Canterra Minerals Corp. is pleased to announce, further to its news release issued on November 22, 2023, that it has completed the previously announced acquisition of five critical and precious metals projects in central Newfoundland , adding 316 km2 to Canterra's property position. The acquisition was completed with Buchans Resources Limited , an arms-length non-listed Reporting Issuer, and its subsidiary Buchans Minerals Corporation. In addition, the Company has closed its oversubscribed, previously announced non-brokered private placement financing for gross proceeds of $1,538,598.95. Canterra's total property position in the central Newfoundland critical minerals and gold belts is now approximately 684 km2, allowing for expansion of exploration efforts across these highly...

Vancouver, December 20, 2023 - Emergent Metals Corp. announces it has closed a non-brokered flow through private placement and issued 2,900,000 flow-through common shares in the capital of the Company at a price of CDN$0.14 per Share for gross proceeds of CDN$406,000. Emergent intends to use the net proceeds of the Offering for qualifying exploration of Emergent's properties in Quebec. The Company will pay aggregate finder's fees of CDN$32,480 and issue 232,000 share purchase in connection with subscriptions from subscribers introduced to the Offering by qualified Finders. Each Finder's Warrant is exercisable to acquire one common share in the capital of the Company at an exercise price of CDN$0.14 per common share until December 20, 2025, which is 24 months from the date of i...

Antler Gold Inc. has closed a brokered private placement financing raising gross proceeds of $500,000 from the sale of 10 million units of the Company priced at $0.05 per Unit announced on November 14, 2023. Each Unit consists of one common share of Antler and one common share purchase warrant . Each Warrant is exercisable to purchase one Common Share at a price of $0.10 per share for a period of 36 months from the closing date of the Financing . Numus Capital Corp., a registered Exempt Market Dealer, acted as agent for the Financing . In connection with the Financing, Antler paid cash commissions of $20,250 and issued 405,000 broker warrants to the Agent. Each broker warrant entitles the Agent to acquire one Common Share at an exercise price of $0.10 and is exercisable for a...

Vancouver, December 20, 2023 - Lucky Minerals Inc. is pleased to announce that it has entered into an arm's length option agreement dated as of December 18, 2023, with Fire Gold Resources Inc. , and Patricia Lafontaine , pursuant to which the Company has been granted an option to acquire a 100% beneficial and legal interest in the Prudhomme Project located in Northern Quebec, Canada . This polymetallic project has been previously explored. All dollar amounts in this news release are in Canadian dollars. The terms of the Option Agreement are set forth below. In order to exercise the Option and acquire a 100% interest in the Property, the Company is required to: incur at least $4,000,000 in exploration expenditures on the Property over 4 years. A minimum of $1.5 million is to b...

Stratabound Minerals Corp. is pleased to announce it has appointed Buddy Doyle, experienced mine builder and geologist, as its Vice President of Exploration. Wendy T. Chan - Interim CEO of Stratabound comments, "Mr. Doyle is a geologist credited with several greenfield assets in identification, exploration, through to development and production. His unparalleled advantage in being an experienced geologist and seeing project financing through development and production at both Amarillo Gold and Western Potash serves as a great roadmap for our California Fremont Gold project. I am also looking forward to Buddy's clear exploration insights on our high potential greenfield assets in Yukon and New Brunswick." Jonathan Hill, director and chairman of the technical committee, comment...

Alaris Equity Partners Income Trust announces that the Board of Directors of the Trust has declared a trust distribution of $0.34 per trust unit for the fourth quarter of 2023, representing $1.36 per unit on an annualized basis. The Distribution is payable on January 15, 2024 to unitholders of record on December 29, 2023. About Alaris: The Trust, through its subsidiaries, provides alternative financing for a diversified group of private businesses in exchange for royalties or distributions from the Private Company Partners, with the principal objective of generating stable and predictable cash flows for distribution payments to its unitholders. Distributions from the Private Company Partners are adjusted each year based on the percentage change of a "top line" financial perfo...

VANCOUVER, BC, Dec. 20, 2023 /CNW/ - The following issues have been halted by CIRO Company: Lucky Minerals Inc. TSX-Venture Symbol: LKY All Issues: Yes Reason: Pending News Halt Time : 2:48 PM CIRO can make a decision to impose a temporary suspension of trading in a security of a publicly-listed company. Trading halts are implemented to ensure a fair and orderly market. CIRO is the national self-regulatory organization which oversees all investment dealers and trading activity on debt and equity marketplaces in Canada. SOURCE Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization - Halts/Resumptions Contact For further information about CIRO's trading halt policy, please see Trading Halts & Timely Disclosure at www.iiroc.ca under the Markets tab. Please note that CIRO staff cannot provi...

Consistent with its long-established commitment to the sustainable development of Canadian critical minerals, Avalon Advanced Materials Inc. is pleased to announce the publication of its 2023 Sustainability Report, which can be accessed on the Company's website found here: https://avalonadvancedmaterials.com/_resources/sustainability/AVL2023-Sustainability-Report.pdf The 2023 report represents the 12th consecutive report Avalon has produced detailing our environmental impacts, health and safety reporting and economic developments as they relate to Avalon's sustainability performance. "It has been a year of transformative change for Avalon, led by a new senior management team and reinvigorated board aligned around the creation of a vertically integrated Ontario lithium value ch...

