The Trump-Vance Transition Team unveiled on Thursday the administration’s official portraits of President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance.
‘In just four days, Donald J. Trump will be sworn in as the 47th President of the United States and JD Vance as the 50th Vice President of the United States — and their official portraits are here,’ the team said in a statement.
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President Biden is warning Americans of an ‘ultra-wealthy’ ‘oligarchy’ taking shape that is presenting a danger to the country, but did not mention in his farewell speech Wednesday night the numerous billionaires that have supported his campaigns in recent years.
Biden spoke about the ‘dangerous concentration of power in the hands of a very few, ultra-wealthy people’ and said ‘an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights, freedoms, and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead.’
Here are five billionaires who have recently supported President Biden:
George Soros, a left-wing billionaire, investor and philanthropist, sent $250,000 to the Biden Victory Fund in September 2023, filings reviewed by Fox News Digital show.
Soros’ check followed a maxed-out contribution directly to Biden’s campaign that summer. Soros and his son Alex, who recently took control of the Open Society Foundations network that funnels large amounts of money to left-wing nonprofits and causes, both pushed $6,600 to Biden’s campaign on June 30.
During the last presidential election, George provided $500,000 to the Biden Victory Fund while sending millions more to super PACs backing him. Alex added $721,300 to the Biden Victory Fund in 2020.
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman donated $699,600.00 on April 26, 2023, to the Biden Victory Fund, the campaign’s joint fundraising vehicle, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) records.
Biden attended a fundraiser that Hoffman hosted on behalf of the super PAC at the private residence of Shannon Hunt-Scott and Kevin Scott in Los Gatos, California, in June 2023.
Former New York City mayor, billionaire entrepreneur and media magnate Michael Bloomberg contributed nearly $20 million to help boost President Biden in his 2024 election rematch with former President Trump, sources confirmed to Fox News last year.
Bloomberg, a one-time Republican-turned-independent-turned-Democrat, wrote a massive $19 million check to the Future Forward PAC, known as the FF PAC, which was the leading super PAC supporting Biden’s bid for a second term in the White House.
Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced in 2020 that he would be voting for Biden that year and would be contributing to the former vice president’s campaign.
‘In my view, our choice this November is not just for one candidate over another,’ Schultz wrote in a letter to supporters at the time. ‘We are choosing to vote for the future of our republic.’
Schultz went on to say, ‘What is at risk is democracy itself: Checks and balances. Rigorous debate. A free press. An acceptance of facts, not ‘alternate facts.’ Belief in science. Trust in the rule of law. A strong judicial system. Unity in preserving all of our rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.’
In 2020, Biden reportedly brought in $4 million during a virtual fundraiser hosted by a small group of billionaires and other Silicon Valley donors.
The virtual event was held by Climate Leaders for Biden, a group of environmental activists that includes billionaire and former Democratic presidential candidate Tom Steyer, according to an invitation.
A pair of Republicans are introducing legislation that would offer service members who were fired over the military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate a chance to get their jobs back and receive back pay.
The AMERICANS Act, put forth by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and freshman Rep. Pat Harrigan, R-N.C., bans the Pentagon from instituting any additional COVID-19 vaccine mandates without congressional approval.
It would offer reinstatement to any service member discharged solely for their refusal of the COVID vaccine and credit them for the time of their involuntary separation for retirement pay,
It would also restore the rank of anyone who was demoted over the vaccine mandate, offering them back pay and benefits for any compensation they lost as a result of their demotion.
For those who do not want to rejoin service, it would restore their discharge to ‘honorable’ to restore their GI Bill and health care benefits.
In August 2021, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced a requirement that troops take the COVID-19 jab for ‘readiness’ purposes. That order was rescinded in January 2023 after lawmakers directed the Pentagon to do so in the annual defense policy bill Congress passed for that year.
More than 8,400 troops were separated in the year and a half that the order was in effect. Thousands of others sought religious or medical exemptions.
Austin’s repeal did not require the Pentagon to reinstate troops separated because of the mandate and stipulated that commanders would still have the authority to consider troops’ immunization status when making decisions on deployments or other assignments. He added that 96% of U.S. forces had taken the vaccine.
‘Our military is still dealing with the consequences of the Biden administration’s wrongful COVID-19 vaccine mandate,’ Cruz said in a statement. ‘The AMERICANS Act would provide remedies for servicemembers whom the Biden Department of Defense punished for standing by their convictions. It’s the right thing to do.’
‘The Biden Administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate wasn’t about science or readiness—it was about control,’ said Harrigan. ‘As a Green Beret, I’ve seen the sacrifices our service members make firsthand, and I will not stand by while their honor is tarnished.’
The legislation is in line with a pledge President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, made on Tuesday to re-recruit those who parted ways with the military over the vaccine.
‘Service members who were kicked out because of the experimental vaccine,’ Hegseth told lawmakers, ‘they will be apologized to. They will be reinstituted with pay and rank.’
Trump told supporters over the summer he would ‘rehire every patriot who was fired from the military’ because of the mandate.
Pentagon leadership considered offering back pay to troops after the vaccine mandate was rescinded in early 2023, but it never came to fruition.
Republicans have long railed against the vaccine mandate and the separations it caused, arguing it was a detriment to morale at a time of major recruitment issues. Pentagon leaders argued that their forces had been required to get vaccines for years, particularly if they deployed overseas.
President Biden warned in his farewell speech of an ‘ultra-wealthy’ ‘oligarchy’ posing a threat to America as big tech CEOs have been warming up to President-elect Trump in recent months — despite his own administration accepting donations from Democratic mega-donors.
