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Few projects in Canada’s critical minerals landscape capture the strategic urgency of tungsten the way Happy Creek Minerals Ltd. (TSXV: HPY) does. “Happy Creek has one of the highest-grade tungsten deposits in the world,” said President, CEO, and Director Jason Bahnsen, “which is a great place to start.” The company’s flagship Fox Tungsten Project in British Columbia holds an NI 43-101 resource of...

In an era when artificial intelligence is reshaping nearly every industry, Quantum Critical Metals Corp. (TSXV: LEAP | OTCQB: ATOXF) is taking a bold step to merge machine learning with mineral exploration. “Everything is getting automated—faster, better, smarter,” said CEO and Director Marcy Kiesman. “We’re trying to use AI in every aspect we can in the mining field.” From mapping mineralized zon...

Brazil’s Caldeira Project may prove to be one of the rare earth industry’s defining assets, and Meteoric Resources NL (ASX: MEI) is moving fast to prove it. “Since we spoke last, we’ve delivered our PFS, and we’re very, very pleased with the results,” said Stuart Gale, Managing Director and CEO of Meteoric Resources. “The PFS gives us more confidence around the mining, the exploration, our underst...

Few deposits in the world can claim to redefine the rare earth landscape, but Professor Ken Collerson believes Victory Metals’ North Stanmore discovery may be one of them. “When you’re making new discoveries in exploration, the whole key is seeing what other people see but thinking what no one has thought before. And that’s exactly what we did with the Victory North Stanmore discovery, which is si...

Brazil may well be the new frontier in the global chess match for critical minerals, and Brian Leeners, CEO and Director of Homerun Resources Inc. (TSXV: HMR | OTCQB: HMRFF), is determined to ensure his company plays a decisive role. “It’s a pretty good chess match,” he said of the evolving relationship between Brazil and the United States. “On one side, you have a fairly aggressive player. On the...

The rare earths market is sizzling — valuations have doubled or tripled since early summer — and Constantine Karayannopoulos, veteran strategist and former CEO of Neo Performance Materials Inc. (TSX: NEO | OTCQX: NOPMF), says the spark came from Washington. “It all started with the deal that MP Materials Corp. (NYSE: MP) did with the DoD or DoW, where there was a massive amount of money that the U...

Australian Rare Earths Limited (ASX: AR3) is aiming to transform a clay discovery into one of the most strategically important rare earth projects in the Western world. “Australian Rare Earths is advancing an ionic clay project in South Australia,” said Managing Director Travis Beinke. “The discovery was made back in 2020. The company IPO’d in 2021. Since then, we’ve drilled out a large resource o...

The Wicheeda deposit has long been regarded as a standout rare earth project in North America, but Defense Metals Corp. (TSXV: DEFN | OTCQB: DFMTF) is now positioning it as one of the world’s best. “When I did my due diligence after I got a tap on the shoulder for this job, I realized it was one of the best projects that’s out there globally and wanted to be part of it,” said Mark Tory, President...

What began as a modest exploration program in Ontario’s storied Cobalt Camp has evolved into something far more expansive. Frank Basa, CEO and Chairman of Nord Precious Metals Mining Inc. (TSXV: NTH | OTCQB: CCWOF), revealed that what the company initially believed to be 10 veins of mineralization has now tripled. “It turned out we have 29 of them, which was a very large surprise,” Basa explained....

Brazilian Rare Earths Limited (ASX: BRE | OTCQX: BRELY | OTCQX: BRETF) has turned necessity into velocity—and a frontier province in Bahia into one of the rare earth sector’s most closely watched growth stories. “Brazilian Rare Earths has discovered what appears to be, based on public information, the highest-grade deposit in the world,” Managing Director and CEO Dr. Bernardo da Veiga told me. In...

The scale of ambition behind CVMR® Corporation’s latest move is staggering. What began as a $7 billion fund to finance mid-sized mining and refining projects has now swelled to a proposed $42 billion capital vehicle, backed by physical gold. “We had prescribed about $200 million was already sold before we started,” Kamran M. Khozan, Chairman and CEO of CVMR, explained in a recent interview. “And n...

Defying convention has become a hallmark of Silver Bullet Mines Corp. (TSXV: SBMI | OTCQB: SBMCF), and few embody that approach more directly than its Director and VP of Capital Markets, Peter Clausi. “We agreed back in 2020 we were not going to get a 43-101 resource estimate,” he recalled in a recent interview with InvestorNews host Tracy Hughes. “People told us you won’t be able to raise any mon...

