Dig Deep

In this episode, we chat to Phil Day, CEO of Scotgold, a junior mining company that is Scotland’s first gold producer. They are growing their company with further exploration activities in and around the Scottish Highlands.

Phil is a highly experienced senior mining executive with a career spanning over 25 years. He has a background in metallurgy and chemistry and has many senior appointments in his career in Africa and the US before taking the helm at Scotgold and talks to us about Scotland’s first gold mine and what it means to the area and the Scottish people.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• The geology of the Cononish Mine, in Scotland, is the best Phil has seen throughout his career.
• Lead was first mined in Cononish in the 1700s.
• The quartz vein was found in the 1980s, then gold.
• Gold production started in 2020.
• Gold is being found in places they were not expecting, in the mine.
• They are operating in a National Park. Phil explains how they are handling this. In particular what they are doing with the tailings.
• They are predicting an EBIT Da of about 21 to 24 million.
• The plan is to take the company into the million-tonne area, by running an exploration programme.
• They produce a concentrate, as well as gravity gold. So, they will be able to make Scottish gold coins, bars and jewellery.

BEST MOMENTS

‘I was incredibly impressed with the geology, it’s the highest-grade gold mine I have ever seen in my working career. ´

‘The enthusiasm here is contagious.’

‘We are on the cusp of having a gold rush in Scotland.’

EPISODE RESOURCES

Website: https://www.scotgoldresources.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/scotgold-resources/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/scotgoldresltd

Email: [email protected]

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Email: [email protected]

Website: https://www.mining-international.org/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/MiningRobTyson

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DigDeepTheMiningPodcast/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theminingpodcast/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/DigDeepTheMiningPodcast/videos

ABOUT THE HOST

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 insight into people's experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics.

Rob is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specializing in all areas of mining across the globe from the 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 client's organizations 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.

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 about 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 with Jaco Van Dalen, an experienced underground mine planner and surveyor who is currently working with Harmony Gold, in South Africa. As an avid listener of this podcast, he reached out to us as he wanted to talk about how advances in technology like virtual reality can help capture data from incidents that have occurred in mining. Data can be used to help to reduce the number of incidents or tragic events that occur, in the future.

We must take responsibility for improving our understanding of unwanted events so that we can effectively mitigate the re-occurrence. Jaco hopes to continue his research after completing his Masters by utilising data from incidents. Using machine learning applications to predict incidents, which are likely to occur in the future.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Jaco started his mining career as a labourer and is part of a mine rescue team.
• For mining incident investigators gathering the data to conduct a proper investigation is extremely challenging.
• Good quality safety investigations automatically lead to safer mines.
• Investigations can be safely conducted in a day using new technology. Instead of the standard 3 to 5 days.
• Faster investigations can translate into millions of dollars saved, per incident.
• VR enables specialists from across the world to take part in investigations, anywhere.
• Potentially, you will be able to scan an existing workspace and machine learning will be able to recognise similarities and highlight potential risks.
• Digital twins are an excellent tool for mine planning as well as incident investigation.

BEST MOMENTS

‘I realised that there are better and smarter ways that we can conduct these investigations to get a better insight into what we see at the scene of an incident. ´

‘There is a negative correlation between the quality of investigations and the safety performances of an operation.’

‘After 3D scanners, virtual reality scanners are definitely coming… and we will gain extra information from that.’

EPISODE RESOURCES

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaco-van-dalen-7490288b

Email: [email protected]

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Email: [email protected]

Website: https://www.mining-international.org/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/MiningRobTyson

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DigDeepTheMiningPodcast/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theminingpodcast/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/DigDeepTheMiningPodcast/videos

ABOUT THE HOST

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 insight into people's experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics.

Rob is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specializing in all areas of mining across the globe from the 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 client's organizations 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.

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 about 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 with Alastair Clayton, Executive Director at Artemis Resources, a gold and copper-focused resources company. They have major assets in the Pilbara area, at Paterson Central and Carlow Castle.

Alastair has a considerable amount of experience with raising capital for ASX and AIM-listed companies as well as extensive experience in evaluating and financing large-scale mining projects. He tells the story behind Artemis Resources and what they are looking to achieve in developing their gold assets in the Pilbara area of Western Australia.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• When Alastair and his colleagues picked up Artemis it was quite undervalued.
• Artemis had too many projects running, so they stripped the portfolio back from 10 to 2 projects.
• Rationalising the portfolio saved money and generated a lot of cash.
• They are focusing on the Carlow Castle copper/gold project and their Paterson Central project.
• Artemis still has an eye on developing new projects, at a later date.
• In the past, Pilbara was only about iron ore and liquified gas. Now, high-grade gold has been discovered there.
• They largely have heritage approval across their projects.
• For copper the supply side is shocking. So, demand for Artemis copper is sure to be high.
• All the access infrastructure is already in place.

