Tusker Minerals – Building a Rutile Discovery Story in Cameroon & Malawi | Coffee with Samso
- Noel Ong
- 2 days ago
- 5 min read
There are times when you revisit a story, and it just feels different.
This Coffee with Samso with Tusker Minerals Limited (ASX: TSX) and CEO Cliff Fitzhenry is one of those moments.
The last time we spoke in 2025, the narrative was still forming. This time around, you can see where things are heading.
The conversation is not about ideas anymore. It’s about execution. This is about the Tusker Minerals Rutile story.
In the words of Samso, get your favourite beverage and sit and listen to another great insight from Coffee with Samso.
Coffee with Samso - Episode 221 | Tusker Minerals Limited (ASX: TSK) | Cape Town - South Africa | Perth - Western Australia
Tusker Minerals' Rutile Story Has Moved – And It’s Now About Scale
What stood out early in the discussion is how much ground the company has covered — literally.
The Cameroon portfolio has grown into something meaningful:
The Central Rutile Project now sits at just under 9,000 km²
Additional licences have been added to create a contiguous footprint
Active exploration is ongoing across multiple targets
This isn’t a small exploration play anymore. When you start talking about this kind of landholding in a residual system, you are thinking in terms of province-scale potential.
And that’s really the angle here — not a single deposit, but the possibility of a new rutile province.
Samso Concluding Comments
The Tusker Minerals Rutile is still an early-stage story, but it is progressing, and the dust is settling, and I feel the narrative is clearer.
You can see what Tusker is trying to build — a rutile-focused exploration play with scale in Cameroon and optional upside in Malawi.
The infrastructure work in Cameroon is a big tick for me. That’s not something you do if you’re thinking short-term.
Zimba adds another layer. It’s early, but it has the right signs. If that turns into something meaningful, it changes the story again.
For now, this is about watching the results. If they start showing consistency, the market will catch up.
Chapters
00:00 Start
02:21 Introduction to Tusker Minerals Limited
06:09 Cliff - walking us through the latest ASX Release.
10:27 Can Tusker see any continuation of the mineralisation?
11:41 Is Malawi more a Titanium or a Rare Earth story?
12:42 How Do Tusker want potential investors to view its narrative?
14:39 The Titanium Market
16:17 Is Graphite still a component of the business?
17:55 Is the recent hostilities in the Middle East affecting operations?
19:40 Any competition in Cameroon?
20:56 Where does Cliff see the future value creation come from?
22:30 What thoughts of disasters would keep Cliff awake at night?
24:05 Why would investors look at Tusker Resources?
26:02 What is the Capital market saying about the Titanium market?
28:05 A Good reporting standard.
29:07 Conclusion
Tusker Minerals Operations
Cameroon – Where the Real Work Is Happening
Cliff was very clear on this. Cameroon is the focus.
What I like here is that they are not just poking holes in the ground and hoping for the best. They’ve gone a step further and set up the infrastructure to actually run the exploration properly:
In-country office
Local technical team
Heavy mineral sands laboratory in Yaoundé
That last point is more important than most people realise.
If you’ve worked in Africa, you know that logistics and assay turnaround can kill momentum. What Tusker has done is bring that process in-house — meaning faster results, better control, and importantly, reporting rutile percentages instead of generic heavy mineral numbers
That tells me they are thinking ahead.
Malawi – The Surprise That Changes the Narrative
Then we get to Malawi.
The Mzimba project wasn’t originally pegged for rutile — it was lithium ground. But this is where having good people on the ground matters.
They saw the indicators:
Heavy minerals visible on surface
Right weathering profile
Correct host rocks
And the numbers backed it up:
Around 50% of samples above 1% TiO₂
Peaks up to 1.88% TiO₂
More importantly, mineralogy confirmed rutile, not ilmenite.
That’s the difference.
And keep in mind — they’ve only tested about 7% of the project area. That’s early days, but the signals are there.
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