About Southern Cross

Company

About Southern Cross Minerals

Our team is uniquely set-up for success, combining vast geological experience, entrepreneurial expertise and knowledge about the local political and legal nuances.

Company

Our mission
A completely CO2-neutral Raw Materials Hub
Driving change, empowering sustainability.

We are excited about transforming the way natural resources are produced. Our activities are conducted with utmost corporate social responsibility and respect for the environment in which we operate.

Integrated Projects
within the hub
Hombre Muerto South

Our most developed asset of 10-26 million tons of lithium, located in the Hombre Muerto basin.

Copper One

Southern Cross also owns 23.000 hectares in the
Archibarca Lineament, with the potential to become a great copper resource.

Meet our team.

Geologists, entrepreneurs, locals.

Christian Möbius
Managing Director
Christian is a geologist with 14 years of experience in the industry. After starting his career at the Anglo American mining company, he specialized in Petroleum Geoscience and worked as an oil well logging engineer, project manager for solution-mining projects, and lastly as an exploration geologist at Hansa Hydrocarbons, where he was instrumental in the 2017 discovery of the largest offshore gas field in the Netherlands and Germany in 25+ years, N05-ALPHA. Christian previously co-founded Tsavorite Legacy, where he led the evaluation and recommissioning of the world’s first Tsavorite gemstone mine in Kenya.
Alexander Mollinger
Director
Alexander Mollinger has 20 years’ experience in natural resources worldwide, in both public and private equity backed companies. He is the COO of an oil and gas company active in the North Sea and Africa. He is also a visiting lecturer at the French Petroleum Institute (IFP) in Paris, France. Previously, Alexander was the advisor to the Executive Chairman and CEO of Cove Energy plc, where he guided the company through a monthslong bidding war and a US$ 2 billion sale to Thailand’s national energy company, PTT. Prior to that, he worked for Shell. Alexander has an MBA from INSEAD in France, and an BSc and MSc in Aerospace Engineering from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.
Benedikt Steiner
Technical Director, PhD, ARSM, CGeol
Benedikt Steiner (ARSM CGeol EurGeol FHEA) is the MSc Programme Director of Exploration and Mining Geology at the Camborne School of Mines, one of the world’s leading integrated mining schools. Benedikt started his career in regional petroleum exploration in the Eastern FSU before moving on to work on Rio Tinto Exploration’s uranium & copper exploration projects in Sub-Saharan Africa. More recently, he carried out projects in France, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Myanmar. Benedikt is a published expert in mineral exploration geochemistry and focuses on integrating geochemical with other geoscientific techniques in order to aid exploration targeting.
Jerónimo Wolf
Head of Operations and Exploration Geologist
Jerónimo graduated in 2020 with excellent results from Argentina's most prestigious geoscience university, the University of La Plata. He completed his thesis at Veladero, one of Argentina's largest gold mines, operated by Barrick Gold of Canada, where he addressed challenges related to the company's current $34 million mine life extension plan. He is particularly passionate about geophysics and structural geology.
AngloAmerican
Shell
ifp School
RioTinto
University of Exeter
Colegio de abogados y Procuradores de salta
Universidad nacional de la plata
Imerperial College Londona
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen

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Raw Materials Fact Check

Modern mining operations can achieve carbon-neutral extraction by leveraging advanced technologies, such as water recycling and the use of renewable energy.

Why invest in
Southern Cross?
Driving change, empowering sustainability.
Exclusive ownership

100% exclusive ownership on a portfolio of six different projects spanning a total of 1100 km2 of mineral properties.

Owner of the Critical Raw Materials Hub, spanning 800 km² of the total mineral properties, located on the mineral-rich Archibarca lineament, and in the Hombre Muerto Basin, where the most profitable projects in the world are located.

Strategically located

to take full advantage of the highest solar efficiency rates in the world.

Lithium resources

Lithium resources potential to meet Europe’s entire lithium demand for decades to come.

Copper resources

Copper potential rivalling the world’s biggest copper mines.

Robert Friedland, founder of Ivanhoe Mines

"Without access to lithium and copper, Europe will not be able to lead the green revolution."