CEO Jim Atkinson tells InvestorNews host Tracy Hughes that high grades, new exploration zones, visible gold and access to Western processing could distinguish the New Brunswick antimony project
Antimony has moved from relative obscurity to the centre of the Western critical minerals debate, and Antimony Resources Corp. (CSE: ATMY | OTCQB: ATMYF) believes its Bald Hill Project in southern New Brunswick has the grade, location and development potential to help address the emerging supply gap.
In a new InvestorNews interview, host Tracy Hughes spoke with Antimony Resources CEO and Director Jim Atkinson about the metal’s strategic importance, the changing antimony market, recent drilling at Bald Hill and the work required to move a North American project toward production.
“Antimony is probably the most important metal nobody knows about,” Atkinson said. “It is a military metal,” with uses in ammunition and lead alloys, while antimony trioxide is widely used as a flame retardant in industrial products, vehicle interiors, textiles and military applications.
That broad industrial role has been overtaken by an urgent geopolitical concern. China imposed controls on antimony exports in 2024 and subsequently prohibited exports to the United States, exposing the vulnerability created by concentrated mining and processing capacity. The United States currently has no domestic mined source of antimony in production, even though the material is required in defence, semiconductors, energy storage and numerous industrial products.
High Grade and Geography Give Bald Hill Strategic Relevance
For Atkinson, Bald Hill’s principal advantages are grade and geography. The company describes it as the highest-grade antimony deposit in North America, with drilling outlining mineralization along more than 600 metres of the Main Zone and to a depth of at least 350 metres, while remaining open in all directions.
In August, Antimony Resources reported 3.29% antimony and 1.97 grams per tonne gold over 3.05 metres, including 13.0% antimony and 2.22 g/t gold over 0.65 metres. Its technical report sets out a conceptual exploration target of approximately 2.7 million tonnes grading between 3% and 4% antimony.
Bald Hill has road and power access, lies approximately 45 kilometres from a deepwater port and is close to the U.S. market. The company has also met with New Brunswick’s Technical Review Committee to identify the requirements for a future permit application.
Processing Options Are Emerging Outside China
Atkinson challenged the assumption that Canadian antimony concentrate would have to be shipped to China. Western capacity remains limited, but alternatives are emerging.
Canada is supporting a potential expansion of Teck Resources Limited’s Trail Operations in British Columbia that could double its germanium and antimony capacity. Australia’s Nyrstar Port Pirie facility made its first commercial shipment of antimony metal in February 2026, while United States Antimony Corporation operates established processing capacity in Montana.
Antimony Resources is also considering hydrometallurgical processing at or near Bald Hill, which could potentially produce a higher-value antimony product rather than a concentrate.
“There are some possibilities outside of China,” Atkinson said.
Visible Gold Adds a New Dimension
In August, the company reported visible gold in drill core from hole BHC-26-13 at the Central Zone, approximately 150 to 200 metres south of the Main Zone. A portable XRF reading returned 285 g/t gold, although the company cautioned that the reading represents a single occurrence and not the average grade of the sample interval.
“It’s always exciting to find visible gold,” Atkinson said. “We’ve only just begun to try to evaluate what the possible value of that gold would be.”
The Central Zone is one of three areas being advanced outside the Main Zone, together with the South Zone and the West or Marcus Zone. These targets could help determine whether Bald Hill is a single high-grade deposit or part of a substantially larger mineralized system.
Drilling and Metallurgy Will Define the Next Phase
Antimony Resources has temporarily paused drilling to allow assays to catch up and to update its geological model and database. The company is also planning metallurgical drilling to collect approximately 150 to 200 kilograms of material for recovery testing.
When drilling resumes, the program will target the Main Zone and the three newer zones. The Main Zone remains open at depth and to the north, while the metallurgical work will examine both antimony recovery and the potential contribution from gold.
Atkinson said the company does not want to rush into a maiden resource estimate before understanding the project’s scale. “We still don’t know how big this is,” he adds.
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