There are new drill results from Collective Mining, Li-FT Power, Bravo Mining and Galway Metals to report. Vista Gold has updated its feasibility study for Mt Todd. We'd like to thank our sponsors: Arizona Sonoran Copper Company (ASCU:TSX) is focused on developing its brownfield copper project on private land in Arizona, a tier 1 location. The Cactus Mine Project is located less than an hour's drive from the Phoenix International airport via highway i-10, and with grid power and the Union Pacifi...
Mar 13, 2024•8 min
n this conversation, David Finch provides market commentary on gold and its relationship with equities. He discusses the factors driving the gold price, including central bank buying and individual buying in China. He also explains the impact of synchronized buying and short covering on the gold price. Finch highlights the challenges faced by large gold producers with complex operations and suggests that simpler operations produce better and more visible cash flows. He discusses Calibre Mining's...
Mar 12, 2024•23 min
Faraday Copper is focused on the Copper Creek project in Arizona, which is one of the largest undeveloped copper resources in the United States. The project has significant exploration upside and potential for both open pit and underground mining. Faraday has been testing new breccias outside of the resource area and has made several new discoveries. The company plans to update its mineral resource estimate and PEA study in 2025.
Mar 12, 2024•17 min
Western Alaska Minerals CEO Kit Marrs discusses the company's initial inferred resource for Waterpump Creek in the Illinois Creek Project in Alaska. The resource contains 75 million ounces of silver equivalent, with a high-grade of 977 grams per ton silver equivalent. The resource is relatively insensitive to cutoff grade, indicating a large margin for potential mining. Marrs also discusses the next round of growth, focusing on the LH South area and the Warm Springs target. The market reaction t...
Mar 12, 2024•14 min
We report new drill results form Thesis Gold, Galiano Gold, and Cartier Resources. Talisker Resources has a new operations update from Bralorne. Fireweed Metals gets upgraded in the US. We'd like to thank our sponsors: Arizona Sonoran Copper Company (ASCU:TSX) is focused on developing its brownfield copper project on private land in Arizona, a tier 1 location. The Cactus Mine Project is located less than an hour's drive from the Phoenix International airport via highway i-10, and with grid power...
Mar 12, 2024•7 min
Shorter news day today but we do have drill results out from Pampa Metals, NexGen and Fortuna Silver Mines. We'd like to thank our sponsors: Arizona Sonoran Copper Company (ASCU:TSX) is focused on developing its brownfield copper project on private land in Arizona, a tier 1 location. The Cactus Mine Project is located less than an hour's drive from the Phoenix International airport via highway i-10, and with grid power and the Union Pacific Rail line situated at the base of the Cactus Project ma...
Mar 11, 2024•6 min
In this long-form, Jim Bianco discusses various macroeconomic topics, including interest rate expectations, inflation, remote work's impact on spending and real estate, and the restructuring of New York Community Bank. He highlights the divergence in the global economy, with the US experiencing strong growth and increased consumer spending, while Europe struggles. Bianco also emphasizes the importance of understanding the Fed's political considerations and the potential for higher inflation and ...
Mar 08, 2024•1 hr
Jean-Philippe Paiement is the Director of AI and Targeting at VRIFY. It was his work which began almost a decade ago which has led to the VRIFY's AI Product Launch this past week. JP shares his story about why he decided to combines geology with programming and machine learning. And how an event at PDAC almost 8 years ago would help launch his ideas into a tangible product to help improve exploration and generate better targets.
Mar 07, 2024•12 min
John is the Founder and Managing Partner of Maverix Private Equity, a private equity firm focused on technology-enabled growth and disruption investment strategies. During the VRIFY.ai launch this past week, John sat down with MSD to talk about the inbound of interest he's received regarding technology in the mining space. He admits there has been a dichotomy between the technologists and the explorers for far too long. John shares ideas of how the mining and exploration industry will change as ...
