101 Top Natural Resources Startups and Companies in Canada

August 7, 2021

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

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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