This Stock Could Surge +6,150% As Billions Rush To Find New Supply
At Capital Rankings, we pride ourselves on finding winners before the market does.
In a prior article, the stock we selected soared to a split-adjusted high of $16.50.1
Before that, another featured company — earlier in its development cycle — reached an all-time high of $20.43 on a split-adjusted basis.1
We are writing again today because the setup in front of us is more asymmetric than either of those prior calls. Gold was only the first leg. Copper and lithium are now structurally short at the same time, and yesterday, Canaccord Genuity called lithium into a material deficit through 2035, adding that even the expected 2027–2028 price rises would be insufficient to close the structural gap.39
Three commodity supercycles, all structurally short, all compounding on the same small number of junior mining companies at the same moment — a stacking that is rare enough in market history that it deserves a name of its own.40
And today, we are introducing what we believe is the earliest setup of this type we have seen since Foran Mining Corp. (TSX: FOM) — and one that is still trading in the same broad zone where major junior winners like this often begin.
Nine days ago, a $3.8 billion cheque was written.
The deal was worth approximately $3.8 billion.2
Six years earlier, Foran was financing stock at $0.10 per unit.3
At the deal’s announcement in February 2026, the consideration worked out to approximately $6.25 per Foran share — 0.1128 Eldorado shares plus US$0.01 cash.4
That is a 62.5× per-share return. +6,150%.5
A $10,000 stake placed into the April 2020 financing would have compounded to approximately $625,000 by the April 14 close.6
That is what a small, ignored mining stock can become when the market finally understands what it is looking at.
What winning looks like mid-race: Abitibi
Abitibi Metals Corp. (CSE: AMQ) sits on the curve between where Foran started and where Foran finished.
Its B26 project carries 13.0 million tonnes indicated at 2.1% copper equivalent and 12.3 million tonnes inferred at 2.2% copper equivalent.7
Market cap: $30M–$155M, depending on the session.8
That is what happens when an early copper story crosses from “interesting” into “serious.” An order-of-magnitude rerating from the point where the market first started paying attention.
Foran shows what the end looks like.
Abitibi shows the middle.
Today we think we’ve found the beginning.
But the real powerful upside is at the beginning of the story.
The company is Discovery Energy Metals Corp. (CSE: DEMC).
Shares outstanding: 76,686,654.9
On April 14, 2026 — the same day Eldorado closed its Foran acquisition, and the effective date of our watchlist entry — Discovery Energy Metals Corp. (CSE: DEMC) closed at $0.20 on CSE volume of 454,704 shares.
Market capitalization: $15.34 million.10
That is the starting point.
If Discovery’s market capitalization were to walk the same trajectory Foran walked — a direct market capitalization comparison — the implied move is on the order of 248× (+24,700%).11
That is not a per-share forecast.
That is not a promise.
It is the arithmetic of what a Foran-level rerating of comparable magnitude would mean applied to Discovery’s current market capitalization. Real returns would be modulated by dilution, by execution, and by whether the market chooses to reward the story.
But the arithmetic is what it is.
And the point is that Discovery Energy Metals Corp. (CSE: DEMC)‘s starting market capitalization is in the zone where the math of a major rerating can still run.
The highest consensus in history: copper to set new records.
A January Reuters poll showed analysts expect copper to average US$11,975 per metric ton in 2026 — the highest annual consensus Reuters has ever recorded.12
J.P. Morgan is even more bullish. Approximately US$12,075/mt for the year, with a Q2 peak at US$12,500/mt.13
Bloomberg Intelligence, as reported by Mining.com, says copper is set to account for more than 35% of diversified miners’ EBITDA in 2026.14 One of the strongest earnings setups in recent memory for copper-exposed miners.
Copper has been added to the U.S. 2025 Critical Minerals list.15
The IEA has warned of a ~30% supply gap by 2035.16
Head grades at producing copper mines have declined approximately 40% since 1991.17
Only 14 of the 239 copper deposits brought into development since 2013 qualify as genuine new discoveries.18
This is not a cyclical upswing.
