GCIMetals One: CEO Jonathan Owen on plugging Europe’s battery metals supply gap
Vox Markets speaks to Jonathan Owen, CEO of Northern European explorer (MET1 ), about how recent positive drilling results underpin the group’s strategy to develop one of Europe’s cleanest and cheapest battery metals resources and meet Europe’s politically driven need for domestic supply.
0:38 An update on recent drilling results at its flagship Black Schist Ni-Zn-Cu-Co project in Northern Finland.
3:26 The significance of the Talvivaara-style mineralisation at the project, and how it can create huge economies of scale in mining that would make it one of the cheapest and cleanest nickel producers in the world.
5:09 Where the recent drilling results take the strategy, including plans to expand the resource to c. 200Mt.
7:08 The background to the new prospectivity model and its objectives.
8:18 The political tailwinds driving demand for domestically produced battery metals for use in Europe.
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