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RZOLV Technologies Inc. – RZL.V (RZOLF-OTC)

RZOLV Technologies (TSXV: RZL): The Cyanide Killer Poised for Domination?

Vancouver-based RZOLV Technologies Inc. (TSXV: RZL; OTCQB: RZOLF) is charging ahead with its game-changing, patent-pending RZOLV reagent—a non-toxic, water-based alternative to cyanide that promises high gold recoveries from tough ores, tailings, and concentrates. This isn’t just greenwashing; independent SGS testing and bulk-scale vat leaches at real Arizona mines show 97% gold pulls on complex copper-gold ores without pretreatment, dodging the headaches of cyanide’s SART circuits.

Tech That Unlocks Hidden Gold

RZOLV shines where cyanide flops: low-grade oxides, sulfides, gravity concentrates, and waste dumps that traditional methods leave behind.

It’s versatile for heap/vat leaching, tank ops, even in-situ plays, with fast kinetics, low reagent use, and easy integration into mills—no massive Capex needed. Priced to match cyanide but with eco-credentials that slash permitting risks and ESG red flags, it’s tailor-made for juniors chasing social license in a world ditching toxins.

Recent notable milestones  include bulk vat tests hitting milestones for commercial rollout and ecotox studies showing it’s approximately 57,000 times safer than cyanide on trout and daphnia—key for regulators. Plus, preliminary rare earth and critical mineral recoveries open doors beyond gold, tapping multi-billion markets where cyanide isn’t suitable.

Market Tailwinds and Upside

Gold’s grind higher amid global chaos favors RZOLV, especially with energy costs spiking smelter bills and bans tightening on cyanide —
(EU and California).

The cyanide market alone tops $2B yearly; RZOLV eyes that plus untapped tailings/rejects potentially dwarfing it. Trading as a TSX.V Venture microcap, RZL is speculative buy for juniors watchers with the potential to be involved in the gold/ore processing arena for many many companies—Vancouver roots, serial test wins, and partnerships like EMEW Clean Technologies for integrated recovery signal pilot-to-commercial momentum.

Risks

There are risks which the company is moving forward in addressing and dealing with. Scaling demos and first revenue are in planning to be happening with an ‘Advance Tank Leach’ pilot plant in Arizona sometime in 2026 with partner ERD (Environmental Research Development).
But with SGS Canada Labratories validation and mine-site testing, RZOLV could just be the disruptor juniors need to thrive in sustainable mining’s new era.
Keep RZL on radar—could be the next exciting metals processing play with huge growth potential.

Editor,
The CanadianJuniorReport
RZOLV Technologies Inc. is a sponsor of the CanadianJuniorReport.com
Disclaimer we hold shares in RZOLV Technologies Inc. and may buy or sell additional shares at any time.

 

Gold VS Oil Price Performance

April 02/2026

Gold & Oil Price Predictions if Iran War Drags On
If the Iran conflict stretches into summer, we could expect oil to punch through $120/bbl fairly easily—Goldman pegs $14+ risk premium from Hormuz chaos alone, with Bank of America eyeing $150/barrel if infrastructure stays damaged and they are not able to begin repairs or damage increases.
Juniors in exploration and production can be expected to maintain high investor interest levels given the elevated mineral prices and elevated demand.
“Picks and shovels’ companies, or suppliers to the industry such as innovative clean-tech mineral processing companies like
RZOLV Technologies Inc.  (RZL.V-RZOLV-OTC) should get a double boost from sky-high energy costs and gold’s inevitable safe-haven snapback in price to $5,500–$6,500/oz.
Canadian resource plays remain positioned to outperform, especially with AI creating frightful job loss conditions.
Big Tech and especially software focused companies have been particularly hard hit in the markets in recent months.
Oil delivery problems from Strait of Hormuz continue to create supply risks (20% global supply) and Iranian export halts, with $15–$25/bbl premiums may turn into sustained disruptions. Gold gains as a result of the flight to safe-haven amid inflation/energy shocks, though dollar strength caps early upside—
Remember historical crises like 1979 Iran Revolution saw 150% spikes in the price of oil.
Base Brent $100+ persists even post-ceasefire due to infrastructure damage.

PTX Metals Inc. (TSXV: PTX) (OTCQB: PANXF) (FSE: 9PX)

PTX Metals Inc. is based in Toronto, Canada headed by CEO Greg Ferron.
Mr. Ferron is a highly experienced executive who is well known in the Bay Street community and has experience with financing under the banner of large corporations as well as director and CEO experience with junior exploration companies. This includes senior level roles at Laramide Resources Ltd., Treasury Metals Inc., Fancamp Exploration, Omai Gold Mines, TMX Group and Scotiabank. Mr. Ferron currently holds over 3 million shares in PTX. Obviously when management holds a substantial position in their own company this is inspiring to shareholders.

PTX Metals has a primary listing on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol PTX. The Company is also listed in Frankfurt under the symbol 9PF and on the OTCQB in the United States as PANXF.

PTX is focusing on 2 flagship properties located in northern Ontario which is known as a prolific mining territory with a co-operative jurisdiction and world class discoveries. The projects are the W2 Cu-Ni-PGE and Gold Project and the South Timmins Gold Joint Venture Project.

