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- Gabriel Resources Ltd. is a Canadian TSX Venture Exchange-listed resource company focused on the exploration, evaluation, and development of precious metal mining properties in Romania, primarily through its 80.69% ownership interest in Rosia Montana Gold Corporation S.A., with the balance held by Minvest Rosia Montana S.A., a Romanian state-owned entity. The company holds interests in the Rosia Montana Project, one of Europe's largest undeveloped gold deposits located in the South Apuseni Mountains of west-central Romania, encompassing measured and indicated resources of 17.1 million ounces of gold and 81.1 million ounces of silver across 513 million tonnes, including proven and probable reserves of 10.1 million ounces of gold and 47.6 million ounces of silver; the Bucium exploration concession covering 2,325 hectares in Western Transylvania with defined epithermal gold-silver deposits at Rodu-Frasin and porphyry copper-gold at Tarnita; and related mineral tenure rights for gold, silver, and copper exploration and development. Founded in 1986 and headquartered at Suite 200, 204 Lambert Street, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada, with corporate offices in London, United Kingdom, and operations in Bucharest, Romania, Gabriel targets institutional investors and operates solely in the Romanian mining sector amid ongoing regulatory and legal challenges. In recent developments, the company pursued an ICSID arbitration against Romania over the Rosia Montana Project, culminating in a March 2024 arbitral decision dismissing claims and awarding Romania approximately US$10 million in costs, prompting Gabriel to file an annulment application in July 2024 on grounds of arbitrator impartiality and procedural failures, which secured a provisional stay of enforcement; conducted a 2024 private placement raising US$3.25 million in May to fund operations and annulment costs; faced rejection in June 2024 of its application to extend the Rosia Montana exploitation license by the National Agency for Mineral Resources; and received an acquisition of 10,781,571 units by Swiss Capital S.A. in a private placement on November 12, 2025.