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September 3, 20265 min

Solis Minerals starts Cinto copper drilling

Solis Minerals Ltd CEO Mitch Thomas talked with Proactive about the start of diamond drilling at the 100%-owned Cinto Copper Project and the company’s objectives for the 2,500-metre exploration program. Surface exploration has produced encouraging results, including rock chip grades above 5% copper and previous sampling of up to 8.7% copper. Thomas also highlighted channel sampling over 20 metres that returned grades including 0.7% and 0.5% copper. The drilling program is targeting breccias identified at surface alongside targets informed by the induced polarisation survey carried out last year. Thomas said the key objective is to establish indications of a copper porphyry system within the company’s concessions, with the program expected to encounter oxide mineralisation nearer surface before testing for sulphide mineralisation at depth. Thomas also discussed progress at the Mandacaru Lithium Project, where the company is finishing its fifth diamond drill hole before moving to a sixth. He said drilling has intersected pegmatites corresponding with the company’s surface mapping and LCT indicators, with mineralisation observed in some intersections. Solis Minerals expects assays from Mandacaru around the end of September or early October, with exploration progressing at both projects in parallel. Visit Proactive’s YouTube channel for more interviews and market updates. Don’t forget to like the video, subscribe to the channel and enable notifications for future content.

September 3, 20264 min

ASX September SMIDCap Conference: 27 companies to present

Alex Skelton, Manager, Listed Company Services, ASX, talked with Proactive about what investors can expect from the ASX Small and Mid-Cap Conference on September 23, including the opportunity to hear directly from 27 companies across a broad range of sectors. Skelton said the event follows a strong conference held in March and is designed to connect executives from small-cap companies directly with the investment community. Each participating company is given 15 minutes, comprising a 10-minute presentation followed by five minutes of questions and answers. Skelton explained that the format allows executives to discuss the company story, strategy and direction while also receiving live questions from existing and prospective investors. From the investor perspective, the conference provides an opportunity to hear directly from management teams and gain a clearer understanding of the businesses presenting. The 27-company line-up includes recently listed businesses as well as companies operating across industries including materials, consumer, healthcare and financials. The conference will be held at the State Library of New South Wales in Sydney, with investors also able to participate online. Presentations will be livestreamed and recorded, while online viewers will be able to submit questions to company executives during the event. Visit Proactive's YouTube channel for more interviews and market updates. If you found this video useful, give it a like, subscribe to the channel and enable notifications so you don't miss future content.

September 3, 20263 min

Lightning Minerals advances Mt Turner Gold Project

Lightning Minerals managing director Troy Brice talked with Proactive about the latest exploration results from the company’s Mt Turner Gold Project in northern Queensland, where recent surface sampling has identified two additional gold target zones. Brice explained that Lightning Minerals completed a soils program across the Western Zone in July, returning to an area that had previously been regarded as a conceptual gold corridor. The field team collected 551 soil samples and 27 rock chip samples, which were assessed alongside historical soil sampling to improve the company’s understanding of the area. Brice said the growing number of targets was strengthening Lightning Minerals’ view of Mt Turner’s broader exploration potential. Looking ahead, Brice said the company plans to undertake around another 100 surface samples across the Western Zone and incorporate the results into its geological model. Lightning Minerals is also considering trenching across selected targeted vein areas while progressing its upcoming drilling program and other exploration activities in northern Queensland ahead of the wet season. Visit Proactive’s YouTube channel for more interviews and company updates. If you found this video useful, give it a like, subscribe to the channel and enable notifications so you don’t miss future content.

September 3, 20263 min

American Resources joins Critical Minerals Institute as inaugural Platinum member

American Resources Corp CEO Mark Jensen joined Steve Darling from Proactive to discuss the company's appointment as the inaugural Platinum member of the Critical Minerals Institute (CMI), a move that strengthens its position within the rapidly evolving critical minerals sector and underscores its commitment to building secure domestic supply chains. Jensen said the partnership aligns closely with American Resources' mission of advancing critical minerals production, processing and recycling capabilities in North America. As the Institute's first Platinum member, the company will play a prominent role in helping shape industry discussions and initiatives focused on securing reliable supplies of strategic minerals essential to modern technologies, energy transition infrastructure and national security. Through the membership, American Resources gains access to CMI's global executive network and the Institute's Critical Minerals Platform, a comprehensive intelligence system that provides independent mineral pricing data, market forecasts, supply chain analysis, and corporate intelligence. Jensen noted that these resources will help support the company's strategic decision-making as it continues to expand across the critical minerals value chain. The partnership also reflects a broader industry shift from simply discussing critical minerals policy to actively executing solutions that strengthen domestic and allied supply chains. Jensen emphasized that resilient, commercially viable supply chains will require collaboration among industry leaders, governments, investors and technology developers. American Resources is expected to play an active role at the upcoming CMI Summit 6, which will be held under the theme "Critical Minerals Diplomacy in a Fragmenting Global Economy." The event will bring together policymakers, government officials, institutional investors, technical experts and industry executives from around the world to address some of the sector's most pressing challenges and opportunities. Discussions at the summit will focus on supply chain security, industrial policy, geopolitical risks, downstream processing, financing, technological innovation and the practical realities of developing competitive critical minerals supply chains in an increasingly complex global environment. Jensen said participation in the Institute and its initiatives provides American Resources with another platform to help accelerate the development of sustainable and secure critical minerals ecosystems while supporting the growing demand for materials essential to advanced manufacturing, electrification and energy security. #proactiveinvestors #americanresourcescorporation #nasdaq #arec #ReElementTechnologies #BatteryRecycling #MiningNews #EnergyTransition #SupplyChainSecurity #CriticalMineralsInstitute #RareEarths #BatteryMaterials #ResourceInvesting #CleanTechnology

September 2, 20265 min

Millennial Potash expands Banio footprint with 80 metres of Potash in new drill hole

Millennial Potash Chairman Farhad Abasov joined Steve Darling from Proactive to discuss the successful completion of drillhole BA-006 at the North Target of the company’s Banio Potash Project in Gabon, a result that significantly expands the known extent of potash mineralization and strengthens the project's long-term development potential. As part of the company’s ongoing Phase 2 drilling campaign, hole BA-006 was drilled to a depth of 674 metres and intersected the project’s evaporite-bearing Salt Sequence beginning at approximately 332 metres. The hole remained in mineralized salt units to the end of drilling, indicating the system remains open at depth and suggesting additional resource expansion opportunities. Preliminary geological logging identified approximately 80 metres of cumulative potash mineralization consisting of multiple carnallitite seams interbedded with halite. The mineralization was encountered across six evaporite cycles, designated Cycles V through X, with potash present in each cycle. The hole also substantially expands the known potash footprint southwest of the current Mineral Resource Estimate area. Importantly, BA-006 intersected evaporite Cycles IX and X, which had not previously been encountered at the Banio Project. Management believes this may indicate that the potash-bearing system is thickening toward the west and could host additional potash horizons beyond the current resource boundaries. The Phase 2 drilling program was designed to test both the lateral and vertical continuity of potash-rich horizons beyond the boundaries of the current 2025 Mineral Resource Estimate. Results from BA-006 provide strong evidence that the mineralized system extends well beyond previously defined limits and could support a future resource expansion. Millennial Potash intends to incorporate the new drilling data into an updated Mineral Resource Estimate, which will serve as a key foundation for the ongoing Definitive Feasibility Study. Abasov confirmed that the DFS remains on schedule for completion by the end of 2026 and is expected to further advance Banio toward development as one of Africa’s emerging potash projects. #proactiveinvestors #millennialpotahscorp #tsxv #mlp #otcqb #mlpnf #potash #Potash #BanioProject #GabonMining #ResourceExpansion #FertilizerMarket #CriticalMinerals #MiningNews #DFS #PotashDevelopment

September 2, 20264 min

Light Science Technologies CEO: £800m fire safety framework fuels growth in £14bn remediation market

