Jeremy Poirier

Chief Executive Officer | Nexus Uranium Corp. | Two decades of natural resources capital markets experience across uranium and lithium

"Steering Nexus Uranium from gold explorer to a consolidated US ISR uranium developer anchored by the Chord project in South Dakota's Black Hills."

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Biography

Jeremy Poirier is the Chief Executive Officer of Nexus Uranium Corp. (CSE: NEXU), a Vancouver-based junior explorer building a portfolio of uranium projects across the American West and Saskatchewan's Athabasca Basin. He has led the company since January 2022, when he took the helm of what was then Golden Independence Mining, a Nevada-focused gold explorer, and steered its pivot into uranium — capped by the 2023 rename to Nexus Uranium. He is known for consolidating uranium ground in South Dakota's Black Hills, a historic mining district where in-situ recovery (ISR — a method that dissolves uranium underground and pumps it to surface without a mill or open pit) has already been permitted nearby.

Poirier brings nearly two decades of capital markets experience in natural resources and technology, including senior officer and corporate development roles at exploration companies such as Pure Energy Minerals. As CEO of Bearing Lithium Corp. from 2016 to 2019, he led the acquisition of Li3 Energy, giving Bearing a free-carried 17.7% interest in the Maricunga lithium brine project in Chile. That stake was later rolled into Lithium Power International, and in 2025 the Maricunga project entered a development partnership between Rio Tinto and Codelco, Chile's state-owned copper miner. He joined Golden Independence's advisory board in February 2021, moved to its board of directors that December, and served as interim CEO before taking the job permanently. Under his leadership, Nexus completed its merger with Basin Uranium in September 2025 and closed the 100% acquisition of its flagship Chord project in January 2026.

His approach is district consolidation: acquiring projects in historically productive uranium regions near proven ISR operations, then advancing them through state permitting. Nexus's flagship Chord project, in Fall River County near enCore Energy's permitted Dewey-Burdock ISR operation, hosts a reported inferred resource (an early-stage estimate based on limited drilling) of about 2.75 million pounds of U3O8, the uranium oxide measured in resource estimates. The portfolio also includes the Wolf Canyon, Deadhorse and RC projects in South Dakota, ground in Wyoming's Great Divide Basin, the Arizona Strip, and the Mann Lake project in the Athabasca Basin, Canada's premier high-grade uranium district. To deepen technical strength, Poirier added ISR permitting specialists to the advisory board, including the longtime manager of the Dewey-Burdock project.

Following Poirier offers a window into how a junior uranium developer positions for a tightening nuclear fuel market: Nexus cites a roughly 50-million-pound annual supply deficit, and its 2026 focus is South Dakota permitting, where Chord went before the state Board of Minerals in May 2026. He also serves as Chairman of Grit Metals Corp., a lithium explorer in central Finland, after leading that company as CEO until August 2026.

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Nexus Uranium: Securing America’s Nuclear Fuel Supply and Energy Independence

guest Jun 2, 2026

Top takeaway He argues that US energy demand, flat for decades, is now growing 3-4% a year, and that nuclear — existing plants, new builds, and small modular reactors — must supply the largest share of that growth.
He expects the uranium price — around the mid-to-high $80s as of the June 2026 interview after moving from the low $20s to over $100 — to go higher, and says sustained higher prices are needed to bring on sorely needed new mine supply.
He champions in-situ recovery mining, noting it produces over 60% of global and over 90% of US uranium, with no milling, far less land disturbance, and simpler remediation than underground or open-pit mining.
He expects North American uranium projects to keep commanding a premium as the US codifies uranium as a critical mineral and bans Russian imports, though he notes much production still comes from Russia and Kazakhstan.
He says the current US administration is supportive of uranium mining and that this makes it a good time to be advancing US-based projects.

Uranium prices have reset from the low $20s toward the mid-to-high $80s, and rising prices should unlock the new mine supply utilities need. US power demand is growing 3-4% a year after decades of flat consumption, and the guest argues nuclear must cover most of the gap. Permitting for Nexus Uranium's South Dakota project (just under 3 million pounds of uranium) stalled on an injunction a judge has since thrown out. ISR (in-situ recovery — leaching uranium underground through wells) skips mills and large pits, cutting capital and operating costs on the way to production. Drill-ready South Pass in Wyoming and a newly acquired high-grade Arizona Strip portfolio advance in parallel while South Dakota permitting resolves.

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Key Quotes

"Closing this acquisition marks an important milestone as we consolidate ownership of our flagship Chord project."

— Nexus Uranium news release on closing the 100% acquisition of the Chord project, January 2026

"This transaction brings together complementary assets located within top-tier uranium districts."

— Nexus Uranium and Basin Uranium merger announcement, June 2025

Key Works

Nexus Uranium corporate site and project portfolio (2026)

Overview of Nexus's US ISR-amenable uranium projects, including Chord in South Dakota and Mann Lake in the Athabasca Basin.

Bearing Lithium Announces Closing of Li3 Energy Acquisition (2018)

News release marking the acquisition that gave Bearing a 17.7% free-carried interest in the Maricunga lithium brine project in Chile.

Specializations

Uranium Exploration USA Saskatchewan Permitting Junior Miners

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