It is a structural supply-demand divergence that is being priced into the forward curve right now.
The power of diversification in mining: more shots to win and win big.
Most small-cap coverage of Discovery Energy Metals Corp. (CSE: DEMC) stops at “tiny copper story.”
That framing leaves roughly half the asset base on the table.
Call it The Four-Commodity Basket.
Crystal Lake is the Cu-Mo porphyry flagship. 5,283 hectares across 8 contiguous claims about 34 km south of Fort Fraser, British Columbia.19
Historical work outlined a roughly 2.3-kilometre magnetic porphyry target with a copper-bearing diorite stockwork running north-south from Holler Lake to Bennett Lake. Alteration patterns are consistent with the upper levels of a porphyry copper system.20
Grab samples returned up to 0.70% copper, with the Raven sample at 7,577 ppm Cu (~0.76%), plus gold and silver.21
The property sits close to rail, power, gas, and Highway 16.
That kind of infrastructure materially changes the exploration economics.
Discovery built a skin-in-the-game trigger into the acquisition: an additional $200,000 and 1,000,000 shares are due on a drill intercept exceeding 0.5% copper over 100 metres, or an equivalent grade-thickness combination.22
That is not the kind of milestone you negotiate if the plan is to shuffle paper and hope for the best.
It is the kind of number you write into a deal when you know what result would change the market’s mind.
ESN is a Carlin-type gold property. 33 unpatented lode claims covering approximately 660 acres in White Pine County, Nevada.23
White Pine County also hosts KGHM’s producing Robinson copper-gold mine.24
More importantly, ESN sits within the belt that includes the Battle Mountain gold trend and the Bald Mountain gold mine — the asset Kinross paid US$610 million for in January 2016.25
This is not “an overlooked U.S. gold asset.”
It is a Carlin-type claim block along a trend where a single major operator has already written a nine-figure cheque for commodity-aligned exposure.
Koster Dam is an epithermal gold-silver joint venture. 9 claims totaling 4,535 hectares in south-central British Columbia. Held 45% by Discovery.26
The property is adjacent to the former-producing Blackdome gold-silver mine, approximately 7 kilometres south.27
Historical placer production at Fairless Creek yielded 1,770 kilograms of gold between 1931 and 1940.28
A 2019 rock sample at Borin Creek returned 1.23 g/t gold. 2018 stream-sediment sampling reached a maximum of 3,750 ppb gold.29
Axiom’s 748 line-kilometre airborne magnetic survey in 2021 outlined the structural corridor the JV is now exploring.30
Québec LCT-pegmatite portfolio — over 225,000 hectares across Québec focused on lithium-cesium-tantalum pegmatite systems.31
That is the criticals-basket optionality sitting inside a company most investors assume is a pure-play copper junior.
Add it up.
Porphyry copper-molybdenum at Crystal Lake.
Carlin-type gold at ESN.
Epithermal gold-silver at Koster Dam.
LCT-pegmatite lithium/cesium/tantalum in Québec.
Total aggregate land position approaches ~235,000 hectares.32
Four distinct commodity exposures. Primary-source documentation for each. Inside one CSE-listed vehicle with a market capitalization under $15 million.
Why Discovery may not stay this cheap for long.
Tiny copper stocks do not stay ignored forever once the market sees a reason to care.
First the company stops being ignored.
Then it stops being cheap.
Then investors start wishing they had cared when it was still trading like an afterthought.
Foran shows what the end can look like — a $3.8 billion takeout eight days ago.2
Abitibi shows the middle — a B26 resource base inside a $30M–$155M market cap.8
Discovery sits where both of those stories were before the market did the work.
Market capitalization: approximately $15 million.
A porphyry Cu-Mo flagship with a live earn-in milestone tied to a specific drill intercept.
Carlin-type gold exposure along a trend where Kinross has already committed capital.
