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Copper corrected from the May record high and made higher lows
Four reasons the copper bull will take the price to new highs
Impressive price action in the face of Chinese selling
Nevada Copper- Three reasons why NEVDF is could outperform percentage gains in the nonferrous metal
Bull markets rarely move in straight lines- The next leg for the copper bull has begun
When Goldman Sachs called copper “the new oil” in April 2021, the price was on its way to a new record high at nearly $4.90 on the nearby COMEX futures contract. The world’s most active and liquid copper market on the London Metals Exchange reached a peak at over $10,700 per ton in May. Copper blew through the 2011 $4.6495 previous all-time peak as a hot knife goes through butter.
Even the most aggressive bull markets rarely move in straight lines. Corrections can be brutal when prices accelerate on the upside, reaching unsustainable short-term peaks.
Copper ran out of upside steam before touching the $4.90 per pound level on futures and $10,750 per ton level on LME forwards. The price fell just below the $4 level in August, three months after reaching the high. Copper was still “the new oil” when the price dropped, and the world’s leading copper consumer was hoping it would continue to fall. China has done everything to push copper’s price lower, but the red metal has exhibited remarkable resilience.
Meanwhile, Nevada Copper Corporation (NEVDF) has been working day and night to ramp up production and transform its balance sheet. The market has rewarded the company as the share price has been steadily increasing since the beginning of October.
Mining companies provide investors with leveraged exposure to a commodity as they tend to outperform the price action on the upside and underperform during corrections. Junior mining companies can magnify the leverage. Copper’s recent explosive move suggests that new highs are on the horizon. NEVDF has the potential to do even better on a percentage basis as the company ramps up its production of the red industrial metal.
Copper corrected from the May record high and made higher lows Copper futures ran out of steam at just below the $4.90 level, with the LME forwards moving the $10,747.50 per ton level for the first time. The May highs led to a substantial correction that briefly took COMEX futures below $4 per pound in August.
Source: CQG The chart shows the decline from $4.8985 in May to a low of $3.9615 in mid-August, a 19.1% correction. COMEX futures made higher lows of $4.0220, $4.0545, and $4.1140 in late September and early October before blasting off on the upside to over the $4.70 level as of October 15.
Source: Barchart
The chart illustrates the decline from $10,747.50 on May 10 to a low of $ 8,740 per ton on August 19 as copper forwards corrected by 18.7%. Copper then made higher lows at $8,810 on September 21 and $8,876.50 on October 1 before exploding higher to the $10,281 level on October 15.
Four reasons the copper bull will take the price to new highs
The four leading factors supporting a continuation of new and higher highs in the copper market are:
Rising inflation– CPI rose by 5.4% in September, once again exceeding expectations. While the Fed will likely begin tapering quantitative easing, tapering is not tightening. Moreover, fiscal stimulus continues as the multi-trillion budget will pump more inflationary stimulus into the economy.
Building demand– The infrastructure rebuilding package in the US will increase copper requirements for construction projects to rebuild the crumbling roads, bridges, tunnels, airports, schools, and government buildings over the coming years. Moreover, China’s copper requirements will continue to increase as the world’s most populous country builds infrastructure.
Decarbonization– Addressing climate change boosts copper demand. As Goldman Sachs said in April, decarbonization does not occur without copper, making the metal “the new oil.” Copper requirements for EVs, wind turbines, and other clean energy projects is a multi-decade affair for the red metal.
Supply shortages– Copper mining companies are scrambling to find new supply sources. Production can’t keep pace with demand- It takes eight to ten years to bring new copper mining projects on stream. BHP, a leading global mining company, is in talks with Ivanhoe Mines for participation in the Western Foreland exploration area in the politically dicey Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Bull markets tend to experience severe selloffs. China has attempted to cool off the bullish copper and other nonferrous metals markets. The world’s leading copper consumer has the most to lose from runaway prices on the upside.
Impressive price action in the face of Chinese selling
On September 1, China auctioned 150,000 tons of copper, aluminum, and zinc from strategic stockpiles, which was the third auction sale since early July, attempting to temper the market’s bullish price action. The market had expected the sales. Copper rallied to the highest level since early August on September 13, with many other base metals following the red metal higher. The price then retreated, but copper made a higher low on September 21. The Chinese auction to cool off the rally put 80,000 tons of copper, 210,00 tons of aluminum, and 130,000 tons of zinc into the market since early July. Since the day of the first auction, copper, aluminum, and zinc prices all posted gains. Imagine where prices might be if China did not sell from its strategic stocks.
In early October, China auctioned the fourth round of base metals, lifting the total sales to 570,000 metric tons. Copper and all the base metals posted explosive gains after the latest auction. China is selling copper, aluminum, and zinc from its strategic stockpiles. The attempt to stem price appreciation makes the Chinese a buyer of the metals on price weakness to replace its stocks. However, the auctions have not had the desired impact on price. The price action has been more than impressive in the face of the sales.
While BHP looks towards the DRC and other regions for new copper supplies, Nevada Copper is making significant headway on its production project in a highly stable political and economic environment in the United States. Moreover, Nevada is a state that continues to encourage mining activity and is rich in red metal reserves.
Nevada Copper- Three reasons why NEVDF has the potential to outperform percentage gains in the nonferrous metal
Nevada Copper (NEVDF) has made great strides over the past weeks and months. A successful junior mining company is positioned best to profit during a bull market in the commodity it extracts from the earth’s crust. Three factors support the price of NEVDF shares as copper has taken off on the upside again:
Factor one: Turing the corner on operations in Q3- On October 6, NEVDF provided an update on operational performance at the company’s underground mine at its Pumpkin Hollow project, noting:
Copper in concentrate produced during September increased by 265% compared to August, driven by higher stope production. Approximately 30,386 tons of ore processing yielded 682 tons of copper concentrate at an average grade of 22%, reflecting 150 tons of copper output.
Stoping is the process of extracting the desired ore or mineral from an underground mine, leaving open space called a stope. Stoping at Pumpkin Hollow significantly accelerated since mid-August, with the second and third stope panels fully mined and a fourth stope panel currently being mined. Further stopes are planned for October and November, and the high-grade Sugar Cube zone to be mined during the final months of 2021.
NEVDF experienced the highest monthly development footage achieved since April 2021 in September, with a 12% increase over August. Approximately 750 lateral equivalent feet were advanced in September.
Outgoing Interim CEO Mike Brown said, “I am very pleased to see the improved trajectory in our production ramp-up and a recovery in productivities. The increased ore production was a key objective for September, and together with the improving productivities on-site, along with the ongoing management strengthening, provide further confidence in the mine ramp-up.”
Randy Buffington, a veteran mining executive with previous management experience at Barrick, Placer Dome, and Cominco, is taking over as President and CEO at Nevada Copper.
Factor two: On October 12, NEVDF announced it had agreed with its senior project lender and concluded a non-binding term sheet with its largest shareholder to provide additional financing and a significant deferral and extension of its debt facilities. The move offers Nevada Copper greater balance sheet flexibility and support for the ramp-up of its underground mining operations and advancement of its open-pit project and broader property exploration targets. The highlights of the more flexible financing arrangement include:
Two-year deferral of first loan repayments scheduled to begin in July 2025.
Extension of loan amortization with the final maturity pushed to July 2029.
Deferral of the formal long stop date for the project as the completion test was deferred to June 2023.
All outstanding shareholder loans were consolidated under an amended existing shareholder credit facility.
A two-year extension to maturity data until 2026 with no scheduled payments before final maturity.
An increase of $41 million in additional liquidity under the amended credit facility.
Randy Buffington, NEVDF’s new CEO, said, “These combined balance sheet improvements provide significant additional runway for the Company as we move forward to complete the ramp-up of our underground operations. The ongoing support of two of our major stakeholders provides further validation of the significant inherent value of our copper operations in Nevada and allows us to continue to pursue the growth potential embedded within our asset base.”
Factor three: NEVDF’s value proposition is compelling when compared to peers. The chart shows NEVDF’s market cap versus its enterprise value compared to other diversified metals and mining companies with similar market caps:
Source: Seeking Alpha
As the chart highlights, the enterprise value is over 2.2 times the current $173.53 million market cap, leading to plenty of upside room for NEVDF shares. There is plenty of room for growth as the enterprise value will rise with output from the underground and open-pit mining operations over the coming months and years. According to data from Seeking Alpha, at 97 cents per share on October 15, NEVDF had a $173.53 million market cap. The average daily volume in the past 15 trading days from all exchanges stood at just over 2,500,000 shares.
Source: Barchart
The chart shows the rise from 38.78 cents on October 1 to a high of 99.2 cents per share on October 14. NEVDF shares closed not far from the high at 96.56 cents on Friday, October 15.
The trend in copper and NEVDF is bullish, and the trend is always your best friend in markets.
Bull markets rarely move in straight lines- The next leg for the copper bull has begun
Bull markets can be bucking broncos as corrections are often downdrafts in prices. Copper’s decline from nearly $4.90 to below $4 and recovery to over $4.70 on October 15 is a bullish sign for the red metal.
Copper’s strength, along with the other base metals in the face of Chinese stockpiling selling, has been more than impressive and is a testament to the bullish factors that are likely to push the price higher. Goldman Sachs expects LME copper forwards to reach the $15,000 per ton level by 2025, putting COMEX futures over $6.80 per pound. Other analysts see the price rising to as high as $20,000 per ton as decarbonization will keep demand outpacing supplies.
Bull markets often take prices far higher than analysts believe possible before they peak. As the world searches for more copper to meet the rising demand, Nevada Copper’s mines are in the most economically and politically stable region of the world. NEVDF shares may have just begun to rally as the price threatens to move over the $1 per share level.
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Vancouver, British Columbia–(Newsfile Corp. – October 28, 2019) – Ethos Gold Corp. (TSXV:ECC) (“Ethos” or the “Company“) announces that it has revised the terms and size of the non-brokered private placement announced September 20, 2019. Ethos is now proceeding with a flow-through offering to raise gross proceeds of up to $1,512,000 by the issuance of up to 5,600,000 units (each a “FT Unit”) at a price of $0.27 per FT Unit (the “FT Offering”). Each FT Unit will comprise one flow-through common share (a “FT Share”) and one half of one non flow-through common share purchase warrant (each whole warrant, a “Warrant”). Each Warrant will be exercisable at a price of $0.30 into one common share for a period of two years from the date of issuance. The FT Shares will qualify as “flow-through shares” within the meaning of subsection 66(15) of the Income Tax Act (Canada).
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Matt Gili the CEO, President, and Director of Nevada Copper (TSX: NCU | OTC: NEVDF) sits down with Maurice Jackson of Proven and Probable to discuss the value proposition of Nevada Copper, which is on target for U.S. production in Q4 2019. Mr. Gili, provides updates on the flagship Pumpkin Hollow Project, which hosts both an underground and open-pit deposits. We provide an overview on the supply an demand fundamentals on Copper, where a prudent speculator may position themselves to take advantage of the copper supply deficit.
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Source: Maurice Jackson for Streetwise Reports (3/18/19)
Matt Gili, CEO of Nevada Copper, talks with Maurice Jackson of Proven and Probable about his company’s progress in beginning copper production by the end of the year.
Pumpkin Hollow
Maurice Jackson: Joining us for a conversation is Matt Gili, president, CEO and director of Nevada Copper Corp. (NCU:TSX), which is on target to U.S. copper production by Q4 2019.
Nevada Copper has a number of successes to share with reader. But, before you share the unique value preposition of Nevada Copper, Mr. Gili, for readers who may not be familiar with the supply and demand fundamentals regarding copper, please provide us with a 10,000-foot overview. Matt Gili: When you look at the copper fundamentals, we see a very steady and predictable increase in demand of copper, modest amount, 1.5% per year. We see the move towards electrification of vehicles consuming more copper. We see other things that are offsetting that, but overall, a steady predictable 1.5% increase in the global demand for copper. Where the story really gets exciting, from the Nevada Copper standpoint, is with regards to the supply for copper. What we’re seeing is a lot of restrictions in future supply. We’re seeing a lot of difficulties on bringing on a future supply and backed up by work done by Wood Mackenzie and others, we’re projecting that by 2025, the world will be in a supply deficit of upwards of 6 million tonnes of copper per year. This just really supports what we’re doing in Nevada Copper in setting up the next copper mine. Maurice Jackson: Now that we have an overview of the supply and demand fundamentals for copper, Matt, let’s discuss how someone listening may position himself prudently as a beneficiary. For someone new to the story, can you give us a very quick overview of Nevada Copper? Matt Gili: Certainly. Nevada Copper, who’s Nevada Copper? We have an asset in Nevada called Pumpkin Hollow. This is our chief asset. It consists of two deposits: an underground deposit and an open-pit deposit for copper. We’re currently in the construction phase for the underground project with production from that underground project coming online later this year. I think we’ll talk more about that later. Regarding the open pit, we’re currently in the process of wrapping up the prefeasibility study for the open pit. You’ll see that being published in April of this year. Then, we have a regional land package of well over 15,000 acres that we are looking at really understanding, really unlocking the full value from that land package. That’s really Nevada Copper, building a copper mine coming into production later this year, with a lot of expansion into an open-pit mine, as well as regional exploration. Maurice Jackson: Let’s provide readers the latest updates on Nevada Copper, as the company has been very proactive on a number of fronts. Please provide us with an update on the construction progress. I would like to begin with the multi-million dollar question, are we on track to enter production in Q4 of this year? Matt Gili: Yes, Maurice, we are on track to enter production in Q4 of this year. We are very proud of that. The team’s doing a fantastic job. We have construction activities both on surface with Sedgman building the process plants, as well as underground cementation, both sinking shaft and doing lateral development on our main shaft. All that’s coming together very nicely. We are absolutely on track for commissioning of the plant in the fourth quarter of this year. Maurice Jackson: As Nevada Copper is preparing for production this year, have you increased your staffing to meet the growing demands? Matt Gili: That’s a really good question and yes, we have. We’ve increased our staffing. It’s an operational readiness question that you’re asking. This is where I want to stress to you and readers that this concept of operational readiness is foremost in our thoughts and how we’re planning for really becoming, not just building a great mine, but operating a great mine. When you look at the staffing, so far, our staffing, by design, is quite modest. We’re looking at a total workforce of Nevada Copper employees of around 30. That is because this is our model, a very lean, efficient operation. We utilize high-quality, expert service providers as necessary, to make sure that we are operating very efficiently. Maurice Jackson: Is Nevada Copper still actively recruiting and if so, what positions? Matt Gili: Yes, we are actively recruiting. Most of our positions open are technical and specialist positions, and would be part of the management team. I absolutely encourage anyone interested in what we’re recruiting for to contact the Nevada Copper website. You’ll see the complete listing of opening jobs there, as well as information on how to apply for any of these positions if you’re interested. Maurice Jackson: Pumpkin Hollow is unique in that you have both an underground and an open-pit mine. Let’s discuss exploration and expansion potential. What initiatives is Nevada Copper taking to optimize the full potential of the Pumpkin Hollow project? Matt Gili: We are in the process of constructing the underground, which has a large amount of upside potential. We’ll really only explore that upside potential when we’re underground, after we’re in production. We really look forward to updates on that front in 2020, and the reason for that is very simple. It’s just much more efficient to drill out the prospective areas of the underground from the underground; the holes are shorter. It’s just much easier. That’s really where the underground sits right now, in a holding pattern as far as expansion potential. When you look at the open pit, that’s where a lot of great energy is going into expanding the open pit, understanding the open pit better, really getting that ore body knowledge to allow you to build a world-class operation. That is part of the PFS, which is coming out in April of this year.
That PFS will include the drilling campaign that we completed in 2018, the 26 hole drilling campaign. It will include those results in the resource model. That’s going to give you an even better idea of the full potential of the open pit. The real excitement that we have is with regards to the region itself, a large region, relatively unexplored, but with large amounts of historical copper production, as well as great physical outcroppings of copper mineralization. This is really where we’re going to focus our efforts during 2019, to really get a chance, now that we’ve tied up this land package, to understand what we have. Maurice Jackson: Speaking of the region, there was a regional survey conducted that led you to staking more land. Can you share the results with us? Matt Gili: We staked a section a land that we refer to as the Teddy Boy Claims. This is about 5,700 acres of land to our northeast. We are very glad to have this in our portfolio. The criteria for that selection was we brought together experts on this region and experts in copper mineralization. They identified that as a really prospective area and where we should be really focused on. We’ve staked that land, secured it for our ability to explore over the next several years. Maurice Jackson: Does Nevada Copper plan to drill the new area at some point this year? Matt Gili: We plan on drilling this year. I really haven’t put out the entire drill program for 2019. We’re still pulling that together and analyzing where to best spend the monies we have available for exploration. We would like to drill that this year. Some more prospective holes, really not an in-depth blanket campaign, but probe a few really interesting areas over there and get a better idea for the drill campaign. Maurice Jackson: It’s one thing to have tonnage and grade, but you must equally have astute business acumen to make the numbers work. Now, Nevada Copper is in discussions regarding an ECA-backed project finance facility to further optimize the balance sheet, as well as lining up a working capital facility and further offtake agreements to improve the economics of Pumpkin Hollow. Please provide us with the details. Matt Gili: You kind of said it all. I can’t really provide you with any more details, but I can surely stress what you’ve just said, Maurice. We are in discussions with this export, credit agency style backed project financing. This is going to provide us the opportunity to substantially reduce the cost of our debt service, as well as attract strong and robust financial partners for potential future open-pit developments. Something we’re very excited about and it’s part of really creating Nevada Copper as a world-class company. Maurice Jackson: Let’s get into some numbers. Please share your capital structure. Matt Gili: The capital structure is well defined. We have $8 million in long-term debt. We have $153 million of cash or cash equivalents. When you look at the financing package specifically for the underground, we’re fully financed, including the working capital facility to take us through operation ramp up. The inputs into that are an equity raise that we did in the middle of last year, as well as a streaming deposit with regards to a stream arrangement on the precious metals strictly from the underground deposit. We also have a $25-million subordinated debt package. Really a standby loan facility that we can use if necessary. Maurice Jackson: In closing, I have a multilayered question. What is the next unanswered question for Nevada Copper? When can we expect a response? What determines success? Matt Gili: I would not classify our successful completion of underground construction and bringing them in operation as an unanswered question. That is going to happen, and I’m very proud of the activities that have happened so far. The real unanswered question for the investors out there, is what is the true potential of the open pit? There’s been a lot of great work done, a lot of exploration done, last year. That’s all been incorporated. I’m really going to be excited when the PFS is released and we can share the details of the open pit potential with the public. They are going to be very impressed and they’re going to see the picture. They’re going to see what we see when we get so excited about Nevada Copper. Maurice Jackson: Speaking of the prefeasibility study, give us a timeline on that, sir. Matt Gili: We’ll release that in April. I’m being careful. I don’t want to be too specific. It will be in April of this year. Next month. Maurice Jackson: Mr. Gili, last question. What did I forget to ask? Matt Gili: Maurice, forget to ask? You’re always very thorough, so I wouldn’t say you forgot to ask anything. What I would say is I want to reiterate something that we at Nevada Copper have been thinking about over the last month. Unfortunately, for the world, the last month has been a month marred with tragedies, with risk and with unexpected events. What we’re really stressing, with Nevada Copper, is the risk management of Nevada Copper. We are an operation that is on private land. We’re not waiting for any permits. We’re not waiting for records of decision. We’re utilizing EPC contractors, who have that fixed price nature, reduced risks. We’re building a dry stack tailing facility. We’ll never have a wet tailing storage facility at Pumpkin Hollow. We’re doing this all with a proven, experienced team of mine builders and operators. Really wrapping that up, that concept of low risk, risk mitigation. We are going to build and operate the next mine and there’s very little risk to that execution. Maurice Jackson: Matt, if investors want to get more information about Nevada Copper, please share the website address.
