101 Top Natural Resources Startups and Companies in Canada

August 7, 2021
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This article showcases our top picks for the best Canada based Natural Resources companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Natural Resources industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.

We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.

We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:

  • Innovation
    • Innovative ideas
    • Innovative route to market
    • Innovative product
  • Growth
    • Exceptional growth
    • Exceptional growth strategy
  • Management
  • Societal impact

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Top Canada Natural Resources Startups

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Crescent Point Energy

Crescent Point Energy

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Crescent Point Energy is an independent exploration and production company that produces oil and gas.

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Neptune Wellness Solutions is a health and wellness company focuses on extraction, formulation, and packaging of legal cannabis product.

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Troilus Gold

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Troilus Gold is a Canada based development-stage mining company.

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Concentric Agriculture

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Concentric develops ground-breaking agtech advancements that are safe for people, protect our natural resources.

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Golden Star Resources

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Golden Star Resources is an established gold mining company

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Enerplus

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North American Energy Producer

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Novo Resources

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Novo Resources engages in the evaluation, acquisition, and exploration of natural resource properties with a focus on gold.

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Neo Performance Materials

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Neo Performance Materials is a supplier of advanced materials used in a wide range of technology applications across many sectors.

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New Gold

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An intermediate gold producer with a complementary portfolio of global assets in the United States, Mexico, Australia, Canada and Chile.

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Black Swan Energy

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Black Swan Energy is an oil and gas exploration and production company operating in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.

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Tidewater Midstream and Infrastructure

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Tidewater Midstream and Infrastructure is dedicated to the purchase,sale, and transportation of natural gas liquids.

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Nouveau Monde Graphite

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Nouveau Monde is developing its operations with the highest environmental standards.

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Nevada Copper

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Nevada Copper is engaged in the identification, acquisition, exploration, and development of copper and other mineral properties.

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Orezone Resources

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Orezone Gold Corporation (ORE:TSX) is a Canadian exploration and development company.

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McEwen Mining Inc

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The goal of McEwen Mining is to qualify for inclusion in the S&P 500 by creating a high growth gold producer focused in the Americas.

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NexGen Energy

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NexGen Energy Ltd is a Canadian based uranium exploration and development company established by Tigers Realm Group.

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Stornoway Diamonds

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Stornoway Diamond Corporation is a leading Canadian diamond exploration and development company.

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Detour Gold

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Detour Gold Corporation (TSX: DGC) is a Canadian intermediate gold producer

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Bonterra Resources

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BonTerra is a Canadian gold exploration company with a large balanced portfolio of exploration and mining assets.

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Pretium Resources Inc

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Pretivm is creating value through gold at its 100%-owned, advanced-stage Brucejack Project located 65 kilometers north of the town.

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Banro Corporation

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Banro’s first producing operation, the wholly-owned Twangiza mine located near the city of Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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Africa Oil Corp

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Africa Oil is a Canadian oil and gas company with assets in Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia.

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Woodland Biofuels

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To produce cellulosic ethanol from waste biomass, such as wood chips and agricultural waste.

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Excellon Resources

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Excellon’s 100%-owned La Platosa Mine in Durango is Mexico’s highest grade silver mine, with lead and zinc by-products making it one.

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Saguaro Resources

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Saguaro Resources focuses on the exploration, acquisition, and development of tight oil and liquid rich gas fairways.

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Eclipse Gold Mining

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Eclipse Gold Mining brings together key assets to create an opportunity in gold exploration.

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Alterra Power Corp

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Alterra Power Corp is a power generation company that specializes on geothermal power, hydro power, and solar power.

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Sirios Resources

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Sirios Resources is an exploration company that specializes in mining metals.

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Fura Gems Inc.

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It is a Canada-based natural resource company.

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NuVista Energy

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NuVista is an oil and natural gas company engaged in the exploration, development, and production of oil and natural gas reserves.

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EnviCore Inc.

