
August 06, 2024
Neptune GBX, a trusted partner for wealth management solutions, is a full-service precious metals dealer, and exchange operator in Wilmington, Delaware. Founded in 2002, the company has been building its reputation in the precious metals industry consistently expanding its services and expertise to meet the evolving needs of its diverse clientele. Neptune GBX focuses on first-class cost-efficient solutions, establishing itself as a knowledgeable and reliable partner in this specialized market.
Neptune GBX's combination of expertise, innovative products, and client-centric approach positions it as a distinctive and valuable partner in the precious metals investment sector.
Neptune GBX's value proposition centers on empowering clients through education and insightful market analysis. The company places a strong emphasis on client education. By providing clients with essential knowledge and tools, Neptune GBX enables them to navigate the precious metals investment landscape with confidence.
Company Highlights
- Neptune Vault offers significantly lower premiums—up to 25 percent less than competitors. This reduction in premium costs translates to potential gains of more than twice over the long run. Minimizing spreads is crucial, and Neptune Vault excels in providing cost-effective options for investors.
- Neptune-GBX has teamed up with Franklin Templeton’s Fiduciary Trust International to provide precious metals investors with institutional-quality custodian, cash management and reporting services. This means products and services are tailored for various client types, from individual investors to wealth management professionals.
- Neptune Vault accounts offer storage fees as low as 0.30 percent per annum, ensuring substantial savings over time. For comparison, the PSLV Silver Fund has a management expense ratio of 0.60 percent. With Neptune Vault at 0.40 percent, investors gain an extra 1 percent every 5 years, totaling a 5 percent gain over 25 years.
- Neptune Vault accounts provide instant liquidity with better spreads than coins and small bars. With live pricing available five days a week, there is no need for shipping or assaying. A simple phone call or email can liquidate your investment promptly, ensuring access to funds in times of urgent need.
- Every ounce in a Neptune Vault account is directly allocated to the client's name, ensuring no over-allocation. The vault provides an asset custody letter to affirm true ownership, giving you peace of mind that you own the metal outright.
- Neptune Vault makes redemptions straightforward and quick. With just a phone call or email, your bullion can be transferred, shipped, or converted within days. The segregated and allocated nature of the product ensures that it is always ready for you, providing essential quick access to your physical investment.
- The PMC Ounce® offers diversified exposure to multiple precious metals.
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Fortune Bay: Maximizing Shareholder Value in Gold and Uranium
Fortune Bay (TSV:FOR) is a gold developer-explorer focused on unlocking value at the steepest part of the Lassonde Curve. The company combines a de-risked Canadian gold project with transformational discovery potential in Mexico, while also exploring partner-funded uranium assets.
Backed by strong community partnerships and a disciplined approach, Fortune Bay’s share structure positions it for multiple near-term catalysts as capital returns to quality juniors.
The Goldfields project in Saskatchewan, Canada, is situated in a top-tier mining jurisdiction with road access, proximity to hydropower, historical infrastructure, and advanced permitting groundwork. The 2022 PEA outlined average production of 101 koz/yr over 8.3 years, with C$234 million initial capex and life-of-mine AISC of US$889/oz (base case US$1,650/oz), showing strong sensitivity to higher gold prices. In 2025, the company engaged Ausenco for an updated PEA and commenced permitting to support future production — both initiatives are now underway.
Company Highlights
- Cycle-smart model: Advancing projects through discovery, resource expansion and early-stage development, then monetizing before the capital-intensive build phase.
- Flagship development-ready gold asset in Saskatchewan, Canada: Goldfields project with open-pit 0.98 million ounce (Moz) indicated @ 1.31 grams per ton (g/t) gold and 0.21 Moz inferred @ 0.92 g/t gold; 2022 PEA shows robust economics; a 2025 PEA update is underway alongside permitting and existing infrastructure reducing risk and timelines.
- Poma Rosa Project (Mexico): Historical gold resource at Campamento (1.04 Moz measured and indicated; 0.70 Moz inferred) sitting atop an untested porphyry system – offering both near-term ounces and discovery blue-sky; community re-engagement progressing to enable exploration restart. Historical estimate, not treated as current under NI 43-101.
