Company Interviews

Interview with Sapan Ghai, CCO of Sovereign Metals Ltd.

Recording date: 8th October 2026

Sovereign Metals Limited is developing the Kasiya project in Malawi, which the company describes as the world’s largest rutile deposit. Kasiya also contains a large graphite co-product and a heavy rare earth concentrate identified during recent test work. Chief Commercial Officer Sapan Ghai outlined how the project’s commercial and funding strategy has changed over the past year.

The most significant change is the role of the US government. Ghai said the US State Department and other agencies approached Sove...

Interview with Rupert Verco, CEO & Managing Director of Cobra Resources PLC

Our previous interview: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/posts/cobra-resources-lsecobr-deeper-drilling-points-to-bigger-copper-system-11059

Recording date: 8th October 2026

Cobra Resources plc (LSE:COBR) is a South Australian explorer advancing two projects: the Manna Hill Copper Project in the Nackara Arc and the Wudinna rare earth project, which targets in situ recovery. This summary covers Manna Hill, where the company reported a material drilling update on October 2026.

The update concerns a slim-line RC programme designed as a fast, low-cost test of lateral extent. After 23 holes and...

Interview with Blake Hylands, CEO of Lithium Ionic Corp.

Our previous interview: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/posts/lithium-ionic-tsxvlth-non-core-asset-sale-injects-30m-to-fast-track-bandeira-11443

Recording date: 24th September 2026

Lithium Ionic Corp. (TSXV:LTH) is a Canadian lithium developer advancing the Bandeira hard-rock lithium project in Minas Gerais, Brazil. The project sits in an established lithium district, alongside Sigma Lithium's Grota do Cirilo operation and the CBL Cachoeira mine, which has produced lithium since 1991. CEO Blake Hylands outlined how the company plans to move Bandeira from engineering into construction.

The company's financial position has improved materially. Lithium...

Interview with Troy Boisjoli, CEO of ATHA Energy Corp.

Our previous interview: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/posts/atha-energy-tsxvsask-rib-north-breakthrough-confirms-continuity-q4-catalysts-underway-11857

Recording date: 7th October 2026

ATHA Energy Corp. (TSXV:SASK) is a Canadian uranium explorer whose flagship is the 100%-owned Angilak Uranium Project in Nunavut's Angikuni Basin. The company also holds a large exploration portfolio in the Athabasca Basin and Labrador's Central Mineral Belt, along with 10% carried interests in parts of the NexGen Energy and IsoEnergy exploration land.

The 2026 programme at Angilak focused on the Mineralized RIB Corridor (MRC), discovered in 2025. Its goal...

Interview with Chris Stevens, CEO of Coda Minerals

Our previous interview: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/posts/coda-minerals-asxcod-fully-funded-pfs-continuous-drilling-set-up-big-2026-8680

Recording date: 6th October 2026

Coda Minerals (ASX:COD) is developing the Elizabeth Creek copper-silver project in South Australia, about seven hours north of Adelaide and 40km west of BHP's Carrapateena mine. The project hosts a JORC resource of 65.5Mt at 1.6% CuEq, containing more than 700,000t of copper and 28 million ounces of silver across the Windabout and MG14 open pits and the Emmie Bluff underground deposit at about 400m depth.

The company is just...

Interview with Sorin Posescu, President & CEO of Valhalla Metals

Recording date: 6th October 2026

Valhalla Metals Inc. (TSXV:VMXX, OTCQB:VMXXF) is a copper-focused explorer with two polymetallic VMS projects in Alaska's Ambler Mining District. The district hosts Arctic, the Ambler Metals deposit owned 50/50 by Trilogy Metals and South32, which carries probable reserves of 46.7 million tonnes at 3.7% CuEq. Valhalla's chairman, Rick Van Nieuwenhuyse, founded Trilogy. Several team members worked on Arctic before joining Valhalla.

The flagship Sun Project hosts an NI 43-101 resource with an effective date of October 1, 2021. Indicated resources total 1.71 million tonnes...

Interview with Marc Blythe, Founder, President & CEO of Au Gold Corp.

Recording date: 6th October 2026

Au Gold Corp (TSXV:AUGC) is a Vancouver-based junior explorer focused on the Havelock Gold-Antimony Project near Maryborough in Victoria, Australia. The company acquired the 11,663-hectare project in early 2026 after Founder and CEO Marc Blythe, a mining engineer and due diligence consultant, identified it while searching digitised historical records for overlooked Victorian prospects.