Biden spoke Wednesday as reports emerged this week that Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg – the three most wealthy people in the world who collectively are worth more than $850 billion, according to Forbes – will be seated next to Trump’s Cabinet picks and elected officials next Monday at his inauguration.
‘I have no doubt that America is in a position to continue to succeed. That’s why in my farewell address tonight, I want to warn the country of some things that give me great concern. And that’s the dangerous concentration of power in the hands of a very few, ultra-wealthy people. And the dangerous consequences if their abuse of power is left unchecked,’ Biden said from the Oval Office.
‘Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights, freedoms, and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead,’ Biden continued. ‘We see the consequences all across America, and we’ve seen it before, more than a century ago. But the American people stood up to the robber barons back then and busted the trust. They didn’t punish the wealthy, they just made the wealthy play by the rules everybody else had to.’
Musk, the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, Bezos, the founder of Amazon, and Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, have all met with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida following his election victory in November.
During the election cycle, Musk gave at least $277 million in donations to help get Trump and other Republicans elected, according to The Washington Post, which cited filings from the Federal Election Commission.
Tech giants including Amazon, Meta, Apple, Google and Microsoft are reported to have donated $1 million each to Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20.
In 2023, George Soros and other prominent billionaires bolstered Biden’s re-election efforts during the third quarter, filings reviewed by Fox News Digital show.
The deep-pocketed donors each cut six-figure contributions to the Biden Victory Fund — a joint fundraising venture that consists of Biden’s campaign, the Democratic National Committee (DNC), all 50 state Democratic parties and Washington, D.C.’s Democratic committee — between July and September.
Later in 2023, Fox News Digital confirmed that a Soros-funded group pushed $15 million to a nonprofit tied to Biden’s main outside super PAC for the 2024 elections to evaluate crucial policy matters, records reveal.
Tax documents provided to Fox News Digital showed that the Open Society Policy Center, an advocacy nonprofit in the Soros-bankrolled Open Society Foundations network, funneled $15.18 million to Future Forward USA Action in 2022 for research and ‘content testing on critical policy issues.’
That same year, billionaire Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn co-founder, dropped amassive six-figure donation backing Biden’s re-election bid.
As far back as 2020, billionaires Howard Schultz, former Starbucks CEO, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and investor Tom Steyer made substantial donations to the Biden campaign.
For his part in the incoming Trump administration, Musk has been tasked with heading up the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which will examine issues of government spending, waste, efficiency and operations.
In order to do that, Musk may occupy space in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building right next to the West Wing that houses the bulk of office space for White House staffers, the New York Times reported.
Biden also said in his farewell speech that American leadership and technology is an ‘unparalleled source of innovation that can transform lives,’ but ‘we see the same dangers, the concentration of technology, power and wealth.’
‘You know, in his farewell address, President Eisenhower spoke of the dangers of the military industrial complex. He warned us then about, and I quote, the potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power, end of quote. Six decades later, I’m equally concerned about the potential rise of a tech industrial complex that could pose real dangers for our country, as well,’ Biden added.
‘Americans are being buried under an avalanche of misinformation and disinformation, enabling the abuse of power. The free press is crumbling. Editors are disappearing. Social media is giving up on fact checking. The truth is smothered by lies told for power and for profit,’ the president continued. ‘We must hold the social platform accountable to protect our children, our families and our very democracy from the abuse of power.
‘Meanwhile, artificial intelligence is the most consequential technology of our time, perhaps of all time. Nothing offers more profound possibilities and risks for our economy and our security, our society, for humanity. Artificial intelligence even has the potential to help us answer my call to end cancer as we know it. But unless safeguards are in place, AI could spawn new threats to our rights, our way of life, to our privacy, how we work and how we protect our nation. We must make sure AI is safe and trustworthy and good for all humankind,’ Biden said.
Fox News’ Andrew Mark Miller, Joe Schoffstall, Jessica Chasmar and Diana Stancy contributed to this report.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday accused Hamas of backing out of a cease-fire deal to release hostages and bring a pause to more than a year of fighting in the Gaza Strip.
Netanyahu’s office said Thursday his Cabinet won’t meet to vote on the Gaza cease-fire deal until Hamas backs down from what it called a ‘last minute crisis.’
Netanyahu’s office accused Hamas, without elaborating, of trying to go back on part of the agreement in an attempt ‘to extort last minute concessions.’
The Israeli Cabinet was set to ratify the deal Thursday.
President Biden joined Vice President Kamala Harris and Secretary of State Antony Blinken for a Wednesday news conference announcing that the deal would roll out in three phases.
Biden said the first phase will last six weeks and ‘includes a full and complete cease-fire, withdrawal of Israeli forces from all the populated areas of Gaza, and the release of a number of hostages held by Hamas, including women and elderly and the wounded. And I’m proud to say Americans will be part of that hostage release and phase one as well. And the vice president and I cannot wait to welcome them home,’ he said.
In exchange, Israel released hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, Biden said, and Palestinians ‘can also return to their neighborhoods in all areas of Gaza, and a surge of humanitarian assistance into Gaza will begin.’
Izzat al-Rishq, a senior Hamas official, said the militant group ‘is committed to the ceasefire agreement, which was announced by the mediators.’
Netanyahu’s office had earlier accused Hamas of backtracking on an earlier understanding that he said would give Israel a veto over which prisoners convicted of murder would be released in exchange for hostages.
Under the terms of the cease-fire deal, 33 hostages are set to be released over the next six weeks in exchange for hundreds of Palestinians imprisoned by Israel. Israeli forces will pull back from many areas, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians would be able to return to what’s left of their homes, and there would be a surge of humanitarian assistance.
The remainder of the hostages, including male soldiers, are to be released in a second phase that will be negotiated during the first. Hamas has said it will not release the remaining captives without a lasting ceasefire and a full Israeli withdrawal, while Israel has vowed to keep fighting until it dismantles the group and to maintain open-ended security control over the territory.
Netanyahu has faced great domestic pressure to bring home the scores of hostages, but his far-right coalition partners have threatened to bring down his government if he makes too many concessions. He has enough opposition support to approve an agreement, but doing so would weaken his coalition and make early elections more likely.
Meanwhile, Palestinians in Gaza reported heavy Israeli bombardment overnight as people were celebrating the ceasefire deal. Gaza’s Health Ministry said at least 48 people were killed in Israeli strikes between midday Wednesday and Thursday morning. Around half of the dead were women and children, Zaher al-Wahedi, head of the ministry’s registration department, told The Associated Press. He said the toll could rise as hospitals update their records.
Mediators from Egypt, Qatar and the U.S. are expected to meet in Cairo on Thursday for talks on implementing the agreement. They have spent the past year holding indirect talks with Israel and Hamas that finally resulted in a deal after repeated setbacks.
President-elect Donald Trump’s Mideast envoy joined the talks in the final weeks, and both the outgoing administration and Trump’s team are taking credit for the breakthrough.
Israel’s offensive has killed over 46,000 people in Gaza, mostly women and children, according to the Health Ministry. it does not say how many of the dead were militants. Israel says it has killed over 17,000 fighters, without providing evidence.
The war has destroyed vast areas of Gaza and displaced some 90% of its population of 2.3 million people, according to the United Nations.
Fox News Digital’s Efrat Lachter and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
From Gaza to Greenland, the disruptive force of President-elect Donald Trump is being felt across the world, his incoming administration casting aside conventional diplomatic niceties in favor of an intensive global pressure campaign that already appears to be yielding results.
In the Middle East, Trump quickly took credit for the Israel-Hamas hostage deal resulting from months of painstaking negotiations involving Biden and Trump administration officials working alongside US allies.
“This EPIC ceasefire agreement could only have happened as a result of our Historic Victory in November,” Trump posted on his Truth Social platform.
“We have achieved so much without even being in the White House. Just imagine all of the wonderful things that will happen when I return,” he added.
It is hard to deny that Trump’s implicit threat that there would be “hell to pay” if there was no Israel-Hamas deal before his inauguration on January 20 appears to have focused minds, not least among those in the Israeli government keen to lock-in Trump’s enthusiastic backing as he is poised to start a second US presidential term.
Friend and foe alike appear to be approaching the mercurial, unpredictable Trump – bolstered by his resounding US presidential election victory in November – with trepidation, franticly working to appease the president-elect amid concern his praise and favor could rapidly turn to fury.
One Israeli diplomat told me it was in his countries’ national interest to “keep Trump happy” amid concerns his “unflinching support for Israel were to suddenly flinch.”
That certainly doesn’t sound like the traditional basis of a stable international relationship, but in the short term Trump’s Might is Right, America First rhetoric is already proving remarkably effective, not just in Israel but across the gamut of global affairs.
Take Trump’s recently revived offer to buy Greenland, the vast frozen territory owned by Denmark and sitting strategically between the US and Russia on giant mineral deposits. The same suggestion, made by Trump in his first term, was scoffed at.
This time, Trump’s offer was accompanied by a chilling threat of US military force, or at least a refusal by the next US commander-in-chief to rule it out. The Danish and Greenlandic answer, for the moment, is still that Greenland is not for sale. But the possibility, however remote, has been scrutinized far more anxiously this time. Trump is, whatever else, being taken seriously.
Elsewhere, some nations are taking pre-emptive steps to appease the concerns of the incoming Trump administration or to avoid direct negotiations over sensitive issues.
In South Korea, for example, a five-year deal was agreed ahead of the November US election to share the cost of keeping more than 28,000 US troops in the country. The negotiations concluded early amid memories in Seoul that Trump, during his first presidency, had accused South Korea, a key Asian ally, of “free-riding” on US military might, and demanded that it pay as much as $5 billion a year for the deployment.
But it is Russia’s brutal war in Ukraine where the Trump factor could next produce extraordinary results. The president-elect once suggested he would end the conflict in a single day, but is now pushing more serious proposals to force an end to the violence, if not the Russian occupation.
Both Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin strongman, and the beleaguered Ukrainian President Zelenskyy, have cautiously welcomed Trump’s blustering intervention. To not do so may trigger the Trump factor’s unpredictable wrath.
Skyharbour Resources Ltd. (TSX-V: SYH ) (OTCQX: SYHBF ) (Frankfurt: SC1P ) (‘Skyharbour’ or the ‘Company’) is pleased to announce plans for fully-funded, upcoming drill programs at its co-flagship Russell Lake and Moore Uranium Projects in 2025 totalling approx. 16,000 18,000 metres in 35 45 holes representing the largest annual drill campaign ever carried out by the Company.
