Projects

About Encounter

Encounter is one of Australia’s leading mineral exploration companies listed on the ASX. Encounter’s primary focus is on discovering major copper dominant deposits in Australia.

Encounter partners with leading mid-tier and major producers to advance its extensive project pipeline with more than $25m of project funding contributed by partners over the past decade. Currently, Encounter has farm-in agreements in place with world leading clean energy metals companies to provide up to $65m in initial exploration funding.

Encounter’s assets include:

• A large project portfolio in the Paterson Province of WA where it is exploring for copper-gold deposits at its 100% owned Lamil Project and for copper-cobalt deposits at the Yeneena project with IGO Limited (ASX:IGO);
• A series of camp scale sediment hosted copper opportunities in the Northern Territory. This includes the Elliott copper project which is being advanced via a $25m earn-in and joint venture in partnership with BHP (ASX:BHP) and farm-in agreements with South32 (ASX:S32) at the Jessica and Carrara projects; and
• The Aileron IOCG / REE project in the West Arunta region of WA.