The investment case is built on geology that has already created significant value elsewhere in the state. Fosterville, Costerfield and Sunday Creek are epizonal gold-antimony...

Interview with Ross McElroy, Director & CEO of F3 Uranium

Our previous interview: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/posts/f3-uranium-tsxvfuu-the-discovery-that-rewrote-uranium-exploration-rules-10839

Recording date: 4th October 2026

F3 Uranium Corp. (TSXV:FUU) has reorganised its leadership around a team that has worked together for two decades. Ross McElroy, a geologist with almost 40 years in uranium and a co-founder of Fission Uranium, is now Chief Executive Officer. Dev Randhawa becomes Executive Chairman and steps back from day-to-day management to focus on networking and promoting the company. Raymond Ashley, F3's original exploration manager and later President, now concentrates...

Recording date: 3rd October 2026

Olive Resource Capital distils two weeks on the autumn conference circuit into a clear message. The gold sector has moved past exuberance into a more disciplined phase. Producers have the cash to buy, but genuine bargains are harder to find.

Samuel Pelaez, Olive's President, CEO and CIO, said attendance at the Precious Metals Summit in Beaver Creek matched or exceeded last year's, with meeting rooms spilling into tents. The mood was optimistic but more measured than in 2025, when Hemlo's roughly $1 billion raise exemplified the market's appetite. Executive Chairman Derek Macpherson, who...

Interview with Daniel Henao, CEO of Mineros S.A.

Our previous interview: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/posts/mineros-sa-tsxmsa-undervalued-investment-series-with-daniel-henao-10231

Recording date: 29th September 2026

Mineros S.A. (TSX:MSA) is a gold producer with more than 50 years of operating history in Latin America. It is listed in Colombia, on the TSX and on the OTCQX. For most of its life it was largely unknown to North American and European investors. That began to change after its 2021 TSX listing and, more decisively, after Sun Valley Investments became controlling shareholder in 2025 and installed new management. CEO Daniel...

Interview with Paul Chawrun, COO of i-80 Gold Corp.

Our previous interview: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/posts/i-80-gold-tsxiau-capital-raised-construction-underway-to-gold-production-by-2027-9498

Recording date: 29th September 2026

i-80 Gold Corp. (TSX:IAU) is a Nevada-focused gold developer and producer that aims to become a mid-tier producer through a hub-and-spoke model. Three underground mines and, later, a large open pit oxide project are planned to support a central processing facility at Lone Tree. Chief Operating Officer Paul Chawrun said the company has spent the past year turning a plan the market saw as complex into a series...

Interview with Lon Shaver, President of Silvercorp Metals Inc.

Our previous interview: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/posts/silvercorp-metals-tsxsvm-undervalued-investment-series-with-lon-shaver-10671

Recording date: 29th September 2026

Silvercorp Metals Inc. (TSX:SVM, NYSE American:SVM) has spent years as a profitable silver producer in China whose valuation reflected the market's discomfort with single-jurisdiction exposure. That is changing. The company is now building two mines outside China, and President Lon Shaver believes the resulting multi-jurisdictional profile can change how investors view the business.

A fatal accident at a coal mine elsewhere in China prompted a national safety...

Interview with Andrew Cox, President & CEO of Rio2 Ltd.

Our previous interview: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/posts/growth-stories-winning-teams-that-know-how-to-find-gold-get-it-out-of-the-ground-9290

Recording date: 28th September 2026

Rio2 Limited (TSX:RIO) has made the leap from developer to dual-asset producer in 2026. It brought its Fenix Gold Mine in Chile's Atacama region into production and acquired the Condestable copper-gold underground mine in Peru in February. The transition has not been smooth. President and CEO Andrew Cox detailed how two exceptional winter storms disrupted Fenix during its ramp-up year.

Fenix is a high-altitude heap leach operation designed to...

Interview with Peter Wilson Tagliamonte, CEO of QGold Resources

Recording date: 29th September 2026

Q-Gold Resources Ltd. (TSXV:QGR, OTCQB:QGLDF) is a junior gold developer whose principal asset is the Quartz Mountain Gold Project in eastern Oregon. The company acquired the project from Alamos Gold, which held it for more than a decade without advancing it to a mining study. Alamos now holds 10% of QGold. According to CEO Peter Tagliamonte, the deal includes annual anniversary payments of around C$4 million.

