Held on the evening of Wednesday 6 May 2026, the Deals at Dusk event — presented by Investability — provides investors with a unique opportunity to network, enjoy food and drinks, and watch a live band, all while listening to compelling CEO pitches.
Following a jam-packed schedule at RIU Sydney at the Hyatt Regency, the Royal Exchange of Sydney overflowed with investors listening to presentations from mining exploration companies, including (in order of presentation) American West Metals (ASX:AW1), Castile Resources (ASX:CST), Critica (ASX:CRI), Santana Minerals (ASX:SMI), True North Copper (ASX:TNC), and West Coast Silver (ASX:WCE).
Host and Investability Principal Dannika Warburton says, “We’ve got over 200 investors registered for the evening, six presenters — six mining companies hand-picked by us that we believe have good stories for the investment community to hear.”
“We have a Q&A hosted by leading analyst Michael Orphanides, previously at Tribeca, who has now just recently moved to Peloton Capital. He’ll be putting the presenters through their paces, asking them all the questions you need to know to make an assessment about investing in their companies.
“We’re providing an opportunity for the Sydney investment community to have an informal investment event to hear some interesting company stories and network with their peers.”
Highlights of the event include Critica’s presentation on rare earths and other critical minerals. CEO Jacob Deysel asks: “What is the most important component of your mobile phone? It’s not the screen… it’s not the battery… it’s the invisible rare earth elements (REE) that make it all possible.”
Deysel says the REE market is extremely concentrated: China controls most of the supply, including metals such as gallium, tungsten, and tin. Markets are recognising this supply issue/bottleneck and governments are investing in domestic explorers to get the control of supply out of China’s hands.
Deysel says Critica’s Jupiter Project is Australia’s largest clay-hosted magnet rare earth resource. It also holds Mount Lindsay in Tasmania, one of the largest undeveloped tungsten assets in Australia.
Other highlights of the night include True North Copper’s presentation by Managing Director Andrew Mooney. True North is advancing a portfolio of wholly owned assets in Queensland’s world-class Mount Isa region. Its flagship is the Mt Oxide Project which hosts a significant copper-cobalt-silver system. The company’s projects are backed by an expert team that takes the time to do things right, ensuring that the company is economically and technologically robust.
Mooney says: “We’ve been drilling for two months, and the results are coming soon”. Peer comparison charts show True North is undervalued compared to the copper it has in the ground — something the drill results could confirm soon.
West Coast Silver’s Technical Director Serge Smolonogov makes another interesting point that, according to an S&P report, most money is actually going into brownfields not greenfields deposits, and Australia has “many old historic dormant operations”. It is therefore important to explore both greenfields and brownfields opportunities as junior exploration companies.
The event attracts a full house of keen investors taking advantage of the opportunity to speak with the management teams of the companies they want to invest in, as well as share ideas and experiences with each other.
Rounding out the fantastic evening was a performance by the Smoking Guns, with industry legend Peter Cook (currently non-executive Chairman of Santana Minerals) playing bass guitar.
Investability is a full-service investor and media relations firm based in Sydney.
Mining.com.au is a media partner of Deals at Dusk and was in attendance at the event.
Write to Julija Zivanovic at Mining.com.au
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