Syniad’s Brokkr Appoints Samantha Espley to its Advisory Board

Vancouver, British Columbia – February 12, 2025: Brokkr Mineral Resources Corporation. (“Brokkr”) is pleased to announce that it has made an important new appointment to its advisory board.

Samantha Espley is a senior figure from the world of mining and mining innovation. She began her career working for several prominent mining companies in a range of commodities.  At Inco, she was superintendent in the Mines Technology Department leading a team of engineers, geologists and technologists in Inco’s operations at Sudbury. After Vale’s acquisition of Inco, she held a number of technical leadership roles including deep underground mining operations (Creighton), Engineering management (Copper Cliff),  mining technical services (across 5 mines in Ontario), mining and milling technical services (throughout Vale’s North Atlantic region), before becoming Director of Vale’s Mining and Mineral Processing Technical Excellence Centre for base metals – including nickel – in North America, Brazil, Indonesia, and New Caledonia. Her tenure at Vale culminated with her becoming Director of Mining Technology & Innovation for base metals for the same region.  Since leaving Vale, she worked in consulting for Inovinta Group of Companies and is now a Senior Executive Advisor at Stantec (engineering services) leading mining transformation.

She served as President of the Canadian Institute of Mining 2020-2021, continuing to serve as a director to this day. She is a director and President elect of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and a director of the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame. She is also a director of two publicly listed companies: Northern Graphite (TSX-V) and Paramount Gold Nevada (NYSE).

Samantha is the recipient of numerous awards and honours including a Fellowship of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, the Canadian Institute of Mining Distinguished Service Medal, the Canadian Governor General’s Gold Medal for graduate research excellence and the Engineers Canada award.  She is listed as one of the top 100 most influential women in mining.

Sean Crowe, CEO of Brokkr commented, “It is a genuine privilege to have Samantha join our Advisory Board. She brings an incredible skill set to Brokkr and a wealth of experience when it comes to innovation in the mining sector. Her long history with Vale and her first hand experience of Vale’s global nickel operations is a phenomenal plus for Brokkr.”

About Brokkr Mineral Resources Corporation

Brokkr develops easy-to-adapt solutions for mineral processing in complex ore bodies and low-grade deposits. Using selective peptide binding technologies paired with bioleaching solutions, Brokkr extracts and processes metals needed for clean energy systems without disrupting the current mining processes. Brokkr’s solutions have been validated at the bench scale with high recovery rates across several different metals. Extensive testing, to date, implies that Brokkr solutions provide a cost-effective alternative to current mineral processing techniques that would enable the recovery of strategic metals from low-grade and high-grade ores with reduced GHG emissions and lower overall environmental risk.