The resource stands at 2.01 million ounces Indicated and 494,000 ounces Inferred. In April 2026, QGold...

Interview with David Rhodes, Executive Chairman of Empress Royalty Corp.

Our previous interview: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/posts/empress-royalty-tsxvempr-cash-flow-positive-streamer-hits-8m-revenue-eyes-16m-in-2025-6809

Recording date: 29th September 2026

Empress Royalty Corp. (TSXV:EMPR) is a precious metals royalty and streaming company with four producing interests in Mexico, Peru, South Africa and Mozambique. It has agreed its largest deal to date, a US$62 million gold stream on the Tongon mine in Côte d'Ivoire. The transaction had not closed at the time of the interview and remains subject to confirmatory due diligence, lender requirements and several a...

Interview with Jon Deluce, President & CEO of Abitibi Metals

Our previous interview: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/posts/abitibi-metals-cseamq-all-known-questions-answered-june-2026-10851

Recording date: 29th September 2026

Abitibi Metals (CSE:AMQ) is a Québec-focused copper developer whose flagship asset is the B26 polymetallic VMS deposit, located near the former Selbaie mine in the Abitibi region. The deposit hosts just over 25 million tonnes, split between 12.96 million tonnes Indicated at 2.08% CuEq and 12.34 million tonnes Inferred at 2.20% CuEq.

B26 was explored for about 25 years by SOQUEM, the Québec government's exploration subsidiary, which spent more than $30 million de...

Interview with Niël Pretorius, CEO, DRDGOLD Limited

Our previous interview: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/posts/drdgold-limited-nysedrd-leadership-transition-as-r8-billion-growth-plan-accelerates-8543

Recording date: 28th September 2026

DRDGOLD Limited (JSE:DRD, NYSE:DRD) offers investors a gold producer whose recent results show how powerfully a higher gold price can flow through a low-grade, high-volume business. In the year to 30 June 2026, production was essentially unchanged at 4,839kg, roughly 155,600 ounces. Throughput slipped 2% to 25.1 million tonnes. However, the average Rand gold price received rose 40%, and that drove revenue up 42% to R11.16 billion. Operating profit rose 83% to R6.45 billion, and headline earnings c...

Interview with Joseph Ovsenek, President & CEO of P2 Gold Inc.

Our previous interview: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/posts/made-in-america-p2-gold-tsxvpgld-visiting-the-gabbs-project-10967

Recording date: 28th September 2026

P2 Gold Inc. (TSXV:PGLD, OTCQB:PGLDF) is advancing the 100%-owned Gabbs gold-copper project on Nevada's Walker Lane Trend towards a feasibility study in the first quarter of 2027. The headline development is scale. Drilling since October 2025 has returned more mineralisation than anticipated, particularly sulphide material at the Lucky Strike zone, where a higher-grade corridor remains open in all directions. As a result, the company has lifted its feasibility study...

Interview with Chris Beer, Interim President & CEO of ATEX Resources

Our previous interview: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/posts/atex-resources-tsxvatx-2-billion-ton-copper-with-near-term-development-9780

Recording date: 28th September 2026

ATEX Resources (TSX:ATX) is advancing the Valeriano copper-gold project in Chile's Atacama region, one of the larger undeveloped porphyry systems in the Americas. The 2025 Mineral Resource Estimate outlines 475 million tonnes of Indicated resource at 0.88% CuEq and 1.51 billion tonnes of Inferred resource at 0.75% CuEq. Together these contain about 34 billion pounds of CuEq and 14.2 million ounces of gold. Metallurgical testing to date indicates high copper recoveries and no deleterious elements...

Interview with Spencer Cole, President & CIO, Vox Royalty

Our previous interview: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/posts/vox-royalty-corp-tsxvoxr-undervalued-investment-series-with-kyle-floyd-10631

Recording date: 28th September 2026

Vox Royalty (NASDAQ:VOXR, TSX:VOXR) is a returns-focused royalty and streaming company with more than 70 royalties and streams, weighted heavily towards gold and Australian jurisdictions. President and Chief Investment Officer Spencer Cole set out a business that is scaling quickly while holding to the capital discipline that has defined it.

The financial trajectory is the starting point. Vox posted record first-quarter 2026 receipts of $16.0 million, nearly matching its full-year 2025 total...

