Proactive - Interviews for investors

International Graphite Ltd managing director and CEO Andrew Worland talked with Proactive about the company's binding graphite concentrate supply agreement with Wogen Pacific Ltd, which will support production at its Collie Micronising Facility in Western Australia and allow the company to advance its downstream graphite processing strategy without immediately developing its own mine. Worland explained that securing reliable graphite concentrate feedstock is fundamental to establishing commercial processing operations. The agreement allows International Graphite to access different grades and types of graphite concentrate through Wogen's international sourcing network, providing flexibility to respond to customer demand. The initial three-year supply arrangement will...

Kingfisher Mining Ltd (ASX:KFM) managing director Chris Bittar talked with Proactive about the company's $2.25 million capital raising and plans to accelerate copper-gold exploration at its Copper Blow Project in Broken Hill, New South Wales. The placement, priced at 7.5 cents per share, represents a 5.6% premium to Kingfisher's 15-day volume-weighted average price (VWAP). Bittar highlighted strong support from existing shareholders alongside participation from new sophisticated and professional investors. Copper Blow remains the company's primary exploration focus, with recent drilling delivering encouraging high-grade copper-gold results. These include 26 metres at 2.57% copper and 0.75 grams per tonne gold, including 13 metres at 4.07% copper and 1.20 grams per...

Gelion PLC (AIM:GELN, OTC:GELNF, FRA:X0S) CEO Matthew Wood spoke with Proactive's Stephen Gunnion about the company's new co-funded proof-of-concept agreement with a top-five global automotive original equipment manufacturer (OEM) to evaluate its nano-encapsulated sulfur (NES) cathode active material for electric vehicle batteries.

Wood explained that the OEM will provide engineering expertise, advanced testing facilities and a contribution to programme funding, while Gelion supplies battery cells incorporating NES and conducts complementary testing to correlate performance data. He described it as the first co-funded evaluation of cells containing NES by a global automotive OEM, bringing...

Horizon Gold Ltd (ASX: HRN) managing director Scott Williamson talked with Proactive about the company's latest drilling results at its 100%-owned Gum Creek Gold Project in Western Australia, highlighting high-grade gold mineralisation at Snook and further resource growth opportunities across its extensive greenstone belt. Williamson discussed the standout drilling results at Snook, where a significant gold intersection has reinforced the potential to expand the existing open-pit mining opportunity and investigate underground development. The results represent some of the deepest drilling undertaken at Snook, with mineralisation remaining open at depth. Williamson explained that the grades encountered could support future underground mining...

First Graphene Limited commercial manager Neil Armstrong talked with Proactive about the company's first production order from US footwear company Flux Footwear, marking an expansion of its PureGRAPH® graphene materials into the global sports and leisure footwear market. Armstrong explained that Flux Footwear approached First Graphene seeking a more reliable source of graphene for its established Graphene-Pro footwear range. With the product already on the market, the focus was on finding a supplier that could meet specific material requirements and support existing demand. Armstrong highlighted the importance of scalable production, noting that First Graphene's facility in Western Australia has 100 tonnes o...

Cyprium Metals executive chairman Matt Fifield talked with Proactive about key commissioning milestones at the Nifty Copper Complex in Western Australia, as the company advances heap leach operations and prepares for first copper cathode production. Fifield explained that commissioning activities are progressing across the heap leach operation, while pre-commissioning work on the solvent extraction and electrowinning (SXEW) plant is approaching completion. The company has achieved targeted injection flow rates through its direct injection leaching process, building on more than a year of trials and testing to establish the technology's suitability for the existing Nifty heaps. Fifield said early commissioning results...

CanAlaska CEO Cory Belyk joined Steve Darling from Proactive to discuss the company’s uranium exploration activities in Saskatchewan’s Athabasca Basin, including exceptional high-grade results at West McArthur, ongoing drilling south of Key Lake and plans for an active 2027 exploration programme. Belyk said CanAlaska is focused on discovering high-grade uranium deposits in the southeastern Athabasca Basin, particularly in areas close to established mining and processing infrastructure. The company is targeting deposits with geological characteristics comparable to major uranium operations such as Cigar Lake and McArthur River. At West McArthur, a joint venture with Cameco, CanAlaska has identified the Pike Zone...

Delta Gold Technologies Plc CEO Michael Jones Steve Darling from Proactive’s OTC studio in New York City to discuss the company’s work developing technology and intellectual property in quantum computing, with gold at the centre of its approach. Jones explained that Delta Gold Technologies is collaborating with Penn State University in the US and the University of Toronto in Canada, with researchers at both institutions working together on the technology. The company is investigating properties of gold that it believes could offer advantages in developing qubits, the fundamental building blocks of quantum computers. “We discovered something about gold that w...

