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Platinum, palladium, copper and nickel: critical metals for the transformative technologies which are powering Western economies. Clean Air Metals (AIR.V) is exploring two deposits, Current and Escape, near Thunder Bay which show great potential as sources for all four of these important metals.
A Preliminary Economic Assessment (“PEA”) is a significant milestone for junior exploration companies, essentially it promotes them into a select group of “valued asset” owners in the mining industry. It is a third-party assessment of the economic viability of the project’s resource estimates which a company has completed to date and it is an outline of the steps to be taken to reach commercial production.
One of the challenges in the junior resource exploration/development sector is attaching a credible net asset value to potential assets in the ground. A 43-101 resource estimate is helpful, so is a preliminary economic assessment; but neither really attaches a hard cash value to a company’s project.
Raising money in the current market has been difficult for many junior exploration and development companies. So the Grid Metals team’s achievement, raising $8.52 million for Grid Metals (GRDM.V), is particularly important.
Brodie Sutherland, CEO of Tocvan Ventures (TOC:CNX), has set a course for the company which will allow it to explore, drill and bulk sample at its two gold/silver properties in Sonora Mexico. Critically, Tocvan concluded a 5.125 million dollar financing which will fund operations for the next two years.
There is a lot of market excitement about “battery metals”, lithium, nickel, copper, cobalt and graphite. The future is all about electric vehicles and battery electrical storage to fortify the “grid”. This is where Grid Metals (GRDM.V) begins to shine. The company is developing two projects in southern Manitoba – one a lithium project, the other a nickel/copper project – both located in close proximity to each other.
Back in April 2021 uranium was trading at less than $30 USD per pound. What a difference a year makes. Uranium is up to $64.50 a pound and in relatively short supply. The quick rise in the price of uranium has brought the uranium explorers and developers to the sharp attention of the market.
When you have a large, prospective, property you have to use the best, most cost effective, tools to find what you hope will be a deposit. Tocvan Ventures (TOC:CNX) has been working on its Pilar property in Mexico for a little over two years.
Shareholders of Bayhorse Silver (BHS.v) have waited a long time for all of the details and logistics of the Bayhorse Mine in Oregon to fall into place. Graeme O’Neill, BHS’s CEO has been working hard for years to plan the mining operation, integrate the ore sorter and build a milling facility to produce concentrate. Every step of the way cost money and O’Neill has raised that money.
