Highly experienced geologist Jacob Rebek has been appointed as ‘Senior Adviser – Geology’ with Pegmont Mines as the company undertakes a major campaign in the Mt Isa area of Queenlsand.
Pegmont Managing Director, Malcolm Mayger, said Mr Rebek has had a distinguished career as an exploration geologist with Rio Tinto as Exploration Director for South America and his skills will be of great value to the company’s plans.
We have been working with Jacob for some time in a study designed to lead to a new phase of our exploration in the Mount Isa area, Mr Mayger said.
“The study confirmed in Jacob’s words that “Mount Isa – Cloncurry copper province is the most important copper province in Australia’ and also concluded that Australia is one of the 5 highest ranking countries for future copper discoveries, along with Chile, Southern Coastal Peru, Canada and China. The Mount Isa Copper Deposit is one of the best in the world as regards tonnage and grade composition.”
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Mr Rebek’s career includes a period a Director and Group Geologist for CAA-Eastern Australia responsible as team leader for the discovery of the Century Zinc deposit (the second largest zinc mine in the world). He was also involved in several copper-gold discoveries in PNG.
Pegmont Mines has a 21 year history of successful exploration in the Mount Isa area confirmed by recent highly encouraging exploration results by Canadian explorer Vendetta Mining Corp. at the Pegmont lead-zinc deposit.