Alistair Ross is the President and CEO of Rockcliff Metals. With over 40 years of experience, Mr. Ross is a seasoned and accomplished leader in the mining industry, known for his passion for mentorship in order to develop true leadership potential within individuals and organizations. Before joining Rockcliff, Alistair was the Head of Mining and Milling for Vale’s North Atlantic Base Metals Operations and ran his own consultancy business.
Alistair’s career in mining has spanned six countries across the globe, operated over 20 mines and was involved with the construction of 3 mines. He served as President of Lonmin’s South Africa Operations, the world’s third largest platinum producer, and spent many years at the former Inco’s Canadian Operations as General Manager of areas including Mining, Milling, Smelting and Copper Refining.
Mr. Ross holds a BSc. Metallurgical Engineering, ARSM and a MSc. Mineral Process Design, DIC from the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, London University, England.
President, CEO and Executive Director at Element 29
Brian brings more than 30 years of experience in mineral exploration throughout Canada, Europe and southeast Asia. Brian was previously CEO and Board Member of Pembrook Copper Corp., where he developed the copper resource at Pecoy in Peru. He also served as the CEO, President and Director of Lake Shore Gold Corp., where he completed an acquisition of the Bell Creek mine and mill and led the team that discovered the Timmins West, Thunder Creek and Bell Creek deep deposits.
Brian began his career as a geologist on the Casa Berardi gold discoveries in Quebec. He opened Incos exploration office in Val dOr, Quebec and is credited with the discovery of the Douay West gold deposit in 1990 and was subsequently appointed to the board of Societe DExploration Miniere Vior Inc.
In 1994, as Incos Manager Exploration, Eastern North America, he conducted the preliminary assessment of the Voiseys Bay Ni-Cu-Co discovery. Brian later managed Incos exploration office in Jakarta and was involved, through a JV with Highlands Gold, in the discovery of the Beutong copper porphyry in Sumatra. He holds a B.Sc. in Geology from McGill University and is also a member of the Professional Geoscientists of Ontario. Brian is also a director of SSR Mining Inc. and GFG Resources Inc.
Mr. Nilsson has dedicated the last 15 years to a career in mining advisory and investment banking for various Canadian and international firms, most recently serving as Senior Vice President at an Australian multinational investment bank with a market leading mining advisory practice. He has advised on many high-profile M&A and Canadian capital markets transactions and has built a reputation for excellence and integrity. Mr. Nilsson holds an Honours Bachelor of Science in Physics and Exploration Geophysics from the University of Toronto and a Master in Finance from INSEAD.
Replay transcript excerpt
Hello everyone and welcome to the second Copper panel hosted by 6. We're joined today by Alastair Ross, the CEO of Rockcliffe Metals, Brian Booth, the CEO of Element 29 Resources, and Leif Nielsen, the CEO of Surge Copper. Today in this panel discussion, we'll be covering the future of copper and everything from here to there. As always, you can submit your questions at any time during this panel discussion using the right-hand side of your screen in the Q&A panel. This summit is being recorded and will be available to watch afterwards on six.com. And with that, we're gonna launch right into it. So to start with Leif, I'd like you to take a couple minutes, introduce yourself, introduce your company, talk about what's happening. Sure. Thanks, Cam. And I'm very happy to be here. My name is Leif Nelson. I recently came out of a 15 year career in investment banking, most recently with Macquarie Capital, which is a large Australian-based investment bank. We joined Surge as the new CEO in January of this year. The company is in the middle of a bit of a board and management refresh that's been going on since we did a financing last fall. The strategy is really focused around consolidating a very big land package around the Huckleberry mine, which is 1 of Imperial Metals' mines in British Columbia. Currently on care and maintenance, 1 of their assets that they're probably looking forward to assessing restart economics around. Surge controls a very large resource base on these properties and is focused on exploration and development to advance those projects over the next couple of years. Thank you for that. Brian, I'll pass it to you. Thank you. Thank you, Cam. I'm Brian Booth, President and CEO of Element 29. I've been in the mining business for plus 35 years, spent the fir...