BEST MOMENTS

‘Who would have thought it a gold-copper province in the Pilbara. ´

‘When would you ever get a chance to drill next to a virgin 20-million-ounce gold discovery in Western Australia? Now, you can.’

‘We own 100% of our project. We are the only Junior in the area to retain 100% of their land.’

EPISODE RESOURCES

Website: https://artemisresources.com.au/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArtemisResources

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Email: [email protected]

Website: https://www.mining-international.org/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/MiningRobTyson

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DigDeepTheMiningPodcast/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theminingpodcast/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/DigDeepTheMiningPodcast/videos

ABOUT THE HOST

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 insight into people's experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics.

Rob is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specializing in all areas of mining across the globe from the 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 client's organizations 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.

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 about 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 Dec 2021 (episode 193), Mike Ferguson who is the President and CEO of Gensource Potash who are a Canada-based fertiliser development company, which is focused on developing resource opportunities with a specific focus on potash development.

Mike is a professional engineer with over 25 years experience in potash and uranium. He is leading the development of this green-field property. Mike gives us an update on their Tugaske Project and on the potash industry as a whole. He also covers the issue of the 40% reduction in supply which is a consequence of the Russian/Ukraine war.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• GenSource is growing to 3 million tonnes per year of potash production. Doing so in a modular and scalable way.
• Their approach can bring a new site into production in 2 years as opposed to the typical 8 to 10 years.
• Their production method consumes 75% less water per ton compared to conventional solution mining.
• They leave no salt tailings. This is good for ESG and makes licensing far easier.
• There is a genuine shortage of potash. 40% of the world’s supply is under a cloud right now.
• Higher construction costs are making scaling more difficult.

BEST MOMENTS

‘The methods we are using have been proven in different parts of the world. ´

‘There is a genuine structural supply-side problem, in the (potash) industry.’

‘We started this with the idea of using a form of solution mining that allows us to avoid salt tailings altogether.’

EPISODE RESOURCES

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gensource-potash/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/GensourcePotash?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GensourcePotash/

Previous Mike Ferguson episode / https://omny.fm/shows/dig-deep-the-mining-podcast/easy-to-finance-and-scale-eco-friendly-potash-prod

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Email: [email protected]

Website: https://www.mining-international.org/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/MiningRobTyson

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DigDeepTheMiningPodcast/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theminingpodcast/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/DigDeepTheMiningPodcast/videos

ABOUT THE HOST

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 insight into people's experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics.

Rob is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specializing in all areas of mining across the globe from the 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 client's organizations 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.

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 about 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 with Tim Foden who is a partner at Boies Schiller Flexner, the global disputes law firm who are internationally recognized and known for its creative, aggressive, and efficient pursuit of success for its clients.

Tim is a dual-qualified English-US lawyer and specialises in international arbitration in the mining sector. He has acted for both the world’s largest mining companies and a host of junior mining companies. Tim talks about disputes that happen within the industry and provides some valuable advice about how to act when faced with them. Sometimes you need a lawyer when you’re in trouble, but you have to engage with them before you are fully in need of their services. Doing so enables you to strategize how best to navigate disputes to get the best outcome over the long term.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Miners get a bad rap, so often end up being treated badly, especially junior miners.
• There are two main types of disputes that Tim handles – commercial and claims against sovereign states.
• Disputes with sovereign states include a failure to protect the mining site from unrest.
• If you are investing in a country, first check that your country has a treaty in place with that country.
• Using holding companies is an effective way to better utilise treaties.
• Ask the hard questions. Think about what could go wrong, what your rights would be and how to strengthen them.
• Be very careful about what you say in public and to governments.
• As soon as things start to go wrong consult a lawyer. They will help you to put together a strategic response to secure the best possible outcome.
• Resource nationalism is a powerful force that underpins many disputes.
• Treaties make it hard for states to cease assets off of companies because they are foreigners.

BEST MOMENTS

‘Being a lawyer is being a perpetual student, you are always having to learn new industries. ´

‘It is not just risky jurisdictions that you need to be wary of.’

‘They should watch what they say to the government and recognise that there´s going to be diminishing returns when interacting with the government.’

EPISODE RESOURCES

Website: https://www.bsfllp.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/boies-schiller-&-flexner-llp

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Email: [email protected]

Website: https://www.mining-international.org/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/MiningRobTyson

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DigDeepTheMiningPodcast/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theminingpodcast/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/DigDeepTheMiningPodcast/videos

ABOUT THE HOST

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 insight into people's experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics.

