New Technical Director brings commodity clout to Valor

Mineral explorer Valor Resources has appointed highly experienced exploration executive Robin Wilson to the role of Technical Director as it looks to beef up the company’s core skills. Wilson brings over 30 years of global exploration experience in many critical mineral commodities with a particular focus on uranium.

Wilson has overseen the company’s exploration activities in both Canada and Peru over the last 15 months whilst also being instrumental in the expansion of Valor’s asset base.

The industry veteran has held senior positions in several exploration and mining companies including Polaris Metals, Tanganyika Gold, Troy Resources, CRA Exploration and Northern Minerals. He has also spent five years working in oil and gas exploration for Woodside Energy. Wilson has experience with gold, nickel, rare earth elements, uranium, copper, lithium and phosphate projects throughout Australia, Africa, South America and North America.

Notably, Wilson participated in the initial discovery and outlining of several gold deposits in Australia in addition to leading the discovery team behind the Browns Range rare earth deposits found in WA.

Valor Resources Technical Director, Robin Wilson said: “The countries and regions we are operating in, namely the Athabasca Basin in Canada for uranium and Peru for copper, are geologically, two of the best regions in the world to be exploring for these commodities.”

The company holds a 200-square-kilometre copper and silver portfolio in Peru and a 985-square-kilometre uranium portfolio across Canada’s Athabasca basin. It aims to find high-quality discoveries of commodities that underpin the global effort to achieve net zero.

In a 2020 joint report by the OECD Nuclear Energy and the International Atomic Energy Agencies, Canada was named the prime destination for uranium exploration and mine development mainly for its Athabasca Basin. Notably, the basin hosts some of the highest-grade unconformity-related uranium deposits in the world with some running greater than 10 per cent uranium oxide.

Similarly, using data from 2021, the US Geological Survey has pegged Peru as the second largest producer of copper behind its South American counterpart Chile.

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