Matt Gili: Absolutely, www.nevadacopper.com. We love to get your input. You’ll see our investor presentationsthere in our latest news. Let us know what you think. Maurice Jackson: For our audience, we wish to remind you that Nevada Copper trades on the TSX symbol, NCU, and on the OTC symbol NEVDF. For additional inquiries, please contact Richard Matthews at (877) 648-8266 or you may email RMatthews@nevadacopper.com. Nevada Copper is a sponsor and we are proud shareholders for the virtues conveyed in today’s message.
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Ross McElroy the COO and Chief Geologist for Fission 3.0 (TSX.V: FUU | OTCQB: FISOF) sits down with Maurice Jackson of Proven and Probable to discuss the value proposition of Fission 3.0 and their Property Bank. In this interview Mr. McElroy provides the macro economics for uranium and how one may allocate their uranium holdings in a Uranium Project Generator with a Property Bank with projects located in high-grade uranium districts, with proven management and technical team that has a 20 year history of delivering success to shareholders.
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Original Source: https://www.streetwisereports.com/article/2019/03/16/prospect-generator-in-position-for-uranium-turnaround.html Maurice Jackson: Joining us for a conversation is Ross McElroy, the COO and chief geologist for Fission 3.0 Corp. (FUU:TSX.V; FISOF:OTC.MKTS): A Uranium Project Generator and Property Bank. Ross McElroy, glad to have you back on the program to share the value proposition of Fission 3.0. Before we begin, Ross, I’d like to begin with some basic fundamentals regarding uranium. For someone new to the uranium sector, what is uranium, and where is it used? Ross McElroy: Uranium is really all about energy. The way we use uranium is for nuclear fuel. That’s basically the fuel that runs reactors.
Globally nuclear power constitutes between 15% and 20% of the electrical requirements. That’s really where the majority of the uranium is used. There is some uranium that’s used for strategic purposes on a country by country basis, more for the Department of Defense reasons. But really, the vast, vast majority of uranium is used to fuel nuclear reactors. Maurice Jackson: Provide us with some metrics on how abundant uranium is in the Earth’s crust, and correlate that to the average grade that is found versus the grade that is needed to define an ore deposit in a future mine? Ross McElroy: Well, uranium is actually one of the most abundant elements in the Earth. It’s kind of ubiquitous. You’ll see it throughout the Earth’s crust; there is trace amounts of uranium present primarily in volcanic and igneous rocks and sedimentary rocks.
On a deposit level, there’s actually a number of uranium deposits around the world, in every continent on the planet and in many countries. On a global basis, the average grade of a uranium deposit worldwide is around 0.1 to 0.15% U308.
Now, if you compare that to say, the deposits in Canada, they’re orders of magnitude higher grade in Canada. We’re talking orders of magnitude that are 10 to 20 times that of the global grade.
Although I’ve given you the average grade, most of those deposits at those lower grades, the average grades are really uneconomic deposits. We need grades that are generally much higher than the 0.1%–0.15% if it’s going to be an economic deposit. And that’s what Canada has. Canada has very high-grade deposits, so the economic metrics are just that much more attractive in Canada. Maurice Jackson: Now that we’ve identified uranium’s utility, what can you share with us from a supply and demand perspective? Ross McElroy: Well, it’s fairly simple to understand what the demand for nuclear energy is, in other words, uranium. We can just multiply the number of reactors around the world that are currently operating, and the known fuel consumption rate for a 1000 megawatt reactor is just under 500,000 pounds of uranium a year. If we look at the global reactors, there are around 450 reactors around the world. You can see that the need for uranium on an annual basis is around the realm of almost 200 million pounds of uranium. Maurice Jackson: How does the nuclear plant in Fukushima, Japan, fit into this narrative? Ross McElroy: Japan historically, up until the Fukushima event in 2011, was one of the main users on a country basis worldwide. Japan I think consumed almost 20% of the world’s nuclear power, in other words, 20% of the world’s annual production of uranium was used to run the Japanese reactors.
In 2011, of course, we had the magnitude 9 earthquake followed by a tsunami, and that’s what damaged the Fukushima facility. Interestingly enough, even with that magnitude of an earthquake and the soon-to-follow tsunami, the reactor still did not breach. The housing that surrounded the reactor was damaged, and this is where some of the radiation leaks came from, but the reactor itself actually held, and so the damage was actually very, very limited and manageable.
What happened is overnight, Japan shut down all of its nuclear reactors, in other words, all 52 reactors I think they had working at that time, went offline. That caused disruption to the supply/demand situation globally.
What’s happened since then is Japan is slowly coming back on. Japan’s alternatives for power are pretty limited as the country doesn’t have very much of its own resources, if any at all. It imports whatever energy that it needs, be it in natural gas now, in nuclear.
It’s important for Japan to be able to operate these factories that they’re running. I mean, it’s an exporting country around the world, so it does have high energy requirements. It also has the requirements for inexpensive power.
Japan is coming back on to the scene as far as nuclear power. There are eight reactors that are currently back up and operating, and 17 reactors that are in the near-term licensing for approval to get them restarted again.
I think the bottom line is, prior to Fukushima, Japan depended on nuclear energy for at least 25% of its electricity demands. I think by the time 2030 approaches, Japan is supposed to be right back up to those same levels. The country is coming back on, it has always been an important major consumer of nuclear power. I think we’ll see it right back to the equation again in the very near future. Maurice Jackson: Uranium, next to gold, is known as the other yellow metal, and here’s why. Ross, let’s step back to the bull market in uranium. If one was selective with the uranium holdings, they would’ve had generational changes in their portfolio. What was the spot price during the last bull market? Ross McElroy: Well, in 2002, uranium was around, I don’t know, about $15 a pound. This is on the spot market. That’s what uranium was trading for.
In 2003–2004, we really saw the lift off of the price of uranium. In fact, it peaked at 2007 to around $140 a pound. It went almost a 10-fold increase in the price of the commodity between 2003 and 2007. The peak at 140 didn’t last particularly long, but it had a slower decline until about 2008—2009, it stabilized, and then it peaked back up again.
Really, it was holding steady. I guess this is the point I would want to make, is that we were starting to see a steady state price of between $50 to $70 a pound, and then the Fukushima event hit that we talked about in 2011, and that really threw the whole pricing structure right out the window. We’ve been working on our recovery ever since. Maurice Jackson: What is the spot price for uranium today? Ross McElroy: Currently we’re about $28 a pound for uranium. It has recovered; we’re off the bottoms of $17, $18 a pound just a couple of years ago. Uranium is making its way back.
Maybe the important point here to note is we’re still at prices that the majority of mines around the world are not profitable. Even the lowest cost producers are really not operating in an environment where they can make money with uranium prices what they’re at right now.
What we’ve seen is that the supply is starting to be restricted as the producers are taking a lot of that uranium off market; they’re not supplying it to the utilities at this cheap price, because it’s not a working business model to lose money in the long run on the mining of the commodity.
We are seeing an improvement in the price of uranium, and it’s been about a year and a half in the making. It’s gone up from the $18 that I mentioned to about $28 a pound, but it certainly has a lot more room to move upwards even before we can start to get production back online to meaningful levels. Maurice Jackson: What is that spot price that companies right now, uranium companies I should say, for them to earn their cost of capital? Is the number around $60 for a spot price of uranium? Ross McElroy: I believe you are correct. We’re seeing prices that globally, they have to be in the $60 to $70 a pound really to bring on any meaningful production.
One of the clues that I look at when we look at the best uranium mines out there, the lowest cost producers, those would be McArthur River deposit in Canada’s Athabasca Basin in Northern Saskatchewan. That is one of the best uranium mines in the world, certainly the largest highest-grade operating mine. Cameco took that offline because of the prices of uranium where they were at, they weren’t making any money on the mining of this deposit.
There are some indications that Cameco won’t turn that mine back on into being a producer until the price of uranium is somewhat north of $40, maybe $45. Something in that realm.
I don’t have an exact number there, but it does tell you that if you’re going to even bring back the best of those deposits, you really need prices that are something of $40 to $45. As we mentioned earlier, the price for many of the other deposits around the world are probably closer to $60 or $70. You can see, there’s still lots of room for improvement. Maurice Jackson: The current price of uranium does not support the fundamentals. What correlations do you see today that may exceed the returns from the last bull market? Ross McElroy: Well, it’s sort of an elastic situation. I think that the longer that we keep depressed prices, yet the demand is still there and growing, reactors are being built, the need to fuel these reactors, that’s not stopping.
In fact, it’s growing. You have the primary suppliers of uranium, i.e., the mines that are not supplying it, the longer that the prices are low, the more rapid that climb will be in the price of uranium when it does correct.
I think there’s a possibility, as I’ve heard some analysts call it, a violent reaction upwards to the price of uranium. I think we’re going to see some substantial price increases within some short vision of time, maybe a year or two or three. Something in that realm that I think will be quite meaningful.
We’ll see what happens, but the longer it stays depressed, the more likely and quicker the rise will be when it does come. Maurice Jackson: Ross, you’ve provided a compelling case on the fundamentals for uranium. I know readers may be asking, how will all of this demand for uranium be met? Mr. McElroy, please introduce us to Fission 3.0. Ross McElroy: Fission 3.0 is a uranium explorer. This is a company that we spun out of Fission Uranium Corp. (FCU:TSX; FCUUF:OTCQX; 2FU:FSE), our larger company, back in 2014 when we bought out our partner on the Patterson Lake project, and in so doing with that process from that arrangement, we spun out our non-core assets, the more grassroots exploration projects.
We’ve been able to build up an exploration portfolio, primarily focused in the Athabasca Basin. Remember, the Athabasca Basin is Canada’s only producing uranium field. That’s where the McArthur River deposit is, this is where Fission Uranium has the Triple R deposit. There’s some fantastic deposits out there.
That’s what we’re exploring for in Fission 3.0. We’re looking for the next high-grade uranium deposit in the Athabasca Basin. Maurice Jackson: You referenced that you’re a project generator. There’s a lot of ambiguity regarding project generators. Please share the virtues and why Fission 3.0 took on the project generator business model? Ross McElroy: Project generators are really all about sharing the risk. In our case, what we do very well is pick ground. We’ve been able to strategically stake ground in the Athabasca Basin, we’ve made discoveries on two of our properties, the first one in the company called Fission Energy that we made the discovery at our Waterbury Lake property, and later on in Fission Uranium Corp on our PLS property.
That have been situations where we’ve had joint-venture partners sharing the risks, sharing the costs with others. To use the model, what we do is we use our brands and other peoples’ money. That’s really what we’re good at, that’s basically the model that we have.
We have a very highly trained technical team that’s exceptional at picking out high-quality projects. We attract other people who are looking to get into the uranium business, looking to partner up with a team such as ours and join us for the ride to make a discovery.
It’s really all about sharing risk. That’s really what the project generator model does. It’s our land, and we partner with good quality people that can fund a project, and that’s how they earn into it as well. Maurice Jackson: Do you currently have a joint-venture partner? If yes, who and what are the terms of the relationship? Ross McElroy: We have had joint-venture partners in the past, and very successful ones. As I mentioned earlier on our Waterbury project, we had a partner with the Korean utility called KEPCO. It earned in by spending a certain amount of money on the property each year over the course of a three-year period.
What we did with that, we were able to make a discovery, using the money in that project, we made a discovery, built up the resource estimate on there, and eventually sold that asset. That was how our shareholders were able to take advantage of our monetizing on the property.
I guess we could say the same at the PLS project, which we now own 100% of it, but that was also a partnership. We shared in the risk early on and in the money early on with our partner. We eventually bought them out in 2014. That was another example of a successful joint venture partnership.
Each one of the deals would be a little bit different from each other. It is a model that we think works very well. I will note that in our property down in Peru as well, we have a partnership that we’re still looking to finalize the deal. This is one where another group has approached us, said it’s interested in the potential of a property down in Peru. It will spend a significant amount of money having us as the operator. Hopefully we’ll make a discovery down in Peru as well. Maurice Jackson: Well, you’ve just alluded to my next question. Fission 3.0 has 18 projects in its project bank. Now, it is strategically located in premier, high-grade uranium districts in Canada and Peru. Mr. McElroy, introduce us to the Fission 3.0 Project Bank (click here). Ross McElroy: We have 18 properties in the Athabasca Basin. Our properties, we think that everywhere in the Athabasca Basin has the potential to host high-grade uranium projects.
One of the keys that we seek to identify are deposits that will be shallow. In other words, the closer a deposit is to surface, the easier it is to build a case that this could be a project that could go into production. It’s an easier mine to develop the closer it is to the surface.
Really deep deposits are challenging. They still exist, but they’re challenging. Eventually they cost more money to find and cost more money to get out of the ground. They’re just another level of challenge.
If you look at our 18 properties, they’re all in and around the edge of the Athabasca Basin, where we’ve had a great deal of success finding near-surface mineralization.
Our PLS project that hosts the Triple R deposit in Fission Uranium is a great example of a near-surface deposit. The mineralization starts at 50 meters below the surface, so 150 feet below the present-day surface is where the high-grade mineralization starts. That makes it a potentially open-pit deposit, which is generally low cost and gives you a lot of flexibility.
This is the sort of thing that we’re looking for in Fission 3.0. We’ve got very good properties that are in known mining districts, conversely, we have a good portfolio of ground around the southwest side of the basin where our PLS project in Fission Uranium is hosted, and also NexGen’s Arrow deposit, it’s all in that same area. We have the significant land package that surrounds that area.
We also have a good strategic land package in and around the Key Lake area on the southeast side of the basin. This has been, and still currently is the hot bed of uranium mining in Canada right now. This is the side of the basin where the McArthur River and Cigar Lake deposits are located.
McArthur shut down for economic reasons waiting for higher uranium prices. It was an operating mine up until about a year ago, and Cigar still is in operation. You’ve also got the Key Lake mine.
It’s a strategic area to have a good land package. We think there’s lots of opportunities in and around land in that area to make a new discovery.
And probably third for us is the land package that’s up in the northwest side of the basin, in the old uranium city Beaverlodge district where uranium mining in Saskatchewan first got started back in the 1950s and was the going concern back in the ’50s and the ’60s, I think there were about 52 operating mines up in that area, pretty small scale most of them, but still lots of high-grade uranium. That’s an area where we think that there’s still plenty of exploration potential.
Between all those areas, we’re going to be active and we’re going to be looking for the next high-grade uranium deposit in Saskatchewan. Maurice Jackson: Speaking of being active, is there active drilling going on right now in these projects? Ross McElroy: There is active drilling. We did drill in the southwest side of the basin. We were drilling in January on our PLN project. That project is just immediately north of Fission Uranium’s PLS project.
You’re really talking about the same area where the latest discoveries have been found, where you’ve got the Triple R deposit, you’ve got NexGen’s Arrow deposit. These are two of the best new deposits that have been found in the Athabasca Basin in the last 15 years.
We have a package around there called PLN, and we did drill six holes in there earlier this year. It has the potential to host another one of these fantastic deposits, so we are going to continue looking there. We see all the signs present that tell us that this is where we’ll make that discovery.
As we’re speaking right now, we’re drilling over in the Key Lake area that I described earlier. This is over on the southeast side of the basin, about 200 kilometers to the east of the PLS drilling. That is a program where we’ll drill probably eight or nine holes, just south of the Key Lake Mill and the old historical Key Lake deposits. There’s areas of activity there. We’ll continue drilling throughout the rest of 2019 on a number of our projects.
