A major permitting milestone, a strategic partner in Volkswagen, and a possible valuation re-rating. PMET Resources CEO Ken Brinsden joins Kitco Mining to break down the company’s newly filed ESIA for the Shaakichiuwaanaan project in Quebec, the path toward mine authorization, and why investors are paying closer attention to the story. Jeremy Szafron and Brinsden discuss the 2025 feasibility study, lithium price sensitivity, the potential impact of tantalum and caesium by-products, cost pressure...
Apr 06, 2026•18 min
Arizona Eagle Mining is advancing a high-grade gold exploration strategy in Arizona, anchored by the historic McCabe mine, as it prepares to list on the TSX Venture Exchange under the ticker AZEM. The company recently completed a reverse takeover with Core Nickel, gaining a public listing and additional critical mineral assets, but its primary focus remains firmly on gold in Arizona. The McCabe project offers a strong starting point, with a historical resource of roughly 880,000 ounces of gold a...
Apr 01, 2026•31 min
Cabral Gold (TSXV: CBR) CEO Alan Carter says the company has achieved a major milestone with the granting of the Licença Prévia (“LP”) for the Full Mining License at Cuiú Cuiú Gold District, in the state of Pará, Brazil. “The trial mining licenses actually have a limit, so we can only mine about half a million tons a year, or about 1,500 tons a day,” he explained. “With the full mining license, there is no limit, so we can expand this to the full design capacity of 3,000 tons a day and way beyon...
Mar 27, 2026•24 min
Panther Metals (LSE: PALM) is advancing the Winston tailings project in Ontario, where historic zinc-focused processing left behind potential value in precious and critical metals. The Winston mine operated from 1988 to 1999 and was once considered one of the highest-grade zinc operations in North America, but gold and silver were largely overlooked when prices were far lower. Speaking with Kitco Mining at PDAC 2026, CEO Darren Hazelwood said early sampling from the polymetallic tailings has alr...
Mar 17, 2026•18 min
Aftermath Silver (TSXV: AAG) is advancing its Berenguela silver-copper-manganese project in Puno, Peru, where Founder and Executive Chairman Mike Williams says the deposit has grown into one of the larger undeveloped silver resources in the sector. Speaking with Kitco Mining at PDAC 2026, Williams said the project hosts “122 million ounces of silver measured and indicated” with “a further 20 million in inferred,” alongside about 870 million lb. of copper and roughly 3 million tons of manganese. ...
Mar 16, 2026•23 min
Prospector Metals (TSXV: PPP; OTCQB: PMCOF) is ramping up exploration at its ML project near Dawson City, Yukon, following a 2025 discovery and new strategic backing from gold producer B2Gold. Speaking with Kitco Mining at PDAC 2026, President & CEO Rob Carpenter said the company plans to increase drilling from about 6,000 meters completed in 2025 to more than 25,000 meters in 2026. The discovery campaign included a high-grade intercept at the TESS zone, where drilling returned 44 meters gra...
Mar 16, 2026•16 min
OceanaGold (TSX: OGC) is targeting higher production and larger shareholder returns after delivering record revenue, EBITDA, net profit and free cash flow in 2025. Speaking with Kitco Mining at PDAC 2026 in Toronto, President & CEO Gerard Bond said strong operational discipline allowed the company to capture rising gold prices. “We were able to convert a lot of those higher gold prices to the bottom line, delivering those records.” Production is expected to increase about 12% in 2026, driven...
Mar 13, 2026•17 min
Tocvan Ventures (CSE: TOC) is advancing its Gran Pilar gold-silver project in Sonora, Mexico, with a strategy that combines exploration drilling with a permitted pilot mining operation aimed at demonstrating heap leach production potential. Speaking with Kitco Mining at PDAC 2026, CEO Brodie Sutherland said the company spent three years consolidating the land package around a discovery first drilled by the Lundin Group in 1996. “We negotiated a deal to expand that property to 22 square kilometer...
Mar 13, 2026•16 min
U.S. GoldMining Inc. (NASDAQ: USGO) has released a preliminary economic assessment for its Whistler project in Alaska, outlining average production of approximately 250,000 gold equivalent ounces per year over a 15-year mine life, including roughly 345,000 gold equivalent ounces annually in the first three years. Speaking with Kitco Mining at PDAC 2026, CEO Tim Smith said the study returned a 33% after-tax internal rate of return using base case assumptions of $3,200 gold and $4.50 copper. Whist...
Mar 13, 2026•16 min
Trilogy Metals (NYSE American: TMQ; TSX: TMQ) CEO Tony Giardini joins Kitco Mining’s Investment Trends at PDAC 2026 to discuss renewed momentum around the Arctic copper project in Alaska’s Ambler mining district following recent permitting developments and growing U.S. government support for domestic critical minerals. The Arctic deposit hosts about 50 million tonnes grading roughly 5.6% copper equivalent, a high-grade volcanic massive sulfide system containing copper, zinc, silver, gold, and le...
