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Critical minerals are no longer a niche subset of the periodic table; they are the wiring diagram of geopolitical power, and Canada is sitting on a toolkit it still hasn’t decided how to use. As Co-Chair of the Critical Minerals Institute (CMI), Jack Lifton has spent decades mapping that wiring diagram, from obscure byproduct metals to the politics that decide where refineries get built. CMI, whic...

The United States is advancing one of its most significant government-backed critical minerals initiatives in years, and Pini Althaus, Managing Partner of Cove Capital LLC, has emerged as a central figure in its execution. In a discussion with InvestorNews host Tracy Hughes, Althaus described recent meetings in Washington, D.C., where U.S. President Donald J. Trump and senior cabinet officials rev...

The U.S. clean-energy and defense supply chain may be on the cusp of a major shift — and not on American soil. In a recent interview with InvestorNews host Jack Lifton, Pini Althaus, managing partner of Cove Capital LLC, detailed his firm’s expanding footprint in Central Asia as it seeks to supply critical minerals to the United States and its allies. Althaus described how, following his tenure at...

“Shipping means revenue, means cash for the shareholders.” That was how Peter Clausi, Director and Vice President of Capital Markets at Silver Bullet Mines Corp. (TSXV: SBMI | OTCQB: SBMCF), described the company’s latest operational milestone. In a discussion with InvestorNews host Tracy Hughes, Clausi confirmed that following a first shipment of approximately 4,000 pounds of gold concentrate fro...

From the moment you touch down in the desert‐sculpted Erongo region of Namibia, you sense the tectonic shift underway — and ReeXploration Inc. (TSXV: REE) is positioning itself at the heart of it. This Canadian exploration company is focused on meeting the surging global demand for secure, responsible supplies of critical minerals essential to the clean-energy transition, advanced technologies and...

In a rare alignment between a junior exploration company and a national research institution, Canuc Resources Corporation (TSXV: CDA | OTCQB: CNUCF) has found its flagship East Sudbury Project (Northeastern Ontario, Canada) under the direct scrutiny of Natural Resources Canada (NRCan). The federal agency has commissioned a seismic survey on Canuc’s McLaren Lake Fault Zone (MLFZ)—a move that compan...

From the moment you learn that one of North America’s most under-the-radar metals might be hiding a multi-million-ton treasure beneath a quiet landscape of New Brunswick, Canada, you sense there is more than exploration at play — there’s a strategic pivot. Antimony Resources Corp. (CSE: ATMY), an exploration company singularly focused on antimony, has just filed a NI 43-101 technical report for it...

In the world of critical minerals, cesium rarely makes headlines—but Robin Dunbar, President and CEO of Grid Metals Corp. (TSXV: GRDM | OTCQB: MSMGF), is working to change that. “It’s a very exciting time for the company,” he said in an interview with InvestorNews.com host Tracy Hughes. “We’re currently drilling about 60 holes at Falcon West to put together a resource and define where the minerali...

When Brian Leeners talks about solar glass, it isn’t just a technical discussion—it sounds more like a revolution in the making. “It’s a milestone event, to say the least,” said the CEO and Director of Homerun Resources Inc. (TSXV: HMR | OTCQB: HMRFF), in an interview with InvestorNews.com host Tracy Hughes. “You can actually produce high-efficiency, great-quality solar glass without using antimon...

When Pat Ryan speaks about rare earths, he doesn’t talk about rocks—he talks about control. “Samarium is the most critically vulnerable rare earth, or the most critically vulnerable critical mineral,” said Ryan, CEO and Chairman of Ucore Rare Metals Inc. (TSXV: UCU | OTCQX: UURAF), in an interview with InvestorNews.com host Tracy Hughes. “That’s important to the Vacuumschmelze relationship.”At a t...

The global race to build the infrastructure for artificial intelligence has reached a fever pitch — and few understand the overlap between crypto and compute power better than Sheldon Bennett, CEO and Director of DMG Blockchain Solutions Inc. (TSXV: DMGI | OTCQB: DMGGF). Sitting down with InvestorNews.com host Tracy Hughes, Bennett described a company that began with Bitcoin mining and is now posi...

“Exciting times,” said Tom Drivas, CEO and Director of Appia Rare Earths & Uranium Corp. (CSE: API | OTCQB: APAAF), his tone both measured and confident. After months of quiet technical work in Brazil, Appia has secured what he calls “a deal done with Ultra [Rare Earth Inc.],” closing a US$6 million investment to advance its ionic-clay and carbonatite discoveries at the company’s PCH Project i...

