In this episode, we chat with Scott Hicks, VP Corporate Development at Lumina Group who are a collection of junior mining companies exploring for base and precious metals across the Americas. Scott has worked on a variety of equity, debt, and advisory assignments in Canada and Australia over the last few decades. He plays major roles in the group with Lumina Gold, Strategic Resources, and Fuerte Metals and talks about each company, its projects, the country, and the general outlook for each of their assets. KEY TAKEAWAYS Lumina Gold is focused on unlocking three key aspects to get the project shovel ready by the end of 2025: exploitation IPA agreement, permits, and completing the feasibility study. Strategic Resources is working on securing feed for the pellet plant and finalising the project finance package in the first half of 2025 for construction to begin. Fuerte, formerly known as Atacama Copper, is focusing on drilling in Mexico at the Cristina project and unlocking surface access to drill the porphyry in Chile. The Lumina Group is actively looking for new opportunities and projects to further expand and grow their portfolio in the Americas. BEST MOMENTS "We've seen the Chinese involvement in Africa and South America continue to be strong."  "We're trying to lock down the feed with a trader to get the DR grade iron into the plant."  "We're trying to get Lumina Gold shovel ready in the next year and a bit."  "We need to educate our industry and improve the image and brand of mining."  VALUABLE RESOURCES Mail:        [email protected] LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ X:              https://twitter.com/MiningRobTyson YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/DigDeepTheMiningPodcast  Web:        http://www.mining-international.org https://luminagold.com/ https://strategic-res.com/ https://www.fuertemetals.com/news/atacama-copper-to-become-fuerte-metals/ ABOUT THE HOST Rob Tyson is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specialising in all areas of mining across the globe from first-world to third-world countries from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. We source, headhunt, and discover new and top talent through a targeted approach and search methodology and have a proven track record in sourcing and positioning exceptional candidates into our clients' organisations in any mining discipline or level. Mining International provides a transparent, informative, and trusted consultancy service to our candidates and clients to help them develop their careers and business goals and objectives in this ever-changing marketplace. CONTACT METHOD [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ Podcast Description Rob Tyson is an established recruiter in the mining and quarrying sector and decided to produce the “Dig Deep” The Mining Podcast to provide valuable and informative content around the mining industry. He has a passion and desire to promote the industry and the podcast aims to offer the mining community an insight into people’s experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics.