John Black is an economic geologist with more than 30 years of exploration experience in the Americas, Central Asia, the SW Pacific, and Eastern Europe/Western Asia. He first worked in South America in 1993 and has been actively involved in mineral exploration throughout the continent for several companies since that time. His professional credentials include a B.Sc. degree in Geology from Stanford University in 1983 and an M.S. degree in Geology – Ore Deposits Exploration from the same University in 1988. John was the founding President of Antares Minerals Inc. and was instrumental in acquiring the Haquira project in Peru for Antares. He was the key driver in negotiating the sale of Antares to First Quantum Minerals for C$650 million. John’s early career included work with Bear Creek Mining Company, Kennecott Minerals Corporation, Rio Tinto and Western Mining Corporation and he currently serves as the CEO and director of Regulus Resources Inc.
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Speaker 1: Hello everyone and welcome to Aldebaran Resources Live Summit today hosted by 6. I'm very pleased to introduce CEO and Director John E. Black. John's going to take us through the company's latest news and following we'll have a live Q&A session. So you can submit your questions at any time using the Q&A panel on the right hand side of the screen. And we'll try to get to as many as possible following the presentation. Speaker 1: And as always, this is being recorded and available to watch afterwards on six.com but without any further ado I'm gonna hand it over to John to kick it off. Okay great thanks Dasha and thanks everybody for tuning in or picking this up on a repeat Speaker 2: on this. Speaker 2: We're very excited to be able to present Speaker 2: the summary of the news that we put out yesterday that we Speaker 2: will be having a strategic investment by South 32 into Aldebaran. Speaker 2: This kind of explains some of the radio silence we've had over the past few weeks as everybody's been anticipating results and wondering why there's there's been a little bit of a delay on those. In the background Speaker 2: we were working pretty hard on concluding an opportunity that we think will will really set us up well to continue to explore this this fascinating district that we're working on right now. So today what I'd like to do is is really just go through the details of the agreement, Speaker 2: a few additional twists to it that don't don't fit into a simple press release so people can can realize what's coming up on this, and then more importantly, open it up to questions. And I'd really like to thank Dasha and Romeo and Cameron and the team at 6 for providing us with this format, we find this a pretty good way to be able to communicate Speaker 2: a ...