MindMaze Therapeutics CEO Zach Henderson joined Steve Darling from Proactive’s OTC studio in New York City to discuss the company’s digital neurotherapeutics platform, its approach to expanding rehabilitation access and its growth strategy in the United States and international markets. Henderson said MindMaze is addressing a growing gap between demand from patients recovering from stroke, spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury and Parkinson’s disease and the limited availability of neurologists and physical therapists. The company’s platform uses gamified, high-dose and high-intensity training that combines physical and cognitive exercises. The technology can be used in inpatient rehabilitation faciliti...

Sulnox CEO Ben Richardson joined Steve Darling from Proactive’s OTC studio in New York City to discuss the company’s growth in the global shipping sector, expansion into North America and the broader potential for its fuel technology across multiple industries. Richardson explained that Sulnox develops chemistry designed to improve the combustion of liquid hydrocarbon fuels, including gasoline, diesel and emerging biofuels. He said the technology can reduce fuel consumption by around 8% to 10% while cutting CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions by more than 20%. Richardson also highlighted the technology’s impact on inefficient combustion, saying it can remove more than 9...

Zentek CEO Moe Jiwan joined Steve Darling from Proactive to discuss the filing of the company's independent technical report for its Albany graphite project in Northern Ontario, formally confirming the results outlined in the preliminary economic assessment released earlier this year. Jiwan said the report highlights the significant economic potential of the Albany project, which generated an after-tax net present value of approximately US$3.85 billion using a 5% discount rate. The study also outlined an after-tax internal rate of return of 27.4%, a payback period of 4.4 years, and estimated initial capital expenditures of approximately US$870 million. The Albany project is designed as...

Gunnison Copper Corp CEO Craig Hallworth joined Steve Darling from Proactive to announce a major milestone for the company, confirming that its Johnson Camp Mine in Arizona has officially achieved commercial production after delivering record copper output and sustained operating performance. Hallworth said the declaration marks the successful transition from ramp-up to full commercial operations and demonstrates the mine's ability to consistently produce copper at levels required to support long-term production objectives. The achievement follows a record month in August 2026, when Johnson Camp produced 1,304,448 pounds of copper cathode, the highest monthly production level since operations were restarted. Strong performance continued...

PT Asset Management CEO Sean Dranfield talked with Proactive's Stephen Gunnion about opportunities in the bond market as investors navigate elevated long-term Treasury yields, tight credit spreads and continued economic and geopolitical uncertainty. Dranfield said the return of an upward-sloping yield curve and the Federal Reserve’s focus on controlling inflation have created opportunities that were not available several years ago. In particular, he highlighted longer-dated US Treasuries and taxable municipal bonds, arguing that higher yields have improved their prospective returns while providing greater protection against further interest-rate movements. “I think it’s a fascinating time in bond markets today, both o...

Eco Buildings Group PLC (AIM:ECOB, FRA:9ZL0) executive vice chairman Dr Etrur Albani spoke with Proactive's Stephen Gunnion about progress on the company's new AI-enabled production line, which remains on schedule and on budget, and how the technology could improve manufacturing efficiency, production capacity and project delivery. Albani explained the development is an important step in turning the company's manufacturing technology into an expanded operational process. The line will combine artificial intelligence with programmable logic controller (PLC) systems to monitor components, flag potential problems and make manufacturing more predictable. "It's not just about AI. It's not just about the...

ox Tungsten CEO Steve Gray joined Steve Darling from Proactive to provide an update on initial assay results from the company’s fully funded 20,000-metre 2026 drill programme at the Fox Tungsten Project in British Columbia. The first results cover 18 holes from this year’s campaign, with resource expansion drilling at the RC South Zone confirming multiple intervals of tungsten mineralization, including several higher-grade zones. Approximately 52 holes have now been completed, with drilling expected to continue through late October and additional assays to be released as results are received. Gray said the RC South drilling continues to demonstrate tungsten mineralization along the...

Radiant Uranium CEO Clive Massey joined Steve Darling from to discuss the company’s uranium exploration portfolio, plans to advance its Cross Lake project and the potential for additional discoveries across its three Saskatchewan projects. Massey explained that Radiant Uranium was established approximately a year ago in response to rising uranium prices and expectations for increasing electricity demand. The company subsequently acquired three projects it viewed as relatively de-risked: Cross Lake, Gorilla and Key Lake. Cross Lake is expected to be the company’s primary exploration focus. Massey highlighted historical exploration dating back to the 1970s that outlined approximately 371,000 pounds of u...

