Dig Deep

In this episode we chat to Ignacio Salazar, CEO of Highfield Resources, who are an ASX listed potash company which focuses on the construction of its flagship low cost, low capex Muga Project in Spain which is fully permitted. Ignacio has a background in economics and law and has worked in the Oil & Gas industry with Shell before moving over to the mining industry back in 2009. At the helm of Highfield Resources, Ignacio tells us more about the company, its journey and what they are looking to achieve plus also an update on what is happening in the Spanish mining industry. KEY TAKEAWAYS Ignacio specialises in mining in Spain, but his experience has seen him oversee projects around the world, allowing him a broad perspective and unrivalled skill set in the mining sector. The similarities between oil and gas, and mining, are many as they both require upfront investment and both explore the planet for the resources on offer. Regionality matters and so do the size of the players. Highfield is an ASX listed company, and prefers to focus on one project in Spain - two autonomous operations. Potash and its resultant fertiliser uses are in great demand around the world, even though it may not be as well known as other mined materials. BEST MOMENTS 'I moved quickly to upstream oil and gas' 'Fertiliser is a very key commodity' 'The permitting is all behind us' 'We are shovel-ready!' VALUABLE RESOURCES Dig Deep – The Mining Podcast on iTunes https://www.linkedin.com/company/22269956/admin/feed/posts/ https://twitter.com/Highfield_Res www.highfieldresources.com.au VALUABLE RESOURCES mailto:[email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ http://www.mining-international.org https://twitter.com/MiningConsult https://www.facebook.com/MiningInternational.org https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC69dGPS29lmakv-D7LWJg_Q?guided_help_flow=3 ABOUT THE HOST Rob Tyson is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specialising in all areas of mining across the globe from first-world to third-world countries from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. We source, headhunt, and discover new and top talent through a targeted approach and search methodology and have a proven track record in sourcing and positioning exceptional candidates into our clients' organisations in any mining discipline or level. Mining International provides a transparent, informative, and trusted consultancy service to our candidates and clients to help them develop their careers and business goals and objectives in this ever-changing marketplace. CONTACT METHOD [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ Podcast Description Rob Tyson is an established recruiter in the mining and quarrying sector and decided to produce the “Dig Deep” The Mining Podcast to provide valuable and informative content around the mining industry. He has a passion and desire to promote the industry and the podcast aims to offer the mining community an insight into people’s experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics

In this episode we chat to Chris Byrne, Managing Director of Legacy Minerals who are exploring for high grade gold, copper, and base metal deposits in the World Class Lachlan Fold Belt, NSW, Australia Chris and an electrical and environmental background and started his career with Anglo American in the coalfields of NSW and QLD and has been at the helm of Legacy Minerals since 2017 and gives us an overview of the company and their journey so far and what they are looking to achieve. He talks about their exciting Bauloora Project, Fontenoy Project and Black Range project and why New South Wales is the hidden gem of Australia’s mining industry. KEY TAKEAWAYS The salaries of the Australian mining sector were attractive enough to compel many to join the industry back in the day. Most remained, as did Chris, whose experience has grown and flourished. Being reared in the mining industry is enough to give anyone a real sense of how systems, processes and business combine to create real growth. Legacy are focussed on fundamental stocks, and as a result are seeing great results across the board. Legacy even invests in the AI space. New South Wales produces some of the finest mining deposits in the world, including two very successful gold mines. It's a safe jurisdiction to work in, and promotes mining. BEST MOMENTS 'I haven't had a traditional exploration journey' 'This was a rapid acceleration' 'The government is not going to turn around and do anything crazy' 'We've certainly found that the work we've done has uncovered some fantastic mineral systems' VALUABLE RESOURCES Dig Deep – The Mining Podcast on iTunes Chris Byrne - https://legacyminerals.com.au/team-members/christopher-byrne/ VALUABLE RESOURCES mailto:[email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ http://www.mining-international.org https://twitter.com/MiningConsult https://www.facebook.com/MiningInternational.org https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC69dGPS29lmakv-D7LWJg_Q?guided_help_flow=3 ABOUT THE HOST Rob Tyson is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specialising in all areas of mining across the globe from first-world to third-world countries from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. We source, headhunt, and discover new and top talent through a targeted approach and search methodology and have a proven track record in sourcing and positioning exceptional candidates into our clients' organisations in any mining discipline or level. Mining International provides a transparent, informative, and trusted consultancy service to our candidates and clients to help them develop their careers and business goals and objectives in this ever-changing marketplace. CONTACT METHOD [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ Podcast Description Rob Tyson is an established recruiter in the mining and quarrying sector and decided to produce the “Dig Deep” The Mining Podcast to provide valuable and informative content around the mining industry. He has a passion and desire to promote the industry and the podcast aims to offer the mining community an insight into people’s experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics

In this episode we chat to Marna Cloete, President of Ivanhoe Mines, a leading Canadian mining company committed to becoming a global leader in the supply of critical resources required to transition our world to a low-carbon, renewable future. Ivanhoe is focused on developing and expanding its four principal mining and exploration projects in Southern Africa. The development of the Kamoa-Kakula copper mining complex in the Democratic Republic of Congo(DRC), the Platreef palladium-rhodium-platinum-nickel-copper-gold discovery in South Africa, the extensive redevelopment and upgrading of the historic Kipushi zinc-copper-germanium-silver mine, also in the Democratic Republic of Congo and exploration on the Western Foreland, near Kamoa-Kakula. Marna Cloete is a registered Chartered Accountant and holds a Master’s Degree in Taxation from the University of Pretoria. She joined Ivanhoe back in 2006 and has played an instrumental role as part in Ivanhoe’s leadership team, achieving a number of strategic milestones and continues to go from strength to strength. Marna shares her journey from starting with the company with only 10 employees to now over 18,000 and why Ivanhoe is leading the way in the supply of much needed critical resources. She shares her wisdom and advice for females within the mining industry and what’s its like working and learning from Robert Friedland. KEY TAKEAWAYS Ivanhoe employs over 18,000 people across the organisation, and have all contributed to the slow formation of this mighty mining concern. One of the most important elements of Ivanhoe is the culture, that was established at the very outset some 26 years ago, when the team was made up of just ten people. Growing slowly has allowed their personal values and culture to grow with the company. Ivanhoe has piloted an electric fleet, where issues with efficiency were noted. Work has been done to remedy these challenges, and soon they hope to transition entirely to an electric fleet. Senior executives cannot hope to operate from afar. They need to engage with their workforce and operate on the ground alongside them. BEST MOMENTS 'Sometimes I have to pinch myself when I think that I've been with Ivanhoe for 17 years' 'We were focussed on ensuring that we were supplying the next great copper supply' 'We've always tried to keep our structures flat and not too bureaucratic' 'It's important for partnerships to create value' VALUABLE RESOURCES Dig Deep – The Mining Podcast on iTunes https://twitter.com/IvanhoeMines_ https://www.linkedin.com/company/ivanhoe-mines-ltd/ https://www.facebook.com/ivanhoemines1 VALUABLE RESOURCES mailto:[email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ http://www.mining-international.org https://twitter.com/MiningConsult https://www.facebook.com/MiningInternational.org https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC69dGPS29lmakv-D7LWJg_Q?guided_help_flow=3 ABOUT THE HOST Rob Tyson is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specialising in all areas of mining across the globe from first-world to third-world countries from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. We source, headhunt, and discover new and top talent through a targeted approach and search methodology and have a proven track record in sourcing and positioning exceptional candidates into our clients' organisations in any mining discipline or level. Mining International provides a transparent, informative, and trusted consultancy service to our candidates and clients to help them develop their careers and business goals and objectives in this ever-changing marketplace. CONTACT METHOD [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ Podcast Description Rob Tyson is an established recruiter in the mining and quarrying sector and decided to produce the “Dig Deep” The Mining Podcast to provide valuable and informative content around the mining industry. He has a passion and desire to promote the industry and the podcast aims to offer the mining community an insight into people’s experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics

In our 350th episode we talk with Benedikt Sobotka, CEO of Eurasian Resources Group (ERG), one of the world's leading and most diversified companies in mining and processing of natural resources, with fully integrated energy, transportation and marketing operations. The Group is represented in 16 countries of the world on four continents and is one of the largest employers in the industry. Benedikt has extensive experience in the mining and energy sectors, holding various management & executive positions some of the leading companies in the world. He is also the co-chair of the Global Battery Alliance (GBA), where ERG is a Founding Member and has developed a close partnership with the World Economic Forum, taking an active role in many industry groups and wider initiatives. We discuss some of the important issues and topics in our industry and how ERG deals with these challenges in the EGG and green energy transition space. KEY TAKEAWAYS Mining's public facing side has changed dramatically in the last ten years. It has gone from being a perceived shady sector, into one that provides hope and progress for future generations and their technologies. New technologies such as AI and geospatial reconnaissance are helping to make mining safer and more efficient, as well as more productive. The total mining sector spends somewhere in the regions of 150 billion dollars per year on production, which is a fraction of what the oil industry spends on production. Exploration is just that, and mining has dared to unearth some of the world's most precious resources int he most hazardous of environments. Operations must be conducted on a bespoke level, and regulations adhered to. BEST MOMENTS 'I made all the mistakes you could make' 'Technology will be at the core of meeting demand for the energy transition' 'You need projects in frontier countries to deliver these materials' 'The good projects are in predominantly more complicated regions' VALUABLE RESOURCES Dig Deep – The Mining Podcast on iTunes Benedikt Sobotka LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/benedikt-sobotka-8a1847169/?originalSubdomain=lu VALUABLE RESOURCES mailto:[email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ http://www.mining-international.org https://twitter.com/MiningConsult https://www.facebook.com/MiningInternational.org https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC69dGPS29lmakv-D7LWJg_Q?guided_help_flow=3 ABOUT THE HOST Rob Tyson is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specialising in all areas of mining across the globe from first-world to third-world countries from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. We source, headhunt, and discover new and top talent through a targeted approach and search methodology and have a proven track record in sourcing and positioning exceptional candidates into our clients' organisations in any mining discipline or level. Mining International provides a transparent, informative, and trusted consultancy service to our candidates and clients to help them develop their careers and business goals and objectives in this ever-changing marketplace. CONTACT METHOD [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ Podcast Description Rob Tyson is an established recruiter in the mining and quarrying sector and decided to produce the “Dig Deep” The Mining Podcast to provide valuable and informative content around the mining industry. He has a passion and desire to promote the industry and the podcast aims to offer the mining community an insight into people’s experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics

In this episode we chat to Gene Morgan, Founder and CEO of Zelandez, who are experts in Lithium Brine-field Technology Services whose purpose is to accelerate lithium supply, which is why Zelandez provides cutting-edge technology that helps develop lithium brine resources faster and produce more profitably. Gene has a mechanical background and worked in the Oil & Gas sector with SLB before starting Zelandez back in 2016 and talk about his journey and how they help Lithium companies who are either in exploration or production with their technology. KEY TAKEAWAYS Lithium supply is provided by Zelandez through cutting edge technology, everything from geophysical logging, to resource and feasibility studies. Lithium brine is the resource with the lowest cost to production, but it's also the slowest speed to production, taking around 7 years to harvest. Lithium coming from the South American brines is similar to oilfield exploration and development, meaning that you are essentially producing what is a fluid resource from an underground reservoir. Zelandez started with the premise that oilfield technologies and methodologies could be applied to brine exploration and production, so a heavy focus on below ground is the foundation of thinking. BEST MOMENTS 'Our first thought is always, how can we save the client time?' 'As a company, we are passionate about lithium' 'I entered into lithium as a result of love and oil' 'The internal combustion engine's days are numbered' VALUABLE RESOURCES Dig Deep – The Mining Podcast on iTunes Gene Morgan LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/gene-morgan-5b5a104a?originalSubdomain=bo VALUABLE RESOURCES mailto:[email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ http://www.mining-international.org https://twitter.com/MiningConsult https://www.facebook.com/MiningInternational.org https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC69dGPS29lmakv-D7LWJg_Q?guided_help_flow=3 ABOUT THE HOST Rob Tyson is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specialising in all areas of mining across the globe from first-world to third-world countries from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. We source, headhunt, and discover new and top talent through a targeted approach and search methodology and have a proven track record in sourcing and positioning exceptional candidates into our clients' organisations in any mining discipline or level. Mining International provides a transparent, informative, and trusted consultancy service to our candidates and clients to help them develop their careers and business goals and objectives in this ever-changing marketplace. CONTACT METHOD [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ Podcast Description Rob Tyson is an established recruiter in the mining and quarrying sector and decided to produce the “Dig Deep” The Mining Podcast to provide valuable and informative content around the mining industry. He has a passion and desire to promote the industry and the podcast aims to offer the mining community an insight into people’s experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics

In the episode we have a returning guest who appeared back in Nov 2022 (episode 294). Jason Brewer, CEO of Marula Mining who are an African focused mining investment company, exploring and discovering battery metals in East, Central and Southern Africa. Jason has over 25 years experience in international mining, financial markets and investment banking and has been responsible for structuring and arranging corporate and project financing facilities for mining and exploration companies with a particular focus on projects in Africa. He’s gives us an update on the company and their upcoming AIM listing, progress update on their Blesberg Lithium and Tantalum Mine operations, news on their subsidiaries in Zimbabwe and Kenya and an overview on their recent acquisition. KEY TAKEAWAYS When you're on the ground in terms of project mining, it lends a sense of expediency and reliability to your operations. Marula has four key projects with a fifth in its early stages. They key project is a lithium asset in South Africa, where processing materials takes place. The reason that Marula has been able to grow so rapidly and effectively, is that a very clear strategy was decided upon - battery metals was the focus. In the next four to six weeks, Marula aims to be trading on AIM, having spent the last months preparing legally and financially. BEST MOMENTS 'I've been on the corporate side of mining here in Africa for the past 25 years' 'It was a shell of a company a year ago' 'We've been doing wonders over the past twelve months' 'Our stratgey was very much to get projects we could deliver on and get producing in several months' VALUABLE RESOURCES Dig Deep – The Mining Podcast on iTunes Jason Brewer LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-brewer-771006207/?originalSubdomain=ke VALUABLE RESOURCES mailto:[email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ http://www.mining-international.org https://twitter.com/MiningConsult https://www.facebook.com/MiningInternational.org https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC69dGPS29lmakv-D7LWJg_Q?guided_help_flow=3 ABOUT THE HOST Rob Tyson is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specialising in all areas of mining across the globe from first-world to third-world countries from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. We source, headhunt, and discover new and top talent through a targeted approach and search methodology and have a proven track record in sourcing and positioning exceptional candidates into our clients' organisations in any mining discipline or level. Mining International provides a transparent, informative, and trusted consultancy service to our candidates and clients to help them develop their careers and business goals and objectives in this ever-changing marketplace. CONTACT METHOD [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ Podcast Description Rob Tyson is an established recruiter in the mining and quarrying sector and decided to produce the “Dig Deep” The Mining Podcast to provide valuable and informative content around the mining industry. He has a passion and desire to promote the industry and the podcast aims to offer the mining community an insight into people’s experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics

