First tier team
- Well financed to undertake a significant exploration campaign and rapidly advance the projects
- Leadership team and advisors with decades of technical and business experience
- Proven track record of growing resource companies from grassroots exploration through to production
- In-country advisors with knowledge of Japan’s geological and mining history and in-depth knowledge of the country’s regulatory environment
First world country
- Japan is considered one of the most stable and corruption-free jurisdictions in the world
- Japan’s mining framework is transparent and straightforward, with good access to government officials
First class assets
- Japan has a long history of significant gold production
- Greater than 80 known past producing gold mines
- Five one-million-plus-ounce gold deposits
- Japan’s Hishikari Mine produced 7.9 Moz of gold between 1985-2020 at an average grade of 30-40 g/t and is still producing today1
- Japan Gold has Prospecting Rights and prospecting rights applications accepted over 31 separate project areas predominantly prospective for epithermal gold with one lithocap project which is prospective for gold-rich porphyry intrusives.
1Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd. website.
First mover advantage
- Lack of initial competition provided first choice for prospective gold and copper-gold targets
- First foreign exploration company to apply for and be granted Prospecting Rights in Japan
