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Perseus Mining Limited (ASX/TSX Code: PRU) has forged a reputation as one of the world's most successful gold explorers. Focused on under-explored gold belts in West Africa, they achieved their goal to become a gold producer in 2011 and started commercial production on 1 January 2012. Their Edikan Gold Mine (EGM) in Ghana, formerly referred to as the Central Ashanti Gold Project (CAGP) and Ayanfuri, has 5.25 million ounces of Measured and Indicated gold resources, including reserves of 2.36 Moz gold, and 2.17Moz Inferred gold resources. A revised Feasibility Study for their second major project, Sissingué in Côte d’Ivoire, released in April 2015, confirmed it as a technically feasible and economically robust project. Perseus is targeting the start of construction at Sissingué in the September quarter of 2015, with the first gold pour within 14 months. Perseus is highly motivated to minimize investment and maximize cash flow in order to improve shareholder returns while becoming West Africa’s next multi-mine gold producer. The Company has an experienced and focused board and management team with a track record of strong organic growth through exploration success.

Royal Nickel is a mining company that focuses on value creation by advancing the development of the Dumont Nickel Project. The company is driven by a vision to be a prosperous mining company that grows through the acquisition and responsible development of a high-quality portfolio of base and precious metal assets. Royal Nickel was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario.

Artemis Gold Inc., a gold development company, focuses on the identification, acquisition, and development of gold properties. The company’s asset portfolio includes a 39% strategic stake in Velocity Minerals Ltd. that focuses on acquiring, exploring, and evaluating mineral resource properties in Bulgaria. It also holds interest in the Blackwater Gold Project located in central British Columbia. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Calidus Resources is a gold exploration and mining company based in Perth, Australia. Established in 1986, it focuses primarily on its flagship Warrawoona Gold Project, which spans 550 square kilometers in the East Pilbara district of the Pilbara Goldfields in Western Australia. In addition to Warrawoona, the company also has interests in the Blue Spec Project and the Otways Prospect. Calidus Resources generates the majority of its revenue through gold sales, positioning itself as a key player in the Australian gold mining sector.

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Golden Star Resources Ltd. is a gold mining and exploration company based in Toronto, Canada, with operations primarily in Ghana. The company has been active in the region since 1999 and owns the Wassa open-pit and underground mines, as well as a carbon-in-leach processing plant located northeast of Tarkwa. Additionally, it operates the Bogoso gold mining and processing facility and the Prestea open-pit and underground mines near Prestea. Golden Star holds a 90% interest in these operations, which are situated within the Ashanti Gold Belt, a region known for its rich mineral deposits. The company is committed to enhancing its operating margin by focusing on lower cost ore production while also managing various gold exploration properties in Ghana and Brazil.

Perseus Mining Limited (ASX/TSX Code: PRU) has forged a reputation as one of the world's most successful gold explorers. Focused on under-explored gold belts in West Africa, they achieved their goal to become a gold producer in 2011 and started commercial production on 1 January 2012. Their Edikan Gold Mine (EGM) in Ghana, formerly referred to as the Central Ashanti Gold Project (CAGP) and Ayanfuri, has 5.25 million ounces of Measured and Indicated gold resources, including reserves of 2.36 Moz gold, and 2.17Moz Inferred gold resources. A revised Feasibility Study for their second major project, Sissingué in Côte d’Ivoire, released in April 2015, confirmed it as a technically feasible and economically robust project. Perseus is targeting the start of construction at Sissingué in the September quarter of 2015, with the first gold pour within 14 months. Perseus is highly motivated to minimize investment and maximize cash flow in order to improve shareholder returns while becoming West Africa’s next multi-mine gold producer. The Company has an experienced and focused board and management team with a track record of strong organic growth through exploration success.

The Metals Company, formerly known as DeepGreen Resources Inc., is engaged in the production of base and strategic metals sourced from high-grade seafloor polymetallic nodule deposits. These deposits contain essential metals such as manganese, nickel, copper, cobalt, and molybdenum. The company utilizes a hydrometallurgical process to extract these metals and targets major miners, metal traders, and steelmakers as its primary customers. With a focus on innovative and sustainable practices, The Metals Company aims to supply metals that are vital for economic growth and clean technologies. The company has garnered attention from significant industry players, including a contract with Glencore for a portion of its nickel and copper output. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, The Metals Company has established strategic partnerships to enhance its production capabilities.

KORE offers exposure to precious metals exploration and development in North America.KORE owns 100% interests in the Imperial and Long Valley gold development projects, located in California, USA and the FG Gold and Gold Creek exploration projects, located in the Cariboo region of British Columbia, Canada. Combined, the Company’s projects boast multimillion ounce gold development opportunities.* Each of the development projects has the potential to host near-surface, open pit, heap leachable gold deposits. Our exploration projects demonstrate strong discovery potential in an established mining district. The Projects combine low technical risk and high advancement potential.