Mar 07, 2024•16 min
Comet Lithium's Vincent Metcalf joined us from the VRIFY.ai booth at PDAC to talk about their adoption of the new artificial intelligence platform the company has been beta testing over the past few months. The initial phase of VRIFY's collaboration is focusing on Comet Lithium's 100%-owned Liberty lithium property. The approach leverages complex data relationships to predict mineral exploration targets, streamlining the process of identifying viable mineral deposits. The automation of target ge...
Mar 06, 2024•14 min
Fred Earnest, CEO of Vista Gold, joins us on the PDAC floor for a general corporate update on the Mt Todd Project. Last year the accompany announced a royalty deal with Wheaton Precious Metals which will be adding to the company's bank account and fund new development and exploration endeavors.
Mar 06, 2024•13 min
Ari Sussman of Collective Mining joined us in PDAC this week to talk about the influx of $18M cash from a new unnamed strategic investor and how the money will continue to help the advancement and exploration of the Guayabales Project in Colombia. We also talk to him about the rumblings of concerns about the Canadian government being unsupportive of Chinese money coming into Canadian equities.
Mar 06, 2024•10 min
Martin Turenne of FPX Nickel joins us from PDAC to discuss the latest news and developments from the Baptiste Nickel Project in BC. The company's strategy is designed to prioritize critical path activities in preparation for entry into the Provincial and Federal environmental assessment. We also discuss some of the latest analysis from Macquarie regarding the nickel supply in China and how one's reporting thinks we may be getting it all wrong.
Mar 05, 2024•12 min
We welcome both Western Copper and Gold's Sandeep Singh and Paul West-Sells to this episode to clear the air about the hiring of Sandeep as the new CEO of the company while Mr. West-Sells takes on the position of President. We discuss what spurred this decision, how the market reacted to the news, and what Mr. Singh needs to accomplish with stakeholder relations to get the Casino project through to the finish line.
Mar 05, 2024•15 min
Claudia Tornquist, CEO of Kodiak Copper, discusses how the company has been utilizing the new VRIFY.ai product to beta test its system and also enhance prospectivity. Exploration results from the MPD project continue to expand the number of drill-confirmed zones and prospective target areas, which now stand at over 20 mineralized centres. Kodiak's management views AI technologies as a promising method to help prioritize drilling more efficiently and cost-effectively.
Mar 05, 2024•12 min
Steve de Jong, CEO of VRIFY, joins Trevor and MSD for special coverage of the company's latest product launch during the PDAC Conference in Toronto. Steve talks about how the system leverages public and private data to better inform exploration teams of prospective targets within projects. And like the original VRIFY platform, the AI generates probabilistic 3D maps of the Earth's subsurface, aimed at pinpointing prospective mineral deposits. Learn more at vrify.ai...
Mar 04, 2024•19 min
Jason Jessup of Magna Mining provides some commentary to today's news that the amended Closure Plan for the Crean Hill Project had been filed with the Ontario Ministry of Mines. This allows Magna to move forward with an advanced exploration plan, which includes a surface bulk sample and development of a ramp from surface to perform test mining in the 101 Footwall, 109 Footwall and Intermediate mineralized zones.
Mar 04, 2024•11 min
Michael Wood, Executive Chairman of Sendero Resources, provides an introduction to the Peñas Negras Project on the Vicuña Belt in La Rioja, Argentina.
Mar 04, 2024•7 min
Graham Downs of Cascadia Minerals talks about his new exploration venture following the sale of ATAC Resources. Cascadia has made a meaningful copper porphyry discovery in Yukon recently and looks to follow up on that discovery this year. Graham talks about the transition fro precious metals to copper exploration in Yukon and what makes this project one of the more unique projects in his career.
Mar 04, 2024•9 min
Mike Allen is back in Nevada with Strikepoint Gold. He joins us from PDAC for a general introduction to the company and exploring back in the Walker Lane in Nevada. Mike talks about a huge resource announcement made at the Anglo projects which is shaping up to be the largest undeveloped resource in Nevada in many years.