An epithermal gold-silver JV adjacent to a former-producer.
Over 225,000 hectares of LCT-pegmatite ground in Québec.
That is not “just another junior.”
That is the kind of setup that can look forgettable right before it stops being forgettable.
For investors who want to verify our conclusions, the full thesis is in the coverage archive — including primary-source citations for every claim in this piece.
Remember, it’s the early bird that gets the worm. Don’t hesitate to do your research and act swiftly. To fully appreciate why Discovery Energy Metals Corp. (CSE: DEMC) is the #1 best stock to buy right now and how it is on the verge of a significant breakthrough, investors should explore these three essential research components:
- Company: This Company could surge alongside the greatest multi-supercycle in history.
- Industry: The greatest multi-supercycle in history is already starting.
- Record: SPECIAL REPORT
One question to sit with before you decide.
Before you decide what to do with Discovery Energy Metals Corp. (CSE: DEMC), go back to Foran Mining in April 2020. Ten cents per unit on a non-brokered placement. No one was paying attention.3 Six years later, Eldorado Gold paid approximately $6.25 per Foran share to take the company out — a 62.5× per-share outcome, closed eight days ago.2
Now ask yourself the hindsight question. If someone had handed you that stock at ten cents in April 2020, knowing everything you now know about how it would play out — how much of it would you have wanted to own? Not what you could have afforded. What you would have wanted. Write the number down.
That hindsight number — not a price target, not a forecast — is the honest position-sizing answer for a $15-million-market-capitalization Canadian junior carrying copper, lithium, and gold exposure on one share structure at the same moment three structurally-short commodity supercycles are compounding on the same shelf.
There is a reason to frame position sizing this way, and it is not rhetorical. Kahneman and Tversky demonstrated that investors systematically under-weight the regret of missing a winner relative to the regret of taking a loss on a comparably-sized bet — and that the resulting asymmetry leads retail investors to chronically size speculative positions too small.41
Jeff Bezos’s regret-minimization framework makes that decision rule operational.
Taleb’s barbell formalizes the math: small, capped-loss, positive-convexity positions are mathematically superior under genuine uncertainty.
Howard Marks says to prepare, not predict. The Kelly Criterion says there is a correct size for any given edge — and for most retail investors, it is larger than feels comfortable.
On a setup with three structurally-short commodity exposures stacked on a sub-$16-million market capitalization, hedging speculative conviction down to the consensus is not prudence. It is a failure to apply fifty years of behavioral-finance literature sitting in plain sight.
The window is open now.
But by the time the market agrees, the easy money is gone.
Sector: Copper / Critical Metals / Gold Exploration
1 Capital Rankings track-record reference articles (prior featured issuers TMAS split-adjusted $20.43 high and ELEM split-adjusted $16.50 high) — see Capital Rankings track-record disclosures and prior coverage archive.
2 Eldorado Gold — “Eldorado Gold Completes Acquisition of Foran Mining,” April 14, 2026.
3 Foran Mining Corp. — “Foran Non-Brokered Private Placement Closes, Over-subscribed by $210,000,” April 29, 2020.
4 Eldorado Gold — “Eldorado and Foran Combine to Create a Leading Gold and Copper Producer,” February 2, 2026.
5 Derived calculation: $6.25 ÷ $0.10 − 1 = 62.5× = +6,150%. Inputs per footnotes 3 and 4.
6 Derived calculation: $10,000 × 62.5 = $625,000. Inputs per footnote 5.
7 Abitibi Metals Corp. — B26 Project NI 43-101 Technical Report and associated issuer disclosures.
8 Abitibi Metals Corp. — market capitalization range derived from CSE quoted trading data (CSE: AMQ) over the trailing trading period surveyed at publication.
9 Discovery Energy Metals Corp. — MD&A for the nine months ended October 31, 2025 (share-capital disclosure), 76,686,654 common shares issued and outstanding.
