In this episode of Mining Stock Education, host Brian Leni interviews Michael Samis of SCM Decisions. The discussion delves into the intricacies of discounted cash flow (DCF) modeling, focusing on its applications in the mining industry. Key topics include the differences between static and dynamic DCF models, how to effectively deal with risks like metal price fluctuations, jurisdictional considerations, and inflation. Michael shares insights from his 35-year career in mining engineering and va...
Jul 04, 2025•43 min
Bill Powers and Brian Leni offer firsthand tips on how to confidently speculate in junior mining stocks in their monthly MSE episode. They discuss key insights gleaned from the past month of MSE interviews. They share the top books to read for new mining investors as well as books all speculators should know. The pair chat about investor psychology behind bubbles and lazy speculation. Other topics engaged are the role of life financings and warrants in Canadian markets, issuer confidentiality ag...
Jun 27, 2025•1 hr 1 min
Pro Investor David Erfle believes “gold stock weakness should be bought.” David shares his top three performing gold and silver junior mining stocks in this MSE episode. He also provides commentary on recent precious metals and miner price action and discusses how he has managed his portfolio over the past month. David Erfle is a self-taught mining sector investor. He stumbled upon the mining space in 2003 as he was looking to invest into a growing sector of the market. After researching the gai...
Jun 24, 2025•38 min
Rick Rule, CEO of Rule Investment Media, shares his extensive experience in portfolio allocation within the natural resources and precious metals markets. Discussing his personal investment strategies, Rule emphasizes the importance of understanding one's own risk tolerance, time preference, and goals. He shares anecdotes about his successful and challenging investments, including his interactions with industry icons like Eric Sprott and Adolf Lundin. The conversation covers various topics such ...
Jun 20, 2025•40 min
Kenorland Minerals CEO Zach Flood stated: “The success of the deep drilling at Regnault continues to underscore the immense untapped potential of the Frotet Project. These results not only confirm the continuity of high-grade mineralisation on the R11 veins, but also highlight the increasing scale of the system. Regnault remains open in multiple directions and we believe we are still in the early days of what could be a much larger gold discovery.” Kenorland looks to identify gaps in exploration...
Jun 18, 2025•25 min
Lisa Davis, CEO of PearTree Financial, explains flow-through financing trends that mining investors must know. PearTree Financial is Canada’s largest exploreCo funder. The discussion highlights various topics including the common misconceptions about flow through financings, the mechanics of charitable financings, and potential soon-coming changes in the sector. Lisa provides an overview of Peartree Financial's contributions since 2007 in structured flow through financing, emphasizing their phil...
Jun 12, 2025•40 min
Strategic resource investor Michael Gentile believes junior mining stocks will see a rerate higher as they are “entering the market recognition phase.” He offers a wide range of junior mining stock investing advice and analysis in this discussion with Bill Powers at The Mining Event in Quebec City on June 4th, 2025. From 2003 to 2018 Mr. Gentile worked as a professional money manager at Formula Growth Limited, an independent investment management firm established in Montreal in 1960 with a long-...
Jun 06, 2025•29 min
Expert Ed Baer reveals his contrarian mining stock secrets that made him millions, in his first-ever podcast interview. In this MSE exclusive, you learn how he took an issuer from $38M to over a $400M valuation; and hear about some of his large wins. Ed explains what retail investors get wrong, shares numerous contrarian tips, reveals how he values junior mining projects, offers his unique jurisdictional perspective from first-hand experience; and shares one stock pick. You will hear unique, con...
Jun 03, 2025•50 min
Bill Powers and Brian Leni offer junior mining insights in their monthly MSE episode. Brian shares his top stock and explains why it is the biggest position in his portfolio. Bill explains a big mistake. And both Brian and Bill converse about the many nuances of speculating in junior mining stocks. Some topics covered are jurisdictional due diligence, insider ownership analysis and how to make investing decisions. 0:00 Introduction 1:00 Lifestyle co. “investing” 3:31 LIFE financing 5:31 Sector b...
May 30, 2025•59 min
“We are pleased to have Agnico Eagle, one of Canada’s premier companies and a top global gold producer, make an additional investment that will permit Fury to advance our understanding of the exploration potential at our Committee Bay project in Nunavut,” commented Tim Clark, CEO of Fury. “We believe the Arctic is likely to become increasingly important for future mineral exploration and with this in mind, we are excited to accelerate our plans to build on past drilling success. As a reminder to...
