Zak Mir sat down with Andy Dennan, CEO Halo Minerals, to go through the company presentation of the copper development company focused on extracting critical minerals from legacy mining waste. Halo Minerals PLC is the 100% owner of the Playa Verde project, an advanced copper tailings project focused on reprocessing metal rich historic tailings which have accumulated onto a beach located in the Atacama region of Chile.
The project is a technically de-risked and in October 2025 received unanimous approval for its EIA from the Chilean Government’s Ministerial Committee. Playa Verde has a JORC compliant resource of 53.4 Mt @ 0.24% Cu, which includes reserves of 32.2 Mt @ 0.25% Cu, and is updating its DFS for dredging and retreatment initially targeting the reserves of ore located on the beach followed by up to a further 21 Mt of ore contained in the western berm and shoreline area. The project is well placed with significant upside in securing the rights to process up to a further 100 Mt of potential offshore resource which originated from the same historical mining operations as the onshore resource.
