COMMODITIES

GOLD

Au

Gold (Au) is a bright, yellow, dense, soft, malleable, and ductile metal. It occurs in free elemental (native) form, as nuggets or grains, in rocks, in veins, and in alluvial deposits. It may also occur in a solid solution series with the native element silver (as electrum), naturally alloyed with other metals like copper and palladium and also as mineral inclusions such as within pyrite.

A relatively rare element, gold is a precious metal that has been used for coinage, jewelry, and other arts throughout recorded history. The world consumption of new gold produced is about 50% in jewelry, 40% in investments, and 10% in industry. Gold’s high malleability, ductility, resistance to corrosion and most other chemical reactions, and conductivity of electricity have led to its continued use in corrosion resistant electrical connectors in all types of computerized devices (its chief industrial use). Gold is also used in infrared shielding, colored-glass production, gold leafing, and tooth restoration.

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COPPER

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Copper (Cu) is a soft, malleable, and ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity. A freshly exposed surface of pure copper has a pinkish-orange color. Copper is one of the few metals that can occur in nature in a directly usable metallic form (native metals). This led to very early human use in several regions, from c. 8000 BC. Thousands of years later, it was the first metal to be smelted from sulfide ores, c. 5000 BC; the first metal to be cast into a shape in a mold, c. 4000 BC; and the first metal to be purposely alloyed with another metal, tin, to create bronze, c. 3500 BC.

Copper is used as a conductor of heat and electricity, as a building material, and as a constituent of various metal alloys, such as sterling silver used in jewelry, cupronickel used to make marine hardware and coins, and constantan used in strain gauges and thermocouples for temperature measurement.

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POLYMETALLIC

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Major polymetallic projects
Azimut identified very large and strong geochemical footprints for copper and REE in Nunavik, northern Quebec, and began acquiring the most significant targets in November 2009.

The Rex Trend: A new mineral province
Azimut holds a commanding position over the extensive Rex Trend, defined by a very strong 330-km-long copper anomaly in lake-bottom sediments coupled with a strong 100-km-long REE anomaly.

The Rex Trend has potential for hosting large-scale polymetallic deposits, including iron oxide copper-gold (IOCG) deposits, intrusion-related polymetallic deposits, and sediment-hosted gold deposits.

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NICKEL/CHROME-PGE

Ni

Nickel (Ni) a silvery-white lustrous metal with a slight golden tinge and is hard and ductile. It is slowly oxidized by air at room temperature and is considered corrosion-resistant. Pure native nickel is found in Earth’s crust only in tiny amounts, usually in ultramafic rocks, and in the interiors of larger nickel–iron meteorites. An iron–nickel mixture is thought to compose Earth’s outer and inner cores. Important nickel ore minerals include pentlandite and a mixture of Ni-rich natural silicates known as garnierite.

Use of nickel has been traced as far back as 3500 BCE. Historically, it has been used for plating iron and brass, coating chemistry equipment, and manufacturing certain alloys. The metal is valuable in modern times chiefly in alloys; about 68% of world production is used in stainless steel. A further 10% is used for nickel-based and copper-based alloys, 7% for alloy steels, 3% in foundries, 9% in plating and 4% in other applications, including the fast-growing battery sector, including those in electric vehicles (EVs).

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URANIUM & RARE EARTHS

U+RE

Uranium is a radioactive silvery-grey metal that occurs naturally in low concentrations of a few parts per million in soil, rock and water, and is commercially extracted from uranium-bearing minerals such as uraninite. The 1789 discovery of uranium in the mineral pitchblende is credited to Martin Heinrich Klaproth, who named the new element after the recently discovered planet Uranus. Uranium decays slowly by emitting an alpha particle. The half-life of uranium-238 is about 4.47 billion years and that of uranium-235 is 704 million years, making them useful in dating the age of the Earth.

Many contemporary uses of uranium exploit its unique nuclear properties such as in nuclear power plants. The development and deployment of nuclear energy continues given the increasing interest in these power plants as powerful sources of CO2-free energy.

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The rare-earth elements (REE) are a set of 17 nearly indistinguishable lustrous silvery-white soft heavy metals. Despite their name, rare-earth elements are relatively plentiful in Earth’s crust. Because of their geochemical properties, rare-earth elements are typically dispersed and not often found in concentrated amounts. Consequently, economically exploitable REE ore deposits are rare. The rare earths have diverse applications in electrical and electronic components, lasers, glass, magnetic materials, and industrial processes.

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