In December 2024, China pulled a lever that exposed one of America’s most dangerous supply chain vulnerabilities—and almost no one noticed.

Antimony, a critical metal essential for ammunition, batteries, flame retardants, and defense systems, suddenly became restricted. The United States produces none domestically and depends almost entirely on foreign supply. Overnight, a forgotten industrial mineral became a national security priority.

In this episode, Dusty Nugget breaks down how antimony went from obscurity to strategic necessity—and why the scramble to rebuild Western supply chains is creating one of the most asymmetric investment opportunities in the junior mining sector.

You’ll learn:

• Why antimony is irreplaceable in defense, energy storage, and industrial safety

This episode explores the geology, metallurgy, and geopolitics behind one of the most important critical mineral stories unfolding today.

Because in mining, the biggest fortunes aren’t built on hype—they’re built on timing, scarcity, and necessity.

See the full report: https://juniormining.gold/50-antimony-alaska-felix-gold-fxg-military-supply-2026 

If you want to understand why junior mines live or die by judgment, not headlines, this episode is a must-listen.

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Across mining cycles, the most explosive value creation occurs not at discovery—but at the moment a project crosses the threshold into production. This is the inflection point when geological promise becomes industrial reality. The following eleven companies represent that exact transition: fully permitted or near-permitted projects, with feasibility-defined economics, secured infrastructure pathways, and credible timelines to first production between 2026 and 2029.

Taken together, they form a new generation of producers spanning gold, copper, uranium, lithium, and rare earths—the backbone commodities of both the traditional and electrified global economy.

Each tells a different story, but structurally, they share the same arc: stranded asset → technical validation → capital formation → production ramp → cash flow compounding.

00:00 The Elite 11 - Emerging Producers from 2026-2029 - Episode 7

See the full report: https://juniormininggold.substack.com/p/the-elite-11-juniormininggold-emerging 

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Copper is becoming the quiet choke point of the modern economy.

Electric vehicles, renewable grids, AI data centers, and defense systems are all converging on one metal—and the world isn’t producing it fast enough. New mines take decades to permit. Ore grades are falling. Processing is concentrated in China. Recycling and substitution can’t close the gap.

In this episode, we break down why copper has shifted from a cyclical industrial input into a strategic asset, how structural supply constraints are colliding with explosive demand, and why the late 2020s and early 2030s may define a new era of persistent shortages and volatility.

From EV infrastructure and hyperscale data centers to geopolitics in Chile, Peru, and the DRC, we unpack the forces reshaping the copper market—and what they mean for investors, policymakers, and the future of electrification.

If the 21st century runs on electricity, it runs on copper. This is the story of why it’s running short.

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In junior mining, most "failures" aren't bad rocks—they're mistimed assets crushed by debt and weak cycles. Dusty Nugget uncovers a fully permitted gold mill—8,000+ m² of infrastructure, proven flowsheet, expansion-ready to 1,800 tpd—that went bankrupt not because it couldn't produce, but because gold didn't cooperate... until 2025's explosive prices changed everything. A disciplined team spots the opportunity: no legacy debt, smart upgrades (filter presses, leach tanks, gravity concentrator), stockpiled ore for ramp-up, and projected cash flows of $55-59M annually at $4,500/oz gold.

https://juniormininggold.substack.com/p/assessment-of-lafleur-minerals-investment  

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Most investors obsess over drill results. The best outcomes in junior mining are decided long before the assays come back.

In this episode of JuniorMining.gold, host Dusty Nuggets breaks down the most mispriced factor in the junior resource sector: the exploration team itself. Not the press releases. Not the headline grades. The people making the decisions.

Dusty walks through two very different case studies—Golden Cariboo Resources in British Columbia and Total Metals Corp in Ontario—to show how experience, judgment, and pattern recognition shape outcomes over time. From rediscovering historic districts with modern discipline to assembling high-grade optionality in proven camps, this episode explores why some teams compound value while others quietly stall out.

Along the way, Dusty explains how JuniorMining.gold is applying AI-assisted volumetric and economic benchmarking to these projects, comparing them against real-world analogs in their districts. These assessments aren’t hype pieces—they’re decision tools—and the full reports will be available exclusively to subscribers.

Assessment 2: https://juniormininggold.substack.com/p/comprehensive-analysis-of-the-electrolode

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Everyone in gold investing thinks they know what the scarce asset is: ounces, grade, or jurisdiction. But since about 2018, the real bottleneck in North American gold has quietly shifted. It isn’t geology—it’s permission.

