Stephanie Ashton
VP Business Development
IG Asia
Stephanie Ashton, entrepreneur, and VP of Business Development for IG Global Group
A native Californian, her career in the early stages of mineral exploration and development began in 1996 in Chile, where she spent the next 16 years working with a small, close-knit team successfully exploring for and developing copper and gold deposits in Chile, Peru, Brazil, Colombia, and Turkey.
Since her return to the US, she has worked closely with IG Global Group for the past 5 years in exploration and development of copper, gold, and lithium mineral assets in Utah, California, Nevada, Kazakhstan and Mongolia.
Stephanie has a B.S. in International Business from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, a Master’s in Int’l Tax and Legal Strategy from HEC Paris, and Masters in Mineral Economics from the University of Chile.
Stephanie is a serial entrepreneur, co-investing in and co-founding over a dozen companies around specific mineral assets, as well as one diamond drilling company she co-founded in 2011 that serves the Chile and Argentina markets.
She’s responsible for raising capital and general business and corporate development, and plays a key role in developing strategic partnerships for the different mineral projects, resulting in joint ventures, earn-ins, and purchase and sales of mineral assets.
IG Asia & the Pribrezhniy Copper Porphyry Deposit - Kazakhstan
Led by world-renowned geologist Thomas Bowens (founder of multiple Tier-1 discoveries including Malmyzh and Svetloye), IG Asia presents our Pribrezhniy Copper-Molybdenum Project in Kazakhstan—a large-scale porphyry system with 1.38 billion tonnes at 0.37% copper equivalent of inferred resources, containing 4.17 million tonnes of copper with molybdenum and silver credits.
Located in Kazakhstan's premier copper belt alongside world-class deposits, Pribrezhniy demonstrates significant high-grade zones, including 0.74% copper over 124.7 meters in a previously underexplored core area. Our dual-track development approach targets both near-term oxide potential and scalable sulfide operations across our 754 km² license area. Like our Malmyzh discovery, Pribrezhniy has substantial growth potential through systematic exploration of multiple porphyry cluster targets, with four high-priority zones identified and recent drilling success at satellite prospects. This district-scale opportunity combines exceptional infrastructure access with exploration upside in one of the world's most cost-competitive copper jurisdictions.