Joanna has over 10 years of experience in exploration across the mining and oil & gas industry.
Her career began in Brazil with Anglo American's nickel exploration unit, she subsequently worked for junior and mid size explorers where she held roles such as Exploration Geologist, Subsurface Manager, and Portfolio Manager. Notably, Joanna played an instrumental role in the commercial oil discovery in the North Sea – Dugong.
Since 2021, Joanna has been serving as a business consultant, specializing in prospectivity models, acreage staking, JVs/acquisitions, and strategic advisory for mineral exploration companies. She is also an active investor in mineral exploration companies and maintains a global perspective by staying updated on drilling results daily.
With a strong focus on Mineral Systems, big data analysis, and systematic exploration processes, Joanna applies valuable lessons learned from the oil & gas industry to her work. She possesses a robust industry network, a Twitter following of 8000+, and extensive contacts within the mining investment community.
Replay transcript excerpt
Well, welcome back. Welcome back to part 2 of the Deutsche Goldmesse. I hope everybody enjoyed lunch, had a good morning session here. It's time for our second keynote and I'm really looking forward to welcoming Joanna Puneka here on stage in a few short seconds. She's an absolute rising star in the mining industry and she's a geologist by trade. So it might be a bit more technical, but we're going to learn where the next discoveries are going to come from. She runs Equivest together with her partner, and they've been selected by the BHP Explorer Program, so they're getting funding from BHP to support the exploration work. Phenomenal knowledge, I've known her for a number of years now. It's the second time she's speaking at Deutsche Goldmesse, and I'm excited that the room is full, and your tummies are full too, I hope. So I hope everybody grabbed a cup of coffee as well. Joanna, it is so great to have you on stage. We're really looking forward to it. There's the thing. Thank you so much for having me and the introduction as well, Kai, and it's a pleasure to be here and speak again. And I'm also European, so it's great to see more European investors in this sector. And today I will be talking about what could be the next decade of discoveries and where they're going to potentially come from. We'll be talking a bit of technology as well and innovation in this sector. And as you heard already, we are part of BHP Explorer program this year and that's the area we're focusing a lot and I know there is also investors and mining companies in the sector and exploration is already so risky so innovating in exploration and especially doing early stage exploration, that's another ball game when it comes to funding. We definitely see this across the sector. I think it will be in...
