MiningNews Select Perth 2023 Video Interviews

Culpeo Minerals managing director Max Tuesley says the copper-focused explorer prides itself on systematic exploration as it looks for the next copper resource development project at its expanded footprint on the coastal belt in Chile, the country which hosts the world’s largest copper reserves.

Alma Metals managing director Frazer Tabeart outlines the company’s experience and project upside, with drilling underway at its flagship Briggs earn-in joint venture in Queensland, where the updated resource of 1Mt copper puts it among the top 10 largest undeveloped copper projects in Australia, based on contained copper.

“Asia is running out of sand,” VRX Silica managing director Bruce Maluish says, with the WA-based emerging producer aiming to address the looming supply gap thanks to its five projects with a combined resource of 1.4 billion tonnes.

Brightstar Resources managing director Alex Rovira says the expanded, emerging gold development company has a low capital, low risk approach to production at both its Menzies and Laverton gold projects, which have a combined 1.02 million ounces of gold.

Lithium Plus Minerals is aggressively drilling its flagship Bynoe project, which is adjacent to Core Lithium’s Finniss operation in the Northern Territory and has the right geology, is close to infrastructure and enjoys backing from Chinese battery major CATL, as non-executive director Simon Kidston explains.

GTI Energy executive director and CEO Bruce Lane sees the uranium price strengthening in line with nuclear power’s role in the global energy transition, as the company advances its in-situ recovery uranium projects in Wyoming, US.

Emerging copper-gold producer Kingston Resources is expanding its flagship Mineral Hill operations in New South Wales, plus looking to unlock value at its advanced 3.8 million ounce Misima gold project in Papua New Guinea, as managing director Andrew Corbett explains.

With four discoveries in the last four years and 129Mlb U3O8 at its projects in Namibia and Australia, active uranium-focused explorer Elevate Uranium’s proprietary U-pgrade beneficiation process is the “icing on the cake”, managing director and CEO Murray Hill says.

Lodestar Minerals is exploring the copper, gold and base metals potential at its flagship Earaheedy project in Western Australia, while enjoying exposure to a lithium discovery through its stake in Future Battery Minerals, as managing director Ed Turner outlines.

Managing director Damon Dormer says Golden Mile Resources is transitioning to a pre-development company, advancing its flagship 26.3Mt Quicksilver nickel-cobalt project and earlier-stage Youinmery gold project, both in Western Australia.