Doubleview Gold (TSX-V:DBG) has approached Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and British Columbia Premier David Eby seeking government support to accelerate its Hat Project in northwestern British Columbia, Canada.
The company has submitted a Strategic Policy Brief outlining potential domestic infrastructure funding, streamlined provincial permitting, and integration with cross-border defence supply chains. Doubleview has not disclosed any government response or funding commitment.
The approach follows a US$400 million ($566 million) conditional loan commitment from the US Department of War’s Office of Strategic Capital to Sunrise Energy Metals (ASX:SRL).
The proposed financing would support the development of Sunrise’s Syerston Scandium Project in New South Wales and establish a mine-to-metal supply chain aligned with US interests.
Scandium is used in heat-resistant aluminium alloys for aerospace, defence, and other specialised applications.
Doubleview CEO Farshad Shirvani says the funding signals growing government interest in securing allied scandium supplies.
“The unprecedented mobilisation of hundreds of millions of dollars by the US government for allied scandium development signals that the critical mineral race has entered an entirely new, high-velocity operational phase,” Shirvani says.
The Hat copper–gold-cobalt-scandium project hosts measured and indicated resources of 609 million tonnes (Mt) @ 0.43% copper equivalent (CuEq), containing 5.82 billion pounds of copper, 3.22 million ounces of gold, and 80.1 million pounds of cobalt.
A further 503Mt @ 0.41% CuEq sits in the inferred category.
Doubleview reports measured and indicated scandium oxide content of 2,415 tonnes, alongside 1,996 tonnes inferred. These figures apply to 12.5% of mineralised material expected to pass through a dedicated scandium circuit and assume 72% metallurgical recovery.
A March preliminary economic assessment returned an after-tax net present value of C$6.73–7.27 billion ($6.83–7.38 billion) and an internal rate of return of 19–23%, depending on the pricing scenario used.
Doubleview is continuing metallurgical optimisation and preparations for a Prefeasibility Study.
Write to France Pinzon at Mining.com.au
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