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From the outset of his conversation with InvestorNews.com host Tracy Hughes, Anthony Durkacz pulled no punches: the fight his company has launched against alleged market predators isn’t just another legal footnote—it’s a battle for integrity on Main Street as much as for investors in speculative biotech. “This is a David versus about 13 Goliaths,” Durkacz said, describing Quantum BioPharma Ltd.'s (NASDAQ: QNTM | CSE: QNTM) clas...

The markets woke up to a headline that reads like a time-warp: U.S. strikes in Venezuela, President Nicolás Maduro reportedly captured, and Washington openly debating what it means to “run” a sovereign country—temporarily, of course. Reuters reported regional condemnation within hours, including Brazil warning the United States had crossed “an unacceptable line.” AP, in parallel, described a pre-dawn raid and the administration’s s...

China’s manipulation of the rare earths market isn’t a policy glitch — it’s a geopolitical weapon. In a wide-ranging discussion with InvestorNews host Tracy Hughes, Jack Lifton, Co-Chair of the Critical Minerals Institute (CMI), portrayed 2026 as a year in which “more of the same” from Beijing will keep Western planners off balance, with China “playing us” through erratic export permissions that turn production planning in North Am...

Jack Lifton, Co-Chair of the Critical Minerals Institute (CMI), settled into his chair with a frank verdict on 2025: “Was it a good year for rare earths or not? I don’t really think so, Tracy. I think there were too many choices presented to the public and a delusion, therefore, of well-focused capital in this segment.” Lifton’s measured skepticism contrasted sharply with the heady optimism that greeted rare earths at the start of ...

From the opening lines of the InvestorNews.com interview, it was clear that CleanTech Vanadium Mining Corp. is staking a bold claim in America’s bid for critical mineral independence, a theme now underscored by recent strategic acquisitions and royalty expansions that together reshape the narrative around domestic fluorspar supply. Bekzod Kasimov, the company’s Business Development Manager, described CleanTech’s latest move: “we re...

A mineral deposit that can pay you eight ways is no longer just geology — it’s risk management, and Nicole Brewster wants investors to hear that as plainly as possible. In an interview with InvestorNews.com host Tracy Hughes, Brewster — President, CEO and Director of Renforth Resources Inc. (CSE: RFR) — speaks from the particular perch of a junior explorer in Québec’s Abitibi mining district: close enough to established infrastruct...

The energy transition’s next choke point may be a sheet of glass.Homerun Resources Inc. (TSXV: HMR | OTCQB: HMRFF) is trying to make that glass story legible to investors by starting where glass begins: silica. The company describes itself as “building the silica-powered backbone of the energy transition” across four verticals—Silica, Solar, Energy Storage and Energy Solutions—anchored by a “high purity low iron silica resource in ...

Cesium is what happens when a “minor metal” stops behaving like a footnote and starts acting like a constraint.On InvestorNews.com, host Tracy Hughes opened her conversation with Robin Dunbar—President, CEO, and Director of Grid Metals Corp. (TSXV: GRDM | OTCQB: MSMGF)—by placing the company where it actually operates: Manitoba, with a portfolio that spans nickel-copper-PGMs at Makwa (under an option and joint venture agreement wit...

Cesium is what happens when a “minor metal” stops behaving like a footnote and starts acting like a constraint.On InvestorNews.com, host Tracy Hughes opened her conversation with Robin Dunbar—President, CEO, and Director of Grid Metals Corp. (TSXV: GRDM | OTCQB: MSMGF)—by placing the company where it actually operates: Manitoba, with a portfolio that spans nickel-copper-PGMs at Makwa (under an option and joint venture agreement wit...

Power, in the rare earth business, isn’t found in the grade in the ground—it’s found in what you can turn that rock into, reliably, at scale, in a jurisdiction that wants the mine built.That framing is why Jack Lifton’s conversation with Mark Tory—President, CEO, and Director of Defense Metals Corp. (TSXV: DEFN | OTCQB: DFMTF)—lands with unusual clarity. Tory is not a newly minted executive discovering the critical minerals script ...

In Washington, “peace” is being marketed like a term sheet. In eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, it is still a battlefield. In the critical minerals economy, ambiguity is always expensive.In a new InvestorNews.com interview for the Critical Minerals Institute (CMI), Tracy Hughes speaks with Melissa “Mel” Sanderson, CMI’s co-chair, about a Trump-brokered Rwanda–DRC peace deal signed in Washington on December 4, 2025. Sanderson’s...

A new Ontario law is turning digital cleaning records from a niche software feature into a compliance requirement, and Visionstate Corp. (TSXV: VIS) is positioning its technology at the centre of that shift.Visionstate is a growth-oriented company that invests in the research and development of technology in the realm of the Internet of Things, big data and analytics, and sustainability. Through its wholly-owned subsidiary Visionst...

Spartan Metals Corp. (TSXV: W | OTCQB: SPRMF) is advancing its flagship Eagle Project in eastern Nevada, a past-producing tungsten district being repositioned as a multi-metal critical minerals asset centered on tungsten, rubidium, silver and copper. The company’s strategy is to build a portfolio of strategic defense minerals in top-tier Western U.S. jurisdictions, with a focus on tungsten, rubidium, antimony, bismuth and arsenic.I...

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, which I help lead, has created as a “bra...

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 reviewed the tungsten supply-chain agr...

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 USA Rare Earth, Inc. (NASDAQ: USAR,...

“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 from the KT Gold Mine and about 2,000 ...

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 national defence. Its flagship Eur...

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 company President and CEO Christopher Ber...