Jason Brewer
Rainmakers & Potstirrers

Jason Brewer

CEO: Marula Mining

www.marulamining.com

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‘I’m across most facets of what’s needed to build companies’

IT’S only been a few years, but Jason Brewer’s Marula Mining has burst onto the scene as an ambitious battery metals-focused African junior. Backed by Dubai’s AUO Commercial Brokerage, Marula is producing spodumene from stockpiles at the Blesberg lithium mine in South Africa’s Northern Cape, which Brewer described as a “quick win” and is eyeing a larger operation from the second half of 2025. 

In December Marula announced contract mining and lease agreements in order to produce higher-value lithium product in order to overcome the slide in the metal’s pricing. In Tanzania at the Kinusi copper mine, Marula recently sent three 10kg copper ore samples to South Africa for metallurgical test work and initial trial shipments of up to 1,000 tons of high-grade open-pit ore were set to be shipped to four global commodity trading groups. Copper cathode production is being targeted this year. If those two projects didn’t keep Brewer and Marula busy enough, the company  is also advancing graphite projects in Tanzania and the Larisro manganese mine in Kenya. 

At the time of writing, it was also assessing a rare earths opportunity in East Africa. While it’s taken longer than expected, Marula is still planning to swap its AQSE exchange listing to a primary LSE presence, with secondary listings in Johannesburg and Nairobi. Brewer’s goal is for Marula to be a “very significant” mining company by the end of 2025, with several hundred employees.

LIFE OF JASON

Born and raised in Plymouth, Brewer graduated from Imperial College London with a mining engineering degree. It was his first posting as a graduate to South Africa that kicked off his love affair with the continent. Brewer’s career as an investment banker took him to Sydney, London and Perth. Brewer is also chairperson of Neo Energy Metals, which recently cut a deal with Sibanye-Stillwater to buy its Beisa uranium prospect.

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