With Trump’s tariff rampage reinforcing the ongoing trend towards deglobalization, the economic environment is the most prospective it’s been for junior mining investors since the height of the Great Financial Crisis, when gold, silver and copper hit all-time-highs as major financial institutions crumbled with their hands out for a bailout.
As economic superpowers across the world seek to secure domestic supplies of critical materials, they will be looking to allied countries to fill in shortfalls, making projects across the mining life-cycle key considerations for your next investment.
In the latest edition of Stockhouse’s Weekly Market Movers, I’ll weigh in on the prospects of two junior mining stocks – one positioned for growth, the other for a value-based re-rating – with multi-commodity exposure tied to markets in long-term tailwinds.
Green Bridge Metals
Green Bridge Metals, market capitalization C$18.81 million, is a Canadian-based exploration company acquiring and developing critical mineral projects.
The company’s flagship asset, the 8,460-hectare South Contact Zone (SCZ) north of Duluth, Minnesota, houses bulk-tonnage copper–nickel and titanium-vanadium across four properties, with numerous exploration targets including platinum group elements (PGEs) yet to be fully exploited.
SCZ currently hosts an inferred titanium dioxide (TiO2) resource of 46.6 million tons grading 15 per cent TiO2, in addition to 13.3 million tons of ilmenite valued at $350 per ton, with a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) (a likely market catalyst) expected by Q4 2025.
Green Bridge’s 1,450-hectare Chrome Puddy project in Ontario complements the SCZ with a past-producing chromite mine, bulk-tonnage nickeliferous magnetite mineralization (historical resource of 30 million tons at 0.25-0.28 per cent nickel) and multiple untested conductors and channel sample-based targets.
Investors have been getting behind the company’s upside since adopting the Green Bridge name in November 2023, elevating Green Bridge stock (CSE:GRBM) by 125 per cent to date.
Drilling, sampling and metallurgical studies planned for 2025, in addition to the PEA, offer the company a runway to add to share-price momentum and tap capital markets more opportunistically, responding rather than reacting to commodity demand.
David Suda, Green Bridge Metals’ chief executive officer (CEO), spoke with Stockhouse’s Lyndsay Malchuk about the company’s letter of intent to option another large bulk-tonnage copper-nickel-PGE project in Minnesota, this one hosting historical indicated and inferred resources. Watch the interview here.
AJN Resources
Our second junior mining stock pick, this time on the value side of the spectrum, is AJN Resources, market capitalization C$5.69 million, which explores for lithium and gold in Africa backed by a management team with over 75 years of experience, including exploring, financing and developing major mines across the world.
AJN’s Manono Northeast project in the Congo, optioned in 2023, generated grab samples up to 400 parts per million (ppm) lithium and 1,815 ppm tin only 7 km northeast of the Manono pegmatites, which yielded AVZ Minerals‘ 669 million tons at 1.61 per cent Li2O on its flagship Manono project.
AJN’s drill-ready Kabunda South project, 120 km to the northeast, also optioned in 2023, features visually identified spodumene across an 11-km strike extent, including priority pegmatites measuring 1.5 km and 1.2 km in length, respectively.
Recently, AJN expanded its target commodities with gold, coinciding with the metal’s ascent to all-time-highs, signing deals to acquire a majority stake in the 672-square-km Dabel project in Kenya and the 42.8-square-km Okote project in Ethiopia. The projects are located 250 km and 100 km, respectively, from the producing 4.5-million-ounce Lega Dembi mine in Ethiopia, the country’s largest gold operation.
Despite management’s over 20 years of experience in the Congo and a portfolio with solid leads for exploration upside, AJN stock (CSE:AJN) has given back over 70 per cent since optioning the first of these projects, Kabunda South, in January 2023, suggesting that investors today may benefit from a contrarian opportunity as positive news flow leads to market recognition and a potential re-rating. Green Bridge’s 11 per cent insider ownership and 18 per cent institutional ownership wholeheartedly agree.
Klaus Eckhof, AJN Resources’ president and CEO, joined Lyndsay Malchuk to discuss the company’s investment in the Okote gold project. Watch the interview here.
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