- CEO
- Oliver Friesen
- Full Time Employees
- 5
- Sector
- Basic Materials
- Industry
- Other Precious Metals
- Address
- Salisbury House London United Kingdom EC2M 5PS
- IPO Date
- May 10, 2023
- Business
- Guardian Metal Resources PLC (LON:GMET) is a United Kingdom-based exploration and development company focused exclusively on critical and precious metals projects in the mining-friendly jurisdiction of Nevada, USA; its co-flagship assets comprise the 100%-owned Pilot Mountain tungsten project, featuring skarn-style tungsten-copper-silver-zinc mineralization across Garnet, Good Hope, Gunmetal, and Desert Scheelite deposits, and the recently acquired Tempiute tungsten project, formerly the Emerson mine with historical production, existing infrastructure, and untapped skarn, breccia pipe, and porphyry potential; additional projects include the Garfield copper-gold-silver-lithium-antimony prospect, Golconda Summit gold project, Stonewall, Kibby Basin lithium, and the new Pilot North tungsten project encompassing historical Copper Head, Western Metals, and Jasper mines. The company targets strategic minerals essential for energy transition, industrial, military, and defense applications, including tungsten for high-melting-point alloys, drilling tools, electronics, and armor-piercing projectiles; it also explores copper, gold, silver, zinc, lithium, molybdenum, bismuth, and gallium deposits to support U.S. re-shoring efforts amid Chinese export restrictions and geopolitical supply chain vulnerabilities. Incorporated in 2021 and headquartered at Salisbury House in London, Guardian Metal Resources changed its name from Golden Metal Resources PLC in June 2024; recent developments include securing $27.2 million in funding through a $6.2 million U.S. Department of Defense award for Pilot Mountain advancement and $21 million in equity subscriptions, highlighted by £13.6 million from Duquesne Family Office (Stanley Druckenmiller's entity) following Power Metal Resources' stake sale; it completed the Tempiute acquisition in January 2025 with drilling commenced in late summer, staked expansions at Pilot North (101 claims, 2,086 acres) confirming high-grade tungsten-copper-zinc-silver, joined the U.S. Critical Minerals Forum for policy access, appointed J.T. Starzecki as Executive Chairman with U.S. government ties, and advanced drilling at Pilot Mountain yielding high-grade tungsten intercepts up to 1.44% WO3 alongside positive porphyry copper-molybdenum results.