for several public companies.

André Jean, P.Eng — Director of Exploration, Quebec

André Jean was the chief engineer geologist for the Monster Lake project from its commencement until his departure in 2018. He has over 35 years of geology experience, having worked for multiple mining companies located in Quebec, Central and South America and Africa, including Les Mines Seleine, Louvem, Lac Minerals and Osisko. Jean graduated from Université du Québec à Chicoutimi in 1979 with a degree in geological engineering.

Caitlin Jeffs, P.Geo — Director of Exploration, Ontario & Rest of Canada

Caitlin Jeffs received her Honors B.Sc. in Geology from the University of British Columbia in 2002. Caitlin has worked for several junior and major companies since 2002 in both gold and base metal exploration. Most of her experience has been with Placer Dome CLA Inc. and Goldcorp Inc. managing all aspects of in-depth exploration projects and specializing in GIS technology and 3D modeling of ore bodies. She is a founding partner and 33 percent owner of Fladgate Exploration Consulting Corporation of Thunder Bay, ON, a full-service mineral exploration consulting firm.

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Xplore Resources

High Potential, Early-Stage Metals Exploration in BC

Overview

It’s no secret that finding high-potential, early-stage mining companies is a real challenge. And unlike tech’s unicorns and high valuations, few industries require the perfect mix of experience, funding and strategy quite like the mining sector. Success in the mining industry is all about accurate sampling and data, execution, timing and favorable market conditions.

Xplore Resources (TSXV:XPLR) is an early-stage company that is focused on giving stakeholders the chance to invest on the ground floor in the copper sector and other precious metals sectors as they continue to expand their portfolio. The company’s management team leverages decades of executive and senior management experience across all aspects of mining and production — including exploration, discovery, mine construction and operation — to find and build high-value projects.

The company’s fully owned Valk project is located in the prolific Nanaimo Mining Division of British Columbia. The project consists of 1,614 hectares situated roughly 20 kilometers northwest of Port Hardy and 25 km northwest of the historic Island copper mine, the second largest of its kind in Canada, as well as the prolific North Island copper and gold project.

The nearby Island mine produced 345 tonnes of the increasingly precious metal at average grades of 0.41 percent copper, 0.017 percent molybdenum, 0.19 percent gold and 1.4 grams per tonne (g/t) silver. The mine remained in operation for a period of over 26 years. The North Island copper-gold project, located 25 km southwest of the Valk project, encompassed the Hushamu and Red Dog deposits, which carried a National Instrument 43-101 resource estimate of 305 tonnes at 0.24 percent copper, 0.28 g/t gold and 0.008 percent molybdenum in the Indicated category, and 189 tonnes at 0.19 percent copper, 0.24 g/t gold and 0.007 percent molybdenum in the Inferred category.

The Valk property is dominated by rocks belonging to the Triassic-aged Karmutsen Formation, which overlies the Sicker Group, a lower metavolcanic rock unit that hosts a number of base metal-rich mineral deposits, including zinc, copper, gold and silver. The Sicker Group underlies Myra Falls, the site at which 1 million tonnes of ore are mined per year, including 102,000 tonnes of zinc concentrate, roughly 60,000 tonnes of copper concentrate and 14,000 to 38,000 ounces of gold.

Historical geochemical and rock sampling at the Valk property indicate the presence of geologic markers closely associated with known copper-gold porphyry discoveries in the surrounding area. Mineralization defines a northeast trend encompassing an estimated 4 km in strike length. The project benefits from significant infrastructure and easy access through an extensive network of provincial highways, local roads and logging roads. Xplore Resources is managed by a team of industry veterans with decades of expertise across all aspects of mineral exploration, resource and reserve estimation, project evaluation, development, construction and operations. The Canada-based company balances risk by maintaining a regional focus on the Americas and targeting underexplored regions within established mining jurisdictions that present strong mineralization opportunities.

Xplore Resources’ Company Highlights

Xplore Resources is an early-stage mining exploration company led by a team of industry veterans with decades of experience across all aspects of mining and production.
The company’s fully owned Valk project consists of 1,614 ha in British Columbia’s Nanaimo Mining Division.
The project is located 25 km north of the historic Island copper mine, the second largest copper mine in Canada, and 25 km southwest of the prolific North Island copper-gold project.
The property is dominated by Triassic-aged rocks that overlie the Sicker Group, a lower metavolcanic rock unit that hosts a number of base-metal-rich deposits, including Myra Falls.

