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).
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Good morning or good afternoon, depending on where in the world you're tuning in from. Very pleased to be joined today by Aldebaran Resources CEO and Director John Black and CGO and director Dr. Kevin B. Heather. Thank you for joining me today, gentlemen. Good to be here. Just before we get into the main events, I'm going to get into a bit of housekeeping. So first, today's event is being recorded and the replay will be available this afternoon for sharing. There's also an interactive event. There's a chat box in the bottom right corner of your screen. If you click it, you'll be able to ask all the Brown team questions. After a brief presentation from John and Dr. Kevin, we'll get to as many of your questions as we can, but please do pose them at any time during the event. We'll try and tackle as many as we can. We've got some questions in advance over email that we'll get to as well. But that's enough out of me. I'm gonna throw it to John to get us started for today's presentation. Romeo, can you hear me? We can, yes. Romeo, my connection appears to be pretty bad right now. I cannot hear what you're saying. Just throwing it to you to get the presentation started. Romeo, my connection appears to be pretty poor. So I think what is best if we turn it over to Kevin, and then I'll see if I can get reconnected by the time we get to the Q&A. Perfect. We'll let Kevin get started. Okay. All right. Yeah, John's traveling today and he's in a corner of the airport in Denver with poor internet connection. So apologies for that. So I'll start us off. Today, we're really happy to be here and we welcome everybody and thanks a lot for taking the time to tune in to this webinar. We're going to explain the most recent results that we put out yesterday, of which we put out 1 of the bet...
