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#15057
Yesterday · 5 min
Bango CEO Paul Larbey on expanding global growth with Ooredoo partnership
Bango PLC (AIM:BGO, OTCQX:BGOPF) CEO Paul Larbey talked with Proactive's Stephen Gunnion about the company's new partnership with Ooredoo Group and the opportunity to expand its Digital Vending Machine (DVM) platform across the Middle East, North Africa and Southeast Asia. The group-level agreement gives Ooredoo's operating companies access to Bango's subscription bundling technology, potentially reaching nearly 150 million customers across its markets. Larbey explained how a shared platform w
#15056
Yesterday · 5 min
Lightning Minerals: Mt Turner gold drilling advances toward 2027 resource
Lightning Minerals Ltd managing director Troy Brice talked with Proactive about the completion of Phase 2 diamond drilling at the company’s Mt Turner Gold Project in North Queensland and the pathway toward a maiden gold Mineral Resource Estimate in 2027. Brice said the drilling team had completed the program and demobilised after working through challenging conditions, with samples now sent to laboratories for assay. He said the company was pleased with the outcome and was moving into the next
#15055
Yesterday · 3 min
FireFly Metals targets March 2027 resource growth
FireFly Metals Ltd managing director Steve Parsons talked with Proactive about the latest high-grade drilling results from the company’s Green Bay Copper-Gold Project in Newfoundland, Canada, and how continued resource growth could feed into the upcoming feasibility study. FireFly Metals is continuing both growth and infill drilling at the Ming Mine, with the latest results showing that the project’s very high-grade zone continues both at depth and laterally. Several of the latest intersection
#15053
Tuesday · 3 min
Lumos Diagnostics expands FebriDx rollout to an additional 97 WellStreet urgent care clinics
Lumos Diagnostics Chief Commercial Officer Paul Kase joined Steve Darling from Proactive to discuss the expansion of the company's FebriDx rapid diagnostic test across an additional 97 WellStreet Urgent Care locations, bringing the total number of participating clinics in the network to 141. FebriDx is a rapid point-of-care diagnostic test that uses a fingerstick blood sample to help healthcare professionals distinguish between bacterial and non-bacterial infections. The test is designed to sup
#15051
Tuesday · 4 min
Blackbird's new CEO Sumit Rai sets out growth plans as elevate.io passes 1,000 paying users
Blackbird PLC (AIM:BIRD) CEO Sumit Rai talked with Proactive's Stephen Gunnion about his appointment, the company's next phase of growth and plans to expand its cloud-based video editing platform, elevate.io. Rai, who has led elevate.io's development since joining Blackbird in 2022, said the business is now shifting its focus from building the product to accelerating commercial growth. Since its launch last year, elevate.io has surpassed 1,000 paying users, giving Blackbird valuable insight in
#15052
Tuesday · 8 min
Sunda Energy CEO details portfolio progress and New Zealand production targets
Sunda Energy PLC (AIM:SNDA, FRA:GHA0) CEO Andy Butler spoke with Proactive's Stephen Gunnion about its planned New Zealand acquisition, production growth opportunities and progress in Timor-Leste. The New Zealand business produces more than 1,000 barrels of oil per day from the Cheal fields, providing an established base for further development. Butler outlined plans for an appraisal well that could significantly increase reserves and potentially triple production within a couple of years. Oth
#15050
Tuesday · 8 min
Alvear Tungsten launches IPO as it targets fast-track restart of historic high-grade Argentina mine
Alvear Tungsten Limited (ASX:ATW) managing director and CEO Spencer Cole spoke with Proactive's Stephen Gunnion about plans to restart the historic Nueva Santa Clara tungsten mine in Argentina, and the company's proposed ASX listing. Historical production records indicate grades above 2% tungsten trioxide (WO₃), with Cole saying the existing data could help accelerate development. He also outlined the advantages of the project's wolfram mineralisation, which can be processed using gravity metho
#15046
Monday · 5 min
Alvopetro Energy reports strong Q3 results as Murucututu drilling advances
Alvopetro Energy CEO Corey Ruttan joined Steve Darling from Proactive to discuss the company’s third-quarter 2026 financial results and operational progress across its Brazilian natural gas assets. The company reported a strong quarter, with sales volumes averaging 2,966 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boepd), revenue of $19.3 million and funds flow from operations of $14.3 million. Alvopetro achieved a realized natural gas price of $11.49 per thousand cubic feet (Mcf), generating an operati
#15048
Monday · 6 min
Nine Mile Metals reports high-grade Copper, Zinc and Silver at Wedge Mine
Nine Mile Metals CEO Patrick Cruickshank joined Steve Darling from Proactive to discuss encouraging assay results from drill hole DDH WD-26-12 at the company's Wedge Mine project in New Brunswick's Bathurst Mining Camp, where drilling has identified two distinct zones of high-grade volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) mineralization. Cruickshank told Proactive that the latest hole returned a combination of copper, lead, zinc, silver and gold mineralization, including a substantial zinc-lead-silv
#15047
Monday · 3 min
Fox Tungsten launches Preliminary Economic Assessment for BC Tungsten project
Fox Tungsten CEO Steve Gray joined Steve Darling from Proactive to announce the commencement of a Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA) for the company's Fox Tungsten Project in the Cariboo region of British Columbia, marking an important step towards evaluating the project's potential development. Gray told Proactive that the PEA represents a significant milestone as Fox Tungsten moves beyond exploration and resource expansion towards assessing the project's potential economic viability. The c
#15049
Monday · 4 min
VivoPower swings to US$600K profit as Q1 FY2027 revenue reaches US$6.8M
VivoPower International PLC Chief Investment Officer Alex Cuppage joined Steve Darling from Proactive to discuss the company's first-quarter fiscal 2027 financial results, highlighting a return to profitability, growing data centre revenue and improved operating cash flow. VivoPower reported US$6.8 million in revenue for the quarter, compared with no revenue in the same period last year. The company's data centre business in Mo i Rana, Norway, contributed US$6.5 million, representing approximat
#15043
Monday · 5 min
Strategic Minerals' Cornwall Resources targets deeper Redmoor potential after 7,500m of drilling
Dennis Rowland, managing director of Strategic Minerals PLC (AIM:SML) subsidiary Cornwall Resources, developing the Redmoor tungsten, tin and copper project in Cornwall, spoke with Proactive's Stephen Gunnion about the latest drilling results. Drilling has passed 7,500 metres across 13 holes, with three rigs now operating on site. The programme is on time and within budget, targeting the conversion of inferred resources into indicated resources while testing the potential to expand the deposit.