Starcore International Mines CEO Robert Eadie joined Steve Darling from Proactive to discuss encouraging initial results from the company’s 2026 geophysical exploration programme at the San Martin Mine in Querétaro, Mexico. The programme has identified four areas of interest — Anomalies I, II, III and IV — that Starcore believes warrant additional geological investigation and, in some cases, drilling. The exploration campaign combined an airborne MobileMT electromagnetic survey and magnetic survey conducted by Expert Geophysics with a ground-based Induced Polarization and resistivity survey completed by GEOTEM. The company also incorporated the reprocessing and interpretation of historical magnetometer and IP data completed in 2024...

Eastport Critical Metals CEO Daniel Major joined Steve Darling from Proactive to discuss the company’s diversified critical minerals portfolio in Botswana, recent rare earth drilling results and plans to advance its uranium, copper and nickel projects through 2026 and into 2027. Major highlighted Botswana’s established mining industry, infrastructure and government support for mineral development. Eastport Critical Metals has six projects covering five commodities, with its portfolio focused on minerals that could benefit from growing global electrification and demand for critical raw materials. A major focus is the company’s large-scale uranium project in northern Botswana, where an exploration target covering almost...

HeLIX Exploration PLC (AIM:HEX, OTCQB:HHEXF) CEO Bo Sears spoke with Proactive's Stephen Gunnnion about the latest results from the Ollie #1 well at the Rudyard helium project. Ollie #1 delivered Helix’s highest mudlog helium reading to date, with concentrations exceeding 0.5% in the drilling mud. Sears said the result was particularly encouraging, while stressing that flow testing and gas analysis are still needed. The well was completed in just 20 days and under budget, with Helix’s ownership of its drilling rig helping to reduce costs and improve drilling efficiency. Sears also outlined plans to perforate and flow-test Ollie #1 before drilling the...

Hydrogen Solutions CEO James Busche spoke with Proactive's Stephen Gunnion about the company's H2 Hotbox technology, its potential to address cost and reliability challenges in hydrogen production and energy storage, and the next steps towards commercial deployment. Busche explained that Hydrogen Solutions is developing technology to provide dispatchable, zero-carbon energy that can complement intermittent renewables like wind and solar. "The problem that we have with hydrogen today is a combination of cost and reliability in producing and using it, and that's what Hydrogen Solutions is solving," he said. The H2 Hotbox can operate as both an electrolyser and a fuel...

AuMEGA Metals Ltd CEO and managing director Sam Pazuki talked with Proactive about standout high-grade gold results from the company’s 100%-owned Intersection Project in Newfoundland, including a surface sample grading 100.5 g/t gold. Pazuki said the result represents the second-highest grade rock sample ever collected across AuMEGA Metals’ property portfolio and the highest-grade sample collected from the Intersection property itself. The result came from an area that has seen very little historical exploration and forms part of the company’s systematic approach to building a pipeline of new drill targets. Two additional samples from Intersection returned grades of 23.8 g/t gold...

Blackbird PLC (AIM:BIRD, OTC:BBRDF, FRA:FBD) CEO Ian McDonough spoke with Proactive's Stephen Gunnion about Google's selection of the company's elevate.io video editing platform for its Chromebook Perks programme, describing it as a significant endorsement and a potential opportunity to expand its reach among Chromebook users. McDonough said the selection is an important milestone for Blackbird, which is still in the early stages of rolling out elevate.io and has recently passed 1,000 paying subscribers. "It's off the charts and we're incredibly pleased," he said of the validation from Google. He explained how elevate.io enables professional-grade video...

Royal Road Minerals Ltd (TSX-V:RYR, OTC:RRDMF, FRA:RLU) CEO Dr Tim Coughlin spoke with Proactive's Stephen Gunnion about the latest exploration work at the Margaritas target in Colombia, where the company has identified significant silver-antimony veins as it continues its search for a deeper porphyry copper-gold system. Coughlin said the significance of the veins comes from the combination of mining widths and grades, with veins around four to five metres wide carrying high grades of silver alongside antimony and gold. Encountered during the maiden drilling programme at Margaritas, completed in June, subsequent mapping and sampling have extended the...

Connecting Excellence Group Plc (AQSE:XCE, OTCQB:XCELF) CEO Scott Ellam spoke with Proactive's Stephen Gunnion about the company’s first acquisition, James Gray Recruitment, its acquisition pipeline and its Bitcoin treasury strategy. James Gray generated £1.79 million of revenue, £1.27 million of gross profit and £431,000 of EBITDA over the past 12 months. Ellam described the deal as XCE’s first “copy and paste” acquisition, with a structure designed to align the management team with future performance. He said the acquisition pipeline is “extremely lively and extremely healthy”, with the deal also generating interest from other recruitment businesses. Ellam also discussed XCE’s Bitcoin treasury...