Fission 3.0 is active. We were able to raise some significant money early in the year, in late 2018. We’re going to be active. This is how we’ve been successful in the past, is by being aggressive, looking in places where people probably haven’t looked for a while or never even thought to look, and putting our technical team to work. Yes, you’ll see pretty good news flow out of Fission 3 this year. Maurice Jackson: Ross, let’s expand the narrative on the project bank portfolio and go south into Peru. What can you share with us there? Ross McElroy: Peru is a really interesting area. Where our projects are is called the Macusani Plateau, located in southern Peru, near the Bolivian border. The Macusani Plateau has shown at least over 100 million pounds in near-surface uranium deposits.
There’s a company down there that’s quite dominant called Plateau Energy. Plateau has been able to stake a lot and consolidate a land package in the area, and consolidated all these old deposits. It has amassed around 100 million pounds of uranium in these uranium deposits.
However, even more significant, Plateau made a discovery of high-grade lithium in the same area, and in fact, that’s within five kilometers of our southern property boundary on our Macusani plains. Not only do we have the potential now to host near-surface uranium deposits, and we have shown in fact that we do have mineralization on our property for uranium, we’ve mapped it, we’ve drilled, we’ve trenched and found high-grade uranium, but now the potential’s there for hosting high-grade lithium.
This is really a new dimension that we have down in that area, that we wouldn’t have had say, two or three years ago when we were last down drilling. You’ve got uranium, and now we have lithium. It’s a very interesting up-and-coming area as well. Maurice Jackson: Switching gears, Fission 3.0 has the right projects in the right place at the right time. But that’s only part of the story. Equally important are the people that are responsible for increasing shareholder value. Mr. McElroy, please introduce us to your board of directors. Ross McElroy: Thank you, and I appreciate that. We do have a very successful team. Our founder of Fission 3.0 is also the same CEO and founder of Fission Uranium, and previously Fission Energy before that, and Strathmore.
Dev Randhawa has been involved in this company right from the get-go in its first iteration back in 1996, and also heading up Fission 3.0. Dev is the longest running CEO in the uranium sector.
Myself, I’ve been involved with Dev 12, 13 years now. We’ve had a great successful relationship. We’re able to raise money, raise attention, put that money to work, make discoveries, and basically build shareholder value right from the bottom up.
This is the group that I think, we’ve been able to deliver in the past, and we’re going to be able to deliver shareholder value as we move forward in this much improving uranium sector.
A lot of the same players that we’ve had all the way along, still keep also in the Fission 3 group. Maurice Jackson: Who is on your management team? Ross McElroy: The management team is composed of our CEO Dev Randhawa and chairman. I am the chief operating officer, and also the chief geologist. We have maintained the same structure that we have in Fission Uranium, is the same that we have in Fission 3.0. It’s a fairly lean team. Phil Morehouse is president of Fission 3.0. We kept a pretty lean mean machine in Fission 3.
Don’t forget, we’ve had up until just recently in the last six months, it’s been a very quiet company, there hasn’t been a lot of exploration activities in the uranium sector. I think as we start to ramp up, with our level of activity increasing, we’ll start to draw more and more people into roles and developing roles within the company as we begin to be active, get out and start marketing the story more, get on the ground and back that up with real results, we’re going to continue to build our team. Maurice Jackson: Before we move on to your impressive technical team, in the natural resource basis, why is it wise to follow proven winners? Ross, you alluded to it earlier, you and CEO Dev Randhawa have a proven pedigree of success. How were shareholders rewarded as far as returns for their loyalty to sticking with your team? Ross McElroy: Well, if you owned the original company at the beginning, which would’ve been Strathmore Minerals, and you’d held on it to all the way throughout, over the last 20 years since about 1996, 97, you’d probably own about five different companies right now.
What’s happened is we’ve moved on to a new phase, we’ve made discoveries, advanced projects, sold different projects to different groups. What we’ve been able to do is form new companies, split off new companies in what they call a butterfly transaction.
You have shares in the new company, still maintain your shares in the old company, so you would’ve received essentially what would look like dividends in the way of different shares for five different companies since that time. The shareholders that have been loyal and sticking with us would’ve succeeded quite handsomely all the way along. Maurice Jackson: Your technical team is exceptional. I had an opportunity to meet them in the summer of 2016 at the site visit there. Please, introduce us to them. Ross McElroy: We’re very, very proud of this group. This has been the team we’ve had, the same core group of people with us since 2010. With that same group, we were able to make our discovery on the Waterbury Lake project, and then followed up in 2012 with the discovery of PLS. It’s the same group that is very core and important to us in Fission 3.0.
I do head up the team and the technical group, so I would be the team leader or chief geologist for the technical team. My right hand guy is Raymond Ashley, he’s the VP of exploration. Ray is an excellent geoscientist who I’ve had the pleasure to work with for over 30 years in this sector, so we’ve been working pretty close together. Definitely a proven mine finder.
We’ve basically held the same group of people together on the project managers, all the structural scientists, geochemists. We’ve kept the same core group together over the last almost 10 years or so.
To me, that’s really the key. You want a team that works together well, good chemistry with each other, the ability and the environment to think outside of the box. Really, the goal for each and every one of us is to responsibly make world-class discoveries. That’s what we’re all about.
We’ve got an excellent team. All the key people are listed on the website. You’ll be able to go there and see the roles of the various groups there in the technical team, but there’s about seven or eight of us that have been able to be what I consider the core team for the last decade or so. Maurice Jackson: Let’s get into some numbers. Please share your capital structure. Ross McElroy: In Fission 3.0, we have 142 million shares outstanding. We were able to raise a significant amount. We have just under $7 million in the treasury right now, that’ll allow us to be active over the next two years or so. Maurice Jackson: What is your burn rate? Ross McElroy: The burn rate, because it’s exploration, it’s pretty discretionary spending. We have $7 million that we have in the treasury right now, that’ll certainly carry us over the next two to three years of pretty aggressive exploration spending on our key projects. We can dial that kind of number up, and we can dial it back as conditions warrant. That’s the benefit of being in exploration.
The burn rate is actually pretty minimal. In other words, we run a pretty lean shop as far as the number of management and corporate costs. Really, the majority of the costs are exploration spending, which is really entirely discretionary. Maurice Jackson: How much debt do you have? Ross McElroy: We have no debt. We’ve not taken on any debt. Basically, the money that we raise have been through equity share offerings. No debt in Fission 3.0. Maurice Jackson: Who are your major shareholders? What is their level of commitment? Ross McElroy: When we spun off Fission 3.0 back in December of 2014, it was the same shareholders that were shareholders of Fission Uranium, were the same shareholders in Fission 3.0. We would’ve had a lot of the same loyal, large shareholders, including JP Morgan, even investment from others that we’ve had along the way. It’s been the same loyal group.
We have significant new shareholders now with the financing that we did back in 2018, which was led by the Sprott Global Resources Group out of California. I think we have some new players back to the game, but we have a lot of shareholders that have been with us over the long haul.
These are people that have a good vision of the uranium sector. They know that the good times are around the corner. It’s a point that we believe really strongly, and we think that the sector is improving a great deal.
This is how our loyal shareholders are going to be rewarded, by being a much better market with an aggressive team like Fission 3.0, and the new shareholders will probably be long term loyal shareholders too if we’re successful and able to build value for them as well. Maurice Jackson: What is the float? Ross McElroy: Fully diluted, we have 227 million shares. We’ve got shares outstanding, we’ve got options and warrants that we’re a part of financing as well, so 227 million shares out in total. We trade around 240,000 shares a day, I think that’s our average volume. Maurice Jackson: Multi-layered question. What is the next unanswered question for Fission 3.0? When can we expect a response? What determines success? Ross McElroy: Well, we are going to be successful through work. We know that a better market should buoy the price up of everybody involved in the nuclear sector. They’re starting to get some life back in the exploration world.
Really, we’ve always built value by our success. We’ve been successful with making discoveries. We now have the money, we have the team, we’re putting them to work. I would look to us as being one of the most dynamic uranium explorers out there. That’s something that I think people can follow, they can see our news release cycle, they’ll see how we’re marketing our story, and just look at the results. I think they’ll speak for themselves.
We’re looking at our projects, we’ll be active throughout the calendar year. I think the news flow will be very strong and steady. People that are interested in following the company will always see that there’s a continuing narrative out there. We want to take advantage of this and improve the uranium market, the fact that we are well financed, and we have the properties that we want to explore. I think there’s a very good opportunity for readers to look at Fission 3.0 as a sector leader in the uranium exploration business. Maurice Jackson: Mr. McElroy, last question. What did I forget to ask? Ross McElroy: I think we’ve covered a lot of ground here, and a lot of important ground. One of the takeaways that I want readers to know is we really do believe in the nuclear sector. We think that we have turned the corner and that conditions are improving.
If people are looking to invest in the uranium sector, I think it’s important for them to look at a group that has done it before. Your track record is very indicative of what your future has the potential to look like. I always find myself, when I’m investing, I like to back teams with a proven track record.
We have that in our group. We’ve got an exceptional management team. We’ve done it before. We’ve been able to capitalize on our discoveries by selling assets. We have a unique technical team that has the ability to make discoveries.
So better sector, very good team. Strong management. Those are the ingredients we need to be successful. Maurice Jackson: Ross, for someone listening that wants to get more information about Fission 3.0, please share the website address. Ross McElroy: Our website address is www.fission3corp.com. Maurice Jackson: For direct queries email ir@fission3corp.com, or you may call (778) 484-8030. Fission 3.0 trades on the TSX:V, symbol FUU, and on the OTC, symbol FISOF.
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Judson Culter the CEO and Director of Rover Metals (TSX.V: ROVR | OTCQB: ROVMF) sits down with Maurice Jackson of Proven and Probable to discuss the value proposition of the Cabin Lake Property. In this interview Mr. Culter will provide important updates on the Uptown Gold Property, Cabin Lake Project, and Slemon Lake. Rover Metals is a natural resource exploration company specialized in Canadian precious metal resources (specifically gold). In this interview we will discuss the recent accomplishments of Rover Metals. Ranging from IPO and the implementation of a methodical process of building an exploration company that is positioning itself for success from land acquisitions, permit approval, OTC listing, option agreements and completed the first phase of the 2018 exploration program.
Firm Advancing Gold Exploration in the Northwest Territories Contributed Opinion
Source: Maurice Jackson for Streetwise Reports (3/10/19)
Judson Culter, CEO of Rover Metals, speaks with Maurice Jackson of Proven and Probable about historical exploration on his company’s properties, as well as current exploration plans.
Maurice Jackson: Welcome to Proven and Probable. I’m your host, Maurice Jackson, and joining us for our conversation is Judson Culter, the CEO and director of Rover Metals Corp. (ROVR:TSX.V; ROVMF:OTCQB). Mr. Culter, welcome to the show. Judson Culter: Thanks for having me, Maurice. Maurice Jackson: Glad to have you back on the program. We last spoke in January of 2018, and since then Rover Metals has completed its IPO and implemented a methodical process of building an exploration company that is positioning itself for success from land acquisitions, permit approval, OTC listing, option agreements and completed the first phase of the 2018 exploration program. But before we begin, Mr. Culter, for first time listeners, who is Rover Metals? Judson Culter: Rover Metals, we are a precious metal exploration company, specifically gold is our focus currently. We’re co-listed in the United States OTCQB: ROVMF, as well as Canada on the TSX.V ROVR. Our project portfolio is concentrated in and around Yellowknife’s Northwest Territories, one of the most mining friendly jurisdictions in Canada and for North America for that matter. I say that just because that’s where our (Canada’s) diamond mines are. That’s historically where several of our gold mines have been. It’s really the primary employer in the Northwest Territories. Outside of government, mining is it. Maurice Jackson: Why has Rover Metals received so much interest here of lately? Judson Culter: I think that’s a two pronged answer. First is just credibility. Going back to 2017 on call with you, Maurice, if one listens to that interview, we talked about how we were going to go public, and how we were going to drill our resources, and how we were going to look to add new resources in the similar area code of Yellowknife.
We’ve successfully accomplished all those tasks. I believe we have strong foundational base in our existing shareholders. We’ve got a lot of credibility with them. We get a lot of word of mouth. I think that goes a long way in a market that can be a little bit over saturated in the junior mining space with which projects or which management teams do you back. I think really that we’ve gotten recognition for that now, which is really helping to drive our current success.
The second prong answer speaks to the projects themselves. Rover has the Cabin Lake Project, which is really what the market is asking for, and that’s why we bought it. When we receive the results from our drilling, we believe we will a high-grade gold historical resource that will contain super high grades that the market wants to see as confirmation that this really could be the next gold mine in the Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.
Not to mention this project itself has all the merits a speculator wants. We have solid infrastructure, the Blue Fish Hydro Dam, roads, all the accessibility and proven area of past producers. The market is beginning to recognize the credibility of the management team and the assets. Also, the awareness that we are near drilling in the not-too-distant future has investors’ attention as well. Maurice Jackson: Justin, what is the driving thesis for Rover Metals in regards to the Kevin Lake gold project? Judson Culter: The driving thesis has not changed. It’s the same thesis as in the late 1980s. There’s a project called the Lupin Gold Mine that produced from 1983 to 2003 in the north, which is an iron formation, super high-grade gold. The thought at the time was to go and find another one, and that’s what they thought they had here. This is when Cominco and Freeport McMoRan and then Aber Resources, that’s what they thought they had here. They drove 7,500 meters of at or near-surface iron hosted high-grade gold. The only reason they stopped is because somebody found kimberlites a few years after, and the diamond boom in the Territories began.
This project just kind of sat on the back burner as a result of that. Aber Resources, the owner of the time, of course, went on to find the kimberlites. That’s some historical context on this project and why it’s just now coming back to life. Maurice Jackson: Talk to us about the business acumen here. When and how was Rover Metals able to acquire the Cabin Lake gold project in such a highly contested and sought out district? Judson Culter: It wasn’t easy; when we looked at the business case, we figured that with a little bit of just rolling up our sleeves, and getting up there, and meeting the right stakeholders, and just recognizing that this is an area that needs new mines and new projects.
I didn’t think it would be like other areas in British Columbia, for example where BC, trying to get First Nation endorsement can be very difficult. There’s so many competing industries that people can really make a way of life in a jurisdiction like British Columbia, whereas knowing a little bit about the Northwest Territories, mining is a big deal up there. People want to see projects succeed.
When we went into the Cabin Lake project, we knew we had to get a couple of things there to get permits. We knew we had to get our neighbors, Tlicho First Nations, on board. We also did our homework and knew that the Tlicho First Nations had previously worked with Fortune Minerals, as well as Nighthawk Gold. When we got to it, there was a framework in place. There was a government that had been formed.
The Tlicho government and the land use formal plan to work within, for application permits, and applications. So, once we got to it, it ended up only being four months to get it permitted. I think it seemed to keep getting easier for us, and it ended up being a decision that looks like it was the right one to make. Maurice Jackson: Regarding mineral rights in your project portfolio, are there any reversionary interests? Judson Culter: There’s a 1.5% NSR that we’ve got viable down to a half percentage point for CA$250,000 per quarter percentage. Maurice Jackson: And does Rover Metals own the mineral rights outright 100%? Judson Culter: That’s correct. Yes, not just at Cabin Lake, but at the Cabin Lake group of projects. The claims themselves are 10 kilometers apart; so there’s three of them. For the entire group of projects, yes, we have 100% mineral right interest. Maurice Jackson: Let’s fast forward to 2018 and discuss your exploration program. What were the results from that program and how has that improved the confidence in the gold project? Judson Culter: It helped us to better track the iron information. So what we did was we spent the six months from March, when we acquired the project, into October, really to digitize all the historical records. At the time in the 1980s, that was meticulously kept, and it was handwritten. We digitize seven banker boxes of data, as well as three map boxes. Then, we put that in a GPS, and tag the colors and everything else.
Then what we wanted to do to follow on with that data was to run a current, modern-day geophysical program. There were a lot of options to us to do it, but in a really economical manner, but also to do it in a very detailed type formation using a drone. Because the mineralization occurs at or near surface, as well as the iron information itself being at or near surface, it really showed up well on the magnetic survey that we flew over the property. So by interlaying the drill results, as well as the mag survey, our geologist was able to get a better interpretation of the iron formation throughout the project. Really, that really set the stage for where we are going to put the drill when we get to drilling this year in 2019.
Beyond just the iron information, what we also realized about the project is the outcropping on either side is quartz. Historically, the quartz had never been tested for mineralization. So we also did a geochemistry program in October. What that showed us is that the PPM and PPB reading of gold from the quartz outcrop area suggest that it’s also very likely to be a host for gold on this project. It’s never been tested historically. That’s the excitement of 2018 and what’s led into the 2019 drill program, which was always trying to be between March and the end of April. We’re still trying to hold on to that deadline.
We’ve got the collars is ready to go. Right now, we believe what we need to do to start drilling is conduct a small financing that we’ll probably release in the coming week or two here. Maurice Jackson: So to review the value proposition we had before. This is potentially an open-pitable, early-stage brownfield exploration gold project with historical high-grade resource next to a new cobalt-gold mine, is that correct? Judson Culter: Yes, and that’s one thing I didn’t touch on is the actual historical resource itself. That’s 85,000 ounces unconfirmed in terms of what our current standards allow us to document as a historical resource. What we’re allowed to document in press releases and everything else is 50,000 ounces of roughly 10 to 12 grams gold per ton. The rest of that 35,000 ounces was never signed off by a Qualified Person, but it is in the NORMIN database in the Northwest Territories. It’s in the areas of the Andrew zone, which we’ve documented. Rover will do the work we need to do under 43-101 standards to take that other 35,000 ounces and get it compliant.
