Defense Metals Corp. is pleased to announce the appointment of Len Clough to the board of directors. Craig Taylor, CEO of Defense Metals commented: "Len Clough brings a wealth of capital markets experience to Defense Metals and we look forward to working with him as we continue to advance the Wicheeda Rare Earth Elements project." Mr. Clough began his career at RBC Dominion Securities in 1998 and spent 13 years in [...]
Defense Metals Corp. is pleased to announce that John Robins, P.Geo. of Discovery Group has joined the Company as a strategic advisor. "We are very excited to welcome John to our team," said Craig Taylor, CEO of Defense Metals. "John brings more than 35 years of experience in all facets of exploration and mining development to Defense Metals, most recently with the sale of Great Bear Resources to Kinross for $1.8 Billion [...]
Defense Metals Corp. is pleased to announce it has closed a previously announced, oversubscribed non-brokered private placement financing for aggregate gross proceeds of $6,094,020.66, consisting of 12,364,172 flow-through common shares of the Company at a price of $0.28 per FT Share and 11,963,875 units of the Company at a price of $0.22 per Unit. Each FT Share is a "flow-through share" within the meaning of the Income [...]
Defense Metals Corp. is pleased to announce additional Rare Earth Element assay results from one additional core hole, totalling 374 metres , collared within the central area of Defense Metals' 100% owned Wicheeda REE Deposit. This drill hole represents the deepest hole to date drilled at Wicheeda, terminating 360 m vertically below surface and 150 m below the mineral resource pit shell. Infill drill hole WI22-72 was [...]
Defense Metals Corp. is pleased to announce additional partial Rare Earth Element assay results from one additional core hole, totalling 353 metres , collared within the northern area of Defense Metals' 100% owned Wicheeda REE Deposit. Infill drill hole WI22-69 was drilled southwest within the northern area of the deposit intersected a broad zone of mineralized dolomite carbonatite averaging 2.14% total rare earth oxide [...]
Defense Metals Corp. is pleased to announce high-grade Rare Earth Element assay results from one additional core hole, totalling 383 metres , collared within the northern area of Defense Metals' 100% owned Wicheeda REE Deposit. Infill drill hole WI22-70 was drilled southwest within the northern area of the deposit intersected a broad zone of mineralized dolomite carbonatite averaging 2.50% total rare earth oxide over 113 [...]
Defense Metals Corp. announces the initial flotation results from variability samples. Craig Taylor, CEO, and Director of Defense Metals stated: "Flotation results from the on-going program of testwork at SGS Lakefield confirm the basis of the Preliminary Economic Assessment 1 and show that the Wicheeda deposit can produce a high-grade rare earths mineral concentrate at high recovery rates with conventional flotation from [...]
Defense Metals Corp. announces high-grade Rare Earth Element assay results from one additional core drill hole, totalling 320 metres , collared within the northern area of Defense Metals' 100% owned Wicheeda REE Deposit. Infill drill hole WI22-67 was drilled southward within the northern area of the deposit and yielded a broad mixed lithology mineralized intercept comprising dolomite carbonatite and syenite averaging [...]
Defense Metals Corp. announces high-grade Rare Earth Element assay results from an additional two core drill holes, totalling 717 metres , collared from the same site within the northern area of Defense Metals' 100% owned Wicheeda REE Deposit. Infill drill hole WI22-68 , the deepest hole to date on the Wicheeda Project at 395 metres, was drilled southwest within the northern area of the deposit and yielded a broad [...]
Defense Metals Corp. is pleased to announce results for the first two drill holes totalling 720 metres from the Company's 2022 diamond drill program that is still underway. To date, a total of 15 drill holes totalling 4,800 metres have been completed of a planned 18 holes totalling 5,000 metres designed to upgrade existing resource categories. Drill holes WI22-64 and WI22-62, the first and third holes drilled, were [...]
Defense Metals Corp. is very pleased to announce it has entered into a Mineral Exploration Agreement with the McLeod Lake Indian Band regarding its Wicheeda Rare Earth Element exploration project located 80 kilometres northeast of Prince George, Canada. The Agreement addresses the immediate interests of the parties with respect to mineral exploration activities related to the project, and puts into place a framework for [...]
Defense Metals Corp. is pleased to provide an update for its ongoing diamond drilling at its Wicheeda Rare Earth Element deposit. The 2022 resource infill and exploration diamond drill campaign is now complete and pit slope geotechnical drilling underway. A total of 12 diamond drill holes totalling over 3,500 metres have been drilled to date within the northern and central areas of the Wicheeda REE Deposit preliminary [...]