EXPLORATION & DEVELOPMENT

Mining's odd bedfellows

Opposites attract, even in mining, which is the best way to describe the remarkable relationship of Ausquest, a very small Australian exploration company, and one of the world’s biggest base-metal miners, South32.

Tim Treadgold
Chololo is the first target in Peru to be drilled under the Ausquest-South32 partnership

Chololo is the first target in Peru to be drilled under the Ausquest-South32 partnership

At the heart of their extraordinary Strategic Alliance lies a keen interest in discovering major new orebodies, a process where size is not necessarily an advantage. What Ausquest and South32 have done...

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