Equity Metals Corp. reports that it has closed a non-brokered flow-through private placement by issuing 8,500,000 premium flow-through units at a price of $0.19 per Unit for gross proceeds of $1,615,000 . Each Unit consists of one flow-through common share and one share purchase warrant. Each warrant entitles the holder thereof to purchase one non-flow-through common share for a period of 5 years at a price of $0.18. All securities issued in connection with the Offering are subject to a hold period expiring on April 21, 2024. The Offering is subject to TSX Venture Exchange acceptance. The gross proceeds received from the sale of Units will be used for the 2024 exploration program on the Silver Queen Ag-Au project in British Columbia, Canada. About Silver Queen Project The Sil...

Stelmine Canada is pleased to announce that it has completed a second tranche of a non-brokered private placement of flow-through units previously announced on December 12, 2023 for gross proceeds of $175,000. The Company issued a total of 2,058,824 FT Units at a price of $0.085 per FT Unit. Each FT Unit consisted of one common share of the Company to be issued as a "flow-through share" within the meaning of subsection 66 of the Income Tax Act and section 359.1 of the Taxation Act and one-half of a non-flow-through common share purchase warrant . Each Warrant will entitle the holder to acquire one additional common share at a price of $0.14 per common share until December 20, 2025. In connection with this second tranche of the offering, the Company paid finder's fees of $12,250 in cash and...

Abitibi Metals is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Eric Kallio to the Company’s Advisory Committee. Mr. Kallio brings a wealth of experience from his four-decade career in the mining industry, where he has served in a number of roles focused on exploration, underground and open pit mine planning, scoping and feasibility studies in Canada and abroad, including most recently as Executive Vice President, Exploration Strategy and Growth at Agnico Eagle (2022 – 2023) and Senior Vice President, Exploration for Kirkland Lake Gold (2018 – 2022).

As a strategic advisor, Abitibi stands to benefit not only from his input on its upcoming plans to advance the high-grade B26 Polymetallic Copper Deposit (Ind: 7.0MT @ 2.94% Cu Eq & Inf: 4.4MT @ 2.97% Cu Eq) to its goal of delivering an economic PEA, but also his deep knowledge of the geology of the Detour Trend and the Abitibi Greenstone Belt, where he has been instrumental in the discovery or advancement of several successful projects including the Dome Mine Open Pit (Timmins, ON), the Detour Gold Open Pit (Cochrane, ON), the Island Gold project (near Wawa, ON) and discoveries by Lake Shore Gold in the Timmins Gold Camp.

Jonathon Deluce, CEO of Abitibi Metals, stated, “We are thrilled to announce the appointment of Eric Kallio to the Company’s Advisory Committee and the opportunity to work with him on the B26 Deposit. Eric brings a wealth of knowledge contributing to the exploration success and growth profile of many deposits across the Abitibi Greenstone Belt, including the Detour Mine. The addition of such a highly accomplished mining executive is an endorsement of the path Abitibi is on as we endeavour to enhance shareholder value through the exploration and development of B26 and Beschefer.”

About Abitibi Metals Corp.:

Abitibi Metals Corp. is a Quebec-focused mineral acquisition and exploration company focused on the development of quality base and precious metal properties that are drill-ready with high-upside and expansion potential. Abitibi’s portfolio of strategic properties provides target-rich diversification and includes the high-grade B26 Polymetallic Copper Deposit (Ind: 7.0MT @ 2.94% Cu Eq & Inf: 4.4MT @ 2.97% Cu Eq) and the Beschefer Gold Project, where historical drilling has identified 4 historical intercepts with a metal factor of over 100 g/t gold highlighted by 55.63 g/t gold over 5.57 metres and 13.07 g/t gold over 8.75 metres amongst four modelled zones. With approximately 45% insider ownership and a market cap under $25M, the Company is tightly structured for potential positive developments.



ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD

Jonathon Deluce, Chief Executive Officer

Consistent with its long-established commitment to the sustainable development of Canadian critical minerals, Avalon Advanced Materials Inc. is pleased to announce the publication of its 2023 Sustainability Report, which can be accessed on the Company's website found here: https://avalonadvancedmaterials.com/_resources/sustainability/AVL2023-Sustainability-Report.pdf The 2023 report represents the 12th consecutive report Avalon has produced detailing our environmental impacts, health and safety reporting and economic developments as they relate to Avalon's sustainability performance. "It has been a year of transformative change for Avalon, led by a new senior management team and reinvigorated board aligned around the creation of a vertically integrated Ontario lithium value ch...

Rome Resources Ltd. is pleased to announce that it has fully exercised the second option under its option agreement with Andreas Friedrich Reitmeier and Medidoc-RD Congo SARLU dated the 15th day of August 2022, as amended the 6th day of June 2023 . As a result, Rome has increased its earned undivided indirect interest in and to exploration permit PEPM 13274 from 21.75% to 51.475%. Pursuant to the MRDC Option Agreement, Rome initially acquired a 21.75% undivided interest in and to exploration permit PR 13274. PR 13274 was subsequently converted to PEPM 13274. Rome has now acquired a further 29.725% indirect interest in PEPM 13274 by funding additional exploration expenditures totalling CAD$1,750,000 at exploration permit PEPM 13274 and by issuing a total of 30,000,000 RMR shar...