Mr. Singh is a mining executive with over 22 years of experience in corporate development, capital markets, finance, project development, engineering, and operations. Most recently he was founding President and CEO of NOA Lithium Brines Inc. (“NOA”) and during his time the company successfully went public, carried out multiple funding rounds, and had significant exploration success at its flagship Rio Grande project in Salta, Argentina. Prior to his time at NOA, Singh was founding President and CEO at Mexico-focused developer Discovery Silver Corp (“Discovery”). During his 5-year tenure with the Discovery, Singh led the growth of the company to a market capitalization of over C$500M, representing +30X growth during his time there. From the 2016 go-public to 2020 Mr. Singh also served as Director / Lead Independent Director of the Board of GT Gold Corp. which was subsequently acquired by Newmont Corporation (C$393M). Mr. Singh is a Professional Engineer (P.Eng), a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA), a Certified Management Accountant (CMA) and holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree (Metallurgy / Minerals Processing) and a Master of Engineering degree (Metallurgy).
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Hello everyone. Good afternoon and thanks for attending. And thanks to the kindness team for having us here. My name is Taj Singh, President and CEO of First Nordic Metals, and we are focused in Scandinavia. We're the owner of 2 large greenstone belts, 1 in Sweden and 1 in Finland. The focus of this talk will be the Swedish Greenstone Belt. I'll be making cautionary statements. So just a high-level look right now. The first Nordic Metals was created through the merger of Barcelli minerals, which many of you may have heard of, and Gold Line resources. And that deal closed in mid-February of just this past year. And what it has basically done, it's a very natural and obvious merger, we believe. Properties were contiguous to each other. Barsley owned the 2.5 million ounce Barsley project in JV with Agnico Eagle and Goldline owned at a hundred percent 80 kilometers of strike, 40 or so to the north, 40 or so to the south, the entire goal line belt, making them the largest development stage claim holder in Sweden. So it was a very obvious thing to put these things together, create a larger company, but obviously have synergies to move projects forward, share ideas and thoughts on exploration, methodologies, etc. So again, the Barsley Project high level, I'll dig into it a little bit more, but it is in a JV with Agnico Eagle, and it's currently a resource of 2.4 million ounces in all categories. This belt, the Gold Line belt, is actually quite underexplored. It's probably the least explored greenstone belt in the world. It's covered by glacial till. And Sweden really only opened up to modern exploration in kind of in the 2000s. So it's probably 70, 80 years behind what we see in the Abitibi in northern Ontario and Quebec. So I think really that's the opportunity. This is a ...
