Japan Gold Corp.’s leadership team has long recognized Japan’s prospectivity for gold. When Japan’s Mining Act was changed in 2012 to re-activate the mining industry, Japan Gold moved quickly to review historical data and identify key exploration targets, and was the first foreign exploration company to apply for prospecting rights. Japan Gold has assembled a portfolio of 35 projects and has selected its priority targets to advance for drilling.
- Leadership team 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.
- Japan is considered one of the most stable and corruption-free jurisdictions in the world.
- Revised Mining Law demonstrates government commitment to developing Japan’s resources.
- Well established and transparent mining regulatory framework.
- Easy access to government officials.
- Extensive, detailed, and relevant exploration database.
- Comprehensive support program to facilitate stakeholder consultation.
- Underexplored terrain with an absence of competition.
- Japan has at least six distinct epithermal gold provinces hosting greater than 70 historically producing gold mines, including five deposits with an excess of 1 million ounces.
- Japan’s Hishikari Mine produced 8.5Moz of gold between 1985-2023 at an average grade of 30-40 g/t and is still producing today.1
- Japan Gold holds a total of 977 prospecting rights license applications accepted and a portfolio of 35 tenements covering 299,460 hectares across Japan's three largest islands, Hokkaido, Honshu, and Kyushu.
- Lack of initial competition provided Japan Gold first choice for prospective gold and copper-gold targets.
- First foreign exploration company to apply for and be granted Prospecting Rights in Japan.