Robert Martin left school at 15 before making his money in mining services. Now he is chairman of a string of ASX-listed companies with projects in Canada.
There’s a wave of lithium money heading for Canada, and Robert Martin is riding it from Alan Bond’s old offices in downtown Perth.
The 50th floor is also home to Sixty Two Capital, the broker that was a first mover in Canada and connects Martin to opportunities around James Bay and in other jurisdictions through a close but arm’s length relationship. Interest in James Bay spiked when Allkem revealed a massive increase in the size of its project in Quebec and the company’s managing director, Martin Perez de Solay, declared the size and grade of the resource among the best in the world and sufficient to underpin downstream investment.Rio Tinto is also exploring for lithium around James Bay in Quebec in partnership with Toronto-listed Midland Exploration and has its foot on more than 1000 square kilometres of ground.
He says ending up on the 50th floor was just a coincidence. Sixty Two Capital and the Martin stable have grown to the point where they will soon occupy two floors and become the biggest tenant in the office tower when mining giant South32 completes its move to a new home.Martin would rather emulate Goyder, the Perth billionaire whose hard work and knack for securing mineral-rich exploration ground and hiring good executives has delivered for Liontown Resources and Chalice Mining.
“A lot of WA has been explored whereas Canada is a new frontier. It’s like the Pilbara was 50, 60 years ago,” he says. “The very first movers are in the enviable position that we have extremely good ground. And we have extremely good management teams now that can do a lot with the ground.”
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