- Uranium optionality, non-dilutive: Advancing Murmac & Strike (optioned to Aero Energy) and The Woods (optioned to Neu Horizon) under partner capital while Fortune Bay remains operator, leveraging uranium expertise, offsetting overhead and preserving discovery upside and exposure to uranium market tailwinds.
- Strong leadership: Led by discovery-driven geologists and capital-markets veterans with a track record of building and monetizing companies.
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James Henry Anderson: US$3,600 Gold, US$40+ Silver — What's Happening, What's Next?
James Henry Anderson, senior market analyst at SD Bullion, discusses the factors behind gold and silver's recent price moves, saying a restructuring of the system is taking place.
"We're not that far in terms of the psychology that it requires to really break and get really massive flows, and people really afraid of what that currency's value is going to be," he said.
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Securities Disclosure: I, Charlotte McLeod, hold no direct investment interest in any company mentioned in this article.
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Heritage Mining Eyes Assay Results Following 4,500 Meters of Drilling at Key Ontario Projects
Heritage Mining (CSE:HML) is expecting to receive assay results from 4,500 meters of drilling work at both its Drayton Black Lake and Contact Bay projects this fall.
President and CEO Peter Schloo provided an update on progress at the company's gold-silver-copper assets in Northern Ontario in an interview with the Investing News Network.
“The rubber is really starting to hit the road. We've drilled off, this year, about 4,500 meters. We've had gold in each of the holes from New Millennium that we drilled earlier this year, and we've had some great success, technically, in all of our projects, thus far,” he said.
Drilling at the Zone 3 extension target at Drayton Black Lake has intersected a broad vein system up to ~74 meters in core length, with potential strike length of more than 4 kilometers, returning anomalous gold values so far. Drilling at Contact Bay’s Rognon mine area, meanwhile, has intersected the mineralized structure beneath the historic mine, an area never previously drilled, where visible gold has been observed in core.
“With all of our assay results coming in the month of September, I think it's the perfect time to really start paying attention to Heritage Mining. We've come a long way. We've done a significant amount of work, and we've got nothing but value to add here,” Schloo said.
Watch the full interview with Peter Schloo, president and CEO of Heritage Mining, above.
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08 September
Fortune Bay
Investor Insight
A cycle-aware gold developer-explorer focused on value creation at the steepest part of the Lassonde Curve – pairing a de-risked Canadian gold project with transformational discovery potential in Mexico, and overlaying partner-funded uranium exposure .
Advancing community partnerships in both jurisdictions underpin the strategy, ensuring responsible advancement and alignment with stakeholders.
With a tight share structure and disciplined approach, Fortune Bay is positioned for multiple near-term catalysts as capital flows back into quality juniors.
Overview
Fortune Bay (TSXV:FOR,FWB:5QN,OTCQB:FTBYF) is a technically driven gold exploration and development company whose strategy is to create value at the steepest part of the Lassonde Curve. The company advances assets through discovery, resource expansion and early-stage development, then seeks monetization routes (sales, JV buyouts, M&A, royalties or equity) before the project enters capital-intensive build phases. This cycle-aware approach aims to maximize per-share value while minimizing dilution.
The current portfolio spans two 100-percent-owned gold projects – Goldfields in Saskatchewan, Canada, and Poma Rosa (formerly Ixhuatán) in Chiapas, Mexico. These projects are complemented by three uranium assets in Saskatchewan – Murmac, Strike and The Woods – that are being advanced under partner funding.
Overall, Fortune Bay’s business strategy blends a de-risked development asset (Goldfields) with transformational discovery potential (Poma Rosa), and non-dilutive uranium exposure, positioning the company for multiple catalysts and potential re-rating as market capital flows into quality juniors.
Company Highlights
- Cycle-smart model: Advancing projects through discovery, resource expansion and early-stage development, then monetizing before the capital-intensive build phase.
- Flagship development-ready gold asset in Saskatchewan, Canada: Goldfields project with open-pit 0.98 million ounce (Moz) indicated @ 1.31 grams per ton (g/t) gold and 0.21 Moz inferred @ 0.92 g/t gold; 2022 PEA shows robust economics; a 2025 PEA update is underway alongside permitting and existing infrastructure reducing risk and timelines.
- Poma Rosa Project (Mexico): Historical gold resource at Campamento (1.04 Moz measured and indicated; 0.70 Moz inferred) sitting atop an untested porphyry system – offering both near-term ounces and discovery blue-sky; community re-engagement progressing to enable exploration restart. Historical estimate, not treated as current under NI 43-101.
