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Focused on feeding the EV boom with battery metals, Global Energy Metals understands the value of their Nevada location

written by InvestorNews | October 23, 2020

Without doubt one of the biggest disruptions this decade will be the rapid move to electric vehicles (EV). As reported here, UBS recently forecasted US$100kWh batteries by 2022, EV/ICE (Internal Combustion Engine) parity by 2024 and that “there are not many reasons left to buy an ICE car after 2025”. Three of the key metals in demand to feed the EV boom will be cobalt, nickel, and copper. Today I discuss a company that has all three as well as some gold potential. The Company still has a very low market cap and has 3 combined projects in safe countries. These include a recently purchased project (Lovelock Mine & Treasure Box) in Nevada only 150 kilometers from Tesla’s gigafactory.

That company is Global Energy Metals Corp. (TSXV: GEMC | OTCQB: GBLEF) (‘GEMC’). Their focus is to build a portfolio of battery metal assets across key locations such as the USA, Canada, and Australia.

GEMC’s 3 projects are:

  • Lovelock Mine & Treasure Box Projects – Nevada, USA (85%)
  • Werner Lake Cobalt Project – Ontario, Canada (70%)
  • Millennium Cobalt Project (flagship) and Mount Isa Cobalt-Copper-Gold Projects – Queensland, Australia (100%)

GEMC’s 3 combined battery metal projects – USA (Lovelock Mine & Treasure Box), Canada (Werner Lake), and Australia (Millennium & Mount Isa)

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The Lovelock Mine & Treasure Box Projects in Nevada USA (85%)

In a very exciting and strategic move recently announced, GEMC has issued shares and made a cash payment as consideration for its acquisition of an 85% interest in the Lovelock Mine and Treasure Box Projects. The properties will be held in GEMC’s newly established U.S. Battery Metals Corp., a new U.S. listed vehicle and wholly owned subsidiary of GEMC.

The Lovelock Mine and property consists of approximately 1,400 acres (567 hectares) in the Stillwater Range of Nevada, USA. It was discovered by George Lovelock and Charles Bell in about 1880 and saw limited production of nickel, copper and cobalt beginning in 1883. GEMC reported that “the general average of the 200 tons shipped in 1886 averaged 14% cobalt and 12% nickel“, which is extremely high grades. After intermittent production no further production from the Lovelock Mine is known for well over a century. Several of the rock samples collected in 2017 showed strong enrichment in cobalt, nickel and copper.

The Treasure Box Project hosts mine workings from limited copper production, which occurred until early into the 20th century. A reverse circulation hole drilled on the Treasure Box in 1976 returned 1.55% copper over 12.2 metres from a depth of 25.9 to 38.1 metres.

Both projects are at the very early stage but appear to have good exploration potential based on their history. A bonus is their location in mining friendly Nevada, USA, and just 150 kilometers from the Tesla Gigafactory.

The Lovelock Mine & Treasure Box Projects are located effectively on the doorstep of Tesla’s Gigafactory in Nevada just 150kms away

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Werner Lake Cobalt Project in Ontario, Canada (70%)

The Werner Lake Cobalt Project has an Updated NI 43-101 (2018) Indicated Mineral Resource of 79,400 tonnes at 0.43% Co not including the 2018 drill program. This is an excellent grade for a western located project. There is also exploration potential for copper and gold.

Millennium Cobalt Project and Mount Isa Cobalt-Copper-Gold Projects – Queensland, Australia (100%)

The Millennium Project is a significant cobalt-copper deposit which remains open for further expansion. There is a historical JORC (2012) Inferred Resource estimate which showed grades of 0.14% Co, 0.35% Cu and 0.12g/t Au (using CuEq cutoff of 1.0%). This historical resource estimate is not yet NI43-101 compliant. GEMC intends to upgrade this resource to a current NI43-101 complaint resource.

The Mount Isa Projects include Mount Dorothy and Cobalt Ridge. Early stage drilling results included 7m @ 0.14% Co, 2.55% Cu, and 2m @ 0.12% Co, 0.13% Cu at Mount Dorothy, and exploration rock chip sampling results of 0.31% Co, 3.63% Cu, 1.25g/t Au at Cobalt Ridge.

Closing remarks

GEMC has a current market cap of just C$2.8m. Perhaps the reason the market cap is so low is that the company has had to endure the past 2.5 year cobalt bear market, and has only recently made the USA acquisition.

Recently, companies with USA EV metal assets have done very well as we saw with Piedmont Lithium, Lithium Americas, Westwater Resources, and many others. For investors that are positive on the outlook for EVs and the key EV metals (cobalt, copper, nickel) then GEMC should definitely be on your radar. Plus there is always the chance of GEMC finding gold.