Rob is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specializing in all areas of mining across the globe from the 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 client's organizations 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.

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 about 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 Nathan Tinkler, a well-known Australian mining executive with a colourful and interesting past who began his career as a qualified electrician in the coal mines of the Hunter Valley. He soon became one of the leading mining executives in Australia’s coal mining industry. He made some very shrewd investments between 2006 to 2012 and was named by the BRW Magazine as Australia’s youngest billionaire. His career, unfortunately, took a turn for the worst over the next few years which we will cover.

Nathan is now the CEO of Bentley Resources and is going to give us an insight into his career, his highs, and lows, and more importantly talk about his passion which is the coal industry and why coal is needed, and what the future holds for the black stuff.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• For Nathan, going from being a tradesman to CEO was a natural progression. He just continually built on his knowledge.
• Continuous improvement is what generates results.
• The coal sector improves slowly, there is no real leadership in the industry.
• Mining is a great employer, the fact that people are well paid gives them the chance to transform their lives.
• The industry needs to develop the people they already have better.
• You cannot turn off coal if you do not have an alternative.
• Australia is just starting to experience the power issues Europe has been suffering.
• There are plenty of industries that pollute more than coal.
• The climate change story is all clickbait, it is not being told accurately.
• Coal assets that are being gotten sold off are still economically viable. Investor pressure is forcing companies to unload their fossil fuel holdings.

BEST MOMENTS

‘If you improve something once it can be improved again. ´

‘People want to sell assets, but they do not want to sell it to anyone who´s going to make it successful.’

‘Be mindful of the people below you and your objectives and how much you need those people.’

EPISODE RESOURCES

Websites: https://www.bentley.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/bentleysystems

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BentleySystems

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/BentleySystems

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bentleysystems/

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Email: [email protected]

Website: https://www.mining-international.org/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/MiningRobTyson

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DigDeepTheMiningPodcast/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theminingpodcast/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/DigDeepTheMiningPodcast/videos

ABOUT THE HOST

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 insight into people's experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics.

Rob is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specializing in all areas of mining across the globe from the 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 client's organizations 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.

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 about 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 with Grant Budge, founder of Integrity Media (UK) who is tackling mental health through literature and creative writing.

Grant originally came from the coal mining industry. He discusses mental health management in the mining industry which is increasing. We look at the symptoms and how mental management can be better managed in the mining industry.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• One in four people will suffer a mental health issue, every year.
• With mental health problems, accepting where you are at is one of the most important steps.
• Creative writing gives you headspace and helps in other ways to restore mental health.
• Mental health issues are still stigmatized.
• People hide their mental health problems, very effectively.
• Working in mining is stressful by its very nature. Levels build over time.
• Exhaustion is also an issue in the mining industry.
• Societal change is important. There is no point in healing someone. Then, throw them back into the same pressure cooker.
• Mining companies need to be on the front foot to help people to nip the issue in the bud.

BEST MOMENTS

‘There´s a number of stages in going through mental health challenges. ´

‘You need to know that when you disclose something to somebody, you can trust them.’

‘One in four people have a challenge per year, it is normal.’

EPISODE RESOURCES

Website:              www.integrity-media.co.uk

Twitter:                @RebuildRelaunch

Instagram:           @RebuildRelaunch

Facebook:            Integrity Media

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Email: [email protected]

Website: https://www.mining-international.org/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/MiningRobTyson

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DigDeepTheMiningPodcast/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theminingpodcast/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/DigDeepTheMiningPodcast/videos

ABOUT THE HOST

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 insight into people's experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics.

Rob is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specializing in all areas of mining across the globe from the 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 client's organizations 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.

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 about 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 Anthony Milewski, Chairman of Nickel 28, 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. He previously appeared on the podcast back in July 2021, in episode 153, so check that out. 

Anthony is an entrepreneur with a background in Finance and Law and gives us an update on Nickel 28 and also talks about what is happening in the world with Russia, China, and the markets and how this is impacting the global supply of materials now and in the future.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Nickel 28 has had a run of great quarters with production.
• They are now in a position to pay back their debt.
• When you see new demand emerging like there is for battery metals, the opportunities are huge.
• The global supply chain issues have created big challenges, especially for nickel.
• The current weakness in some commodities is likely to be temporary. When China comes back online properly that is likely to change.
• The sanctions and war in Ukraine have been highly disruptive.
• De-globalization is highly likely to happen, which should make mining easier in some countries.
• The biggest issue for the industry is a lack of funding.

