Meeting Overview The meeting featured Derek Iwanaka, Vice President of Investor Relations and Corporate Development at B Metals, who provided an update on his recent trip to Japan. He focused on the company's Kazan gold projects in Hokkaido, discussing the current drilling activities and the historical context of the mining sites visited. Key Discussion Points - Overview of Derek's trip to Japan, including travel experiences and challenges due to COVID-19 restrictions. - Focus on B Metals' Kazan gold projects, particularly the Kato, Konamoi, and Todoroki projects in Hokkaido. - Current drilling activities at the Kato project, with positive results and expectations for further updates before year-end. - Exploration of the historical Konamai mine and its significance in the region's mining history. - Insights gained from visiting various mining sites and geological features, including fumaroles at Mount Asai-dake. Decisions Made - No explicit decisions recorded. Action Items & Next St...
Mr. Wilton is founding CEO of BeMetals and has over 30 years of experience in the minerals industry including roles ranging from target generation to feasibility studies and business development for base and precious metals. From 2010-2017, he was the Regional Exploration Manager of Africa at Antofagasta PLC. He was also a principal member of both the discovery and resource development teams of the Otjikoto Gold Mine in Namibia with Anglovaal Mining. Co-recipient of the Henno Martin Medal from the Namibian Geological Society for his role in the discovery.
VP, Investor Relations and Corporate Development at BeMetals Corp.
Mr. Iwanaka is a founding member of the BeMetals executive management team. He has over 18 years of investor relations and corporate development experience in the mining industry. Over the course of his career, he has been involved with over 20 mergers, acquisitions and property divestures, and he has played key roles in raising over US$100 million through various equity financings, including one of the first at-the-market (“ATMâ€) financings by a Canadian brokerage firm. Prior to joining BeMetals, Mr. Iwanaka oversaw the marketing programs for a number of mining companies traded in Canada, USA, Germany and the UK.
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Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, and welcome to today's episode of B Metals Monthly Update Series, hosted by 6. I'm pleased to introduce our speaker for today, Derek Iwanaka, Vice President of Investor Relations and Corporate Development at B Metals. Derek's going to walk us through the presentation that he has up here and after we're going to enter into a live Q&A session. If you want to ask any questions feel free to do so using the Q&A tab found on the right hand side of your screen and as always today's event is being recorded and is going to be available on six.com in the coming days. Without further ado, Derek, I wanna pass things over to you and get us started. Speaker 2: Thanks, Cam, and thanks to 6 for hosting today's webinar. Speaker 2: It's gonna be really casual today. I am still pretty jet lagged and just got in Speaker 2: from Japan Speaker 2: less than 48 hours ago. So Speaker 2: the trip is still fresh in my head. And I wanted to update our investors in our audience and just just anybody who's following along with us, Speaker 2: how my trip went. Speaker 2: And spent 9 days in Japan, Speaker 2: and I have a little pictorial Speaker 2: presentation for you, and Speaker 2: if anybody has any questions then, I'd be very happy to answer them. Speaker 2: There may be forward-looking statements, but most of this is really just going to be a recap of my trip to Japan. Speaker 2: As most of you probably know, Speaker 2: I'm here in Vancouver, Speaker 2: headquartered in the Vancouver office, but we do have projects in Idaho just south of us. And then in Zambia, we have our copper exploration project. Today, we really want to focus on our Kazan gold projects in Japan. Speaker 2: And there we go. So Speaker 2: these are the main projects I want to focus on here. The...
