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Integrity

We uphold the highest standards of integrity in all of our actions. This includes protection of any non-public confidential information obtained from you.

Quality

We provide outstanding products and unsurpassed service that, together, deliver premium value to your company.

Sustainability

Our activities are financially profitable, technologically appropriate, environmentally sound and socially responsible.

Jean-François (JF) Bertincourt

JF has more than 35 years experience in the mineral resources industry in various capacities: exploration, mining software development, mineral resource estimation, technical due diligence, debt project finance and equity research.

In 2014, he founded Terra Studio, a consulting firm to assist junior and mid-cap companies get better market recognition through research and comparative analysis.

Terra Studio specialises in benchmarking project data to extract value for its clients.

By highlighting the competitive advantages of a project against its peers, all the odds are in the company’s favour for share price appreciation.

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Career

Over his career Jean-François has undertaken technical due diligence, financial modelling and analysis on behalf of large investment banks for the provision of both debt and equity to junior, mid-cap and major resource companies.

His experience also includes corporate advisory, mergers & acquisitions and equity research.
Prior to joining the finance industry in 2000, Jean-François worked in New Caledonia, Australia and Chile in grass root exploration, mine development, resource estimation and financial evaluation of mining projects throughout the world.

Jean-François has a wide range of commodity experience including precious metals, base metals, iron ore, coal and specialty metals such as lithium.

Qualifications & Memberships

Ecole d'Ingénieur Polytechnique, Orléans, France (Geological Engineering)
Graduate Diploma of Applied Finance and Investment Securities Institute, Sydney
Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors
Member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
Member of French-Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Sydney
More details can be found on LinkedIn

Our services

Our services are customised to your company and project needs.

Benchmarking

Metals markets

Research reports

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Sustainability: no committee, no policies, but some actions

NB: solar PV, battery and EV purchase decisions made purely on financial and environment considerations (excluding CO2)

The financial outlay is considerable and may not make any traditional economical sense, but I’d like to be pro-active in accelerating the transition to sustainable energy and transportation. The Earth is too precious.

Digital waste

Email boxes and out of date files are regularly cleaned out, aiming at reducing data held on servers. Hardware such as computer monitors, personal computers and cables, is either on-sold (or given away), returned to Apple for recycling, or disposed of at Kimbriki.

Paper Recycling - Printing Cartridges Disposal

As most work is undertaken and delivered digitally, printing is extremely limited (less than 250 A4 sheets per year). All paper is recycled and printing cartridges are disposed of at the specific bins at OfficeWorks.

Solar Energy

Terra Studio's first home office has been equipped with a 4.3kW photovoltaic (PV) system since 2011. Up to December 2020, it had produced in excess of 62 MWh and was ranked in the top 10 solar systems in the Sydney area in terms of both output and efficiency (according to data from PVoutput.org look for 5GA FF system).

From late June 2021, Terra Studio's new home office in Red Head is ~100% powered by renewable energy with a 10.3kW photovoltaic system including 25 x 395W SunPower panels, a 8.1kW Fronius inverter and a 13.5kWh Tesla Powerwall battery. According to PVoutput, Terra Studio's system generation is currently ranked 1073 (out of 2790) in New South Wales and continues to progress in the energy generated ranking.

Excess renewable energy produced is sent to the grid.

Pollutant-Free Transport

All business and personal travel along the east coast of Australia (as far north as Cairns and as far south as the Snowy Mountains) is now pollutant-free using a Tesla Model S. The car is also recharged using solar energy whenever possible.

Terra Studio wishes to acknowledge the early stage investment made by the following organisations, so electric vehicle travel is possible and at negligible cost:

Destination chargers

All Inn Brewing Co, Banyo; Amora Hotel, Sydney, Harbord Diggers, Freshwater; Heads of Noosa; Nelson Resort, Nelson Bay; Park on King, Mascot; Sails Port Macquarie, Stockland (Bundaberg, Forster, Hervey Bay, Rockhampton); The Lodge, Bellingen; Westfield Warringah Mall; Woolworths, Gordonvale.

Fast chargers

NRMA (Ewingsdale, Grafton, Jindabyne, Nabiac, Sydney Olympic Park, Thrumster, Wallsend), Queensland University of Technology (Gardens Point & Kelvin Grove), The University of Queensland (St Lucia) and the Yurika/Chargefox chargers in Queensland (Ayr, Bowen, Cardwell, Carmila, Gin Gin, Gunalda, Innisfail)

Superfast chargers

Tesla (Coffs Harbour, Gympie, Goulburn, Heatherbrae, Macquarie Park)

List of charging points used so far.

Environmentally Responsible Investment via Crowdfunding

Polystyrene is destroying our Oceans and our Planet

Planet Protector’s ingenious, use of a waste stream to create award-winning thermal packaging has been disrupting and transforming supply chains across Australia and New Zealand since 2016. WOOLPACK is 100% reusable, recyclable, compostable, biodegradable, and it produces ZERO landfill. WOOLPACK not only thermally outperforms expanded polystyrene but is also price competitive and environmentally responsible. WOOLPACK has a positive impact on the wool industry too. By using wool that would otherwise be destined for landfill it gives new life to a waste stream and farmers an additional revenue stream.

Free Offer to any Listed Mineral Resource Company

If you think that you deserve better than a fuzzy image of your company share price in your corporate presentation, do not hesitate to contact Terra Studio.
Terra Studio offers free share price and trading volume charts edited to fit your corporate format to any listed company on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), London Stock Exchange (AIM/LSE) or Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX/TVX).

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Expeditions

The following section a snapshot of some wonderful expeditions I had the opportunity to participate, from hiking Australia's highest peaks while bathing in icy waters along the way, to freediving with manta rays, turtles and sharks in the tropical waters of Queensland.

Beyond bathing in icy waters, hiking in board shorts or freediving to depths up to 20m, I had the chance to meet some amazing people along the way.

Maybe I'll see you on one of those trips one day.

Expedition Snowy Mountains - July 2020

Cold exposure and much more expedition , Guthega, NSW

This 9mn video clip is a snapshot of an awesome expedition and human experience in the wilderness of the Snowy Mountains, Australia, I had the chance to participate in (3rd-5th July 2020).

Video credit to Magnetic Vision

Full Moon Expedition Snowy Mountains - March 2021

10 peaks in 4 days maybe or maybe not

Early March 2021, a group of us attempted to hike and reach 10 peaks in 4 days, while taking breaks to swim in creeks. It was tougher than expected. Hiking more than 58km, we reached 7 peaks in 2.5 days, but had a lot of fun. Here is a nice video summarising very well the adventure.