- CEO
- Sandy McVey
- Full Time Employees
- 1
- Sector
- Basic Materials
- Industry
- Gold
- Address
- 1100 Melville Street Vancouver BC Canada V6E 4A6
- IPO Date
- Aug 3, 2012
- Business
- West Vault Mining Inc. West Vault Mining Inc. is a Canada-based mineral exploration and development company focused on acquiring, advancing, and monetizing high-quality gold projects in premier North American jurisdictions, particularly Nevada's Walker Lane gold trend; its flagship asset is the fully permitted Hasbrouck Gold Project, comprising the Three Hills Mine and Hasbrouck Mine deposits, supported by a 10,500-acre land package with Proven and Probable Mineral Reserves of 753,000 ounces of gold and 10.5 million ounces of silver across 44 million tons at 0.017 ounces gold per ton; the project employs run-of-mine heap-leach processing at Three Hills and crushed ore heap-leaching at Hasbrouck, with metallurgical recoveries averaging 75% for gold, low strip ratios of 1.1:1, and infrastructure advantages including grid power access, highways, and water rights. The company holds a 1.1% net smelter return royalty on the project acquired from Newmont Corporation Newmont Corporation in 2017 and entered a 1.41% gold and silver stream agreement with Sprott Private Resource Streaming and Royalty Corp. in 2021 for US$6 million upfront, effectively equivalent to a 1.13% NSR after purchase deposits. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, West Vault Mining Inc. operates with a low-risk, cash-conservative strategy emphasizing minimal dilution, low holding costs of approximately US$1 million annually, and shareholder returns via normal course issuer bids; it consolidated 100% ownership of Hasbrouck in 2020 by acquiring the remaining 25% interest from Waterton for US$10 million and shares, updated its pre-feasibility study in January 2023 reporting a base-case after-tax NPV5% of US$206 million and 51% IRR at US$1,790 gold, secured multiple water right leases including a third 30-year agreement for 362 acre-feet annually with Tonopah Divide Mining Company effective July 2024 and a 1% NSR royalty on adjacent southeast lands in October 2023, and renewed its normal course issuer bid in May 2024 allowing repurchases of up to 2.9 million shares.