In this episode we chat to Tony Moreau, CEO and director of American Eagle Gold, a junior miner focused on exploring for world-class gold and copper deposits in North America, namely its flagship asset… NAK copper-gold property located in British Columbia. Tony is a Chartered Financial Analyst, and worked in a variety of position’s for IAM Gold, most recently Business Development and Innovation. Apart from his role with American Eagle Gold, he also leads the Young Mining Professionals Toronto Chapter and is the Co-Chair of the YMP Scholarship Fund. We had an interesting chat around the company but also some of Tony’s experience and encounters with senior leaders of our industry, showing what a great industry the mining industry is. So please share this episode to others outside of the mining industry because its not what they think as you will discover from listening to this episode. KEY TAKEAWAYS Just because you hit stumbling blocks every now and then doesn't mean you can't pull it back. American Eagle saw its value fall, but success revamped its fortunes almost overnight. When people think of British Columbia they think of the Golden Triangle, but there is far more to the area than just this area. The problem with finding miners in their specified areas is that competitors will hire workers at a very high rate, pushing up the average costs of hire for all other companies. The two main rules about junior mining are that you must first look after your structure, and secondly if you have to fail, then do it fast. BEST MOMENTS 'We got a Pulp Fiction shot of adrenaline' 'We've got a lot of blue sky ahead, and a lot of great property' 'It's all about reserve replacement' 'The biggest challenge is to keep yourself in the news and have people know who you are' VALUABLE RESOURCES Dig Deep – The Mining Podcast on iTunes Website: www.Americaneaglegold.ca Twitter: https://twitter.com/ameaglegold Email: [email protected] VALUABLE RESOURCES mailto:[email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ http://www.mining-international.org https://twitter.com/MiningConsult https://www.facebook.com/MiningInternational.org https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC69dGPS29lmakv-D7LWJg_Q?guided_help_flow=3 ABOUT THE HOST Rob Tyson is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specialising in all areas of mining across the globe from first-world to third-world countries from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. We source, headhunt, and discover new and top talent through a targeted approach and search methodology and have a proven track record in sourcing and positioning exceptional candidates into our clients' organisations in any mining discipline or level. Mining International provides a transparent, informative, and trusted consultancy service to our candidates and clients to help them develop their careers and business goals and objectives in this ever-changing marketplace. CONTACT METHOD [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ Podcast Description Rob Tyson is an established recruiter in the mining and quarrying sector and decided to produce the “Dig Deep” The Mining Podcast to provide valuable and informative content around the mining industry. He has a passion and desire to promote the industry and the podcast aims to offer the mining community an insight into people’s experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics

In this episode we chat to Ian Wilson, founder and president of Makuri Technology who specialise in the design, manufacture, and supply of high-performance wear liner systems to optimise the front end of hard rock mining process plant, serving a global customers base Ian is a mining and business professional who’s worked for the largest multinational mining companies with a background in maintenance, engineering, operations, business development and executive management. Founding the company, Ian tells us more about how they help mining companies achieve maximum output using their equipment, technology and processes. KEY TAKEAWAYS One of the main challenges in working in developing countries is maintaining sustainability and managing local communities. When the job gets too broad it can mean that our talents are spread too thin. It's always best to focus on the niche we can do better than anyone else. Sometimes, gaps in the market can become the niches of companies. They fill the gaps and become known for that very thing. Makuri would love to work with design and procurement companies, in order to introduce better technology from day one, but the bidding wars always seem to win out. BEST MOMENTS 'I had a fairly steep learning curve' 'Sustainability of the operation was very difficult' 'I looked for a niche that i could do, and do well' 'There are always gaps in the market' VALUABLE RESOURCES Dig Deep – The Mining Podcast on iTunes https://www.makuritech.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/makuri-technology/ VALUABLE RESOURCES mailto:[email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ http://www.mining-international.org https://twitter.com/MiningConsult https://www.facebook.com/MiningInternational.org https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC69dGPS29lmakv-D7LWJg_Q?guided_help_flow=3 ABOUT THE HOST Rob Tyson is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specialising in all areas of mining across the globe from first-world to third-world countries from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. We source, headhunt, and discover new and top talent through a targeted approach and search methodology and have a proven track record in sourcing and positioning exceptional candidates into our clients' organisations in any mining discipline or level. Mining International provides a transparent, informative, and trusted consultancy service to our candidates and clients to help them develop their careers and business goals and objectives in this ever-changing marketplace. CONTACT METHOD [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ Podcast Description Rob Tyson is an established recruiter in the mining and quarrying sector and decided to produce the “Dig Deep” The Mining Podcast to provide valuable and informative content around the mining industry. He has a passion and desire to promote the industry and the podcast aims to offer the mining community an insight into people’s experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics

In this episode we have a returning guest who appeared in January 2022 (Episode 203). Belinda Labatte, CEO and Director of Lomiko Metals who are a Canadian junior exploration and development company with properties in Quebec, focused on the development of a graphite and Lithium project. Belinda has more than 15 years of senior management experience in mining and 20 years in the capital and investment markets and gives us an update on the company, what the companies outlook is over the next 6-12 months and what the Canadian battery market is like at the moment. KEY TAKEAWAYS We need to look at mining in a different way and strategic minerals is all about securing a domestic supply chain for these minerals for a future with renewable energy as well as geopolitical security. Various products can come out a graphite mine depending in the flake distribution, if the flakes are fine they can then be used for SPG graphite for the electrical vehicle market. Graphite is looking at gaining a 30-40% increase in demand but the supply is not there to meet it. Lomiko Metals is at the phase where they will generate the supply needed, they don’t want to push out anything that isn’t needed or wanted in the market. BEST MOMENTS 'I have a real appreciation for the opportunities that the raw natural resources can bring into a community and a country’ ‘The gap is going to be widening between supply and natural flake graphite and right now’ ‘For us, it’s really about creating that anode product that is suitable for a very specific us and a very specific demand or supply profile’ VALUABLE RESOURCES Dig Deep – The Mining Podcast on iTunes Tim Moody LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-moody-72065bb/?originalSubdomain=uk VALUABLE RESOURCES mailto:[email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ http://www.mining-international.org https://twitter.com/MiningConsult https://www.facebook.com/MiningInternational.org https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC69dGPS29lmakv-D7LWJg_Q?guided_help_flow=3 ABOUT THE HOST Rob Tyson is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specialising in all areas of mining across the globe from first-world to third-world countries from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. We source, headhunt, and discover new and top talent through a targeted approach and search methodology and have a proven track record in sourcing and positioning exceptional candidates into our clients' organisations in any mining discipline or level. Mining International provides a transparent, informative, and trusted consultancy service to our candidates and clients to help them develop their careers and business goals and objectives in this ever-changing marketplace. CONTACT METHOD [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ Podcast Description Rob Tyson is an established recruiter in the mining and quarrying sector and decided to produce the “Dig Deep” The Mining Podcast to provide valuable and informative content around the mining industry. He has a passion and desire to promote the industry and the podcast aims to offer the mining community an insight into people’s experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics

In this episode we chat to Tim Moody, President and CEO of Pan Global Resources, is a Vancouver based junior resources company actively engaged and focused on the discovery of copper, tin and other metal exploration in Spain. Tim has over 40 years industry experience with much of his career with Rio Tino in roles such as Exploration Director and Vice President and Director of Business Development for the company and currently holds directorships on the boards of 3 companies. Tim gives us an overview of Pan Global Resources and why theres so much potential in Spain as a mining jurisdiction. KEY TAKEAWAYS Tim spent 18 years as the exploration director at Rio Tinto, meaning that he worked in many areas of the world and was instrumental in many key discoveries. Pan Global is extremely well funded and has a very large exploration project underway - 20000 metre drill programme - meaning there is much to look forward to for investors. Spain has a very rich heritage in terms of mining, and is far older that many realise. Mining has been taking place there continuously for almost 3500 years. The management team in place has a very deep experience set, and brings decades of knowledge and geology specialisation to the business, making them a true powerhouse. BEST MOMENTS 'I made a few discoveries along the way' 'We have a lot of potential to grow the discovery we've made' 'Spain has a very long mining history' 'It is a famous mineral belt' VALUABLE RESOURCES Dig Deep – The Mining Podcast on iTunes Tim Moody LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-moody-72065bb/?originalSubdomain=uk VALUABLE RESOURCES mailto:[email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ http://www.mining-international.org https://twitter.com/MiningConsult https://www.facebook.com/MiningInternational.org https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC69dGPS29lmakv-D7LWJg_Q?guided_help_flow=3 ABOUT THE HOST Rob Tyson is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specialising in all areas of mining across the globe from first-world to third-world countries from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. We source, headhunt, and discover new and top talent through a targeted approach and search methodology and have a proven track record in sourcing and positioning exceptional candidates into our clients' organisations in any mining discipline or level. Mining International provides a transparent, informative, and trusted consultancy service to our candidates and clients to help them develop their careers and business goals and objectives in this ever-changing marketplace. CONTACT METHOD [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ Podcast Description Rob Tyson is an established recruiter in the mining and quarrying sector and decided to produce the “Dig Deep” The Mining Podcast to provide valuable and informative content around the mining industry. He has a passion and desire to promote the industry and the podcast aims to offer the mining community an insight into people’s experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics

In the episode we chat to Rick Trotman, President and CEO of Barksdale Resources, a junior miner who are acquiring, exploring, and de-risking high quality precious and base metal projects in the Americas and have assets in southern Arizona, and Mexico. Rick is a geologist by background working for the likes of Barrick and Yamana Gold before moving into securities and private equity before taking the helm at Barksdale Resources over 5 years ago. He talks about their exciting Sunnyside project which is in the same region as South32’s Taylor Hermosa project and what the company has to offer from an investment prospective. KEY TAKEAWAYS Working in and around the finance sector can be invaluable in mining, as it helps to understand the investment point of view. Barskdale is abase metal exploration company focussed primarily in the desert of the south west and Northern Mexico. Having a co-mining neighbour that is aggressive on spending and pushing a project towards development is key to achieving purposes and goals. People are at the heart of mining, which means that inevitably, politics matter at some point in the life of any project. BEST MOMENTS 'I like to solve puzzles and look for things' 'We're looking for poly-metallic deposits' 'This is one of the key assets in the Americas' 'Each dollar you put into the ground de-risks the whole district' VALUABLE RESOURCES Dig Deep – The Mining Podcast on iTunes Rick Trotman LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/rick-trotman-0383b13b/?originalSubdomain=ca VALUABLE RESOURCES mailto:[email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ http://www.mining-international.org https://twitter.com/MiningConsult https://www.facebook.com/MiningInternational.org https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC69dGPS29lmakv-D7LWJg_Q?guided_help_flow=3 ABOUT THE HOST Rob Tyson is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specialising in all areas of mining across the globe from first-world to third-world countries from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. We source, headhunt, and discover new and top talent through a targeted approach and search methodology and have a proven track record in sourcing and positioning exceptional candidates into our clients' organisations in any mining discipline or level. Mining International provides a transparent, informative, and trusted consultancy service to our candidates and clients to help them develop their careers and business goals and objectives in this ever-changing marketplace. CONTACT METHOD [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ Podcast Description Rob Tyson is an established recruiter in the mining and quarrying sector and decided to produce the “Dig Deep” The Mining Podcast to provide valuable and informative content around the mining industry. He has a passion and desire to promote the industry and the podcast aims to offer the mining community an insight into people’s experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics

In the episode we chat to Rob Smillie, MD of Southern Gold, an exploration company exploring for precious metals in South Korea. They have a highly experienced team with a track record of exploration success in Asia, Australia and Eastern Europe and have a growing Brownfields and Greenfields exploration portfolio they are developing. Rob is an experienced management and exploration professional, with over 30 years of experience, including significant epithermal gold exploration, and is particularly working in Asia for the likes of OK Tedi, Calibre Mining and Oceana Gold. Rob gives us an overview of the company and what they are up to and what’s South Korea like as a mining jurisdiction which many of you maybe surprised. KEY TAKEAWAYS Robert's experience has taken him from greenfield exploration to mining, all along the mining sector spectrum, making him well placed to act in any area of the business. South Korea's mineral potential is hugely attractive, and is massively unexplored by modern day standards. The mining business is a very small part of the economy in South Korea, and the rapid industrialisation means that high tech manufacturing is a vital part of the country's growth. There are a number of brownfields and greenfields projects under Southern Gold's belt. The main mine was mined over several levels to around 250 metres. BEST MOMENTS 'It's been a really great career and I've met a lot of tremendous people' 'What attracted us to South Korea was the potential' 'The mining industry has become a small scale industry' 'Despite being a great asset, this has very few holes in it' VALUABLE RESOURCES Dig Deep – The Mining Podcast on iTunes Website: https://www.southerngold.com.au/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/southern-gold-limited Twitter: https://twitter.com/SouthernGoldASX Robert Smillie, Managing Director & CEO - [email protected] VALUABLE RESOURCES mailto:[email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ http://www.mining-international.org https://twitter.com/MiningConsult https://www.facebook.com/MiningInternational.org https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC69dGPS29lmakv-D7LWJg_Q?guided_help_flow=3 ABOUT THE HOST Rob Tyson is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specialising in all areas of mining across the globe from first-world to third-world countries from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. We source, headhunt, and discover new and top talent through a targeted approach and search methodology and have a proven track record in sourcing and positioning exceptional candidates into our clients' organisations in any mining discipline or level. Mining International provides a transparent, informative, and trusted consultancy service to our candidates and clients to help them develop their careers and business goals and objectives in this ever-changing marketplace. CONTACT METHOD [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ Podcast Description Rob Tyson is an established recruiter in the mining and quarrying sector and decided to produce the “Dig Deep” The Mining Podcast to provide valuable and informative content around the mining industry. He has a passion and desire to promote the industry and the podcast aims to offer the mining community an insight into people’s experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics

In this episode we chat to John Passalacqua, CEO & Director of First Phosphate, a mineral development company fully dedicated to extracting and purifying phosphate for the production of cathode active material for the Lithium Iron Phosphate (“LFP”) battery industry and they hold a 1.5K sq.km land claim in Quebec, Canada John is an international business strategist with over 35 years of extensive technology and capital markets experience and gives us an overview of First Phosphate, what is happening in the LFP battery space and the outlook of the company over the next 12 months. KEY TAKEAWAYS John's background is in finance and the stock markets in which he made his name. Trading strategies and investing in private companies is where he truly staked his claim. The company is dedicated to extracting and purifying phosphate for the production of LFP battery industry, working with partners. The LFP battery industry should be worth, at a conservative estimate, around $18bn by the year 2030. Phosphate is concentrated and sent to Belgium to a partner company who turn it into purified phosphoric acid. BEST MOMENTS 'I've been involved in stock markets for a number of years' 'We're really focussed on getting a mine into production and producing concentrate' 'There are very little players in the market' 'We're alowly gathering the processes and the materials all in one place' VALUABLE RESOURCES Dig Deep – The Mining Podcast on iTunes LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/company/first-phosphate/ Twitter : https://twitter.com/firstphosphate?s=21&t=7V6xieURlBZRsbQCqF-rww VALUABLE RESOURCES mailto:[email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ http://www.mining-international.org https://twitter.com/MiningConsult https://www.facebook.com/MiningInternational.org https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC69dGPS29lmakv-D7LWJg_Q?guided_help_flow=3 ABOUT THE HOST Rob Tyson is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specialising in all areas of mining across the globe from first-world to third-world countries from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. We source, headhunt, and discover new and top talent through a targeted approach and search methodology and have a proven track record in sourcing and positioning exceptional candidates into our clients' organisations in any mining discipline or level. Mining International provides a transparent, informative, and trusted consultancy service to our candidates and clients to help them develop their careers and business goals and objectives in this ever-changing marketplace. CONTACT METHOD [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ Podcast Description Rob Tyson is an established recruiter in the mining and quarrying sector and decided to produce the “Dig Deep” The Mining Podcast to provide valuable and informative content around the mining industry. He has a passion and desire to promote the industry and the podcast aims to offer the mining community an insight into people’s experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics

In this episode we chat to Geert Klok, country manager for AMG Graphite who are a leading global supplier of high-purity natural graphite, operating its own mines and vertically-integrated production facilities. They were founded over 100 years experience ago and have always been synonymous with outstanding raw materials expertise, with production sites in Europe, Africa and Asia. Apart from the country manager for AMG, Geert is also the chairman of the board for the chamber of mines for Mozambique so gives us the history of AMG Graphite and what they are currently upto, what is currently happening in the Mozambique mining industry and what role the Chamber of Mines Mozambique plays in the countries mining industry. KEY TAKEAWAYS AMG Graphite originates from Germany and have a mine near the Austrian border - the traditional area for graphite in Germany. AMG have around 115 staff at the mine in Mozambique - two foreign experts and the rest made up from the local districts. The exports are mostly to Germany, who perform further processing, before the graphite ends up with the end users. Graphite has many applications in not just the electric vehicle sector, but also other wide ranging uses, such as pencils, lubricants and insulation. BEST MOMENTS 'It started way back with farmers digging up graphite from the surface' 'The roots of the company go back more than 100 years' 'Graphite is a component in so many products' 'There's more graphite in the batteries for electric cars than there is lithium' VALUABLE RESOURCES Dig Deep – The Mining Podcast on iTunes https://www.linkedin.com/in/geertklok/ https://www.cmm.org.mz/en/ https://gk-graphite.com/home mailto:[email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ http://www.mining-international.org https://twitter.com/MiningConsult https://www.facebook.com/MiningInternational.org https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC69dGPS29lmakv-D7LWJg_Q?guided_help_flow=3 ABOUT THE HOST Rob Tyson is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specialising in all areas of mining across the globe from first-world to third-world countries from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. We source, headhunt, and discover new and top talent through a targeted approach and search methodology and have a proven track record in sourcing and positioning exceptional candidates into our clients' organisations in any mining discipline or level. Mining International provides a transparent, informative, and trusted consultancy service to our candidates and clients to help them develop their careers and business goals and objectives in this ever-changing marketplace. CONTACT METHOD [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ Podcast Description Rob Tyson is an established recruiter in the mining and quarrying sector and decided to produce the “Dig Deep” The Mining Podcast to provide valuable and informative content around the mining industry. He has a passion and desire to promote the industry and the podcast aims to offer the mining community an insight into people’s experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics

In this episode we chat to David Austin, CEO, President and Chairman of the board of Colonial Coal International, a publicly traded pure-play metallurgical coal development company who hold a 100% interest in two resource-stage coal properties in the Peace River Coalfield of northeastern British Columbia, Canada. David has a strong coal background, having previously founded Northern Energy & Mining Inc and Western Coal, so has a wealth of knowledge in the coal sector. He discusses the current coal market in more detail and what the plans are for Colonial Coal in the near term. KEY TAKEAWAYS Raising capital in the early days was difficult as people shied away from the coal deal, but through resilience and perseverance, the results finally began to pay off. The coal quality varies for north to south. The further north you go, the better quality of coal you can expect. Thermal coal is used for generating power at stations producing electricity. Coking coal is used in the steel industry and is at a high premium. Politics and the mining sectors often collide, but when they work together, the results can create true impactful change. BEST MOMENTS 'We started on the back foot and had to keep working at it' 'Billions of dollars were put in by the government to open up this area' 'One name we don't want to hear is thermal coal' VALUABLE RESOURCES Dig Deep – The Mining Podcast on iTunes Colonial Coal - https://www.ccoal.ca/company/board-of-directors/ VALUABLE RESOURCES mailto:[email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ http://www.mining-international.org https://twitter.com/MiningConsult https://www.facebook.com/MiningInternational.org https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC69dGPS29lmakv-D7LWJg_Q?guided_help_flow=3 ABOUT THE HOST Rob Tyson is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specialising in all areas of mining across the globe from first-world to third-world countries from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. We source, headhunt, and discover new and top talent through a targeted approach and search methodology and have a proven track record in sourcing and positioning exceptional candidates into our clients' organisations in any mining discipline or level. Mining International provides a transparent, informative, and trusted consultancy service to our candidates and clients to help them develop their careers and business goals and objectives in this ever-changing marketplace. CONTACT METHOD [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ Podcast Description Rob Tyson is an established recruiter in the mining and quarrying sector and decided to produce the “Dig Deep” The Mining Podcast to provide valuable and informative content around the mining industry. He has a passion and desire to promote the industry and the podcast aims to offer the mining community an insight into people’s experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics

In this episode we chat to Raffi Jabrayan, VP, Commercial Sales and Business Development at Exyn Technologies Inc, who are pioneering autonomous aerial robot systems for complex, GPS-denied environments within the mining industry. Raffi’s background is in supply chains and worked many years for Dundee Precious Metals before moving to Exyn into a business and commercial sales role, overseeing the expansion of the business internationally in the mining sector. He explains what Exyn Technologies does and how they are helping mining companies with underground mining operations KEY TAKEAWAYS Exyn is a spinoff from the University of Pennsylvania and is more of a software company in that they are hardware agnostic. The kinds of companies using the Exyn technology right now include Dundee Precious Metals, Anglo Gold and Glencore. Exyn were one of the first companies to fly fully autonomous missions underground in GPS denied areas. Exyn need no previous infrastructure or connectivity. The future of mining lies with AI and the level of autonomy that companies such as Exyn can provide. People will then move on to other areas of the sector. BEST MOMENTS 'We're more of a software company' 'We operate in government, oil and warehousing, construction' 'We made our name in mining and are one of the pioneers in that area' 'Where people or humans can't go - that is where we operate the best' VALUABLE RESOURCES Dig Deep – The Mining Podcast on iTunes Raffi LinkedIn Exyn YouTube Exyn Twitter Exyn LinkedIn Exyn Instagram Exyn Facebook VALUABLE RESOURCES mailto:[email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ http://www.mining-international.org https://twitter.com/MiningConsult https://www.facebook.com/MiningInternational.org https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC69dGPS29lmakv-D7LWJg_Q?guided_help_flow=3 ABOUT THE HOST Rob Tyson is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specialising in all areas of mining across the globe from first-world to third-world countries from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. We source, headhunt, and discover new and top talent through a targeted approach and search methodology and have a proven track record in sourcing and positioning exceptional candidates into our clients' organisations in any mining discipline or level. Mining International provides a transparent, informative, and trusted consultancy service to our candidates and clients to help them develop their careers and business goals and objectives in this ever-changing marketplace. CONTACT METHOD [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ Podcast Description Rob Tyson is an established recruiter in the mining and quarrying sector and decided to produce the “Dig Deep” The Mining Podcast to provide valuable and informative content around the mining industry. He has a passion and desire to promote the industry and the podcast aims to offer the mining community an insight into people’s experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics

In this episode we chat to Jamie Strauss, Founder of Digbee, who are an ESG and data platform for the mining industry where their data and ESG ratings are used by investors and other stakeholders for the same reason. Jamie is an entrepreneurial CEO for the mining sector with over 30 years of experience within finance and is a seasoned independent director of listed mining companies in the past. His extensive experience has inspired him to discover software solutions, to provide a unique ESG disclosure platform for the mining industry. Jamie talks to us about Digbee’s journey and how ESG is a big opportunity for everyone in the mining industry, especially not only for investment but also to improve the branding and perception of our industry. KEY TAKEAWAYS Jamie has been focussed on ESG since 2020 when he set up a solution driven service designed to help the sector understand the issues being faced. The ESG aims were threefold - to remove confusion, to make sure there is standardisation, and to provide a communication platform to allow credible independent assessment. Explorers are really beginning to see the benefits of putting in ESG to strategies early on, allowing them to display full transparency. If you are a producer, your insurance sector needs to be able to supply information on a two way basis. This can hopefully bring down the cost of insurance premiums. BEST MOMENTS 'From our point of view, this is the spine of the business' 'We help companies to navigate this disclosure' 'The information must be easy and simple to use' 'This industry has had a bit of a tough time in the past year' VALUABLE RESOURCES Dig Deep – The Mining Podcast on iTunes https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamiestrauss/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/digbee/ https://digbee.com/faq VALUABLE RESOURCES mailto:[email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ http://www.mining-international.org https://twitter.com/MiningConsult https://www.facebook.com/MiningInternational.org https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC69dGPS29lmakv-D7LWJg_Q?guided_help_flow=3 ABOUT THE HOST Rob Tyson is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specialising in all areas of mining across the globe from first-world to third-world countries from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. We source, headhunt, and discover new and top talent through a targeted approach and search methodology and have a proven track record in sourcing and positioning exceptional candidates into our clients' organisations in any mining discipline or level. Mining International provides a transparent, informative, and trusted consultancy service to our candidates and clients to help them develop their careers and business goals and objectives in this ever-changing marketplace. CONTACT METHOD [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ Podcast Description Rob Tyson is an established recruiter in the mining and quarrying sector and decided to produce the “Dig Deep” The Mining Podcast to provide valuable and informative content around the mining industry. He has a passion and desire to promote the industry and the podcast aims to offer the mining community an insight into people’s experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics

In the episode we chat to Drew Zimmerman, CEO at Stallion Discoveries Corp who are an exploration company bred to pursue the exploration of large, under-explored land packages located in the best jurisdictions next to world class projects with the singular ambition of making significant discoveries. They have projects in the Athabasca Basin and in Idaho. Drew has a commerce & investment background and been involved in public markets in a brokage capacity before taking the CEO role at Stallion Discoveries nearly 2 years ago and takes us through that journey and what the company is looking to achieve with their uranium and gold mining projects. KEY TAKEAWAYS As a professional that has worked on both sides of the business, Drew is well versed in the factors that make business tick, both from a practical and financial perspective. The big focus is in the uranium space with their big footprint in the Athabasca basin, largely recognised as one of the world's best areas for uranium deposits. Experience has really helped each location to become a valuable one in the portfolio. Teams with great leaders and a wealth of knowledge are all important. The main aim now is to focus upon targeting lucrative areas and looking for the best targets for drills. This is built upon data from surveys. BEST MOMENTS 'The opportunity came to jump across to the other side of the street' 'Where we're going is always the most exciting thing' 'We think the Athabasca basin is the best place in the world to be looking for uranium' ‘Uranium is a commodity to watch’ VALUABLE RESOURCES Dig Deep – The Mining Podcast on iTunes [email protected] https://stalliondiscoveries.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/stallion-discoveries/ https://twitter.com/staldiscoveries https://www.instagram.com/stalliondiscoveries/ https://www.facebook.com/stalliondiscoveries VALUABLE RESOURCES mailto:[email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ http://www.mining-international.org https://twitter.com/MiningConsult https://www.facebook.com/MiningInternational.org https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC69dGPS29lmakv-D7LWJg_Q?guided_help_flow=3 ABOUT THE HOST Rob Tyson is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specialising in all areas of mining across the globe from first-world to third-world countries from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. We source, headhunt, and discover new and top talent through a targeted approach and search methodology and have a proven track record in sourcing and positioning exceptional candidates into our clients' organisations in any mining discipline or level. Mining International provides a transparent, informative, and trusted consultancy service to our candidates and clients to help them develop their careers and business goals and objectives in this ever-changing marketplace. CONTACT METHOD [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ Podcast Description Rob Tyson is an established recruiter in the mining and quarrying sector and decided to produce the “Dig Deep” The Mining Podcast to provide valuable and informative content around the mining industry. He has a passion and desire to promote the industry and the podcast aims to offer the mining community an insight into people’s experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics

In this episode we chat to Jake Klein, Executive Chair of Evolution Mining, a leading growth-focused gold company operating five wholly owned mines in NSW & QLD in Australia and in Ontario, Canada. Jake is an experienced mining executive with a proven track record having developed Sino Gold with a market cap of $100M to eventually selling the company to Eldorado Gold for over U$2Billion. Being at the helm with Evolution since 2011, Jake has developed the company to what it is today and talks about his journey and gives us an update on their operations at Cowal Gold Mine, Ernest Henry, Mt Rawden and Red Lake. He also talks about starting his mining career in China and their exciting project at Mt Rawden that is taking place. KEY TAKEAWAYS Many of the world's greatest mining professionals didn't plan to enter the sector, but have thrived and grown into globally recognised experts in their field, Jake among them. The main difference between the Chinese world of mining of thirty years ago and today is the rise of technology and how it has positively impacted the supply chain there. As the asset base grows, excitement is high in Evolution Mining, who can see that potential is great and that the opportunities are fruitful. Mt Rawden has the attributes that make it the most suitable operation to be turns into a pumped-hydro power generator. BEST MOMENTS 'I've always described myself as the accidental miner' 'The transformation of China - I had a window into it' 'It's been an amazing career' 'We're all tremendously excited' VALUABLE RESOURCES Dig Deep – The Mining Podcast on iTunes Evolution Mining Address: Level 24, 175 Liverpool Street Sydney NSW 2000 Australia Phone: +61 2 9696 2900 Website: www.evolutionmining.com.au LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/evolution-mining VALUABLE RESOURCES mailto:[email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ http://www.mining-international.org https://twitter.com/MiningConsult https://www.facebook.com/MiningInternational.org https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC69dGPS29lmakv-D7LWJg_Q?guided_help_flow=3 ABOUT THE HOST Rob Tyson is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specialising in all areas of mining across the globe from first-world to third-world countries from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. We source, headhunt, and discover new and top talent through a targeted approach and search methodology and have a proven track record in sourcing and positioning exceptional candidates into our clients' organisations in any mining discipline or level. Mining International provides a transparent, informative, and trusted consultancy service to our candidates and clients to help them develop their careers and business goals and objectives in this ever-changing marketplace. CONTACT METHOD [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ Podcast Description Rob Tyson is an established recruiter in the mining and quarrying sector and decided to produce the “Dig Deep” The Mining Podcast to provide valuable and informative content around the mining industry. He has a passion and desire to promote the industry and the podcast aims to offer the mining community an insight into people’s experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics

