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Introducing our 2024 MC

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Introducing our 2024 Speakers

This year, we are doing a deep dive into the Pipeline projects in and around Mount Isa in the North West Minerals Province.

Speakers from a variety of these pipeline projects will be presenting about their activities and where their projects are up to. For some, they are in exploration phase, for others it's pre-production and for others its diversifying and developing current deposits. We will be hearing about partnerships that are being signed to ensure productivity and viability.

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John Cotter

Managing Director, North West Phosphate

He has more than 20 years’ experience in major projects across Australia and is a recognised expert in the field of infrastructure planning.

Having been raised on a cattle property west of Gympie, John brings to the role a unique understanding of the importance of investing in agriculture, resources and drought proofing regions as a key pillar for economic growth and it is for that reason that he was a seed investor in North West Phosphate. John has continued to fund the development of North West Phosphate and committed to improving fertilisers for farming regions across Queensland and Australia

After working in private practice and listed property, he founded the Flinders Group, a specialised project management consulting firm which grew to over 150 staff across Australia. In 2014 Flinders Group was sold to global engineering firm Arcadis. In 2016, John founded Initiative Capital to provide private equity and expertise to infrastructure.

John has a Bachelor of Urban Planning, a Masters in Applied Finance and a Diploma of Project Management. He currently serves as a Non-Executive Director as the Royal Agricultural and Industry Association.

Johns presentation will be "Phosphate, is it food, batteries or magnets? Why Phosphate is the new critical mineral."

https://www.nwphos.com/

Minister Scott Stuart MP

Queensland Minister for Resources and Critical Minerals and Member for Townsville

Scott Stewart is the Queensland Minister for Resources and Critical Minerals and Member for Townsville. As Minister for Resources and Critical Minerals, he is responsible for one of the state’s largest industries, which supports more than 75,000 good jobs and is worth $74 billion dollars to the Queensland economy.

In 2022, Minister Stewart launched the Queensland Resources Industry Development Plan. The plan sets out a clear 30-year vision for the sector with a focus on Queensland becoming a global leader in supplying critical minerals and ESG credentialing. The Minister is passionate about the future of mining in Queensland and launched the Queensland Critical Minerals Strategy at the World Mining Congress in Brisbane in 2023.

During his time as Minister for Resources, he has overseen the largest increase in minerals exploration since 2011 and continues to be a strong advocate for new and existing projects in government. He has strong personal ties to the resources sector and is a proud great grandson to Walter John Davidson who was one of the original Mount Isa mine workers in the 1920s.

Before entering Parliament as the Member for Townsville in 2015, Minister Stewart worked in education for 28 years; serving as a principal and teacher in several state high schools. Upon his election in October 2015, he served as the Chair of the Education, Tourism, Innovation and Small Business Committee and as deputy speaker. Minister Stewart is a strong and active leader within the community. He understands and appreciates the value of education and sees it as the key to success. He holds a Bachelor of Education and a master's degree from the Queensland University of Technology.

https://cabinet.qld.gov.au/ministers-portfolios/scott-stewart.aspx

Peter Brown

Chief Operating Officer - True North Copper

Peter Brown is an accomplished Executive Manager with three decades of experience in the resource and mining sector. His expertise spans both technical and leadership disciplines. Australian and International roles have contributed to a diverse skill set, which includes project acquisition, strategic planning, funding, development and operations.

Pivotal roles contributed to the successful engineering, construction of the 1.7Moz Toka Tindung Gold Mine and 1Moz Mt Carlton Gold Mine. Expanding Diatreme Resources high purity silica assets in North QLD from 50Mt to an impressive 300Mt, has catalysed pre-feasibility on this significant Critical Minerals development.

A number of roles around Mt Isa and Cloncurry since the 1990’s have facilitated mine developments. As COO for True North Copper the latest opportunity and Peter’s focus is building a North Queensland mining business, delivering essential Critical Minerals, employment and benefits to North Queensland.

https://truenorthcopper.com.au/

Gavin Loyden

Gavin Loyden, Managing Director, QEM Limited

Gavin Loyden is the Founder and Managing Director of QEM Limited, having identified and acquired the significant dual commodity resource at Julia Creek. Mr Loyden is responsible for QEM’s capitalisation, exploration program and development of QEM’s flagship vanadium and oil shale project. Prior to founding QEM, Mr Loyden assisted a range of companies from early stage development through to international stock market listings.

