Allen Sabet
President & CEO | Mogotes Metals Inc. (TSXV: MOG) | Vicuña district copper-gold explorer
"Leading Mogotes Metals' Filo Sur project beside Filo del Sol in the Vicuña district, with the Albor and Cruz del Sur copper-gold discoveries and a Rio Tinto strategic alliance."
Biography
Allen Sabet is President, CEO and a director of Mogotes Metals Inc. (TSXV: MOG), a copper-gold exploration company whose flagship Filo Sur project sits immediately south of Filo del Sol in the Vicuña district — the Argentina-Chile belt where BHP and Lundin Mining are advancing one of the largest greenfield copper discoveries of recent decades. He has led Mogotes as CEO since 2022, growing it from a single-project explorer into a three-asset copper group with Rio Tinto as a strategic investor. For investors tracking where the next generation of copper supply comes from, his updates are a direct line into one of the most actively drilled exploration addresses in the Americas.
Under Sabet, Mogotes listed on the TSX Venture Exchange, consolidated 100% ownership of its Argentina land package at Filo Sur, and completed its first fully funded drill season, which delivered two copper-gold-silver-molybdenum discoveries: Cruz del Sur and Albor. The Albor discovery hole returned 180 metres at 0.98% copper equivalent (CuEq — the combined value of copper, gold, silver and molybdenum expressed as a single copper grade), including 58 metres at 1.77% CuEq, the highest-grade intercept drilled at Filo Sur to date. In 2026 he added two copper assets: an option over the Beskauga copper-gold-silver project in Kazakhstan, which carries a 2022 NI 43-101 mineral resource estimate (the Canadian disclosure standard for mineral resources) of 111.2 million indicated tonnes at 0.30% copper and 0.49 g/t gold, and an option-to-joint-venture with Kennecott Exploration, a Rio Tinto subsidiary, over the Copper Cliff gold-copper porphyry discovery in Montana. In August 2026, Rio Tinto closed a US$15 million strategic investment for roughly a 5% stake in Mogotes, alongside a strategic and technical alliance over Filo Sur.
His background, as described in company materials, is in prospecting and mining strategy rather than corporate finance: a former operator at the private prospecting group Syndicate Minerals, and earlier a McKinsey & Company consultant serving resource clients including Woodside, South32 and Shell. His method at Mogotes is deal-driven exploration on proven ground. He structures options with staged payments (Beskauga's US$24.7 million total consideration is largely deferred to 2029), reuses a major's historical data (the Copper Cliff option builds on Rio Tinto's 25-hole, 32,000-metre drill database), and runs a two-hemisphere drilling calendar, pairing Filo Sur's southern-summer season with Copper Cliff's northern-summer season so the company can report results year-round.
Mogotes has outlined a 20,000-metre drill program at Filo Sur for 2026-27, with new porphyry targets at Luz del Sol and Cuenca and follow-up drilling at Albor and Cruz del Sur, supported by the Rio Tinto alliance. Investors following the Vicuña district will find that each drill result there re-rates the surrounding ground, and Sabet's company updates are among the most direct readings of how the district is unfolding. His career before Mogotes is thinly documented in public sources, so his record rests on what Mogotes has drilled, raised and signed since 2022.
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"In our first fully funded drill season at Filo Sur, we have now made two significant copper-gold-silver-molybdenum discoveries, at Cruz del Sur and at the Albor target."
— Albor drill results announcement, Mogotes Metals news release, July 9, 2026
"The completion of Rio Tinto's strategic investment in Mogotes is a powerful endorsement of the prospectivity of Filo Sur and the broader Vicuña district."
— US$15 million Rio Tinto strategic investment closing, Mogotes Metals news release, August 27, 2026
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News release announcing the Albor discovery, the highest-grade drill intercept at Filo Sur to date, in the Vicuña district.
Option agreement for a resource-stage porphyry Cu-Au-Ag project in Kazakhstan holding a 2022 NI 43-101 mineral resource estimate.
Option-to-joint-venture with Rio Tinto's Kennecott Exploration over the Copper Cliff gold-copper porphyry discovery in Montana.
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