BEST MOMENTS

‘When you have a new technology, a new demand for a given commodity, you see a complete structured change in that commodity. ´

‘The market might be soft until the entire world is back online and operating as normal.’

‘The longer-term fix here is de-globalization.’

EPISODE RESOURCES

Twitter - https://twitter.com/a_milewski

Website - https://www.nickel28.com/

Episode 153 with Antony Milewski - https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/streaming-royalties-investments-understanding-carbon/id1440020656?i=1000528907518

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Email: [email protected]

Website: https://www.mining-international.org/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/MiningRobTyson

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DigDeepTheMiningPodcast/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theminingpodcast/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/DigDeepTheMiningPodcast/videos

ABOUT THE HOST

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 insight into people's experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics.

Rob is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specializing in all areas of mining across the globe from the 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 client's organizations 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.

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 about 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 with Catherine Perry, an Associate with Climate Risk Services. A company that are supporting clients in understanding, assessing, and managing climate risks and opportunities.

Catherine is a geoscientist by background and worked for a number of mining companies and consultancies. She talks about climate risk within our industry. Sharing how companies can adapt and embed climate into their governance, strategy, risk management, their metrics and targets with the goal of improving their climate resilience.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• TFCD stands for Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures, which is becoming mandated in more countries.
• Climate Risk Services helps companies to understand climate risks. Giving them access to the data they need to make sound decisions.
• They offer scenario planning and analysis and encourage people to embed this into their day-to-day work.
• They look at 4 areas in particular, which Catherine explains in the podcast.
• Mining companies have to consider the indirect risks of climate change as well as the direct ones like the increased risk of flooding.
• Some mining companies are building desalination plants to deal with a lack of water from drought.
• Net zero is definitely the preference.
• When it comes to climate, standards and guides are changing rapidly, which is an additional challenge.
• For some strategies there is often government funding available to help.

BEST MOMENTS

‘When we talk about climate risks, we´re not just talking about direct climate risks, we are also thinking of indirect risks. ´

‘It´s not all about climate risk, it is also about recognising climate opportunity.’

‘Push to have a climate resilience committee set up and push to be a part of it.’

EPISODE RESOURCES

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/climate-risk-services/

Website: https://www.climateriskservices.com/

Catherine Perry LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherineperrygeo/

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Email: [email protected]

Website: https://www.mining-international.org/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/MiningRobTyson

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DigDeepTheMiningPodcast/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theminingpodcast/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/DigDeepTheMiningPodcast/videos

ABOUT THE HOST

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 insight into people's experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics.

Rob is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specializing in all areas of mining across the globe from the 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 client's organizations 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.

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 about 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 with Robert Quartermain and Jonathan Awde from Dakota Gold, a responsible gold exploration and development company with a specific focus on revitalising the Homestake District which has high calibre gold mineral properties covering 40K acres in South Dakota.

Robert the chairman of the company has a wealth of industry experience and is this year’s newest inductee to the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame. Jonathon is President, Director & CEO and has a finance background raising financing for various junior resource companies, focusing on institutional accounts, high net worth and family offices within the natural resources industry.

We talk about Dakota Gold which they have recently formed and what the plans are for the future with the exciting discovery they have made.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• In the nineties discoveries were made that were not followed up because the gold price was too low. Now, exploiting them is viable.
• They have seen proof of concept, from their first hole.
• The mineralisation is dense.
• There are high concentrations of gold in a small geographical area.
• The mining area is well connected and has sound infrastructure.
• Pulling together and digitising historic exploration results quickly uncovers new opportunities.
• Dakota Gold is listed on the New York exchange.
• Robert Quartermain came out of retirement to get involved.

BEST MOMENTS

‘We have 125 years of data throughout the region that has never really been followed up systematically. ´

‘Nobody has looked at it through a $1,800 gold price lens, only through a $300 gold price lens.’

‘You've got forty-one million ounces spread across just a couple of miles - one of the most concentrated areas of high-grade gold mineralization in the world.’

‘It is located in a safe jurisdiction where you can operate and function with the rule of law.’

EPISODE RESOURCES

Website: https://dakotagoldcorp.com/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSLkhlM4U1iL3RRwC24iueg/videos

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dakotagold/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/DakotaGoldCorp

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Email: [email protected]

Website: https://www.mining-international.org/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/MiningRobTyson

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DigDeepTheMiningPodcast/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theminingpodcast/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/DigDeepTheMiningPodcast/videos

ABOUT THE HOST

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 insight into people's experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics.

Rob is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specializing in all areas of mining across the globe from the 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 client's organizations 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.

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 about 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.