Russell Lake and Moore Projects Location Map:
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At the 73,294 hectare Russell Lake Uranium Project (‘Russell’), which is majority owned by Skyharbour as operator with minority joint-venture partner Rio Tinto Exploration Canada Inc. (‘RTEC’), the Company is planning 10,000 – 11,000 metres of diamond drilling in 18 to 20 holes. This drilling will take place in multiple phases through the year, with mobilization and commencement planned within the next few weeks. Following the initial phase of drilling at Russell, Skyharbour plans to move the drill rig over to its adjacent 100% owned, 35,705 hectare, high-grade Moore Uranium Project (‘Moore’) to complete the next phase of drilling. The Company is planning to complete 5,000 – 7,000 metres of drilling at Moore throughout the year which will consist of 18 to 24 holes. The combined 2025 drill campaign across Skyharbour’s core projects is fully funded with the geologists and drilling crews working out of the exploration camp at the Russell Lake Project, located along the road servicing Cameco’s McArthur River Uranium Mine.
Jordan Trimble, President and CEO of Skyharbour, stated: ‘The upcoming commencement of drilling at Russell and Moore marks the start of our most ambitious annual drilling campaign we have ever carried out. The fully-funded 16-18,000-metre, multi-phased program will provide steady news flow throughout the year as we advance the projects using systematic and proven exploration methodologies to follow up on the success of the 2024 drilling. We are confident in the exploration upside at both projects given the high-grade mineralization in recent drilling along with the many highly prospective target areas hosting the geology necessary for high-grade uranium deposition. We also benefit from low-cost drilling and relatively shallow target depths at our Russell and Moore projects. Finally, Skyharbour will have plenty of additional news flow and catalysts from its prospect generator business consisting of partner companies advancing several of our other projects throughout the Athabasca Basin. This year, the Company is anticipating drilling and exploration at its partner-funded projects of Preston, South Falcon East, Falcon, South Dufferin, Highway and 914W.’
Upcoming Winter Phase of Diamond Drilling at Russell Lake:
Skyharbour will soon commence its 2025 drilling program at the Russell Lake Project with plans for a first phase consisting of approx. 5,000 metres to follow up on notable recent exploration success and to test new targets developed by the geological team . The focus for this phase of drilling will be on the Fork and Sphinx targets within the broader Grayling target area, as well as the M-Zone Extension (‘MZE’) target and the Fox Lake Trail target. This initial winter program will consist of 10 to 12 drill holes, with most of the targets being road accessible and near the exploration camp, bringing the drill costs down. Further details on the drilling are forthcoming, and geochemical assay results are pending from the drilling recently carried out in late 2024 at Russell.
Russell Lake Project Target Areas:
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The Fork target is a newly identified target to the southwest of the Grayling Zone and on-strike with Denison’s M-Zone at their adjacent Wheeler River Project. Last year, high-grade uranium was discovered at the Fork target in hole RSL24-02, which returned a 2.5 metre wide intercept of 0.721% U 3 O 8 at a relatively shallow depth of 338.1 metres, including approx. 3.0% U 3 O 8 over 0.5 metres just above the unconformity in the sandstone (see news release dated July 19 th , 2024, titled: ‘Skyharbour Drills New Discovery at Russell Project with High-Grade Uranium Mineralization Up to 3.0% U 3 O 8 at Newly Identified Fork Zone’). This high-grade intercept is a new discovery which had very limited historical exploration due to a lack of reliable geophysical data and drill targets resulting from nearby powerline interference. The mineralization is open in most directions, including along strike, and will be a high-priority target for this drill program.
Grayling and Fork Target Areas:
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Skyharbour also plans to drill targets in the M-Zone Extension area along trend from the Grayling Zone and Denison’s M-Zone, where historical drilling intersected basement-hosted uranium mineralization. More recent drilling by Denison in 2020 at the M-Zone encountered uranium mineralization with significant faulting, core loss, geochemical anomalies, and radioactivity encountered in other drill holes. Like the Grayling Zone, the mineralization at the MZE target is hosted by a graphitic thrust fault within a significant magnetic low. It is also noted that cross structures associated with Denison’s Phoenix and Gryphon uranium deposits potentially trend onto the Russell Lake property within the M-Zone Extension target area, further enhancing the prospectivity of this target.
M-Zone Extension Drill Targets:
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Upcoming Winter Phase of Diamond Drilling at Moore:
Skyharbour plans to conduct a second phase of drilling consisting of 3,000-3,500 metres in 9 to 12 holes at its Moore Project upon completion of the initial phase of drilling at Russell. Drilling at the Maverick Corridor will focus on identifying new trends and extensions within untested portions of its 4.7-kilometre strike length. Additional drilling is planned within the Maverick Main and East Zones to concentrate on refinement and expansion of the currently identified mineralized zones. The Maverick Main Zone is characterized by basement- and unconformity-hosted mineralization with a highlight interval drilled previously by Skyharbour of 6.0% U 3 O 8 over 5.9 metres at 265 metres depth, including 20.8% U 3 O 8 over 1.5 metres in hole ML-199. More recently, Skyharbour announced a drill result grading 4.61% U 3 O 8 over 5.0m starting at 265.5m downhole, including 3.0m of 7.30% U 3 O 8 (see news release dated July 11 th , 2024, titled: ‘Skyharbour Intersects 7.30% U3O8 over 3.0m within 5.0m of 4.61% U3O8 at High-Grade Moore Project’). Skyharbour is planning to drill test other regional targets at the project as well with further details on the drilling forthcoming. Additionally, geochemical assay results are pending from the drilling recently carried out in late 2024 at Moore.