Xplore Resources’ Key Project: Valk Project

The Valk project consists of 1,614 ha on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. The project can be found within the province’s Nanaimo Mining Division and is easily accessible through an extensive network of provincial highways, local roads and logging roads.

Geology

The Valk property has demonstrated copper potential and is dominated by volcanic flows, pyroclastics and minor sediments of the Karmutsen Formation, a Triassic-aged volcanic sequence that underlies the Sicker Group, which hosts several zinc-copper-gold-silver deposits.

Notable among these deposits is Myra Falls, located 150 km southeast of the Valk property and home to two past-producing mines. Myra Falls Operations employs 400 people and produces 1 million tonnes of ore per year, including 102,000 tonnes of zinc concentrate, 60,000 tonnes of copper concentrate, up to 38,000 ounces of gold and 0.4 to 1.3 million ounces of silver. Nearby operations also include the historic Island copper mine and the North Island copper-gold mine, both of which have demonstrated enormous success while offering similar geologic markers as can be found throughout the Valk property.

Xplore Resources’ Management Team

Wesley C. Hanson—President and CEO

Wes Hanson provides over 35 years of industry experience covering all aspects of mineral exploration, resource and reserve estimation, project evaluation, development, construction, operation and corporate management.

He worked on a number of large capital projects as a consulting geologist with Kilborn – SNC Lavalin before transitioning into senior management roles with Kinross Gold, Western Goldfields and Silver Bear Resources. Wes served as President and CEO of Noront Resources from 2009 through 2012. Since then he has provided contract geological services for various junior companies listed on the TSX Venture Exchange.

Wes graduated from Mount Allison University with a BSc Geology (1982) and is a practicing member of the Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario.

Charles Edgeworth—CFO

Charles Edgeworth is currently the Managing Director of Union Merchant Capital. He has over 20 years of experience in debt, equity and project finance as well as cash management and risk mitigation. He has advised and structured numerous financings for junior and senior mining companies globally. He has an extensive network of corporates, banks, law firms, accounting firms, multilateral finance agencies & foreign governments throughout North & South America, UK, Europe and Africa.

Previously, Charles was responsible for corporate banking in Europe and Africa for Export Development Canada and prior to this, he was with HSBC Bank and Canaccord Genuity. In addition, Charles has served as a senior officer in the Royal Canadian Navy.

Charles holds a B.A. in Political Science & Economics from the University of Victoria, BCom in Entrepreneurial Management from Royal Roads University and MBA in Finance from HEC Montreal.

Jamie Hyland—Director

Jamie Hyland brings more than 25 years of experience in the public markets as a financial and marketing consultant, a corporate founder and manager of numerous early stage public and private businesses. His industry expertise includes mining, publishing, financial services, oil & gas, hospitality, technology, alternative energy and healthcare appliances. He is currently a Director of Tasca Resources Corp., Resolve Ventures Inc. and BLOK Technologies Inc. Hyland has an extensive network of contacts within the financial community including brokers, fund managers, industry analysts and media throughout North America, the United Kingdom and continental Europe. He earned a Bachelor of Commerce in Entrepreneurial Management from Royal Roads University.

Dave Patterson—Director

For more than 30 years Dave Patterson has been involved in the administration and finance of exploration companies based in North America. He has also been a director and/or officer of several public companies listed on the TSX Venture. Patterson holds a Master of Business Administration from Simon Fraser University (1991) and a Bachelor of Arts from Simon Fraser University (1977).

Tim McGuire—Director

Tim McGuire is a 20 year banking executive focusing on corporate debt, credit structuring, loan syndications, M&A, project finance, credit and political risk insurance. The past 12 years have been spent on leading global business development and management of a $20 billion portfolio for companies in the mining, energy and banking sectors. McGuire earned a Bachelor of Commerce (with Distinction) in International Business from the University of Victoria, Canada.

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Empress Royalty

Precious Metals Streaming and Royalty Investments

Overview

“The royalty business is a unique and amazing business because you get leverage … a gold royalty company is a leverage tool a million miles long,” said EB Tucker, Author of “Why Gold? Why Now?”

