Mining execs, big investors meet at MarketTalk Melbourne

• MarketTalk investor forum connects ASX resource executives with investors
• Companies involved in a range of commodities ranging from oil and gas to lithium
• Event kept intimate to ensure high-quality engagement and value for attendees

Special Report: Well-established investor forum MarketTalk has once again connected ASX-listed juniors with investors in Melbourne.

At the event, held at Chancery Lane on Thursday (August 28), event organiser ResolveIR presented a line-up of producers, near-term producers and developers across key commodities.

Co-hosted by ResolveIR founder Evy Litopoulos and Bianca Barlow, experienced Investor Relations executive and stalwart of the industry, the event offered high-net-worth investors, brokers, and institutional representatives direct access to executives from these companies in a convivial setting.

“MarketTalk is about creating meaningful connections between investors and the executives driving growth stories. These events are deliberately kept intimate to ensure high-quality engagement and real value for attendees,” Litopoulos said. 

“With the support of Stockhead as media partner, we’re able to amplify these stories while keeping the events impactful for all participants.”

ADX Energy – an existing oil and gas producer with operations in Europe – to mineral explorers and near-term producer such as Western Australia-focused gold play, TG Metals.

Advance Metals (ASX:AVM)

Managing director Adam McKinnon gave a presentation on the company’s silver and gold assets in North America and Australia.

The company had, in less than 12 months, executed three strategic acquisitions in the prolific Sierra Madre Belt, which gives it a silver equivalent endowment of more than 100Moz, and makes it one of the largest ASX participants in this space in Mexico.

Adding interest, all three projects have significant upside potential with Advance targeting a doubling in resource endowment to over 200Moz in the medium-term.

The company is also exploring the ultra-high grade Myrtleford project in the Victorian Goldfields with early drilling returning eye-popping results such as 7.5m grading 47.9g/t gold and 8.2m at 22.4g/t gold.

ADX Energy (ASX:ADX)

Meanwhile, executive chairman Ian Tchacos touched on the company’s plans to ramp up its existing oil and gas production in Austria. 

This will be achieved by pursuing Anshof near-field oil prospects that can be quickly brought into production through its existing infrastructure and testing shallow gas prospects in Upper Austria that have the potential to deliver steady, low-cost energy supply to gas-hungry Europe.

ADX also recently received the formal award for the C.R150.AU exploration permit in the Sicily Channel offshore Italy, which is highly prospective for natural gas.

The permit contains high-quality, historical 2D seismic data along with production well data.

While originally considered to be an oil producer, the presence of nearby shallow gas discoveries and field development by Italian oil major Eni have, along with the availability of gas export infrastructure, made it a hot address for gas exploration.

Pursuit Minerals (ASX:PUR)

For Pursuit, managing director Aaron Revelle briefed investors on its flagship Rio Grande Sur lithium project in Argentina, which has a JORC resource of 1.1Mt lithium carbonate equivalent.

The company has already de-risked the pathway to commercial production with 99.5% technical grade lithium carbonate produced from its commissioned 250tpa pilot plant.

Samples from this work have been dispatched to potential offtake and strategic partners.

Pursuit is also advancing complementary precious metal opportunities across Argentina.

Terra Metals (ASX:TM1)

Managing director Thomas Line discussed the company’s plans to progress its large-scale Dante polymetallic project in WA’s West Musgrave region.

The company has just recently raised $15m to expedite drilling, resource growth and development activities at the project.

This followed closely on the heels of a resource estimate of 148Mt grading 14.8% titanium dioxide, 0.54% vanadium pentoxide, 0.18% copper and 0.33% PGE, which includes a higher confidence indicated resource of 38Mt at 18.4% TiO2, 0.73% V2O5, 0.23% copper and 0.72g/t 3PGE.

TG Metals (ASX:TG6)

CEO David Selfe spoke to attendees about plans to treat gold mineralised stockpiles at its Van Uden project in WA to unlock near-term cash flow and ramp-up gold exploration in Western Australia.

Drilling is underway to expand resources at the project, which currently stands at 6.35Mt grading 1.15g/t for 227,140oz of contained gold.

Additionally, the company is accelerating exploration at the Gold City prospect where sampling has extended the mineralised trend and generated compelling new drill targets.

TG Metals also continues to progress its Lake Johnston lithium project, though its attention is primarily on its gold assets.

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