Antimony Resources Targets North America’s First Stand-Alone Antimony Hub in New Brunswick

With China restricting exports and the U.S. Department of Defense refusing to buy foreign supply, Antimony Resources Corp. (CSE: ATMY | FSE: K8J0) has set its sights on turning New Brunswick into North America’s first standalone antimony hub. CEO James “Jim” Atkinson tells InvestorNews host Tracy Hughes that the company’s Bald Hill and Antimony 2.0 optioned properties already host “a pure antimony play”, adding that “pure antimony plays are very rare and I think we have one.” The veteran geologist—whose résumé stretches back to running the entire technical department at the Lake George antimony mine—says a “tremendous potential” market is emerging as antimony is woven into everything from military, fire-retardant, canvas to semiconductor, heat management. Bald Hill’s 500-metre main zone, with mineralization traced a further kilometre along strike, is now the focus of a 2,500-metre drill program; more than 1,600 metres are complete and “sections of massive stibnite have been intersected in roughly 80% of the holes.” Atkinson enthuses that “you can see this stibnite in the drill core when you pull it out” and expects the first of 900 queued assays to flow “in the next month or two.”Operational efficiency, he says, is driven by an all-star field crew: “The head driller is 80 years old and he’s still drilling like a son of a gun,” while meticulous core logging by geologist Arkan Waseem and surface mapping by Ian Cassidy have already uncovered antimony-bearing outcrops that extend “at least 300 metres to the southeast.” Those discoveries dovetail with the May 22 news release reporting stibnite mineralization in both core and surface boulders, reinforcing historic grades that averaged 3–4 percent Sb and included 4.51 metres at 11.7 percent Sb. Atkinson notes that the Pentagon’s policy of sourcing antimony only from North America and its annual demand of roughly 14,000 tonnes of antimony trioxide create a strategic tailwind: “Every bullet that’s shot has antimony in it -- ” he reminds investors, positioning the company to capitalize as assays confirm the scale of this critical minerals find.