Trilogy Metals Inc.

Replaced its $25 million at-the-market equity facility with a much larger $200 million facility (Cantor Fitzgerald, BMO, Canaccord Genuity, National Bank of Canada and Raymond James), reflecting sharply increased capital-raising capacity and investor interest following the U.S. government investment announcement.

material agreement

Trilogy, South32 and Ambler Metals signed a binding letter of intent with the U.S. Department of War for a roughly $35.6 million strategic investment - the government would buy new Trilogy shares/warrants and existing South32-held Trilogy shares, together representing about 10% of the company, with proceeds reinvested in the Ambler project; the deal gives the DoW a board-observer-style director seat and commits it to help advance permitting and financing of the Ambler Access Road, pending Defense Production Act reauthorization and a national-security ownership review.

material agreement

Filed NI 43-101 and S-K 1300 technical reports formalizing the Bornite Preliminary Economic Assessment previously announced, advancing the copper-focused Bornite project (held via Ambler Metals) toward a more defined development case, independent of any South32 review.

resource reserve update

Ambler Metals released a significantly larger Bornite resource estimate: 41.7Mt indicated at 1.04% copper (955M lbs) plus 93.9Mt inferred at 0.98% copper (2.0 billion lbs), and a further high-grade 50.3Mt inferred zone (South Reef/Ruby Zone) at 2.97% copper (3.3 billion lbs) below the main pit - a major expansion of the deposit's known scale.

resource reserve update

Ambler Metals filed a full NI 43-101 Feasibility Study technical report for the Arctic copper-zinc-lead-silver-gold project, the most advanced level of technical/economic study yet completed on the deposit.

resource reserve update

Formed Ambler Metals LLC, the 50/50 joint venture with South32 that now owns the Upper Kobuk Mineral Projects (Arctic and Bornite), completing the transaction announced in December 2019 and transferring Trilogy's UKMP assets into the new entity.

asset acquisition disposition

South32 exercised its 2017 option to form the 50/50 joint venture over the Upper Kobuk Mineral Projects, agreeing to pay Trilogy roughly $145 million in exchange for contributing all of Trilogy's UKMP assets - the largest capital commitment in the project's history, expected to close in February 2020.

farm in farm out agreement

Raised approximately $25 million in a bought-deal public offering of 21.55 million shares at $1.16, led by Cantor Fitzgerald with Cormark, BMO and Roth Capital participating, to help fund development of the Arctic and Bornite projects.

material agreement

Filed the NI 43-101 technical report for the Arctic Pre-Feasibility Study, confirming the technical and economic viability of a conventional 10,000 tonne-per-day open-pit copper-zinc-lead-silver-gold mine and mill at Arctic, with no material changes from the results announced in February 2018.

resource reserve update

In-fill drilling drove a 50% increase in Indicated resource tonnes at the high-grade Arctic deposit (36.0Mt at 3.07% copper, 4.23% zinc, plus gold/silver/lead credits - about 2.4 billion lbs contained copper and 3.4 billion lbs contained zinc), with over 40% more contained metal than the prior estimate and a deposit management called insensitive to cutoff-grade or price assumptions.

resource reserve update

Now renamed Trilogy Metals Inc., signed a major option agreement letting global miner South32 form a 50/50 joint venture over its entire Alaska Upper Kobuk Mineral Projects (Arctic and Bornite deposits plus the NANA land agreement): South32 must fund at least $10 million/year for up to 3 years to keep the option alive, then pay roughly $150+ million to exercise it and form the JV - by far the largest partner and funding commitment in the company's history.

material agreement

Approved a $7.1 million 2017 budget to launch a pre-feasibility study on the high-grade Arctic deposit (northwest Alaska), a polymetallic copper-zinc-lead-gold-silver VMS deposit averaging 6% copper equivalent, targeting completion in Q1 2018.

resource reserve update

Sold Sunward Investments Limited - and with it the Titiribi property in Colombia acquired just over a year earlier - to Brazil Resources Inc. for 5 million shares and 1 million warrants, unwinding the diversification and refocusing the company purely on its Alaska copper assets.

asset acquisition disposition

Completed the acquisition of Sunward Resources, adding its Colombian gold project (Titiribi) to NovaCopper's portfolio alongside its core Alaska copper assets.

business combination

Detailed the ~$27.6 million all-stock Sunward acquisition: Sunward shareholders get 0.30 NovaCopper shares each (owning ~42% of the combined company), with NovaCopper CEO Rick Van Nieuwenhuyse continuing to lead. A related-party wrinkle was disclosed: major shareholder Electrum Strategic Resources (27.8% of NovaCopper) also holds an 18.2% stake in Sunward through an affiliated fund, and an interested NovaCopper director abstained from the board vote.

business combination

NovaCopper agreed to acquire Sunward Resources Ltd., a Colombia-focused gold explorer, in an all-stock arrangement that will make Sunward a wholly-owned subsidiary - a diversification beyond NovaCopper's Alaska copper assets.

business combination

NovaCopper's re-sampling and re-assaying of 33 historical drill holes at the Bornite Project's Ruby Creek zone confirmed previously known high-grade copper mineralization and identified additional lower-grade material not previously sampled, feeding into a planned 2014 resource update.

drilling result