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Monday · 8 min
HANetf's Vincent Chung highlights Canada's appeal as investors look beyond the US
HANetf active ETF product specialist Vincent Chung spoke with Proactive's Stephen Gunnion about Canada's growing investment appeal, opportunities in energy and infrastructure, and how investors can diversify beyond the US. Chung highlighted Blackstone and major Canadian pension funds committing US$3.1 billion to LNG Canada, supporting an expansion that will double production capacity to 28 million tonnes a year. He said the investment underlined confidence in Canada's natural resources and expo
#15042
Monday · 6 min
Chesnara CEO targets further deals after £1.7bn MetLife UK acquisition
Chesnara PLC (LSE:CSN) CEO Steve Murray spoke with Proactive's Stephen Gunnion about the group’s agreement to acquire MetLife UK’s closed-book life insurance business, adding 18,000 policies and £1.7bn in assets under administration. The deal, Chesnara’s fourth acquisition in two years, is expected to generate around £90m in lifetime cashflows and add approximately £45m to Own Funds and Contractual Service Margin. It is expected to complete in the first half of 2027, subject to regulatory appro
#15041
Friday · 4 min
Nano One targets 800 tonnes of annual LFP capacity as Candiac expansion advances
Nano One Materials Corp Chief Operating Officer Denis Geoffroy joined Steve Darling from Proactive to provide an update on the company's Candiac Facility expansion, production plans and ongoing commercial discussions with potential customers. Geoffroy said the expansion project at Candiac was completed at the end of September 2026, with construction now underway and expected to be finished in the first quarter of 2027. Commissioning is targeted for the second quarter of 2027. The company is al
#15040
Friday · 7 min
Medicus Pharma proposes $135M SkinJect spinout through SPAC business combination
Medicus Pharma CEO Dr Raza Bokhari joined Steve Darling from Proactive to discuss a proposed transaction involving the company's wholly owned subsidiary, SkinJect, which has entered into a non-binding letter of intent with an undisclosed special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) for a potential business combination. The proposed transaction contemplates a US$135 million pre-money enterprise valuation for SkinJect, alongside a concurrent equity financing intended to support the company's SKNJCT
#15039
Friday · 3 min
Diversified Energy reports 198,000 Boe/d production in Q3 as Birch acquisition advances
Diversified Energy Company PLC CEO Rusty Hutson Jr. joined Steve Darling from Proactive to discuss the company's financial and operational results for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2026, highlighting production performance, portfolio optimization and progress on its planned acquisition of Birch Resources. Diversified reported average daily production of 1,189 million cubic feet equivalent per day (MMcfepd), or approximately 198,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day, during the t
#15038
Friday · 5 min
1911 Gold reports more underground drilling progress at True North ahead of potential 2027 restart
1911 Gold Corporation CEO Shaun Heinrichs joined Steve Darling from Proactive to discuss additional assay results from the company's ongoing underground infill and delineation drilling program at the True North Gold Project in Manitoba, where exploration is focused on strengthening mineral resources targeted for the early years of a potential mine restart. Heinrichs told Proactive that the latest drilling continues to support the company's work towards a potential restart decision in 2027. The
#15037
Friday · 4 min
Solvonis CEO says US patent for ketamine addiction therapy is a 'signifcant milestone'
Solvonis Therapeutics PLC (LSE:SVNS, OTC:SLVNF) CEO Anthony Tennyson spoke with Proactive's Stephen Gunnion about a US patent allowance covering ketamine-based treatments for behavioural addictions and the commercial opportunities it opens up. The method-of-use patent covers ketamine, including both enantiomers, at therapeutic doses above 50mg. Tennyson expects it to be granted in the first quarter of 2027, giving Solvonis exclusive US rights for the specified uses. The company is initially ta
#15035
Friday · 7 min
Caledonia Mining CEO on securing US$150m facility to accelerate Bilboes gold project
Caledonia Mining Corporation PLC (AIM:CMCL, NYSE-A:CMCL, VFEX:CMCL) CEO Mark Learmonth spoke with Proactive's Stephen Gunnion about a US$150 million interim financing facility for its Bilboes gold project in Zimbabwe and progress towards full project funding. Learmonth said the facility would support procurement, early site activity and contractor payments, helping prevent delays as development advances. He described it as a key part of the company's four-pillar funding strategy, alongside gold

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