In the episode we chat to Andrew Dinning, founder, MD and CEO of Sarama Resources, a West African gold explorer and developer focused on establishing a new mining district in Burkina Faso with a focus on their Sanutura Project. Andrew has over 30 years experience in the international mining arena having worked in across West Africa, UK, Russia and Australia and has extensive experience in mine management, operations and capital markets within the gold sector. Andrew gives us an overview of the company and what they have been up to plus describes what the sediment is in Burkina Faso and what its actually like to work there and not listening to all the media outlets putting a negative image of the country (which isn’t true). KEY TAKEAWAYS Andrew joined Western Mining's grad programme, and went through several expansions as a result, before moving across to Western Australia and managing several projects. Sarama was listed on the TSX, and much of the seed capital came from this. Focussing upon West Africa, projects were mounted in Mali, Liberia and Burkina Faso. In May of 2022, over 20,000 metres of drilling were accomplished, leading to a number of new discoveries and harvesting many tonnes of resource. Operating in Burkina is challenging in terms of security, but the negatives are outweighed by the productivity that can be achieved in the area. BEST MOMENTS 'Sarama has been a bit of a journey for us' 'We've got a second listing which raised eight million dollars' 'We're still understanding the requirements of meeting both exxchanges' 'They need to understand the granularity of what's going on - where you can operate and where you can't' VALUABLE RESOURCES Dig Deep – The Mining Podcast on iTunes https://saramaresources.com/ [email protected] https://twitter.com/saramaresources https://www.linkedin.com/company/sarama-resources/ VALUABLE RESOURCES mailto:[email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ http://www.mining-international.org https://twitter.com/MiningConsult https://www.facebook.com/MiningInternational.org https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC69dGPS29lmakv-D7LWJg_Q?guided_help_flow=3 ABOUT THE HOST Rob Tyson is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specialising in all areas of mining across the globe from first-world to third-world countries from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. We source, headhunt, and discover new and top talent through a targeted approach and search methodology and have a proven track record in sourcing and positioning exceptional candidates into our clients' organisations in any mining discipline or level. Mining International provides a transparent, informative, and trusted consultancy service to our candidates and clients to help them develop their careers and business goals and objectives in this ever-changing marketplace. CONTACT METHOD [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ Podcast Description Rob Tyson is an established recruiter in the mining and quarrying sector and decided to produce the “Dig Deep” The Mining Podcast to provide valuable and informative content around the mining industry. He has a passion and desire to promote the industry and the podcast aims to offer the mining community an insight into people’s experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics

In this episode we chat to Eduardo Covarrubias, Chairman at Los Andes Copper, a TSX listed miner focused on developing its 100% owned tier-one copper-molybdenum porphyry project in Chile. A chemical & Industrial Engineer by background, Eduardo has been involved in the banking industry with Chase Manhattan Bank for almost a decade, covering the mining sector in Chile and has expertise in project financing, structured finance and mergers and acquisitions transactions. As Chairman, he is going to talk about the growth of the company, their tier-one asset the Vizcachitas project and what their strategic plans are for the future. KEY TAKEAWAYS The routes into the mining business are sometimes unorthodox, generally due to the multi-varied facets of the business. Everything from finance to administration to geology and exploration are routes in. Being in a mining-friendly jurisdiction always helps when planning and strategising an exploration project. Chile is home to four of the world's largest copper mines, one of which the flagship copper concerns in the world. Mining can be used as a force for good, despite the public perception at times. Elements such as harvesting drinking water for drought-hit communities is helping to reestablish mining as a force for good. BEST MOMENTS 'I'm a chemical engineer who never worked as a chemical engineer' 'This is by any standard, one of the largest underdeveloped copper deposits out there' 'This is one of the two largest operations in Chile' 'We see this area as key, It has been particularly hard hit' VALUABLE RESOURCES Dig Deep – The Mining Podcast on iTunes Twitter: https://twitter.com/LosAndesCopper LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/73801/admin/ General: [email protected] VALUABLE RESOURCES mailto:[email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ http://www.mining-international.org https://twitter.com/MiningConsult https://www.facebook.com/MiningInternational.org https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC69dGPS29lmakv-D7LWJg_Q?guided_help_flow=3 ABOUT THE HOST Rob Tyson is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specialising in all areas of mining across the globe from first-world to third-world countries from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. We source, headhunt, and discover new and top talent through a targeted approach and search methodology and have a proven track record in sourcing and positioning exceptional candidates into our clients' organisations in any mining discipline or level. Mining International provides a transparent, informative, and trusted consultancy service to our candidates and clients to help them develop their careers and business goals and objectives in this ever-changing marketplace. CONTACT METHOD [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ Podcast Description Rob Tyson is an established recruiter in the mining and quarrying sector and decided to produce the “Dig Deep” The Mining Podcast to provide valuable and informative content around the mining industry. He has a passion and desire to promote the industry and the podcast aims to offer the mining community an insight into people’s experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics

In the episode we chat to Dana Samuelson, President of American Gold Exchange who are a leading national precious metals and rare coin company specializing in dealer-to-dealer trading and direct sales to the public. Dana has a wealth of experience in precious metals and rare U.S. gold coin buying and selling, starting this company over 25 years ago. He educates us about the history of the monetary system, why its important for everyone to have physical gold and silver especially in this current environment and what the difference is between money and currency. KEY TAKEAWAYS When the US left the gold standard in 1971, the dollar was destined to lose purchasing power. A grass roots organisation was led to drive the re-legalisation of gold ownership. The ratio between gold and silver in value back in the 1930s was twenty parts silver to one part gold because that's how easily it was found without modern mining technology. Currency is a medium of exchange. Money is something that has an intrinsic value. Oil, for instance, is as valuable as money, but has no meaningful route to exchange. The biggest macro trend that people need to be aware of is debt. From 1795 to 1995 the US accumulated five trillion dollars in debt. Less than thirty years later they have accumulated a total of 31 trillion. Debt has increased exponentially. BEST MOMENTS 'I got a real lucky break working for the godfather of our industry' 'Gold and silver were money and currency' 'Currency is something we use as a medium of exchange' 'The biggest problem is that the federal reserve has been coming to the rescue of the economy' VALUABLE RESOURCES Dig Deep – The Mining Podcast on iTunes Dana Samuelson LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/dana-samuelson-64793056 VALUABLE RESOURCES mailto:[email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ http://www.mining-international.org https://twitter.com/MiningConsult https://www.facebook.com/MiningInternational.org https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC69dGPS29lmakv-D7LWJg_Q?guided_help_flow=3 ABOUT THE HOST Rob Tyson is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specialising in all areas of mining across the globe from first-world to third-world countries from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. We source, headhunt, and discover new and top talent through a targeted approach and search methodology and have a proven track record in sourcing and positioning exceptional candidates into our clients' organisations in any mining discipline or level. Mining International provides a transparent, informative, and trusted consultancy service to our candidates and clients to help them develop their careers and business goals and objectives in this ever-changing marketplace. CONTACT METHOD [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ Podcast Description Rob Tyson is an established recruiter in the mining and quarrying sector and decided to produce the “Dig Deep” The Mining Podcast to provide valuable and informative content around the mining industry. He has a passion and desire to promote the industry and the podcast aims to offer the mining community an insight into people’s experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics

In this episode we chat to Bob Duffin, Executive Chairman at Eastern Metals, an Australian base and precious metals exploration company with a portfolio of projects in New South Wales and the Northern Territory in Australia. Bob has more than 45 years’ experience in resource exploration, project assessment, mining investment analysis, and company management and is here today to tell us about Eastern Metals, what they have achieved and talks more about their Tara project and Brown Reef Deposit in NSW and their Arunta project in NT plus an update on the Australian mining sector. KEY TAKEAWAYS The most effective way to increase resource grade or tonnage is to build upon the work done by others in the past - refining and streamlining processes for a better result. The assets lie within a defined geological province which contains primary deposits of lithium. This has caused Bob to engage in a systematic reconnaissance program. In New South Wales, the main project is Brown Reef, but they also operate in Tara where copper mineralisation has taken place in the past. The factor in which no one has any control is commodity pricing. Fortunately they are strong right now and are expected to remain so. BEST MOMENTS 'It was an all round good experience for a guy in his young twenties' 'I liked the analytical part of the stock market' 'We want to do some further work on that project in this calendar year' 'We're looking for future-facing commodities' VALUABLE RESOURCES Dig Deep – The Mining Podcast on iTunes [email protected] Website LinkedIn Twitter VALUABLE RESOURCES mailto:[email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ http://www.mining-international.org https://twitter.com/MiningConsult https://www.facebook.com/MiningInternational.org https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC69dGPS29lmakv-D7LWJg_Q?guided_help_flow=3 ABOUT THE HOST Rob Tyson is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specialising in all areas of mining across the globe from first-world to third-world countries from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. We source, headhunt, and discover new and top talent through a targeted approach and search methodology and have a proven track record in sourcing and positioning exceptional candidates into our clients' organisations in any mining discipline or level. Mining International provides a transparent, informative, and trusted consultancy service to our candidates and clients to help them develop their careers and business goals and objectives in this ever-changing marketplace. CONTACT METHOD [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ Podcast Description Rob Tyson is an established recruiter in the mining and quarrying sector and decided to produce the “Dig Deep” The Mining Podcast to provide valuable and informative content around the mining industry. He has a passion and desire to promote the industry and the podcast aims to offer the mining community an insight into people’s experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics

In this episode we chat to Per Wimmer, CEO of Wimmer Financial, a merchant bank specialising in project and acquisition finance within natural resources as well as sectors focussing on project debt and equity financing at the BFS/DFS stage or equivalent. Per worked for Goldman Sachs as an executive director earlier in his career before setting up Wimmer Financial in 2007 and is going to discuss the companies journey and their future. He also speaks about possibly becoming the first private Dane in space as a Founding Astronaut on Virgin Galactic and of the 3 books he has written, the “Wall Street” and “The Green Bubble”. Per will be speaking at the upcoming Mines and Money Connect Conference in London on 25th-26th April at the County Hall Venue in the heart of Westminster, London. The 2-day programme is a hub for investors and mining companies to have personal one on one meetings and listen to the market analysis, project spotlights, and pitch battles during the action-packed event. So go to this link and book your tickets: https://minesandmoney.com/connect/index KEY TAKEAWAYS By working for the most renowned of financial institutions, Per has gained a significant footing in the world of finance, and is now one of the most respected figures in his field. Today, Wimmer Financial is comprised of a suite of companies all headed by a family office, that oversees accounting, merchant banking and equity concerns. In the last five years there has been a surge in capital values. The cost of capital is very cheap and it makes way more sense to borrow that to draw upon much needed reserves. The financial sector is seeing a correction in the wake of rising inflation and interest rates, and things are challenging. This means that challenges are still out there, but more discernment is required. BEST MOMENTS 'I was there during the late 90's - the exciting boom times!' 'Day one was my mobile phone, my laptop and big hopes and dreams' 'It's been a very exciting and delightful journey' 'There are still opportunities. You just have to be a lot more selective' VALUABLE RESOURCES Dig Deep – The Mining Podcast on iTunes Wimmer Financial - https://www.wimmerfinancial.com VALUABLE RESOURCES mailto:[email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ http://www.mining-international.org https://twitter.com/MiningConsult https://www.facebook.com/MiningInternational.org https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC69dGPS29lmakv-D7LWJg_Q?guided_help_flow=3 ABOUT THE HOST Rob Tyson is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specialising in all areas of mining across the globe from first-world to third-world countries from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. We source, headhunt, and discover new and top talent through a targeted approach and search methodology and have a proven track record in sourcing and positioning exceptional candidates into our clients' organisations in any mining discipline or level. Mining International provides a transparent, informative, and trusted consultancy service to our candidates and clients to help them develop their careers and business goals and objectives in this ever-changing marketplace. CONTACT METHOD [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ Podcast Description Rob Tyson is an established recruiter in the mining and quarrying sector and decided to produce the “Dig Deep” The Mining Podcast to provide valuable and informative content around the mining industry. He has a passion and desire to promote the industry and the podcast aims to offer the mining community an insight into people’s experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics

In this episode we chat to George Salamis and Jason Kosec who are merging their two companies together. George is President/CEO of Integra Resources who are a development-stage mining company focused on the exploration and de-risking of the past producing DeLamar Gold-Silver Project in Idaho, USA. Jason Kosec, CEO, President and Director of Millennial Precious Metals who are building a multi-million-ounce, multi-asset production company unlocking value through near-surface, heap leachable gold and silver ounces in Nevada and Arizona. Integra recently merged with Millennial so we talk more about this transaction and why this is good for both companies. "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." -- African proverb. KEY TAKEAWAYS When we harness the power of two teams into one force, it dramatically multiplies the strengths we have at hand. There are too many exploration and development companies in operation right now - the market is saturated. The merger is designed to be the go-to choice in the space, and to remain relevant. One of the biggest problems in the sector is people. The key to success is to secure top quality assets and top quality people. The question of potential mergers should always be seen with a bird's eye perspective. By merging, we are often doing a great service to our shareholders, and indeed to the world beyond, who could greatly benefit when two forces are yoked together. BEST MOMENTS 'We see the world from the same lens' 'These are exciting times!' 'We're getting to the nitty-gritty of what we need to execute on' 'These are the strategies and the visions that we have developed for the company in the future' VALUABLE RESOURCES Dig Deep – The Mining Podcast on iTunes George Salamis LinkedIn - https://ca.linkedin.com/in/george-salamis-4220b87 Jason Kosec LinkedIn - https://ca.linkedin.com/in/jason-kosec-0a32aa30 VALUABLE RESOURCES mailto:[email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ http://www.mining-international.org https://twitter.com/MiningConsult https://www.facebook.com/MiningInternational.org https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC69dGPS29lmakv-D7LWJg_Q?guided_help_flow=3 ABOUT THE HOST Rob Tyson is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specialising in all areas of mining across the globe from first-world to third-world countries from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. We source, headhunt, and discover new and top talent through a targeted approach and search methodology and have a proven track record in sourcing and positioning exceptional candidates into our clients' organisations in any mining discipline or level. Mining International provides a transparent, informative, and trusted consultancy service to our candidates and clients to help them develop their careers and business goals and objectives in this ever-changing marketplace. CONTACT METHOD [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ Podcast Description Rob Tyson is an established recruiter in the mining and quarrying sector and decided to produce the “Dig Deep” The Mining Podcast to provide valuable and informative content around the mining industry. He has a passion and desire to promote the industry and the podcast aims to offer the mining community an insight into people’s experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics

In this episode we chat to Dan Betts, Executive Chairman and CEO of Hummingbird Resources, an AIM listed mining company who are a leading multi-asset, multi-jurisdiction gold production, development and exploration company with two core gold projects in Mali and Guinea. Dan founded Hummingbird in 2005 and has successfully taken the company from a grassroots exploration business to a listed, producing mining company. The Betts family business has been around since 1760 and your the oldest privately-owned gold bullion smelters and refiners in the country so there’s a strong and long history of working in the precious metals industry Dan talks about the history of Hummingbird Resources and their Yanfolila Gold Mine in Mail and their Kouroussa project in Guinea what their looking to achieve as a company. KEY TAKEAWAYS Dan's family business essentially recycles metals for use in medicinal practices. This has had some crossover with his current business with Hummingbird, providing traceability for gold in mining. Hummingbird are looking to build more mines, grow the company, and engender more diversified operations in the long term. Making mistakes when trying to find your footing is not a bad thing, as there are no such thing as mistakes - only lessons that make you stronger. When you're starting out, it's wise not to over-recruit. Make use of freelancers and specialists instead of crippling the business with overburdened wage bills, until you're in a better position and can hire long term. BEST MOMENTS 'The family business is effectively a recycling business' 'We're trying to refine our ability to be a grown up mining company in terms of operations' 'You have to be honest about mistakes and learn from them' 'We've made some pretty serious management changes throughout the company' VALUABLE RESOURCES Dig Deep – The Mining Podcast on iTunes Twitter: @HUM_gold LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hummingbird-resources/ Hummingbird Resources - https://www.hummingbirdresources.co.uk/ VALUABLE RESOURCES mailto:[email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ http://www.mining-international.org https://twitter.com/MiningConsult https://www.facebook.com/MiningInternational.org https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC69dGPS29lmakv-D7LWJg_Q?guided_help_flow=3 ABOUT THE HOST Rob Tyson is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specialising in all areas of mining across the globe from first-world to third-world countries from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. We source, headhunt, and discover new and top talent through a targeted approach and search methodology and have a proven track record in sourcing and positioning exceptional candidates into our clients' organisations in any mining discipline or level. Mining International provides a transparent, informative, and trusted consultancy service to our candidates and clients to help them develop their careers and business goals and objectives in this ever-changing marketplace. CONTACT METHOD [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ Podcast Description Rob Tyson is an established recruiter in the mining and quarrying sector and decided to produce the “Dig Deep” The Mining Podcast to provide valuable and informative content around the mining industry. He has a passion and desire to promote the industry and the podcast aims to offer the mining community an insight into people’s experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics

In this episode we have a returning guest who appeared back in November 2019 (Episode 51). Mike Jones is Managing Director at Impact Minerals Limited, an exploration company listed on the ASX with four extensive tenement holdings within Australia, featuring significant potential for high-grade mineral deposits of gold, silver, lead, zinc, copper and nickel. A graduate from the Royal School of mines, Mike is a very experienced geologist across Australia and in particular WA and give us an update on Impact Minerals around their recent acquisition and they recent partnership with BHP Xplor, one of the first 7 companies to be selected. He also gives us an update on the Western Australia mining industry. KEY TAKEAWAYS To find a world-class project takes time. You may get lucky, but it takes an extraordinary amount of work. Resilience is the key, especially in the face of challenges in certain countries and COVID, but persistence and hard work lead to results. Impact Minerals is one of the first seven companies, globally, to be chosen to be part of the BHP Explore programme. Perth is becoming a battery hub involved in downstream processing. Required acids are available freely in this port region. Across South East Asia, many countries are starting to grow, with technology leading the field. This requires an entirely new way of mining with an endless stream of demand. BEST MOMENTS 'The philosophy of generating targets is what led me to start Impact Minerals' 'We've been pretty discriminating about the targets we've chosen' 'All of a sudden gold came back. Lithium started to raise its head' 'We're getting better bang for our buck' VALUABLE RESOURCES Dig Deep – The Mining Podcast on iTunes www.impactminerals.com.au https://www.linkedin.com/company/impact-minerals-limited http://twitter.com/ImpactMinerals https://www.instagram.com/impact_minerals VALUABLE RESOURCES mailto:[email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ http://www.mining-international.org https://twitter.com/MiningConsult https://www.facebook.com/MiningInternational.org https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC69dGPS29lmakv-D7LWJg_Q?guided_help_flow=3 ABOUT THE HOST Rob Tyson is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specialising in all areas of mining across the globe from first-world to third-world countries from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. We source, headhunt, and discover new and top talent through a targeted approach and search methodology and have a proven track record in sourcing and positioning exceptional candidates into our clients' organisations in any mining discipline or level. Mining International provides a transparent, informative, and trusted consultancy service to our candidates and clients to help them develop their careers and business goals and objectives in this ever-changing marketplace. CONTACT METHOD [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ Podcast Description Rob Tyson is an established recruiter in the mining and quarrying sector and decided to produce the “Dig Deep” The Mining Podcast to provide valuable and informative content around the mining industry. He has a passion and desire to promote the industry and the podcast aims to offer the mining community an insight into people’s experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics.

In this episode we chat to Spencer Cole, Chief Investment Officer for Vox Royalty who are a mining royalty company with a portfolio of over 60 royalties and streams spanning 8 jurisdictions. Since the beginning of 2020, Vox has announced over 25 separate transactions to acquire over 50 royalties. In the past 6 months alone Vox has dual listed on the NASDAQ exchange, launched a maiden dividend and announced +160% annual revenue growth. With a Masters of Engineering and a Bachelor of Commerce, Spencer co-founded Mineral Royalties Online (MRO), a specialist marketplace/brokerage for mineral royalties underpinned by developing the world’s largest proprietary royalty database, which was subsequently sold to SilverStream in 2019. While at MRO, Spencer was involved in over $1 billion of royalty transactions. In addition to co-founding MRO, Spencer has spent over 10 years at BHP, South32 and UBS Investment Bank in a wide range of commercial and technical mining roles. Spencer gives us an update on VOX Royalty and give us a more in-depth understand of the royalty space and why data is becoming more important than ever within the mining industry. KEY TAKEAWAYS Toronto is the home of many mining companies, but the true understanding required for the industry is not quite there. The ASX continues to support African projects more, whereas the Toronto Stock Exchange and TSX venture support South American more consistently. Junior explorers have historically sold mining projects and kept a contract that gives them a future royalty scheme. There is a huge volume of data in the mining industry that is not being properly processed and evaluated. This is representative of the opportunity we have in the sector to find insight and benefit. Royalty a mainly North American-focussed sector. Most royalties are generated when businesses sell mining claims. There are simply more gold royalties in North America because it’s a rich area in terms of gold. BEST MOMENTS 'I'm a reformed investment banker' 'There's a slight bias in terms of which geographies they'll allocate capital to' 'Toronto is a pretty fun place to live, particularly as a mining executive' 'We're typically finding these royalty contracts sitting in the hands of prospectors' 'The benefit of hindsight is always a double-edged sword' VALUABLE RESOURCES Dig Deep – The Mining Podcast on iTunes [email protected] https://voxroyalty.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/voxroyalty/ https://twitter.com/vox_royalty VALUABLE RESOURCES mailto:[email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ http://www.mining-international.org https://twitter.com/MiningConsult https://www.facebook.com/MiningInternational.org https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC69dGPS29lmakv-D7LWJg_Q?guided_help_flow=3 ABOUT THE HOST Rob Tyson is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specialising in all areas of mining across the globe from first-world to third-world countries from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. We source, headhunt, and discover new and top talent through a targeted approach and search methodology and have a proven track record in sourcing and positioning exceptional candidates into our clients' organisations in any mining discipline or level. Mining International provides a transparent, informative, and trusted consultancy service to our candidates and clients to help them develop their careers and business goals and objectives in this ever-changing marketplace. CONTACT METHOD [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ Podcast Description Rob Tyson is an established recruiter in the mining and quarrying sector and decided to produce the “Dig Deep” The Mining Podcast to provide valuable and informative content around the mining industry. He has a passion and desire to promote the industry and the podcast aims to offer the mining community an insight into people’s experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics.

In this episode we chat to Rob Bergmann and Brian Lentz, of Relevant Gold who are a North American project generator, junior explorer hybrid business model, developing gold and precious metal projects throughout the USA. The current portfolio is focused on discovering district-scale, high-grade gold deposits through a “new eyes on old rocks” approach. Rob is the CEO and Brian is the Chief exploration officer and director and they tell us of their story from being university friends and being out in the field to then building business together and exploring for gold in Wyoming. KEY TAKEAWAYS Exposure to the full spectrum of the mining industry allows us to gain a wide perspective about the sector's potential from the beginning. We must always take advantage of new concepts when re-exploring older projects so as to unlock potential that may have been dismissed in the past. Many of the areas in Wyoming have been historically mined, and so a systematic geological approach is necessary. As well as Relevant Gold, the space is currently being developed by US Gold Corp in Cheyenne. State support and community support is lending ease to this transaction. BEST MOMENTS 'We haven't just been business partners for 15 years - we've been friends for much longer' 'We both had a vision for discovery' 'It's an old eyes on new rocks kind of approach' 'It's such a big concept' VALUABLE RESOURCES Dig Deep – The Mining Podcast on iTunes Website: www.relevantgoldcorp.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/relevant-gold-corp/ Email: [email protected] Phone: +1.763.760.4886 VALUABLE RESOURCES mailto:[email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ http://www.mining-international.org https://twitter.com/MiningConsult https://www.facebook.com/MiningInternational.org https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC69dGPS29lmakv-D7LWJg_Q?guided_help_flow=3 ABOUT THE HOST Rob Tyson is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specialising in all areas of mining across the globe from first-world to third-world countries from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. We source, headhunt, and discover new and top talent through a targeted approach and search methodology and have a proven track record in sourcing and positioning exceptional candidates into our clients' organisations in any mining discipline or level. Mining International provides a transparent, informative, and trusted consultancy service to our candidates and clients to help them develop their careers and business goals and objectives in this ever-changing marketplace. CONTACT METHOD [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ Podcast Description Rob Tyson is an established recruiter in the mining and quarrying sector and decided to produce the “Dig Deep” The Mining Podcast to provide valuable and informative content around the mining industry. He has a passion and desire to promote the industry and the podcast aims to offer the mining community an insight into people’s experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics.

In the episode we chat to Fred White, Chief Commercial Officer at Descycle, a relative new company with the aim of developing clean technology for a variety of metals recycling & recovery and are guided by the UN Sustainable Development Goals to develop low-impact metals processing technologies. Fred is geologist and investor with a decade of international resource sector experience as a geologist, investment analyst and portfolio manager and is here today to tell us the story of Descycle and what they are looking to achieve in developing clean technology for a variety of metals recycling & recovery. KEY TAKEAWAYS It's crucial to get some kind of field experience in the sector before you settle into your chosen area. It helps to have some "dirt under your fingernails" Descycle is aiming to change the way the world processes and recycles metals, hoping to replace pollutive, high energy expensive processes. Descycle's unique form of chemistry involves using metals which behave differently than in any other processing system in use today. In the world's attempts to achieve net zero, we need to electrify economies, which requires a vast quantity of metals. DES is a new class of chemistry made of non-toxic biodegradable, mass produced inputs. They are non-water based mixtures of salts and organic compounds. BEST MOMENTS 'I went from the bush in Zambia to the mean streets of Mayfair' 'It gives you a bit of dirt underneath your fingernails' 'This novel chemistry is a new class of chemistry' 'The world is trying to reach net zero' VALUABLE RESOURCES Dig Deep – The Mining Podcast on iTunes Fred White LinkedIn - https://uk.linkedin.com/in/fred-white-893b7561 VALUABLE RESOURCES mailto:[email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ http://www.mining-international.org https://twitter.com/MiningConsult https://www.facebook.com/MiningInternational.org https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC69dGPS29lmakv-D7LWJg_Q?guided_help_flow=3 ABOUT THE HOST Rob Tyson is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specialising in all areas of mining across the globe from first-world to third-world countries from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. We source, headhunt, and discover new and top talent through a targeted approach and search methodology and have a proven track record in sourcing and positioning exceptional candidates into our clients' organisations in any mining discipline or level. Mining International provides a transparent, informative, and trusted consultancy service to our candidates and clients to help them develop their careers and business goals and objectives in this ever-changing marketplace. CONTACT METHOD [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ Podcast Description Rob Tyson is an established recruiter in the mining and quarrying sector and decided to produce the “Dig Deep” The Mining Podcast to provide valuable and informative content around the mining industry. He has a passion and desire to promote the industry and the podcast aims to offer the mining community an insight into people’s experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics.

In this episode we chat to Phil Russo, Chief Executive Officer & Executive Director of Toubani Resources, a Canadian-listed exploration and development company with a focus on developing their Kobada Gold Project in Southern Mali, West Africa. Phil is an experienced mining and finance professional with more than 18-years experience in corporate, project development and capital markets functions working for the likes of Barrick Gold and Perseus Mining and talks about the story of Toubani Resources, what they have achieved so far and the outlook of the company in 2023. KEY TAKEAWAYS Canada and Australia are the epicentre of mining and finance, so many find themselves drawn there, specifically in the burgeoning mining sector. Toubani's projects produce somewhere in the region of 100,000 ounces per year. It is advanced and well-permitted, providing a robust platform upon which to flourish. Toubani's main strategy will be to be even more methodical in their approach towards assets. BEST MOMENTS 'The project is rather advanced' 'They call that the dark side' 'We're really fortunate to have these guys' VALUABLE RESOURCES Dig Deep – The Mining Podcast on iTunes Phil Russo LinkedIn - https://au.linkedin.com/in/phil-russo-1b319554 VALUABLE RESOURCES mailto:[email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ http://www.mining-international.org https://twitter.com/MiningConsult https://www.facebook.com/MiningInternational.org https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC69dGPS29lmakv-D7LWJg_Q?guided_help_flow=3 ABOUT THE HOST Rob Tyson is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specialising in all areas of mining across the globe from first-world to third-world countries from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. We source, headhunt, and discover new and top talent through a targeted approach and search methodology and have a proven track record in sourcing and positioning exceptional candidates into our clients' organisations in any mining discipline or level. Mining International provides a transparent, informative, and trusted consultancy service to our candidates and clients to help them develop their careers and business goals and objectives in this ever-changing marketplace. CONTACT METHOD [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ Podcast Description Rob Tyson is an established recruiter in the mining and quarrying sector and decided to produce the “Dig Deep” The Mining Podcast to provide valuable and informative content around the mining industry. He has a passion and desire to promote the industry and the podcast aims to offer the mining community an insight into people’s experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics.