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Metals Creek Resources

Exploring and Developing Past-Producing Gold Properties in Canada

Overview

It’s been 125 years since George Carmack found himself in Yukon, Canada, after a failed attempt to capitalize on the reported gold strikes in Alaska. What started as a lucky discovery of a few gold nuggets in a creek bed ended up becoming one of the last great gold rushes in North America.

Gold mining in Canada occupies a rich and vital place in the country’s history. Mineralization of the precious metal exists throughout its landscape, including Ontario, Newfoundland and Labrador and Yukon Territory. Over the 70 years following Carmack’s discovery, Yukon would yield over C$250 million in gold. Even with that much already found, these historical discoveries are only scratching the surface.

Metals Creek Resources (TSXV:MEK) is a Canada-based mineral acquisition and development company focused on exploring future mining opportunities throughout Canada. The company is currently operating world-class properties in Ontario, Yukon Territory and Newfoundland and Labrador. The mining and investor-friendly jurisdictions and rich resource histories of these properties primes Metal Creek Resources for significant high-grade discovery and yield.

The company has two key projects in operation: its Dona Lake gold project and Ogden gold project in Ontario. Metal Creek’s flagship projects are well-positioned for advanced exploration in collaboration with strategic partners and joint venture agreements.

Metal Creek’s Ontario properties’ biggest attractions are their high grade drill results, location and history of past-producing high-grade gold exploration.

The company has the option to earn 100 percent interest in the Dona Lake gold project. Metals Creek CEO Alexander Stares mentioned projected drill program expansion for Dona Lake when discussing future exploration plans. “We’ll have lots of news coming up. Once we finish drilling, we’ll get everything back compiled into computers. We will go back in late summer and do another drill program.” The company’s current funds and exploration plans have primed it for fast-tracked advancement in the near future.

The Ogden property is hosted in the prolific Timmins gold camp and Pickle Lake area. Metals Creek currently has a 50/50 joint venture with Newmont Corp (TSX:NGT) in the Timmins Camp and strategic positioning as the project operator. A 2013 drilling campaign on the property uncovered 210.19 g/t gold over 12.5 meters.

Metal Creek’s management team combines years of experience in the mineral exploration, geology and financial sectors. The company’s diverse shareholder portfolio and strategic partnerships also position the company for exceptional acquisition opportunities, economic growth and expansive gold mining success.

Metals Creek’s Company Highlights

Metals Creek Resources is a junior exploration company focused on developing past-producing and world-class gold properties in Canada.
The company’s flagship projects include the Dona Lake and Thomas Ogden gold projects in Ontario. The company is also operating prospective properties in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Drill campaigns have found high grades of gold and silver
Metals Creek has created an option agreement with Newmont Corp for potential 100 percent ownership of the Dona Lake project. Additionally, the company has formed a 50/50 Joint Venture Agreement with Newmont for the Ogden gold project in the Timmins Camp.
Past-producing gold and mineralization histories prime the company for expansive development plans and potentially high-grade high yield as seen by neighboring projects.
Metals Creek intends on advancing drill campaigns to explore project targets and dive deeper into investor and growth opportunities its properties have to offer.

Metals Creek’s Key Projects

Dona Lake Gold Project

The Dona Lake Gold project is one of Metal Creek’s flagship gold properties, and it is located in the Pickle Lake area of Northern Ontario. The property hosts high-grade gold within its widespread banded iron formation structures and leverages favorable mining conditions.

This project is Metal Creek’s second option agreement with Newmont Corp. The company has the option to earn 100 percent ownership of the projects with the issuing of seven million shares and spending of C$4 million over three years.

The company has already completed a successful drill program for the project. This program’s results have confirmed gold mineralization outside of current mined areas and potentially deeper gold mineralization. Present grades have hovered as high as 8.37g/t gold in all three targets.

Past-producing history on the property indicates the production of 246,500 ounces of gold priced at US$375 an ounce before mine closures in 1994. Metals Creek expects to continue drilling campaigns into depths below current mine workings.

Ogden Gold Project

The Ogden gold property covers 8 kilometers of strike length on the Porcupine-Destor Break in Ogden Township, Ontario. Metals Creek Resources and Newmont have formed a 50/50 Joint Venture Agreement on the property, with Metal Creeks as the operator. The property has the potential to mimic successful gold production levels reaching 17 million ounces of gold as seen by its eastern neighbors.

