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Rare earth projects often rise or fall on metallurgy, and Mark Tory, President, CEO, and Director of Defense Metals Corp. (TSXV: DEFN | OTCQB: DFMTF), says that is what drew him to the company after reviewing its flagship Wicheeda Rare Earth Element Project.“One of the reasons I moved from Perth to Vancouver to take over Defense was when I did my due diligence on the Wicheeda Project,” Tory said i...

Indonesia dominates the global nickel market, accounting for roughly 60–65% of world supply, making the country the central hub of the industry. Brandon Colwell, CEO of Nusa Nickel Corp., says his company has positioned itself within that ecosystem. “Thank you. Nusa Nickel is now North America’s only revenue-generating nickel operation and licensed nickel trader operating in the world-leading nick...

Volta Metals Ltd. (CSE: VLTA) (FSE: D0W) (OTC Pink: VOLMF) is a critical mineral exploration company focused on rare earths, gallium, lithium, cesium, and tantalum. It owns, has optioned and is currently exploring a portfolio of projects in Ontario, one of the world’s most prolific emerging hard-rock critical-mineral districts.“Day one on the floor of PDAC,” said InvestorNews.com host Tracy Hughes...

Volta Metals Ltd. (CSE: VLTA) (FSE: D0W) (OTC Pink: VOLMF) is a critical mineral exploration company focused on rare earths, gallium, lithium, cesium, and tantalum. It owns, has optioned and is currently exploring a portfolio of projects in Ontario, one of the world’s most prolific emerging hard-rock critical-mineral districts.“Day one on the floor of PDAC,” said InvestorNews.com host Tracy Hughes...

“The oceans comprise 70% of the Earth’s surface,” Critical Minerals Institute (CMI) Co-Chair Jack Lifton said as he opened his interview with James Deckelman, Chief Executive Officer of Deep Sea Minerals Corp. (CSE: SEAS | OTCQB: DSEAF | FSE: X45). “We’re talking about the bottom of the oceans.”Deckelman said the company was formed in response to what he described as a convergence of demand growth...

On the morning Quantum eMotion Corp. (NYSE American: QNC) (TSXV: QNC) began trading on the NYSE American, Darren Cudmore opened the interview without understatement. “Today is a really important day for this company,” he said, noting that the shares of Quantum eMotion Corp. had moved “from the pinks to the QBs to the American Exchange.”The company announced on February 24, 2026, that its shares ha...

Volta Metals Ltd. (CSE: VLTA | FSE: D0W) is a critical mineral exploration company focused on rare earths, gallium, lithium, cesium, and tantalum, with projects in Ontario, Canada. On February 23, 2026, the Company reported a major resource expansion at its Springer Rare Earth Element deposit near Sturgeon Falls, approximately one hour east of Sudbury, Ontario along the Trans-Canada Highway.“It&#3...

“Drill hole number 15: we hit from surface 300 m, 2.55% rare earths,” Tom Drivas said, describing what he called “very exciting results” from diamond drilling at the Ultra Hard Rock carbonatite target in Goiás, Brazil. Drivas, CEO and Director of Appia Rare Earths & Uranium Corp. (CSE: API | OTCQB: APAAF), said the company drilled 26 holes totaling 7,347.1 metres, with results announced from 1...

American Tungsten Corp. (CSE: TUNG) (OTCQB: TUNGF) is advancing the historic IMA Mine Project in Idaho toward commercial production, positioning itself to address critical metal scarcity in North America. The company holds an exclusive option to acquire full ownership of the IMA Mine, subject to a 2% royalty, and has expanded its land position with 113 additional federal claims covering nearly 2,0...

Antimony Resources Corp. (CSE: ATMY) (OTCQB: ATMYF) (FSE: K8J0) is an exploration and development company focused exclusively on antimony. The Company’s management team possesses extensive experience in financing, exploration, development and mining, and is focused on becoming a significant North American producer of antimony.“Antimony is the new tungsten—everybody’s talking about antimony,” Tracy...

Nord Precious Metals Mining Inc. (TSXV: NTH) (OTCQB: CCWOF) operates TTL Laboratories, the only permitted high-grade milling facility in the historic Cobalt Camp of Ontario, where the company has established an integrated position connecting high-grade silver discovery with strategic metals recovery operations. Its flagship Castle property encompasses 58 square kilometres of exploration ground and...

A junior miner in Arizona says it has no intention of waiting on the next drill hole.“Why not do that in the mining industry?” John Carter, CEO and director of Silver Bullet Mines Corp. (TSXV: SBMI) (OTCQB: SBMCF), said in an interview with InvestorNews.com host Tracy Hughes, referring to the aviation sector’s hub-and-spoke model. Silver Bullet Mines Corp. describes itself as “a mining company foc...