Interview with Darren Bowden, CEO of Metals Exploration

Our previous interview: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/posts/metals-exploration-lsemtl-advances-nicaragua-build-as-philippine-copper-gold-optionality-emerges-10936

Recording date: 28th September 2026

Metals Exploration plc (AIM:MTL) is an AIM-listed gold producer with operations in the Philippines and a new mine under construction in Nicaragua. Its investment case rests on a transition now under way. Runruno, the company's Philippine gold mine, is nearing the end of its life but is generating enough cash to fund La India, a larger, longer-life gold project in Nicaragua's section of the Central American gold belt.

CEO...

Interview with George Bee, President & CEO of U.S. Gold Corp. 

Our previous interview: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/posts/us-gold-corp-nasdaqusau-advances-ck-gold-build-and-keystone-spin-out-12054

Recording date: 28th September 2026

U.S. Gold Corp. (NASDAQ:USAU) is a NASDAQ-listed developer whose flagship asset, the CK Gold Project in southeast Wyoming, is fully permitted and advancing towards a construction decision. In an interview at the Denver Gold Forum, President and CEO George Bee outlined how the company intends to convert that position into value, either by building the mine itself or through a transaction.

CK Gold is a 20,000 t...

Interview with Alan Carter, President & CEO of Cabral Gold Inc.

Our previous interview: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/posts/cabral-gold-tsxvcbr-first-gold-pour-in-cui-cui-beats-expectations-11867

Recording date: 28th September 2026

Cabral Gold Inc. (TSXV:CBR) has become Brazil's newest gold producer. On 30 September 2026 the company announced the completion of its first doré sale from the 100%-owned Cuiú Cuiú Gold District in Pará State. More than 2,400 ounces were sold at an average net realised price above US$4,200 per ounce. The sale confirms that the full operating chain, from mining and processing to doré shipment and sale, is in place.

The P...

Interview with Nic Earner, Managing Director of Alkane Resources Ltd.

Our previous interview: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/posts/alkane-resources-asxalk-record-quarterly-cashflow-with-multiple-growth-pathways-9499

Recording date: 27th September 2026

Alkane Resources (ASX:ALK, TSX:ALK, OTCQX:ALKRY) is a mid-tier gold and antimony producer with three operating mines: Tomingley in New South Wales, Costerfield in Victoria and Björkdal in northern Sweden. It also owns the large Boda-Kaiser copper-gold project in New South Wales. The company produced about 169,000 AuEq ounces in FY2026 and guides to 163,000 to 177,000 ounces in FY2027.

The headline production figure understates the change in t...

Interview with David Rae, President & CEO of DPM Metals

Our previous interview: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/posts/dundee-precious-metals-tsxdpm-low-cost-gold-producer-with-promising-growing-project-in-serbia-5975

Recording date: 27th September 2026

DPM Metals Inc. (TSX:DPM, ASX:DPM) is a gold, silver and copper producer with operations in Bulgaria and Bosnia and Herzegovina and development projects in Serbia. Over the past two years the company has narrowed its focus to core precious and base metals production in the Balkans, where it has operated for more than two decades.

The first element of the investment case is operating consistency. DPM has...

Interview with Rick Van Nieuwenhuyse, CEO of Contango Silver & Gold

Recording date: 27th September 2026

Contango Silver & Gold (NYSE American:CTGO, TSX:CTGO) is a North American gold producer that wants to become a mid-tier gold and silver producer without heavy shareholder dilution. Its funding comes from a 30% interest in the Manh Choh gold mine in Alaska. Kinross Gold holds the other 70% and operates the mine. Ore from Manh Choh travels about 240 miles by road to Kinross's Fort Knox mill. Contango does not operate anything, and it receives quarterly distributions that are net of all costs.<...

Interview with Ken Armstrong, CEO of Westhaven Gold, & Jonathan Goodman, CEO of Dundee Corporation

Recording date: 24th September 2026

Westhaven Gold Corp. is advancing the Shovelnose gold-silver project in southern British Columbia. It has moved from an exploration-led junior into a funded development company. The turning point was the February 2026 closing of a project-level earn-in agreement with Dundee Corporation (TSX:DC.A). Under the agreement, Dundee can earn up to 60% of Westhaven's four Spences Bridge Gold Belt properties by spending up to C$85 million, with a firm minimum commitment of C$30 million.

The core...