Ogden hosts six mineralized gold zones and a historic non 43-101 compliant resource of one million tonnes at 4.12 g/t gold. A 2013 drilling campaign uncovered 210.19 g/t gold over 12.5 meters. In 2017, the company reported 4.39 g/t gold grades over 12.45 meters after drilling the target TOG-17-53 on the property.

Exciting discoveries of visible gold in the core have prompted additional investment interests and points to fold structure orientations that could correlate to high-grade gold mineralization. Metals Creek intends to expand drilling to explore this project’s potential further.

Metals Creek’s Management Team

Alexander Stares — President, CEO & Director

Alexander “Sandy” Stares comes from a family with a long line of prospectors. He has in excess of 25 years experience in mineral exploration, spanning a variety of Canadian geological terranes, from Newfoundland to Yukon. He has also completed several tours prospecting in Indonesia and Mexico. He was instrumental in the discovery of the H-Pond Gold Prospect and the Lost Pond Uranium Prospect. He also discovered numerous major mineral occurrences in Canada and abroad which have been the subject of extensive exploration programs. Sandy assumed the role of President and CEO of Metals Creek Resources Corp.in December of 2007. He is also a Director of Leocor Gold Inc White Metal Resources Corp and a Director of the Qalipu Development Corporation. In February 2013, Sandy was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for his dedication to his Peers, Community, Canada and the Prospecting Community. He was also one of the recipients of the PDAC “Bill Dennis Prospector of the Year” Award in March 2007, which was awarded to members of the Stares/Keats family. Prior to his exploration career, Mr. Stares served in the Canadian Air Force for 15 years and was awarded the Deputy Commander in Chief of NORAD “Certificate of Achievement” Award for exceptional performance.

Michael MacIsaac P.Geo — VP Exploration

Michael MacIsaac brings to Metals Creek Resources over 33 years of exploration and management experience. He received his B.Sc from Lakehead University and has a Professional Geoscientist (P.Geo) designation from the Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario. MacIsaac’s vast experience entails both grassroots and advanced projects across Canada in gold, base metal and PGE environments. His expertise includes base metal exploration with Noranda Exploration in the Geco and Mattabi Mining Camps, gold exploration in the prolific Hemlo and Red lake Gold Camps and PGE exploration for North American Palladium in Northern Finland and Northwestern Ontario.

MacIsaac’s vast background in different metallogenic terranes and exploration techniques will help this young company poised for growth attain its strategic objectives through quality acquisitions and sound exploration.

Wayne Reid P.Geo — VP Corporate Development & Director

Wayne Reid has over 35 years of experience in exploration and mining geology, spanning various Canadian geological terranes, from Newfoundland to Northern BC and Alaska. Reid was instrumental in discovering the Brewery Creek Gold Deposit in the Yukon Territory and the Boundary Massive Sulphide Deposit / Duck Pond Mine in Central Newfoundland. His experience includes gold, base metal and uranium exploration in most geological environments in North America. Reid has over 20 years with the Noranda / Hemlo group in district and regional manager capacity in several areas across Canada. He has over 10 years of experience in the Timmins camp with as a Canadian manager with Echo Bay Mines, and as an exploration manager with St. Andrew Goldfields. Most recently, he was vice president of Exploration for Ucore Uranium.

Nikolaos S. Tsimidis — CFO & Director

Nikolaos S. Tsimidis is an entrepreneur and a specialist in the financial aspects of real estate investments. He graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Toronto in 1987. Upon graduation, he spent six years at KPMG in the audit department, providing various client services. In September 1993, Tsimidis left KPMG to set up his own chartered accounting firm, focusing on tax and financial planning. He is the CFO and the principal broker for Union Capital Management Inc and Haven Property Development Inc. Tsimidis has also been intimately involved with mortgage origination and real estate development projects. He is the CFO and a director of Bold Stroke Ventures.

Michael Stares — Director

Michael Stares has been a successful entrepreneur with 50 percent ownership in Stares Contracting Corp., and he is president and CEO of White Metal Resources. Stares’ background comes from over 30 years of prospecting, eight years for Noranda Exploration, having a fantastic track record for new discoveries. Alongside the Stares-Keats family of prospectors, Stares was the honored recipient of the Bill Dennis Prospector of the Year Award at the 2007 PDAC Conference. He currently serves as a Benton Resources Corp director.

