Drilling Where It Counts: Exploring in the World's Best Jurisdictions
Join us as we discuss exploring in some of the world's best mining jurisdictions and drilling where it counts. We invite you to bring your questions to this live discussion.
Thu, November 20, 2025 at 1:00 PMendedReplay
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Meeting Overview The meeting involved a discussion among executives from various mining companies backed by NewQuest Capital, focusing on the advantages of different mining jurisdictions, particularly Finland, the Western US, Australia, and British Columbia. Each speaker provided insights into their respective companies and the unique opportunities within their operational regions. Key Discussion Points - Introduction of NewQuest Capital and its focus on early-stage exploration projects in mining-friendly jurisdictions. - Overview of each participating company: - Inflection Resources: Focus on copper and gold exploration in Eastern Australia. - Headwater Gold: High-grade epithermal gold targets in the Western US, particularly Nevada. - Red Canyon Resources: Targeting tier 1 copper discoveries in North America. - FinEx Metals: Exploration for gold and critical minerals in northern Finland. - Discussion on the advantages of each jurisdiction: - Finland: Underexplored with significant ...
Mr. Kosonen, a dedicated entrepreneur, and investor has over 30 years’ experience in leadership roles in businesses across Europe, Asia, and North America. His current focus is on natural resource investments, particularly mineral exploration companies operating in mining-friendly jurisdictions.
Mr. Kosonen is the co-founder and director of NewQuest Capital Inc. and OCP Holdings Ltd., privately held investment firms based in Vancouver, Canada. He also founded and serves as Chairman of FinEx Metals Ltd., which holds gold and nickel exploration assets in his native Finland. Additionally, Mr. Kosonen sits on the board of directors of Inflection Resources Ltd. and Headwater Gold Inc.
Previously, Mr. Kosonen held the position of Managing Director, Asia-Pacific, for Nokia Cables (later NK Cables), a leading global manufacturer and supplier of telecommunications equipment. He holds a master's degree in economics and has lived and worked in Finland, China, and Singapore prior to relocating to Vancouver, Canada.
Mr. Stroup is an exploration geologist and mining executive with over 17 years of experience exploring for gold, base metals, and geothermal resources. Mr. Stroup’s career has focused on creating value through early-stage exploration with major mining companies as well as junior explorers.
In addition to his role as partner and director of NewQuest Capital Inc., Mr. Stroup is a founder, President and CEO of Headwater Gold Inc. which is actively exploring a large portfolio of epithermal gold projects in the western United States in partnership with Newmont Corporation. Mr. Stroup also serves as US Technical Lead and Director of Red Canyon Resources Ltd. which explores for copper-gold porphyry deposits across western North America.
Mr. Stroup’s prior roles include Senior Geologist for Kinross Gold Corporation, where he focused on greenfields exploration in Nevada, as well as positions with several junior explorers working on diverse resource projects from Central America to Alaska.
Mr. Waddell is a mining executive with over 30 years of diverse international experience. His broad expertise encompasses commercial, technical and capital market aspects spanning both junior exploration and major mining companies. This extensive and wide-ranging background provides him with a comprehensive understanding of the mining industry and its associated capital markets.
Mr. Waddell is the co-founder and director of NewQuest Capital Inc. and the founder, President and CEO of Inflection Resources Ltd. with copper-gold exploration assets in Australia and an exploration partnership with AngloGold Ashanti. Mr. Waddell is also a founder and Executive Chairman of Headwater Gold Inc. which is exploring large gold exploration projects in the western United States in partnership with Newmont Corporation.
Prior to his current roles, Mr. Waddell held the position of Vice President - Greenfields Exploration for Kinross Gold Corporation, where he was responsible for all global generative exploration initiatives. Previously, he was a founder and former President and CEO of GoldQuest Mining Corp., a company focused on exploring and developing copper-gold assets the Dominican Republic.
Throughout his career Alistair has lived in various countries, including the Dominican Republic, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Chile, Venezuela, Australia and Canada.
Mr. Zerb has over 30 years combined professional experience in mining, mineral exploration and development, capital markets and financial analysis. His technical experience includes senior roles in generative mineral exploration, development and open pit and underground mining of base and precious metals.
In 1996, Mr. Zerb joined an established Vancouver based Investment firm, PI Financial Corp. as a Mining Analyst. From 2001 to 2005 he led the Capital Markets Division as Vice President of Research and Institutional Sales. During the latter two years, he served as President and CEO of the firm's wholly owned US subsidiary. In 2005 he joined Canaccord Genuity Inc. as a Senior Mining Analyst, leaving the organization in 2012 as Director, Research Analyst, Metals and Mining.
Mr. Zerb previoulsy served as President and CEO of Exeter Resource Corp. During his tenure Mr. Zerb directed the re-engineering development program of the Caspiche copper-gold porphyry deposit in northern Chile. Exeter was purchased in an all-share takeover by Goldcorp Inc., now Newmont Corporation, in 2017.
Mr. Zerb is currently a partner and director of NewQuest Capital Inc., Chairman of Inflection Resources Ltd., Chairman and CEO of Red Canyon Resources Ltd. and a director of Headwater Gold Inc.
Over his career, Mr. Zerb has been directly or indirectly associated with raising capital in excess of US$250M, largely for mineral exploration and development companies.
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Speaker 2: All right. Speaker 2: Good morning, good afternoon, or good evening. Speaker 2: I'm looking to be joined by summer mining executives connected with NewQuest, and I'll let them introduce themselves shortly. Speaker 2: But here's how today's going to work for the folks in the room. I've got some questions to guide today's discussion, but it is an interactive event. Speaker 2: So please do enter your questions at any time during today's event using the chat function in the bottom right-hand side of your screen. Speaker 2: Today's event is also being recorded and will be available for replay in the mid afternoon, Eastern time today. Speaker 2: But I'm eager to get into the routine of today's discussion. So let me start by letting the speakers introduce themselves and the companies that they represent. Speaker 2: And let's start with Speaker 2: Alistair. Speaker 3: Hi, my name is Alistair O'Dell. I'm the President and CEO of Inflection Resources and 1 of the partners Speaker 3: at NewQuest Capital. Speaker 3: 1st, let me just really introduce Newquest Capital before we get much further. Speaker 3: Newquest Capital is a Vancouver-based, Speaker 3: technically Speaker 3: focused group that incubates Speaker 3: and finances early-stage Speaker 3: greenfields exploration projects in mining-friendly Speaker 3: jurisdictions. Speaker 3: We focus on generating large-scale Speaker 3: exploration targets or concepts, typically Speaker 3: on open or claim-free ground that will appeal to the major mining companies, Speaker 3: ultimately in jurisdictions where they want to own their assets in the long term. And this is a core part of really Speaker 3: what drives the whole strategy Speaker 3: for the Newquest group of companies. It's really working backwards from the point...