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EnviCore is an R&D company that specializes in developing technologies that are essential for improving natural resource development.

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KORE Mining

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KORE Mining is an exploration and development stage company .

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Jaguar Mining

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Jaguar Mining is a junior gold mining, development, and exploration company operating in Brazil with three gold mining complexes.

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SRHI

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SRHI is a publicly-listed company that engages in the development of copper mines.

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Nova Royalty

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Nova Royalty is focused on acquiring royalties on deposits of copper and nickel.

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Aurion Resources

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Aurion Resources generate or acquire early stage precious metals exploration opportunities and advance them through direct exploration.

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Altius Minerals

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Altius is a diversified mineral royalty and mineral exploration company based in Newfoundland & Labrador.

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Sable Resources

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Sable Resources Ltd is a grassroots explorer company focused on new precious metal projects.

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Redstar Gold Corp

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Redstar Gold Corp. is a Vancouver based junior exploration company focused on high-grade gold exploration in North America.

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Doré Copper Mining

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Doré Copper Mining focuses on the development of high-grade copper-gold brownfield projects.

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Northwest Copper

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Serengeti acquires & explores Cu-Au deposits in the Quesnel Trough and Stikine Arch, BC.

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Inflection Resources

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Inflection Resources is a gold and copper-gold focused mineral exploration company.

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Gear Energy

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Gear Energy engages in the acquisition, exploration, development, and production of petroleum and natural gas properties.

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Itasca Capital

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It is a Canada-based company that focuses on resource-based strategic investment or business combination.

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Kingfisher Metals

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Kingfisher Metals is an exploration company focused on efficiently exploring its district-scale gold and copper properties.

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Millennial Precious Metals

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Millennial Precious Metals is a metal exploration company focused on exploration roll-up gold vehicle projects.

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Abraplata Resource

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Abraplata Resource is a silver, gold, and copper exploration company.

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Eminent Gold

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Eminent Gold is a gold exploration company focused on the business of mineral exploration.

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Volcanic Gold Mines

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A Canada-based exploration company engaged in the identification, acquisition, exploration and development of natural resource.

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Loncor Resources

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Loncor Resources is a gold exploration company focused on projects on the Ngayu Belt in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Grande Portage Resources

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Mineral exploration company.

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QuestEx Gold & Copper

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QuestEx Gold & Copper is a mineral exploration company engaged in exploring gold and copper projects.

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Avalon Advanced Materials

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Avalon Advanced is a mineral development company specializing in niche market metals and minerals with growing demand in new technology.

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First Vanadium

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First Vanadium specializes in exploration, permitting, development, construction, and operation of mining projects.

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CopperBank

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CopperBank is an exploration-stage company that engages in the development and acquisition of mineral properties.

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Pan Global Resources

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Pan Global Resources is a resource company that is engaged in base and precious metal exploration.

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Namibia Critical Metals

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Namibia Critical Metals which is engaged in the acquisition, exploration and evaluation activities.

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Silver Viper Minerals

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Silver Viper Minerals is a junior mineral exploration company focused on silver, gold, and base metal exploration projects.

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North American Palladium

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NAP is an established precious metals producer that has been operating its flagship Lac des Iles mine (LDI) located in Ontario, Canada

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Dalradian Resources

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Dalradian Resources Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the acquisition, exploration, and development of precious and base metals.

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Red Eagle Mining Corporation

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Red Eagle Mining focuses on building shareholder value by discovering and developing gold projects.

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Irving Resources

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Irving Resources is a mineral exploration company focused on precious metal projects.

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Canadian Zinc Corporation

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Canadian Zinc Corporation is a development stage company.

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Graphite One Resources

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Graphite One Resources is a mining and metals company that produces coated spherical graphite.

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Traverse Energy

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Traverse Energy Ltd. is a publicly traded company engaged in the exploration, development and production of petroleum and natural gas in

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Winston Gold

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Winston Gold is a mining company focused on generating cash flow by advancing high-grade, low cost mining opportunities into production.

