– UK, London – Empire Metals Limited (LON: EEE), the resource exploration and development company, announced the appointment of Phillip Brumit to its Board as a Non-Executive Director effective from 1 February 2025, bringing over 40 years of extensive experience in engineering, project management, construction, project start-up, and mining operations across some of the world’s leading mining companies.
About Phillip Brumit
His impressive career includes leadership roles at Freeport-McMoRan, Lundin Mining, and Newmont Corporation, demonstrating a proven track record of operational success on a global scale. Phillip Brumit served as EVP of Projects & Operations at Josemaria Resources, now part of a major joint venture between BHP and Lundin Mining. Before that, he held positions as President and Managing Director of Minera Candelaria (Lundin Mining) in Chile, President of Freeport-McMoRan’s African Division focused on the giant Tenke-Fungurume copper-cobalt mine, and GM of Operations for PT Newmont Nusa Tenggara’s Batu Hijau mine in Indonesia, and various other key operational positions at Newmont Corporation. His deep experience positions him to be a vital resource for the company.
Phil Brumit said: “I am delighted to be joining Empire Metals at this exciting time in the development of the Pitfield Project. In my career, I have worked internationally for large US-based mining companies in the development and mining of world class deposits that were essential to global metal supply but also helped propel those companies into the future. I recognize Pitfield as being a truly world class deposit that can become a globally significant mine capable of producing large tonnages of high-purity titanium, a critical mineral essential to the world’s manufacturing industry and transition to green renewable energy as identified by Australia, the United States and many other countries around the world. Through the rapid development of the Pitfield Project I believe Empire Metals is well positioned to participate in the expanding titanium market that is expected to double in the next five years.”
About Empire Metals Limited
Empire Metals is an exploration and resource development company with a primary focus on developing Pitfield, an emerging giant titanium project in Western Australia.
The high-grade titanium discovery at Pitfield is of unprecedented scale, with airborne surveys identifying a massive, coincident gravity and magnetics anomaly extending over 40km by 8km by 5km deep. Drill results have indicated excellent continuity in grades and consistency of the mineralized beds and confirm that the sandstone beds hold the higher-grade titanium dioxide (TiO₂) values within the interbedded succession of sandstones, siltstones, and conglomerates. The Company is focused on two key prospects (Cosgrove and Thomas), which have been identified as having thick, high-grade, near-surface, bedded TiO₂mineralizationn, each being over 7km in strike length.
A JORC Exploration Target* for Pitfield was declared in 2024, covering the Thomas and Cosgrove mineral prospects, and was estimated to contain between 26.4 to 32.2 billion tonnes with a grade range of 4.5 to 5.5% TiO2. Included within the total Exploration Target* is a subset that covers the weathered sandstone zone, which extends from the surface to an average vertical depth of 30m to 40m and is estimated to contain between 4.0 to 4.9 billion tonnes with a grade range of 4.8 to 5.9% TiO2.
The Exploration Target* covers an area less than 20% of the overall mineral system at Pitfield which demonstrates the potential for significant further upside.
Empire is now accelerating the economic development of Pitfield, with a vision to produce a high-value titanium metal or pigment quality product at Pitfield, to realise the full value potential of this exceptional deposit.
The Company also has two further exploration projects in Australia; the Eclipse Project and the Walton Project in Western Australia, in addition to three precious metals projects located in a historically high-grade gold-producing region of Austria.
For more information: https://www.empiremetals.com/
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