Interview with Shawn Howarth, President & CEO of Excellon Resources

Our previous interview: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/posts/excellon-resources-exn-focus-is-silver-with-gold-optionality-795

Recording date: 25th September 2026

Excellon Resources Inc. (TSXV:EXN) has rebuilt itself around a single near-term producing asset. After exiting its Mexican silver operations in 2022-2023, the company acquired the Mallay silver-lead-zinc mine in central Peru from Buenaventura, closing the deal in 2025. Mallay was built in 2012 and run as a narrow-vein, high-grade underground mine until 2018, when it became non-core to its previous owner.

The attraction was infrastructure and permits. Mallay came with state...

Interview with Chad Peters, President and CEO, Ridgeline Minerals 

Our previous interview: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/posts/ridgeline-minerals-tsxvrdg-ngm-sale-funds-next-wave-of-nevada-exploration-11410

Recording date: 25th September 2026

Ridgeline Minerals (TSXV:RDG | OTC:RDGMF) is a Nevada-focused precious and base metals explorer. It has spent the past five years running a hybrid prospect generator model. Under that approach, major partners fund high-risk exploration while Ridgeline keeps interests carried through to production. In August 2026, the model produced its largest result so far. Ridgeline closed an all-cash sale of four early-stage gold projects (Swift, Black Ridge, Bell Creek and Atlas) to N...

Interview with Janet Lee Sheriff, Director & CEO of Verdera Energy

Our previous interview: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/posts/verdera-energy-tsxvv-high-grade-resource-in-new-mexico-positioned-for-us-uranium-growth-10515

Recording date: 25th September 2026

Verdera Energy Corp. (TSXV:V, OTCQB:VUECF) is a New Mexico-focused uranium developer built around in-situ recovery (ISR), the extraction method behind roughly 60% of global uranium output. The company holds private mineral rights over approximately 400 square miles of the Grants Uranium District, historically one of the world's most productive uranium regions and once a leading source of U.S. supply.

The portfolio spans four core projects. Crownpoint and...

Interview with Max Porterfield, CEO, Visionary Copper & Gold Mines

Our previous interview: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/posts/visionary-copper-gold-tsxvvcg-20000m-drill-program-targets-resource-growth-in-newfoundland-10814

Recording date: 25th September 2026

Visionary Copper & Gold Mines Inc. (TSXV:VCG, OTCQB:VCGMF) is advancing Pt. Leamington, a 100%-owned gold-copper-zinc-silver VMS deposit in central Newfoundland. The deposit was discovered by Noranda in the 1970s but saw no exploration between 2004 and Visionary's Phase 1 programme in 2026. Its 2021 NI 43-101 resource contains 5.0 Mt of Indicated resources at 1.42% CuEq and 15.4 Mt of Inferred resources at 1.32% CuEq. The pit-constrained portion hosts roughly 500,000 ounces of gold, 170 Mlb of copper and...

Interview with Arturo Préstamo Elizondo, Executive Chairman & CEO of Santacruz Silver Mining Ltd.

Our previous interview: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/posts/santacruz-silver-tsxvscz-bolivar-recovery-and-tsx-uplisting-drive-2026-growth-strategy-10585

Recording date: 24th September 2026

Santacruz Silver Mining Ltd. (TSX:SCZ, NASDAQ:SCZM) is a multi-asset silver and zinc producer with four producing mines in Bolivia and Mexico, an ore feed sourcing business and a development asset. Higher silver prices have transformed its financial profile. The company realised an average of $76.33 per silver ounce sold in the first half of 2026, more than double the prior-year figure. First-half revenue rose 68% to $241.0 m...

Interview with Dan Barnholden, CEO, Luca Mining

Our previous interview: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/posts/luca-mining-tsxvluca-three-pillar-growth-plan-targets-200k-ounce-gold-equivalent-production-8374

Recording date: 25th September 2026

Luca Mining Corp. (TSXV:LUCA, OTCQX:LUCMF) is a Mexico-focused polymetallic producer with two operating mines, Campo Morado in Guerrero and Tahuehueto in Durango. In September 2026, the company announced two acquisitions designed to reshape its scale and commodity mix. The larger of the two is the proposed purchase of the Cozamin underground copper mine in Zacatecas from Capstone Copper Corp. (TSX:CS).

Luca has signed a definitive agreement to pay...

Interview with enCore Energy Executive Chair William Sheriff 

Our previous interview: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/posts/encore-energy-nasdaqeu-founder-transition-isr-growth-verdera-upside-9413

Recording date: 25th September 2026

enCore Energy Corp. (NASDAQ:EU, TSXV:EU) is a US in-situ recovery (ISR) uranium producer with two operating central processing plants in South Texas: Alta Mesa, a 70/30 joint venture with Boss Energy, and Rosita. It also has development projects in South Dakota and Wyoming. In an interview with Crux Investor, founder and Executive Chair William Sheriff set out where the company stands after a difficult 2026 and what investors should watch next.

