Critical Minerals & Clean Tech: A Route Forward for the West
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Mon, January 9, 2023 at 1:00 PMendedReplay
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Meeting Overview The meeting focused on the intersection of critical minerals, green technology, and the geopolitical landscape affecting resource management. Panelists discussed the implications of globalization's potential decline and the urgent need for resource development to meet green energy goals. Key Discussion Points - The current geopolitical climate and its impact on global resource management. - The role of China and Russia in the production of critical minerals. - The necessity of transitioning to green energy and the associated demands for mining and resource extraction. - The potential shift towards regional trading blocks and its implications for the minerals sector. - The challenges faced by North America in achieving parity with China in mineral production and processing. Decisions Made - No explicit decisions recorded. Action Items & Next Steps - [Unassigned] : Explore necessary changes in Canadian policy to enhance competitiveness in the minerals sector. - [Unass...
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.
Mr. Macdonald is a professional geologist with a diverse experience base including exploration geology worldwide and investment banking. In recent years he has focused his efforts in exploration and development as a principal of and consultant to various junior mining companies. In the past he was in the City of London where he worked in structuring financings and risk management at Macquarie Bank. In 2007 Mr. Macdonald graduated with an MBA (with Distinction) from Oxford. He completed his B.Sc. in Geology from UBC in 2000. Mr. Macdonald has a long history of mining exploration work in Yukon, including zinc projects, and originally hails from Ross River, near the Macmillan Pass Project site. He is a Professional Geologist registered with Engineers and Geoscientists British Columbia (EGBC).
Founder and CEO of Evenor Investments Ltd, a financial advisory group to junior mining companies for alternative financing, debt, equity and M&A with experience on over $2 billion in mining financing transactions throughout his career. Prior global experience as a research analyst as well as in business development and mining financial advisory roles with Endeavour Financial, Cambrian Mining Finance Ltd, Northern Vertex Mining Corp. and King & Bay West Management Corp.
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Speaker 1: Good afternoon, everybody. Thank you for joining us here today on a panel on critical minerals, green technology, Speaker 1: and Speaker 1: the West's attempt to master these things in the decades moving forward from here. I am your host, Matthew Mickleboro. I run a podcast called the Junior Resource Investing Podcast. You can find me on YouTube under that name and the upcoming website, juniorresourceinvesting.com. Speaker 1: I'm pleased to have with me today a few different guests here, some of which I've spoken with before. Some of this is my 1st time. Speaker 1: I'm going to I will forego the conversation or the introductions here briefly, but I just I'm going to start off with just a little bit of an introduction just to help kind of square our conversation here or frame it for us. Speaker 1: Political scientist Francis Fukuyama famously wrote in the 1990s Speaker 1: about that era marking the end of history. Speaker 1: The Berlin Wall had fallen, the USSR was no more, The ideological battles that had so plagued the world for generations were now over and liberal democracies and free market globalization would reign triumphant as the natural endpoint for society. Speaker 1: Obviously from our vantage point 30 years on Fukuyama's thesis is at the very least deeply flawed. Speaker 1: Land War in continental Europe, Speaker 1: an ascendant and assertive China looking to erode American hegemony, Speaker 1: the retrenchment of ideological and economic divides and halving of the world into camps based on these political and economic differences. Speaker 1: Here in 2023, we once more bear the curse of living in interesting times. Speaker 1: In the span of barely a year, we have been forced to call into question and recalibrate assumptions about the global ord...