In this episode we chat to Matthew Yates, Executive Chairman of OreCorp, who are a development and exploration company listed on the (ASX) and have an advanced high-grade multi-million ounce project in northwest Tanzania. Matthew is an experienced geologist with over 30 years experience in exploration and project development working in Australia, Central Asia and West Africa. He has been with OreCrop since 2013 moving up from CEO & Managing Director and talks about OreCrop’s journey so far and discusses their Nyanzaga project and how the mining industry has turned around in Tanzania. KEY TAKEAWAYS The key to creating a thoroughbred mining operation is pulling together the varying skill sets of partners and founding a collective that is strong and talented. When we have the faith and resources of robust partners, it allows us to move on any opportunities that may arise. You must strike when they appear. Over the past two years, much progress has been made in Tanzania, with full permits being granted for special mining licenses, as well as bringing in $56 million dollars in equity to see the company through pre-development. BEST MOMENTS 'We ended up staring grass roots projects in those countries' 'We saw great geological endowments' 'We're very well backed!' VALUABLE RESOURCES Dig Deep – The Mining Podcast on iTunes Website: https://orecorp.com.au/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/orecorp-ltd Twitter: https://twitter.com/OreCorpLimited Email: [email protected] Phone number: +61 8 9381 9997 VALUABLE RESOURCES mailto:[email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ http://www.mining-international.org https://twitter.com/MiningConsult https://www.facebook.com/MiningInternational.org https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC69dGPS29lmakv-D7LWJg_Q?guided_help_flow=3 ABOUT THE HOST Rob Tyson is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specialising in all areas of mining across the globe from first-world to third-world countries from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. We source, headhunt, and discover new and top talent through a targeted approach and search methodology and have a proven track record in sourcing and positioning exceptional candidates into our clients' organisations in any mining discipline or level. Mining International provides a transparent, informative, and trusted consultancy service to our candidates and clients to help them develop their careers and business goals and objectives in this ever-changing marketplace. CONTACT METHOD [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ Podcast Description Rob Tyson is an established recruiter in the mining and quarrying sector and decided to produce the “Dig Deep” The Mining Podcast to provide valuable and informative content around the mining industry. He has a passion and desire to promote the industry and the podcast aims to offer the mining community an insight into people’s experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics.

In this episode we chat to Julian Soles, CEO of First Mode who are a global carbon reduction company focused on heavy industry and exist to solve the most dire and pressing problems for people and our planet. Julian has a background in architecture and engineering and has worked in naval/marine for most of his career before moving to the mining sector with Anglo America to be their head of technology, developing and implementing step change new technologies and practices, focusing on reducing water and energy consumption, minimizing land disturbance and waste production, preventing soil, water, and air pollution at mine sites, and conducting successful mine closure and reclamation activities. He talks about First Mode and what they are doing to help decarbonise the mining industry, specifically looking at machinery, plant and energy consumption on mine sites. KEY TAKEAWAYS Oil and gas is needed, but we also need to stop using it eventually, and so a transition must begin and take place in an orderly fashion is the planet is to survive. We can definitely decarbonise and innovate in the mining space, but it will take a new way of thinking and a brave way of exploring change. A new generation of working requires an entirely holistic way of looking at the problem. It's not enough to change the vehicles, we also need to revolutionise the entire mining infrastructure. BEST MOMENTS 'In the oil and gas space - there needs to be a transition' 'They were looking someone who can bring different thinking to mining' 'What we're trying to do is get the same level of performance with new gen' VALUABLE RESOURCES Dig Deep – The Mining Podcast on iTunes Website: www.firstmode.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/firstmode/ Twitter: @firstmodehq or https://twitter.com/FirstModeHQ Instagram: @firstmodehq or https://www.instagram.com/firstmodehq/ Email: [email protected] Julian Soles LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/julian-soles/ VALUABLE RESOURCES mailto:[email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ http://www.mining-international.org https://twitter.com/MiningConsult https://www.facebook.com/MiningInternational.org https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC69dGPS29lmakv-D7LWJg_Q?guided_help_flow=3 ABOUT THE HOST Rob Tyson is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specialising in all areas of mining across the globe from first-world to third-world countries from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. We source, headhunt, and discover new and top talent through a targeted approach and search methodology and have a proven track record in sourcing and positioning exceptional candidates into our clients' organisations in any mining discipline or level. Mining International provides a transparent, informative, and trusted consultancy service to our candidates and clients to help them develop their careers and business goals and objectives in this ever-changing marketplace. CONTACT METHOD [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ Podcast Description Rob Tyson is an established recruiter in the mining and quarrying sector and decided to produce the “Dig Deep” The Mining Podcast to provide valuable and informative content around the mining industry. He has a passion and desire to promote the industry and the podcast aims to offer the mining community an insight into people’s experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics.

In this episode we chat to Russell Fryer, CEO of Critical Metals, who were formed to identify and acquire brownfield mining opportunities in the strategic metals sector as defined by the United States and European Union. Their focus is on near-term production opportunities, prioritising cash flow generation over exploration upside and where the Board believes opportunities have been overlooked and under-analysed. Their primary asset is the Mol-ulu Project in the DRC’s Katangan Copperbelt, Russell’s career has been in the mining investment and equity space working for some of the major global financial institutions and shares the story of Critical Metals and their new project in the DRC that has recently gone into production. KEY TAKEAWAYS In 1997, Russell got a glimpse of what the global world of mining looked like due to shifts in the South African market, allowing him a set of rare insights and providing a wealth of experience and wisdom. In 2010, the world entered an economic world war, beginning with China shutting off the rare earth supply to Japan. Dividends are beginning to pay off in terms of contracts and exploration. Projects begun years before are now attracting investors and interest. BEST MOMENTS 'I've been investing in mines since 1991' 'We've got a 30 year encyclopaedia book of opportunities' 'We're trying to keep the cash burn low' VALUABLE RESOURCES Dig Deep – The Mining Podcast on iTunes Twitter: https://twitter.com/CriticalMetals Email: [email protected] VALUABLE RESOURCES mailto:[email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ http://www.mining-international.org https://twitter.com/MiningConsult https://www.facebook.com/MiningInternational.org https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC69dGPS29lmakv-D7LWJg_Q?guided_help_flow=3 ABOUT THE HOST Rob Tyson is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specialising in all areas of mining across the globe from first-world to third-world countries from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. We source, headhunt, and discover new and top talent through a targeted approach and search methodology and have a proven track record in sourcing and positioning exceptional candidates into our clients' organisations in any mining discipline or level. Mining International provides a transparent, informative, and trusted consultancy service to our candidates and clients to help them develop their careers and business goals and objectives in this ever-changing marketplace. CONTACT METHOD [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ Podcast Description Rob Tyson is an established recruiter in the mining and quarrying sector and decided to produce the “Dig Deep” The Mining Podcast to provide valuable and informative content around the mining industry. He has a passion and desire to promote the industry and the podcast aims to offer the mining community an insight into people’s experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics.

In this episode we have a returning guest who appeared back in October 2020 (episode 101) so please go back and have a listen to that podcast episode. Stephen Stewart, who is chairman of the Ore Group, a Canadian-based natural resource discovery and development organisation who pair people, projects, and capital to create wealth for their shareholders and communities. Stephen has directorships with a number of TSX listed companies including Baselode Energy, Orefinders and QC Copper and Gold. He is also the founder and Chairman of the Young Mining Professionals Scholarship Fund, the largest mining-focused charitable organisation and fund, supporting mining engineering and geology education in Canada. Stephen talks about the Ore Group and associated companies plus the important of the Canadian supply chain and why his favourite commodity is gold. KEY TAKEAWAYS Baseload made a uranium discovery in 2021, and the drills are about to get going in 2023. The year ahead looks to be productive and interesting. The market is currently very tough and it's hard to gain traction. You have to be producing things that capture people's imagination. Gold is the great commodity that seems to act as the bell-weather for the sector. It is insurance, and has been under appreciated. One day it will go up and up, and that's because when uncertainty strikes, gold is the mainstay of the global economy. BEST MOMENTS 'That's who we are and that's what we focus on' 'We know so much about this asset - it ticks all the boxes' 'You have to get people excited' VALUABLE RESOURCES Dig Deep – The Mining Podcast on iTunes Stephen Stewart at Ore Group - https://oregroup.ca/team/stephen-stewart/ VALUABLE RESOURCES mailto:[email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ http://www.mining-international.org https://twitter.com/MiningConsult https://www.facebook.com/MiningInternational.org https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC69dGPS29lmakv-D7LWJg_Q?guided_help_flow=3 ABOUT THE HOST Rob Tyson is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specialising in all areas of mining across the globe from first-world to third-world countries from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. We source, headhunt, and discover new and top talent through a targeted approach and search methodology and have a proven track record in sourcing and positioning exceptional candidates into our clients' organisations in any mining discipline or level. Mining International provides a transparent, informative, and trusted consultancy service to our candidates and clients to help them develop their careers and business goals and objectives in this ever-changing marketplace. CONTACT METHOD [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ Podcast Description Rob Tyson is an established recruiter in the mining and quarrying sector and decided to produce the “Dig Deep” The Mining Podcast to provide valuable and informative content around the mining industry. He has a passion and desire to promote the industry and the podcast aims to offer the mining community an insight into people’s experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics.

In this episode we chat to Ryan Mee, CEO of Fulcrum Metals who are a multi-commodity explorer with a diverse portfolio of gold, base metal, and uranium projects positioned close to mineral rich prospective areas and producing or near producing assets in Canada. With an economics degree, Ryan is an experienced serial private investor in the natural resources space turned entrepreneur with extensive knowledge of exploration companies and has a wealth of knowledge in business and commercial acumen, raising funds, investment, strategic and business planning. He explains the story behind Fulcrum Metals and his passion for investing in the resources sector. KEY TAKEAWAYS Fulcrum was founded upon the principle that shareholder value was paramount, and that value was being added at all times - both above and below ground. Since Fulcrum was set up, a number of projects have been assimilated, making the future of the company far more exciting. The company is focussed on Canada with four gold and base metal projects in Ontario and two uranium projects in Saskatchewan. The geology in Canada is highly prospective. BEST MOMENTS 'The heartbeat of why we set up Fulcrum was that we wanted to invest in a company that had shareholders interests at heart' 'This gives us a fantastic opportunity to leverage our position on the market and grow the company' 'Canada is recognised as one of the top jurisdictions for mining investment' VALUABLE RESOURCES Dig Deep – The Mining Podcast on iTunes Ryan Mee - https://fulcrummetals.com/team-member/ryan-mee/ VALUABLE RESOURCES mailto:[email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ http://www.mining-international.org https://twitter.com/MiningConsult https://www.facebook.com/MiningInternational.org https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC69dGPS29lmakv-D7LWJg_Q?guided_help_flow=3 ABOUT THE HOST Rob Tyson is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specialising in all areas of mining across the globe from first-world to third-world countries from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. We source, headhunt, and discover new and top talent through a targeted approach and search methodology and have a proven track record in sourcing and positioning exceptional candidates into our clients' organisations in any mining discipline or level. Mining International provides a transparent, informative, and trusted consultancy service to our candidates and clients to help them develop their careers and business goals and objectives in this ever-changing marketplace. CONTACT METHOD [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ Podcast Description Rob Tyson is an established recruiter in the mining and quarrying sector and decided to produce the “Dig Deep” The Mining Podcast to provide valuable and informative content around the mining industry. He has a passion and desire to promote the industry and the podcast aims to offer the mining community an insight into people’s experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics.

In this episode we have a returning guest who appeared back in December 2021 (Episode 195). Richard Williams is the CEO of Cornish Metals, who are a dual-listed (TSX & AIM) company focused on advancing the South Crofty high-grade, underground tin project through to delivery of a feasibility study, as well as exploring its additional mineral rights, all located in Cornwall, SW England. The Company’s mineral rights have potential for the discovery of tin, copper, lithium, tungsten, zinc and silver mineralization. Richard is a Professional Geologist who has over 30 years of experience in the mining and mineral exploration sector principally in southern Africa, and south and Central America. He also serves as CEO of Winshear Gold Corp, an exploration company with gold projects in Peru. He gives us an update on Cornish Metals and what is happening in the UK mining industry. KEY TAKEAWAYS South Crofty is an iconic mine in Cornwall with operations stretching back to 1592, and which operated continually up to 1998. it served principally as a tin mine. Construction of the water treatment plant is on track for May / June commissioning. Feasibility Study underway, with three drill rigs collecting samples for metallurgical test work, including ore-sorting and paste backfill studies, from various parts of the Mineral Resource The longer term view of Cornish Metals is to grow the company, The technical committee meets regularly to discuss development and advancement. Cornish mining engineers are famed for their ingenuity and innovation. Practices they have pioneered have become the norm throughout the mining world on a global basis. BEST MOMENTS 'We focussed on the underlying tin mine operation' 'Since we acquired the project, we've not secured the environmental permits' 'It's full steam ahead!' 'it's very much a team effort' VALUABLE RESOURCES Dig Deep – The Mining Podcast on iTunes Richard Williams LinkedIn - https://ca.linkedin.com/in/richard-williams-4a82456 Facebook.com/cornishmetals Twitter.com/CornishMetals Linkedin.com/company/Cornish-metals-inc VALUABLE RESOURCES mailto:[email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ http://www.mining-international.org https://twitter.com/MiningConsult https://www.facebook.com/MiningInternational.org https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC69dGPS29lmakv-D7LWJg_Q?guided_help_flow=3 ABOUT THE HOST Rob Tyson is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specialising in all areas of mining across the globe from first-world to third-world countries from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. We source, headhunt, and discover new and top talent through a targeted approach and search methodology and have a proven track record in sourcing and positioning exceptional candidates into our clients' organisations in any mining discipline or level. Mining International provides a transparent, informative, and trusted consultancy service to our candidates and clients to help them develop their careers and business goals and objectives in this ever-changing marketplace. CONTACT METHOD [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ Podcast Description Rob Tyson is an established recruiter in the mining and quarrying sector and decided to produce the “Dig Deep” The Mining Podcast to provide valuable and informative content around the mining industry. He has a passion and desire to promote the industry and the podcast aims to offer the mining community an insight into people’s experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics.

