Thayer Lindsley Award
Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC). Awarded with Dr Kevin Frost for the Julimar Ni–Cu–PGE discovery.
About
A principal‑led geological consultancy.
Peron Discoveries is a Perth-based geological consulting and exploration project generation company. Clients work directly with an experienced exploration geologist, from first data review to final recommendation.
Aeromagnetic RTP 1VD, Leonora district. Data: Geological Survey of Western Australia (CC BY 4.0)
The company
Small by design. Senior by default.
We work with exploration and mining companies, boards and investors who need an independent, experienced view of where to explore, what a project is worth and what to drill next.
The work is done by the people whose names are on the report. That keeps judgement close to the data, keeps communication direct, and means confidential information stays with a small team.
The name and the ship in our logo look back to François Péron, the French naturalist of the Baudin expedition to Australia's western coast, remembered on today's map at Cape Péron and the Péron Peninsula in Shark Bay.
Principal Geologist
Morgan Frejabise
Co-founder, Director & Principal Geologist · MSc, MAIG, MSEG
Morgan Frejabise is an exploration geologist with more than 18 years in mineral exploration and discovery across gold, nickel, PGE, copper, base metals, lithium and iron ore. He is co-founder and Principal Geologist of Peron Discoveries.
His career has centred on greenfield exploration, project generation and technically driven business development. At Chalice he was part of the reconnaissance, acquisition and targeting work behind the Julimar Project, where the Gonneville PGE–Ni–Cu–Co–Au discovery was made in 2020. At IGO he contributed to the discovery and definition of the Bibra gold and Rosie nickel deposits.
He has held senior roles with ASX-listed explorers, including Superintendent 2IC at Gold Road Resources on the Yamarna Greenstone Belt, where he managed site exploration activity through the COVID-19 period with up to 70 people on site.
Morgan works across Archaean and Proterozoic terrains, combining field geology with structural interpretation, geochemistry and 2D to 3D modelling. Every appraisal starts from a mineral systems framework and an objective reading of the data.
Recognition
Awarded for the Julimar discovery.
Prospector Award
Association of Mining and Exploration Companies (AMEC). Awarded with Dr Kevin Frost for the Chalice Mining Julimar Project discovery.
Career
Discovery teams, site leadership and project generation.
Eighteen years across greenfield and brownfield exploration with ASX-listed explorers and producers, before founding independent consultancies.
- Present
Peron Discoveries Pty Ltd
Co-founder, Director & Principal Geologist
- Geological consulting, technical due diligence and project generation.
- 2021 – present
Whistlepipe Exploration Pty Ltd
Co-founder & Principal Geologist
- Consulting: geological and aeromagnetic interpretation, targeting, ASX releases, Competent Person statements.
- Project generation across multiple exploration projects.
- 2019 – 2022
Gold Road Resources (ASX: GOR)
Senior Geologist – Superintendent 2IC
- Yamarna site exploration management, including COVID-19 on-site management with up to 70 people.
- Greenfield targeting: new gold targets including Savoie, Corkwood South and Beefwood.
- Brownfield exploration: Mineral Resource growth at Gruyere, Smokebush and Gilmour.
- Mentoring and training a geological team of more than ten.
- 2017 – 2019
Chalice Gold Mines (now Chalice Mining, ASX: CHN)
Senior Geologist
- Project generation, including the Julimar Project acquisition, targeting and drill recommendations (Gonneville, Dampier/Baudin, Torres).
- Greenfield exploration in Western Australia and Canada.
- Business development, including the investment recommendation for Spectrum Metals (ASX: SPX), later acquired by Ramelius Resources.
- 2009 – 2017
Independence Group (now IGO, ASX: IGO)
Geologist to Senior Geologist
- Greenfield to brownfield exploration; project management up to 320 km².
- Member of the Bibra gold (2 Moz) and Rosie nickel (32 kt Ni) discovery and resource teams.
- Project generation and business development, domestic and international.
- 2008 – 2009
CSA Global
Junior Geologist
- Brownfield exploration and Indicated Resource definition at the Ridley magnetite project, Pilbara.
Credentials
Qualifications and professional standing.
Qualifications & memberships
- MSc Geoscience
- Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse
- BSc (Hons) Earth Sciences
- Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse
- MAIG
- Member, Australian Institute of Geoscientists
- MSEG
- Member, Society of Economic Geologists
Specialist training
- Applied Structural Geology (UWA, MSc unit)
- GLAM workshops
- Aeromagnetic interpretation
- Hyperspectral workshop
- Regolith geochemistry
- ioGAS geochemistry workshops
Software
QGISMapInfoLeapfrog GeoMicromineioGASacQuireGeobankLogChiefTSG
Languages
FrenchEnglishSpanish
Next step
Talk to the geologist who will do the work.
Tell us what you are looking at. Every enquiry is handled in confidence, and you deal directly with the geologist who will do the work.