Moore Uranium Project Regional Grid Targets Map:
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Russell Lake Uranium Project Overview:
The Russell Lake Project is a large, advanced-stage uranium exploration property totalling 73,294 hectares strategically located between Cameco’s Key Lake and McArthur River Projects, and adjoining Denison’s Wheeler River Project to the west and Skyharbour’s Moore Uranium Project to the east. The northern extension of Highway 914 between Key Lake and McArthur River runs through the western extent of the property and greatly enhances accessibility, while a high-voltage powerline is situated alongside this road. Skyharbour’s acquisition of a majority interest in Russell Lake creates a large, nearly contiguous block of highly prospective uranium claims totalling 108,999 hectares between the Russell Lake and the Moore uranium projects. Several notable exploration targets exist on Russell, including the Grayling Zone, the M-Zone Extension target, the Little Man Lake target, the Christie Lake target, the Fox Lake Trail target and the newly identified Fork Zone target. More than 35 kilometres of largely untested prospective conductors in areas of low magnetic intensity also exist on the Property. Skyharbour is the operator and owns a majority interest in Russell Lake, having formed a joint venture partnership with RTEC at the project.
Moore Uranium Project Overview:
The Moore project consists of 12 contiguous claims totaling 35,705 hectares located 42 kilometres northeast of the Key Lake mill, 15 kilometres east of Denison’s Wheeler River project, and 39 kilometres south of Cameco’s McArthur River uranium mine. Unconformity-style, high-grade uranium mineralization has been discovered on the Moore Project along the Maverick conductive corridor. In addition to the Maverick zones, the project hosts other mineralized targets with strong discovery potential which the Company plans to test with future drill programs. The project is fully accessible via winter and ice roads, which simplifies logistics and lowers costs, while most of the property is accessible in the summer as well.
Qualified Person:
The technical information in this news release has been prepared in accordance with the Canadian regulatory requirements set out in National Instrument 43-101 and reviewed and approved by Serdar Donmez, P.Geo., VP of Exploration for Skyharbour as well as a Qualified Person.
About Skyharbour Resources Ltd.:
Skyharbour holds an extensive portfolio of uranium exploration projects in Canada’s Athabasca Basin and is well positioned to benefit from improving uranium market fundamentals with interest in thirty-six projects covering over 614,000 hectares (over 1.5 million acres) of land. Skyharbour has acquired from Denison Mines, a large strategic shareholder of the Company, a 100% interest in the Moore Uranium Project, which is located 15 kilometres east of Denison’s Wheeler River project and 39 kilometres south of Cameco’s McArthur River uranium mine. Moore is an advanced-stage uranium exploration property with high-grade uranium mineralization in several zones at the Maverick Corridor. Adjacent to the Moore Project is the Russell Lake Uranium Project, in which Skyharbour is operator with joint-venture partner RTEC. The project hosts widespread uranium mineralization in drill intercepts over a large property area with exploration upside potential. The Company is actively advancing these projects through exploration and drilling programs.
Skyharbour also has joint ventures with industry leader Orano Canada Inc., Azincourt Energy, and Thunderbird Resources at the Preston, East Preston, and Hook Lake Projects, respectively. The Company also has several active earn-in option partners, including CSE-listed Basin Uranium Corp. at the Mann Lake Uranium Project; TSX-V listed North Shore Uranium at the Falcon Project; UraEx Resources at the South Dufferin and Bolt Projects; Hatchet Uranium at the Highway Project; CSE-listed Mustang Energy at the 914W Project; and TSX-V listed Terra Clean Energy at the South Falcon East Project. In aggregate, Skyharbour has now signed earn-in option agreements with partners that total to over $36 million in partner-funded exploration expenditures, over $20 million worth of shares being issued, and $14 million in cash payments coming into Skyharbour, assuming that these partner companies complete their entire earn-ins at the respective projects.
Skyharbour’s goal is to maximize shareholder value through new mineral discoveries, committed long-term partnerships, and the advancement of exploration projects in geopolitically favourable jurisdictions.
Skyharbour’s Uranium Project Map in the Athabasca Basin:
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To find out more about Skyharbour Resources Ltd. (TSX-V: SYH) visit the Company’s website at www.skyharbourltd.com .
Skyharbour Resources Ltd.
‘Jordan Trimble’
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Jordan Trimble
President and CEO
For further information contact myself or:
Nicholas Coltura
Investor Relations Manager
Skyharbour Resources Ltd.
Telephone: 604-558-5847
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Forward-Looking Information
This news release contains ‘forward‐looking information or statements’ within the meaning of applicable securities laws, which may include, without limitation, completing ongoing and planned work on its projects including drilling and the expected timing of such work programs, other statements relating to the technical, financial and business prospects of the Company, its projects and other matters. All statements in this news release, other than statements of historical facts, that address events or developments that the Company expects to occur, are forward-looking statements. Although the Company believes the expectations expressed in such forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, such statements are not guarantees of future performance and actual results may differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Such statements and information are based on numerous assumptions regarding present and future business strategies and the environment in which the Company will operate in the future, including the price of uranium, the ability to achieve its goals, that general business and economic conditions will not change in a material adverse manner, that financing will be available if and when needed and on reasonable terms. Such forward-looking information reflects the Company’s views with respect to future events and is subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions, including the risks and uncertainties relating to the interpretation of exploration results, risks related to the inherent uncertainty of exploration and cost estimates and the potential for unexpected costs and expenses, and those filed under the Company’s profile on SEDAR+ at www.sedarplus.ca. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in forward looking statements include, but are not limited to, continued availability of capital and financing and general economic, market or business conditions, adverse weather or climate conditions, failure to obtain or maintain all necessary government permits, approvals and authorizations, failure to obtain or maintain community acceptance (including First Nations), decrease in the price of uranium and other metals, increase in costs, litigation, and failure of counterparties to perform their contractual obligations. The Company does not undertake to update forward‐looking statements or forward‐looking information, except as required by law.
