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 our speakers today. We have CEO and Director John E. Black Speaker 1: and Chief Geological Officer and Director Dr. Kevin B. Heather. Speaker 1: Following the presentation there will be a live Q&A session as per usual, 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 of them as possible. Speaker 1: And of course this is being recorded and available to watch afterwards on SIX.com. Speaker 1: But without any further ado, I'm going to hand it over to you, John, to kick it off. Speaker 2: Okay, great. Thanks, Dasha. I'll just give a brief introduction here. I'd like to open by thanking Dasha and Romeo and Cameron and the entire 6 team. We find this a very good format for us to provide a little more information than we can typically provide in a news release coming out. So we thought that today would be a good time to just provide an update for everybody on where we're at with the program. We've recently Speaker 2: finished our drilling program for the year as the 1st heavy snows have arrived Speaker 2: and this would be a great moment for us to review what was accomplished this year, what the news flow will be over the next few months as we continue to release drill results from that campaign and more importantly what we wanted to do is to go into a little bit more depth on some very, very exciting Speaker 2: geophysical results that we announced last week. Speaker 2: This is a little bit different than what we're typically announcing with drill holes on a program like this. It's a program that we invested quite a bit of time over the last 2 years to get. We have the ...