Metals One PLC (AIM:MET1) CEO Jonathan Owen speaks to Thomas Warner from Proactive after the critical battery metals company successfully completed its AIM-listing.
Metals One was established in January 2021 to acquire natural resources projects with a focus on critical battery metals, including nickel, lithium, cobalt and copper.
The company has interests in the Paltamo and Rautavaara projects (nickel, copper, zinc) in Finland (together the "Black Schist Project") and the Brownfield Råna Nickel project in Norway (the "Brownfield Rana Project").
Owen highlights the need for higher production of battery metals to feed future demand particularly from the EV sector and says that Metals One “is looking to fill that gap, particularly in Europe, with battery metals sourced in Europe for Europe, within one of the lowest carbon footprint regions.”
He goes on to explain that Metals One will be hard at work expanding its mineral resource estimate through drilling and geophysical surveys over the next two years, before concluding by suggesting what kinds of investors are likely to be most attracted to the newly-listed company.