May 28, 2025•18 min
Pro Investor David Erfle now sees value in the higher-risk junior miners. David was hesitant to move his investment capital down the food chain into the smaller juniors. But now he sees profit-taking in the major majors which is trickling down into fund flows into the juniors. David shares his commentary on recent precious metals and miner price action. He also discusses how he has managed his portfolio over the past month. David Erfle is a self-taught mining sector investor. He stumbled upon th...
May 23, 2025•25 min
Joe Mazumdar of Exploration Insights offers pro insights on several mining stocks and recent sector transactions. He also discusses his junior mining stock exit strategy, how mine financiers approach new mine builds, U.S. minerals policy and his recent Peru site tour. Joe Mazumdar is editor and analyst at Exploration Insights. Joe has an extensive, multi-decade background in working for both mining companies and the financial institutions that cover and invest in mining equities. He possesses an...
May 19, 2025•39 min
Analyst Lynette Zang foresees hyperinflation and a mad rush in tangible assets and precious metals. The currencies of the world will be reset to deal with excessive sovereign debt. This will eventually lead to gold being priced at $40,000 per ounce. Her message is to prepare now for the challenging times ahead. Lynette Zang is an economist that has been involved in the markets at some level since 1964, as a student, banker, stockbroker and precious metals and currency analyst. She has been study...
May 16, 2025•46 min
Ivan Bebek, Chair and CEO, commented, “As we deepen our understanding of the Sombrero system, our confidence in the size and potential of the broader district continues to grow. These early drill results confirm our belief that we are only beginning to unlock the value of this largely underexplored, yet highly promising, land package. Although our initial permitted polygon was quite limiting, we have been able to develop a strong pipeline of drill-ready targets across the property and eagerly aw...
May 15, 2025•19 min
Rick Rule reveals how artificial intelligence will make the best mining investors even better. Less than 10% of investors, he thinks, will skillfully use A.I. to maximize returns. Rick sees A.I. widening the gap between the “best” and the “rest” of mining investors. He believes A.I. will end up making the junior mining market more inefficient, rather than more efficient. Listen and learn from Rick Rule’s half-century of investing in junior resource stocks! 0:00 Introduction 0:41 A.I. impact on j...
May 07, 2025•29 min
Bill Powers and Brian Leni offer junior mining insights regarding discerning junior mining stock scams. Using examples, they discuss the differences between a scam and something shady, but not provably illegal. Furthermore, they discuss when seemingly shady actions might be intentionally strategic from management’s perspective. The perspectives shared are debatable but seasoned junior resource speculators must learn to understand and navigate through the nuances of whether a junior mining situat...
Apr 30, 2025•54 min
Analyst Jayant Bhandari explains why investor paranoia is holding down junior gold stock prices, in this MSE episode. He explains why, unlike most junior resource investors, he does not care about the Lassonde Curve. Jayant explains why the Canadian markets should ban warrants and explains how he thinks junior miners should finance themselves in a manner equitable to their shareholders. Furthermore, he shares two junior mining arbitrage opportunities he is currently capitalizing on. Jayant Bhand...
Apr 26, 2025•46 min
Pro Investor David Erfle describes how western investors have finally rediscovered gold and gold stocks. He shares why silver may be a good reversion-to-mean trade right now. Dave explains how some junior gold stock speculators have capitulated and sold due to the recent volatility. He shares his observation regarding recent junior gold stock sentiment and teaches what he is currently looking for in a PEA-stage gold developer. David Erfle is a self-taught mining sector investor. He stumbled upon...
Apr 22, 2025•27 min
Elliott Wave Analyst Mark Galasiewski foresees Gold leading a multi-decade commodities and miners bull market. Bitcoin and info-tech will decline. The U.S. Dollar will fall; but emerging markets will prosper. Interest rates have now entered a long-term rate rising cycle. We are at a great inflection point in which funds will increasingly flow from intangible assets (bitcoin/tech) and into tangible assets (gold/commodities/miners). Mark Galasiewski (gala-SHEV-ski) began his analytical career in 2...
Apr 17, 2025•1 hr 10 min
Pro small-cap investor Mark Zaret discusses his investment rationale for two junior gold stocks in his portfolio. He also shares timeless investing wisdom regarding how patience and discipline have yielded him long-term profits on the other side of extreme market volatility. Throughout the interview, Mark shares his approach to small cap speculating which has produced tremendous wealth for himself over the decades. Mark began investing in the early 1990’s and achieved a significant net worth by ...
