MiningNews Select Perth Video Interviews

"The opportunities for this emerging space are really exciting," Alvo Minerals managing director Rob Smakman says, as the new company actively explores for critical minerals in Brazil at its Palma VMS and recently-acquired Bluebush rare earth projects. Smakman is one of the presenters at the inaugural MiningNews Select event.

Adavale Resources executive director David Riekie talks to MiningNews.Net on the significant of the geology of the East African Nickel Belt, the exploration strategy for the main nickel sulphide targets at Kabanga Jirani and the recent acquisition of the Luhuma Central licence within the Jirani. Riekie is one of the presenters at the inaugural MiningNews Select event.

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.

Well-funded Dynamic Metals, which listed on the ASX in January, has already drilled more than 10,000m exploring for critical minerals and gold at its projects in Western Australia, with more programs on the horizon, managing director Karen Wellman explains.

Torque Metals managing director Cristian Moreno describes the company’s regional consolidation move, which sees the explorer expand its holdings near its Paris gold project in Western Australia to include the New Dawn lithium-tantalum occurrence, 600m from the Bald Hill lithium mine amid a buzz of lithium M&A activity.