Company Description
Allied Critical Metals Inc. (OTCQB: ACMIF) is a Canadian-based mining company focused on tungsten exploration and development. According to company disclosures, Allied is advancing the expansion and revitalization of its 100% owned past-producing Borralha Tungsten Project and the Vila Verde Tungsten Project in northern Portugal. The company’s shares also trade on the Canadian Securities Exchange under the symbol ACM and on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange under the symbol 0VJ0.
Allied describes Borralha as one of the largest and most historically significant past-producing tungsten operations in Western Europe. Located in northern Portugal, Borralha was once the second-largest tungsten mine in the country and supplied strategic materials to European and Allied industries during the 20th century, including both World Wars and the Cold War period. The company is working to modernize and expand this asset through drilling, mineral resource estimation and project studies.
Business focus and projects
Allied states that its primary business focus is on tungsten, a metal that has been designated a critical raw material by the European Union and a critical metal by the United States and other western countries. The company’s flagship Borralha Project is an underground mining development targeting the production of tungsten, with potential by-product copper and tin concentrates. Vila Verde is also described as a tungsten project in northern Portugal, forming part of what the company calls its strategic tungsten supply initiative.
At Borralha, Allied has reported a mineral resource estimate prepared in accordance with NI 43-101 standards and has continued to update this work through additional drilling campaigns. Company news releases describe the Santa Helena Breccia zone at Borralha as hosting a large, subvertical breccia body mineralized in wolframite, with tungsten grades reported over both long and high-grade intervals in various drill holes. Allied highlights wolframite mineralization as advantageous because it can be processed using gravity-dominant flowsheets, which the company associates with lower processing complexity compared to scheelite-bearing deposits.
Strategic and regulatory context
Allied positions its Portuguese tungsten projects within the broader context of western efforts to diversify supply of critical raw materials. Company materials emphasize that tungsten is used in defense, automotive, manufacturing, electronics and energy-related applications, and that a large share of global supply and reserves is concentrated in countries such as China, Russia and North Korea. Against this backdrop, Allied presents Borralha and Vila Verde as potential sources of tungsten concentrate located in a European Union jurisdiction.
The company has reported that idD Portugal Defence, the Portuguese public entity overseeing the nation’s defense industry, issued a Letter of Recognition endorsing the Borralha Tungsten Project as a strategic initiative of national importance with direct impact on Portugal’s and Europe’s defense supply chains. Allied states that this recognition acknowledges its role in re-establishing tungsten production in Portugal and may facilitate governmental support and alignment with national priorities.
Permitting and environmental framework
Allied has disclosed that the Portuguese Environment Agency (Agência Portuguesa do Ambiente, APA) issued a Favourable Environmental Impact Declaration (Declaração de Impacte Ambiental Favorável Condicionada, DIA) for the 100% owned Borralha Tungsten Project, subject to standard regulatory conditions. According to the company, this environmental approval confirms the environmental acceptability of the project and allows it to advance to the Project of Execution and Environmental Compliance Report (RECAPE) stage and subsequent licensing phases under Portuguese environmental and mining legislation.
In its communications, Allied emphasizes that the Borralha project design incorporates underground mining with limited surface disturbance, closed-loop water management systems, filtered dry-stacked tailings, environmental monitoring and contingency plans, rehabilitation of historical mine waste and protection of water resources, ecosystems and cultural heritage. The company links these measures to a responsible environmental and social governance framework and notes that the project is expected, subject to permitting and development decisions, to contribute to regional economic activity through employment, local procurement and long-term investment in the Municipality of Montalegre in northern Portugal.
Technical work and resource development
Allied has reported multiple drilling campaigns at Borralha, including reverse circulation and diamond drilling in the Santa Helena Breccia area. Company news releases describe:
- Extensive mineralized intervals and localized ultra high-grade tungsten intercepts in several drill holes.
- An updated mineral resource estimate for the Santa Helena Breccia prepared under NI 43-101 and CIM Definition Standards, with separate reporting of measured, indicated and inferred categories.
- Ongoing metallurgical test work indicating that wolframite mineralization at Borralha is coarsely liberated and amenable to gravity concentration, with potential by-product recovery of cassiterite and chalcopyrite.
The company presents these technical results as supporting the potential for a scalable underground operation at Borralha and as inputs into planned economic assessments and mine design studies. Allied also notes that historical and recent drilling results, sampling protocols and analytical methods have been documented in a technical report filed on SEDAR+.
Role within the critical raw materials landscape
In its public statements, Allied links its business strategy to policies such as the EU Critical Raw Materials Act, which identifies tungsten as a critical raw material and defense-critical resource. The company highlights that the European Union is heavily dependent on tungsten imports from a small number of non-western countries and argues that projects like Borralha and Vila Verde could contribute to a more secure, NATO-aligned supply chain for tungsten.
Allied also provides educational context on tungsten markets and deposit types, emphasizing the distinctions between wolframite and scheelite mineralization, typical grade ranges in western exploration, and the implications of processing methods for project economics. This context is used by the company to frame reported drill results and resource grades at Borralha within broader industry benchmarks.
Trading venues and investor focus
Allied Critical Metals’ common shares trade on multiple markets: the Canadian Securities Exchange (CSE: ACM), the OTCQB market in the United States (OTCQB: ACMIF) and the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (FSE: 0VJ0). Company communications indicate that capital raised through equity offerings is intended to fund exploration and development activities at Borralha and Vila Verde and to provide working capital. Investors researching ACMIF stock are therefore primarily evaluating a tungsten-focused exploration and development company with assets in northern Portugal and a stated emphasis on critical raw materials security, regulatory advancement and technical de-risking of its flagship project.
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