- Sector
- Non-energy minerals
- Industry
- Other metals/Minerals
- Address
- Vancouver Canada
- IPO Date
- Feb 11, 2021
- Business
- NorthX Nickel Corp. is a Canadian mineral exploration and resource development company focused on the identification, acquisition, and advancement of high-grade critical battery metal and platinum group element properties in North America. The company operates within the metals and mining industry, primarily targeting mineral assets that supply essential raw materials for electric vehicle battery chemistry, energy transition infrastructure, and specialized metallurgical manufacturing. Its primary product and service capabilities comprise: the exploration and resource delineation of nickel sulphide deposits; secondary mineralization targeting of copper, cobalt, platinum, and palladium; diamond core and rotary drilling operations; airborne and ground geophysical surveying, including magneto-telluric and electromagnetic profiling; structural geological mapping, core logging, and geochemical assaying; three-dimensional deposit modeling and NI 43-101 compliant mineral resource estimation; and metallurgical recovery testwork, environmental baseline monitoring, and technical project evaluations. The company's flagship asset is the 100-percent-owned Grasset Nickel Project, situated in the Abitibi Greenstone Belt within the Nord-du-Québec territory of Quebec, Canada, which hosts an indicated mineral resource of approximately 5.5 million tonnes grading 1.53 percent nickel equivalent.
Originally incorporated in October 2018 and headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, the company caters to institutional resource investors, global metals markets, smelters, refineries, and industrial supply chain partners. In recent corporate developments, the company completed a major rebranding and corporate reorganization, changing its name from Archer Exploration Corp. to NorthX Nickel Corp. in May 2024, concurrently enacting a one-for-six common share consolidation and updating its Canadian Securities Exchange ticker symbol to NIX. Following an earlier property acquisition from Wallbridge Mining Company Limited, NorthX Nickel executed a strategic operational shift to concentrate exclusively on its Quebec assets, divesting its entire portfolio of base metal properties in Ontario's Sudbury Basin to Magna Mining Inc. in a transaction that finalized in July 2025. Concurrently, the company completed private placement equity financings to fortify its balance sheet and fund advanced exploration programs, including deep geophysics and step-out diamond drilling across the H1 and H1X discovery zones at the Grasset deposit.