The rare earths sector is notoriously difficult to advance, but Tom Drivas, CEO and Director of Appia Rare Earths & Uranium Corp. (CSE: API | OTCQB: APAAF), is quick to emphasize that his company has secured the strategic partner it has long sought. “The due diligence is happening as we speak,” Drivas said in a recent interview. “Ultra (Ultra Rare Earth Inc.) had four groups on our property. W...

The rare earth industry is littered with failed promises and overhyped projects, but George Bennett, CEO and Director of Rainbow Rare Earths Limited (LSE: RBW), insists his company is carving out a path defined by low costs, chemical ingenuity, and near-term production. “We are very low capital intensity for a typical rare earth development project,” Bennett said in a recent conversation. “We are...

The rare earth industry has long been overshadowed by China’s dominance, but Ucore Rare Metals Inc. (TSXV: UCU | OTCQX: UURAF) is beginning to capture investor imagination with a plan that moves beyond extraction and into the linchpin of the supply chain: refining. “You’re not going to have anything on the mining extraction side work or come to fruition unless you have the refining to go with it,”...

Jim Atkinson calls antimony “the most critical metal that nobody knows about.” As Chief Executive Officer and Director of Antimony Resources Corp. (CSE: ATMY), he is leading the charge at Bald Hill in New Brunswick, home to the highest-grade antimony deposit in North America. With a Phase 2 drilling campaign now underway, Atkinson’s vision is clear: to transform the continent’s neglected antimony...

A distressed asset, a forgotten mine, and a geological model that could reshape the future of mining east of Sudbury—this is the story that Christopher Berlet, President, CEO, and Director of Canuc Resources Corporation (TSXV: CDA | OTCQB: CNUCF), is beginning to tell publicly after years of quiet preparation. “Major discovery potential with cash flow,” is how Berlet described the company’s positi...

Pat Ryan doesn’t mince words when he draws a parallel between China’s near-total dominance of rare earth refining and Rockefeller’s 19th-century oil empire. “If I said to you today that China controls 95% of oil refining in the world, you’d be shocked. Of course, they don’t. But they do control 95% of rare earth critical mineral processing. People should be shocked. We’ve got to change that.” His...

Pat Ryan doesn’t mince words when he draws a parallel between China’s near-total dominance of rare earth refining and Rockefeller’s 19th-century oil empire. “If I said to you today that China controls 95% of oil refining in the world, you’d be shocked. Of course, they don’t. But they do control 95% of rare earth critical mineral processing. People should be shocked. We’ve got to change that.” His...

In the boreal forests north of Saguenay, where smoldering wildfires can halt a drill rig as surely as a market crash, Frank Basa is chasing a funnel-shaped orebody he calls Graal—a potential trove of nickel, copper, cobalt and platinum-group metals that could help feed the electric-vehicle revolution. “We’re trying to do a targeted drilling program,” Basa told InvestorNews host Tracy Hughes. “It’l...

Mark Thackeray wants the sun to do more than just shine – he wants it to spin, cool, and cleanse. His vision: a single device that can fuel homes and factories long after dusk by harnessing sunlight in multiple ways. Thackeray, the chairman of Icarus Groups, has been developing exactly that. The result is the Icarus Sun Mill, an off-grid power unit that promises round-the-clock electricity, potabl...

Titanium, not gold or lithium, is the metal that Christopher Eager believes will rewrite Brazil’s mining narrative. “Our high-grade zone is 23% titanium dioxide, which is almost a concentrate as it stands,” the newly minted CEO and still-chairman of Resouro Strategic Metals Inc. (ASX: RAU | TSXV: RSM | OTCQB: RSGOF) told InvestorNews host Tracy Hughes, underscoring why the company’s colossal Tiros...

When supply-chain fractures threaten the bedrock of modern medicine, Brent Willis answers with a mine. The former military officer-turned-executive has steered Voyageur Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (TSXV: VM | OTC: VYYRF) from a scrappy retail finance story into a potential linchpin of North America’s radiology-drug security, and—judging by his buoyant performance on InvestorNews—he has no intention of sl...

Buried riches often lie in plain sight, and Panther Metals PLC (LSE: PALM) believes the overlooked tailings of Ontario’s Winston Lake mine could bankroll its next chapter of discovery. Founded to “rapidly decipher potential commercial viability and act accordingly,” the company has assembled a three-property portfolio in mining-friendly Ontario and now trains its sights on re-processing what CEO D...

Leveraging its position as America’s leading uranium producer, Energy Fuels Inc. (NYSE American: UUUU | TSX: EFR) is simultaneously building itself into a linchpin of the Western rare earth magnet chain, guided by Daniel Kapostasy, the geologist who quietly weighs every deal that crosses the Denver headquarters. “The key thing for the rare earth side is that it’s monazite—that’s the mineral we wan...