The Northern Miner recently sat down with BHP Xplor's VP Sonia Scarselli to discuss the recent announcement of the accelerator program's first cohort of companies.
The seven companies selected will receive funding and support under the BHP Xplor program, which is designed to help provide participants with the opportunity to accelerate their growth and the potential to establish a long-term partnership with BHP and its global network of partners.
The seven companies selected to join the BHP Xplor accelerator program are:
Tutume Metals - a private, junior exploration company with secured ground searching for critical minerals in Botswana;Impact Minerals (ASX: IPT) - a junior explorer listed on the Australian Stock Exchange with a variety of battery metals projects across Australia,Asian Battery Minerals - a junior exploration company focused on finding economic deposits of critical minerals in the Asia Pacific region,Red Ox Copper - a private minerals exploration group in Australia specializing in generating grassroots, greenfield conceptual plays with the potential for top-tier ore deposits,Bronzite Exploration Corp - an early-stage exploration for copper in northern Canada. Spearheaded by Prof. James Mungall, an experienced field and economic geologist at Carleton University, Ottawa,Nordic Nickel - a brand new nickel sulphide explorer, listed on the Australia Stock Exchange and focused on two projects in Northern Finland, in the Central Lapland Greenstone Belt, andKingsrose Mining - a junior exploration company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange with regional projects in Norway and Finland targeting nickel, copper and platinum group elements.