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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 under two years, he has led a compa...

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 now we have decided to increase the ...

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 money. And yet here we are, $20 millio...

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. We think the due diligence is going ...

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 circa $300 million of capex to buil...

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,” said Pat Ryan, the company’s CEO a...

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 story into one of strategic supply ...

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 position. “Yes. Yes.”The potential he ref...

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 company, Ucore Rare Metals Inc. (TS...

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 company, Ucore Rare Metals Inc. (TS...

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’ll be a small program, only about 9,...

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, potable water, and heating in one sculptu...

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 Project has suddenly become one of...

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 slowing. “We’re hitting our milestone...

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 Darren Hazelwood calls “an on-surfac...

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 want to process. Second, it has to con...

Seven billion dollars in glinting bullion—vaulted in Switzerland and destined to underwrite a new class of critical mineral financing—has catapulted Toronto-based CVMR® Corporation onto the center stage of the global supply-chain drama. “Physically put $7 billion worth of gold in a vault that you can go and touch and feel, and that backs whatever investment you make,” CEO Kamran M. Khozan told InvestorNews host Tracy Hughes, announ...

A patch of ionic-clay countryside in Goiás State, Brazil, has become the stage on which Appia Rare Earths & Uranium Corp. (CSE: API | OTCQB: APAAF) is betting its future. “We feel this is a project that could make it all the way to development,” CEO Tom Drivas declared in an interview with InvestorNews host Tracy Hughes. The company, a Toronto-listed explorer with uranium claims in Ontario’s historic Elliot Lake camp and high-g...

A three-decade-old network of self-styled “nerds” is quietly turning the most mundane corner of the digital economy—small-business IT housekeeping—into a growth story that refuses to flatline. “We’re up 21% in revenues already this quarter,” Charles Regan told InvestorNews host Tracy Hughes, glasses flashing in the studio lights. “I’d be smiling more often if I were a shareholder.”Nerds On Site Inc. (CSE: NERD | OTCQB: NOSUF), foun...