While there's no doubt the world still has significant need for base metals, discussion of their extraction can take a backseat in the public imagination to precious metals. But for this hour, join executives exploring for base metals as they discuss the economics of their projects and how they might change as prices evolve through 2024. The executives will be available for questions following a group discussion.
Vice President Corporate Development at Fireweed Metals
Alex is a mining professional with over ten years of combined expertise in South American mining operations, mine finance, and Global Capital Markets. He began his career at Antofagasta Minerals, working at the Los Pelambres copper mine in Chile. Subsequently, he relocated to Colorado to pursue his master’s degree while concurrently working at Resource Capital Funds and the Critical Materials Institute, a U.S. DOE innovation hub focused on the development of secure and resilient supply chains for critical materials crucial to the energy transition. Following this, Alex spent five years with CIBC’s Mining Investment Banking Team in Vancouver, BC, covering a broad spectrum of mining and royalty companies. Throughout this tenure, he played instrumental roles in executing diverse corporate transactions across various commodities and asset-level stages. Alex holds a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in Engineering (Mining) degree from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, as well as a Master of Science in Mineral and Energy Economics degree from The Colorado School of Mines.
Mr. Campbell holds a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in Engineering (Mining) degree from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, as well as a Master of Science in Mineral and Energy Economics degree from The Colorado School of Mines.
A former COO of Barrick Gold Corporation from 2015-2018, Mr. Williams is a global executive with an established track-record of value creation, pioneering and transformational leadership within the Mining Industry and other demanding assignments. Amongst other notable achievements, this helped Barrick deliver an 80% improvement in the company’s operating profit over his three years, and the total overhaul of the Company’s relationship with the Tanzanian Government following a breakdown of relations between a Barrick subsidiary and that government.
Formerly, the CEO of an African and Central Asian focused exploration business, and Non-Executive Director of Gem Diamonds PLC, he was also the Commanding Officer of the British Special Forces Regiment – the SAS. He is currently a Non-Executive Director of Trevali Mining Corporation, Chair of Trevali’s HSEC Committee and an advisor to mining companies facing complex operational, political or ESG challenges.
BSc Economics, University College London; MA Security Studies, Kings College London; MBA Cranfield University.
Co-Founder and CEO of Reyna Gold (REYG:TSXV) and Co-founder/CFO of Reyna Silver (RSLV:TSXV); Director of Cassiar Gold (GLDC:TSXV). Director of Emerging Markets Capital, a mining focused investment firm based in Hong Kong. MBA from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and BSc Economics Cardiff University.
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Good day everyone and welcome to our Base Metal Outlook panel for 2024. Despite base metals often taking a backseat to precious metals in public discussions, their significance remains undeniable. Today we have individuals from various exploration companies here to delve into the economics of their projects and to validate and anticipate these evolving alongside price fluctuations throughout 2024. After our group discussion, we'll open the floor for some questions. So please feel free to use the chat box in the bottom right corner. But to kick things off, let's just start with some brief introductions, gentlemen. Could you please introduce yourself as well as the type of metals your projects are exposed to? I'm just going to start from my screen left to right. So, Michael, why don't you go ahead and do the first intro? No, thanks, Kyle. Great to be here. Looking forward to the discussion. And yes, Sendai Resources is focused on copper, gold and silver. We're in Vicuna, where you've got these telescope porphyries containing all 3 of those metals. So, for the base metal aspect, we will be focusing on Copper. Thank you. And Richard? Thanks, everybody. Nice to be here. Bunker Hill is an old Zinc-led silver mine that ran for 100-years, closed in 1980. We got hold of it 3 years ago or so. We are going to bring it back into production at the end of this year. So the base metals component, or the 1 that we'll most speak about here is zinc. And that produces 70% of our income starting off. And we're a low cap X restart. And also significantly, we're the first mine to restart in a US government environmental cleanup site since those programs started in 1969. Thank you, Richard. And Alex. Hi, hi everyone. Thanks for connecting today. Unfortunately, Brandon had an urgent persona...
