Clas­si­fi­ca­ti­on of GBC AG to Power Me­tal­lic Mi­nes Inc.

De Ris­king Quebec’s High Gra­de Nisk Lion Ti­ger Cop­per PGE Sys­tem Toward Canada’s Next Car­bon Neu­tral Po­ly­me­tal­lic Mine

Power Me­tal­lic Mi­nes Inc. is ad­van­cing the Nisk-Lion-Ti­ger po­ly­me­tal­lic sys­tem in Québec’s Ja­mes Bay re­gi­on, a pro­ject that has ra­pidly evol­ved from a tra­di­tio­nal ni­ckel ex­plo­ra­ti­on sto­ry into a high-gra­de cop­per-ni­ckel-PGE dis­co­very with clear dis­trict-sca­le po­ten­ti­al. The Lion Zone dis­co­very has si­gni­fi­cant­ly res­haped the in­vest­ment case by de­mons­t­ra­ting the pre­sence of a me­tal-rich po­ly­me­tal­lic sys­tem con­tai­ning cop­per, ni­ckel, pla­ti­num group me­tals, gold and sil­ver. De­po­sits of this type are rare glo­bal­ly and of­ten sup­port long-life, high-mar­gin mi­ning ope­ra­ti­ons when suf­fi­ci­ent sca­le is de­mons­tra­ted. Im­portant­ly, the pro­ject be­ne­fits from strong in­fra­struc­tu­re in­clu­ding road ac­cess, ne­ar­by hy­dro­elec­tric power and pro­xi­mi­ty to the Cree com­mu­ni­ty of Ne­mas­ka. The­se fac­tors ma­te­ri­al­ly im­pro­ve the po­ten­ti­al de­ve­lo­p­ment pro­fi­le re­la­ti­ve to many ear­ly-stage ex­plo­ra­ti­on pro­jects lo­ca­ted in more re­mo­te ju­ris­dic­tions.

The Lion Zone has emer­ged as the cen­tral dri­ver of the company’s in­vest­ment the­sis. Dril­ling to date has re­tur­ned mul­ti­ple thick in­ter­vals with very strong cop­per equi­va­lent gra­des, high­light­ing the unu­sual­ly high me­tal en­dow­ment of the sys­tem. In ad­di­ti­on to strong dril­ling re­sults, ear­ly me­tall­ur­gi­cal test­ing has pro­du­ced en­cou­ra­ging out­co­mes, de­mons­t­ra­ting high re­co­veries across cop­per and pre­cious me­tals and con­fir­ming the abili­ty to ge­ne­ra­te a clean cop­per con­cen­tra­te en­ri­ched with pla­ti­num group me­tal cre­dits. The­se re­sults pro­vi­de an im­portant ear­ly in­di­ca­ti­on that the mi­ne­ra­liza­ti­on is amenable to con­ven­tio­nal pro­ces­sing me­thods. At the same time, the Lion sys­tem re­mains open along strike and at depth, sug­gest­ing that the cur­rent dril­ling foot­print li­kely re­pres­ents only an in­iti­al view of the broa­der mi­ne­ra­li­zed sys­tem.

Bey­ond Lion, the wi­der Nisk pro­ject area of­fers meaningful ex­plo­ra­ti­on up­si­de and sup­ports the view that the com­pa­ny may be ex­plo­ring a lar­ger po­ly­me­tal­lic dis­trict. The Nisk de­po­sit al­re­a­dy hosts a de­fi­ned ni­ckel re­sour­ce that pro­vi­des a tech­ni­cal foun­da­ti­on for the pro­ject and con­tri­bu­tes lon­ger-term de­ve­lo­p­ment op­tio­na­li­ty. In ad­di­ti­on, the dis­co­very of the Ti­ger Zone and se­ve­ral ad­di­tio­nal geo­phy­si­cal tar­gets in­di­ca­tes that mi­ne­ra­liza­ti­on oc­curs across a broa­der struc­tu­ral cor­ri­dor. The com­pa­ny has also ex­pan­ded its land po­si­ti­on si­gni­fi­cant­ly, con­so­li­da­ting a lar­ge cla­im packa­ge along the fa­voura­ble geo­lo­gi­cal trend. In our view, this dis­trict-sca­le foot­print meaningful­ly in­crea­ses the pro­ba­bi­li­ty of iden­ti­fy­ing ad­di­tio­nal Lion-style zo­nes as ex­plo­ra­ti­on con­ti­nues.

Ex­plo­ra­ti­on mo­men­tum re­mains strong and is sup­port­ed by a lar­ge and ful­ly fun­ded drill pro­gram de­si­gned to ra­pidly ad­van­ce the pro­ject. Mul­ti­ple drill rigs are curr­ent­ly ope­ra­ting at the Nisk pro­per­ty, en­ab­ling the com­pa­ny to main­tain a ste­ady pace of dril­ling and con­sis­tent news flow. The cur­rent pro­gram fo­cu­ses on ex­pan­ding the Lion Zone while si­mul­ta­neous­ly test­ing ad­di­tio­nal tar­gets such as Ti­ger and other con­duc­ti­ve an­oma­lies. This ba­lan­ced ex­plo­ra­ti­on stra­tegy po­si­ti­ons the com­pa­ny to both grow the known mi­ne­ra­li­zed foot­print and po­ten­ti­al­ly de­li­ver fur­ther dis­co­veries across the broa­der sys­tem.

In our va­lua­ti­on frame­work we ap­p­ly a sum-of-the-parts ap­proach re­flec­ting the company’s key as­sets. The Lion and Ti­ger sys­tem re­pres­ents the lar­gest con­tri­bu­tor to va­lue, whe­re we esti­ma­te ap­pro­xi­m­ate­ly C$535 mil­li­on ba­sed on ex­plo­ra­ti­on sca­le as­sump­ti­ons and com­pa­ra­ble en­ter­pri­se va­lue per ton­ne me­trics ob­ser­ved for high-gra­de po­ly­me­tal­lic dis­co­veries. The exis­ting Nisk ni­ckel re­sour­ce con­tri­bu­tes an ad­di­tio­nal esti­ma­ted va­lue of rough­ly C$160 mil­li­on, while smal­ler con­tri­bu­ti­ons come from other ex­plo­ra­ti­on as­sets and net cash.

Ba­sed on this frame­work we de­ri­ve a fair va­lue esti­ma­te of C$2.85 per share. In our view, the com­pa­ny re­mains at an ear­ly stage of de­fi­ning what could be­co­me a si­gni­fi­cant po­ly­me­tal­lic dis­co­very, and the cur­rent va­lua­ti­on does not yet ful­ly re­flect the po­ten­ti­al sca­le of the sys­tem. With strong dril­ling mo­men­tum, en­cou­ra­ging me­tall­ur­gy and a lar­ge pipe­line of ex­plo­ra­ti­on tar­gets, Power Me­tal­lic of­fers in our opi­ni­on meaningful ex­po­sure to con­tin­ued ex­plo­ra­ti­on suc­cess. We the­r­e­fo­re in­itia­te co­vera­ge with a Buy ra­ting.

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Com­ple­ti­on: 16.03.2026 (16:30)
First dis­tri­bu­ti­on: 17.03.2026 (9:00)