From our side internally, we see it as an 85,000 ounce of resource of 12 grams per ton gold on average. When we talk about it publicly, we have to say, 50,000 from a historical resource perspective, but you’re absolutely right that we’re 20 kilometers away from what’s looking to be Canada’s first cobalt mine. The reason I say that is this project’s been 20 years in the making; it’s at the feasibility stage. I believe they’re really just looking to raise the capital to get to work. It’s an open-pitable cobalt mine. The good news is it’s actually a cobalt gold bismuth. So there is a gold processor that’s going to be built 20 kilometers from us. What better news can you possibly have when you’re developing an at-surface resource? Maurice Jackson: The location in of itself makes the opportunity quite interesting, but to have open pit to me is icing on the cake. Is the goal to sell the project or develop into a commercial scale mine? Judson Culter: Definitely the goal is to sell it within the next three years, and so I want to put $10 million in the ground, and let’s get this wrapped up and sold. End of story. Maurice Jackson: What can you share with us regarding the infrastructure? Judson Culter: So what you see in Yellowknife right now is what’s going to be coming in the pipeline in the next two to three years in the Pine Point Zinc mine is going back into production and that’s Osisko. Part of that is twining the costs in Taltson Hydro Dam and bringing that into Yellowknife itself, as well as Hay River. There’s going to be federal funding allocated, as well as territorial, to do an environmental study that should be announced through fairly short order this year.
After there is a federally funded environmental study to evaluate the twinning of the Taltson Hydro Dam, a successful outcome will lead into a hydro power upgrade to Yellowknife. When Yellowknife is upgraded, that will free up excess hydro power at the Snare and Strutt Lake hydro dams, located approximately 5km away from Camp Lake, one of our claims that’s part of the Cabin Lake group. That power becomes excess power. All of a sudden that frees up for the future the viability of really selling the project because now you’ve got excess power sitting right there, five kilometers away. How good is that? Maurice Jackson: Switching gears. Rover Metals’ board of directors and advisors consists of the following people: Maurice Jackson: Bios for the management time are below: Maurice Jackson: Let’s discuss some numbers. Please share your capital structure. Judson Culter: We’ve got 47 million shares out today. That’s our issued and outstanding common shares. There are warrants out there. We have 10 million warrants at $0.20 cents, and 10 million warrants at $0.25 cents. Maurice Jackson: How much cash and cash equivalents do you have? Judson Culter: Treasury is sitting today around CA$450,000. Then, there’s been some prepayments for upcoming work commitments regarding our exploration plans for this year, as well as I mentioned, we’re doing a lot of our growth in terms of our marketing and our shareholder base in the United States. I think our prepaid balance, if you were to look at that today, should be around CA$200,000, just in terms of for events, as well as I mentioned, exploration planning. If you add that back to our cash position, we’re around CA$650,000 in current assets. Maurice Jackson: What is your burn rate? Judson Culter: Our burn rate’s about CA$30,000 a month, and that just includes all in. We purposely don’t carry an office in this market. We’re a bootstrap company. We have home offices, and then we’re on the road a lot. We’ve got an exploration office that is free from our exploration partner, Aurora Geosciences. That’s really where a lot of the hard work gets done. Then, there’s just no corporate office. I don’t feel the need for that, so that helps. Maurice Jackson: How much debt do you have? Judson Culter: We have some trade payables of, I think it’s roughly CA$40,000 that we’re going to settle in shares. Outside of that, we’ve got CA$25,000 in payables on top of that, that we’re going to pay in cash. That’s just some exploration legacy from last year. Maurice Jackson: Who is financing the project, and what is their level of commitment? Judson Culter: Just sophisticated mining investors. It’s been high net worth, accredited investors to this point. That will continue until we become a $10 million market cap company plus, because we’re just still not able to access institutional funds, and that’s fine. If Rover does everything that we hope to accomplish in the next drilling phase, which we hope is in the next 60 to 90 day window here, we should be a $10 million market cap plus company; and well on our way to institutional money. Maurice Jackson: Who are the major shareholders? Judson Culter: I’m a major shareholder. I’ve been seeding Rover not just with time, but my own money; since really inception in 2014. Tookie Angus, who is an advisor, is currently our third largest shareholder. Then, it really starts to break down to smaller tranches, but there is a notable name on the list: Ashwath Mehra, the chairman of GT Gold; he’s a relatively large shareholder.
Management, including Ron Woo. Ron’s also seeded this company. I think Ron’s probably fourth largest shareholder. Keith Minty’s a large shareholder; 38% of our outstanding shares are owned by insiders, management, board. That’s a good thing because that means our shares are tied up for three years. Maurice Jackson: Judson, based on the data available, what type of value proposition do we have in comparing? Judson Culter: Well, the market price, let’s just say, I think it should be $8.5 million, just on what we set out today. That’s my personal opinion. I think later value that, that’s just the reality of reserve stocks in North America. We’re going to do what we need to do to take that historical resource and bring it up to current standards, as well as to just extend where they stopped drilling, and just show them this really is a multimillion ounce potential asset.
I think we can get there with the drill program that we’re planning. We’re planning roughly a thousand meter program. I think the value proposition is we’re in a $3.5 million market cap today. I think we’re going to take it to $10 to 15 million in the next six months. Hold me to that. Maurice Jackson: I certainly will, sir. Multi-layered question here: what is the next unanswered question for Rover Metals? When can we expect the response? How much will the response cost? What determines success? Judson Culter: That’s going to be our Q1 or Q2 exploration drill campaign. I was going to caveat that, that is subject to the future success of our financing effort (click here), which we hope to announce in roughly two weeks’ time.
That will lead into confirmation of the historical high-grade gold results, such as the open-pit economics, expand upon the known mineralization in the iron formation, as well as to prove up a larger area play and this is more Q2/Q3 work, for the Slemon Lake, and Camp Lake claims, which are located 10 kilometers northwest from Cabin Lake, and we’ll fly that with an aerial B10 survey. What that will show is that the drilling we’ve done at Cabin Lake in the iron formation really just, those other two claims, or districts, an extension of the same geology, which everything that we’ve read historically shows us it is. Maurice Jackson: Mr. Culter, please share the contact details for Rover Metals. Judson Culter: Please visit our website www.RoverMetals.com. On there, you’ll find our social media links, which are LinkedIn, Twitter, our Facebook page and CEO.ca.
Our social media channels really have daily content. We’re press releasing every couple of weeks, but a lot of our investors like really the daily updates on what’s going on in the Northwest Territory. That’s the best place to stay tuned.
You can also submit to our mailing list. We typically will do an email update every two weeks as well. If you go to the bottom of the homepage on the website, and just submit your email, that subscribes you to our email mailing list. Maurice Jackson: And last but not least, please visit our website, provenandprobable.com, for mining insights and bullion sales. You may reach us at contact@provenandprobable.com.
Judson Culter of Rover Metals, thank you for joining us today on Proven and Probable. Maurice Jackson is the founder of Proven and Probable, a site that aims to enrich its subscribers through education in precious metals and junior mining companies that will enrich the world.
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VANCOUVER , March 4, 2019 /CNW/ – Rover Metals Corp. (ROVR.V) (ROVMF) (“Rover Metals” or the “Company“) is pleased to announce its intention to complete a non-brokered private placement of units (the “Units“) at a purchase price of $0.08 per Unit, for aggregate gross proceeds of up to CAD$1,250,000 (the “Offering“). Each Unit shall consist of one common share in the capital of the Company (a “Common Share“) and one Common Share purchase warrant (a “Warrant“). Each Warrant shall entitle the holder to acquire an additional Common Share at a price of $0.15 per share for a period of 24 months following the date of issuance.
Rover Metals anticipates using 80% of the proceeds of the Offering to finance exploration activities at the Cabin Lake Gold Project and remaining use of proceeds for general and administrative expenses.
The Company may pay finder’s fees in accordance with the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange in connection with the Offering.
Rover Metals anticipates relying, in part, on the exemption from the prospectus requirements provided in BC Instrument 45-534 – Exemption From Prospectus Requirement For Certain Trades to Existing Security Holders (the “Existing Shareholder Exemption“). The Company may also rely on other available prospectus exemptions.
Rover Metals has set March 1, 2019 as the record date for determining shareholders entitled to participate in the Offering in reliance on the Existing Shareholder Exemption. If the Offering is over-subscribed, Units will be allotted on a first come first served basis. Qualifying investors who wish to participate in the Offering should contact the Company using the contact information set forth below. It is anticipated that the Offering will close in one or more tranches commencing on or about March 15, 2019 .
All securities issued under the Offering will be subject to a hold period of four months and a day from the distribution date, in accordance with applicable securities laws. Completion of the Offering is subject to the receipt of all applicable approvals, including the approval of the TSX Venture Exchange.
About Rover Metals Rover Metals is a natural resource exploration company specialized in gold that is currently focused on the Northwest Territories of Canada , one of the most mining friendly jurisdictions in North America . The Cabin Lake Group of High Grade Gold Projects are located within 20km of Fortune Minerals’ (FT.TO) planned NICO Project gold processor.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF ROVER METALS “Judson Culter” Chief Executive Officer and Director
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Complete results from first drillholes campaign with significant Copper-Gold Mineralization at Pimentón Project
2026 Diamond Drilling Program Confirms and Extends Historical Copper-Gold Mineralization; Drilling Completed 3,084 m Across Four Holes.
Toronto, Ontario–(Newsfile Corp. – August 20, 2026) – Irruptive Metals Corp. (TSXV: IRR) (“Irruptive Metals” or the “Company“), an emerging copper-gold exploration company advancing the high-potential Pimentón Project located in the V Region, Central Chile, is pleased to announce the completion of its first diamond drill campaign, totalling 3,084 metres across four drillholes (IMP001 to IMP004), designed to test the central Cu-Au porphyry system within the Company’s flagship project. All assay results have now been received, validated, and incorporated into the geological model.
Drill Program Highlights
IMP002 returned 795.2 m with 0.66% CuEq (0.41 g/t Au, 0.31% Cu) from 167 m to end of hole at 962.2 m, including a gold-dominant high-grade interval of 60 m grading 1.49% CuEq (1.37 g/t Au, 0.31% Cu)
IMP001 returned two significant intervals: 202 m with 0.38% CuEq (0.22 g/t Au, 0.19% Cu) from 177 m to 379 m, and 358.4 m with 0.49% CuEq (0.29 g/t Au, 0.24% Cu) from 513 m to 871.4 m (EOH)
IMP003 returned 42 m with 0.25% CuEq (0.12 g/t Au, 0.15% Cu) from 171 m to 213 m and 176 m with 0.31% CuEq (0.15 g/t Au, 0.18% Cu) from 227 m to 403 m
IMP004 returned 406 m with 0.47% CuEq (0.26 g/t Au, 0.25% Cu) from 259 m to 665 m.
Results confirm and extend historical drilling by Rio Tinto and Anglo American, demonstrating geological continuity across the Central target area
Drill program completed 3,084 m of drilling across four holes from two platforms, with operations concluded on April 17, 2026
“These results from our 2026 drilling program are highly encouraging and confirm the significant copper-gold potential at Pimentón,”said Alfredo Bazo, President and CEO of Irruptive Metals. “The consistency of our results with historical drilling by Rio Tinto and Anglo American validates our geological model. We are particularly pleased with the 795-metre intercept in IMP002, which demonstrates both the scale and grade potential of the Central target. We look forward to advancing the project toward resource definition as we prepare for our next drilling campaign, as the mineralization remains open.”
The 2026 diamond drilling program was designed to twin or near-twin historical drillholes completed by Rio Tinto and Anglo American, with the objective of confirming historical geological and grade information and testing lateral and vertical extensions of known mineralization. The historical datasets were reviewed by Román Flores, P.Geo., author of the Company’s NI 43-101 Technical Report on the Pimentón Project (effective July 20, 2026). Mr. Flores is independent of Irruptive Metals for the purposes of Section 1.5 of National Instrument 43-101 and is a Qualified Person under NI 43-101.
Results obtained to date are consistent with the historical datasets and support the reliability of the original drilling. No mineral resource or mineral reserve has been estimated on the Pimentón Project, and the mineralization described in this news release is not necessarily indicative of the presence of a mineral resource or mineral reserve.
Using the same drill platforms as holes IMP001 and IMP002, IRR completed two additional holes (IMP003 and IMP004) oriented to the south (azimuth 180°, dip -70°) to evaluate the potential southward extension of the mineralized system. Hole IMP004 successfully intersected the targeted Cu-Au porphyry mineralization, including vein styles, sulfide assemblages and alteration consistent with the mineralized center defined in IMP001 and IMP002. These results provide additional evidence that the porphyry system remains open to the southeast, east and northeast supporting continued step-out drilling in that direction.
Mineralization is associated with a complex of Cu-Au porphyry dykes exhibiting potassic alteration (K-feldspar, biotite), EB-type and A-type veins. Higher-grade zones correspond to early mineral porphyry phases overprinted by green-sericite-chalcopyrite assemblages. Some High-sulfidation Au-Ag-Cu vein systems appear telescoped over porphyry and also located peripheral to the center.
The geological interpretation, based on the integration of new drillholes and historical datasets, identifies a Cu-Au porphyry dyke complex with an NNE orientation and near-vertical dip. This Cu-Au porphyry corridor is currently 600 metres long, 300 metres wide and is open to the E, SE, NE and W, representing the principal conduit for mineralization within the Central Target. The geometry and orientation of these dykes provide a coherent framework that explains the distribution of potassic-centred mineralization, the green sericite high-grade transitional halo, and peripheral alteration zones observed across both historical and recent drilling.
Outlook and Next Steps
Reprocessing of historical geophysics (Magnetometry, IP-Res & MT) to improve and prioritize targets, Q3-2026
Conduct geometallurgical sampling and mineralogical/metallurgical test work
Resampling historical holes in central target (PP18 & PP04) to include in updated NI 43-101 Technical Report with initial inferred resource estimate, Q1-2027
Advance drilling to test lateral and deep extensions of the Central target to expand the initial resources, Q4 2026 to Q1 2027
Obtain the environmental permits (DIA) to drill the Ridge-Bx, SE, Verde and Maria Elena targets to consolidate the Pimentón project as a high-potential Cu-Au resource, Q1 2028
Table 1: Summary of Significant Drill Intercepts
Drill Results Summary
From
To
Length (m)
Au g/t
Cu %
CuEq %
Hole
IMP001
177
379
202
0.22
0.19
0.38
513
871.4
358.4
0.29
0.24
0.49
IMP002
167
962.2
795.2
0.41
0.31
0.66
High grade zone
181
317
136
0.44
0.43
0.81
327
387
60
1.37
0.31
1.49
IMP003
171
213
42
0.12
0.15
0.25
227
403
176
0.15
0.18
0.31
IMP004
259
665
406
0.26
0.25
0.47
Notes: Intervals are reported using a cut-off of CuEq >0.2% with three dilution samples (6 m) and no top-cut applied. CuEq = Cu% + (Au g/t × 0.86). Metal prices used are the two-year average (2024-2025): US$4.95/lb Cu and US$2,918/oz Au. Recoveries were assumed equal for all metals. CuEq is used for comparison purposes only. No metallurgical recovery testwork has been completed on the Project; equal recoveries have been assumed for all metals for illustrative purposes only, so the reported CuEq values may not be representative of recoverable or economically recoverable metal.
Reconciliation with Technical Report: These results are final and, where they differ, update the preliminary intercepts disclosed in the NI 43-101 Technical Report (July 20, 2026). Intervals in this release are composited using three dilution samples (6 m); the Technical Report used two dilution samples. Reported intervals are therefore not directly comparable to that report, and the 478 m at 0.80% CuEq interval shown for IMP002 in the Technical Report is not reproduced here.
True Widths: All reported intervals are downhole core lengths. True widths have not yet been determined and are expected to be less than the reported downhole lengths.
Table 2: Drillhole Collar Locations
Hole ID
Easting (m)
Northing (m)
Elevation (m)
Azimuth (°)
Dip (°)
EOH depth (m)
IMP001
385571
6406345
3627
60
−70
871.4
IMP002
385670
6406472
3629
60
−70
962.2
IMP003
385573
6406346
3627
180
-70
503
IMP004
385666
6406471
3629
180
-70
747.3
Note: Coordinates are in WGS84 Zone 19S.
Figure 1: Plan view showing location of Irruptive Metals’ and historical drillholes, CuEq grade shell interpretation at 3200m of elevation in Central target, and key outcrops (Cu-Au porphyry and tourmaline breccia) in Ridge-Bx and SE targets.
Drill core was logged, sampled, and cut under the supervision of Company geologists. Samples were prepared and analyzed by AGS-Cotecna laboratory, which is independent of the Company and an ISO/IEC 17025-accredited laboratory. Gold assays were completed using fire assay with AAS finish. Multi-element determination was completed by four-acid digestion (HF-HNO₃-HClO₄-HCl) followed by ICP-OES analysis. The Company maintains a rigorous QA/QC program including the insertion of certified reference materials (5%), blanks (2.5%), and field duplicates (2.5%) at regular intervals. No material QA/QC issues were identified in the reviewed data. The Qualified Person has verified the data underlying the technical information disclosed in this news release, including by reviewing the assay results, the QA/QC data and the sampling and analytical procedures, and is not aware of any drilling, sampling, recovery or other factors that could materially affect the accuracy or reliability of the data.
Qualified Person
The scientific and technical information in this news release has been reviewed and approved by Claudio Burgoa, P.Geo., Chief Geologist of Irruptive Metals, a qualified person for the purposes of National Instrument 43-101 – Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects and Qualified Person #535, Comisión Minera de Chile.
About Irruptive Metals Corp.
Irruptive Metals Corp. (TSXV: IRR) is a Canadian copper-gold exploration company focused on unlocking value from high-quality mineral projects in Chile. The Company’s flagship Pimentón Project is strategically located within one of the world’s most prolific porphyry copper-gold belts and has been the subject of extensive historical exploration by major mining companies, underscoring its significant discovery potential.