In this episode we chat to Tim Strong, CEO of Golden Rim Resources, an ASX listed gold exploration company who are developing significant value by spearheading the next West African gold rush in its exciting flagship Kada Gold project in Guinea. Tim is a Cambourne School of Mines geology graduate who has worked and lived in many countries around the world but most of his work has been in Africa working with both junior and major mining companies. Leading Golden Rim Resources, he gives us an overview of the company and the projects they are developing. We also talk about age bias within the mining industry and the up-skilling of local African geologists which need to be improved. KEY TAKEAWAYS Many are drawn not just to the geological side of mining, but also to the business side of things. That's the beauty of a career in mining. You can come from any background or have any type of passion, and there will be a place in mining for you. There's a huge disconnect between academia and the student body, especially in geology. There seems to be a negative connotation towards mining, which can be seen as dirty and destructive. This image needs to change. Golden Rim resources is one of the legacy operators in West Africa and still operates in Burkina Faso. Guinea is now the flagship project. Qualifications are all very well, and can prove useful in certain situations, but the lack of them is never a barrier to growth and development in the mining space. BEST MOMENTS 'I built my experience and cut my teeth in the field' 'We need to start talking to a lot of geology teachers' 'A lot of retailers don't see the bigger picture' 'I am always learning' VALUABLE RESOURCES Dig Deep – The Mining Podcast on iTunes LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/timothy-strong-8b375813/ Twitter – timothystrong88 Email – [email protected] VALUABLE RESOURCES mailto:[email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ http://www.mining-international.org https://twitter.com/MiningConsult https://www.facebook.com/MiningInternational.org https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC69dGPS29lmakv-D7LWJg_Q?guided_help_flow=3 ABOUT THE HOST Rob Tyson is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specialising in all areas of mining across the globe from first-world to third-world countries from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. We source, headhunt, and discover new and top talent through a targeted approach and search methodology and have a proven track record in sourcing and positioning exceptional candidates into our clients' organisations in any mining discipline or level. Mining International provides a transparent, informative, and trusted consultancy service to our candidates and clients to help them develop their careers and business goals and objectives in this ever-changing marketplace. CONTACT METHOD [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ Podcast Description Rob Tyson is an established recruiter in the mining and quarrying sector and decided to produce the “Dig Deep” The Mining Podcast to provide valuable and informative content around the mining industry. He has a passion and desire to promote the industry and the podcast aims to offer the mining community an insight into people’s experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics.

In this episode we chat to Peter Hume, Executive Director for Celsius Resources, who are an ASX and AIM listed exploration and development company focusing on its portfolio of copper-gold assets located in the Philippines. Peter has over 40 years’ of substantial and practical experience on major mining and construction development projects on lead roles throughout Australia and internationally working for the likes of Porgera Joint Venture, Xstrata, Anglo, Glencore and Newmont. He gives up an update on Celsius Resources with their potential world-class copper-gold assets they have in the Philippines as well as giving us an update on the Philippine mining industry. KEY TAKEAWAYS Dealing with indigenous communities can be challenging, but also very rewarding. Experience in this field gives you a definite benefit in terms of strategy. Running the day-to-day operations can be extremely challenging, and requires devotion to the job. You have to make sacrifices and compromise, but the results speak for themselves. The investment climate was very quiet during the pandemic, but things are picking up now, substantially. The Philippine government suffered economic impact and now see mining as a way of bouncing back, financially. BEST MOMENTS 'A lot of it was practical experience' 'It's quite challenging when you're running companies' 'Unlocking the economic value is a little challenging' VALUABLE RESOURCES Dig Deep – The Mining Podcast on iTunes Celsius Resources - https://celsiusresources.com/about/ VALUABLE RESOURCES mailto:[email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ http://www.mining-international.org https://twitter.com/MiningConsult https://www.facebook.com/MiningInternational.org https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC69dGPS29lmakv-D7LWJg_Q?guided_help_flow=3 ABOUT THE HOST Rob Tyson is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specialising in all areas of mining across the globe from first-world to third-world countries from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. We source, headhunt, and discover new and top talent through a targeted approach and search methodology and have a proven track record in sourcing and positioning exceptional candidates into our clients' organisations in any mining discipline or level. Mining International provides a transparent, informative, and trusted consultancy service to our candidates and clients to help them develop their careers and business goals and objectives in this ever-changing marketplace. CONTACT METHOD [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ Podcast Description Rob Tyson is an established recruiter in the mining and quarrying sector and decided to produce the “Dig Deep” The Mining Podcast to provide valuable and informative content around the mining industry. He has a passion and desire to promote the industry and the podcast aims to offer the mining community an insight into people’s experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics.

In this episode we have a returning guest who appeared in May 2022 (Episode 237). Andrew Grove, Managing Director and CEO at Chesser Resources, an ASX listed West African focused gold junior mining company with projects located in Senegal where they have discovered two high-grade gold Projects at its flagship Diamba Sud project in eastern Senegal. Andrew is a geologist by trade and has become a high achieving Mining and Finance Executive with an established track record of achieving results, generating profits, identifying opportunities, managing risk and developing teams during his career. He gives us an update on Chesser Resources, details on their recent scoping study and what they are looking to achieve during the year.. KEY TAKEAWAYS With scoping studies having been carried out, there is good reason to believe that resource growth will continue incrementally over the next years. Chesser has updated a study, and now see a prospect of over 800,000 ounces. It clearly shows a low-wisk high value operation is foreseeable at the site. In Senegal, phase nine of the drill programme has been completed, which aims to expand the sites and create new exploration projects. BEST MOMENTS 'We've defined mineralisation' 'We got some really good rock chips!' 'We're progressing now. It's feasible to see mining licenses' VALUABLE RESOURCES Dig Deep – The Mining Podcast on iTunes Andrew Grove LinkedIn - https://au.linkedin.com/in/andrew-grove-17491a30 VALUABLE RESOURCES mailto:[email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ http://www.mining-international.org https://twitter.com/MiningConsult https://www.facebook.com/MiningInternational.org https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC69dGPS29lmakv-D7LWJg_Q?guided_help_flow=3 ABOUT THE HOST Rob Tyson is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specialising in all areas of mining across the globe from first-world to third-world countries from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. We source, headhunt, and discover new and top talent through a targeted approach and search methodology and have a proven track record in sourcing and positioning exceptional candidates into our clients' organisations in any mining discipline or level. Mining International provides a transparent, informative, and trusted consultancy service to our candidates and clients to help them develop their careers and business goals and objectives in this ever-changing marketplace. CONTACT METHOD [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ Podcast Description Rob Tyson is an established recruiter in the mining and quarrying sector and decided to produce the “Dig Deep” The Mining Podcast to provide valuable and informative content around the mining industry. He has a passion and desire to promote the industry and the podcast aims to offer the mining community an insight into people’s experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics.

In this episode, we have a returning guest who appeared back in May 2022 (Episode 241). Dave Webster, Chairman of the 79th Group, with one of their brands 79th Resources being one of the fastest growing natural resources companies in West Africa exploring and identifying gold and other mineral deposits around the region Dave is a natural leader and previously one of the largest private landlords in the UK, with many years experience in the property sector as both a developer and a landlord. He moved into the resource sector 10 years ago and has developed a large portfolio of natural resource projects in West Africa, measured by the number of natural resource concessions under management across the region. The portfolio of resources consists of Gold, Bauxite, Iron Ore, Diamond & Co-coa concessions, the majority of the concessions being situated across Guinea. Today, he gives us an update on activities in West Africa and also new developments they are involved in across the Middle East. He gives us important lessons in business and in everyday life as he is an experienced and successful businessman. KEY TAKEAWAYS You need to be on the ground testing in person and meeting the people involved that’s our USP and we act quickly We de-risk and don’t go into things blind like other people do There are always markets bottoming out and you need to be spotting it We are doing it differently because what worked previously is broken We look at where the damage and negativity are and position ourselves on the other side We are the ultimate buyer of our own investor network and are well-backed by our private funders That UAE is really important and they now have a long-term vision, they’ve committed to us and we’ve committed to them Having a brilliant team and great CEO releases me to be able to buy cheap and think about where we need to be Money’s made between the black and white you have to weave your way through the problems and you’ve got to think differently We give more back to the local communities than anyone because the local communities are the key to our mines BEST MOMENTS ‘Minerals are the true currency on earth’ ‘It started as a bit of fun buying a gold mine and now we have that many we are the largest operator on earth’ ‘It’s all about the quality of the people you have in your team’ VALUABLE RESOURCES Dig Deep – The Mining Podcast on iTunes mailto:[email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ http://www.mining-international.org https://twitter.com/MiningConsult https://www.facebook.com/MiningInternational.org https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC69dGPS29lmakv-D7LWJg_Q?guided_help_flow=3 ABOUT THE HOST Rob Tyson is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specialising in all areas of mining across the globe from first-world to third-world countries from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. We source, headhunt, and discover new and top talent through a targeted approach and search methodology and have a proven track record in sourcing and positioning exceptional candidates into our clients' organisations in any mining discipline or level. Mining International provides a transparent, informative, and trusted consultancy service to our candidates and clients to help them develop their careers and business goals and objectives in this ever-changing marketplace. CONTACT METHOD [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ Podcast Description Rob Tyson is an established recruiter in the mining and quarrying sector and decided to produce the “Dig Deep” The Mining Podcast to provide valuable and informative content around the mining industry. He has a passion and desire to promote the industry and the podcast aims to offer the mining community an insight into people’s experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics.

In this episode, we have a returning guest who appeared in Jan 2022 (Episode 205). Oliver Hasler, Chairman and CEO of PYX Resources who are the 2nd Largest Producing Mineral Sands Company Globally based on zircon resources on their large operation in Indonesia. Oliver has qualifications in mineral engineering and metallurgy and has a background in natural resources, manufacturing and the industrial sector and gives us an update on PYX which has gone through a massive growth phase in 2022. They also commenced the production of rutile and ilmenite, two critical minerals that they are stockpiling and Oliver explains why. KEY TAKEAWAYS Our production grew by 129% and we increased sales volumes by 38% In 2022 with permits and we started the production of rutile and ilmenite which we are stockpiling, when we start to sell it will have a positive impact on our bottom line It’s predicted the gap between supply and demand will continue to grow Zircon is a critical mineral in the transition to carbon neutral as it's used for energy cells and electric car batteries It's important to be able to react quickly to customer demand and having stock closer to the market reduces shipping costs and time BEST MOMENTS ‘We have done exactly what we said we would do in our five-year plan in 2020’ ‘We started to produce rutile and ilmenite’ ‘I’m constantly looking for opportunities to add to our group with a focus on synergy’ RESOURCES FOR THIS EPISODE @ResourcesPyx on Twitter https://www.linkedin.com/company/pyx-resources/ Website: https://pyxresources.com/ VALUABLE RESOURCES Dig Deep – The Mining Podcast on iTunes mailto:[email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ http://www.mining-international.org https://twitter.com/MiningConsult https://www.facebook.com/MiningInternational.org https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC69dGPS29lmakv-D7LWJg_Q?guided_help_flow=3 ABOUT THE HOST Rob Tyson is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specialising in all areas of mining across the globe from first-world to third-world countries from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. We source, headhunt, and discover new and top talent through a targeted approach and search methodology and have a proven track record in sourcing and positioning exceptional candidates into our clients' organisations in any mining discipline or level. Mining International provides a transparent, informative, and trusted consultancy service to our candidates and clients to help them develop their careers and business goals and objectives in this ever-changing marketplace. CONTACT METHOD [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ Podcast Description Rob Tyson is an established recruiter in the mining and quarrying sector and decided to produce the “Dig Deep” The Mining Podcast to provide valuable and informative content around the mining industry. He has a passion and desire to promote the industry and the podcast aims to offer the mining community an insight into people’s experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics.

In this episode we have a returning who appeared in June 2022 (Episode 248). Anthony Milewski, Chairman of Nickel 28 who are an innovative battery metals focused investment vehicle with a focus on metal streaming and royalty agreements offering our investors exposure to metals integral to key technologies of the electric vehicle and energy storage markets. Anthony is an entrepreneur, investor and speculator and is going to give us an update on Nickel 28 and talk about market conditions, carbon credits, commodities and much more. KEY TAKEAWAYS There is no doubt that an energy revolution is underway. Nuclear energy and electric cars are as established reality and are helping to save the planet. Copper is going to become more of an interesting commodity going forward. Uranium is also going to be a major material in order to fuel the electric shift. The performance of every publicly traded carbon operation is down due to negative publicity, but this does not reflect the reality of demand. BEST MOMENTS 'I spun out to focus on the green energy transition that's underway' 'The whole space has gone harder and longer than we anticipated' 'The demand from corporates continues to grow' VALUABLE RESOURCES Dig Deep – The Mining Podcast on iTunes Anthony Milewski LinkedIn - https://ca.linkedin.com/in/anthonymilewski VALUABLE RESOURCES mailto:[email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ http://www.mining-international.org https://twitter.com/MiningConsult https://www.facebook.com/MiningInternational.org https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC69dGPS29lmakv-D7LWJg_Q?guided_help_flow=3 ABOUT THE HOST Rob Tyson is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specialising in all areas of mining across the globe from first-world to third-world countries from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. We source, headhunt, and discover new and top talent through a targeted approach and search methodology and have a proven track record in sourcing and positioning exceptional candidates into our clients' organisations in any mining discipline or level. Mining International provides a transparent, informative, and trusted consultancy service to our candidates and clients to help them develop their careers and business goals and objectives in this ever-changing marketplace. CONTACT METHOD [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ Podcast Description Rob Tyson is an established recruiter in the mining and quarrying sector and decided to produce the “Dig Deep” The Mining Podcast to provide valuable and informative content around the mining industry. He has a passion and desire to promote the industry and the podcast aims to offer the mining community an insight into people’s experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics.

In the episode we have returning guest who appeared back in November 2020 (Ep 102). Mike Battersby, Chairman and MD of Maelgwyn Mineral Services Limited, a privately owned limited company and is establishing itself as a world leader in the development and implementation of innovative cost-effective technologies and processes in the field of mineral, chemical and waste processing. Mike has a background in mineral processing started the business over 25 years ago developing technology that can achieve significant environmental benefits in terms of reduced energy and waste for operations. The company has grown significantly to what it is today and Mike gives us an update on what has happened over the last few years KEY TAKEAWAYS A new subsidiary in South Africa and a series of engineers and agents located around the world are all seeing to it that the new reactor technology has been largely accepted by the mining industry. Flotation technology is a type of pneumatic technology, and is remarkable different from the tank tech that has been well established. It is far more efficient. During lockdowns and travel restrictions, new measures were needed in order to push this environmentally beneficial technology. But there was only so much that could be done remotely. BEST MOMENTS 'This can add serious value to the bottom line of gold mining operations' 'We're developing a range of products and processes based around these technologies' 'We've had to bite the bullet!' VALUABLE RESOURCES Dig Deep – The Mining Podcast on iTunes LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/maelgwyn-mineral-services-ltd/?viewAsMember=true YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw7AERwlwV_Z7PdZcleCxxQ Email - [email protected] Website - www.Maelgwyn.com VALUABLE RESOURCES mailto:[email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ http://www.mining-international.org https://twitter.com/MiningConsult https://www.facebook.com/MiningInternational.org https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC69dGPS29lmakv-D7LWJg_Q?guided_help_flow=3 ABOUT THE HOST Rob Tyson is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specialising in all areas of mining across the globe from first-world to third-world countries from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. We source, headhunt, and discover new and top talent through a targeted approach and search methodology and have a proven track record in sourcing and positioning exceptional candidates into our clients' organisations in any mining discipline or level. Mining International provides a transparent, informative, and trusted consultancy service to our candidates and clients to help them develop their careers and business goals and objectives in this ever-changing marketplace. CONTACT METHOD [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ Podcast Description Rob Tyson is an established recruiter in the mining and quarrying sector and decided to produce the “Dig Deep” The Mining Podcast to provide valuable and informative content around the mining industry. He has a passion and desire to promote the industry and the podcast aims to offer the mining community an insight into people’s experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics.

