Trilogy Metals Inc. engages in the exploration and development of mineral properties.
The company explores and develops the Upper Kobuk Mineral Projects (‘Upper Kobuk Mineral Projects’ or ‘UKMP’ or ‘UKMP Projects’) located in the Ambler Mining District in Northwest Alaska, United States. The Upper Kobuk Mineral Projects are held by Ambler Metals LLC (‘Ambler Metals’), a limited liability company owned equally by Trilogy and South32 Limited (‘South32’), and consists of the Arctic Project, which...
Trilogy Metals Inc. engages in the exploration and development of mineral properties.
The company explores and develops the Upper Kobuk Mineral Projects (‘Upper Kobuk Mineral Projects’ or ‘UKMP’ or ‘UKMP Projects’) located in the Ambler Mining District in Northwest Alaska, United States. The Upper Kobuk Mineral Projects are held by Ambler Metals LLC (‘Ambler Metals’), a limited liability company owned equally by Trilogy and South32 Limited (‘South32’), and consists of the Arctic Project, which contains a high-grade polymetallic volcanogenic massive sulfide (‘VMS’) deposit (‘Arctic Project’); and Bornite Project, which contains a carbonate-hosted copper deposit (‘Bornite Project’). The company’s interest in Ambler Metals is held by a wholly owned subsidiary, NovaCopper US Inc. (dba Trilogy Metals US) (‘Trilogy Metals US’), registered to do business in the State of Alaska. The company also conduct early-stage exploration through a wholly owned subsidiary, 995 Exploration Inc.
Strategy
The company's business strategy focuses on creating value for stakeholders through its ownership and advancement of the Arctic Project and exploration and advancement of the Bornite Project with its joint venture partner, South32, as well as through the pursuit of similarly attractive mining projects.
The company plans to advance the Arctic Project towards development with key activities, including increased definition of the NI 43-101 and S-K 1300 mineral resources and reserves contained in the Arctic Feasibility Study, additional metallurgical and geotechnical studies and the advancement of baseline environmental studies; advance exploration in the Ambler Mining District and, in particular, at the Bornite Project, pursuant to the NANA Agreement through resource development and initial technical studies; and pursue project level or corporate transactions that are value accretive.
Arctic Project
The Arctic Project is directly held by Ambler Metals LLC (‘Amber Metals’), in a 50/50 joint venture formed between South32 and Trilogy in February 2020. The land tenure consists of 2,136 contiguous State claims totaling 230,736 acres (93,336 hectares), including 905 40-acre claims, 1231 160-acre claims, and 18 Federal patented claims consists of 271.9 acres (110 hectares) held in the name of Ambler Metals. Surface use of the private land held as Federal patented claims is limited only by reservations in the patents and by generally applicable environmental laws.
The Arctic Project is in the Ambler Mining District of the southern Brooks Range, in the Northwest Arctic Borough (‘NWAB’) of Alaska. The mineralization at the Arctic deposit and at several other known occurrences within the Ambler Sequence stratigraphy of the Ambler Mining District consists of Devonian age, polymetallic (zinc-copper-lead-silver-gold) VMS-like occurrences.
Bornite Project
The Bornite property is in the Ambler Mining District of the southern Brooks Range in the NWAB of Alaska. The property is in Ambler River A-2 quadrangle, Kateel River Meridian T 19N, R 9E, sections 4, 5, 8 and 9. Copper mineralization at Bornite consists of chalcopyrite, bornite, and chalcocite distributed in stacked, stratabound zones exploiting favourable lithologies (conglomerate/berccia) within the Bornite sequence. Copper-cobalt-silver-zinc mineralization at Bornite forms disseminations, veins, and massive sulphides in stacked, semi-stratabound bodies closely associated with secondary hydrothermal dolomitization.
Agreement with NANA Regional Corporation
On October 19, 2011, NANA Regional Corporation, Inc. (NANA) and Trilogy Metals US entered an Exploration Agreement and Option Agreement (as amended, the NANA Agreement) for the cooperative development of NANA's respective resource interests in the Ambler Mining District of Northwest Alaska. Upon the formation of Ambler Metals, the company assigned its rights and obligations under the NANA Agreement to Ambler Metals LLC.
The NANA Agreement grants Ambler Metals the nonexclusive right to enter on, and the exclusive right to explore, the Bornite lands and the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) lands (each as defined in the NANA Agreement) and in connection therewith, to construct and utilize temporary access roads, camps, airstrips and other incidental works.
History
The company was founded in 2004. The company was incorporated in 2011 under the name NovaCopper Inc. pursuant to the terms of the Business Corporations Act (British Columbia) and changed its name to Trilogy Metals Inc. in 2016.