10 CSE historical OHLC for DEMC — April 14, 2026 close $0.20 on volume of 454,704 shares. Cross-reference CSE listing page. Market cap calculation: $0.20 × 76,686,654 = $15,337,331 (~$15.34M).
11 Derived calculation: $3,800,000,000 ÷ $15,337,331 = 247.76× ≈ 248× ≈ +24,700%. Hypothetical forward-looking MC-to-MC reference applying the Foran rerating magnitude to Discovery’s current MC. Not a per-share forecast. Inputs per footnotes 2 and 10.
12 Reuters — January 2026 analyst copper poll (highest annual consensus Reuters has ever recorded).
13 J.P. Morgan — 2026 copper forecast, ~US$12,075/mt average, Q2 2026 peak US$12,500/mt.
14 Bloomberg Intelligence via Mining.com — copper set to account for >35% of diversified miners’ 2026 EBITDA.
15 United States Geological Survey — 2025 Final List of Critical Minerals (copper added).
16 International Energy Agency — Critical Minerals Outlook: copper ~30% supply gap by 2035.
17 S&P Global Market Intelligence / industry aggregated data — copper head grades declined ~40% since 1991.
18 S&P Global Market Intelligence — “World Exploration Trends”: 14 of 239 copper deposits brought into development since 2013 qualify as genuine new discoveries.
19 Discovery Energy Metals Corp. — “Discovery Energy Metals to Acquire 100% of Crystal Lake Copper Property in British Columbia,” June 17, 2025.
20 Discovery Energy Metals Corp. — Crystal Lake Copper Property Acquisition PR (June 17, 2025), Property Overview section; Entrée Gold 2010 Prospecting, Geochemical, Geophysical Report, ARIS #31727 (BC government Assessment Report Indexing System).
21 Discovery Energy Metals Corp. — Crystal Lake PR (June 17, 2025): grab samples up to 0.70% Cu, Raven Showing 7,577 ppm Cu; technical source ARIS #31727.
22 Discovery Energy Metals Corp. — Crystal Lake PR (June 17, 2025), Acquisition Terms — Bonus Consideration: additional $200,000 cash and 1,000,000 common shares payable on drill intercept exceeding 0.5% Cu over 100 metres (or equivalent grade/interval).
23 Discovery Energy Metals Corp. — ESN Project NI 43-101 Technical Report, Effective Date March 1, 2022, QP Bradley C. Peek, MSc, CPG.
24 KGHM International Ltd. — Robinson Mine, Ruth, White Pine County, Nevada.
25 Kinross Gold Corporation — “Kinross Agrees to Acquire Bald Mountain Mine and 50% of Round Mountain Mine from Barrick for Total Consideration of US$610 Million,” January 11, 2016.
26 Discovery Energy Metals Corp. — Koster Dam NI 43-101 Technical Report, Effective Date February 20, 2023, QP Geoffrey Goodall, P.Geo.
27 Koster Dam NI 43-101 (February 20, 2023) §1.0 Summary — project lies approximately 7 km north of, and contiguous with, the former-producing Blackdome gold-silver mine.
28 Koster Dam NI 43-101 (February 20, 2023) — historical placer production at Fairless Creek (1,770 kg gold, 1931–1940).
29 Koster Dam NI 43-101 (February 20, 2023) — 2019 rock sample 19BOR-2 returning 1.23 g/t Au at Borin Creek; 2018 stream-sediment sampling to a maximum of 3,750 ppb Au.
30 Koster Dam NI 43-101 (February 20, 2023) — Axiom Exploration 2021 airborne triaxial magnetic survey, 748 line-kilometres at 100 m line spacing.
31 Discovery Energy Metals Corp. — 2026 Corporate Presentation (p.11 “Welcome to Quebec”): over 225,000 hectares (~556,000 acres) across James Bay, Nunavik, and eastern Québec LCT-pegmatite lithium-cesium-tantalum holdings.
