NEWS: Our Top Pick CSE: KCLI Adds More Blue-Chip Talent as Strategic Advisor
Kenneth Taylor, former senior executive with NYSE: IPI (Intrepid Potash) joins KCLI as a strategic advisor
Things just got a lot more spicy for our top pick, American Critical Minerals (CSE: KCLI, OTCQB: APCOF), positioning their current market capitalization of $12M for a major upward re-rating.
American Critical Minerals (CSE:KCLI) just made a power move that signals serious intent. The company appointed Kenneth Taylor as Strategic Advisor - and his resume is exactly what you'd want for a developing Paradox Basin potash and lithium play.
Taylor spent 12 years at Intrepid Potash, rising to Vice President of Business Development. For the past 8 years, he's been CFO at Redmond Minerals. This guy knows Utah's evaporite deposits inside and out.
The Intrepid Connection Changes Everything
Here's what makes this appointment brilliant: Intrepid operates the Moab mine just 20 kilometers from KCLI's Green River project. Taylor understands the exact geology, the solution mining process, and the commercial realities of potash production in this district.
Simon Clarke emphasized Taylor's strategic value: "his knowledge of successful Potash Solution Mining Operations in the Paradox Basin and the evolution of the Paradox Brines as a major source of lithium and associated by-products, provides us with invaluable insights and connections."
Brownfield to Production Blueprint
KCLI appears to be assembling a team capable of taking this project straight from brownfield to production. Taylor's combination of operational, financial, and regulatory experience across evaporite minerals - including potash, lithium chloride, and magnesium chloride - positions KCLI to execute at commercial scale.
CEO Simon Clarke has done it before - co-founding and managing Osum Oil and Gas from startup to a $400 million sale recently.
Kenneth’s industry connections provide direct access to potential strategic partners and state government entities. When you're sitting on a 600 million to 1 billion tonne potash exploration target with lithium upside, those relationships matter.
Warrant Exercise Program
The company also launched a warrant exercise incentive program, offering existing warrant holders additional warrants at $0.28 until 2027 if they exercise by August 6th. This moves treasury funding while giving current investors upside leverage.
With permits for seven drill holes secured and blue-chip talent aboard, KCLI is positioning for a major 2025 campaign in America's only Super Potash Basin.
Press Release
American Critical Minerals Announces Kenneth Taylor as Strategic Advisor to the Company Launches Early Warrant Exercise Incentive Program
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA July 22, 2025 - American Critical Minerals Corp. ("American Critical Minerals" or the"Company") (CSE:KCLI | OTCQB:APCOF | Frankfurt:2P3) is pleased to announce that it has appointed Kenneth Taylor as Strategic Advisor with immediate effect.
Kenneth Taylor is an expert in Salt Minerals and Evaporite Deposits and has worked for over 20 years in the States of Utah and New Mexico. Ken was with Intrepid Potash Inc. (www.intrepidpotash.com) for 12 years in a number of roles including as part of Senior Management, latterly as Vice President of Business Development. He has also consulted to a number of entities in Utah and for the last 8 years has been in senior positions with Redmond Minerals focused primarily on its Mineral Salt Products and is its Chief Financial Officer.
Ken has process, regulatory, finance, sales, and research experience across a broad range of evaporite minerals including sodium chloride (salt), potash (potassium chloride), lithium chloride, magnesium chloride, and other forms of evaporites. His combination of financial and operational experience combined with work on R&D projects will enable him to provide commercial, operational and strategic advice to the American Critical Minerals Team. His industry connections and current work network will provide access to a number of potential Industry and Strategic Partners as well as State Government Entities.
Ken graduated Magna Cum Laude from BYU with a degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering and has post graduate degrees in business from the Booth School of Business in Chicago and Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Management Commentary
Simon Clarke President & CEO stated, "we are delighted to welcome Ken to our team, his knowledge, and insights as well as his strategic relationships will be extremely valuable as we continue to advance our Green River Project. In particular, his knowledge of successful Potash Solution Mining Operations in the Paradox Basin and the evolution of the Paradox Brines as a major source of lithium and associated by-products, provides us with invaluable insights and connections, as does his knowledge of successfully developing evaporite deposits across Utah and beyond."
