A former Executive General Manager of Barrick Gold’s Lumwana Copper Mine in Zambia, Mr Ash is an experienced American Mining Engineer and modernizing leader, with a proven track record of building and leading teams capable of optimizing and enhancing the operating efficiency, profitability and sustainability of mining operations in complex and challenging environments.
During his tenure at Lumwana Mr. Ash Delivered over $100M in sustainable free cash flow improvements, achieved 50% improvement in safety performance, executed a training and development program achieving 96% local workforce, and progressed expansion plans that doubled the value of mine.
BEng Mining Engineering from University of Missouri Rolla; MA in Strategic Leadership, London Business School.
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Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, and welcome to Bunker Hill's Live Investment Summit today. We're hosted by 6 and we're joined by Sam Ash, Bunker Hill's CEO, David Weins, the company's CFO, and Kyle Ergman, their head of geology. The team's going to walk us through their company presentation today, covering their recent news release from this past Monday, and after which we'll be moving on to the live Q&A session. You can of course ask your questions using the Q&A chat on the right hand side of your screen, and as always this summit is being recorded and will be available to watch afterwards on six.com. Speaker 1: So without further ado, Sam, I'm gonna hand it over to you to kick things off. Speaker 2: Thanks a lot, Cam. It's an exciting week for the Bunker Hill team. And we wanted to take the opportunity Speaker 2: to just give a little bit more color to the press release that we put out Monday, and then the 1 that came out just before this presentation today. And Speaker 2: just as a bit of a reminder, it's been a really busy year here at Bunker Hill. You know, In the last year, we've Speaker 2: generated 2 43-101 Speaker 2: compliant resources. We published a PEA with strong economics Speaker 2: that generate roughly $20 million a year of free cash flow. And it's absolutely our strategy to leverage that cash flow to unlock the significant Speaker 2: upside potential at the mine, both the depth and along parallel structures. Speaker 2: But pretty importantly for us, we've had some very significant Speaker 2: corporate catalysts. And I wanna turn it over to Dave just to run you through and give a little bit more color on Speaker 3: what we've achieved here in the last, just the last couple of days. Dave. Great, thanks Sam. So viewers will be familiar with this slide. It'...
