# Fortune Minerals Retains P&E Mining Consultants Inc. to Prepare the New Reserve Estimates, Mine Plan & Production Schedule for the Updated NICO Project Feasibility Study

Canonical Atlas analysis: https://atlas-staging.minestarters.com/news/fortune-minerals-retains-p-e-mining-consultants-inc-to-prepare-the-new-reserve-e--7b4fefca-dc0e-49e8-9edf-04939d7fef74

Original source: https://money.tmx.com/en/quote/FT/news/6157822144711419/fortune-minerals-retains-p-e-mining-consultants-inc-to-prepare-the-new-reserve-e

Publisher: tmx

Original announcement: 2025-10-28T16:47:00.000Z

Analysis by Minestarters Atlas

Atlas analysis published: Unknown date

Atlas analysis updated: Unknown date

- Company: Fortune Minerals Limited

- Ticker: FT

- Exchange: TSX

- Region: Northwest Territories

- Primary commodity: Cobalt

- Secondary commodities: Gold, Bismuth, Copper

- Document categories: Resource update, Other

- Extracted: 2026-08-25 10:42:30 UTC

Narrative sentiment: 0.60 · Bullish

## Minestarters Atlas summary

Fortune Minerals has retained P&E Mining Consultants to prepare new Mineral Reserve estimates, a mine plan, and a production schedule for an updated NICO Project Feasibility Study. The update aims to leverage significantly higher current metal prices for gold, cobalt, bismuth, and copper to improve project economics.

Reasoning: The company is updating its Feasibility Study to incorporate significantly higher current metal prices and optimized mine plans, which is expected to materially improve project economics compared to the 2014 study.

- Positive factor: higher metal prices \(gold, bismuth, cobalt, copper\)

- Positive factor: favorable currency exchange rate \(lower CAD\)

- Positive factor: strategic critical minerals focus

- Positive factor: optimization of mill throughput and mine plan

- Negative factor: capital cost escalation risks

- Negative factor: uncertainty regarding new reserve totals

Facts used in scoring: 5

## Classification and evidence

**Resource Update**

Polarity: neutral

Definition: Revised estimate for an existing resource — compare to prior to assess progress.

Why it applies: The company is preparing an updated Feasibility Study including new Mineral Reserve estimates.

Evidence · text

> prepare the new Mineral Reserve estimates, mine plan and production schedule for the updated NICO Project Feasibility Study

**Historical Estimate Only**

Polarity: negative

Definition: Estimate pre-dates or does not comply with current JORC/NI 43-101 standards — requires verification drilling.

Why it applies: The document provides detailed 2014 reserve figures as a baseline for the upcoming update.

Evidence · text

> The previous 2014 Feasibility Study identified Mineral Reserves totaling 33.1 million tonnes

## Extracted facts

Stored fact records: 5. Some facts used in scoring do not have a stored record.

## Resource Estimates (5)

### probable

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gold

Historical result

Needs review: historical\_restatement

#### Identity

- Commodity: gold
- Ticker: FT

#### Resource Data

- Category: probable
- Tonnes: 33100000
- Grade: 1.1
- Grade Unit: oz/t
- Contained Metal: 1100000
- Contained Unit: oz

#### Review

- Needs Review: Yes
- Review Reason: historical\_restatement
- Historical: Yes
- Historical Source Date: 2014-04-02T00:00:00.000Z

#### Dates

- Event date: 2025-10-28T00:00:00.000Z

Reasoning: Historical reserve data from the 2014 Feasibility Study.

Evidence · text

> The previous 2014 Feasibility Study identified Mineral Reserves totaling 33.1 million tonnes containing 1.1 million ounces of gold

### probable

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cobalt

Historical result

Needs review: historical\_restatement

#### Identity

- Commodity: cobalt
- Ticker: FT

#### Resource Data

- Category: probable
- Tonnes: 33100000
- Grade: 82300000
- Grade Unit: lb
- Contained Metal: 82300000
- Contained Unit: lb

#### Review

- Needs Review: Yes
- Review Reason: historical\_restatement
- Historical: Yes
- Historical Source Date: 2014-04-02T00:00:00.000Z

#### Dates

- Event date: 2025-10-28T00:00:00.000Z

Reasoning: Historical reserve data from the 2014 Feasibility Study.

Evidence · text

> 82.3 million pounds of cobalt

### probable

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bismuth

Historical result

Needs review: historical\_restatement

#### Identity

- Commodity: bismuth
- Ticker: FT

#### Resource Data

- Category: probable
- Tonnes: 33100000
- Grade: 102100000
- Grade Unit: lb
- Contained Metal: 102100000
- Contained Unit: lb

#### Review

- Needs Review: Yes
- Review Reason: historical\_restatement
- Historical: Yes
- Historical Source Date: 2014-04-02T00:00:00.000Z

#### Dates

- Event date: 2025-10-28T00:00:00.000Z

Reasoning: Historical reserve data from the 2014 Feasibility Study.

Evidence · text

> 102.1 million pounds of bismuth

### probable

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copper

Historical result

Needs review: historical\_restatement

#### Identity

- Commodity: copper
- Ticker: FT

#### Resource Data

- Category: probable
- Tonnes: 33100000
- Grade: 27200000
- Grade Unit: lb
- Contained Metal: 27200000
- Contained Unit: lb

#### Review

- Needs Review: Yes
- Review Reason: historical\_restatement
- Historical: Yes
- Historical Source Date: 2014-04-02T00:00:00.000Z

#### Dates

- Event date: 2025-10-28T00:00:00.000Z

Reasoning: Historical reserve data from the 2014 Feasibility Study.

Evidence · text

> 27.2 million pounds of copper

### inferred

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Sue-Dianne · copper

#### Identity

- Project: Sue-Dianne
- Commodity: copper
- Ticker: FT

#### Resource Data

- Category: inferred
- Tonnes: 10000000
- Grade: 0.8
- Grade Unit: %

#### Review

- Needs Review: No
- Historical: No

#### Dates

- Event date: 2025-10-28T00:00:00.000Z

Reasoning: Inferred resource at the Sue-Dianne satellite deposit.

Evidence · text

> 10 million tonnes of in-pit Mineral Resources, averaging 0.8% copper

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