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Management to attend AUSA 2026 Annual Meeting and Exposition in Washington, D.C., October 12-14
HAGERSTOWN, MD / ACCESS Newswire / October 8, 2026 / First Breach Inc. (NASDAQ:FBDT) (“First Breach” or the “Company”), an American-made defense technologies company focused on vertically integrated ammunition production and next-generation unmanned aerial systems, today announced an expanded recruitment initiative to support increased ammunition production and the planned buildout of its drone manufacturing operations in Hagerstown, Maryland.
The initiative is intended to strengthen the Company’s workforce as it scales its ammunition business and develops the technical and operational capabilities needed for its unmanned systems programs.
“Building our workforce is an important part of our efforts to expand ammunition production and prepare for planned drone manufacturing operations,” said Jeffrey Low, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of First Breach. “We are looking to bring additional talent into the Company to support these efforts as we develop our U.S. manufacturing capabilities.”
Interested candidates are encouraged to inquire about employment opportunities and submit their resumes through the Company’s career application page.
Management to Attend AUSA 2026
Members of First Breach’s management team will also attend the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) 2026 Annual Meeting and Exposition, taking place October 12-14 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C.
The annual event brings together military leaders, government representatives, defense companies and international delegations to discuss Army priorities, emerging technologies and the future of land warfare. First Breach management looks forward to on-site meetings with industry participants to discuss the Company’s ammunition capabilities and developing unmanned systems business, explore potential collaborations and better understand customer requirements.
Industry participants interested in arranging an on-site meeting with First Breach management may contact Ken Leith, Chief Revenue Officer, at ken@firstbreach.com. Additional information about the conference is available at the AUSA 2026 Annual Meeting and Exposition website.
About First Breach
First Breach Inc. is an ISO 9001:2015 certified, American-made defense technologies company focused on manufacturing match-grade ammunition components, finished ammunition, and developing next-generation unmanned aerial systems for commercial, law enforcement, and military markets. The Company manufactures its products in-house at its Hagerstown, Maryland facility, where it produces brass cups, casings, projectiles, lead cores, lead wire, and completed ammunition with rigorous quality control standards. First Breach is also advancing its drone strategy through the development of U.S.-made unmanned systems, leveraging advanced engineering, robotics, ISR and sensor technologies, and precision manufacturing capabilities to address evolving defense, homeland security, law enforcement, and commercial requirements across domestic and international markets.
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I first wrote about a new advertiser named Sage Potash last June. In that piece I wanted to make the point that having a single country potentially controlling a substantial flow of major commodities such as oil and oil related products was especially dangerous for the world economy. It doesn’t make any difference if that country is considered a friend or foe.
That’s exactly the situation Trump has dragged the US into to pay for and fight a war against a country not our enemy. But Israel controls Congress, they control the Senate, now the military and certainly own Donald J. Trump. It’s a war for Israel, not a war the US stands to gain anything. But Israel hates all their neighbors and whines on a constant basis about how they, Israel, are the victims. They are not.
Countries of the world need to be thinking seriously about a Plan B. Anything energy related needs to be considered. Having an alternative source of supply could easily mean issues of life and death. We are going to understand that better this winter when foolish energy decisions such as that of Germany allowing the US military to blow up 75% of the four Nord Stream pipelines cause Europeans to freeze and potentially starve due to the cost and availability of energy and energy products.
Fertilizer is a perfect example. Many of the inputs to fertilizer are produced as a byproduct of refining crude oil such as sulfur. Due to this incredibly stupid and pointless war, the costs of farming such as diesel fuel and urea or sulfur have shot through the roof.
A tiny company in Utah heard a knock on the door and found to their great pleasure that it was opportunity knocking. Sage Potash (SAGE-V) owns a 345 square km potash property in a basin in Utah. Based on the first drill hole they put down named Johnson 1 the company has an existing 43-101 inferred resource of 298.1 million tonnes of high-grade potash. Obviously right from the start it is going to be difficult for potential investors to understand what value the company offers so I am going to lead you through how to determine that.
With some flat lying sedimentary minerals such as coal and potash even a single hole can generate an inferred resource. The theory being that since it is a flat deposit of sedimentary material even a single hole will suggest similar material surrounding the hole. In the case of the first hole, named Johnson 1, the QP used a circle around the hole with a diameter of 2.4 km. The QP concluded the grade of the hole and thickness justified an inferred resource of 298.1 million tonnes at an average of about 40% potash.
The potash market has been relatively stable for the last couple of years because potash doesn’t come from natural gas or crude oil. The value of a tonne of potash in the markets the Utah based Sage would serve would be about $472.50. If you multiply the resource of 298.1 million tonnes by an average grade of about 40% and factor in the current price of $472.50 the theoretical value of the potash in the ground would be about $56 billion in USD.
Here is where it gets very interesting. I have looked at the capex and Opex of other potash companies and it looks to me as if the company could in theory net about $300 a tonne and produce between one and two million tonnes a year. The Capex is not cheap, it could be in the $1 to $2 billion range.
The real news beyond the excellent drill results from Hole 2, named Peterson 1 released on September 28th and promptly ignored by investors is just how it will affect the 43-101 numbers.
If you look at the chart we prepared below. The black circle reflects the 298.1 million tonnes with the resource derived from the Johnson 1 hole. And now the company has drilled the Peterson 1 hole just 1 km to the NE. That hole is surrounded by a 2.4 km diameter dashed line. If the QP shows that in the 43-101 coming in about a month, the red area in between Johnson and Peterson will almost certainly qualify as Measured and Indicated. The green quarter moons above and below the holes will almost certainly be Inferred. So it looks to me as if the resource will only grow perhaps 25% but the high-grade resource shown in red will be about 50% of the total. That’s a giant move higher in confidence and should draw the attention of majors.
The grade of the potash shown in both holes is exceptional and is among the highest grade in the world. It certainly looks to me as if this will be put into production. The US needs to control the inputs to its own agriculture industry.
Sage is an advertiser and I have bought shares in the open market. Naturally I am biased so do your own due diligence. Their only problem is a lack of visibility.
Sage Potash Corp SAGE-V $.13 Oct 01, 2026 SGPTF-OTCQB 171 million shares Sage Potash website
Vancouver, British Columbia–(Newsfile Corp. – October 1, 2026) – West Point Gold Corp. (TSXV: WPG) (OTCQX: WPGCF) (FSE: LRA0) (“West Point Gold” or the “Company”) is pleased to report that following the receipt of permits and the completion of bonding, Kinross Gold U.S.A., Inc. (“Kinross”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Kinross Gold Corporation, has commenced drilling at West Point Gold’s Jefferson Canyon project in Nye County, Nevada.
Highlights
Kinross has commenced drilling on September 23, 2026, at West Point Gold’s Jefferson Canyon, located approximately 7 kilometres from its Round Mountain operations.
Partner-funded exploration allows West Point Gold to retain exposure to Jefferson Canyon while allowing the Company to remain focused on its flagship Gold Chain Project.
Permits were received August 19, 2026, starting the four-year option period laid out in the 2022 Exploration and Option Agreement (the “Agreement”).
The Agreement provides for the potential of up to US$10 million in future option payments.
West Point Gold retains meaningful long-term exposure to Jefferson Canyon, including a 20% project interest if both Kinross options are exercised and royalty protection should its interest subsequently be diluted below 10%.
“We are excited that drilling has begun at West Point Gold’s Jefferson Canyon project. The historical drilling and work we previously completed suggest this project has the potential to deliver a significant deposit. Given the project’s proximity to Kinross’s Round Mountain mine and our partnership on the Jefferson Canyon project with Kinross, we believe the hurdle rate to define a mineable deposit is relatively low,” stated Derek Macpherson, President & CEO.
Jefferson Canyon Project, Nevada The Jefferson Canyon project in Nye County, Nevada is located 7 kilometres from Kinross’s Round Mountain operations (Figure 1). The project has 145 historical drill holes, including 41.2m at 6.4 g/t gold and 402 g/t silver (GJ-81). In 2022, West Point Gold entered into an Exploration and Option Agreement with Kinross (the “Agreement”). Kinross has made all the required payments associated with the agreement to date.
Figure 1: Jefferson Canyon Project Relative to Round Mountain
The Jefferson Canyon project contains a large volcanic-hosted epithermal Au-Ag system that is essentially the same age as the nearby Round Mountain deposit, a world-class low-sulfidation (LS) epithermal deposit. Both are hosted in felsic ash-flow tuffs along the margins of calderas and both contain a strong northwest-trending and north-south structural control to veins. Both areas contain low-grade disseminated and high-grade vein or replacement-type mineralization.
Historical drilling has defined multiple zones of mineralization (Figure 2) and has been highlighted by multiple significant drill intercepts, including 41.2m of 6.4 g/t Au and 402 g/t Ag (GJ-81).
Figure 2: Historical Drill Holes and Mineralized Envelope along the Jefferson Canyon (“JF”) Fault
Soil sampling in 2021 revealed a four-square-kilometre circular gold-in-soil anomaly (Figure 3). The highest Au-in-soil value was 4,470 parts per billion Au and anomalous values were distributed as follows: 29 samples contained greater than 500 parts per billion Au; 99 samples were greater than 200 ppb Au; 234 samples were greater than 100 ppb Au; and, 631 samples were greater than 20 ppb Au. The five rock samples collected were anomalous, with values of up to 15.2 g/t gold and 421 g/t silver.
Figure 3: Gold-in-Soil and Silver-in-Soil Anomalies at Jefferson Canyon with historical drill collars
The CSMAT resistivity data suggests that the Jefferson Canyon fault is a deep structure which likely controls mineralization. This spatial relationship to the gold-silver mineralization supports the potential to expand the mineralized footprint both along strike and depth. A large conductor is evident down plunge along the northeast-dipping Jefferson Canyon fault.
Figure 4: CSAMT /Resistivity Model Showing the Projection of the Jefferson Canyon Fault at Depth
Kinross will continue making ongoing lease payments of US$75,000 per year for the term of the agreement.
Kinross is required to spend US$600,000 on exploration work and will be responsible for making the payments to keep the unpatented claims in good standing.
During the term of the agreement, Kinross has the option to acquire 70% of the project for a cash payment of US$5,000,000 to West Point Gold and form a joint venture LLC, and a second option to acquire an additional 10% of the project for a further payment of US$5,000,000 to the Company.
The term of the Agreement is four years commencing from receipt of drill permits, with a potential extension of up to two years, subject to certain conditions. Drill permits were received on August 19, 2026.
If an LLC is formed, and either party is diluted below 10%, its interest converts to a 1% net smelter returns (NSR) royalty.
Marketing Engagements The Company has engaged New Era Publishing Inc. (“New Era”), also doing business as Katusa Research, an arm’s-length service provider, to provide the Company certain investor relations and marketing services, in accordance with the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange and applicable securities laws. Based in Vancouver, B.C., New Era specializes in media and investor relations services within the natural resource sector. Under a consulting agreement dated September 8, 2026, New Era will provide media relations, investor communication and market awareness services to the Company for a two-month term for a one-time fee of US$150,000, payable at the commencement of services. The Company will not issue any securities to New Era as compensation for its services. As of the date hereof, to the Company’s knowledge, New Era (including its directors and officers) does not own any securities of the Company. The marketing agreement with New Era is subject to TSX Venture Exchange approval.
Additionally, the Company has engaged Freedom Financial Research, LLC (“Freedom Financial”), an arm’s-length service provider, to provide the Company certain investor relations and marketing services, in accordance with the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange and applicable securities laws. Based in Charlottesville, Virginia, Freedom Financial specializes in media and investor relations services. Under a consulting agreement dated September 11, 2026, Freedom Financial will provide media relations, investor communication and market awareness services to the Company for a 90-day term for a one-time fee of US$150,000, payable at the commencement of services. The Company will not issue any securities to Freedom Financial as compensation for its services. As of the date hereof, to the Company’s knowledge, Freedom Financial (including its directors and officers) does not own any securities of the Company. The marketing agreement with Freedom Financial is subject to TSX Venture Exchange approval.
Qualified Person Robert Johansing, M.Sc. Econ. Geol., P. Geo., the Company’s Vice President, Exploration, is a qualified person (“QP”) as defined by NI 43-101 and has reviewed and approved the technical content of this press release. The QP has not completed sufficient work to verify the historical information on the properties, particularly regarding historical drill results. However, the QP believes prior drilling and analytical results were completed in accordance with industry-standard practices.
About West Point Gold Corp. West Point Gold is an exploration and development company focused on unlocking value across four strategically located projects along the prolific Walker Lane Trend in Nevada and Arizona, USA, providing shareholders with exposure to multiple discovery opportunities across one of North America’s most productive gold regions. The Company’s near-term priority is advancing its flagship Gold Chain Project in Arizona.
For further information regarding this press release, please contact: Aaron Paterson, Corporate Communications Manager Phone: +1 (778) 358-6173 Email: info@westpointgold.com
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Scheduled manufacturing hours increase 110%, from 40 to 84 per week, as Company advances toward planned 24-hour operations
HAGERSTOWN, MD / ACCESS Newswire / September 30, 2026 / First Breach Inc. (NASDAQ:FBDT) (“First Breach” or the “Company”), an American-made defense technologies company focused on vertically integrated ammunition production and next-generation unmanned aerial systems, today announced that its ammunition manufacturing facility in Hagerstown, Maryland, has transitioned from eight-hour operations, Monday through Friday, to 12-hour operations, seven days a week.
Following a successful initial trial, the expanded schedule increases scheduled manufacturing hours from 40 to 84 per week. The transition represents the first phase of the Company’s planned move to 24-hour operations through two 12-hour shifts, seven days a week.
Together with recently installed loading and inspection equipment, the additional hours are intended to increase ammunition production capacity and support customer demand, including purchasing commitments under the Company’s previously announced three-year supply and distribution agreement with SAS Ammo.
“This expansion allows us to make greater use of our equipment and existing facility as we work to increase production and strengthen our ability to serve customers,” said Jeffrey Low, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of First Breach. “The positive results of our initial trial give us confidence in our phased approach as we work toward continuous production.”
The expansion builds on First Breach’s investment in domestic ammunition manufacturing and its ISO 9001:2015-certified quality management system. Experience gained in managing additional shifts and coordinating production teams is also expected to support the Company’s planned drone manufacturing expansion.
About First Breach
First Breach Inc. is an ISO 9001:2015 certified, American-made defense technologies company focused on manufacturing match-grade ammunition components, finished ammunition, and developing next-generation unmanned aerial systems for commercial, law enforcement, and military markets. The Company manufactures its products in-house at its Hagerstown, Maryland facility, where it produces brass cups, casings, projectiles, lead cores, lead wire, and completed ammunition with rigorous quality control standards. First Breach is also advancing its drone strategy through the development of U.S.-made unmanned systems, leveraging advanced engineering, robotics, ISR and sensor technologies, and precision manufacturing capabilities to address evolving defense, homeland security, law enforcement, and commercial requirements across domestic and international markets.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are not historical facts and include statements regarding the Company’s expectations, beliefs, plans, objectives, strategies, future events, future performance, business prospects, growth initiatives, acquisitions, market opportunities, capital resources, operational objectives, and other statements that are predictive in nature. Forward-looking statements may be identified by the use of words such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “forecast,” “intend,” “may,” “plan,” “potential,” “predict,” “project,” “seek,” “should,” “target,” “will,” “would,” and similar expressions, although not all forward-looking statements contain these identifying words.
Forward-looking statements are based on management’s current expectations, assumptions, and beliefs regarding future developments and their potential effect on the Company. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions, and other factors that may cause actual results, performance, or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.
Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, changes in economic, business, market, competitive, regulatory, technological, legal, and geopolitical conditions; the Company’s ability to execute its business strategy; the successful integration of acquisitions and strategic transactions; access to capital and financing; customer demand; industry developments; and other risks and uncertainties described from time to time in the Company’s filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which are available for review at www.sec.gov.
Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date they are made. Except as required by applicable law, the Company undertakes no obligation to update, revise, or publicly disclose any revisions to any forward-looking statements to reflect events, circumstances, or changes in expectations occurring after the date of this press release.
Vancouver, British Columbia and Salt Lake City, Utah–(Newsfile Corp. – September 28, 2026) – Sage Potash Corp. (TSXV: SAGE) (OTCQB: SGPTF) (“Sage Potash” or the “Company”) is pleased to provide potash assay results from the completion of drilling operations at the Peterson 1 site, located at the Company’s flagship Sage Plain Potash Project in southeast Utah. Results from the Saskatchewan Research Council lab assays returned three high-grade potash sections grading better than 50.0 % KCl within the Upper and Lower Cycle 18 potash beds. High-grade sections in the Upper Cycle 18 potash horizon include 10.8 feet (3.3 m) of 52.5% KCl and 3.3 feet (1.0 m) of 52.0% KCl within the 26.6 foot (8.1m) thick intersection of the Upper Cycle 18 potash bed grading 36.1% KCl. A high-grade, 10.1 foot (3.1 m) section grading 53.4% KCl in the Lower Cycle 18 potash bed occurs within a 16.4 foot (5.0 m) thick intersection grading 36.4% KCl, confirming the continuity and high-grade tenor of the deposit and making it one of the highest-grade deposits around the world.
DRILL PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
Continuity of high-grade potash and significant bed thicknesses have been confirmed for both Upper and Lower Cycle 18 potash beds.
Outstanding, high-grade tenor confirmed within the Upper and Lower Cycle 18 potash beds as summarized in Table 1.
Combined grade and thickness of 36.3% over 43 feet (13.1 m) for the whole of Cycle 18.
The potash intervals and assay results confirm remarkable continuity between the recently completed Peterson 1 hole and the previous Johnson 1 hole, located 0.62 miles (1.0 km) to the south.
Importantly, we have now also confirmed high-grade potash mineralization in the Lower Bed of Cycle 18.