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INV Metals

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INV Metals Inc. is a Canadian mineral resource company.

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Spur Petroleum

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Spur Resources has oil and gas assets in Alberta and Saskatchewan and is well-regarded for its operating efficiencies

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Fox River Resources

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Fox River Resources is a natural resource mining company engaged in the advancement of the Martison Phosphate Project.

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Fédération québécoise des coopératives forestières

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The Québec Federation of Forestry Cooperatives is a cooperative society that offers consultation and other services for forest workers.

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Northern Empire Resources

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Northern Empire Resources is a natural resource company.

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Chronos Resources

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Chronos Resources is a private oil and gas exploration company, focused on light oil and natural gas.

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Park Place Energy

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Park Place Energy focuses on building a portfolio of international production and exploration projects in Turkey and Southeast Europe.

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Conquest Resources Limited

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Conquest Resources Limited is a Toronto, Canada based public company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange (TSX-V) under the symbol “CQR”.

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Headwater Gold

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Headwater Gold is a mining company focused on high-grade precious metal exploration.

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Arianne Phosphate

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Arianne Phosphate is a mineral exploration company specializing in the development of mining projects.

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Pershimco Resources

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Pershimco Resources is a junior mineral exploration company.

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TRU Precious Metals

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TRU Precious Metals seeks value-creation opportunities and is assembling a portfolio of gold exploration properties.

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Peregrine Diamonds

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Peregrine Diamonds is a diamond exploration and development company in North Canada.

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Summa Silver Corp

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Summa Silver Corp is a mineral exploration company that focuses on high-grade silver and gold on the Hughes Property in Tonopah, Nevada.

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Teck

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Teck is a diversified resource company with business units focused on copper, steelmaking coal, zinc and energy.

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Cenovus Energy

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Cenovus Energy is a Canada-based oil company that provides oil sands projects which use specialized methods to drill and pump oil.

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Levon Resources

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Levon Resources is exploring one of the world’s largest silver resources at the company’s 100%-owned Cordero Project in northwest Mexico.

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Sweet Natural Trading

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Formerly Xylitol Canada Inc is Canada-based company.

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Corex Gold

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Corex Gold is a Canadian-based resource exploration and development company.

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Defense Metals

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Defense Metals is a mineral exploration company that specializes in the acquisition of mineral deposits containing metals and elements.

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Sarissa Resources

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Sarissa Resources is a mineral exploration company that holds interests in several mining claims.

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Commerce Resources

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Commerce Resources is a publicly held exploration company focused on rare metals and earth elements.

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Avro Technologies

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Avro is developing an end-to-end solution to convert natural gas, flared gas, and uneconomical natural gas to products.

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Amarc Resources

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A mineral exploration and development company

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Alvopetro Energy

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Alvopetro Energy is a production company that engages in the exploration, acquisition, development, and production of hydrocarbons onshore.

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NextSource Materials

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NextSource Materials is a mineral exploration and mine development company.

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Motion Metrics

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Motion Metrics is a Canadian mining technology company that uses artificial intelligence to improve mine safety and energy efficiency.

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Shell Canada

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Shell Canada LTD is an energy company with products in the water, gas and oil industries.

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SSR Mining

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SSR Mining Inc. is a Vancouver-based mining company focused on the operation, development, exploration of precious metal projects.

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Pembrook Copper

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Pembrook Copper focuses on the discovery of new mineral deposits.

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Goliath Resources

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Goliath Resources is a precious metals exploration company.

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Braveheart Resources

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Braveheart Resources is a mining company focused on building shareholder value through exploration and development.

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MycoRemedy

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MycoRemedy remediates contaminated environmental sites the natural way – no chemicals or energy-intensive inputs necessary.

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Willowglen Systems

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Innovative Solutions for the World’s More Challenging Problems.

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B2Gold

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B2Gold Corp. is a Vancouver based gold producer with four operating mines nd a strong portfoilio of development and exploration assets.

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