Mining Stock Daily

Rick Trotman, CEO of Barksdale Resources, joined us in a sit-down interview to talk about the final stages of drill permitting the Sunnyside project. The company looks to clear this administrative hurdle and focus on being strictly an exploration company.

Paul connected with Westhaven Gold Vice President of Corporate Development and Investor Relations Sean Thompson for a general introduction to the company and their assets in British Columbia.

Marc Sale of First Class Metals provides a general introduction to the assets the company is currently working and with other JVs in Canada. The company is unique because it is working in Canada but is traded on the London Stock Exchange.

Doug Cavey of Defiance Silver provides a long-overdue corporate update to MSD listeners on their almost complete drilling program and his thoughts on the proposed revamp of Mexico's mining law.

Chris Donaldson of TinOne joins us in Frankfurt for a discussion on both their tin and lithium work happening in Tazmania.

We begin our coverage of the Deutsche Goldmesse with a sit down interview with Adam Spencer of Montage Gold. Adam walks us through the current exploration and drilling strategy is Ivory Coast and how the company is looking to add more gold ounces to the resource.

Following a recent site visit to the Vizcachitas copper project in Chile, we reconnect with Santiago Montt of Los Andes for a follow-up discussion on a few topics listeners wanted to understand more of, including some of the infrastructure and water engineering proposed in the feasibility study. We also talk about the community engagement improvements the company has made over the past few years of the project's development.

Today we finish up the very busy week with Jesse Felder of The Felder Report. We begin by talking about the FOMC's decision to raise rates once again and then leave their forecasts for more interest rate increases open-ended. Is this a Pause the market was expecting? Or is Powell and Team fully committed to keeping a 2% inflation target. The markets reacted, but are they pricing in a looming political battle with the debt ceiling of the United States government? Jesse doesn't believe so.

Today we publish the first of two long-form episodes this week. Doug Pollitt joins us today to discuss the dwindling supply of warehouse gold. There is an intriguing story to this following the Covid lockdowns. Doug shares the story and opens up some thoughts on the downtrend in warehouse gold.

Its always a pleasure to welcome in The Koala to the MSD virtual studio. Today, we pick up on the Glencore hostile takeover bid for Teck Resources. The saga of this continues to play out after Teck has removed its push to spin-out its met coal assets and shareholders appear willing to move in the direction of a Glencore merger. The Koala fills us in. In addition, we also ask ourselves if big metal miners are about ready to make the next big steps in actually acquiring projects, not just becoming strategic investors.