Extract from an AFR article mentioning Chalice.Fork in the road...

Extract from an AFR article mentioning Chalice.

Fork in the road looms for BHP, Newcrest’s copper play SolGold

Anthony Macdonald, Sarah Thompson and Kanika Sood

Aug 14, 2022 – 9.34pm

Now that BHP has the chequebook out for a big copper deal, the spotlight has turned on other potential targets in the sector.

Analysts reckon OZ Minerals is just one of about a dozen future-facing commodities plays in the $1 billion to $10 billion range, all of which could hold appeal to BHP and/or a big mining copycats.

SolGold owns 85 per cent of the Cascabel project in Ecuador, which it wants to get into production by the end of the decade. Louise Kennerley

The list includes Australia’s IGO Ltd, Nickel Mines and Chalice Mining, Toronto-listed Lundin Mining and Ivanhoe Mines, and a bunch of overlooked African base metals plays trading in South Africa.