Meeting Overview The Aldebaran Resources Live Summit featured CEO John Black discussing the company's 2023 work plan, focusing on the ongoing drilling program at the Altar project. The presentation highlighted the project's potential, strategic investments, and the favorable market conditions for copper. Key Discussion Points - Overview of the current drilling program at the Altar project, which started in late November. - Discussion of the existing copper-gold resource, totaling over 11 billion pounds of copper and 3.4 million ounces of gold. - Strategic partnerships with investors such as Sabani Stillwater and South 32, and their implications for project development. - The favorable mining environment in San Juan province, Argentina, and its benefits for Aldebaran. - The potential for increased valuation as drilling results are expected to flow in the coming months. Decisions Made - No explicit decisions recorded. Action Items & Next Steps - [Unassigned] : Monitor the progress of ...
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. I'm pleased to introduce our speaker, Aldebaran CEO John Black. John will take us through the company's 2023 work plan. Following that, there will be a live Q&A session. You can submit questions anytime throughout the presentation using the Q&A panel found on the right-hand side of your screen. As always, the summit is being recorded and will be available on SIX.com shortly after the event ends. Without further ado, I'll hand it over to John to kick us off. Speaker 2: Great. Thanks, Romeo. Speaker 2: And thanks to 6 for providing this forum for us to be able to provide an update to everyone about how our drilling program is coming along and what we anticipate we'll see in the next few months. I've just arrived into Vancouver getting ready for a series of conferences, investor conferences that we'll have here in the next week or so as we kind of kick off the heart of the investor conference season between now and PDAC coming up. But Speaker 2: As we mentioned, we started our drill program in November, late November of the last year, and it's well underway now. We have 3 rigs drilling. It will be still some time before the initial assays come out, but we thought it'd be a good moment just to give an update to everyone on where we're at with the program and what we anticipate will be coming up in the next few months. Pretty exciting time to be delivering results from a major copper discovery. Not only do we have the copper market behaving well in terms of metal prices and increased interest in the projects, but we're seeing continued interest from major companies to make investments into, if not outright acquire Speaker 2: assets. And I think we're really on the leading edge of that and that...
