Gatos Silver Acquisition, Valuation, Funding & Investors

Kingsgate Consolidated Ltd is engaged in gold and silver mining, development, and exploration company based in Sydney, Australia. Its operating segment includes Chatree Gold Mine, Thailand, and Nueva Esperanza Gold/Silver Project, Chile. The company derives maximum revenue from the Chatree Gold Mine project.

Lithium Argentina is a pure-play lithium producer. The company owns two neighboring lithium brine resources in northwest Argentina: Cauchari-Olaroz and Pastos Grandes. Cauchari-Olaroz entered production in 2023, while Pastos Grandes is still in development. Lithium Argentina plans for both resources to be fully integrated with onside downstream processing capabilities and will sell into the lithium chemical market.

CAP SA is a Chile-based holding company. The company, through its subsidiaries, is engaged in mining, steel production, steel processing, and infrastructure business. The company manages three business areas: iron ore (CAP Mining), steel production (CAP Steel) and CAP Steel Solutions. The company's main customers are located in Bahrain, Chile, China, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, and the USA. The firm's CAP Mining business division is engaged in the production of iron ore and pellets. CAP Steel operates through its subsidiary Compania Siderurgica Huachipato S.A, which sells steel products to distributors and construction companies, and CAP Steel Solutions main purpose is the manufacture, distribution, import and export of all kinds of steel and metal products.

TechMet is a private industrial firm securing supplies of critical metals for electric vehicles, renewable energy, and energy storage via mining, processing, refining, and recycling projects. It holds stakes in production and development assets across Africa, North America, and South America.

Troax Group AB is a supplier of indoor perimeter protection (metal-based mesh panel solutions). The company focuses on three business areas namely Property Protection; Machine Guarding and Warehouse Partitioning. It generates maximum revenue from the Machine Guarding business. The Group's net sales are divided into the following five geographical areas: The Nordic region, the UK, Continental Europe, North America, and New markets, it derives a majority of revenue from the Continental Europe region. Machine Guarding comprises Troax’s standardized protection solutions for robot cells and automation solutions. The solutions comprise everything from individual mesh panels to complete installations of safety doors and locks equipped with circuit breakers.

Compass Minerals currently produces two primary products: salt and specialty potash fertilizer. The company's main assets include rock salt mines in Ontario, Louisiana, and the United Kingdom. The fertilizer is produced from a brine operation at the Great Salt Lake in Utah that produces sulfate of potash and magnesium chloride. Compass' salt products are used for deicing and also by industrial and consumer end markets. The firm's sulfate of potash is used by growers of high-value crops that are sensitive to standard potash.

Critical Metals Corp operates as a mining exploration and development company focused on critical metals and minerals. Its key activities center on lithium and rare earth element deposits, with projects such as the Wolfsberg Lithium Project in Austria and the Tanbreez rare earth deposit in Greenland. Its operations are based prominently in Europe and Greenland, with an outlook on supplying strategic minerals to various countries.

Sigma Lithium Corp together with its direct and indirect subsidiaries, is a commercial producer of lithium concentrate. It holds a 100% interest in four mineral properties: Grota do Cirilo, Sao Jose, Santa Clara, and Genipapo, located in the municipalities of Aracuai and Itinga, in the Vale do Jequitinhonha region in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Honbridge Holdings Ltd is a Hong Kong-based company mainly involved in mineral resources exploration and lithium battery production. The company reports in three segments that are Mineral resources exploration and trading, which includes research and exploration of mineral resources and trading of copper and steel; Lithium battery production, which is into production and sale of lithium battery; and Online car-hailing and related services segment. The vast majority of the revenue is generated from the Lithium battery production segment. The company operates in China, Belgium, and Sweden, out of which China accounts for the majority of the revenue.

Lithium Americas is a pure-play lithium producer. Following a deal with the US government, the firm will own 59% of one resource, Thacker Pass, which is located in northwest Nevada, with automaker General Motors owning 36% and the US government owning 5%. Thacker Pass is under construction and expected to begin production in 2028. Thacker Pass is one of the largest known lithium resources in the world. The project would be the first clay-based asset to enter production, and we estimate it will be in bottom half of the global cost curve. Management plans to develop Thacker Pass into a fully integrated lithium production site, with downstream refining capabilities on site, and will sell into the lithium chemical market.

FireFly Metals Ltd is a high-grade copper and gold explorer developer in Canada. The company advances the Green Bay Copper-Gold Ming Mine project in Newfoundland & Labrador and exploring the high-grade Pickle Crow Gold project in Ontario.

Elevra Lithium Ltd is a mineral exploration and development company. The principal activity of the company is the identification, acquisition, and evaluation of mineral exploration assets, focusing on lithium. The projects of the company include the Moblan Lithium Project, the Carolina Lithium Project, the Ewoyaa Lithium Project, North American Lithium, and other projects. The company also holds an interest in a tenement portfolio in the Pilbara region, prospective for gold and lithium.

CVK Maden Isletmeleri Sanayi ve Ticaret AS is a mining company engaged in the production of lump and concentrate chromium ore, as well as lead, zinc, copper, and silver concentrates from its mining licences. It exports a prominent portion of its production and conducts exploration and survey activities within its mining licence areas.

Develop Global Ltd is an Australian company focused on the exploration and development of its advanced zinc-copper projects located near Port Hedland in the premier Pilbara mining province of Western Australia. The company owns two advanced Zinc / Copper projects which include Woodlawn Copper and Sulphur Springs.

AMAG Austria Metall AG produces high-quality semi-finished aluminium products and components as well as primary aluminium. The firm organizes its segments based on function. The metal segment purchases aluminum scrap and produces aluminum. The casting segment produces high-quality cast aluminum alloys for use by the automotive and electrical engineering industries. The rolling segment, which generates the majority of revenue, manufactures high-quality rolled aluminum products such as sheets, strips, and plates for use in the automotive, sports, engineering, and transportation markets. The service segment includes services such as facility management (building and space management), energy supply, waste disposal and purchasing and materials management.

Jinyuansheng is a Shanghai-headquartered enterprise specializing in mining, smelting, and processing of energy metals like nickel and cobalt. It manufactures lithium-ion battery cathode precursors and handles power battery recycling at facilities supporting the electric vehicle supply chain.