Military Metals Corp.

Military Metals Corp.

Military Metals Corp. was formed in 2020 and listed on the Canadian Securities Exchange under the ticker MILI, with Scott Hyman as Chief Executive Officer. The entity emerged as a vehicle explicitly designed to aggregate mineral assets that fill gaps in Western military-industrial supply chains — an approach that went from niche to non-negotiable after Beijing restricted antimony exports to the United States in August 2024. The strategy is single-minded: acquire past-producing antimony, tin, and vanadium mines in stable democracies, conduct historical resource validation, and position each asset as a near-term domestic supply node. Its owned portfolio concentrates on three assets. Trojarová, in Slovakia, is a historically confirmed antimony deposit with underground development already in place and a 10,000-metre drill program planned for 2024 (per the firm's official communications). West Gore, in Nova Scotia, Canada, is a former high-grade antimony mine with significant historical stockpiles. Last Chance, in Nevada, adds a US-based antimony claim in a jurisdiction where the Department of Defense has signaled explicit stockpiling priorities (per the Defense Logistics Agency Strategic Materials report, 2024). The firm has not deployed into smelting or refining infrastructure, remaining upstream on exploration and resource definition. Headquartered in Vancouver, Military Metals operates with a lean corporate structure — Brad Busse serves as Chief Financial Officer — and keeps a project office in Prague for its European asset. The company has not disclosed a dedicated investment team headcount. In September 2023, it acquired the Trojarová project in Slovakia and the past-producing West Gore antimony mine in Nova Scotia, simultaneously announcing a private placement to fund exploration activities (per the firm's official communications, September 2023). It does not operate alongside a philanthropic foundation or diversified family-capital base. The structural differentiator is its charter. Most junior miners aim for a buyout from a major producer; Military Metals instead patterns itself as a deeply embedded supply-chain partner to end-users who are governments, not commodity traders. It entered public markets to finance acquisitions rather than to reward venture-stage investors, and its asset map — Canada, US, Slovakia — mirrors the NATO geography that defence planners consider permissible for critical-material sourcing post-Ukraine.