Apr 10, 2025•56 min
GeoPool founder and president Mathias Forss provides firsthand intel about the opportunities and threats in Nordic exploration and mining stocks. His company GeoPool is headquartered in Finland and provides services on a broad scale, from field exploration to permit management and corporate administration. The company connects exploration and mining companies with contractors, stakeholders, landowners, and authorities. GeoPool helps ensure a smooth flow of information between all parties of an e...
Apr 06, 2025•51 min
Private resource investor Sultan Ameerali reveals where he is uncovering ignored value opportunities in the resource sector. He looks for “free upside”, while protecting his downside. And Sultan has identified a mining special situation in which his cost basis is negative, yet his upside is uncapped…truly a rare find. He explains how he discovered and capitalized on this opportunity. In this 1-hour MSE episode, Sultan discusses a range of issues, reveals multiple stock picks and explains his tho...
Apr 03, 2025•1 hr 9 min
Bill Powers and Brian Leni offer junior mining insights about Eric Sprott’s investments, New Found Gold Corp., overpaid CEOs, and much more in this MSE episode. Bill and Brian share why they both passed on investing in $NFG back in 2020. They discuss the ideal junior mining CEO profile and the pros and cons of a junior hiring a lead executive from a larger miner. Brian offers some of his current thoughts on portfolio allocation and exit strategy. Finally, they discuss whether late-stage develope...
Apr 01, 2025•48 min
Pro Investor David Erfle sees the rotation out of overvalued equities and into undervalued gold stocks happening in real time. He also discusses how he is playing this gold stock bull run, whether Newmont is still the sector bellwether stock, how to apply technical analysis to gold stocks and much more. David Erfle is a self-taught mining sector investor. He stumbled upon the mining space in 2003 as he was looking to invest into a growing sector of the market. After researching the gains made fr...
Mar 25, 2025•33 min
Gold stock fund manager and Austrian economist Larry Lepard sees $5,000 to $10,000/oz gold in the next several years. He believes gold stocks present an asymmetrical opportunity for investors. Larry shares some gold stock picks. He also explains the thesis of his new book, “The Big Print” and offers a sound money solution in contrast to the current monetary system. Lawrence Lepard runs Equity Management Associates, LLC, an investment partnership which has focused on investing in precious metals ...
Mar 20, 2025•49 min
Jacques Bonneau shares tips from his newly published book, “The Art of Investing in Junior Mining” in this MSE episode. He also reveals some junior mining stocks that he currently likes. Jacques Bonneau has over 40 years of experience in the mining industry. He has been involved in all the main stages in the evolution of a mining company, from exploration through development to production. During his career, he rose from field geologist to president of junior mining companies. More recently, he ...
Mar 13, 2025•52 min
In this MSE compilation episode you will hear timeless junior mining stock wisdom concerning corrected investor misconceptions and mining stock mistakes to avoid. The experts featured come from MSE shows dating back to 2018. 0:00 Intro 0:32 Steve Letwin: investor schizophrenia 4:05 Brian Christie: cycle timing 6:14 Rick Rule: self-analysis 9:19 Ross Beaty: long-term view 12:44 Heye Daun: compensation 17:11 Rick Rule: 10-bagger volatility 19:10 Brian Leni: written investment thesis 21:34 Sam Broo...
Mar 10, 2025•50 min
Bill Powers and Brian Leni share junior mining insights about PDAC, Metals Investor Forum, the multi-bagger process, and much more in this MSE episode. Bill discusses how Brian 20-bagged on Bill’s loss. And Brian reveals how he lost 100% of his capital on a crooked private mining company management group. Other topics debated are whether retail investors must be bag-holders, how IR reps should not pitch companies and how to gain the human intelligence advantage in junior mining speculation. 0:00...
Mar 06, 2025•52 min
Fury CEO Tim Clark and QPM CEO Normand Champigny, along with Fury SVP Exploration Bryan Atkinson, explain why Fury acquiring QPM makes sense for the shareholders of both companies. Bill Powers conducted the interview at PDAC 2025. Tim Clark, CEO of Fury, commented: “This Transaction is an exciting opportunity given it doubles Fury’s land package in the Eeyou Istchee territory in the James Bay Region of Quebec and unites complementary assets, teams, and investor bases which should ultimately incr...
Mar 05, 2025•12 min
Ivan Bebek, Chair and CEO, commented, ““Drilling to date has been completed under budget and on time, and is continuously providing valuable insights into our thesis that a large, mineralized skarn system could be present. Our knowledge of the controls of the system and the vectoring towards key mineralized areas of the skarn continues to improve, while programs have also identified new robust targets for discovery. The identification of the Tipicancha and Antapampa targets are significant as th...
Mar 04, 2025•17 min
