{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Company Interviews","title":"Eastport Critical Metals (TSXV:EVI) - Four Critical Metal Projects, One Botswana Portfolio","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1316,"description":"Interview with Daniel Major, CEO of Eastport Critical Metals \nRecording date: 8th September 2026\nEastport Critical Metals Corp. (TSXV:EVI) is a Botswana-focused critical minerals explorer with exposure to copper, rare earth elements, uranium, and nickel-copper-PGM across a combined land package exceeding 4,000 km². The company listed on the TSX-V in November 2025 via a qualifying transaction with Penbar Capital and appointed Daniel Major, former CEO of TSXV-listed GoviEx Uranium, as Chief Executive Officer in July 2026.\nThe flagship asset is Matsitama Copper, a 1,845 km² district-scale position across six prospecting licences in an established copper district, sitting adjacent to the historic Kopano (~1% Cu) and Thakadu (~2% Cu) mines and roughly 10 km from the currently producing Moana mine. The project carries a historical - not current, not NI 43-101-compliant - resource estimate at Nakalakwana Hill of 9.9 Mt at 4,640 ppm Cu (45.5 kt contained copper), based on 2013 SRK Consulting work under the superseded SAMREC 2007 code. Drilling through 2025-2026 has extended the mineralised footprint east and west of the original zone, with three recent holes intersecting more than 100 metres of copper mineralisation at internal higher grades of 0.5% to over 1.5% Cu. Twenty priority targets have been defined across the licence, including the roughly 30 km Copper Snake trend, which the company plans to test with gravity and EM surveys in 2026 ahead of drilling.\nSemarule (250 km², ~40 km from Gaborone) is Eastport's rare earth optionality, hosting a syenite-carbonatite complex with mineralised outcrop across ~15 km². 2023 rock-chip sampling returned 0.5% total rare earth oxides plus yttrium, roughly a quarter of which is higher-value magnetic rare earth oxide. An eight-hole drill program has intersected mineralisation to depths exceeding 300 metres, with a further assay batch pending at the time of the interview. Management has indicated Semarule could be spun into its own...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/1wv-MFlQAgnm-ca64e5kK4984dZB0os8-HJdRVsI74M/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzEzNTcyLzE2MjM5/NTQyMDctYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}