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Quetzal Copper Corp. (TSXV: Q) (‘Quetzal’ or the ‘Company’) is pleased to announce that it has mobilized its team to begin work at the Company’s Princeton Copper Project in British Columbia, Canada. The Princeton Project is an 11,500 hectare property located between the Hudbay Minerals and Mitsubishi owned Copper Mountain Mine and the town of Princeton, British Columbia.
Figure 1: Location of Princeton Project Claims and Targets
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CEO Matt Badiali said, ‘We are thrilled to get started on this drill program. Princeton boasts several exciting copper targets from open intercepts at Bud South to new geophysical targets. It has excellent qualities that reduce our risk and increase our potential for success. It’s next to an operating mine, has coincident soil and geophysical anomalies, and structures known for hosting large copper deposits in the region. The targets are shallow, and several have never been drilled before. This program is what drew many shareholders to us – the chance to make a major copper discovery in British Columbia.‘
Princeton Copper Project
The Princeton Copper project is a large land package consolidating several formerly disjointed claims. The technical team compiled historical surface geological and geochemical data and reprocessed geophysical data. The new perspective gleaned from this work generated four strong targets for the first drill program:
Figure 2: Ground Magnetic Map Showing Priority Princeton Targets
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Bud South
Bud South is a 300m by 400 m geophysical anomaly with significant copper in soils footprint over a strong magnetic high. Historic surface trenches exposed porphyry intrusions and alteration. Our interpretation, supported by recent 3D inversions of magnetic data, is that DD87-3 did not test the core of the target.
Figure 3: Bud South Target
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Knob Hill
The Knob Hill target is a chargeability high anomaly 300 to 600m in diameter under thin cover. It occurs downhill of historic trenching which exposed chalcopyrite bearing quartz veins. Grab samples from trenches ran 0.6% to 1.2% copper and from 0.55 g/t to 0.99 g/t gold. This target has never been drilled.
Figure 4: Knob Hill Target
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Aura and Contact
The Aura and Contact targets are the least explored being defined in newly collected geophysical data. Both are hidden under shallow, but variable amounts of till cover.
Aura appears as an intense apparent magnetic low (possibly reversed polarity) surrounded by an apparent magnetic-high halo 1.5km in diameter. Where covered by the recent IP survey, the halo is a chargeability high. The geophysical signature may be interpreted as a sulfide-bearing alteration zone adjacent to an intrusion.
Contact is located south of the Knob Hill target, where till cover is thicker, and outcrop is absent. It consists of a chargeability high associated with a magnetic signature analogous to that at Knob Hill.
Options Grant
The Company also announces the grant of incentive stock options to various directors, officers, senior employees and advisors of the Company to purchase 1,500,000 common shares at an exercise price of $0.16 per share, exercisable for a period of 5 years. The stock options are subject to the terms and conditions of the Company’s stock option plan and the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange.
QP Statement
Dr. Roy Greig, P.Geo., a Qualified Person as defined under National Instrument 43-101, has reviewed, and approved the technical content in this release.
First Nations Acknowledgement
Quetzal recognizes that the Princeton Copper Project is part of the traditional unceded territory of the Smelqmix People. We are committed to respect for the land and for the people who reside there.
About Quetzal Copper
Quetzal is engaged in the acquisition, exploration, and development of mineral properties in British Columbia and Mexico. Quetzal currently has a portfolio of three properties located in British Columbia, Canada and one in Mexico. The Company’s principal project, Princeton Copper, is located adjacent to Hudbay’s Copper Mountain mine in southern British Columbia.
Quetzal Copper Limited
Matthew Badiali, CEO
Phone: (888) 227-6821
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FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS
The information contained herein contains ‘forward-looking statements’ within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and ‘forward-looking information’ within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation. ‘Forward-looking information’ includes, but is not limited to, statements with respect to the activities, events, or developments that the Company expects or anticipates will or may occur in the future, including, without limitation, planned exploration activities. Generally, but not always, forward-looking information and statements can be identified by the use of words such as ‘plans’, ‘expects’, ‘is expected’, ‘budget’, ‘scheduled’, ‘estimates’, ‘forecasts’, ‘intends’, ‘anticipates’, or ‘believes’ or the negative connotation thereof or variations of such words and phrases or state that certain actions, events or results ‘may’, ‘could’, ‘would’, ‘might’ or ‘will be taken’, ‘occur’ or ‘be achieved’ or the negative connotation thereof. Forward-looking statements in this news release include, among others, statements relating to exploration and development of the Company’s properties.
Such forward-looking information and statements are based on numerous assumptions, including among others, that the results of planned exploration activities are as anticipated, the anticipated cost of planned exploration activities, that general business and economic conditions will not change in a material adverse manner, that financing will be available if and when needed and on reasonable terms, that third party contractors, equipment and supplies and governmental and other approvals required to conduct the Company’s planned exploration activities will be available on reasonable terms and in a timely manner. Although the assumptions made by the Company in providing forward-looking information or making forward-looking statements are considered reasonable by management at the time, there can be no assurance that such assumptions will prove to be accurate.