FROM (ft)
TO (ft)
THICKNESS (ft)
THICKNESS (m)
KCl GRADE (%)
UPPER CYCLE 18
7,087.6
7,114.2
26.6
8.1
36.1%
Including
7,087.6
7,090.9
3.3
1.0
52.0%
Including
7,098.1
7,108.9
10.8
3.3
52.5%
LOWER CYCLE 18
7,154.2
7,170.6
16.4
5.0
36.4%
Including
7,154.2
7,164.4
10.2
3.1
53.4%
Table 1. Summary of Upper and Lower Cycle 18 drill intercepts in Peterson 1
“Completing the Peterson 1 drilling program and receiving these outstanding analytical results mark a significant, transformational development for the Sage Plain Project,” said Patricio Varas, CEO of Sage Potash. “The continuity, thickness and high grades of the potash beds demonstrate a world-class deposit that can be advanced rapidly toward production.”
Mr. Varas added: “Potash project resources commonly exceed the tonnage required to define reserves and a mine plan. As we advance the project – first with an updated resource estimate, followed by a PFS and further engineering studies, we expect the new resource to support a higher-capacity mine plan contemplating meaningful potash production in the United States. This scale should allow Sage to evaluate various mining methods and optimize a mine plan that leverages the very high-grade mineralization to target a high IRR and rapid payback, while pursuing a development larger than the 300,000 tonnes per year contemplated in the September 8, 2025 PEA.”
Mr. Varas further added: “The Sage Plain Project is advancing as the United States designates potash a critical mineral and global attention to fertilizer-input security remains elevated.”
Results from these analytical assays will now be used to update the project resources. An updated NI 43-101 resource estimate is planned to be delivered in the next 45 days.
PETERSON DRILLING PROGRAM
As previously announced, the Peterson 1 stratigraphic exploration hole was successfully completed on August 4, 2026, marking a key operational milestone for the project. During an initial onsite geological assessment of the recovered core, the Company confirmed the presence of pure sylvite mineralization within the Cycle 18 potash horizons.
The Peterson 1 hole was sited 0.62 miles (1.0 km) to the north-northeast of the previously drilled Johnson 1 hole (Figure 1) to facilitate both a resource expansion and delineation of a portion of the resource that will fall into the measured and indicated categories in a new NI 43-101 resource estimate.
Figure 1. Property location map with Peterson 1 and Johnson 1 Drill Hole Locations and regional extent of potash mineralization (USGA and others). Drill Hole Locations show Radius of Influence(“ROI”) illustrated as used in resource calculations.
Core from the Cycle 18 Upper and Lower zones was recovered and transported to the Saskatchewan Research Council laboratories in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (“SRC”), for geochemical analysis. Samples were collected and shipped under the supervision of qualified independent geological personnel for analysis using industry-standard procedures. Quality assurance and quality control protocols included the insertion of blanks, standards, and duplicate samples throughout the sampling program. Assays were completed along the entire length of recovered core. Eight, one foot (30 cm) core sections were removed at the site for geo-mechanical testing. These core sections will be forwarded to the SRC laboratory for assays when geo-mechanical testing is completed. In the absence of assays, gamma ray results were used to determine the potash content for those eight samples.
The geochemical assay samples and resulting delineation of grade intercepts confirm attractive potash bed thicknesses and grades that demonstrate the high-grade tenor of the mineralization in this part of the Paradox Basin, between the Johnson 1 and Peterson 1 holes. The continuous thicknesses and high grade now demonstrated by the historical wells and the Peterson well will allow for a significant increase in the resource estimate and will allow for an upgrade in the quality of the resource for the project.
The Company has engaged RESPEC LLC to perform the NI 43-101 resource calculation based on the inclusion of the Peterson 1 drill hole information. RESPEC previously completed a NI 43-101 resource estimate on Sept 8, 2025.
SUMMARY OF CURRENT RESULTS AND COMPARISON TO PREVIOUS DRILL HOLE
Peterson 1 assays returned 36.1% KCl over 26.6 feet (8.1 m) in the Upper Bed of Cycle 18 and 36.4% KCl over 16.4 feet (5.0 m) in the Lower Bed of Cycle 18.
Figure 2. – Peterson 1 photograph of core recovered at the beginning of the Upper bed interval shows pure sylvite mineralization.
Table 2. – Full interval lengths and grades for the Cycle 18 Upper and Lower Beds; Peterson 1 and Johnson 1 drill holes.
Table 2 shows the overall thickness and grade encountered at the Peterson 1 hole compared to the Johnson 1 drill hole; the two holes show excellent continuity. The current drill program recovered an outstanding high-grade interval within the Upper Bed of Cycle 18. At 7,094.5 feet (2162.4 m) of depth at the Peterson 1 drill site an interval measuring 13.8 feet (4.22 m) grading 45.5% KCl was recovered within an intercept of 19.7 feet (5.99 m) in the Cycle 18 Upper Bed with grades of 39.4% KCl. This correlates to a continuation of the same high-grade interval at Johnson 1 which was 15.0 feet (4.58 m) of 53.5% KCl.
The following figure shows a comparison of the Peterson 1 drill intercepts set out with the corresponding Johnson 1 drill intercepts in relation to the same stratigraphic bed for the Cycle 18 Upper Bed.
Figure 3. – Peterson-1 and Johnson-1 Upper Bed of Cycle 18 drill hole intercepts and continuity of Lithology
The beginning of the Upper Bed of Cycle 18 was encountered at 7,085.6 feet (2,159 m) at Peterson 1 and correlates well with the Johnson 1 hole, confirming the flat lying nature of the mineralization with a dip of approximately 0.8 degrees. The Upper Bed was followed by a barren halite interval of 42 feet (12.8 m) before entering the Lower Bed, which also correlates well with the 41 feet (12.5 m) of barren halite between the Upper and Lower Cycle 18 beds at the Johnson 1 hole site.
Assay results also indicate that the potash interval at the Peterson 1 well location is also very clean with traces of carnallite and less than 1% insoluble materials, which compares positively with the purity of the deposit in this part of the Paradox Basin as evidenced in the original Johnson 1 hole.
Drill results from the Peterson 1 and Johnson 1 sites, along with regional gamma ray results from historical drill data and previously obtained 2D seismic data, indicate the Cycle 18 potash mineralization is open in all directions.
SAGE PLAIN PROJECT GRADE COMPARISON WITH WORLD DEPOSITS
Sage Plain Project contains one of the highest-grade potash resources in the world. The bar graph in Figure 4 below shows deposit grades of many large producing mines along with certain development stage projects around the world:
Figure 4. Potash deposit grades around the world (see endnote for information sources).
The scientific and technical information contained in this news release has been reviewed and approved by Greg Vogelsang, P.Geo., P.Eng. a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects. Mr. Vogelsang is Vice President Project Development for the Company.
About Sage Potash Corp.
Sage Potash Corp. (TSXV: SAGE) (OTCQB: SGPTF) is dedicated to the development of its flagship Sage Plain Potash Project, located in the Paradox Basin, Utah. With a large and high-grade resource base, the Company is advancing toward its goal of establishing a secure and sustainable domestic potash production platform in the United States. Sage Potash is committed to food security, environmental stewardship, and creating value for shareholders and stakeholders alike.
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
Figure 4 Information Sources
Sources of information on other companies and projects used include: Millennial Potash Corp. (Banio Project Technical Report Nov. 11, 2025), Argentina Potash Corporation (company website referencing Agapito Associates NI 43-101 Dec 20, 2024), K+S Aktiengesellshaft (former owner Potash One Corp.’s Technical Report for Mineral Permit KP 289 Saskatchewan by Agapito Associates, Nov. 10, 2010), Uralkali (PJSC Uralkali Annual Report, April 24, 2024), Mosaic Company (Belle Plaine Technical Report, Dec. 31, 2024; Esterhazy resource grade from 2025 Annual Report), Brazil Potash Corp. (Autazes Project, S-K 1300 Technical Report Summary, Oct 14, 2021), Nutrien Ltd., (Nutrien’s 2025 AIF provides average grade mined over the 3-year period 2023 to 2025; Rocanville and Allan), Buffalo Potash Corp. (Disley Project, Technical Report April 15, 2026), Belaruskali, (JSC Belruskali entity website www:belaruskali.by/en/production), Gensource Potash Corporation (Tugaske Project, Technical Report, Oct. 14, 2021), Intrepid Potash Corp (Technical Report Summary of the 2023 Estimated Resources and Reserves at Intrepid Potash-Moab, Dec. 31, 2023), BHP (BHP Group Limited 2025 Annual Report; Jansen project).
Sage Potash Corp. resource information source (Sage Plain Technical Report, Sept 8, 2025 by RESPEC LLC).
This news release contains “forward-looking information” and “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of applicable securities legislation. The forward-looking statements herein are made as of the date of this news release only, and the Company does not assume any obligation to update or revise them to reflect new information, estimates or opinions, future events or results or otherwise, except as required by applicable law. Often, but not always, forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of words such as “plans”, “expects”, “is expected”, “budgets”, “scheduled”, “estimates”, “forecasts”, “predicts”, “projects”, “intends”, “targets”, “aims”, “anticipates” or “believes” or variations (including negative variations) of such words and phrases or may be identified by statements to the effect that certain actions “may”, “could”, “should”, “would”, “might” or “will” be taken, occur or be achieved. Forward-looking information in this news release includes, but is not limited to, statements with respect to future events or future performance of Sage Potash, including: the Peterson well allowing for a significant increase in the resource estimate and allowing for an upgrade in the quality of the resource for the project, the planned delivery of the new resource in 45 days, the planned delivery of a PFS, that the continuity, thickness and high grades of the potash beds demonstrate a world-class deposit that can be advanced rapidly toward production, that we expect the new resource to support a higher-capacity mine plan contemplating meaningful potash production in the United States, that scale should allow Sage to evaluate various mining methods and optimize a mine plan that leverages the very high-grade mineralization to target a high IRR and rapid payback, while pursuing a development larger than the 300,000 tonnes per year contemplated in the September 8, 2025 PEA.. Forward-looking statements and information are subject to various known and unknown risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the ability of the Company to control or predict, that may cause the Company’s actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied thereby, and are developed based on assumptions about such risks, uncertainties and other factors set out herein, including, but not limited to, the risk factors set out under the heading “Risk Factors and Uncertainties” in the Company’s Management’s Discussion & Analysis available for review under the Company’s profile at www.sedarplus.ca. Such forward-looking information represents management’s best judgement based on information currently available. No forward-looking statement can be guaranteed and actual future results may vary materially. Accordingly, readers are advised not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements or information.
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Your savings account is supposed to be the safe place for your money. But a warning from the Federal Reserve raises an unsettling question: What if the danger never shows up on your bank statement?
On Sept. 16, Fed Chair Kevin Warsh delivered (1) a blunt assessment: “The plain fact is that inflation is too high, and has been for too long.”
His words came as the Fed raised its benchmark interest rate from 3.75% to 4.00% — the first hike in three years. The vote was unanimous.
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Warsh isn’t the only Fed official sounding the alarm.
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Untethered flight validates airframe and vehicle systems as First Breach moves toward completion of initial prototypes in Q4 2026.
Company reaffirms target of scaling production in Q2 2027, supported by its strategic agreement with Hellbender for engineering, design, and domestic component manufacturing.
POC, with payload
HAGERSTOWN, Md / ACCESS Newswire / August 25, 2026 – First Breach Inc. (NASDAQ:FBDT) (“First Breach” or the “Company”), an American-made defense technologies company focused on
vertically integrated ammunition production and next-generation unmanned aerial systems, today announced the successful completion of the first untethered flight of its proprietary drone prototype. The Company also reported progress on its proprietary flight controller, developed under its strategic agreement with Hellbender, Inc., as it works toward completing initial prototypes in the fourth quarter of 2026. Building on the first flight announced on August 25, 2026, the latest milestone demonstrated operation of the prototype’s airframe, propulsion, and core vehicle systems in free flight without a physical tether. The aircraft flew using commercial flight electronics while development of the Company’s proprietary controller proceeded in parallel. Integrating that controller into the aircraft for further testing is the next development step.
“Untethered flight is the point where a drone stops being a test article and starts being a vehicle,” said Jeffrey Low, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of First Breach. “Every step we take on this program is a step toward owning the full stack, meaning the airframe, the electronics, and the manufacturing, here in the United States. This flight is a visible marker of that progress.”
Advancing Flight Controller Development
The flight controller board engineered under the Hellbender agreement is now operating with Betaflight, an open-source flight control firmware. This milestone establishes an initial operating foundation for the Company’s controller hardware ahead of integration into upcoming prototype iterations.
The airframe flight and controller development represent separate stages of the program. Further integration and flight testing will be required to evaluate the combined system and support its progression toward production readiness.
“We are proving each piece independently and then bringing them together, which is how you get to a reliable, producible vehicle rather than a one-off,” said Jordan Low, Co-Founder, President and Chief Operating Officer of First Breach. “The airframe has flown untethered. Our flight controller is running Betaflight. The next step is putting them in the same aircraft and testing them together as we work toward integrating energetics and manufacturing at scale.”
Building Toward Domestic Production
First Breach continues to target completion of its initial prototypes in the fourth quarter of 2026 and the start of production scaling in the second quarter of 2027. As manufacturing operations expand, the Company is targeting production capacity of more than 2,500 drones per week. The timing and pace of that expansion remain subject to development, testing, and manufacturing readiness.
Under the strategic agreement, First Breach owns the drone platforms and their associated intellectual property and will control manufacturing and commercialization. Hellbender provides engineering, design, technical support, and component manufacturing.
“First Breach set out to own its platform, and our work together is helping turn that vision into reality,” said Brett Phillips, Chief Revenue Officer of Hellbender. “Both the airframe and flight controller are built to be manufactured domestically and at volume. That is exactly the kind of program our engineering and manufacturing model was designed to support, helping First Breach move from development toward scaled U.S. production.”
Prototype specifications
Proof-of-concept build; subject to change ahead of production.
The current prototype is a four-rotor Class 1 platform with an all-up weight of approximately 2.2 kg and a payload capacity of roughly 500 g, supported by a Picatinny rail and electrical interface. It has demonstrated an effective range of 2 km, an endurance of approximately 10 minutes, a cruise speed of 50 km/h, and a maximum speed of 120 km/h.
Navigation is GNSS with visual-inertial augmentation, and the control link is 900 MHz MAVLink. The platform uses swappable LiPo batteries and is designed for field assembly in under ten minutes.
About First Breach
First Breach Inc. is an ISO 9001:2015 certified, American-made defense technologies company focused on manufacturing match-grade ammunition components, finished ammunition, and developing next-generation unmanned aerial systems for commercial, law enforcement, and military markets. The Company manufactures its products in-house at its Hagerstown, Maryland facility, where it produces brass cups, casings, projectiles, lead cores, lead wire, and completed ammunition with rigorous quality control standards. First Breach is also advancing its drone strategy through the development of U.S.-made unmanned systems, leveraging advanced engineering, robotics, ISR and sensor technologies, and precision manufacturing capabilities to address evolving defense, homeland security, law enforcement, and commercial requirements across domestic and international markets.
For more information, please visit: First Breach
About Hellbender
Hellbender, Inc. is a Pittsburgh-based engineering and advanced manufacturing company specializing in physical AI, computer vision, drones, robotics, electronics design, and automated manufacturing. Operating from approximately 90,000 square feet of facilities, the company provides integrated product development capabilities spanning engineering, prototyping, printed circuit board assembly, advanced sensor integration, robotic manufacturing, and production testing. More than 25% of Hellbender’s workforce consists of military veterans, supporting its commitment to American manufacturing and technical innovation. For more information, please visit: Hellbender
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are not historical facts and include statements regarding the Company’s expectations, beliefs, plans, objectives, strategies, future events, future performance, business prospects, growth initiatives, acquisitions, market opportunities, capital resources, operational objectives, and other statements that are predictive in nature. Forward-looking statements may be identified by the use of words such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “forecast,” “intend,” “may,” “plan,” “potential,” “predict,” “project,” “seek,” “should,” “target,” “will,” “would,” and similar expressions, although not all forward-looking statements contain these identifying words.
Forward-looking statements are based on management’s current expectations, assumptions, and beliefs regarding future developments and their potential effect on the Company. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions, and other factors that may cause actual results, performance, or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.
Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, changes in economic, business, market, competitive, regulatory, technological, legal, and geopolitical conditions; the Company’s ability to execute its business strategy; the successful integration of acquisitions and strategic transactions; access to capital and financing; customer demand; industry developments; and other risks and uncertainties described from time to time in the Company’s filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which are available for review at www.sec.gov.
Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date they are made. Except as required by applicable law, the Company undertakes no obligation to update, revise, or publicly disclose any revisions to any forward-looking statements to reflect events, circumstances, or changes in expectations occurring after the date of this press release.
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HAGERSTOWN, Md / ACCESS Newswire / August 25, 2026 – First Breach Inc. (NASDAQ:FBDT) (“First Breach” or the “Company”), an American-made defense technologies company focused on
vertically integrated ammunition production and next-generation unmanned aerial systems, today announced the successful completion of the first untethered flight of its proprietary drone prototype. The Company also reported progress on its proprietary flight controller, developed under its strategic agreement with Hellbender, Inc., as it works toward completing initial prototypes in the fourth quarter of 2026. Building on the first flight announced on August 25, 2026, the latest milestone demonstrated operation of the prototype’s airframe, propulsion, and core vehicle systems in free flight without a physical tether. The aircraft flew using commercial flight electronics while development of the Company’s proprietary controller proceeded in parallel. Integrating that controller into the aircraft for further testing is the next development step.
“Untethered flight is the point where a drone stops being a test article and starts being a vehicle,” said Jeffrey Low, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of First Breach. “Every step we take on this program is a step toward owning the full stack, meaning the airframe, the electronics, and the manufacturing, here in the United States. This flight is a visible marker of that progress.”
