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 resources 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 100% owned Aileron IOCG / REE project in the West Arunta region of WA.