Good guess Rupfel - choosing NRW as his contractor is a decision I am sure James Brown has had cause to congratulate himself on many times.
....And it would certainly be a wonderful thing if my mystery person was of similar standards, expertise in his field, and calibre to the people at NRW.
.....Like NRW he knows the Pilbara well.
In fact maybe even better than JB and co as he used to own the tenements now held by Altura.
He is Simon Attwell (
linkedIn profile) - a geologist who identified/claimed many Pilganoora pegmatite tenements for his company - Attgold - back around the turn of the century.
Attgold then transferred some of its leases to Simon’s other company, Australian Tantalum, which onsold the leases to Haddington Resources in 2001.
Haddington Resources ended up with our management team and was renamed Altura Mining ....etc etc etc.
- Thus management ‘knows him well’.
Simon retained other Pilbara leases, sold (I think) to De Grey and Kairos minerals but - interestingly - he also retained ownership of certain prospects (the special ones?) until finally selling to
Sayona Minerals where he took the position of
Exploration Manager.Here’s section of the yesterdays quarterly that relates to Simon;
Exploration and development
Geological Mapping
A detailed geological map has been developed from the mapping work carried out last quarter.
The map includes areas of Hazelby-Cleopatra prospects (E45/2363) and the mine site (M45/1230, M45/1231 and M45/1260).Desktop Review WorkAltura announced on 8 August 2019 that it had signed an Earn-in Agreement with lithium project developer Sayona Mining over its Pilbara lithium tenements. A desktop review of Sayona’s exploration tenements has been completed along with a site visit to several tenements accompanied by the Sayona Exploration Manager. Altura is now planning the next stage of on ground Exploration work for the Sayona tenementThe reason I think he is so important is that currently, with Stage 2, LOM here is projected to be only a dozen years (and that is only
IF PLS gives permission to mine certain Altura deposits from PLS land)
I feel certain customers, investors and management would all be much happier with a longer mine life and Simon, via
AJM’s August 2019 agreement with Sayona Minerals may be the man to show us all the way?
As a starting point for anyone interested in further research @Sungar’s
August 17, 2019 HC post is a great start
cheers