Sheldon Bennett says the future of his company lies not in abandoning crypto, but in redefining what a power-to-server business can become. In a wide-ranging interview with InvestorNews.com host Christopher Ecclestone, Bennett, CEO and Director of DMG Blockchain Solutions Inc. (TSXV: DMGI | OTCQB: DMGGF), described a company that began as a pure-play Bitcoin miner and is now positioning itself as...

A newly renamed junior explorer is preparing to test a drill-ready copper-gold target in British Columbia’s Golden Triangle after completing a corporate restructuring and publishing a new technical report. In an interview with InvestorNews.com host Tracy Hughes, Kevin Keough, CEO and Director of Oreterra Metals Corp. (TSXV: OTMC), said the company’s rebranding reflects a reset in both identity and...

Cesium remains one of the least discussed but most constrained materials in the critical minerals universe, and that scarcity is now shaping the near-term focus of Grid Metals Corp. (TSXV: GRDM | OTCQB: MSMGF) as it advances a near-surface cesium discovery in southeastern Manitoba.“Our company is a Canadian junior exploration company based in Toronto, with operations in Manitoba,” said Robin Dunba...

Since listing in April, Allied Critical Metals Inc. (CSE: ACM | OTCQB: ACMIF) has been advancing a redevelopment timeline that few Western tungsten projects can credibly outline, centered on the past-producing Borralha Tungsten Project in northern Portugal and framed by an explicit goal of entering production as early as 2026.“Let’s start with the deposit that makes everything possible,” said Roy...

The market can ignore a deposit for years—until the supply chain can’t. Resouro Strategic Metals Inc. (ASX: RAU) (TSXV: RSM) (OTCQB: RSGOF) is a Canadian incorporated mineral exploration and development company advancing mineral projects in Brazil, led by Christopher Eager as CEO and chairman. Its flagship is the Tiros Titanium–Rare Earths Project in Minas Gerais, spanning 28 mineral concessions t...

The politics of stockpiles are easy; the physics of stockpiles are not. The moment you move from a headline to a warehouse, “critical minerals” stop being a talking point and become a punishing exercise in specification, processing, and time. In a recent InvestorNews.com interview, Tracy Hughes pressed Jack Lifton, Co-Chair of the Critical Minerals Institute (CMI), on the week’s headline-grabbing...

In an era when supply chains have become geopolitical weapons, the most strategic materials are often the ones most people can’t name—and scandium may be the purest example. In a recent InvestorNews.com conversation, world-renowned critical minerals expert Jack Lifton sat down with Guy Bourassa to discuss what Scandium Canada Ltd. (TSXV: SCD) calls North America’s largest primary source of scandiu...

Defense Metals Corp.’s (TSXV: DEFN | OTCQB: DFMTF) development of the Wicheeda Rare Earth Element Project in central British Columbia — which the company says positions Wicheeda as one of the most advanced undeveloped rare earth deposits in North America and Europe — has been marked by a series of technical milestones, strengthened leadership, capital market support and stakeholder partnerships ov...

The rare earth industry has stopped being a supply chain and started behaving like a lever of power. In a recent Critical Minerals Institute (CMI) Masterclass, Melissa “Mel” Sanderson framed the moment with the kind of blunt historical bookends that turn policy talk into something closer to strategy: in 2011, she argued, “today began” when China curtailed Japan’s access to rare earths—an early sig...

Control of 582 hectares of Brazilian farmland has become the hinge on which Homerun Resources Inc. (TSXV: HMR | OTCQB: HMRFF) plans to swing its entire energy-transition strategy. In a wide-ranging conversation with InvestorNews.com host Tracy Hughes, CEO and Director Brian Leeners ties that land package—Fazenda Conjunto São José e Nova Esperança in the Santa Maria Eterna Silica Sand District—dire...

Power is shifting beneath North America’s feet, and the tremors are being misread in Washington. What looks, on the surface, like another round of cross-border political noise — Greenland one week, Governor Mark Carney the next — is, in Jack Lifton’s telling, something far deeper: the United States coming to terms with the fact that Canada is no longer a junior partner, and never really was. “Cana...

Silver is no longer just creeping higher—it's surging, and the market is being forced to reckon with a metal that has quietly moved from monetary afterthought to industrial linchpin. That was the framing that emerged as InvestorNews.com host Tracy Hughes sat down with Peter Clausi, Director and VP of Capital Markets at Silver Bullet Mines Corp. (TSXV: SBMI | OTCQB: SBMCF, as silver prices smas...

Greenland has increasingly been framed in public debate as a potential cornerstone of future critical minerals supply. Yet in a wide-ranging conversation with InvestorNews.com host Tracy Hughes, Jack Lifton, co chair of the Critical Minerals Institute (CMI) and one of the world’s most respected critical minerals experts, challenged that narrative directly. Lifton argued that claims surrounding Gre...