Mar 13, 2026•23 min
Radisson Mining (TSXV: RDS; OTCQB: RMRDF) CEO Matt Manson joins Kitco Mining at PDAC 2026 to discuss the company’s expanding O’Brien gold project in Quebec’s Abitibi region following a March 2, 2026 updated mineral resource estimate. The new estimate outlines about 1.69 million oz. inferred, up 82% from the previous estimate, and 0.63 million oz. indicated, bringing total contained gold to about 2.3 million oz. as Radisson advances its fully funded 140,000-meter step-out drill program. Manson sa...
Mar 12, 2026•22 min
Kootenay Silver (TSXV: KTN) is expanding drilling at its Columba silver project in Chihuahua, Mexico, where the company is running a 60,000-meter program aimed at growing the 54.1 Moz inferred silver resource announced in June 2025. Speaking with Kitco Mining at PDAC 2026 in Toronto, President and CEO Jim McDonald said the program is focused on systematic 100-meter step-outs along wide, open-ended veins to define the limits of the known mineralized zones. “Our expectation is to be able to get th...
Mar 12, 2026•16 min
Dolly Varden Silver (TSXV: DV) is advancing its high-grade Kitsault Valley project in British Columbia’s Golden Triangle while preparing for a transformative merger with Contango Ore. Speaking with Kitco Mining at PDAC 2026, President and CEO Shawn Khunkhun said the transaction brings gold production and development expertise into Dolly Varden’s growing silver district. Over the past six years, the company has raised $185 million, consolidated multiple past-producing mines across a 100,000-hecta...
Mar 11, 2026•15 min
Aquitaine Metals CEO Chris Taylor joins Kitco Mining’s Investment Trends at PDAC 2026 to discuss the Limousin gold project in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, which he says has the potential to support “many millions of ounces.” Taylor, who previously led Great Bear Resources through its almost $2 billion sale to Kinross, said the project “stood head and shoulders above everything else I looked at” after reviewing more than 100 opportunities. The 330 sq km land package includes more than 1,000 histor...
Mar 11, 2026•16 min
Alamos Gold Inc. (TSX: AGI; NYSE: AGI) is targeting 600,000 oz of production in 2026 after weather and mill challenges weighed on output in late 2025, even as the company generated record free cash flow last year. Speaking with Kitco Mining at PDAC 2026 in Toronto, President and CEO John McCluskey said 2025 all-in sustaining costs averaged $1,524 per oz, with margins approaching 60% at prevailing gold prices. Fourth-quarter results were affected by issues at the Magino mill and what he described...
Mar 11, 2026•23 min
Saudi Arabia has doubled exploration spending year over year, reaching SAR 1.05 billion in 2024, as the Kingdom pushes to expand grassroots discovery while global budgets remain under pressure. Speaking with Kitco Mining at PDAC 2026 in Toronto, Abdulrahman Al-Belushi, Deputy Minister of Mineral Resources Management at Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Industry and Mineral Resources, outlined how mining is being positioned as a pillar of industrial strategy. “We look at the mining sector as an economic...
Mar 11, 2026•19 min
Silver47 Exploration (TSXV: AGA) is advancing a portfolio of high-grade silver projects in the United States, led by the Red Mountain deposit in Alaska, which hosts a 168 Moz silver-equivalent resource grading 336 g/t. Speaking with Kitco Mining at PDAC 2026 in Toronto on March 2, VP of Investor Relations Giordy Belfiore said the company is focused on building a high-grade U.S. silver portfolio across projects in Alaska, Nevada and New Mexico. “It has 168 million ounce silver equivalent resource...
Mar 10, 2026•14 min
Guanajuato Silver (TSXV: GSVR) is expanding production in Mexico’s historic Guanajuato mining district after completing the $50 million acquisition of the Bolañitos gold-silver mine and 1,600 tpd processing plant from Endeavour Silver, which closed Jan. 15, 2026. Speaking with Kitco Mining at PDAC 2026 in Toronto, CEO James Anderson said the purchase creates immediate operational synergies with the company’s nearby San Ignacio mine. “Our San Ignacio mine is immediately adjacent to Bolañitos,” An...
Mar 10, 2026•16 min
AbraSilver Resource Corp. (TSX: ABRA; OTCQX: ABBRF) CEO John Miniotis was named Kitco Mining’s Exploration CEO of the Year at PDAC 2026, as the company advances its Diablillos silver-gold project in Argentina toward a final investment decision in 2026. Speaking with Kitco Mining at PDAC 2026, Miniotis said the project hosts approximately 350 million oz of silver equivalent resources, with measured and indicated resources up 170% since 2020. Shares are up roughly 460% year over year, giving the c...
Mar 10, 2026•17 min
Tiernan Gold (TSXV: TNGD) Director Chris Taylor joins Kitco Mining at PDAC 2026 to discuss advancing the Volcan gold project in Chile’s Maricunga district, which hosts 9.8 Moz measured and indicated and total resources of about 11 Moz. “It’s an 11 million ounce deposit, basically,” Taylor said. “The thing is huge.” The large-scale oxide heap leach project has not seen exploration in more than a decade and sits in a district experiencing renewed development activity. Under a $3,600 gold scenario,...
