Driving sustainable investment in African Mining

Erez Ichilov

Managing Director Traxys Battery Holdings

Erez Ichilov is a seasoned mining and metals executive, director, advisor and investor, with a legal and financial background, focused now mainly on responsible mining of Battery Materials and other Critical Minerals and sustainable and processing technologies enabling the transition to renewable energy sources and electric transportation on route to global Carbon neutrality.
As a Managing Director at Traxys Project LP, the investments and projects arm of the Traxys Group, a well-established global physical trading house with an annual turnover of ~US $10 billion and approximately 500 employees, he led the direct and pooled investments Traxys made into Li-Cycle Holdings Corp. (LICY: NYSE), Nouveau Monde Graphite (TSXV: NOU.V), Talon Metals (TSX: TLO) and Nemaska Lithium (exchanged in 2022 for Livent Corp. (LTHM:NYSE) shares), into a private Manganese company is South Africa and more.
Previously Mr. Ichilov was the Deputy CEO – Corporate Development of the Ferro-Nickel miner and producer Cunico Resources N.V (2008-2012), then an important producer of refined ferronickel in its two plants and integrated mines in Kosovo and North Macedonia, acquired mines in Guatemala and cooperated and traded with mines in Indonesia, Philippines, Albania and Turkey, and  had approximately 3,000 employees and reached annual production of approximately 30,000 tons of nickel (contained in Ferro-Nickel). 
 


2024 Agenda Sessions

Investment Battlefield

Development Companies
The Investment Battlefield is an annual competition for Africa’s top junior mining companies.  The relegation-style format sees non-relegated juniors advance to the finals for best exploration and development projects.

Wednesday 07 February 15:10 - 16:20 Innovators Stage

Junior Miners Day

Add to calendar 02/07/2024 15:10 02/07/2024 16:20 Investment Battlefield

Development Companies
The Investment Battlefield is an annual competition for Africa’s top junior mining companies.  The relegation-style format sees non-relegated juniors advance to the finals for best exploration and development projects.

Innovators Stage Africa/Johannesburg