Forward-looking information and statements also involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties and other factors, which may cause actual events or results in future periods to differ materially from any projections of future events or results expressed or implied by such forward-looking information or statements, including, among others: negative operating cash flow and dependence on third party financing, uncertainty of additional financing, no known mineral reserves or resources, the limited operating history of the Company, aboriginal title and consultation issues, reliance on key management and other personnel, actual results of exploration activities being different than anticipated, changes in exploration programs based upon results, availability of third party contractors, availability of equipment and supplies, failure of equipment to operate as anticipated, accidents, effects of weather and other natural phenomena and other risks associated with the mineral exploration industry, environmental risks, changes in laws and regulations, community relations and delays in obtaining governmental or other approvals.
Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking information or implied by forward-looking information, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no assurance that forward-looking information and statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated, estimated or intended. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements or information. The Company undertakes no obligation to update or reissue forward-looking information as a result of new information or events except as required by applicable securities laws.
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With a combined social media following of more than one million users, Coach Chippy is a leading influencer in youth hockey. Through his Tropical Flow flavour of CWENCH Hydration, which will be available for purchase at Pro Hockey Life, Source for Sports, Sports Excellence and other leading retailers, Coach Chippy will be creating greater visibility for CWENCH Hydration in a key demographic for the brand.
Cizzle Brands Corporation (Cboe Canada: CZZL) ( the ‘Company or ‘Cizzle Brands’) , is pleased to announce that it has teamed up with famed Canadian hockey influencer Coach Chippy to launch Tropical Flow , a special edition Coach Chippy-inspired flavour of CWENCH Hydration. Tropical Flow , which will be available in ready-to-drink and hydration mix formats, is CWENCH Hydration’s fifth flavour option, along with Rainbow Swirl, Blue Raspberry, Cherry Lime and Berry Crush.
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Canadian hockey influencer Coach Chippy has teamed up with Cizzle Brands to launch Tropical Flow, a new flavour of CWENCH Hydration
. Through his social media channels and major presence within the Canadian hockey sphere, the Company expects to cultivate valuable awareness for the CWENCH brand. (Photo: Business Wire)
The launch of Tropical Flow further strengthens the market position of CWENCH Hydration in the sports nutrition market. In Cizzle Brands’ most recent quarterly financial results, the Company reported CAD $2.8 million in revenue from sales of CWENCH Hydration beverages and mixes, with CAD $1.75 million in gross profit for a 62.5% gross margin. Since its launch in late May of 2024, more than one million ready-to-drink (‘RTD’) units of CWENCH Hydration have been sold.
Under the agreement with Coach Chippy, Cizzle Brands will release a special-edition tropical fruit flavour of CWENCH Hydration featuring images of Coach Chippy, as well as his Style & Flow tagline (pictured below). At launch, Tropical Flow will be available for purchase at Pro Hockey Life, Source for Sports, Sports Excellence, Canlan Ice Sports and Buckingham Sports Group with additional retailers expected to offer it soon.
Coach Chippy will be a key driver in creating awareness for CWENCH Hydration and Tropical Flow through his social media profiles, which include:
TikTok: @coachchippyy (736,000 followers)
Instagram: @coach.chippy (450,000 followers)
YouTube: @coachchippy (111,000 followers)
More information about Coach Chippy can be found on his website at the following link: https://coachchippy.ca/en-cad/
Following its launch at the end of May 2024, CWENCH Hydration has established a robust brand profile among professional athletes and fans of all ages. As detailed in Cizzle Brands’ Market Introduction press release , NHL players including Nathan MacKinnon and Cole Caufield have endorsed CWENCH Hydration as well as NBA All-Star Andrew Wiggins, Canadian Olympian Adriana Leon and up-and-coming hockey stars Gavin McKenna, Chloe Primerano and Jade Iginla. Additionally, CWENCH Hydration is the named sponsor of a four-rink hockey arena in Toronto known as CWENCH Centre – a Canlan Sports Community as well as a sponsor of over 500 youth hockey teams, which has the CWENCH brand displayed on the hockey gear of more than 12,000 youth hockey players across North America.
Cizzle Brands Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, John Celenza, commented, ‘In many ways, Coach Chippy represents so much of what is great about youth hockey – passion, commitment and a great sense of joy. His message resonates with so many kids. As a dad myself, I hear about Coach Chippy all the time and know how much clout he has with one of our key demographics for CWENCH Hydration. Chippy has been a part of the Cizzle Brands story since the early days of the Company, and we are thrilled to be deepening our partnership with him to further strengthen the profile of CWENCH Hydration in hockey communities across North America.’
Coach Chippy added, ‘I’ve had a bunch of companies hit me up about product partnerships, but teaming up with the crew at Cizzle Brands was a no-brainer. When you’re dialed in on being your best, CWENCH Hydration is the real deal. It’s all-natural, sugar-free, and loaded with 6+ electrolytes. The product being healthy was a big deal for me—it’s one of the main reasons I decided to put my name (and face) behind it. Staying hydrated the smart way is a huge part of the whole Style and Flow vibe. I’m really excited to bring Tropical Flow to the market.’
About Cizzle Brands Corporation
Cizzle Brands Corporation is elevating the game in health and wellness. Through extensive collaboration and testing with leading athletes and trainers across several elite sports, Cizzle Brands has launched two leading product lines in the sports nutrition category: (i) CWENCH Hydration, a better-for-you sports drink that is now carried in over 1,200 stores in Canada, the United States, and Europe; and (ii) Spoken Nutrition, a premium brand of athlete-grade nutraceuticals that carry the prestigious NSF Certified for Sport® qualification. All Cizzle Brands products are designed to help people achieve their best in both competitive sports and in living a healthy, vibrant, active lifestyle.