Mar 10, 2026•12 min
Thesis Gold & Silver (TSXV: TAU) is advancing its Lawyers-Ranch project in British Columbia’s Toodoggone mining district toward a feasibility study targeted for 2027. Speaking with Kitco Mining at PDAC 2026, CEO Ewan Webster said the company recently added “Silver” to its name after a December 2025 pre-feasibility study showed the metal represents a significant part of project economics. The study outlined average production of about 187,000 oz of gold equivalent per year, including roughly ...
Mar 09, 2026•16 min
Omai Gold Mines (TSX-V: OMG; OTCQB: OMGGF) is advancing a 10Moz+ gold system in Guyana toward a materially larger development plan, with a new preliminary economic assessment expected within two months. Speaking with Kitco Mining at PDAC 2026, CEO & Executive Chair Elaine Ellingham outlined how continued drilling since the August 2025 resource update is positioning the project for expanded production and long-term scale. Omai’s shares are up over 800% in the past two years as the company tra...
Mar 09, 2026•12 min
David Erfle, Founder and Editor of JuniorMinerJunky.com, joins Kitco Mining’s Digging Deep with Paul Harris at PDAC 2026 in Toronto to break down why gold miners can lag even when bullion is strong, and what this week’s deal flow says about risk appetite in the junior space. “These miners have had such incredible moves, and they’re extremely overbought,” Erfle says, while arguing there is still “a lot of money on the sidelines waiting to get in.” The conversation digs into the biggest PDAC-week ...
Mar 09, 2026•15 min
Sitka Gold (TSXV: SIG) has outlined more than 5 Moz in total gold resources at its RC Gold project in Yukon’s Tombstone Gold Belt following the maiden 2.25 Moz inferred resource at the Rhosgobel deposit, announced Feb. 25, 2026. The updated resource now totals 1.29 Moz indicated, and 3.83 Moz inferred across the Blackjack, Rhosgobel, and Eiger deposits, highlighting the rapid growth of the district-scale system. Speaking with Kitco Mining at PDAC 2026, CEO Cor Coe said the project hosts three de...
Mar 05, 2026•17 min
Neil Adshead, Consultant Analyst at the Commodity Discovery Fund, joins Kitco Mining’s Digging Deep with Paul Harris in person at PDAC 2026 in Toronto as markets react to breaking geopolitical news and a surge in major mining transactions. Following reports of U.S. strikes on Iran over the weekend, Adshead said, “the gold price has already reacted,” noting that 24/7 trading pushed gold above $5,300 per ounce, roughly $100 higher than Friday’s close. He also highlighted record sector profitabilit...
Mar 03, 2026•17 min
Nicole Adshead-Bell, Director of Cupel Advisory, joins Kitco Mining’s Digging Deep with Paul Harris at PDAC 2026 in Toronto to break down what a packed conference floor may be signaling for the mining cycle, and why rising commodity prices can blur the line between skill and momentum. Adshead-Bell argues that “we always mistake alpha for beta,” warning that a rising tape can hide weaker execution. She highlights a growing capital allocation debate among gold producers, noting that at least 10 co...
Mar 03, 2026•26 min
BMO Capital Markets Managing Director and Co-Head of Global Metals and Mining Ilan Bahar says the mining sector is entering 2026 with one of its strongest capital markets backdrops in years. Speaking with Kitco Mining at the 35th BMO Global Metals, Mining & Critical Minerals Conference, Bahar said this year’s event drew 650 investors and 300 companies, reflecting what he described as a “very, very healthy” environment for precious metals, financing activity, and elevated M&A discussions....
Mar 03, 2026•18 min
Americas Gold and Silver (NYSE American: USAS; TSX: USA) CEO & Chairman Paul Huet says the company is emerging as the only current U.S. source of antimony as it advances a new Idaho processing joint venture aligned with the U.S. government’s $12 billion Project Vault initiative. Speaking with Kitco Mining at the 35th BMO Global Metals, Mining & Critical Minerals Conference, Huet said domestic supply remains structurally short as the U.S. looks to secure critical minerals for defense and ...
Mar 03, 2026•20 min
G2 Goldfields (TSX: GTWO) is advancing its 3+ million ounce Oko gold project in Guyana toward permitting following its December 2025 preliminary economic assessment, while continuing to expand the high-grade system and position the company for potential M&A. Speaking with Kitco Mining at the 35th BMO Global Metals, Mining & Critical Minerals Conference, CEO Daniel Noone highlighted the strength of the nine gram per tonne Oko Main Zone and the project’s robust economics. “There’s no risk ...
Mar 03, 2026•13 min
Discovery Silver (TSX: DSV; OTCQX: DSVSF) CEO Tony Makuch has been named Kitco Mining’s CEO of the Year after leading a rapid turnaround of the Porcupine complex in Ontario and repositioning the former non-core asset into a cash-generating growth platform. Speaking at the 35th BMO Global Metals, Mining & Critical Minerals Conference, Makuch highlighted 2025 production of 180,000 ounces of gold, net profit of $107 million, and free cash flow of $172 million in the company’s first full year op...
Mar 02, 2026•19 min