Light Science Technologies Holdings PLC (AIM:LST, FRA:9FD) CEO Simon Deacon spoke with Proactive's Stephen Gunnion about growing opportunities for the company's passive fire protection (PFP) division, including a major new public-sector fire safety and building remediation framework from Efficiency East Midlands (EEM). Deacon said EEM has launched an £800 million fire safety and building remediation framework for public buildings in the Midlands, replacing the existing one and set to start in February 2027. LSTH is focused on two lots covering external walls, facades, cladding and cavity barriers, worth a combined £584 million over four years. The company is seeking to get specified and win cavity barrier remediation work under the framework, supporting growth of its PFP division and IP-protected Injectaclad solution. Deacon also highlighted increased activity since the Building Safety Regulator moved between government departments at the end of January, roughly doubling the company's work compared with the previous 12 months and boosting its quoted pipeline. "Our £20 million quoted pipeline this year, we've had 11 projects which are live projects currently underway across the country," he said, spanning schools, hospitals, hotels and social housing. Deacon pointed to a remediation market worth more than £14 billion, with work potentially continuing for 15 to 20 years. Looking ahead, he expects growing demand for Injectaclad to support margins and cash generation, with the PFP division potentially leading the group in revenue, gross margin and cash generation in 2027. Visit Proactive’s YouTube channel for more company interviews and market updates. Don’t forget to give the video a like, subscribe to the channel and enable notifications for future content. Read Proactive's Editorial Policy here: https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/pages/editorialPolicy #LightScienceTechnologies #LSTH #SimonDeacon #Injectaclad #FireSafety #BuildingSafety #PassiveFireProtection #PFP #BuildingRemediation #FireProtection #Cladding #CavityBarriers #BuildingSafetyRegulator #SocialHousing #UKConstruction #AIMStocks #UKInvesting #ProactiveInvestors

September 2, 20263 min

St George Mining CEO: Araxá permitting begins as company eyes Brazil rare earths hub

St George Mining Ltd (ASX:SGQ, FRA:S0G, OTC:SGQMF) executive chairman John Prineas spoke with Proactive's Stephen Gunnion about progress at the Araxá Project in Brazil, including the start of environmental permitting, an expanded mineral resource and plans for a rare earths processing centre in Minas Gerais. Speaking from Brazil, where he is attending EXPOSIBRAM 2026, Prineas said St George has submitted an environmental impact assessment to authorities in Minas Gerais, formally launching the project's licensing process, with a construction licence targeted within 12 months. He also discussed the growing Araxá resource, now at 75.2 million tonnes in the measured and indicated categories: "We've now got the largest high grade carbonatite resource in South America." St George is finalising metallurgical test work before completing a feasibility study with Worley, expected to progress over the next six months. The interview also covered plans to move downstream through a proposed rare earths processing centre at the industrial complex in Uberlândia, developed in partnership with the government and Lima and Pergher, aimed at adding value to Araxá's product and supporting a Brazilian rare earths supply chain. Prineas said potential offtake partners in the US and Asia have shown interest both in Araxá's product and in supporting the processing centre with technology. Visit Proactive’s YouTube channel for more company interviews and market updates. If you found this video useful, give it a like, subscribe to the channel and enable notifications for future content. Read Proactive's Editorial Policy here: https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/pages/editorialPolicy #StGeorgeMining #Araxá #RareEarths #CriticalMinerals #Mining #Brazil #MinasGerais #RareEarthProcessing #MineToMagnet #MineralExploration #MiningInvestment #ResourceDevelopment #Offtake #ProactiveInvestors #Investing

September 2, 20266 min

Caledonia Mining CEO: Blanket resources grow, maiden Motapa resource declared as pipeline builds

Caledonia Mining Corporation PLC (AIM:CMCL, NYSE-A:CMCL, VFEX:CMCL) CEO Mark Learmonth spoke with Proactive's Stephen Gunnion about the latest resource updates at Blanket Mine and Motapa, and how exploration could support further production growth alongside the development of Bilboes. Learmonth said the updates highlight organic growth opportunities across both the producing Blanket Mine and exploration-stage Motapa project. Caledonia has been investing in exploration at Blanket since completing the Central Shaft in 2021, with subsequent work identifying additional material at depth with improved grades and widths. Caledonia Mining: Blanket resources grow, maiden Motapa resource declared as pipeline builds Blanket's underground measured and indicated mineral resources have increased 22% to approximately 2.2 million ounces, further supporting its position as a long-life asset. Caledonia is working on a revised life-of-mine plan that could extend operations beyond 2034 and support higher production. The company has also identified and declared a shallow oxide resource at Blanket that could contribute incremental production as early as the first half of next year, with further exploration and metallurgical work planned around a new sulphide resource. At Motapa, Caledonia has announced a maiden measured and indicated mineral resource of 379,000 ounces, with Learmonth stressing that exploration currently covers only a small proportion of the property and further targets remain. Looking ahead, Learmonth said: "We already have a clear growth plan up to just over 270,000oz of gold in 2029, and that's the first full year of production at Bilboes," adding that the latest results raise the possibility of further production growth at both Blanket and Bilboes. The cautionary note concerning forward-looking information in the announcement applies to the content of this video. You can read the Blanket report here: https://polaris.brighterir.com/public/caledonia_mining/news/rns_tool/story/ry0y3yx/export Read the Motapa report here: https://polaris.brighterir.com/public/caledonia_mining/news/rns_tool/story/xpj0kmx Visit Proactive's YouTube channel for more interviews and videos. Don't forget to give the video a like, subscribe to the channel and enable notifications for future content. Read Proactive's Editorial Policy here: https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/pages/editorialPolicy #CaledoniaMining #GoldMining #GoldExploration #BlanketMine #Bilboes #Motapa #Zimbabwe #Mining #Gold #MiningStocks #GoldStocks #ResourceUpdate #MineralExploration #Investing #Proactive

September 2, 20263 min

Rome Resources CEO: New Brunswick has 'potential for being a very large mineralised area'

Rome Resources Plc (AIM:RMR) CEO Paul Barrett spoke with Proactive's Stephen Gunnion about the latest exploration results from the New Brunswick project and the potential scale of its tin, tungsten, indium and bismuth mineralisation. Barrett said Rome's optioned ground covers just under 200 square kilometres, much of it underlain by the Mount Douglas granite, with the exploration team gathering sampl Victoria Lake is emerging as a key target. Historical workings on the lake's eastern side focused on tungsten, while limited previous drilling showed tin mineralisation continuing at depth. Barrett said the team has identified a zone roughly 300 metres wide containing tin and tungsten, with surface sampling the focus so far and trenching a possible next step to reach fresh rock. Barrett also discussed the potential for indium and bismuth, pointing to the nearby Mount Pleasant deposit and describing indium as a niche, high-tech metal. At Round Square Lake, Rome has recorded a surface sample containing almost 1% bismuth. Looking ahead, the summer programme is expected to continue for around another month, potentially into October, before results are reviewed in November - when the company will decide whether to move straight to drilling or carry out further trenching to better define the targets. Visit Proactive’s YouTube channel for more interviews and market updates. If you found this video useful, give it a like, subscribe to the channel and enable notifications for future content. Read Proactive's Editorial Policy here: https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/pages/editorialPolicy #RomeResources #Tin #Tungsten #NewBrunswick #VictoriaLake #Mining #MineralExploration #CriticalMinerals #Indium #Bismuth #Exploration #MiningStocks #JuniorMining #Resources #Proactive

September 2, 20265 min

hVIVO buys CRS Berlin to expand into dermatology, women's health and Phase II trials

hVIVO PLC (AIM:HVO) chief executive Yamin 'Mo' Khan spoke with Proactive's Stephen Gunnion about the acquisition of CRS Berlin and how the clinical trial unit will expand hVIVO's early drug development platform, therapeutic expertise and presence in Germany. CRS Berlin is a Phase I and Phase II clinical trial unit with experience across more than 300 trials, with particular strength in dermatology and women's health and a track record working with biotech and mid-sized pharma companies. The business brings an order book of just under €10 million and is expected to be earnings accretive for full year 2026. Khan said the deal complements hVIVO's existing work in cardiometabolic, respiratory and infectious disease, adding two further therapeutic areas. On women's health, he noted women have historically been underrepresented in early clinical research, an area he expects hVIVO to grow. The acquisition also boosts capacity for larger Phase II trials and gives access to a potential patient population of around six million in metropolitan Berlin. "For us, it does create new markets as well as giving us new cross-selling opportunities," Khan said. Integration is expected to be straightforward given hVIVO's existing close ties to CRS Berlin following its earlier acquisitions of CRS Kiel and CRS Mannheim, with shared patient recruitment, back-office and project management functions already in place. On deal structure, Khan said a nominal upfront payment with the remainder linked to a three-year revenue-based earn-out allows hVIVO to add capacity and growth opportunities while maintaining a strong balance sheet. Visit Proactive’s YouTube channel for more interviews and market updates. If you found this video useful, give it a like, subscribe to the channel and enable notifications for future content. Read Proactive's Editorial Policy here: https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/pages/editorialPolicy #hVIVO #HVO #CRSBerlin #ClinicalTrials #ClinicalResearch #Biotech #Pharma #DrugDevelopment #WomensHealth #Dermatology #Phase1Trials #Phase2Trials #CRO #LifeSciences #Proactive