In this episode we chat to John Black, Natural Resources and Energy Director at BDO UK who are an international network of public accounting, tax and advisory firms which perform professional services John is a qualified accountant and worked for some of the biggest companies in this space and talks about some of the challenges mining companies or entities facing in the industry today and in particular Africa with BDO producing a report about the African mining industry. We also discuss the key trends for the industry including talent and ESG KEY TAKEAWAYS When we have great leadership and experience at the top, it trickles down to the rest of the team, empowering them to give a better quality of service. There is no substitute for experience in the mining sector. The more we learn and grow, the more the sector looks to you for guidance. They key to growth is communication. Better outlets to share ideas allow the sector as a whole to grow and develop. BEST MOMENTS 'The importance of sector focus enables people to develop' 'We have a really experienced partner and director team' 'Our challenges are pretty unique' VALUABLE RESOURCES Dig Deep – The Mining Podcast on iTunes BDO Natural Resources: https://www.bdo.co.uk/en-gb/industries/natural-resources-energy/natural-resources-energy-articles-and-reports John’s Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-black-63b2a978/ BDO’s Mining Report: https://www.bdo.co.uk/en-gb/insights/industries/natural-resources-and-energy/the-role-of-africa-in-the-global-mining-industry VALUABLE RESOURCES mailto:[email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ http://www.mining-international.org https://twitter.com/MiningConsult

In this episode we have a returning guest who appeared back in October 2019 (Episode 46). Darren Stralow is the Chief Executive Officer at Bellevue Gold, a junior who has discovered an exceptionally high-grade gold system in the world-class Goldfields mining district and is one of the highest-grade and fastest-growing gold projects in Western Australia. Darren is an experienced mining executive and qualified mining engineer with over 20 years’ industry experience and was a member of the senior management team at Northern Star Resources for over 10 years before joining the helm at Bellevue Gold. He gives us an overview of the company and what they are looking to achieve during 2023 and beyond. We discuss the labour market in WA and how Bellevue Gold set itself apart from other junior miners. KEY TAKEAWAYS Bellevue is a startup company that has grown exponentially in the last six years, based upon an existing mine from the 1890s, and which was an on/off operation. Coming from a broad corporate world has allowed Darren to hone his experience and gain a wide ranging set of tools that has equipped him well. Bellevue already had a high quality team, but as it has grown over the last twelve months, it has led to a huge upswing in talent, and has allowed them to pull towards more ambitious goals. BEST MOMENTS 'It's an amazing journey for a young professional to be involved in' 'Bellevue as a company has built a significant high grade asset' 'We've gone through the journey of being an exploration company, and now a development company' 'You need to surround yourself with the right people' VALUABLE RESOURCES Dig Deep – The Mining Podcast on iTunes Darren Stralow LinkedIn - https://au.linkedin.com/in/darren-stralow-88158432 VALUABLE RESOURCES mailto:[email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ http://www.mining-international.org https://twitter.com/MiningConsult https://www.facebook.com/MiningInternational.org https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC69dGPS29lmakv-D7LWJg_Q?guided_help_flow=3 ABOUT THE HOST Rob Tyson is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specialising in all areas of mining across the globe from first-world to third-world countries from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. We source, headhunt, and discover new and top talent through a targeted approach and search methodology and have a proven track record in sourcing and positioning exceptional candidates into our clients' organisations in any mining discipline or level. Mining International provides a transparent, informative, and trusted consultancy service to our candidates and clients to help them develop their careers and business goals and objectives in this ever-changing marketplace. CONTACT METHOD [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ Podcast Description Rob Tyson is an established recruiter in the mining and quarrying sector and decided to produce the “Dig Deep” The Mining Podcast to provide valuable and informative content around the mining industry. He has a passion and desire to promote the industry and the podcast aims to offer the mining community an insight into people’s experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics.

In this episode we chat to Stefan Bernstein, CEO of GreenRoc, a junior miner with a portfolio comprised of graphite, illmenite, iron ore deposits in Greenland. And their focus is on developing mines for the production of critical minerals, that is minerals that are considered vital for the economic well-being of the world’s major and emerging economies, Stefan is a Danish geologist with over 30 years’ experience in Greenland’s mining sector, who brings a very strong knowledge base and understanding of the country and its mineral wealth, with his experience spanning both corporate and governmental advisory roles. He talks about GreenRoc and what they have achieved and what Greenland is like as a mining destination. KEY TAKEAWAYS Stefan has been engaged in mineral research within may roles - from Senior Researcher at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, to Head Of Department there. GreenRoc has been staging explorations for a number of projects in Greenland, focussing mainly in the north, and upon titanium minerals. The graphite needs for European productions arms is set to dramatically increase four-fold between 2022 and 2025, and then ten-fold by 2030. BEST MOMENTS 'This really sparked my interest for mineral exploration' 'GreenRoc has been working in Greenland for some years now' 'The demand is just around the corner' VALUABLE RESOURCES Dig Deep – The Mining Podcast on iTunes Stefan Bernstein LinkedIn - https://dk.linkedin.com/in/stefan-bernstein-51514a1a VALUABLE RESOURCES mailto:[email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ http://www.mining-international.org https://twitter.com/MiningConsult https://www.facebook.com/MiningInternational.org https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC69dGPS29lmakv-D7LWJg_Q?guided_help_flow=3 ABOUT THE HOST Rob Tyson is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specialising in all areas of mining across the globe from first-world to third-world countries from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. We source, headhunt, and discover new and top talent through a targeted approach and search methodology and have a proven track record in sourcing and positioning exceptional candidates into our clients' organisations in any mining discipline or level. Mining International provides a transparent, informative, and trusted consultancy service to our candidates and clients to help them develop their careers and business goals and objectives in this ever-changing marketplace. CONTACT METHOD [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ Podcast Description Rob Tyson is an established recruiter in the mining and quarrying sector and decided to produce the “Dig Deep” The Mining Podcast to provide valuable and informative content around the mining industry. He has a passion and desire to promote the industry and the podcast aims to offer the mining community an insight into people’s experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics.

In this episode we chat to Dawn Larsen, Digital Solutions Manager for Epiroc who are a leading productivity partner for the mining, infrastructure and natural resources industries. With cutting-edge technology, Epiroc develops and produces innovative drill rigs, rock excavation and construction equipment, and provides world-class service and consumables. Dawn has a strong background in software and digital technology in the mining industry and give us an insight to Epiroc and discusses how their new digital technology can help mining companies become more efficient and improve safety. KEY TAKEAWAYS Epiroc is known for its world-class mining equipment and technology, but to maximise value to customers, they have also acquired world-class software solutions so as to best provide customer focussed solutions. It's vital, when making acquisitions, to ensure that not just solutions are being found, but also a cohesion of values. Customers and clients who have so far utilised Epiroc's software solutions have seen dramatic increases in productivity and a marked increase in capability. Real time data and information exchange means that greater application can be maintained. For a rescue team, each moment is vital, and software such as this saves lives. BEST MOMENTS 'We can now work with our mine customers and really engage, and identify even more business value' 'Software and digitisation is the roadmap to the future' 'It equips them with intelligence very quickly' 'The software helps to analyse things in real time' VALUABLE RESOURCES Dig Deep – The Mining Podcast on iTunes Epiroc Digital Solutions Canada, learn more: https://www.epiroc.com/en-ca/products/digital-solutions/digital-solutions-for-underground-mining Subscribe to Mining Software News Updates: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/mining-software-news-updates-6955516167738310656/ Schedule a No-cost Digital Roadmap Strategy Session: [email protected] Contact: Dawn Larsen, Epiroc Digital Solutions Canada 1-249-377-9983 Case Studies: HudBay: Increased mucking rate by 7% Up to 15% increase in productivity Interview with Michael Place, Mine Manager at Gold Fields, Australia on Vimeo Fosterville: Expects to cut half the time off evacuations with Epiroc Digital Solutions’ Mobilaris Emergency Support https://www.epiroc.com/en-ca/customer-stories/2020/mobilaris-at-kirkland-lake-gold Goldfields: Expect a 12-month ROI on Implementing Digitalization in the Mine https://www.epiroc.com/en-ca/customer-stories/2020/gold-fields-australia-modernization-program Software Solutions Discussed in the Podcast: Mobilaris Situational Awareness: https://www.epiroc.com/en-ca/products/digital-solutions/sustainable-and-safe-operations/mobilaris-situational-awareness Onboard: https://www.epiroc.com/en-ca/products/digital-solutions/operational-performance/mobilarisonboard Pocketmine: https://www.epiroc.com/en-ca/products/digital-solutions/operational-performance/mobilaris-pocketmine Emergency Support: https://www.epiroc.com/en-ca/products/digital-solutions/sustainable-and-safe-operations/mobilaris-emergency-support Short Term Interval Control, Planning and Scheduling: https://www.epiroc.com/en-ca/products/digital-solutions/planning-and-scheduling/mobilaris-scheduling Event Automation: https://www.epiroc.com/en-ca/products/digital-solutions/connected-assets/mobilaris-event-automation Enterprise Data Integration Platform: MineRP: https://www.minerp.com/enterprise-interoperability VALUABLE RESOURCES mailto:[email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ http://www.mining-international.org https://twitter.com/MiningConsult https://www.facebook.com/MiningInternational.org https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC69dGPS29lmakv-D7LWJg_Q?guided_help_flow=3 ABOUT THE HOST Rob Tyson is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specialising in all areas of mining across the globe from first-world to third-world countries from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. We source, headhunt, and discover new and top talent through a targeted approach and search methodology and have a proven track record in sourcing and positioning exceptional candidates into our clients' organisations in any mining discipline or level. Mining International provides a transparent, informative, and trusted consultancy service to our candidates and clients to help them develop their careers and business goals and objectives in this ever-changing marketplace. CONTACT METHOD [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ Podcast Description Rob Tyson is an established recruiter in the mining and quarrying sector and decided to produce the “Dig Deep” The Mining Podcast to provide valuable and informative content around the mining industry. He has a passion and desire to promote the industry and the podcast aims to offer the mining community an insight into people’s experienc

In this episode we have a returning guest who appeared in December 2020 (Episode 110). Michael Moore, managing director of Golden State Mining, are an ASX listed exploration company based in Perth, Australia who have acquired a number of gold, Lithium and base metals assets around Western Australia and looking to develop these in the near future. Michael is a mine engineer by background with extensive experience in Western Australia and is also a past director of the Camborne School of Mines in the UK. We get an update on Golden State Mining, talk about their recent Lithium assets they have acquired, the graduate market and mining in Western Australia. KEY TAKEAWAYS Investors have been desperately interested in new opportunities around the battery metals in Western Australia. Working in lithium and other battery minerals and materials has meant that a solid bank of shareholders has emerged, committed to driving the sector forward. Western Australia is one of the richest terrains for exploration in the world in terms of talent available and geological output. BEST MOMENTS 'We've seen a massive flood of IPO since 2018' 'Western Australia is the best place to be exploring in the world' 'There's a great future for minerals exploration here' VALUABLE RESOURCES Dig Deep – The Mining Podcast on iTunes Golden State Mining - https://goldenstatemining.com.au/team/mike-moore/ VALUABLE RESOURCES mailto:[email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ http://www.mining-international.org https://twitter.com/MiningConsult https://www.facebook.com/MiningInternational.org https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC69dGPS29lmakv-D7LWJg_Q?guided_help_flow=3 ABOUT THE HOST Rob Tyson is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specialising in all areas of mining across the globe from first-world to third-world countries from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. We source, headhunt, and discover new and top talent through a targeted approach and search methodology and have a proven track record in sourcing and positioning exceptional candidates into our clients' organisations in any mining discipline or level. Mining International provides a transparent, informative, and trusted consultancy service to our candidates and clients to help them develop their careers and business goals and objectives in this ever-changing marketplace. CONTACT METHOD [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ Podcast Description Rob Tyson is an established recruiter in the mining and quarrying sector and decided to produce the “Dig Deep” The Mining Podcast to provide valuable and informative content around the mining industry. He has a passion and desire to promote the industry and the podcast aims to offer the mining community an insight into people’s experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics.

In this episode we chat to Alan Matthews, an experienced mining executive with over forty years of experience working in executive roles within the industry and has recently written a book, Overseas and Underground: Adventures of a Modern Cornish Miner. He graduated from the Camborne School of Mines in 1974 and spent the next half a century globe-trotting around the world from mine sites as far flung as Peru and Papua New Guinea. With this, Alan decided to write a book so we dig deep into the contents the book, and understand Alan’s career and see what we can learn from his overseas knowledge and experience. KEY TAKEAWAYS Striking out on your own in the industry is the natural impulse for those with experience. Opportunities that once seemed distant become a reality when we absorb the wisdom of others. When you hit a brick wall in terms of the administrational governance of certain countries, it's best to realise you're licked, count your losses and move on. If you have an offer to travel and work in other countries, always make sure you do your due diligence on not just the company itself, but the country and its culture and values. You need to align with all of it. We learn by the stories of others, and take teachings from the experiences they have had. This is why it's vital that all of life and its adventures are documented in some way. BEST MOMENTS 'I raised a few bucks, drilled a few holes' 'We realised that being in Ecuador was not sensible at the time' 'Do some research on the country you're going to' 'You need three or four years' experience!' VALUABLE RESOURCES Dig Deep – The Mining Podcast on iTunes Overseas and Underground : Adventures of a Modern Cornish Miner - https://www.brownsbfs.co.uk/Product/Matthews-Alan-F/Overseas-and-Underground--Adventures-of-a-Modern-Cornish-Miner/9781912015153 VALUABLE RESOURCES mailto:[email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ http://www.mining-international.org https://twitter.com/MiningConsult https://www.facebook.com/MiningInternational.org https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC69dGPS29lmakv-D7LWJg_Q?guided_help_flow=3 ABOUT THE HOST Rob Tyson is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specialising in all areas of mining across the globe from first-world to third-world countries from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. We source, headhunt, and discover new and top talent through a targeted approach and search methodology and have a proven track record in sourcing and positioning exceptional candidates into our clients' organisations in any mining discipline or level. Mining International provides a transparent, informative, and trusted consultancy service to our candidates and clients to help them develop their careers and business goals and objectives in this ever-changing marketplace. CONTACT METHOD [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ Podcast Description Rob Tyson is an established recruiter in the mining and quarrying sector and decided to produce the “Dig Deep” The Mining Podcast to provide valuable and informative content around the mining industry. He has a passion and desire to promote the industry and the podcast aims to offer the mining community an insight into people’s experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics.