Company Interviews

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

Our previous interview: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/posts/new-found-gold-tsxnfgc-q3-hammerdown-production-results-12342

Recording date: 23rd October 2026

New Found Gold Corp. (TSX / NYSE-A: NFGC) has released a revised Preliminary Economic Assessment and updated Mineral Resource Estimate for its 100%-owned Queensway Gold Project in central Newfoundland. At a base case gold price of US$3,600/oz, the study gives an after-tax NPV5% of C$1.728 billion, an after-tax IRR of 126% and payback in under one year. The mine plan outlines 1.744 million ounces of gold over a 15-year phased open...

Interview with Rudi Deysel, Managing Director & CEO of West Wits Mining

Our previous interview: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/posts/west-wits-mining-asxwwi-qala-shallows-breakthrough-drives-70000-oz-target-gold-production-10547

Recording date: 22nd October 2026

West Wits Mining (ASX:WWI) has moved from developer to producer at its Qala Shallows gold project on Johannesburg's Witwatersrand Goldfield. First gold was poured in March 2026, and the company is now ramping towards a steady state of 70,000 ounces per annum. CEO and Managing Director Rudi Deysel argues that the market has not caught up with this progress, and that the share price reflects a valuation gap rather...

Interview with Charles C. Downie, President & CEO of Eagle Plains Resources

Our previous interview: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/posts/eagle-plains-resources-tsxvepl-five-revenue-streams-29-projects-advancing-in-2026-9412

Recording date: 22nd October 2026

Eagle Plains Resources (TSXV:EPL) is a project generator based in Cranbrook, British Columbia, with more than 30 years of listing history and no share consolidations. Its model is to stake or acquire projects, complete early work with its own cash and then option projects to partners who fund drilling. Under a typical deal, the partner earns 80% and Eagle Plains keeps 20%, plus a royalty.

What separates...

Recording date: 21st October 2026

Olive Resource Capital (TSXV:OC) used this Compass episode to share how its leadership assesses mining projects on the ground. Executive Chairman Derek Macpherson spoke from Georgetown after visiting Omai Gold Mines (TSXV:OMG) in Guyana, while President, CEO and Chief Investment Officer Samuel Pelaez spoke from central Uruguay near the projects of Sun Valley Minerals. Both companies are among Olive's largest investments, and both executives are directors of the company they visited.

The framework starts with access. Investors should ask how a site is reached, whether existing roads and power...

Interview with Rupert Verco, Managing Director and CEO, Cobra Resources 

Our previous interview: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/posts/cobra-resources-lsecobr-two-new-zones-widen-manna-hill-copper-footprint-in-south-australia-12288

Recording date: 22nd September 2026

Cobra Resources plc (LSE:COBR) has moved its Manna Hill Copper Project in South Australia from visual indications to laboratory-confirmed discoveries. The first assays from its slim-line RC programme confirm copper across three targets, and they add the most direct evidence yet for a porphyry system beneath the known Blue Rose skarn.

The headline result came from Blue Rose West. Drillhole MHRC0029 returned 32m at 0.70% Cu and 0.07 g/T...

Interview with J.W. Dumont, President of Granada Gold Mine 

Recording date: 21st October 2026

Granada Gold Mine Inc. (TSXV:GGM) owns the past-producing Granada Gold Project near Rouyn-Noranda, Québec, alongside the Cadillac Break in the Abitibi gold belt. The property produced over 51,400 ounces from two shafts between 1930 and 1935 and was worked again by open pit in the 1990s. Despite this history and a large resource, the company has a market capitalisation of C$7.95 million and has struggled to carry its strategies through to completion.

J.W. Dumont was appointed President on September 2026. He...

Interview with Heye Daun, President & CEO of Koryx Copper

Our previous interview: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/posts/koryx-copper-tsxvkry-namibias-giant-copper-deposit-gets-a-major-upgrade-10548

Recording date: 20th October 2026

Koryx Copper S.A. (TSXV:KRY) is approaching the most important milestone in its turnaround of the Haib Copper Project in southern Namibia. President & CEO Heye Daun told Crux Investor during LME Week in London that the Pre-Feasibility Study will be published before the end of November 2026. He expects the results to be substantially better than the September 2025 PEA.

Haib is a large Paleoproterozoic porphyry deposit with copper, molybdenum...

Interview with Peter Bures, Chairman & CEO, and Michael Gentile, Strategic Advisor, of Silver Crown Royalties

Recording date: 18th October 2026

Silver Crown Royalties (CBOE:SCRI | OTCQX:SLCRF) is a silver-only royalty company built around byproduct silver that does not appear in resource or reserve statements. Many gold and copper mines produce modest silver volumes. Operators are paid for that silver at the refinery but have never reported it, often because the mines predate post-Bre-X disclosure standards or because the amounts are too small to justify qualified-person sign-off. Without a reported resource, no royalty can be bought...

Interview with Jeremy Crozier, COO of Leviathan Metals

Recording date: 18th October 2026

Leviathan Metals Corp. (TSXV:LVX) offers early-stage exposure to one of the more geologically predictable copper districts in Africa. Its 100%-owned Central Project sits on Botswana's Kalahari Copper Belt and shares a property boundary with MMG Limited's Khoemacau operations. Chief Operations Officer Jeremy Crozier said MMG acquired Khoemacau for $1.9 billion about two years ago and has since invested a further $900 million to double throughput. Those figures, as Crozier described them, frame the scale of the neighbouring system.

The company's case rests...

Interview with Bart Jaworski, CEO and Co-founder of Group Eleven Resources Corp.

Our previous interview: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/posts/group-eleven-resources-tsxvzng-ballywire-strike-extends-17-12307

Recording date: 18th October 2026

Group Eleven Resources Corp. (TSXV:ZNG) is exploring the Ballywire discovery in Ireland, next to Glencore’s ground and its Pallas Green zinc deposit. Ahead of Michael Gentile’s European investor roadshow, co-founder and CEO Bart Jaworski explained how the project’s investment case has shifted since the discovery hole in September 2022.

A hole cut 10.8 m grading 10.0% Zn+Pb and 109 g/t Ag and drilling since...

Interview with Brian Miller, Director & CEO of Astra Exploration

Our previous interview: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/posts/astra-exploration-tsxvastr-largest-drill-plan-tests-district-scale-at-la-manchuria-12013

Recording date: 18th October 2026

Astra Exploration Inc. (TSXV:ASTR) is a gold-silver explorer focused on Argentina and Chile. Its flagship is the La Manchuria project in Santa Cruz province, within Argentina's Deseado Massif. The company is preparing to start its largest drill campaign to date, and CEO and co-founder Brian Miller set out the investment case at Michael Gentile's European roadshow.

La Manchuria hosts two styles of mineralisation. A bulk disseminated system begins...

Interview with Michael Gentile, Strategic Investor & Robert Hinchcliffe, President & CEO OF  Galway Metals

Recording date: 18th October 2026

Galway Metals Inc. (TSXV:GWM) has closed a $14 million brokered flow-through financing led by strategic mining investor Michael Gentile. Gentile acquired 17,150,000 units and now holds approximately 10.94% of the company, rising to about 19.72% if his warrants are exercised. He has agreed to a 12-month lock-up. The proceeds are earmarked for exploration at the Clarence Stream gold project in southwest New Brunswick and must be spent by the end of 2027.

Clarence Stream hosts 1.42 million ounces Indicated at 1.62 g/t...

Interview with Mark Trevisiol, President & CEO of McFarlane Lake Mining

Recording date: 18 October 2026

McFarlane Lake Mining (CSE:MLM) is a Canadian gold explorer advancing the Juby Gold Project near Gowganda in Ontario's southern Abitibi Greenstone Belt. The district has produced more than 200 million ounces of gold over the past century and hosts major operations nearby, including IAMGOLD's Côté Gold to the west. The August 2026 Mineral Resource Estimate, prepared by BBA E&C Inc. at a US$3,600/oz gold price, contains 1.07 Moz Indicated at 0.96 g/t and 5.09 Moz Inferred at 0.87 g/t.

The co...

Interview with Brian McClay, President & CEO of Golden Pursuit Resources

Recording date: 16th October 2026

Golden Pursuit Resources (TSXV:GDP) is a junior gold explorer focused on the Gordon Lake district in the Northwest Territories. The company has done something previous operators never managed. It has consolidated a historically fragmented district under single, 100% ownership. President Brian McClay describes a package roughly 41 km long, hosting six historic mines and around 10 deposits. The ground carries no royalties, and the company has no third-party debt.

The investment case rests on a simple change in economics. Gordon Lake...

Recording date: 13th October 2026

SSR Mining has agreed to acquire Roxmore Resources for C$6.75 per share in cash, plus shares in a new exploration SpinCo that will hold Roxmore’s other properties and US$10 million in cash. The cash consideration values Roxmore’s equity at roughly US$464 million. The transaction remains subject to approval by at least two-thirds of votes cast by Roxmore securityholders and by the court, with completion expected in Q4 2026.

The prize is the Converse gold project in Nevada, which holds roughly 5.2 million ounces across indicated and inferred categories at an average grad...

Interview with Dr. Rebecca Hunter, President & CEO of Geiger Energy

Our previous interview: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/posts/geiger-energy-tsxvbeep-targets-district-scale-uranium-discovery-in-canadas-thelon-basin-9519

Recording date: 15th October 2026

Geiger Energy Corp. (TSXV:BEEP) is a uranium explorer focused on the Aberdeen Project in Nunavut’s Thelon Basin. The basin shares the geological ingredients of Saskatchewan’s Athabasca Basin but has been far less explored. Geiger’s 2026 season produced two grassroots discoveries that give the company its strongest technical case to date.

Both discoveries sit on the Andrew Lake Fault, a northeast-trending structure that runs through Orano’s Kiggav...

Interview with Alex Walker, Director & CEO of East Star Resources PLC

Our previous interview: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/posts/east-star-resources-lseest-secures-2nd-copper-jv-agreement-with-rulikha-project-in-kazakhstan-11740

Recording date: 14th October 2026

East Star Resources (LSE:EST) is a London-listed copper and gold explorer in Kazakhstan. Its main appeal is the deal structure, not any single deposit. CEO Alex Walker has put partners in place who fund the most expensive and dilutive stages of mine development. East Star keeps a fixed share of each project in return.

The most advanced asset is Verkhuba, a JORC inferred resource of 20.3...

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

Our previous interview: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/posts/new-found-gold-tsxnfgc-producing-now-pine-cove-the-critical-path-12056

Recording date: 13th October 2026

New Found Gold Corp. (TSX: NFGC | NYSE-A: NFGC) has reported preliminary third quarter 2026 results from its Hammerdown Gold Mine in Newfoundland and Labrador, the first quarterly figures since the mine declared commercial production on August 19, 2026. Hammerdown produced 4,863 ounces of gold and sold 6,035 ounces at an average realized price of US$4,310 per ounce. Mill feed grade averaged 2.76 g/t and recovery 85%.

The results sit just below the quarterly equivalent...

Interview with Dan James, CEO of Prospective Resources

Recording date: 13th October 2026

Prospectiva Resources (TSXV:PSVA) is a newly listed, Brazil-focused copper-gold explorer whose investment case centres on a single question: can a historically drilled copper discovery be reframed and expanded into a commercially relevant VMS deposit within roughly 18 months?

The asset is the São Francisco Copper-Gold Project in the Borborema Province of northeastern Brazil. Yamana Gold discovered it in 2019 from an outcropping rock-chip sample of about 5% copper and followed up with thousands of rock and soil samples, 5,900 metres of diamond drilling a...

Recording date: 8th October 2026

September exposed a widening gap between commodity prices and resource equities. Most commodities rose over the month, yet every major resource-linked equity index fell. In this Compass episode, Samuel Pelaez and Derek Macpherson of Olive Resource Capital (TSXV:OC) argue that this dislocation stems from macro forces rather than deteriorating fundamentals, and that it is creating entry points in high-quality, liquid producers.

The macro pressures are significant. Fed Chair Kevin Warsh signalled a renewed focus on inflation at Jackson Hole, and the September rate hike was followed by markets pricing in...

Interview with Bart Jaworski, CEO of Group Eleven Resources

Our previous interview: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/posts/group-eleven-resources-tsxvzng-ballywire-germanium-grades-jump-on-new-assays-11918

Recording date: 13th October 2026

Group Eleven Resources has added 270 metres to the 1,600-metre high-grade strike at its Ballywire discovery in Ireland, a 17% increase. The step-out hole, the first on a new drill fence, returned nearly 6.5 metres of 7.9% zinc-lead and 14 g/t silver. That included close to 3 metres of 11% zinc-lead and a 1-metre core grading 22% with nearly an ounce of silver. Copper-silver mineralisation also appeared beneath the zinc horizon. Ballywire sits about 20 kilometres from Glencore’s Pa...

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...