- Uranium optionality, non-dilutive: Advancing Murmac & Strike (optioned to Aero Energy) and The Woods (optioned to Neu Horizon) under partner capital while Fortune Bay remains operator, leveraging uranium expertise, offsetting overhead and preserving discovery upside and exposure to uranium market tailwinds.
- Strong leadership: Led by discovery-driven geologists and capital-markets veterans with a track record of building and monetizing companies.
Key Projects
Goldfields Project
Located in Saskatchewan, Canada, Goldfields sits in one of the world’s top mining jurisdictions with road access, nearby hydropower, historical mining infrastructure and well-advanced permitting groundwork. The project’s 2022 preliminary economic assessment (PEA) outlined 101 koz/yr average production over 8.3 years with C$234 million initial capex and life-of-mine all-in sustaining cost of US$889/oz (base case US$1,650/oz), with strong sensitivity to higher gold prices. In 2025, the company engaged Ausenco to deliver an updated PEA and commenced permitting activities to support future production – both initiatives are currently underway.
Open-pit constrained resources at the Box and Athona deposits total 0.98 Moz indicated and 0.21 Moz inferred, reconciling closely with historical production. Beyond the current mine plan, Fortune Bay sees resource growth potential at depth, at Athona and across several shallow discovery targets (Frontier Mine Granite, Golden Pond, Triangle and Goldfields Syncline).
Poma Rosa Gold-Copper Project
In Chiapas, Mexico, Poma Rosa hosts the Campamento epithermal gold-silver system with a historical resource of 1.04 Moz gold, measured and indicated, and 0.70 Moz gold inferred, and sits above a large, under-evaluated copper-gold porphyry system evidenced by broad mineralized intercepts, including 601.4 m @ 0.3 percent copper, 0.7 g/t gold and 2.7 g/t silver at Cerro La Mina, and multiple target areas across the tenement.
Fortune Bay is re-establishing community relationships to enable exploration agreements and a restart of field programs, with a pathway that includes updating the historical resource to current NI 43-101 standards and testing porphyry/skarn targets. The Campamento estimate is historical and not treated as current.
Uranium Portfolio
The Murmac and Strike projects are optioned to Aero Energy, while The Woods is optioned to Neu Horizon. Together, they cover more than 60,000 hectares on and near the Athabasca Basin’s northern rim, targeting shallow, basement-hosted high-grade deposits. Drilling at Murmac/Strike has confirmed Athabasca-style mineralization with multiple shallow uranium intercepts. Meanwhile, The Woods offers district-scale potential along the Grease River Shear Zone with extreme surface/lake-sediment uranium anomalism. Fortune Bay remains the operator for these assets, while partners fund exploration, generating non-dilutive income and preserving discovery leverage.
Management Team
Wade Dawe – Executive Chairman
Wade Dawe is an accomplished entrepreneur, financier and investor . He has founded or co-founded a number of successful companies, including Keeper Resources, which was sold for $51.6 million in 2008, and Brigus Gold, which was acquired by Primero Mining in 2014 in an all-share deal valued at $351 million. Dawe is currently a director of TSX-listed Pivot Technology Solutions and of TSXV-listed kneat.com. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Memorial University (MUN), where he serves on the Advisory Board to the Faculty of Business Administration.
Dale Verran – Chief Executive Officer
Dale Verran is an exploration geologist and mining executive with over 25 years of international experience. He has a track-record of successful project generation, discovery and project advancement, in both Africa and Canada. Prior to joining Fortune Bay, Verran served as vice-president, exploration for Denison Mines, where he was involved in the discovery of over 70 million pounds of U3O8. He is a former executive technical director for a large independent exploration group operating in Africa, Remote Exploration Services, and former exploration manager for Manica Minerals, a private prospect generator company with an extensive multi-commodity portfolio of projects in Africa.
Sarah Oliver – Chief Financial Officer
Sarah Oliver has more than 10 years of experience working in the accounting and finance industries – most recently as the chief financial officer of the predecessor company to Fortune Bay. She worked with PwC Canada in their consulting and deals group and then in their assurance practice, as a senior manager where she assisted her clients through various acquisitions and mergers, public and private financings and advising on accounting policy and control implementation. Oliver has been a chartered professional accountant, chartered accountant since 2007.