He has over a decade of experience in the mining industry and extensive experience in the structuring of capital raising proposals for both private and public companies, executive selection, and Corporate Governance. Mr Loyden is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

http://www.qldem.com.au

Elliott York

Incitec Pivot Fertilisers Program Manager, Northern Australian Operations Strategic Projects

Elliott has held various leadership and operational roles with Incitec Pivot Fertilisers (IPF) for 15 years.

Working across several facilities, including IPF’s Mount Isa Sulphuric Acid plant and Phosphate Hill plant operations, Elliott has held a variety of maintenance, engineering, and capital project roles.

Currently, Elliott IPF’s Program Manager, Northern Australian Operations Strategic Projects.

https://www.incitecpivot.com.au/

Kim Grey

Exploration Manager - Red Metal Limited

Kim is Exploration Manager for Red Metal Limited (ASX:RDM), who have been active in the Mount Isa and Cloncurry area for over 20 years.

Prior to joining RDM two years ago, Kim has had over 30 years’ experience in various exploration, development and mining roles in the NT, Qld, and in PNG.

RDM has a number of exciting copper-gold exploration projects in the Mount Isa region, a 53% holding in Maronan Metals (ASX:MMA) which is advancing the large Maronan silver-lead copper-gold deposit near Cloncurry, and a funding alliance with copper major Oz Minerals (now BHP).

In the past year RDM made a significant new rare earth discovery on the Sybella Project, only 20km SW of Mount Isa. Sybella has rapidly advanced from “proof of concept” drilling and metallurgical test work to step-out resource drilling, which is currently in progress.

This unique granite-hosted deposit has rare earths hosted in readily-soluble fluoro-carbonate minerals allowing excellent recoveries of the magnet rare earth elements with a modest acid requirement. Importantly, work to date suggests the new Sybella discovery could be a heap leachable source of rare earth oxide minerals with the potential for highly competitive capital and operating costs, and a potential new long-life mining opportunity for the community of Mount Isa.

http://www.redmetal.com.au/

Nicholas Huffels

Non-Executive Director - Mount Isa Minerals

Nick is a highly experienced corporate executive and consultant based in Melbourne with nearly 30 years of senior-level experience in the resources and metals industry, the majority of which has been in resources and metals marketing.

He brings deep market and business strategy knowledge across a range of commodities, including having held senior executive positions at WMC and BHP Marketing, and more recently +10 years Strategy Consulting at all levels of enterprise.

http://mountisaminerals.com.au

Tim Rose

Acting Chief Executive Officer of Mount Isa City Council

Tim Rose is the current Acting Chief Executive Officer of Mount Isa City Council. He is a former CEO of Local Buy Pty Ltd, Burnett Shire Council and Bowen Shire Council, as well as a former acting CEO of Diamantina Shire, Mapoon Aboriginal Shire, and Quilpie Shire councils.

Tim will be presenting on the Mount Isa City Council response to the closure of Glencore's copper mine and concentrator. This will include a discussion on the economic diversification work that the council is looking at, and he will also touch on the need for long term reliable sources of acid for the entire North West Minerals Province.

https://www.mountisa.qld.gov.au/

Fran Burgess

Process Manager, QLD - Ausenco

Fran is a metallurgist with more than 40 years’ experience in the mining industry. She has an extensive operational background in running mines, mineral processing plants and smelters, most notably the lead smelter at Mt Isa. Fran believes that you create your own miracles from determination and hard work and has done so many times in her career, such as significant zinc recovery improvement at Pasminco Elura Mine using stirred mill detritors, the ramp up of Pasminco Century to achieve the planned recovery regardless of the feed grade and the feed tonnage, and changing the safety culture at a zinc processing plant in Mount Isa and Zinifex Rosebery Mine.

https://www.ausenco.com/

Sarah Gooley

Director, Queensland, AMEC (Association of Mining and Exploration Companies)

Sarah has 20 years’ experience in operational, policy, advisory and management roles in the Queensland Government. In recent years Sarah has held the position of AMEC’s Queensland Director and has advocated successfully for junior and mid-tier explorers and miners in Queensland. Sarah has also consulted in the exploration and mining sector. Sarah strongly believes in the long-term future of our resources sector and looks forward to working with our members and team.

https://amec.org.au/

Edward Fry

Exploration Manager - Renegade Exploration

Geology professional with over 15 years’ experience across China, Papua New Guinea, and Australia. Previous roles with Golden Tiger, Artemis Resources, MIL Resources, Convergent Minerals, and Rockfire Resources. Completed his geology degree at UQ, where his honours project detailed the structural evolution and mineralization style of the Kalman Mo-Co-Au deposit.

http://www.renegadeexploration.com

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Introducing our 2024 MC

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