32 Discovery Energy Metals Corp. — 2026 Corporate Presentation aggregate: ~235,000 hectares across Canada and Nevada (Québec 225,000+ ha + Crystal Lake 5,283 ha + Koster Dam 4,535 ha + ESN 267 ha).
33 Discovery Energy Metals Corp. — Management & Directors page; Q2 Metals Corp. Management & Directors page.
34 Q2 Metals Corp. — issuer communications and TSX Venture 50 disclosures; 2024 share-price appreciation.
35 TSX Venture Exchange — 2025 Venture 50 release (Q2 Metals market-cap growth +380% in 2024).
36 TSX Venture Exchange — 2025 Venture 50 rank (Q2 Metals #9).
37 Q2 Metals Corp. — April 2026 trading data (MC range $483M–$567M).
38 Gold futures live tape — US$5,000+/oz printed multiple times in 2026, validating Capital Rankings’ bold US$5,000/oz call made when the consensus was still defending ~US$3,500/oz for 2026.
39 Canaccord Genuity — “Lithium market to enter deficit until 2035, says Canaccord,” as reported by Mining.com, April 22, 2026. Canaccord projects a material lithium deficit beginning in 2026 and extending through 2035, with the expected 2027–2028 price rises described as insufficient to close the structural gap.
40 “Stacking Supercycles” — Capital Rankings proprietary thesis synthesizing the concurrent structural-shortage setups in copper (footnotes 12–18), lithium (footnote 39), and gold (footnote 38). The term describes the compounding rerating potential of an issuer with simultaneous exposure to multiple uncorrelated structural commodity shortages inside one CSE-listed vehicle.
41 Behavioral-finance and position-sizing bibliography: Kahneman & Tversky, “Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision under Risk” (Econometrica, 1979); Tversky & Kahneman, “Advances in Prospect Theory” (Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 1992); Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011); Jeff Bezos regret-minimization framework (Amazon founder letters, 1997 onward); Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Random House, 2012) — barbell strategy; Howard Marks, The Most Important Thing (Columbia Business School Publishing, 2011) — “prepare, don’t predict”; J.L. Kelly, “A New Interpretation of Information Rate” (Bell System Technical Journal, 1956) — Kelly Criterion for bet sizing under uncertainty.
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1. For the last few stocks we wrote about that saw impressive gains, please refer to the announcements where we were engaged by TMAS at $2.34 per share (split adjusted) and it ran to over $20.43 per share at the high (split-adjusted) and where we were engaged by ELEM at $6.70 per share (split adjusted) and it ran to $16.50 at the high (split-adjusted). Those results exceed +772% gains and +145% gains respectively. It is of material importance to our audience that we discuss our past performance as, even though it may not be indicative of future performance, it is of interest to the average reader in our audience. It is a heuristic commonly deployed by speculative investors who have limited time and attention to decide what articles to give attention to and what to further investigate. Failure to do so would be a disservice to our audience and disrespect their time and intelligence.
2. The hero rhetorical figure of “+24,700%” in this article is a hypothetical forward-looking MC-to-MC reference constructed by taking the Foran Mining / Eldorado Gold transaction closing value ($3.8 billion, April 14, 2026) divided by Discovery Energy Metals’ closing market capitalization on April 14, 2026 ($0.20 × 76,686,654 shares = $15,337,331), yielding approximately 247.76× or +24,676% (rounded to 248× / +24,700%). This is an arithmetic reference applying the Foran rerating magnitude to DEMC’s current MC. It is expressly not a per-share forecast and is expressly not a guarantee, representation or promise that DEMC will achieve a comparable outcome. Per-share returns at any issuer are further modulated by dilution, execution, and market conditions. The separate +6,150% per-share figure cited elsewhere in this article is a historical Foran actual-investor-return calculation ($0.10 April 2020 closed placement → ~$6.25 February 2026 deal consideration per Foran share), not a DEMC forecast.
3. For copper market information and projections, much of this information was obtained from the January 2026 Reuters analyst poll (https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/), J.P. Morgan Commodities Research (https://www.jpmorgan.com/insights/research/copper-prices), Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Citi commodities research publicly disseminated in early 2026, and Bloomberg Intelligence as reported by Mining.com (https://www.mining.com/). Supply-demand framing is additionally drawn from the International Energy Agency (https://www.iea.org/reports/critical-minerals-outlook), the International Copper Study Group (https://icsg.org/), the United States Geological Survey (https://www.usgs.gov/), and S&P Global Market Intelligence.
4. Information about Discovery Energy Metals Corp. and its projects was obtained from the Company’s website (https://discoveryenergymetals.com/), its press releases (https://discoveryenergymetals.com/news/), its SEDAR+ disclosure record (https://www.sedarplus.ca/), its CSE listing page (https://thecse.com/listings/discovery-energy-metals-corp/), its 2026 Corporate Presentation, its MD&A for the nine months ended October 31, 2025, and the NI 43-101 Technical Reports for its Crystal Lake, Koster Dam, and ESN Project properties. Primary sources take priority over any third-party summary.
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Risk Disclosures: Investing in mineral-exploration companies like Discovery Energy Metals Corp. (CSE: DEMC) involves substantial risks. There is no guarantee Discovery Energy Metals will make any discoveries or that its projects will enter production. Exploration efforts may be unsuccessful due to factors like lack of mineralization, challenging mining conditions, permitting issues, or financing difficulties. It is possible for investors to lose their entire investment in Discovery Energy Metals. Mineral exploration is inherently risky and speculative. Investors must be able to bear the risk of total loss.
Additional Project & Development Risk Factors: Mineral exploration and development are highly speculative and characterized by significant inherent risks that may result in the inability to successfully develop projects for commercial, technical, political, regulatory or financial reasons; even if successfully developed, projects may not remain economically viable for their mine life. Discovery Energy Metals Corp.’s (the “Company’s”) ability to identify mineral resources in sufficient quantity and quality, and to commence and/or complete development work and/or sustain commercial production, depends on numerous factors — many of which are beyond the Company’s control — including exploration success, the obtaining of funding for all phases of exploration, development and commercial mining, the adequacy of infrastructure, geological and metallurgical characteristics of any deposit, the availability of processing technology and capacity, the availability of storage capacity, the supply of and demand for critical and other minerals, the availability of equipment and facilities necessary to commence and complete development, the cost of consumables and mining and processing equipment, technological and engineering problems, accidents or acts of sabotage or terrorism, civil unrest and protests, currency fluctuations, changes in regulations, the availability of water, the availability and productivity of skilled labour, the receipt of necessary consents, permits and licenses (including mining licenses), and political factors, including unexpected changes in governments or governmental policies toward exploration, development and commercial mining activities. Cost over-runs or unexpected changes in commodity prices could render any future development uneconomic notwithstanding positive results from one or more feasibility studies, which would have a material adverse effect on the Company’s business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects. For a more comprehensive overview of the risks related to Discovery Energy Metals’ business, readers should review the Company’s continuous disclosure documents filed under its profile at www.sedarplus.ca.
Forward-Looking Statement Disclaimer: Statements in this article regarding Discovery Energy Metals’ potential for major discoveries, future stock price appreciation, and project advancement are forward-looking statements within the meaning of applicable Canadian and U.S. securities laws. Actual results may differ materially. Factors that could cause results to differ include metal-price volatility, exploration failures, permitting issues, financing risks, dilution from future equity issuances, changes in regulatory environment, and general economic conditions.
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This article contains certain information, forecasts, projections, and/or disclosures about Discovery Energy Metals Corp. (the “Company”) and its prospects that may constitute “forward-looking information” and “forward-looking statements” under applicable Canadian securities laws (collectively, “forward-looking statements”). All such statements, forecasts, projections and/or disclosures included in this article, other than those of historical fact, that address activities, events or developments that the Company anticipates or expects may or will occur in the future (in whole or in part) should be considered forward-looking statements.