Gareth Garlick – VP Technical Services
Gareth Garlick has approximately 25 years of international experience in the mining and mineral exploration industry. He is experienced in all aspects of the mining cycle, ranging from grassroots exploration to resource estimation and resource reconciliation on producing mines, and has been overseeing all of Fortune Bay’s operational and development-related work. Garlick is a registered P.Geo (EGBC) and holds a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Geology from the University of Cape Town.
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08 September
Elemental Altus and EMX Royalty to Merge in US$100 Million Tether-backed Deal
Elemental Altus Royalties (TSXV:ELE,OTCQX:ELEMF) and EMX Royalty (TSXV:EMX,NYSEAMERICAN:EMX) are joining forces in a deal they believe will reshape the mid-tier royalty and streaming sector.
The arrangement is bolstered by a US$100 million investment from stablecoin giant Tether Investments.
Announced on September 4, the merger will create Elemental Royalty, a gold-focused royalty company with 16 producing assets and projected revenues of around US$80 million next year.
Under the arrangement, Elemental Altus will acquire all the outstanding shares of EMX through a court-approved plan of arrangement. The merged entity will be headquartered in Canada and will position itself as a peer-leading royalty platform, with roughly two-thirds of its revenues tied to gold and the remainder to base metals.
Tether boosts bet on gold
While consolidation in the royalty space is not new, the transaction between Elemental Altus and EMX stands out because of the presence of Tether, the world’s largest stablecoin issuer.
Tether acquired a major stake in Elemental Altus this past June, making it one of the company’s largest shareholders with an interest of about 31.9 percent. Now, in support of the EMX deal, Tether has agreed to purchase around 75 million Elemental Altus shares at C$1.84 each, injecting US$100 million into the company.
For many market observers, the move illustrates how nontraditional investors are beginning to view gold royalties as a diversification tool. Tether, which manages more than US$160 billion in reserves, has already accumulated billions in physical gold and recently expanded into hard-asset storage facilities in Europe.
“This is a company or a group that really should have no business investing in hard assets or natural resources. But I think in hindsight, Tether’s move may prove to be quite significant," Matt Geiger, managing partner at MJG Capital Fund, said about Tether's initial investment in Elemental Altus in an interview with the Investing News Network (INN).
Stefan Gleason, CEO of Money Metals, also spoke to INN after Tether first invested in Elemental Altus, highlighting the convergence of digital finance capital with traditional commodities.
“Tether Investments is the largest stablecoin … and they have been now diversifying their investments into other things, including physical gold, which I think Tether Investments now has like US$9 billion in,” Gleason explained.
He added that the move into royalties makes sense as a lower-risk way to access the gold market.
“Mining royalty companies are historically great performers for a lot of reasons. They remove a lot of the negatives about investing in mining. You don't have as much of the government risk. You don't have the operational risk, the regulatory risk. You can diversify across many assets. You don't have ongoing capital costs, and you just take a percentage of the revenues when they come out of the ground," Gleason continued.
“To have Tether come in with their massive treasury and make a big investment there, starting with Elemental Altus, and then trying to use a company like that as maybe a catalyst to roll up other royalty companies in the space and make new investments — I think that's a very bullish factor for the mining royalty space."
Growing consolidation trend
The Elemental Altus-EMX merger also joins a growing wave of consolidation in the royalty and streaming sector.
With dozens of small and mid-tier players competing for assets, mergers are seen as a way to scale up quickly, improve diversification and increase liquidity. Through the merger, the combined company will hold more than 200 total royalties and 16 paying ones, anchored by cornerstone assets with major operators.
Management projects US$70 million in revenues this year, rising to US$80 million in 2026.
Both firms have also delivered strong share price growth in recent years, reaching compounded annual growth rates of more than 17 percent since their inception.
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Securities Disclosure: I, Giann Liguid, hold no direct investment interest in any company mentioned in this article.
Editorial Disclosure: The Investing News Network does not guarantee the accuracy or thoroughness of the information reported in the interviews it conducts. The opinions expressed in these interviews do not reflect the opinions of the Investing News Network and do not constitute investment advice. All readers are encouraged to perform their own due diligence.
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