Good Morning Team.
Please enjoy my interview with James Gilbertson, VP Exploration at Amaroq, where we go into serious depth on the company’s sprawling Greenland exploration portfolio.
We start with his background and what drew him to exploring in one of the world’s most remote and demanding jurisdictions, before turning to Nalunaq itself — not just as a producing mine, but as an active exploration target, discussing the down-dip extensions beneath the valley, the parallel Zone 75 structure and whether the deposit’s repeated resource growth has a natural ceiling or is genuinely open-ended.
From there, we move into the district-scale gold story across the Nanortalik belt. We discuss Nanoq in detail — the saddle reef geology underpinning the ‘bigger than Nalunaq’ thesis, the metallurgical test work underway at SGS Lakefield, and the path toward a maiden resource estimate — along with the lesser-known satellite prospects Naalagaaffiup Portornga, Vagar and Anoritooq, and how Amaroq prioritises exploration across this 200+ kilometre land package.
The conversation then shifts west, covering the West Greenland Hub — Black Angel’s surprise germanium and gallium discovery and what it takes to turn preliminary mass-balance numbers into a bankable resource, plus the Kangerluarsuk saddle reef hypothesis.
We also cover the company’s critical minerals exploration further afield, including the Stendalen nickel-copper target and its comparison to Voisey’s Bay, the Minturn IOCG prospect and its exceptional surface iron grades, and the newly identified Archean copper belt anchored by Ukaleq.
We close out with the Ilua rare earth project in the Gardar Igneous Province — its high-grade, low-radionuclide pegmatite mineralogy and what makes it more commercially tractable than some of Greenland’s other REE deposits — before zooming out to talk program management: how Gilbertson’s team allocates drill rigs and budget across seven simultaneous programs, and which project he thinks is most likely to surprise the market over the next 18 months.
One not to miss.
