Join Diane R. Garrett, CEO, and Alex Davidson, VP Exploration, of Hycroft Mining for a market update on the Oct 3, 2024, news release. They give additional context and answers questions from the live audience.
Thu, October 3, 2024 at 5:00 PMendedReplay
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Meeting Overview The meeting featured an update from Diane R. Garrett, President and CEO of Highcroft Mining, and Alex Davidson, Vice President of Exploration, regarding recent geological findings and exploration strategies. The discussion highlighted significant developments in the Vortex and Brimstone trends, as well as responses to audience questions about drilling results and exploration strategies. Key Discussion Points - Overview of the recent press release regarding geological findings at Highcroft Mining. - Discussion of the Vortex trend, including unexpected geological features and implications for exploration. - Insights into the Brimstone trend and upcoming assay results. - Explanation of the cutoff grades used in drilling and their impact on exploration strategies. - The identification of a potential feeder zone at Vortex and its influence on future exploration targets. Decisions Made - No explicit decisions recorded. Action Items & Next Steps - [Unassigned] : Follow up ...
Dr. Garrett has over 25 years of senior executive management experience in the mining industry and an exceptional track record for developing projects and building companies. Dr. Garrett was President, CEO and Director of Romarco Minerals Inc. where she built and led the team that developed the multi-million ounce Haile Gold Mine in South Carolina from discovery through to final feasibility, permitting and construction. Romarco was subsequently acquired by OceanaGold in 2015 and Dr. Garrett was appointed to the Board of OceanaGold and a member of the Steering Committee for the Haile Gold Mine. Dr. Garrett was most recently the President and Chief Executive Officer of Nickel Creek Platinum Corp. Prior to her time at Romarco, Dr. Garrett held numerous senior positions in public mining companies including VP of Corporate Development at Dayton Mining Corporation and VP of Corporate Development at Beartooth Platinum Corporation. Early in her career, Dr. Garrett was the Senior Mining Analyst and Portfolio Manager in the precious metals sector with US Global Investors. Dr. Garrett is also a Director of NovaGold Resources Inc., a gold company listed on the NYSE American and Toronto Stock Exchange and a Director of Ausenco Pty, an Australia based global engineering firm. Dr. Garrett has also served as a director of TriStar Gold, Inc. and Revival Gold Inc. Dr. Garrett received her Ph.D. in Engineering and her Masters in Mineral Economics from the University of Texas at Austin.
Mr. Davidson is a highly experienced geologist with more than 25 years of open-pit and underground operating expertise. Having spent over a decade with Newmont Corporation, Mr. Davidson held numerous senior geology roles, managed robust exploration drill programs, and managed all geology-related aspects of the numerous mines including ore control, mine design and risk mitigation and geologic modeling. Mr. Davidson also implemented many safety initiatives and new technologies for continuous improvement. Most recently, Mr. Davidson joined Nevada Gold Mines, a Joint Venture company between Barrick Gold Corporation and Newmont Corporation in Nevada, formed in 2019. At Nevada Gold Mines, Mr. Davidson worked extensively throughout the Carlin Trend, Turquoise Ridge district, responsible for the geologic teams on nearly a dozen Nevada-based operating mines, as well as mentoring geology teams in the Cortez district. Earlier in his career, Mr. Davidson was the senior geologist and mine planning engineer for Rio Tinto at its Boron Operations in California and Greens Creek Mine in Alaska. In addition, Mr. Davidson worked for Hecla Mining on the past producing high-grade Rosebud Mine in Winnemucca, NV which is located within the Hycroft Mine land position.
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Speaker 1: Good afternoon, good evening or good morning, depending on where in the world you're tuning in from today. It did look like quite an international audience, so especially appreciate people coming in very early in the morning in Australia. Thanks for joining us today. Where I'm joined by Diane R. Garrett, President and CEO of Highcroft Mining and Alex Davidson, the company's Vice President of Exploration. Diane and Alex, great to see you both today. Great, thanks for having us, Romeo. And welcome, everybody. Speaker 1: Awesome. Speaker 1: Now the way today's going to work, just so everybody's got expectations in the room, Diane and Alex are going to have a quick update related to this morning's press release, then I'm going to pop back up on screen to ask some of the really great questions that came in over e-mail, and then a couple of my own. Then we're going to get into questions live today from the webinar audience. Speaker 1: So for those in the room, this is an interactive event. There's a chat button in the bottom right of your screen. Feel free to ask a question at any time during today's event. We're gonna get to as many as we can today, but if we don't get to your question, I wanna make sure the Hycroft team has access to it and gets back to you as soon as possible. So hopefully you won't have to wait long. We will try to get to as many as we can today. The event is also being recorded and will be available on 6.com and YouTube probably by early tomorrow morning. So you get it right in your inbox. At that point, you can feel free to share it around. But you didn't come here to hear from me. So I'll throw it 1st to Diane and Alex, just to give a quick update before we get into questions. Speaker 2: Okay. Speaker 2: Great. Alex, you wanna kick us off...