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SEMAFO’s corporate vision – establish enduring relationships with the countries in which we operate and through our experience, expertise and financial acumen, partner to responsibly develop natural resources – showcases the Canadian company’s association of sustainable development with geological and mining development. The spirit of this mission forms a thread that runs throughout our history. In 1993, Benoit La Salle, founder of SEMAFO, was on a philanthropic mission in Africa when the authorities in Burkina Faso proposed that he return in order to help realise the untapped mineral potential in the country. SEMAFO, which results from the amalgamation of three small exploration companies, was incorporated two years later in order to launch the mining sector in Burkina Faso. The name SEMAFO is an acronym for Société d’Exploration Minière en Afrique de l’Ouest, the French version of our former name “West Africa Mining Exploration Corporation”. From the outset, the Corporation’s modus operandi was closely aligned with the founder’s humanitarian vision of West Africa as evidenced by an early corporate commitment: “We are committed to conducting our business activities in a manner that promotes sustainable development and an improvement in the social welfare of the regions in which we operate.” This dual mission remains at the core of our business and took deeper roots through the 2008 establishment of SEMAFO Foundation, a non-profit, stand-alone charitable organisation that supports communities and offers an improved quality of life to regions where SEMAFO is present. Through its three-pronged approach – education, healthcare and income-generating - the Foundation aims to help local communities reach their greatest potential. By guiding communities in income-generating activities, the Foundation ensures that stakeholders will continue to benefit from our legacy even when the company’s mining activities will have ceased. In a history that spans some twenty years, SEMAFO has successfully commissioned three gold mines in several jurisdictions in West Africa and produced more than two million ounces in gold. Our in-house development, construction, operational, administrative and government relations teams, all of whom are fluent French speakers, draw from more than a decade of operating experience in West Africa. Our success has been governed by the values we practice: respect and integrity, excellence, know-how and teamwork. Our portfolio has evolved and simplified since 1995 when we held 19 exploration permits in four West African countries. In 1995, Les Minéraux SGV S.A., a company in which we were a 50% equity partner, purchased a two-year prospecting permit for the Jean Gobélé project in Guinea. With the financial support and technical expertise of our then major shareholder Managem S.A., and in collaboration with our co-licensee Corporation Minière Afcan, the project was advanced from exploration, site development and mine construction until its first gold pour on April 25, 2002. The name of the mine was subsequently changed to the Kiniero gold mine, which we operated for eleven years. In 2013, the mine was deemed a non-core asset and placed in care and maintenance until its 2014 divestiture to a local mining company. In 1999, we entered Niger by setting up la Société des Mines du Liptako S.A. (SML). Through the support of Managem, we advanced the Libiri and Samira Hill gold deposits through development, mine construction and to commercial production in October 2004. We operated the Samira Hill Mine for nine years, improving plant availability and capacity, and enabling the mine to produce over 540,000 ounces of gold before its 2013 disposal to SOPAMIN. Mana, which lies at the heart of SEMAFO’s history, was a grassroots discovery that has now evolved into the third-largest gold mine in Burkina Faso. We advanced this project from satellite image interpretation through detailed exploration, site development and mine construction to its first gold pour in March 2008. Since then, we have expanded the processing plant four times. Since November 1999, we have drilled more than 1.2 million metres on the extensive Mana property that boasts a total surface area of over 2,675 square kilometres on the Houndé Gold Belt. In 2014, the Corporation marked another milestone when it took the high-grade Siou deposit from blind discovery to production in a mere 18 months, thereby boosting Mana production and reserve grade. Our history shows we have been a pioneer in many aspects in West Africa. The original gold mine operator in Niger, SEMAFO also spearheaded foreign direct investment in the gold mining sector in Burkina Faso, and remains the only mining company in Burkina Faso to establish a non-profit foundation and pledge up to 2% of its net profits to support its efforts in the community. Following its 2015 acquisition of 13 Orbis permits, SEMAFO’s property portfolio reached 7,600 square kilometers, comprising one of the most extensive land positions in Burkina Faso. Our strategy of quality ounces, cost control and optimisation programs, and disciplined exploration at Mana took us into a new phase of development in 2014, allowing us to generate free cash flow even in a soft gold environment. Driven by the performance of our recently ramped-up high-grade Siou and Fofina deposits, we produced 234,300 ounces at a total cash cost of $649 per ounce in 2014, thus meeting production guidance for the seventh consecutive year. Although we take pride in our solid financial, operational and community report cards, we remain focused on future expansion of our heritage. Our commitment to building an ethical, reputable, world-class gold company through a combination of exploration, development and acquisition remains undimmed.

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