North Atlantic Titanium Corp. (CSE: NATO) (OTCQB: NATQF) (FSE: Y33) announced on September 22, 2026, that it has received drilling permits for its exploration program at the Everett Titanium-Vanadium-Phosphate project in Havre-Saint-Pierre, Quebec. The permits, granted by Quebec’s Ministère des Ressources naturelles et des Forêts, include a Permit for Forestry Activities and a Permit for Work with Impact for the drilling campaign only. The company holds the 2,406-hectare property under option from Romaine River Titanium Inc.
The approved diamond drilling program is designed to confirm historical drilling from 1951 and 1968 in the northern area of the exposed Everett Oxide Body. Approximately 25,000 meters of drilling across 20 drill pads is planned over three years, with depths mostly less than 350 meters. Access will primarily use brushed-out historical drill trails, minimizing forest impacts and providing access to both the north and south areas of the 2.5-kilometer-long oxide body. The drilling will be conducted in success-contingent stages, leading to a mineral resource estimate.
The Everett project is distinguished by its multi-commodity potential. Metallurgical testing by Corem (Consortium de recherche en traitement de mineral) on a composite sample from 17 sites across the oxide body revealed that over 99% of oxide minerals are high-quality hemo-ilmenite with very low magnesium, manganese, and aluminum impurities, and chromium below detection limits. The composite graded 37.0% Fe₂O₃, 17.4% TiO₂, 0.18% V₂O₅, and 2.27% P₂O₅, with magnetite averaging just 0.9%. These results suggest potential coproducts of apatite (phosphate) and vanadium, with possible scandium credits, making Everett a broader Fe–Ti–V–P critical-minerals opportunity than a conventional titanium orebody. A detailed figure of the drilling sections is available at Figure 1. Everett Oxide Body – Layout of Drilling Sections 9N to 19NThe Oxide Body is open down-dip Eastward and along strike to the North. The Corem composite metallurgical sample contained massive Ti-Oxide mineralization grading.37.0% Fe₂O₃, 17.4% TiO₂, 0.18% V₂O₅ and 2.27% P₂O₅.
Dwayne Yaretz, CEO of North Atlantic Titanium, stated, “Metallurgical results reinforce the Company’s strategy to advance a secure, domestic critical minerals processing supply chain in Canada – supporting defence readiness and the reshoring of Western titanium metal production. Our Stage 1 Program will define our technical program, and follow-up drilling and metallurgical testing over the next 18 to 24 months is designed to confirm a path towards a long-term supply of synthetic rutile for end producers of titanium metal.”
The Everett Oxide Body lies only 3 kilometers from Rio Tinto’s Lac Tio Mine, the world’s largest hard-rock ilmenite deposit, which supplies approximately 19% of global titanium dioxide feedstock demand. However, Everett is not a direct analogue; it is hosted by a layered intrusion with an uncommon jotunite affinity and shows evidence of higher volatile contents. The project is part of the Grenville Province’s Proterozoic anorthosite–mangerite–charnockite–granite systems, known for iron, titanium, and phosphorus deposits.
The company’s exploration is supported by the Elements08 program, a collaboration with Romaine River, the Centre technologique des résidus industriels, Impact Global Solutions, and Corem, funded by the Government of Quebec. For more information, visit www.natitanium.com. The original release can be viewed at www.newmediawire.com.
