ADDED
As of February 17, 2026, the registrant had 172,545,639 Common Shares, no par value, outstanding.
We have also assumed that no significant events will occur outside of our normal course of business.
Significant Developments in 2025 On January 15, 2025, the Company announced the positive results of its NI 43-101 Preliminary Economic Assessment Study/S-K 1300 Initial Assessment ( Bornite PEA ) for the Bornite copper project.
Highlights of the Bornite PEA include the following: o 1.9 billion pounds of copper, mined over a 17-year mine life; o Potential to extend mine activity for the Upper Kobuk Mineral Projects to over 30 years; o Pre-tax net present value ( NPV )8% of $552.0 million and an internal rate of return ( IRR ) of 23.6%; and o After-tax NPV8% of $394.0 million and after-tax IRR of 20.0%.
The Bornite PEA describes the technical and economic viability of establishing an underground mining operation for a 6,000 tonne-per-day operation with a 17-year mine life.
The Bornite PEA assumes re-purposing the infrastructure described in the Arctic Feasibility Study for the use with the Bornite Project once the Arctic deposit has been depleted.
On May 27, 2025, the Company entered into an equity distribution agreement (the May Distribution Agreement ) with BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc., Cantor Fitzgerald Canada Corporation, BMO Capital Markets Corp.
On the same date, the Company filed a prospectus supplement (the May Prospectus Supplement ) to the Canadian base shelf prospectus and the US shelf registration statement on Form S-3 qualifying the distribution of the Common Shares under the May ATM Program.
Under the May ATM Program and pursuant to the May Distribution Agreement and the May Prospectus Supplement, the Company could sell up to $25 million of Common Shares.
The Common Shares sold under the May ATM Program, were to be sold at the prevailing market price at the time of sale.
REMOVED
As of February 14, 2025, the registrant had 163,941,185 Common Shares, no par value, outstanding.
announced its withdrawal from further involvement with the AAP and stated its intentions to not renew the surface access permit with AIDEA upon its expiry this year.
In addition, the Company announced technical report summaries for both projects prepared in accordance with S-K 1300 and which were filed as exhibits with the annual report on Form 10-K.
On October 19, 2023, the Company announced that the BLM had filed the draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement ( SEIS ) on its website https://eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/project/57323/570 and anticipated being in the federal register on October 20, 2023.
On January 20, 2022, the Company announced an updated mineral resource for the Bornite Project.
On February 7, 2022, the Company announced that the AIDEA had formally approved the proposed plan and budget for the 2022 summer field season activities and services of up to $30.8 million for the Ambler Access Project.
On February 23, 2022, the Company announced that the United States Department of the Interior ( DOI ) filed a motion to remand the Final Environmental Impact Statement ( FEIS ) and suspend the right-of-way permits issued to AIDEA for the Ambler Access Project.
The DOI has stated that the suspension of the road permits will allow it to carry out additional supplemental work on the FEIS.
The motion also indicated that the DOI has requested that the lawsuits filed against the DOI by a coalition of national and Alaska environmental non-government organizations be suspended.
The lawsuits had been filed in response to the BLM issuance of the Joint Record of Decision ( JROD ), that authorized a right-of-way across federally managed lands for AIDEA and the AAP.