Viscount Mining Corp. (TSXV: VML | OTCQX: VLMGF) has released results of a comprehensive geochemical review at its Cherry Creek Project in White Pine County, Nevada, identifying broad anomalies in antimony and tellurium — two metals classified on the official 2025 U.S. Government Critical Minerals List. The review integrated rock, soil, and stream sediment data across thousands of sample points, with peak antimony values reaching 10,000 ppm in rock and tellurium peaking at 56.8 ppm. Investors may be watching closely given ongoing global supply constraints for both metals, with China having imposed export bans and licensing restrictions affecting international antimony supply.

Key Points

  • Viscount Mining Corp. (TSXV: VML | OTCQX: VLMGF) announced geochemical results from its Cherry Creek Project in Nevada
  • Rock samples returned antimony values up to 10,000 ppm, with 106 samples between 100 and 10,000 ppm; tellurium peaked at 56.8 ppm across 13 anomalous rock samples
  • Both antimony and tellurium appear on the 2025 U.S. Critical Minerals List; antimony prices rose from roughly US$5,500 per tonne in 2023 to US$59,750 per tonne in July 2025
  • The Exchequer Fault gold-bismuth-tellurium target is ranked as the third drill priority on the property by the company's geological consultants

Antimony Geochemical Results and Structural Context at Cherry Creek

The Cherry Creek dataset compiled more than 1,965 rock samples and 4,593 soil samples, with 106 rock samples returning between 100 and 10,000 ppm antimony and a further 534 between 15 and 100 ppm. Soil results included 42 samples at 10 to 351 ppm, with over 1,800 additional soil samples above background levels. Stream sediment antimony peaked at 4.83 ppm across multiple drainages. The company interprets the highest-value samples — concentrated along a linear east-west structural corridor — as consistent with primary stibnite mineralization, and notes a spatial association with gold values reaching 48.6 g/t in the same corridor, which is being evaluated as a stibnite-gold vein exploration target.

Tellurium Anomaly Along the Exchequer Fault Adds a Second Critical Mineral Target

Viscount's newly integrated tellurium dataset — compiled for the first time at Cherry Creek — returned 13 rock samples exceeding 4 ppm, peaking at 56.8 ppm, well above cited background levels of typically below 0.1 ppm. An additional 33 rock samples fell in the 1–4 ppm range. Soil results peaked at 1.4 ppm. The tellurium anomaly is spatially concentrated along the Exchequer Fault, a northeast-trending structure that the company associates with a buried intrusive body. Bismuth values along the same corridor reached 1,710 ppm in rock, supporting an interpretation of gold-bismuth-telluride mineralisation — a deposit style seen at Cripple Creek, Colorado and Goldfield, Nevada.

Supply Dynamics and Regional Nevada Antimony Activity Provide Investment Context

Antimony prices rose from roughly US$5,500 per tonne in 2023 to US$59,750 per tonne in July 2025, driven in part by Chinese export restrictions. The U.S. Government has committed nearly US$400 million in defence contracts and supply-chain investments related to domestic antimony supply, and no new U.S. mine is currently expected to produce the metal before 2028, according to the release. The announcement also references NevGold Corp. (TSXV: NAU | OTC: NAUFF), whose Limousine Butte project lies approximately 10 kilometres southwest of Cherry Creek, as a regional reference point for antimony-gold activity in White Pine County.