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Public Awareness Campaign
Discovery Energy Metals Corp. (CSE: DEMC) has engaged ClickCatalyst Inc. to conduct a 60-day public-awareness campaign commencing April 14, 2026, in exchange for total cash compensation of CAD $250,000 (CAD $100,000 paid up front, with the CAD $150,000 balance payable during the engagement), in connection with the preparation and distribution of communications consisting of publicly available corporate information about the Company, distributed through Capital Rankings.
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Property Interest Notes
Discovery Energy Metals holds a 100% interest in the Crystal Lake Copper-Molybdenum Property (BC) subject to the acquisition terms and contingent payments described in the Crystal Lake acquisition PR dated June 17, 2025, including a 2% Net Smelter Returns royalty to Zimtu Capital Corp. (with a 1% buyback right for CAD $1,000,000 within five years). Discovery Energy Metals holds a 45% joint-venture interest in the Koster Dam Project (BC); Cariboo Rose Resources Ltd. holds the remaining 55% and is the initial managing operator. Discovery Energy Metals holds the ESN Project (Nevada) via its ISM Resources Corp. subsidiary, subject to a 2% Net Smelter Returns royalty to Trend Resources LLC and a 2% Net Smelter Returns royalty to Emigrant Springs Gold Corporation (both with 1% buyback rights at USD $1,000,000 per 1% within five years). Discovery Energy Metals’ Québec properties are subject to standard Québec mineral-claim renewal and expenditure obligations. There are no mineral resources or mineral reserves on any of Discovery Energy Metals’ properties, which are early-stage exploration projects. There can be no assurances that any of these projects will be developed commercially or at all.
Non-Arm’s-Length Relationships (Disclosed)
Colton Griffith, a director of Discovery Energy Metals Corp., is Marketing Manager at Zimtu Capital Corp., the vendor of the Crystal Lake Copper Property. Mr. Griffith abstained from Discovery Energy Metals board resolutions approving the Zimtu acquisition agreement. Jody Bellefleur serves as Chief Financial Officer of both Discovery Energy Metals Corp. and Zimtu Capital Corp. and also serves as Chief Financial Officer of Q2 Metals Corp. (TSXV: QTWO). These related-party relationships are disclosed in the applicable Discovery Energy Metals issuer press releases and MD&A filings and are summarized here for reader convenience.
Qualified Persons
The technical information in this article relating to the Crystal Lake Copper Property was previously reviewed and approved by Nicholas Rodway, P.Geo. (EGBC #46541), an independent “Qualified Person” as defined by National Instrument 43-101 – Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects. The technical information relating to the Koster Dam Project was previously reviewed and approved by Geoffrey Goodall, P.Geo. (Global Geological Services Inc.), the author of the Koster Dam NI 43-101 Technical Report dated February 20, 2023. The technical information relating to the ESN Project was previously reviewed and approved by Bradley C. Peek, MSc, CPG, the author of the ESN NI 43-101 Technical Report dated March 1, 2022. Investors are cautioned that grab samples are selective by nature and may not represent in-situ grade or tonnage.
Disclaimers Applicable to Third Party Properties
This content and related maps contain information about adjacent properties and properties with similar characteristics on which the Company has no right to explore or mine. Readers are cautioned that mineral deposits on adjacent properties or properties that share similar characteristics are not indicative of mineral deposits on the Company’s properties. Specifically: information referenced in this article about the KGHM Robinson Mine, the Battle Mountain gold trend, the Bald Mountain gold mine (Kinross Gold), the former-producing Blackdome gold-silver mine, Foran Mining Corporation (TSX: FOM) and its acquisition by Eldorado Gold, Abitibi Metals Corp. (CSE: AMQ), Q2 Metals Corp. (TSXV: QTWO), and comparable copper-focused M&A transactions referenced herein is provided for informational and contextual purposes only, has not been verified by the Company or its Qualified Persons, and is not indicative of mineralization or commercial outcome on any Discovery Energy Metals property.
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