On this edition of the East Meets West Podcast, I am chatting with Dario Valenza, founder of Carbonix, a leading Australian manufacturer and solutions provider of commercial uncrewed aerial systems to the Western Australian mining industry.

We discuss the challenges and opportunities of rolling out drones across Western Australian industry, the advantages of incorporating drones into mining operations and the key role they can play in helping reduce a company’s carbon footprint. 

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On this edition of the East Meets West Podcast, I am chatting with Russell “Rusty” Delroy, founder of Nero Resource Fund, a Western Australia-based resource investment fund that has substantially outperformed both the ASX Small Resources Index and relevant global resource fund peers since inception.

We discuss Rusty’s very Aussie approach to investing, WA's status as the best mining jurisdiction, navigating the highs and lows of resource stock investments, and backing a dark horse in the WA oil and gas space. 

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On this edition of the East Meets West Podcast, I am chatting with Darren Stralow, CEO of Bellevue Gold, Western Australia’s next gold producer which is very close to the start of production at one of Australia’s highest-grade mines.

We discuss Darren’s move from one WA gold success story to the next, how the old timers missed a multi-million-ounce gold find, and the significant exploration upside still remaining at the Bellevue gold project.

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On this edition of the East Meets West Podcast, I am chatting with Warren Pearce, CEO of peak industry body, the Association of Mining and Exploration Companies (AMEC). 

We discuss why there has been an increase in approvals times for WA mining projects, how much of a concern the issue is to the state’s resources sector, and what AMEC is doing with respect to lobbying governments in an effort to help cut approvals times.

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On this edition of the East Meets West Podcast, I am chatting with George Ross, senior analyst at Argonaut, an Australian investment house focused on the metals and mining, and energy sectors. 

We discuss the moves by the majors in WA lithium that are dominating headlines of late, how the state could perform on the global stage with respect to downstream processing, George’s fave lithium plays, and who the potential targets could be.  

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On this edition of the East Meets West Podcast, I am chatting with Dan Thomas, managing director of junior copper and gold explorer Hammer Metals, which is rubbing shoulders with some of the bigwig gold producers in the highly prospective Yandal belt in Western Australia.

We discuss Dan’s move some years back from a major producer to the head of a junior explorer, how Western Australia’s favourable regime shaped Sandfire’s DeGrussa success, and the emerging lithium potential on Hammer Metals’ ground in the Yandal region.

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On this edition of the East Meets West Podcast, I am chatting with Greg Durack, Managing Director of Juno Minerals, an emerging iron ore producer with strong lithium potential in an area of Western Australia that has earned itself the nickname lithium “corridor of power”.

We discuss the attraction of the Yilgarn and its lithium potential to an increasing number of major miners, what gives Juno confidence it has strong lithium potential on its ground, and how the metal traders reckon the company’s iron ore will be “flying off the shelf”.

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On this edition of the East Meets West Podcast, I am chatting with Brad Lingo, Chairman of Pilot Energy, a trailblazer in the clean energy space working to help decarbonise Western Australia through the development of the Mid West Clean Energy Project.

We discuss how Western Australia compares to the East with respect to carbon emissions, what prompted Pilot Energy’s pivot into the decarbonisation and clean energy space, and how end-of-life offshore oil and gas projects can be extremely useful in the clean energy transition. 

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On this very first edition of the new East Meets West Podcast, I am chatting with Daniel Tuffin, Executive Technical Director of Cavalier Resources, a junior lithium explorer with a near-term gold mine in the hot M&A region of Leonora with the intention to self-fund further exploration.

We discuss the increasing interest and flurry of M&A activity in the Leonora region, how Cavalier had its sights on the region long before the majors came sniffing around, and whether this junior explorer could be on the radar of the neighbouring producers desperately in need of ore to top up their mills.  

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