Advancing Flight Controller Development
The flight controller board engineered under the Hellbender agreement is now operating with Betaflight, an open-source flight control firmware. This milestone establishes an initial operating foundation for the Company’s controller hardware ahead of integration into upcoming prototype iterations.
The airframe flight and controller development represent separate stages of the program. Further integration and flight testing will be required to evaluate the combined system and support its progression toward production readiness.
“We are proving each piece independently and then bringing them together, which is how you get to a reliable, producible vehicle rather than a one-off,” said Jordan Low, Co-Founder, President and Chief Operating Officer of First Breach. “The airframe has flown untethered. Our flight controller is running Betaflight. The next step is putting them in the same aircraft and testing them together as we work toward integrating energetics and manufacturing at scale.”
Building Toward Domestic Production
First Breach continues to target completion of its initial prototypes in the fourth quarter of 2026 and the start of production scaling in the second quarter of 2027. As manufacturing operations expand, the Company is targeting production capacity of more than 2,500 drones per week. The timing and pace of that expansion remain subject to development, testing, and manufacturing readiness.
Under the strategic agreement, First Breach owns the drone platforms and their associated intellectual property and will control manufacturing and commercialization. Hellbender provides engineering, design, technical support, and component manufacturing.
“First Breach set out to own its platform, and our work together is helping turn that vision into reality,”said Brett Phillips, Chief Revenue Officer of Hellbender. “Both the airframe and flight controller are built to be manufactured domestically and at volume. That is exactly the kind of program our engineering and manufacturing model was designed to support, helping First Breach move from development toward scaled U.S. production.”
Prototype specifications
Proof-of-concept build; subject to change ahead of production.
The current prototype is a four-rotor Class 1 platform with an all-up weight of approximately 2.2 kg and a payload capacity of roughly 500 g, supported by a Picatinny rail and electrical interface. It has demonstrated an effective range of 2 km, an endurance of approximately 10 minutes, a cruise speed of 50 km/h, and a maximum speed of 120 km/h.
Navigation is GNSS with visual-inertial augmentation, and the control link is 900 MHz MAVLink. The platform uses swappable LiPo batteries and is designed for field assembly in under ten minutes.
About First Breach
First Breach Inc. is an ISO 9001:2015 certified, American-made defense technologies company focused on manufacturing match-grade ammunition components, finished ammunition, and developing next-generation unmanned aerial systems for commercial, law enforcement, and military markets. The Company manufactures its products in-house at its Hagerstown, Maryland facility, where it produces brass cups, casings, projectiles, lead cores, lead wire, and completed ammunition with rigorous quality control standards. First Breach is also advancing its drone strategy through the development of U.S.-made unmanned systems, leveraging advanced engineering, robotics, ISR and sensor technologies, and precision manufacturing capabilities to address evolving defense, homeland security, law enforcement, and commercial requirements across domestic and international markets.
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Denver, Colorado–(Newsfile Corp. – September 21, 2026) – Elemental Royalty Corporation (NASDAQ: ELE) (TSX: ELE) (“Elemental” or the “Company“) is pleased to announce that it has entered into agreements which, together, are expected to materially increase the scale and cash-generative capacity of the Company’s royalty portfolio, simplify its corporate structure and reduce its ongoing cost base:
Acquisition of Stream and Royalty Portfolio: Elemental has entered into definitive agreements with funds managed by Orion Mine Finance Management LP (collectively, “Orion”) to acquire a high-quality portfolio of precious metals assets consisting of five streams and royalties for total consideration of US$290 million, with US$200 million in cash and US$90 million in equity (the “Acquisition“). The portfolio is expected to be immediately accretive to NAV per share, materially accretive to revenue per share, increases the Company’s precious metals weighting and adds material exposure in North America.
Strategic Divestment and Simplification: in conjunction with the portfolio Acquisition, Elemental announces that it has entered into a non-binding agreement with Carlin East Inc., (“Carlin East“), wherein Carlin East will acquire Elemental’s Generation Business (“Generation Business“), comprising wholly-owned exploration projects and will take on management and shared ownership of the Company’s Option Agreements and selected early stage exploration royalties related to the Generation Business (the “StrategicDivestment“). As consideration for the transaction, Elemental will acquire a cornerstone equity stake in Carlin East, and CEO and Director, David M. Cole, has resigned effective immediately to take up a leadership position at Carlin East. Current COO, President, and Founder of Elemental, Frederick Bell, has been appointed to the role of CEO and Director on the Board.
Highlights
Immediately accretive stream and royalty portfolio acquisition materially increases Elemental’s revenue, scale and exposure to high-quality producing precious metals assets, further adding to the Company’s growth profile
Enhances portfolio quality and diversification, Ruby Hill and Kouroussa will rank in the top five and top ten assets respectively in Elemental’s portfolio, and increase the Company’s exposure to Tier 1 jurisdictions
Strategic Divestment of Generation Business allows Elemental to retain the existing portfolio of over 100 early-stage royalties accumulated over more than a decade and to participate as the largest shareholder in future royalty generation through ownership of Carlin East
Reduction in Elemental G&A by over 25% with additional savings expected and streamlined company structure
Management realignment to reflect this transition, with Frederick Bell, current COO and President, taking on the role of CEO and Director, as David M. Cole steps down to run Carlin East
Elemental Chairman, Juan Sartori, commented: “Together, these transactions mark important milestones in a defining year of growth for Elemental. Over the past twelve months we have exponentially increased the scale of the business, strengthened the quality of our portfolio through high-quality transactions including the combination with EMX, acquisition of Vizsla Royalties, and the Orion portfolio announced today. With these simultaneous transactions we create a larger, simpler and more focused royalty company while retaining the upside directly and indirectly from the Company’s Generation Business. We will continue to deliver on our ambition of building a leading global royalty and streaming company with a dedicated growth trajectory.”
Outgoing Elemental Chief Executive Officer, and current Executive Chairman of Carlin East, David M. Cole, commented: “An economic geologist at heart, I have worked throughout my career to create and deliver shareholder exposure to the fundamental value and optionality of mineral rights. With Carlin East’s acquisition of the project generation arm, we will look to continue providing long-term compound growth as well as delivering value to our shareholders, which will include Elemental going forward.
I am immensely proud of what we have built together over the last year following Elemental’s merger with EMX. Our consolidation established a premium, mid-tier royalty company with a diverse portfolio of top tier royalties, and I look forward to seeing Fred take Elemental on to greater heights still.”
Incoming Elemental Chief Executive Officer, Frederick Bell, commented:“The royalty portfolio we are acquiring is the eighth transaction the company has announced in the past twelve months. It is accretive on both a NAV and revenue basis, aligns the company with proven management teams, further diversifies our revenue base through three producing assets as well as adding a new cornerstone silver stream to our pipeline with i-80’s Ruby Hill project in Nevada. The operators’ track record of successful execution makes them stand out and increases the value we see in their future ability to unlock the exploration optionality that exists across their projects.
In parallel with new royalty and stream acquisitions, we have continued to execute transactions across the royalty generation portfolio with twenty-five projects partnered in the last year, one of the busiest periods for the Company’s team, but one that largely falls under the radar as Elemental grows. We believe that by separating the Generation Business at this point we can realise value from within Elemental’s existing portfolio while simultaneously reducing the Company’s cost base, capital requirements and simplifying the corporate structure. A streamlined, simpler and increasingly cash-generative Elemental will emerge as the largest shareholder in a dedicated generation company led by a management team we know well.
Lastly, we are grateful to Dave Cole for his years of work and commitment helping the Company to reach this stage, and are pleased that he will remain a material shareholder moving forwards. Our focus remains firmly on execution, disciplined growth and converting the strength of our portfolio into enduring value for all our shareholders.”
Conference Call and Webcast Elemental will hold a conference call and webcast on Tuesday, September 22, 2026 at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time (8 a.m. Pacific Time) to discuss these transactions.
The webcast registration can be accessed by visiting the Presentation and Events page on the Company’s website at: https://www.elementalroyalty.com/investors/presentation-events/. An archived version of the webcast will be available on the website for one year following the webcast.
Elemental has acquired a portfolio of streams and royalties from Orion, including a silver stream on i-80 Gold Corp’s Ruby Hill Complex, and a gold stream on Mansa Resources’ Kouroussa Mine which will rank in the top five and top ten assets respectively in Elemental’s portfolio. The Acquisition provides material and immediate uplift to the Company revenue base, with Kouroussa, La Negra, and Ruby Hill delivering cash flow from day one, further expanding and complementing Elemental’s unmatched growth profile, with anticipated catalysts advancing Snowy River and the Homestake District toward production.
Overview of Assets
Asset
Operator
Location
Commodity
Stage
Royalty/ Stream
Ruby Hill Complex and Granite Creek
i-80 Gold Corp.
Nevada, USA
Gold, Silver
Producing
50% silver stream
Kouroussa
Mansa Resources
Guinea
Gold
Producing
5% gold stream
La Negra
Silverco Mining
Mexico
Ag-Pb-Zn-Cu
Producing
2.5% GR royalty
Snowy River
Endura Mining
New Zealand
Gold
Near-term production
1% gold stream
Homestake District
Dakota Gold
South Dakota, USA
Gold, Silver
Development
1% NSR royalty
Updated Guidance Subject to completion of the Acquisition, the economic benefit of the three producing assets in the Orion Portfolio will accrue to Elemental from August 1, 2026. Reflecting the expected contribution from these assets, strong performance from the existing portfolio year to date and updated commodity-price assumptions, Elemental has updated its 2026 GEO sales guidance to 19,500 – 22,000 GEOs.
This increased guidance comprises an expected 18,000 – 20,500 GEOs from the existing Elemental portfolio, updated from 17,000 – 21,000 GEOs as at Q2 2026, and an incremental 1,500 GEOs expected from the Orion Portfolio for the period August 1, 2026, to December 31, 2026.
At assumed commodity prices of US$4,500 per ounce of gold and US$6.00 per pound of copper, Elemental expects 2026 revenue of US$89.8 – US$101.1 million.
The GEO and revenue guidance is presented on a gross basis. Under the Kouroussa stream, Elemental is required to make ongoing cash payments equal to 20% of the applicable gold price for each ounce delivered, which will be recorded as cost of sales.
Terms of the Acquisition & Timing The total consideration for the Acquisition payable to Orion upon close of the transaction comprises US$200 million in cash and US$90 million in the form of 4,289,053 Elemental shares, representing approximately 5.6% of issued and outstanding shares in the Company. The Acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions, including Toronto Stock Exchange approval to list the Elemental consideration shares and, with respect to the Snowy River stream, customary regulatory approval from the New Zealand government.
The Acquisition is expected to complete in Q4 2026 or, with respect only to the Snowy River stream, up to Q1 2027.
Upsized Credit Facility To fund the cash consideration for the Acquisition, Elemental has secured a commitment from National Bank of Canada to increase the committed amount available under the Company’s existing revolving credit facility from US$150 million to US$250 million. The existing US$50 million accordion feature will be retained, providing potential total capacity of US$300 million, subject to additional lender commitments and the satisfaction of customary conditions.
The amended Facility is expected to become effective on or prior to completion of the Acquisition.
STREAMING AND ROYALTY PORTFOLIO ASSETS
The acquisition introduces several meaningful cash-flowing and development stage assets to Elemental’s royalty portfolio:
Ruby Hill Complex and Granite Creek Elemental is entitled to receive 50% of silver production from select assets owned and operated by i-80 Gold Corp. (“i-80“), which, inter alia, include the Archimedes, and Mineral Point properties, (collectively, “Ruby Hill Complex“), and the Granite Creek property, at a purchase price equal to 20% of the spot silver price. The stream is currently delivering from i-80’s Archimedes property, with a step change in deliveries expected upon production commencing at Mineral Point, anticipated in 2031. Pursuant to the structure of the agreement, the stream steps down to 10% after delivery of 2.5 million ounces of silver (with 1.3 million ounces remaining) and has no further cap thereafter. Upon step-down, the Granite Creek property will be removed from the Elemental Area of interest (“AOI“).
The 100% owned Ruby Hill Complex and Granite Creek properties are located in northern Nevada, USA, a tier one mining jurisdiction. The properties are located along the prolific Getchell and Battle Mountain-Eureka gold trends, close to established mining infrastructure and major operations including Nevada Gold Mines’ Turquoise Ridge and Twin Creeks mines. Granite Creek includes an operating high-grade underground mine and a large open-pit development project, while the Ruby Hill Complex includes the Archimedes underground mine and the Mineral Point open-pit gold-silver development project. The stream includes the entire Ruby Hill complex, which covers ~14,272 acres, providing exposure to high-grade polymetallic exploration zones including Blackjack, Jackson, and Hilltop, among others.
i-80 is well-capitalised following a US$775 million financing package secured in March 2026, providing financial flexibility and capex requirements to fast-track development at Mineral Point, with an extensive drill programme already underway, designed to support an updated resource estimate and technical report for the property.
Kouroussa Elemental will receive 5% of gold production from the Kouroussa Gold Mine, operated by Mansa Resources (“Mansa“), at a purchase price equal to 20% of the prevailing gold spot price. Pursuant to the agreement, the stream steps down to 2.5% upon the later of either: November 2037, or on the total delivery of 39,800 ounces of gold under the stream. Once the stream steps down, there will be no associated cap. Mansa has a has a one-time buyback right exercisable before November 2028 to reduce the stream percentage in half by paying US$22,500,000 to Elemental.
The Kouroussa Gold Mine is located near the town of Kouroussa in eastern Guinea, approximately 440km east of Conakry, within the highly prospective Siguiri Basin. Kouroussa is a high-grade, producing open-pit gold mine and the flagship asset within Mansa’s portfolio. The operation is centred on the Koekoe deposit, with additional mineralisation identified across several nearby deposits and significant potential for further resource expansion.
Mansa is a private west African gold producer, formed through major shareholder, Nioko Resources Corporation’s take-private of Hummingbird Resources plc in March 2025. Mansa also own and operate the development-stage Dugbe project in Liberia, over which Elemental has a 2-2.5% NSR Royalty.
La Negra Elemental has acquired an uncapped 2.5% Gross Revenue Return (“GRR“) royalty over a total acreage of 829km2, encompassing the entirety of the La Negra underground polymetallic mine in Mexico, owned by Silverco Mining (TSXV: SICO) (“Silverco“).
The La Negra Mine is located in Querétaro State, central Mexico, approximately 150km by paved road from Querétaro City. Now 100% owned by Silverco Mining, La Negra is a producing underground silver-lead-zinc-copper mine with an operating history dating back to 1971. Operations were restarted in 2024, and Silverco is focused on increasing throughput at the mill to reach nameplate capacity of ~2,500tpd / ~900ktpa, and will look to update the resource and Mine Plan and expanding the mineralized system through exploration.
Silverco is a growing Mexico-focused silver producer, with a demonstrated history of success in building and leading mining companies across both board and management teams.
Snowy River Elemental is entitled to receive 1% of gold production from the construction-stage Snowy River Gold Project, being developed by operator Endura Mining (“Endura“). Pursuant to the agreement, the stream is effectively capped upon reaching 675koz of gold.
The Snowy River Gold Project is located near Reefton on the West Coast of New Zealand’s South Island, on the site of the historic Blackwater Mine. Fully permitted, Snowy River is a high-grade underground gold project and Endura’s flagship development asset. Underground development and processing plant construction are underway, with first gold targeted for December 2026, and annual production of 60+koz per year thereafter. The project is expected to re-establish large-scale gold production in the historic Reefton Goldfield and form the foundation of Endura’s broader growth strategy.
Endura is a privately owned mining company led by a team with proven track record of building and running gold companies with strong shareholder alignment. Endura Mining is well capitalised to complete construction, with strong support from major shareholders AustralianSuper and Orion Resource Partners.
Homestake District Elemental’s interest comprises two separate 1% Net Smelter Return (“NSR“) royalties over several properties in the Homestake District, South Dakota, USA, owned and operated by Dakota Gold Corp. (NYSE American: DC) (“Dakota Gold“). The properties include coverage over Dakota Gold’s flagship asset, Richmond Hill, a development-stage, large scale gold-silver open-pit heap-leach project, and numerous other mining claims throughout the Homestake District.
The Richmond Hill Gold Project is located near Lead, South Dakota, within the historic Homestake Mining District and 4km north of Coeur Mining’s producing Wharf Mine. The brownfield project is primarily located on previously mined private land, and benefits from existing infrastructure, with first production anticipated in 2029, with substantial potential for further resource expansion.
Dakota Gold is led by an experienced management and leadership team with strong local knowledge and proven track record with operational success at the Homestake and Wharf mines. The company is well capitalized for development through the completion of the feasibility study, anticipated in H1 2027.
The royalties provide district scale optionality and add further upside to Elemental’s unmatched growth profile.
STRATEGIC DIVESTMENT AND SIMPLIFICATION
Divestment of Project Generation Arm Concurrent to the portfolio Acquisition, Elemental announces that it has entered into a non-binding agreement with Carlin East, wherein Carlin East will acquire the Company’s Generation Business, while managing and sharing economic interests in a number of Option Agreements and 20 early-stage exploration royalties related to the Generation Business. Upon completion, the associated business infrastructure and certain members of the management and technical team currently working across Elemental’s project generation team, will join Carlin East.
Corporate Overview and Terms Pursuant to the agreement, Elemental will receive shares in Carlin East with a deemed value of US$8.5 million, expected to represent approximately 19.9% on a post-financing basis. Further to this, Elemental will, inter alia, retain 50% of all existing and future production royalties arising from transferred alliance agreements, transferred option agreements and transferred royalties; and receive 50% of certain royalty buyback proceeds. From 2027 to 2030, Carlin East retains the first US$1.5 million of annual cash portfolio payments, with Elemental receiving all cash payments above that threshold. From 2031 onwards, Carlin East will receive 100% of the portfolio payments. Generation costs between term-sheet signing and closing, and certain transfer taxes and duties, will be shared 50/50 between Elemental and Carlin East, subject to the definitive documentation surrounding the transaction.
Carlin East, which will remain a private entity, intends to complete an equity financing alongside the transaction.
Financial Upside to Elemental Elemental has now reached a size and scale where value proposition has evolved to reflect a focus on sourcing cash-generative royalties and streams; this divestment therefore improves operating leverage and increases free cash flow conversion.
As a result of the Strategic Divestment of the generation business, Elemental will reduce company headcount by over 50%, with the transfer of generation offices and personnel in North America, Fennoscandia, Serbia, Turkey, and North Africa. Pursuant to this, Elemental anticipates a reduction in annual cash expenses of approximately US$6 million, or approximately 25% of current projected annual cash expenditures, with further efficiencies expected over time.
Following completion of the transaction and Strategic Divestment, Elemental will have a more streamlined corporate structure, materially lower cost base, enhanced immediate and near-term revenue and a larger portfolio of producing royalties, while retaining meaningful exposure to long term optionality through the generation model and cornerstone equity investment in Carlin East.
Management Transition As part of the Strategic Divestment, David M. Cole has resigned as Chief Executive Officer and Director on the Board with immediate effect, in order to take on the full-time role of Executive Chair of Carlin East, where his extensive technical expertise, entrepreneurial track record, and knowledge of the generation portfolio will support the next stage of its development.
Frederick Bell has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of Elemental, and Director on the Board, having most recently served as President and Chief Operating Officer following the combination of Elemental and EMX. Frederick is a founder of Elemental and was previously Chief Executive Officer from 2017 until 2025.
Elemental Chairman, Juan Sartori, commented: “On behalf of the Board, I would like to thank Dave for his leadership and the contribution he has made to Elemental. Dave has helped shape the business we have today and it has been a pleasure to work with him over the past year. We are delighted that his experience and entrepreneurial approach will continue to benefit the Company through our cornerstone shareholding and shared interests in Carlin East, where the generation business will continue.
At the same time, we are very pleased to welcome Fred back to the role of CEO, a position he held from Elemental’s founding. Fred has played a central role in the Company’s development, with a track record of consistently identifying and executing accretive transactions and leading a step-change in Elemental’s scale, asset quality and market position. We have great confidence in Fred’s leadership and his ability to continue to add shareholder value by building on the strong foundations established.”
Conditions to Close & Timing Completion remains subject to, among other things, the negotiation and execution of definitive documentation between Elemental and Carlin East, completion of Carlin East’s concurrent financing and satisfaction of other customary conditions. Elemental will look to complete this divestment in October 2026, currently contemplated no later than October 31, 2026, subject to confirmation and extension by agreement.
Advisors McCarthy Tétrault LLP is acting as legal advisor to Elemental. Troutman Pepper Locke LLP is acting as U.S. legal counsel to Elemental.
National Bank of Canada Capital Markets is acting as financial advisor to Orion. Torys LLP is acting as legal advisor to Orion.
Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP is acting as legal advisor to Carlin East.
Qualified Person The scientific and technical information contained in this news release has been reviewed and approved by Michael Sheehan, an employee of the Company and a “Qualified Person” as defined in NI 43-101.
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About Elemental Royalty Corporation Elemental is a mid-tier, gold-focused streaming and royalty company with a globally diversified portfolio of approximately 20 producing assets and more than 260 royalties, anchored by cornerstone assets and operated by world-class mining partners. The Company’s disciplined capital allocation and investment strategy combines immediate cash flow with significant embedded growth, providing a differentiated pathway to long-term value creation. Elemental benefits from a high-quality and diversified asset base, strong organic growth potential and sector-leading management expertise.
Elemental trades on Nasdaq and on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the ticker Symbol “ELE”.
This news release contains certain “forward-looking statements” and certain “forward-looking information” as defined under applicable United States and Canadian securities laws. Forward-looking statements and information can generally be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as “may”, “will”, “should”, “expect”, “intend”, “estimate”, “anticipate”, “believe”, “continue”, “plans” or similar terminology (including negative and grammatical variations thereof).
Forward-looking statements and information include, but are not limited to, statements regarding completion of the Acquisition and other transactions described in this news release, including any required approvals, and the timing thereof; future royalties and future consideration payments or issuances of shares, or other statements that are not statements of fact. Forward-looking statements and information are based on forecasts of future results, estimates of amounts not yet determinable and assumptions that, while believed by management to be reasonable, are inherently subject to significant business, economic and competitive uncertainties and contingencies.
References to nearby mines, deposits and projects are provided for geological and regional context only. Mineralization on nearby or adjacent properties is not necessarily indicative of mineralization on the properties in which Elemental holds, or has agreement to acquire, a royalty interest.
Forward-looking statements and information are subject to various known and unknown risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the ability of Elemental to control or predict, that may cause Elemental’s actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied thereby, and are developed based on assumptions about such risks, uncertainties and other factors set out herein, including but not limited to: the ability of the relevant parties to complete the Acquisition and the other transactions described in this news release; the receipt of approvals necessary for, and the satisfaction of other closing conditions to, the Acquisition; the impact of general business and economic conditions, the absence of control over the mining operations from which Elemental will receive royalties, risks related to international operations, government relations and environmental regulation, the inherent risks involved in the exploration and development of mineral properties; the uncertainties involved in interpreting exploration data; the potential for delays in exploration or development activities; the geology, grade and continuity of mineral deposits; the possibility that future exploration, development or mining results will not be consistent with Elemental’s expectations; accidents, equipment breakdowns, title matters, labour disputes or other unanticipated difficulties or interruptions in operations; fluctuating metal prices; unanticipated costs and expenses; uncertainties relating to the availability and costs of financing needed in the future; the inherent uncertainty of production and cost estimates and the potential for unexpected costs and expenses, commodity price fluctuations; currency fluctuations; regulatory restrictions, including environmental regulatory restrictions; liability, competition, loss of key employees and other related risks and uncertainties. For a discussion of important factors which could cause actual results to differ from forward-looking statements, refer to the annual information form of Elemental for the year ended December 31, 2025. Elemental undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements and information except as required by applicable law. Such forward-looking statements and information represent management’s best judgment based on information currently available. No forward-looking statement or information can be guaranteed, and actual future results may vary materially. Accordingly, readers are advised not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements or information.
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Sept. 21, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Blue Jay Gold Corp. (TSXV: JAY) (OTCQB: JAYGF) (FSE: JAY) (“Blue Jay” or the “Company“), today reported results from the metallurgical test program on mineralization from the Becker-Cochran antimony occurrence at its Steller Gold Project (“Steller” or the “Project“) in southern Yukon. Our maiden test work at ALS Metallurgical Laboratories in Kamloops, British Columbia delivered a flowsheet design producing a 67% antimony (“Sb“) concentrate at a 94% recovery. Roughly 50 kg of the concentrate is now being converted into finished antimony products by three North American processing groups who are looking to secure access to long-term supply, with first products expected in the coming weeks. Our test does not end at the concentrate. It continues until the material exists as a finished antimony product.
The material was placed with three groups rather than one by design. Each uses different processing approaches as high-grade concentrate is compatible with more than one downstream route. Our approach affords Blue Jay the pathway best suited to our material and ours interests.
Highlights
67% antimony concentrate was produced at a 94% Sb recovery.
Concentrate grade well exceeds the 60% Sb premium product threshold. Pure stibnite is approximately 71.7% antimony, so 67% Sb approaches mineralogical purity.
Three North American antimony processing groups will convert the concentrate into a range of downstream metal products, each using different processing approaches. First results are expected in the coming weeks.
Test work was performed on material the Company collected and submitted, under documented chain of custody and modern quality assurance and quality controls.
Material will move from site to finished metal product within a single exploration season.
Drilling continues on high-grade gold targets with results expected to continue into 2027
“When we ran our due diligence after acquiring the Project, the antimony prospect was sitting in the historical record in plain sight, and nobody had touched it for sixty years,” said Geordie Mark, CEO of Blue Jay Gold. “Modern conventional processing comfortably outperformed what was achieved in the 1960s, but a flotation number is where most companies at our stage stop and then ask investors to imagine the rest. We are not doing that. The concentrate is now with three North American processing groups who will convert it into a range of finished antimony products, and we expect the first of those within weeks. That means this material will have gone from rock in the ground to finished metal inside a single exploration season. Linking the mine site to metal production is where value is created in critical minerals, and we saw no reason to wait years to find out whether this material can make that trip.”
“What we learn about the antimony also tells us something about the Project as a whole. One land package holds a past-producing gold mine, two further gold-silver deposits in different styles, and now produces a premium-grade antimony concentrate from a separate mineralized field whose footprint extends kilometres to the east. Those are different metals, deposited in different parts of the same system. To be clear, gold and silver are where our rigs and our budget are focused, and that has not changed by a single metre of drilling. But this is our maiden exploration year, and the point of a maiden year is to find out what you actually own. The antimony work was a small part of this year’s budget, and it has told us a great deal. It is another piece of evidence that Steller is a geological district rather than a single deposit.”
Table 1: Becker-Cochran Composite 1 (Concentrate): Cumulative Metal Balance
Cumulative
Cum. Weight
Assay – (%)
Recovery/Distribution (%)
Product
%
grams
Sb
Fe
S
Sb
Fe
S
Bulk Conc.: Product 1
24.0
481.8
66.9
0.5
27.5
93.9
12.0
89.2
Cleaner 2 Conc.
24.6
492.9
65.9
0.5
27.1
94.7
13.4
89.9
Cleaner 1 Conc.
25.9
519.3
63.2
0.6
26.0
95.6
17.9
90.9
Rougher Conc.
32.3
648.8
51.4
1.3
21.4
97.2
45.6
93.4
Rougher Tail
67.7
1358.7
0.7
0.7
0.7
2.8
54.4
6.6
Recalculated Feed
100.0
2007.5
17.1
0.92
7.4
100
100
100
Notes to Table 1: Products are reported cumulatively; each row includes all products above it. Weight % is the share of the original feed reporting to that product, Assay % is that product’s grade, and Recovery % is the share of the metal in the feed that it contains. Successive rows add lower-grade material, raising antimony recovery while diluting concentrate grade. The Company reports Product 1, 66.9% Sb at 93.9% recovery, as the representative result. Based on a single flotation test on a 2,007.5 g composite grading 17.1% Sb. Initial liberation analysis showed that stibnite and gangue minerals are excellent at 88% and 93% respectively. Mineral deportment studies have not been completed with Hg in concentrate aliquot up 1,100 ppm. Flotation optimization work is expected to commence shortly. No variability studies have been completed, and we note that the results are not necessarily representative of the occurrence as a whole.
Next Steps at Becker-Cochrane
First antimony metal products from the three processing groups are expected in the coming weeks. Assays remain pending from the ten-hole drill program at Becker-Cochran announced on August 31, 2026, which is testing the down-dip continuation of the mineralized shear zone below the historical workings. Should drilling confirm continuity at depth, the Company intends to advance to variability and locked cycle test work on drill core composites.
What Was Tested
The program was carried out on a composite of >400 kg of stibnite-bearing mineralization collected by Company personnel at a single trench at Becker-Cochran. The test sequence comprised head assays, mineralogical characterization, grind establishment, rougher and cleaner flotation, and final concentrate characterization.
The sample was collected from the surface expression of the stibnite-rich quartz vein systems that host mineralization in the underground workings at depth. These veins represent one on several east-west trending veins sets that occur on Becker, forming a trend extending west past the Goddell Gully Au deposit. Consequently, our work reflects only a small fraction of the system.
Reading the Result
Concentrate grade and recovery are most meaningful together, and in context with the flowsheet that produced them. Recovery measures how much of the antimony in the rock reports to the product. At 93.9%, almost none was lost to the tailings. Grade measures the quality of that product and determines what a processor will pay for it. Premium product specifications generally begin at 60% Sb, with value adjusted for other elements present and for processing factors. At 66.9% Sb, against a maximum possible 71.7% for pure stibnite, the concentrate is close to a pure mineral product. The flowsheet that produced it is conventional and uses standard reagents. Work at this stage does not constitute an offtake arrangement, or any type of commercial negotiation.
Why the Historical Work Needed to be Revisited
Bulk sampling and flotation testing were carried out on this occurrence in 1965. An approximately 8-ton sample was split between the federal Mineral Processing Division in Ottawa and Britton Laboratories Limited in Vancouver. The Ottawa work reported recovery of 92.8% of the contained antimony, and concentrates exceeding 62% antimony were produced. Underground development stopped shortly afterward when the antimony price fell.1
Those results are historical in nature. They were produced sixty years ago, to procedures and quality controls that cannot be verified today, on material the Company did not collect. A Qualified Person has not done sufficient work to verify them, the Company is not treating them as current, and they should not be relied upon. They were, however, sufficient reason to test the material again to a modern standard.
(1) Further detail regarding the Becker-Cochran occurrence, including its discovery, historical exploration, development and sampling, and regarding the Steller Gold Project and its current Mineral Resource Estimate, is set out in the technical report entitled “Technical Report and Updated Mineral Resource Estimate of the Steller Gold Project, Whitehorse Mining District, Yukon Territory, Canada,” prepared for the Company by P&E Mining Consultants Inc. with an effective date of October 31, 2025, available under the Company’s profile on SEDAR+ at www.sedarplus.ca. The historical metallurgical results quoted above are drawn from reports prepared for or on behalf of Yukon Antimony Corporation Ltd. between 1964 and 1966, including the concentration report of the Mineral Processing Division, Department of Mines and Technical Surveys, dated July 6, 1965. https://data.geology.gov.yk.ca/assessment-report/202 https://data.geology.gov.yk.ca/mineral-occurrence/12812https://data.geology.gov.yk.ca/assessment-report/3639
A District, Not a Single Deposit
The Steller Gold Project covers approximately 170 square kilometres and is accessible year-round by an 84-kilometre road from Whitehorse. It hosts the past-producing Mt. Skukum gold mine, the Skukum Creek and Goddell Gully gold-silver deposits, a 270 tonne per day process plant, and kilometres of underground development. Becker-Cochran lies within an antimony anomaly approximately 8 kilometres wide on the eastern side of the property.
The gold, silver and antimony mineralization across the property is interpreted to have formed during the same period of Eocene magmatic-epithermal activity, at different levels and temperatures within one extensive system. That interpretation is the basis for the Company’s view that Steller can host several deposits of different styles carrying different metals. Antimony mineralization at Becker-Cochran forms no part of the current Mineral Resource Estimate, and the Company’s 2026 program remains directed at the gold and silver resources at Skukum Creek and Mt. Skukum.
Metallurgical Test Work and Antimony Concentrate Results
Bench-scale flotation tests were completed at ALS Metallurgy Kamloops with the >400 kg sample provided from the Becker-Cochran antimony occurrence located in the Yukon Territory, Canada. The material was selected from an east-southeast trending stibnite-bearing quartz vein that is interpreted to reflect the vein exposed in underground workings accessed from multiple adits immediate below.
With a primary grind sizing near 140µm K80 and using lead nitrate as the stibnite activator and SIPX as the stibnite collector, excellent metallurgical performance was achieved with 95% antimony recovery to a stibnite concentrate which measured close to 66% antimony using rougher flotation followed by regrinding and two cleaner stages. This led to a final stage antimony concentrate grading 66.9% Sb. Antimony recovery to the final cleaner concentrate was 93.9%. These results are based on laboratory-scale rougher-cleaner testing and are preliminary in nature; they do not represent a feasibility-level process design or a commercial product specification.
Quality Assurance / Quality Control
The bulk sample used in this program were selected and prepared under the supervision of Freeman Smith. The ALS laboratory maintained its own internal QA/QC procedures to deliver these initial outcomes. QA/QC results were reviewed by Freeman Smith, and no material issues were identified that would affect the interpretation of the reported results.
Qualified Person
The scientific and technical content of this news release has been reviewed and approved by Freeman Smith, P.Geo., VP Exploration of Blue Jay Gold Corp., who is a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 – Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects.
About Blue Jay Gold Corp.
Blue Jay Gold Corp. is a Canadian gold exploration company focused on growing and discovering resources within established gold producing regions in Canada. The Company’s flagship asset is the 100%-owned Steller Gold Project in southern Yukon, an infrastructure-supported, past-producing mine with significant exploration upside and clear near-term catalysts. Blue Jay has also built a portfolio of projects in Ontario. With strategically located assets and a leadership team experienced in geology and capital markets, Blue Jay will advance disciplined, modern exploration programs focused on target definition, resource growth, and new discoveries in known gold-mineralized regions. For more information, please visit: www.bluejaygoldcorp.com.
Eric Negraeff Investor Relations Blue Jay Gold Corp. eric@bluejaygoldcorp.com Phone: (604) 235-4059
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements Certain statements in this press release contain forward-looking information. Forward-looking information involves risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information. In addition, the forward-looking statements require management to make assumptions and are subject to inherent risks and uncertainties. There is significant risk that the forward-looking statements will not prove to be accurate, that the management’s assumptions may not be correct and that actual results may differ materially from such forward-looking statements. These statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology (e.g., “expect”,” estimates”, “intends”, “anticipates”, “believes”, “plans”). Forward-looking statements contained in this press release may include, but are not limited to, the results of drilling at the Becker-Cochran occurrence, the timing and scope of the rest of the Company’s exploration program, and future business plans of the Company. Such information involves known and unknown risks, including the receipt of regulatory approval, the results of future financing and exploration activities, the interpretation of exploration results and other geological data, or unanticipated costs and expenses and other risks identified by Blue Jay in its public securities filings that may cause actual events to differ materially from current expectations. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this press release. Except as required by applicable securities laws and regulation, Blue Jay disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