Mar 04, 2024•9 min
Chris Taylor, former CEO of Great Bear Resources, discusses the process and considerations behind the sale of the Dixie project to Kinross. He highlights the importance of transparency and creating a competitive dynamic to benefit shareholders. Taylor also shares insights on managing expectations and reputation after a successful acquisition. He discusses his criteria for new projects, focusing on gold and copper assets with transformative potential. Taylor emphasizes the need for stable politic...
Mar 01, 2024•1 hr 2 min
Rob Sinn, aka CEOTechnician, joins us for some market sentiment thoughts on the gold equities. Coming off the BMO Conference this week, Rob talks about the sentiment continuing to be poor, despite gold showing a bullish setup on the chart and the argument that the TSX Venture Composite is bottoming.
Feb 29, 2024•19 min
In this episode, Trevor Hall interviews Donald Swartz II, CEO of American Rare Earths, to discuss the company's flagship project, Halleck Creek, and the rare earth market. They cover topics such as the project's development stage, rare earth grades, economic potential, challenges in the market, infrastructure, and the positive sentiment towards rare earths.
Feb 29, 2024•17 min
Elemental Altus Royalties provided a portfolio update this morning. There were lots of new drill results to report from Founders Metals, Treasury Metals, Abitibi Metals, Lavras Gold and New Found Gold. We'd like to thank our sponsors: Arizona Sonoran Copper Company (ASCU:TSX) is focused on developing its brownfield copper project on private land in Arizona, a tier 1 location. The Cactus Mine Project is located less than an hour's drive from the Phoenix International airport via highway i-10, and...
Feb 29, 2024•8 min
Garrett Ainsworth of District Metals discusses the latest developments out of the government of Sweden regarding a lifting on the uranium mining moratorium. It seems as if momentum is heading that way with on-the-record comments from government officials. Garrett also discusses the new drill campaign at Tomtebo with their partners Boliden, which is going after mineralization at depth.
Feb 28, 2024•19 min
CEO Luke Alexander provides an update on Newcore Gold's Enchi project and the recent addition of the Omanpe license. The Omanpe license adds 32 square kilometers of prospective ground to the existing land package and is strategically located near the proposed heap leach operation. The company has completed an environmental and social baseline study, which further de-risks the project and supports the upcoming mining lease application. The updated preliminary economic assessment (PEA) is expected...
Feb 28, 2024•15 min
Zach Flood, CEO of Kenorland Minerals, discusses the South Uchi project and its potential for a gold system. The project, located in the Confederation Lake area, covers a large area with high-resolution till sampling revealing widespread gold anomalies. The structural setting and geological features indicate the potential for a significant gold system. The success of Great Bear Resources in the district provides inspiration for exploring underexplored areas like South Uchi.
Feb 28, 2024•13 min
We have new drill results to report form Hercules Silver and McEwen Mining. Tinka Resources has an updated PEA. Vista Gold receives its second tranche from Wheaton. Adriatic Metals produce their first concentrate. We'd like to thank our sponsors: Arizona Sonoran Copper Company (ASCU:TSX) is focused on developing its brownfield copper project on private land in Arizona, a tier 1 location. The Cactus Mine Project is located less than an hour's drive from the Phoenix International airport via highw...
Feb 28, 2024•8 min
New drill results to report from Li-FT Power, Aurion Resources, Summa Silver and Infinico Metals. Newcore Gold has increased the size of its district scale Project with the addition of the Omanpe license. Collective Mining announced a new strategic investment. Fireweed publishes its drill dataset. We'd like to thank our sponsors: Arizona Sonoran Copper Company (ASCU:TSX) is focused on developing its brownfield copper project on private land in Arizona, a tier 1 location. The Cactus Mine Project ...
Feb 27, 2024•9 min
Premium Nickel CEO Keith Morrison discusses the impressive drill results from the Salibi North underground mine in Botswana. The drill program is ongoing, and the focus is on extending the known mineralization deeper down. Morrison explains the significance of structurally controlled ore bodies and the challenges of drilling through multiple limbs. He also highlights the importance of metallurgical test work and its impact on market access. Premium Nickel's polymetallic deposits, including plati...
Feb 26, 2024•18 min