Great Plains Metals Corp Executive Director Aidan Bishop joined Steve Darling from to discuss a significant review of historical drilling data from the company’s Goodrich copper-gold project in New South Wales, Australia. The company reviewed more than 5,000 metres of drilling across 46 historical holes held in the NSW Resources archives, uncovering significant porphyry-related mineralization that was overlooked during exploration programmes in the 1980s. Among the key results, diamond hole KB1 intersected 50.08 metres grading 0.41% copper and 0.32 grams per tonne gold. DDHG10 returned 37 metres grading 0.55% copper and 0.17 g/t gold, while percussion hole YG08 delivered 33 metres grading 0.65% copper and 1.43 g/t gold. Se...

Genflow Biosciences Ltd (LSE:GENF, OTCQB:GENFF, FRA:WQ5) CEO Dr Eric Leire spoke with Proactive's Stephen Gunnion about the company's Sirtuin-6 (SIRT6) therapy and detailed results from its SLAB (Sarcopenia and Longevity in Aged Beagles) study, presented publicly for the first time at the Animal Longevity Summit in Toronto. Leire said the key message was that the SIRT6 therapy performed better than the company had hoped, proving safe and well tolerated while producing encouraging evidence of improvements in both biological age and muscle measures. "Our Sirtuin-6 (SIRT6) therapy did even better than we hoped," he said, describing the findings...

Renforth Resources CEO Nicole Brewster joined Steve Darling from Proactive to discuss new drilling results from the company’s Victoria nickel-cobalt polymetallic deposit near Malartic, Québec, along with a new research collaboration with Queen’s University focused on developing a potentially more effective processing route for the large mineralized system. Renforth recently completed three drill holes totaling more than 1,000 metres to test the down-dip continuity of mineralization beneath the open pit that constrains the company’s September 2025 Mineral Resource Estimate. Brewster said all three holes intersected broad intervals of nickel-cobalt mineralization within the ultramafic host rocks, along with additional zones o...

Medicus Pharma CEO Dr Raza Bokhari joined Steve Darling from Proactive to discuss the company’s submission of an optimized seamless Phase 2b/3 registration-intent protocol to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Teverelix®, its investigational next-generation, long-acting GnRH antagonist being developed for patients with advanced prostate cancer (APC) who are at increased cardiovascular risk. Bokhari explained that the proposed protocol is designed to establish a defined and potentially more capital-efficient pathway toward registration while positioning the Teverelix APC program for a potential strategic partnership. Importantly, Medicus does not intend to independently fund an additional clinical development study in...

Sintana Energy CEO Robert Bose joined Steve Darling from Proactive to discuss a new agreement involving Petroleum Exploration Licence 90 (PEL 90) in Namibia, following an announcement by Trago Energy regarding an agreement with Harmattan Energy Limited, an affiliate of Chevron. Under the agreement, Trago Energy will transfer its entire 10% participating interest in PEL 90 to Harmattan Energy. Sintana Energy maintains an indirect 49% interest in Trago, providing Sintana with continued exposure to the licence and its future exploration and development potential. As part of the transaction, Trago will receive US$11 million in cash upon completion. The agreement also provides for additional contingent consideration...

HANetf Active ETF Product Specialist Vincent Chung spoke with Proactive's Stephen Gunnion about volatility in technology markets and how active covered call strategies can seek to generate income when uncertainty increases. Chung highlighted a recent sell-off in semiconductor and technology stocks triggered by comments about potentially slowing the pace of AI development amid safety concerns, noting the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index fell almost 6% on the day while the VIX rose around 5% - illustrating technology markets' sensitivity to changing AI investment expectations. He explained why volatility matters for option income strategies: investors generally pay more for options when uncertainty about future price...

Nextech3D.ai CEO Evan Gappelberg and newly appointed Senior Vice President if Sales Chad Prezlomski joined Steve Darling from Proactive to discuss the company’s latest leadership appointment and its strategy to accelerate enterprise sales and expand its customer base across its growing portfolio of technology platforms. Prezlomski has been appointed to lead Nextech3D.ai’s enterprise sales initiatives, with a mandate to build relationships with new customers while deepening engagement with existing enterprise accounts across Eventdex, Map D, KraftyLab and KATE. Gappelberg said the appointment comes as Nextech continues to focus on expanding the commercial reach of its...

