John Black is an economic geologist with more than 30 years of exploration experience in the Americas, Central Asia, the SW Pacific, and Eastern Europe/Western Asia. He first worked in South America in 1993 and has been actively involved in mineral exploration throughout the continent for several companies since that time. His professional credentials include a B.Sc. degree in Geology from Stanford University in 1983 and an M.S. degree in Geology – Ore Deposits Exploration from the same University in 1988. John was the founding President of Antares Minerals Inc. and was instrumental in acquiring the Haquira project in Peru for Antares. He was the key driver in negotiating the sale of Antares to First Quantum Minerals for C$650 million. John’s early career included work with Bear Creek Mining Company, Kennecott Minerals Corporation, Rio Tinto and Western Mining Corporation and he currently serves as the CEO and director of Regulus Resources Inc.
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Speaker 1: Hello everyone, welcome to Regulus Resources Live Summit today. I'm pleased to introduce our speakers, CEO and Director, John Black, Speaker 1: and Chief Geological Officer, Dr. Kevin B. Heather. John and Kevin are gonna be taking us through the company's latest news, and following that, there's gonna be a live Q&A session. So just as a reminder to everyone in the audience, if you'd like to, please submit your questions using the Q&A panel chat found on the right-hand side of your screen at any time today. As always, this summit is being recorded. It's gonna be available on six.com in the coming days. So look out for that. But to begin, John, I'm going to hand things over to you so you can get started. Speaker 2: Great. Thanks Cam. And thanks to 6 once again, for providing a platform for us to communicate about what our results are and answer any questions that people might have. We really Speaker 2: we really appreciate this format to interact with our shareholders. Speaker 2: As Cam mentioned, what we'd like to do today is provide a corporate update. There's been quite a lot of news that's come out of our group over the the past few weeks And I think it's an important point for us to summarize Speaker 2: that information. Speaker 2: The 3 principal Speaker 2: topics that we'll touch on today is reminding everybody that we've just closed the Rio Tinto strategic placement, Speaker 2: which puts us in a great financial spot and with a strong endorsement to move forward the project and provides us with a transition into the next phase of how we continue to explore and position this project to be developed. Speaker 2: We've also completed our phase 2 drilling program and put out all of the final results of that program. And I think that warrants some time tod...