Warrant Incentive Program
The Company also announces the implementation of a warrant exercise incentive program (the "Program") intended to encourage the early exercise of up to 4,620,800 warrants (the "Warrants") previously issued in connection with a private placement and which are currently exercisable at a price of $0.1875 per share. Under the Program, the Company is offering an inducement to each holder of the Warrants that exercises on or before August 6, 2025 (the "Program End Date"). Holders exercising Warrants on or before the Program End Date will be entitled to receive one additional warrant (the "New Warrant") for each share subscribed for. Each New Warrant will be exercisable at a price of $0.28 until August 6, 2027. The proceeds from the Program will strengthen the Company's treasury and will be used for working capital purposes and the advancement of the Company's Green River Project.
Holders of the Warrants are encouraged to contact the Company to coordinate exercise prior to the Program End Date.
About American Critical Minerals' Green River Potash and Lithium Project
The Green River Potash and Lithium Project is situated within Utah's highly productive Paradox Basin, located 20 miles northwest of Moab, Utah and has significant logistical advantages including close proximity to major rail hubs, airport, roads, water, towns and labour markets. It also benefits from close proximity to the agricultural and industrial heartland of America and numerous potential end-users for its products.
The history of oil and gas production across the Paradox Basin provides geologic data from historic wells across the Project, and the wider Basin, validating and de-risking the potential for high grade potash and large amounts of contained lithium. Wells in and around the project reported lithium up to 500 ppm, bromine up to 6,100 ppm and boron up to 1,260 ppm (Gilbride & Santos, 2012). This data is reinforced by nearby potash production and the advanced stage of neighbouring lithium projects. The Paradox Basin is believed to contain up to 56 billion tonnes of lithium brines, potentially the largest such resource in US (Source: Anson Fastmarkets Presentation - https://wcsecure.weblink.com.au/pdf/ASN/02823465.pdf ) The Company also has a 43-101 Exploration Target of 600 million to 1 billion tonnes of sylvinite (the most important source for the production of potash in North America) with average grades ranging from 19% to 29% KCL.
The Company holds a 100% interest in eleven State of Utah (SITLA) mineral and minerals salt leases covering approximately 7,050 acres, 1,094 federal lithium brine claims (BLM Placer Claims) covering 21,150 acres, and 11 federal (BLM) potash prospecting permits covering approximately 25,480 acres. Through these leases, permits and claims the Company has the ability to explore for potash, lithium and potential by-products across the entire Green River Project (approx. 32,530 acres). The Company is authorized to drill a total of 7 exploratory drill holes across the Project (pending bonding the recently approved 4 drill holes).
Intrepid Potash, Inc. is America's largest potash company and only U.S. domestic potash producer and currently produces potash from its nearby Moab Solution Mine, which the Company believes provides strong evidence of stratigraphic continuity within this part of the Paradox Basin (www.intrepidpotash.com). Anson Resources Ltd. has advanced lithium development projects contiguous to the northern boundary of our Green River Project and neighbouring to the south. Anson has a large initial resource, robust definitive feasibility study and has recently completed successful piloting operations through its partnership with Koch Technology Solutions, as well as an offtake agreement with LG Energy Solution. The Anson exploration targets encompass the combined Mississippian Leadville Formation and the Pennsylvanian Paradox Formation brine-bearing clastic layers, which also underlie American Critical Minerals' entire project area (www.ansonresources.com).
In 2022, the U.S. imported approx. 96.5% of its annual potash requirements with domestic producers receiving a higher sales price due to proximity to market (intrepidpotash.com/ August 15, 2024, Investor Presentation). In March 2024, the US Senate introduced a bill to include key fertilizers and potash on the US Department of Interior list of Critical Minerals which already includes lithium. Recent market estimates suggest that the global potash market is over US$50 billion annually and growing at a compound annual growth rate ("CAGR") of close to 5%. Annual lithium demand is now estimated to be over 1 million tonnes globally and continuing to grow rapidly.
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