I was just reading this old interview with Mark Bennett from...

I was just reading this old interview with Mark Bennett from Sirius in 2019, it reminds us of why we are here;

“So our strategy is to chase big ones. That means going into under explored areas we believe are prospective, but aren’t necessarily regarded as such by everyone else.”

What project is your key focus right now?

“We were attracted to Finland, in particular Lapland, which is a few hundred kilometres north of the Arctic Circle.

“There’s a greenstone belt which hosts Europe’s biggest gold mine, Kittila, as well as a recent copper-nickel-platinum discovery called Sakatti owned by Anglo American.

“You usually find a distribution of smaller deposits alongside the big ones. But in this case you have two representative tier 1 deposits of their type but very little else, which is unusual.

“The question we asked was – why?

“For various reasons that area has not experienced the kind of exploration a lot of other prospective areas have, so we chose to focus on Finland.

“We also went into Nevada, which is home to [gold majors] Barrick and Newmont for the same reason; to find those giant gold deposits.”

In late 2015 you said Finland was the place where “sleeping giants lie”. You even called it your next Fraser Range.

“We called Finland ‘the next Fraser Range’ in reference to what the Fraser Range was for us, initially, at Sirius.

“In the early Sirius days, we had Polar Bear and we had the Fraser Range. Polar Bear was the more conventional gold and nickel play, it was something the market understood.

“On the side we had the Fraser Range, an area people regarded as ‘moose pasture’.

“It was such an unusual place to go and explore at the time, that if we made too much of a noise about this ‘moose pasture’ people might think we were losing perspective.