Infrastructure Capital Advisors CEO Jay Hatfield joined Steve Darling from to discuss his outlook for U.S. markets, Federal Reserve policy, interest rates, inflation, housing and the prospects for both equities and fixed income. Hatfield said Infrastructure Capital Advisors remains constructive on the bond market and believes investors may be pricing in too much additional tightening from the Federal Reserve. He argued that the Fed’s first rate increase was “completely irrational” and said the firm currently expects no more than one additional increase. On inflation, Hatfield pointed to the decline in core CPI and highlighted what he sees as contin...

Santhera Pharmaceuticals CFO Catherine Isted joined Steve Darling from Proactive to discuss the company’s financial results for the six months ended June 30, 2026, highlighting strong commercial momentum for AGAMREE® and significant progress in expanding patient access across international markets. Santhera reported total revenue of CHF 48.3 million for the first half of 2026, representing a 101% increase from CHF 24.0 million during the same period in 2025. The growth was driven by a combination of higher AGAMREE® product sales and increased royalties and milestone income, including proceeds from a major licensing agreement with Nxera. Product sales increased 48% year over year to CHF 17.2 million, compared with CHF...

Miivo AI CEO Alexander Damouni joined Steve Darling from Proactive to discuss the company’s agreement to acquire First Five Partners, a Switzerland-based sports advisory, commercial strategy and digital transformation business. Miivo has entered into a share purchase agreement to acquire First Five from an arm’s-length party, adding a specialized sports advisory business and an established network of relationships within the international sports industry to its growing platform. Damouni said the acquisition represents a strategic opportunity for Miivo to expand its presence across the global sports sector while combining First Five’s advisory expertise with Miivo’s capabilities in artifici...

Arizona Gold and Silver SVP of Exploration Dr. Lex Lambeck joined Steve Darling from Proactive at a conference in Uath, to announce new assay results from two additional core holes at the company’s Philadelphia Gold-Silver Project in Mohave County, Arizona, with both holes intersecting broad zones of gold mineralization within the Perry Zone. Lambeck said drill holes PC26-172 and PC26-173 have extended the known mineralized system down dip while also providing additional geological and geochemical information to guide the next phase of exploration. The results indicate that higher-grade intervals occur within broader zones of lower-grade mineralization, supporting co...

Atomic Eagle Limited CEO Phil Hoskins talked with Proactive about the company’s uranium development strategy across the Muntanga Uranium Project in Zambia and the Madaouela Uranium Project in Niger, including a newly launched technical review of Madaouela and the work planned for both assets through 2027. Hoskins said Atomic Eagle now has two high-quality, advanced uranium projects that the company believes are capable of being online by 2030. At Madaouela, the company is reviewing an extensive existing technical and drilling database with the aim of assessing how the project could be developed at a larger scale and with stronger economics. Atomic Ea...

Hawsons Iron Ltd (ASX:HIO) managing director Tom Revy spoke with Proactive's Stephen Gunnion about the Hawsons Iron Project, its strengthened economics and the role its proposed premium high-grade magnetite concentrate could play in the transition towards lower-carbon steelmaking. Revy explained that Hawsons Iron is focused on developing its 100%-owned project, targeting a magnetite concentrate grading around 69.3% iron, with high grades and low impurities making the product particularly relevant to downstream processing and electric arc furnace steelmaking. "The product that we produce is in the top 1 or 2%," he said. The interview also covers recent optimisation work that lifted the project's...

Lightning Minerals Ltd managing director Troy Brice talked with Proactive about the start of Phase 2 drilling at the company’s wholly owned Mt Turner Gold Project in North Queensland, where the latest campaign is targeting extensions to mineralisation along the 14-kilometre Drummer Fault corridor. Brice said drilling is already underway, with the rig mobilised, crews on site and preparatory work completed. The program comprises five targeted diamond drill holes for around 650 metres and follows the company’s 2025 campaign, which Brice said delivered a 100% success rate. The latest drilling is designed to test mineralisation along strike and at depth while adding furt...

Krakatoa Resources CEO Mark Major talked with Proactive about the latest assay results from the company’s Zopkhito Antimony-Gold Project in Georgia, where drilling has returned further high-grade antimony and gold mineralisation. Major said the latest results provided further validation of the historical geological model, with continuity emerging as an important feature of the drilling campaign. He highlighted both the high-grade nature of the mineralisation and indications that gold may be more extensive within the system than previously understood. The latest work has also identified a new gold-rich zone and mineralisation beyond the area currently incorporated into the resource. Major no...