Aldebaran Resources: Investor Day, Live From Toronto
The event is being held for analysts, investment advisors and investors. Presentations are given by John E. Black, CEO & Director; Dr. Kevin B. Heather, Chief Geological Officer; Adam Greening, Senior VP Corporate Development; and Javier Robeto, VP & Country Manager, Argentina. The presentations include an overview of the Altar copper-gold project using VRIFY, an analysis of the current state of Argentina and a corporate overview.
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.
Dr. Kevin B. Heather is an economic geologist with 40+ years of field experience in North and South America. Dr. Heather was a founding member of both Antares and Regulus and directed the exploration that led to the discovery of the high-grade Haquira East deposit in Southern Peru, which sold to First Quantum Minerals in December 2010 for C$650 million. His professional credentials include a BSc. (honours) degree in Geology from UBC in 1982, a MSc. degree in Geology from Queen’s University in 1985, and a PhD. degree from the University of Keele in 2001. Dr. Heather is currently the Chief Geological Officer (CGO) for Regulus and Aldebaran and is the QP (FAUSIMM) responsible at a corporate level for overseeing the technical aspects of both company’s exploration activities. During his career Dr. Heather has been involved with several discoveries and has worked on various world-class ore deposits including the El Indio Au-Ag-Cu Mine (Chile), the Pascua-Lama Au-Ag deposit (Chile-Argentina), and the Au-Ag Cerro Vanguardia Au-Ag deposit (Patagonia, Argentina).
Senior Vice President Corporate Development at Aldebaran Resources
Adam Greening is a professional geologist with over 15+ years of experience in corporate development, exploration and strategy. Prior to joining Aldebaran, Adam worked at Yamana Gold where he helped evaluate and execute successful acquisitions and divestitures valued at approximately C$4.5 billion. Prior to Yamana Gold, Adam worked at Goldcorp and MPH Consulting as a geologist. Adam has a MBA from the Rotman School of Management - University of Toronto and a B.Sc (honours) from Memorial University of Newfoundland. Adam is also Senior Vice President of Corporate Development for Regulus Resources.
Javier Robeto
Vice President and Country Manager, Argentina at Aldebaran Resources
Javier Robeto is an Argentine geologist with 20+ years of experience in the mining industry. Javier joined Antares Minerals in 2004 and was project manager of both the Rio Grande project in Argentina and the Haquira project in Southern Peru. Javier was hired as Regulus’ Country Manager in 2010, when Antares’ Argentina properties were spun out to Regulus upon the sale of Haquira. Javier has been leading Aldebaran’s Altar project exploration since 2018, when Regulus spun out its Argentina properties to Aldebaran. Javier has an MBA from IAE Business School of the Austral University, Buenos Aires, and a B.Sc. from National University of San Juan, Argentina.
Replay transcript excerpt
Good morning, everyone. I'd like to welcome you to the 2024 Aldebaran Resources Investor Day. We'd like to thank everyone who's joined us in person as well as all of those joining us via the live stream through our partners at 6. We'll begin today with some introductions and then go through the agenda for the event. With us today for management, we have John Black, our CEO, Dr. Kevin B. Heather, our Chief Geological Officer, myself, Adam Greening, Senior Vice President of Corporate Development, and Javier Rubito, our Vice President and Country Manager for Argentina. The topics we'll be covering today will be why copper. I'll walk you through that. We'll then have John come up and talk about our corporate structure and a little bit about our corporate strategy. Kevin will then come up and present on the project itself. He'll walk you through the project using Verify. We'll then have Javier present on Argentina and how things have changed so drastically there in the past 12 to 24 months. He'll also talk a little bit about our efforts with the communities. We'll then have some summary statements by John and then we'll move on to questions and answers. If you are joining via the live stream, you should be able to submit questions via 6, so please send those through and we'll do our absolute best to get to all of them. As well, if you are attending in person, we will be serving some lunch and refreshments after the session today. So please stick around, take the opportunity to grab some lunch and meet with management. We are a company that is listed both on the TSX Venture as well as the OTC. And we will be making forward looking statements today. Okay. So why copper? Why do we think copper is the right commodity to be investing in not only today, but for tomorrow and int...
