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- Bolt Metals Corp. (CSE: BOLT) is a Canada-based mineral exploration company focused on acquiring and developing precious, base, and battery metal properties in North America. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in West Vancouver, British Columbia, the company explores for nickel, copper, silver, zinc, gold, cobalt, and antimony deposits across its portfolio of projects in the United States and Canada; key assets include the Switchback Copper-Silver Property, comprising eight contiguous mineral claims totaling 2,560 hectares located 55 kilometers east of Terrace, British Columbia, the Northwind Property in Quebec's Urban Barry Gold Camp within the Abitibi Greenstone Belt approximately 205 kilometers northeast of Val d'Or, the Soap Gulch copper SEDEX project in Silver Bow and Madison Counties, Montana, 32 kilometers south of Butte, the New Britain high-grade antimony property in British Columbia, and the former Cyclops Nickel-Cobalt Project. It targets drill-ready properties with high-upside potential, employing a vertically integrated mineral-to-market strategy for critical minerals serving battery, solar, and defense sectors.
Recent developments include the acquisition of the Northwind Property on December 3, 2024, positioned 15 kilometers from the Windfall Deposit; entry into a definitive agreement and subsequent closing of the Switchback Copper-Silver Property acquisition in October 2024, supported by a completed NI 43-101 technical report and induced polarization survey at Northwind in October 2025; quadrupling the size of the New Britain antimony property and initial optioning in September 2024 amid surging antimony prices due to supply shortages and China's export restrictions; closing of an upsized non-brokered private placement in July 2024, debt settlements in August 2024 and May 2024, a leadership change with the appointment of Zachary Kotowych as CEO in September 2025, and a first tranche LIFE offering closing for $430,000 in November 2025 followed by a second tranche, raising aggregate proceeds of $3.5 million across offerings. The company, formerly Pacific Rim Cobalt Corp. until its name change in February 2020, operates without material revenue and continues to advance exploration amid focus on U.S. domestic critical minerals and copper's potential addition to the U.S. critical minerals list.