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Alex Dorsch

Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Chalice Mining

Search every verified Alex Dorsch interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Alex Dorsch, Managing Director and CEO of Chalice Mining, has been discussing the company's Gonneville project in Western Australia at recent industry conferences. He stated that the company has invested approximately A$250 million in the project since its 2020 discovery and released a pre-feasibility study in December 2025, which set Stage 1 pre-production capital at A$820 million. Dorsch said the project is now in the permitting phase, with a bankable feasibility study expected in the third quarter of 2026 and a final investment decision targeted for the first half of 2028. He described the metal mix as approximately 45% palladium, 25% copper, and 20% nickel, with other byproducts. Dorsch also discussed financing plans, indicating that Chalice is engaging with royalty and streaming companies and seeking senior debt to cover around 60% of pre-production capital costs. He expressed views on commodity markets, saying he sees limited downside risk for palladium prices and that he expects a 20-year transition period for hybrid and electric vehicles, which he said would support demand for platinum group metals. He also noted that Chalice is active in copper exploration across Australia, including targets near the Warrego mine in Tennant Creek.

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“So, we've got about 25 million to spend on the project to have it bankable, financed, approvals in hand. So, not much more to go. So, we've got really the thing that takes the 18 months ahead of us before we're FID ready is the regulatory side. So, unfortunately, you know, that's just the nature of permitting things in Australia. You know, high quality, large scale project, you can't sort of do it much quicker, unfor”

“So the BFS or definitive feasibility study will be third quarter next year. The long lead item there is we're doing an 8-week continuous pilot of the full flowsheet. So we've got 4 ton of material that's basically going to be processed in a lab continuously for 8 weeks. That's going to be the last tick in the box for our lenders. So we expect circa 60% of our pre-production capex number is going to come from senior d”

“So I think the consensus for PGMs is there's going to be demand destruction because everyone's going to buy an electric vehicle and certainly that's the way it has been for the last few years. And then I think starting in 2024 25 there was a realization that outside of China there might be a period where consumers want a hybrid vehicle and so obviously a hybrid vehicle still has the engine actually requires more PGMs”

“History shows single asset developers like Chalice between releasing PFS, as most people know there's this concept of the Lassonde curve. There's a period where miners have to go through sort of less sexy feasibility studies, regulatory permits, financing. That's exactly where we are at the moment. That typically provides a window of opportunity for longer-term shareholders. And so between PFS release and FID, share ”

“Palladium is known to be associated very very intimately with petrol engines and hybrid vehicles. As the world electrifies, there's a little bit of resistance out there. Consumers are still saying they prefer the flexibility of hybrids. The consensus though out in the market though is that everyone's going to buy an electric vehicle. We don't think that is real. We think there's going to be at least a 20-year transit”

“Recently we saw palladium go to 2,000 US dollars an ounce and that implied as you can see there about a 3 to 3.5 billion dollar current valuation on the asset and that's in the context of what you're paying at the moment like I said about 600 million market cap and as you can see on the right-hand side sort of now as like I said is a reasonable time to buy because we are at a low point in terms of the valuation of th”

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