“…focused on high-quality strategic metals assets in northern Ontario, allowing exposure for shareholders to Copper, Gold, Nickel, and PGEs discovery. ”

PTX METALS PROPERTY PORTFOLIO:


  • W2 (Copper-Nickel-PGE)
  • The W2 Copper-Nickel-PGE and Gold Project is comprised of 1,122 cell units covering 22,094 ha (220 km2) in an area of world-class geological targets near Ontario’s Ring of Fire. W2 controls a significant part of the “Oxford Stull Dome Complex”, including the mineral-rich and under-explored, layered mafic-ultramafic Lansdowne House Igneous Complex (“LHIC”), which is highly prospective for copper-nickel (Cu-Ni), platinum group element (PGE), and chromite deposits.
  • W2 is located approximately 475 km northeast of Thunder Bay, 60 km southwest of Ring of Fire Metals’ Eagle’s Nest Mine, and 50 km from the future Webequie Supply Road which will provide a year round connection between the Ring of Fire and the provincial highway network within 5 years. Current access to the project is by winter road originating in Pickle Lake.
  • W2 Project Property Map
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  • Shining Tree Gold Project

The Shining Tree Project is a district-scale gold property. It covers a large section of the Ridout Tyrrell deformation zone (RTDZ) which trends as far west as Newmont’s Borden Mine, through the area of IAMGOLD’s Cote Gold deposit, and across Aris Gold’s Juby Project.

  • Property includes one historical gold producer and over 30 underground developments and prospects.
  • Drill hole HU89-08 intersected 35.4m grading 1.1g/t Au

Shining Tree Property Map


PTX METALS ROYALTY PORTFOLIO:

Royalty Portfolio

Ontario

PTX  is developing a net smelter return (NSR) royalty portfolio and currently holds royalties on the following early-stage gold, PGE, and base metal properties.

  • Big Trout Lake (PGE-Ni-Cu-Cr): 2.5% NSR on 12,080 acres.
  • Tib Lake (PGE): 0.5% NSR on 4 legacy claims held by Lac des Iles Mines Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of North American Palladium Ltd., covering the Tib Lake intrusion.
  • MacMurchy Township (Au): 1% NSR on 33 legacy claims in Shining Tree area held by Golden Harp Resources.
  • Ring of Fire (Au-Ni-Cu-PGE-Cr): 1% NSR on 23 cell claims in Ring of Fire area held by Aurcrest Gold Inc.
  • 1% NSR on Muskrat Dam Critical Minerals Project following GCC earn-in.
  • 1% NSR on Scattergood project owned by Heritage Mining
  • 1% NSR on the Muskrat Dam Critical Minerals Project

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Sonia-Puma (Au-Cu): 2% NSR on Sonia-Puma claims held by Newmont.

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Latest Press Release- PTX METALS INC. PROVIDES POSITIVE MINERALOGY RESULTS AND A WORK PROGRAM UPDATE AT ITS W2 CU-NI-PGE AND GOLD PROJECT

Overall PTX Metals is a very well positioned exploration company with a lot of experienced management at the helm.
The jurisdiction of northern Ontario is excellent and the timing in the market really could not be any better. The current market
cap is just over $12 million (cad) with the shares outstanding at just under $119 million.

The future is looking very bright for PTX Metals and we hope you will stay tuned for more information on this exciting exploration company!

 

 

Where is gold price headed?

Its April 2025 and gold is hitting all time highs day after day! Who knew? Obviously someone
knew, collectively or solo, and now everyone knows. Gold is now one of the best performing assets over the past 25 years after trading under an astonishing $300.00 per ounce back at the turn of the century.

Many times there doesn’t seem to be much rhyme or reason to asset and commodity prices until after the fact and the meteoric rise of the gold price is causing a lot of people to scratch their heads, however here we are.

3 month gold chart since 2018

The next question is which companies are still a bargain in order to make some profit from golds explosive rise? Some people are buying the senior gold mining companies and some are waiting for silver to follow and positioning themselves in silver companies. Some people are taking a very close look at gold juniors since they can be very profitable if you happen to have a substantial position at the right time in the cycle.

As we can see from the XAU/GOLD chart below the correlation between gold miners and gold has been much much higher than the current level. So will the general public discover gold miners and pile in and take their share prices back to the lofty historic levels? There are always value seekers so we shall see.

XAU/GOLD

There are many opportunities and couple juniors we have owned for a number of years, Amex Exploration Inc. (AMX.V)  and GTWO Resources (GTWO.TSX) .

Both companies have discovered substantial deposits of gold, AMX in Quebec and GTWO in Guyana. AMX has a glitch when they released their MRE since the estimate was lower than they had been hoping for and the market had been suggesting. However they have charged on and the interest seems to have picked up very recently with volumes and price both increasing.

GTWO has been on a steady uptrend for the past year as their discoveries keep getting larger and investors can see that Anglogold has been steadily buying in the open markets.

Both of these juniors are looking healthy and seem to have more upside and possibly substantially more upside as the price of gold continues to rock and roll!

Stay tuned…