A quietly confident declaration opened my conversation with Brett Marsh, President, CEO, and Director of Spartan Metals Corp. (TSXV: W): “Tungstonia was in operation during World War I and World War II … We picked it up recently, and we’re really excited about its potential for tungsten exploration.” The historic Nevada mine, once among the highest-grade tungsten producers in the United States, no...

In a sector where legacy assets often languish under layers of inertia, Kevin Keough is intent on rewriting the playbook. “There’s a major corporate revamp underway,” the Romios Gold Resources Inc. (TSXV: RG) CEO told me, leaning into the conviction of someone who’s already staked his own capital on the turnaround. “For investors looking for a turnaround play—that’s what Romios is.”Keough, who ste...

“The old-timers thought 5,000 grams per tonne was too low to mine,” says Frank Basa, CEO and Chairman of Nord Precious Metals Mining Inc. (TSXV: NTH | OTCQB: CCWOF). “Think about that.” His disbelief carries pride—an echo from the past reborn in the present. Today, Nord is again pulling extraordinary grades from Ontario’s storied Cobalt Camp, a district once hailed as the world’s richest silver pr...

In a recent conversation with Tracy Hughes of InvestorNews, Jack Lifton, co-chair of the Critical Minerals Institute (CMI), offered a pointed assessment of the recent meeting between President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping and its implications for the rare earths market. According to Lifton, “what they agreed upon was that China would roll back its latest series of impediments to the expor...

Few juniors move from acquisition to drill completion in a single quarter. Volta Metals Ltd. (CSE: VLTA | FSE: D0W) has—and President & CEO Kerem Usenmez says the results could redefine Canada’s place in the critical minerals map. “What’s particularly exciting about the Springer Rare Earth and Gallium Project is its location, its high-grade nature, and the fact that it’s open in all directions...

In the heart of Brazil’s mining country, where hills of iron and niobium have long fed global industry, a new frontier is emerging—and Christopher Eager is convinced its titanium and rare earths that will define the next chapter. “Brazil is one of the few places in the world where you can go from early-stage exploration through to start of construction in sometimes less than 24 months,” said Eager...

There are few phrases that carry the weight of accomplishment in the junior mining world quite like “commercial shipment.” For Silver Bullet Mines Corp. (TSXV: SBMI | OTCQB: SBMCF), it’s not just a milestone—it’s validation. As Director and VP of Capital Markets Peter Clausi put it in a recent conversation with InvestorNews.com host Tracy Hughes, “There’s been a lot of work getting to this point,...

Stakeholder Gold Corp. (TSXV: SRC) sits at the crossroads of two of the hottest commodity stories of 2025 — gold and copper — and, as CEO Christopher Berlet tells it, “right in the middle” of the White Gold District that is suddenly worth hundreds of millions more than it was just weeks ago.“We currently trade at about one-fifteenth the value of the surrounding companies,” Berlet said, acknowledgi...

Scandium Canada Ltd. (TSXV: SCD) is rapidly positioning itself as a linchpin in North America’s critical minerals strategy. “We’re certainly the single largest and only primary source of scandium in North America,” said CEO Guy Bourassa during an interview with InvestorNews.com host Tracy Hughes. “For anyone looking to work with or produce high-performance aluminum-scandium alloys, we’re definitel...

Few companies in the North American critical minerals sector can make the claim that they are both advanced and environmentally forward—but West High Yield (W.H.Y.) Resources Ltd. (TSXV: WHY) stands out as one that can. “We’re probably the largest, greenest project on the North American continent relative to critical minerals today,” said Barry Baim, Chief Operating Officer and Executive Director...

In a world where half the global population depends on nitrogen fertilizers that come with a heavy carbon cost, FuelPositive Corporation (TSXV: NHHH | OTCQB: NHHHF) is rewriting the rules of agricultural production. “Nitrogen is one of the most essential inputs for farmers around the world,” said Ian Clifford, CEO and Chair of FuelPositive, in a recent interview with InvestorNews host Tracy Hughes...

In a sector defined by scarcity, American Tungsten Corp. (CSE: TUNG | OTCQB: TUNGF) has set its sights on reviving a supply chain that North America lost a decade ago. “Production in North America ceased in 2015,” CEO Ali Haji told InvestorNews host Tracy Hughes. “The intent for American Tungsten is to be the first producer since that cessation.”From his first five months as CEO, Haji’s impact has...

The world’s next energy race isn’t being fought over oil or gas—it’s being built from the black powder inside a lithium-ion cell. And in that race, Nano One Materials Corp. (TSX: NANO | OTCQB: NNOMF) has quietly positioned itself as one of the few Western companies with the technology, partnerships, and timing to compete.“We’re really excited about our progress with Rio Tinto,” says Alex Holmes, C...