For more information about Cizzle Brands, please visit: https://www.cizzlebrands.com/
For more information about CWENCH, please visit: https://cwenchhydration.com/
For more information about Spoken Nutrition, please visit: https://spokennutrition.com/
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Cizzle Brands Corporation
‘John Celenza’
John Celenza, Chief Executive Officer
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Spearmint Resources Inc. (CSE: SPMT) (OTC Pink: SPMTF) (FSE: A2AHL5) (the ‘Company’ or ‘Spearmint’) wishes to announce that it has more than doubled its crypto holdings via additional purchases of Solana. Solana is a crypto-computing platform that aims to achieve high transaction speeds without sacrificing decentralization. It seeks to improve scalability through a different approach in the blockchain industry, combining a proof-of-history (PoH) consensus with the blockchain’s underlying proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus. This approach has attracted interest from a diverse range of traders, from small-scale individuals to institutional entities. Solana claims it can process around 50,000 transactions per second. Solana is both a cryptocurrency and a flexible platform for developers building decentralized applications (dApps) across various industries, including DeFi, gaming, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and financial derivatives.
James Nelson, President of Spearmint, stated, ‘In an effort to be as proactive as possible towards building shareholder value, management feels that diversifying into Solana specifically holds the highest potential for growth within the crypto space. We are taking advantage of the dip and have recently made additional Solana purchases resulting in more than doubling our initial position. We intend to continue this crypto diversification plan of action for the foreseeable future and will update the market regarding this strategy in the short and long term. We are also currently formulating plans on the 4,722-acre George Lake South Antimony Project in New Brunswick, Canada, as antimony continues to be one of the best performing resources over the past year.’ Mr. Nelson went on to say, ‘In addition, we would like to remind the market of our lithium holdings in Clayton Valley, Nevada which are prospective for both lithium clay & lithium brine, at a time when we feel domestically sourced lithium projects will garner significantly more market interest in 2025. Despite the negative sentiment around lithium and EV’s over the last two years, the recent data clearly shows that EV sales are increasing and the momentum for EV sales globally is in fact strengthening, not weakening.’
According to a CNBC article dated January 2, 2025, China’s push to develop its own electric cars hit a tipping point in July, with the share of new energy vehicles sold accounted for more than half all passenger cars sold that month, according to the passenger car association. New energy vehicles include battery-only and hybrid-powered cars. The trend persisted through November, which saw a penetration rate of 52.3%, according to association data.
On January 3, 2025, GM announced that for the fourth quarter, sales were up 21% from the year-earlier period. Electric vehicle sales jumped 50% for the quarter and 125% for the year, roughly doubling our market share over the course of the year. GM was the #2 seller of EVs in the U.S. across the second half of 2024.
On June 17, 2022, the Company announced that it received the updated Technical Report and Mineral Resource estimate for the 100-per-cent-owned McGee Lithium Clay Deposit in Clayton Valley, Nevada. The Technical Report included an updated Mineral Resource estimate of 1,369,000 indicated tonnes and 723,000 inferred tonnes of lithium carbonate equivalent (LCE) for a total of 2,092,000 tonnes of LCE, more than doubling the maiden resource estimate announced on June 11, 2021. The Technical Report and Mineral Resource Estimate was prepared by Derek Loveday, P.Geo. and Mariea Kartick, P.Geo. of Stantec Consulting Services Ltd. (‘Stantec’) in conformity with CIM ‘Estimation of Mineral Resource and Mineral Reserves Best Practices’ guidelines and were reported in accordance with the Canadian Securities Administrators NI 43-101.
On December 13, 2024, Spearmint announced that it has more than doubled the acreage on the recently acquired George Lake South Antimony Project in New Brunswick, Canada. This project now consists of 4,722 contiguous acres prospective for antimony and is located in the direct vicinity of the Lake George Antimony Mine in New Brunswick, which was operated intermittently from 1876 to 1996 and was once the largest primary antimony producer in North America.
Recently, China banned exports of critical minerals, including antimony, to the United States. As trade tensions escalate between the United States and China, this move clearly emphasizes the urgent need for Western nations to secure reliable long-term sources of these critical minerals, which are now at the forefront of the global supply chain crisis.
Antimony is an essential component in semi-conductors, battery storage technology, and has several military applications. Prices of antimony trioxide in Rotterdam had soared by 228 per cent since the beginning of 2024 to $39,000 a metric tonne on Nov. 28, as shown by data from information provider Argus. The move is a considerable escalation of tensions in supply chains where access to raw material units is already tight in the West.
Qualified person for mining disclosure:
The technical contents of this release were reviewed and approved by Frank Bain, PGeo, a director of the company and qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101.
About Spearmint Resources Inc.
Spearmint’s projects include four projects in Clayton Valley, Nevada: the 1,136-acre McGee lithium clay deposit, which has a resource estimate of 1,369,000 indicated tonnes and 723,000 inferred tonnes of lithium carbonate equivalent (LCE) for a total of 2,092,000 tonnes of LCE, directly bordering Pure Energy Minerals & Century Lithium Corp.; the 280-acre Elon lithium brine project, which has access to some of the deepest parts of the only lithium brine basin in production in North America; the 124-acre Green Clay lithium project; and the 248-acre Clayton Ridge gold project and now the 4,722-acre George Lake South Antimony Project in New Brunswick.
For a cautionary note and disclaimer on the crypto diversification, please refer to the news release dated November 12, 2024.
Contact Information
Tel: 1604646-6903
www.spearmintresources.ca
‘James Nelson’
President
Spearmint Resources Inc.
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