Kali Metals Ltd has strengthened its exploration capabilities by appointing highly experienced geologist Mladen Stevanovic as its new exploration manager.
Stevanovic has more than 20 years of international experience across a number of commodities including lithium, gold, copper, nickel and base metals.
Extensive career
During his extensive career throughout Australia and overseas, Stevanovic has led exploration teams that made significant discoveries in lithium, gold and uranium in Europe, Australia and Africa.
He provided the technical expertise for the acquisition and start-up of Adriatic Metals plc, he was chief geologist at the Gorno polymetallic mine in Italy and also principal geologist for major gold producer Gold Fields.
“Wealth of experience”
Kali Metals managing director Paul Adams said: "We are very fortunate to have secured Mladen as the exploration manager for Kali Metals.
"Mladen brings a wealth of lithium experience to our exploration team and his knowledge and experience at Bald Hill in the Higginsville District in particular, provides the company with significant additional expertise.
"I look forward to working closely with Mladen to execute our exploration and corporate strategy across all our projects going forward."
Stevanovic has additional experience in project development, coordinating pre-feasibility (PFS) and definitive feasibility studies (DFS).
Most recently, he worked as exploration manager at Liatam Mining Pty Ltd at the Bald Hill Lithium and Tantalum Mine.
This project is adjacent to Kali’s Higginsville Lithium Projects and the company says it is fortunate to be bringing on an exploration manager with recent success, experience and familiarity within the Higginsville Lithium District.
“Amazing ground”
"I am excited to join Kali Metals. The company has amazing ground, an experienced board and seasoned field and management teams, as well as backers able to support discoveries,” Stevanovic said.
"Such a large prospective landholding is unique in its potential to deliver significant results.
"My exploration experience in target generation, prioritising activities and managing teams will contribute towards Kali Metals achieving success for all stakeholders.
"Thank you for my warm welcome, and I look forward to being part of the Kali Metals team."
Stevanovic holds a Bachelor of Sciences (Exploration Geology) and Master of Sciences (Economic Geology) from the University of Belgrade in Serbia and is currently Non-Executive Director at Lykos Metals.
Kali Metals 3,854 square kilometres of exploration tenure is near existing, emerging and unexplored lithium and critical minerals regions in WA including the Pilbara and Eastern Yilgarn and the Lachlan Fold Belt in NSW and Victoria.