People and places

• Autores: Industrial Minerals
• Localización: Industrial Minerals, ISSN 0019-8544, Nº. 583, 2016 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Mayo)
• Idioma: inglés
• Texto completo no disponible (Saber más ...)
• Resumen

  • As is common in the mining industry, personal relationships were instrumental in bringing me onboard the team. Mary Little, a long time friend and professional colleague, introduced me to the company and its leadership and suggested I join the board. I was familiar with the Clayton Valley Project from the previous exploration work there between 2009 and 2012. As I engaged with the management of Pure Energy, I found a lot of passion, creativity, and commitment. I saw that translate to the maiden mineral resource last summer and the subsequent conditional supply agreement with Tesla Motors last fall. Seeing the company perform through such a challenging market cycle and break paradigms with its relationships, I realised that Pure Energy was a good fit for me.

    While I don't expect to see such frothy price spikes in lithium products continue unabated, I do expect to see strong demand and strong pricing. As quality developers of lithium projects, we don't need to see lithium prices at more than $20,000/tonne. Hopefully the growing demand and healthy pricing will facilitate a more transparent market, but I don't expect it to be boring in the meantime.

    I am not particularly good at planning for or enjoying my "spare time". Ideally, I don't have much of it. I do enjoy golf, but even that is usually with others in the mining industry, which is nice because of most of us aren't very good. I spend a good bit of time in my gym, whether that's for stress relief or fitness I'm not sure. I also have three amazing kids and one of my favourite things to do is travel with them.