Interview with Tara Christie, President & CEO of Banyan Gold Corp.

Our previous interview: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/posts/banyan-gold-tsxvbyn-undervalued-investment-series-with-tara-christie-9788

Recording date: 24th September 2026

Banyan Gold Corp. (TSXV:BYN) is moving from exploration into development at its AurMac gold project in the Yukon. The project hosts a pit-constrained resource of 3.64 million ounces Indicated at 0.68 g/t and 4.98 million ounces Inferred at 0.58 g/t. It benefits from an unusual level of existing infrastructure for a northern Canadian project, including all-season road access, a grid-connected power line and cell phone coverage. A maiden PEA is due...

Interview with Colin Joudrie, CEO, Selkirk Copper

Our previous interview: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/posts/selkirk-copper-tsxvscmi-doubles-mineral-resource-estimate-minto-to-restart-by-2028-11683

Recording date: 24th September 2026

Selkirk Copper Mines Inc. (TSXV:SCMI) is advancing the restart of Minto, a copper-gold-silver mine in central Yukon that produced concentrate from 2007 until May 2023. After the previous operator's receivership, the Selkirk First Nation acquired the asset and vended it into Selkirk Copper through a reverse takeover. The First Nation is now the largest shareholder, with around 18% and two board seats.

The September 2026 Preliminary Economic Assessment outlines a 13-year mine life...

Interview with Stephen Soock, VP Investor Relations & Development of Heliostar Metals

Our previous interview: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/posts/heliostar-metals-tsxvhstr-emerging-gold-producer-targets-300k-oz-by-2030-with-strong-cash-flow-10415

Recording date: 24th September 2026

Heliostar Metals (TSXV:HSTR, OTCQX:HSTXF) is a Mexico-focused gold producer attempting to move from roughly 50,000 ounces a year towards 300,000 ounces by the end of the decade without issuing new equity. The strategy rests on sequencing. Two producing heap leach mines, La Colorada in Sonora and San Agustin in Durango, generate cash that is being directed into the Ana Paula underground project in Guerrero. Ana Paula's cash...

Interview with Victor Cantore, President & CEO of Amex Gold Mining

Our previous interview: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/posts/amex-exploration-tsxvamx-quebec-gold-project-posts-standout-feasibility-results-9879

Recording date: 24th Sept 2026

Amex Gold Mining (TSXV:AMX) is pursuing an unusual development model at its Perron Gold Project, located about 8 kilometres from Normétal in Quebec's Abitibi region. Instead of waiting for full Phase 1 permitting and a traditional construction financing, the company has begun a fully permitted 40,000-tonne bulk sample and is building it to the specification of the eventual mine.

Underground, the ramp has passed roughly 100 metres and is a...

Interview with Patrick Cruickshank, Director & CEO of Nine Mile Metals

Our previous interview: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/posts/nine-mile-metals-csenine-234m-of-visual-copper-and-a-horizon-never-seen-in-historic-records-10758

Recording date: 24th September 2026

Nine Mile Metals Ltd. (CSE:NINE) is a Canadian junior explorer focused on copper-rich volcanogenic massive sulphide deposits in the Bathurst Mining Camp of New Brunswick. Its lead asset is the Wedge, a deposit that Cominco mined in the 1960s. According to the company's presentation, historic production was approximately 1.5 million tonnes at 2.88% copper.

The company is midway through a 10,000-metre Phase 3 programme, its largest to date. CEO...

Interview with Keith Boyle, Director & CEO of New Found Gold

Our previous interview: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/posts/new-found-gold-tsx-nfgc-commercial-production-at-hammerdown-11907

Recording date: 23rd Sept 2026

New Found Gold Corp. (TSX / NYSE American: NFGC) has declared commercial production at its Hammerdown Gold Mine in Newfoundland. The milestone was achieved on August 19, 2026, after 60 consecutive days in which throughput, recovery and feed grade all cleared pre-set thresholds. Average throughput was about 748 tonnes per day, recovery was 87.7% and feed grade was 2.92 grams of gold per tonne. Hammerdown produced 9,140 ounces in the first eight months of 2026.

Chief Executive...