Pat Mohan — Director

Pat Mohan is president and CEO of the Mohan Group. Mohan has worked in the marketing, advertising and promotions field for over 20 years. In 1986, he founded The Mohan Group. He has been the driving force behind its growth from a fledgling firm to one of Canada’s fastest-growing and best-respected advertising and marketing companies. Mohan is also a director with Trelawney Mining and Exploration Inc.

Malvin Spooner — Director

Malvin Spooner was the founder, president, CEO and director of Mavrix Fund Management Inc., an award-winning investment management company with mutual and other funds distributed across Canada until acquired in 2009. He has been a portfolio manager for over 25 years in the Canadian financial services industry. He introduced and was responsible for a successful series of tax-advantaged limited partnerships in more recent years, which invested over half a billion dollars in junior mining exploration companies. Spooner has appeared frequently on television and in print media as an investment expert over his entire career and is a widely respected professional.

Lorne Woods — Director

Lorne Woods graduated from Concordia University in 1986 with a BA, majoring in Political Science. He served as a chair, board member, and director for Concordia University Alumni Association. He co-founded Judson Woods back in 1987 with a partner to work with a large group of small mining companies. The company’s principal business started with creating and producing advertising to assist in marketing clients to the investment community. It also specialized in investor relations, promoting its clients’ assets and projects to the financial media and investing public.

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Overview

Otso Gold’s Company Highlights

Otso Gold’s Flagship Project

Bringing Finland’s Otso Gold Mine Back into Production

Mine and processing plant

Otso Gold’s Management Team

Vladimir Lelekov – Chairman of the Board

Brian Wesson – President, Chief Executive Officer & Director

Clyde Wesson – Vice-President and Director

Yvette Harrison – Chief Financial Officer

Nicolas Pascault – Director

Victor Koshkin – Director

Martin Smith – Independent Director

Overview

Puma Exploration’s Company Highlights

Puma Exploration’s Key Projects

Triple Fault Gold

Chester Project

Legacy Project

Turgeon Project

Brunswick CARDS

Murray Brook West

Puma Exploration’s Management Team

Marcel Robillard – CEO, President and Chairman of the Board

Richard Thibault – Director

Ginette Gosselin Brisson – Chief Financial Officer

Overview

Snowline Gold’s Company Highlights:

Snowline Gold’s Key Projects

Einarson Gold Project

Rogue Gold Project

Tosh Gold Project

Cliff Gold Project

Rainbow Gold Project

Snowline Gold’s Management Team

Scott Berdahl, MSc, MBA, P.Geo. – CEO, Director & Co-Founder

Matthew Roma – CFO and Corporate Secretary

Paul Matysek, MSc. – Technical Advisor

Quinton Hennigh, Ph.D. – Technical Advisor

Craig Hart, PhD, – Independent Director, Incoming Chair

Overview

Company Highlights

Key Projects

Majuba Hill

Management Team

David Greenway – CEO & Director

Natasha Sever – CFO

Joel Warawa – VP Corporate Communications

Kelly Pladson – Corporate Secretary

Yari Nieken – Director

Bryson Goodwin – Director

Brad Dixon – Director

John Ryan – Advisory Board

John Percival – Advisory Board

Dr. Mike Ressel – Advisory Board

Buster Hunsaker – Technical Advisor

Overview

Graycliff’s Company Highlights

Graycliff Exploration’s Key Projects

Shakespeare Project

Baldwin Project

Graycliff Exploration’s Management Team

James Macintosh – President & Director

Julio DiGirolamo – CFO & Director

David Lees – Director & Non-Executive Chairman

Nicholas Konkin – Director

Bruce Durham – Technical Advisor

Don McKinnon Jr – Technical Advisor

Overview

Silver Hammer Mining’s Company Highlights

Silver Hammer Mining’s Key Projects

Silver Strand Project

The Eliza Silver Project

The Silverton Silver Mine

Lacy Gold-Silver Project

Silver Hammer Mining’s Management Team

Morgan Lekstrom – President

Alnesh Mohan – CFO & Director

Mulholland – Chief Geologist

Lawrence Roulston – VP of Exploration