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
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Crescent Point Energy is an independent exploration and production company that produces oil and gas.
Neptune Wellness Solutions
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Neptune Wellness Solutions is a health and wellness company focuses on extraction, formulation, and packaging of legal cannabis product.
Troilus Gold
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Troilus Gold is a Canada based development-stage mining company.
Concentric Agriculture
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Concentric develops ground-breaking agtech advancements that are safe for people, protect our natural resources.
Golden Star Resources
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Golden Star Resources is an established gold mining company
Novo Resources
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Novo Resources engages in the evaluation, acquisition, and exploration of natural resource properties with a focus on gold.
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.
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.
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.
Tidewater Midstream and Infrastructure
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Tidewater Midstream and Infrastructure is dedicated to the purchase,sale, and transportation of natural gas liquids.
Nouveau Monde Graphite
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Nouveau Monde is developing its operations with the highest environmental standards.
Nevada Copper
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Nevada Copper is engaged in the identification, acquisition, exploration, and development of copper and other mineral properties.
Orezone Resources
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Orezone Gold Corporation (ORE:TSX) is a Canadian exploration and development company.
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.
NexGen Energy
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NexGen Energy Ltd is a Canadian based uranium exploration and development company established by Tigers Realm Group.
Stornoway Diamonds
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Stornoway Diamond Corporation is a leading Canadian diamond exploration and development company.
Detour Gold
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Detour Gold Corporation (TSX: DGC) is a Canadian intermediate gold producer
Bonterra Resources
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BonTerra is a Canadian gold exploration company with a large balanced portfolio of exploration and mining assets.
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.
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
Africa Oil Corp
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Africa Oil is a Canadian oil and gas company with assets in Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia.
Woodland Biofuels
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To produce cellulosic ethanol from waste biomass, such as wood chips and agricultural waste.
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.
Saguaro Resources
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Saguaro Resources focuses on the exploration, acquisition, and development of tight oil and liquid rich gas fairways.
Eclipse Gold Mining
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Eclipse Gold Mining brings together key assets to create an opportunity in gold exploration.
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.
Sirios Resources
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Sirios Resources is an exploration company that specializes in mining metals.
Fura Gems Inc.
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It is a Canada-based natural resource company.
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.
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.
KORE Mining
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KORE Mining is an exploration and development stage company .
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.
SRHI
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SRHI is a publicly-listed company that engages in the development of copper mines.
Nova Royalty
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Nova Royalty is focused on acquiring royalties on deposits of copper and nickel.
Aurion Resources
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Aurion Resources generate or acquire early stage precious metals exploration opportunities and advance them through direct exploration.
Altius Minerals
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Altius is a diversified mineral royalty and mineral exploration company based in Newfoundland & Labrador.
Sable Resources
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Sable Resources Ltd is a grassroots explorer company focused on new precious metal projects.
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.
Doré Copper Mining
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Doré Copper Mining focuses on the development of high-grade copper-gold brownfield projects.
Northwest Copper
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Serengeti acquires & explores Cu-Au deposits in the Quesnel Trough and Stikine Arch, BC.
Inflection Resources
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Inflection Resources is a gold and copper-gold focused mineral exploration company.
Gear Energy
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Gear Energy engages in the acquisition, exploration, development, and production of petroleum and natural gas properties.
Itasca Capital
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It is a Canada-based company that focuses on resource-based strategic investment or business combination.
Kingfisher Metals
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Kingfisher Metals is an exploration company focused on efficiently exploring its district-scale gold and copper properties.
Millennial Precious Metals
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Millennial Precious Metals is a metal exploration company focused on exploration roll-up gold vehicle projects.
Abraplata Resource
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Abraplata Resource is a silver, gold, and copper exploration company.
Eminent Gold
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Eminent Gold is a gold exploration company focused on the business of mineral exploration.
Volcanic Gold Mines
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A Canada-based exploration company engaged in the identification, acquisition, exploration and development of natural resource.
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.
QuestEx Gold & Copper
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QuestEx Gold & Copper is a mineral exploration company engaged in exploring gold and copper projects.
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.
First Vanadium
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First Vanadium specializes in exploration, permitting, development, construction, and operation of mining projects.
CopperBank
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CopperBank is an exploration-stage company that engages in the development and acquisition of mineral properties.
Pan Global Resources
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Pan Global Resources is a resource company that is engaged in base and precious metal exploration.
Namibia Critical Metals
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Namibia Critical Metals which is engaged in the acquisition, exploration and evaluation activities.
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.
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
Dalradian Resources
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Dalradian Resources Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the acquisition, exploration, and development of precious and base metals.
Red Eagle Mining Corporation
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Red Eagle Mining focuses on building shareholder value by discovering and developing gold projects.
Irving Resources
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Irving Resources is a mineral exploration company focused on precious metal projects.
Canadian Zinc Corporation
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Canadian Zinc Corporation is a development stage company.
Graphite One Resources
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Graphite One Resources is a mining and metals company that produces coated spherical graphite.
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
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.
INV Metals
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INV Metals Inc. is a Canadian mineral resource company.
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
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.
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.
Northern Empire Resources
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Northern Empire Resources is a natural resource company.
Chronos Resources
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Chronos Resources is a private oil and gas exploration company, focused on light oil and natural gas.
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.
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”.
Headwater Gold
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Headwater Gold is a mining company focused on high-grade precious metal exploration.
Arianne Phosphate
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Arianne Phosphate is a mineral exploration company specializing in the development of mining projects.
Pershimco Resources
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Pershimco Resources is a junior mineral exploration company.
TRU Precious Metals
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TRU Precious Metals seeks value-creation opportunities and is assembling a portfolio of gold exploration properties.
Peregrine Diamonds
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Peregrine Diamonds is a diamond exploration and development company in North Canada.
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.
Teck
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Teck is a diversified resource company with business units focused on copper, steelmaking coal, zinc and energy.
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.
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.
Sweet Natural Trading
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Formerly Xylitol Canada Inc is Canada-based company.
Corex Gold
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Corex Gold is a Canadian-based resource exploration and development company.
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.
Sarissa Resources
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Sarissa Resources is a mineral exploration company that holds interests in several mining claims.
Commerce Resources
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Commerce Resources is a publicly held exploration company focused on rare metals and earth elements.
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.
Amarc Resources
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A mineral exploration and development company
Alvopetro Energy
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Alvopetro Energy is a production company that engages in the exploration, acquisition, development, and production of hydrocarbons onshore.
NextSource Materials
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NextSource Materials is a mineral exploration and mine development company.
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.
Shell Canada
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Shell Canada LTD is an energy company with products in the water, gas and oil industries.
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.
Pembrook Copper
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Pembrook Copper focuses on the discovery of new mineral deposits.
Goliath Resources
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Goliath Resources is a precious metals exploration company.
Braveheart Resources
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Braveheart Resources is a mining company focused on building shareholder value through exploration and development.
MycoRemedy
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MycoRemedy remediates contaminated environmental sites the natural way – no chemicals or energy-intensive inputs necessary.
Willowglen Systems
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Innovative Solutions for the World’s More Challenging Problems.
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.