[Pacific North West Capital Corp.] Sudbury Accent: Slump easing for exploration company – by Carol Mulligan (Sudbury Star – September 17, 2016)

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Say you’re a barber who runs your own shop, and you haven’t had a customer in your chair for five years. You may be tempted to give up, to literally throw in the towel, even enter another line of work. But you hang in there.

Finally, after a half-decade of inactivity, customers begin to return, slowly at first, but growing in number as word spreads you’re back and in business, and offering a good product. Harry Barr used that analogy this week at a town hall meeting in Sudbury intended to drum up interest in Pacific North West Capital Corp.’s River Valley Platinum Group Metal Project.

After a brutal five-year period, in which low commodity prices spooked investors away from sinking money into mineral exploration, interest in the River Valley project began to grow again. The presentation at the Holiday Inn, hosted by Barr, capped off two days of tours in which 30 or more people toured the River Valley property and visited the core shed for the project 100 kilometres northeast of Sudbury.

Barr is president and chief executive officer of Pacific North West Capital, which has undergone a name change to New Age Metals Inc., a change that hasn’t really caught on yet.

Barr greeted everyone arriving at the Sudbury session in person, shaking hands, welcoming them and using the barbershop metaphor to describe how difficult it has been to attract investors to the River Valley project in the last five years.

When giant miners around the globe were feeling the crunch, juniors such as Pacific North West were barely hanging on by their fingernails.

Still, from the spring of 2011 and for the next five years, Barr continued to knock on the doors of people who might be persuaded to invest in what he believes is the next big mineral find.

Barr is bullish on the River Valley project, which is rich in platinum group metals. Platinum, palladium, gold and other precious metals are a byproduct of mining operations in Sudbury, particularly the deeper underground they go. But River Valley would be only the second primary PGM mine in Canada, after North American Palladium Ltd.’s Lac des Iles Mine near Thunder Bay.

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