In this episode of Dusty Nuggets by JuniorMining.gold, we break down how gold mills in Canada and Alaska have become strategic infrastructure, much like power plants, data centers, ports, and rail hubs. As permitting timelines stretch, tailings approvals tighten, and capital intensity rises, control of processing capacity—not discoveries—has become the durable competitive advantage.

We explore why operating mills now function as regional hubs, how “hub-and-spoke” milling changes the economics of nearby deposits, and why brownfield restarts and staged expansions are winning over greenfield builds. Using real-world examples from Canadian Malartic, Detour Lake, Côté Gold, Fort Knox, Madsen, and Blackwater, the episode shows how infrastructure—not ounces—drives optionality.

Along the way, we introduce a framework for spotting false optionality early, explain how junior miners can create value without building their own mills, and reveal why certain districts never really die. The takeaway is simple but uncomfortable: in today’s gold market, ore is optional. Permits aren’t.

If you want to understand how gold quietly became an infrastructure business—and how to think differently about value, risk, and longevity in the sector—this episode is for you.

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In this episode of Junior Mining Gold, Dusty Nugget walks through a real-time investor decision: two junior miners he owns, two very different trajectories, and one hard question—if you could only back one structure (not one stock), which company survives the next five years?

Dusty breaks down XXIX Metal Corp, an Ore Group–incubated copper developer built around two past-producing, brownfield projects in Eastern Canada: Opemiska in Québec and Thierry in Ontario. He explains why brownfield assets reduce uncertainty, why geographic concentration matters, and why the company’s leadership transition—from founder Stephen Stewart to development-focused CEO Guy Le Bel—signals stage-appropriate execution as XXIX moves from exploration into development.

Then Dusty turns to BeMetals Corp, a globally ambitious explorer backed by major producer B2Gold, founded by B2Gold/Bema Gold veterans and supported by a strengthened balance sheet. He unpacks BeMetals’ portfolio—Pangeni copper in Zambia (with a government-backed partner), Savant Lake gold in Ontario, and Japan gold projects that were farmed out—and explains why “shots on goal” can turn into drift when a company lacks a clear center of gravity. With a recent CEO departure and interim leadership in place, BeMetals enters a prove-it phase.

Dusty closes with a practical investor framework: evaluate the backers, the structure, and whether management is evolving with the project. Because in junior mining, companies fail structurally more often than they fail geologically.

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Most people think mining is about finding gold. It isn’t. Gold is easy to find. The hard part—the part that actually makes money—is extracting it cheaply, consistently, and at scale.

In the debut episode of Junior Mining Gold, host Dusty Nugget takes a long, unsentimental walk through Marmota’s portfolio to explain how real mining businesses are built—and why most junior miners never make it out of the PowerPoint phase.

This episode starts with a simple mental model: every gold mine lives or dies on four levers—how deep the gold is, how hard the rock is, how much of the gold you actually recover, and whether the system can scale. From there, Dusty breaks down why Marmota’s Aurora Tank project matters, not because it’s flashy, but because it’s boring in exactly the right ways: shallow mineralisation, weathered rock, and metallurgical testwork showing unusually high and fast gold recovery using heap leaching.

Along the way, the episode pulls back the curtain on concepts most investors gloss over—cutoff grade, leach kinetics, sampling error, and why a project with lower grades can be far more valuable than a “bonanza” discovery if the costs are right.

Dusty also tackles the uncomfortable questions head-on. Who’s actually driving the geology? Why does track record matter without turning into hero worship? What does it signal when a junior starts hiring operators instead of drill cheerleaders? And how do mining projects really fail in the real world—not with explosions, but with slow cost creep and bad execution?

Once the gold system is fully laid out, the episode adds an optionality layer most listeners aren’t expecting. Marmota’s overlooked titanium discovery at Muckanippie—featuring surface-hosted mineral sands with heavy mineral concentrations orders of magnitude above industry norms—and its uranium position at Junction Dam, sitting right next to a permitted uranium mine in the same palaeochannel system. These aren’t the main story, but they are the kind of asymmetric call options markets routinely misprice until it’s too late.

The episode closes with a calm reality check on risk, a sober look at capital structure and dilution, a gold-price scenario thought experiment, and a checklist every investor should run before touching a junior miner—especially when nothing exciting happens for a while.

This isn’t investment advice. It’s education for people who want to understand how mining actually works, why boredom is often where value is created, and how to separate real projects from very expensive field trips.

If you want more unfiltered breakdowns of junior miners, metallurgical reality, and lifecycle investing in the resource sector, subscribe to Junior Mining Gold and explore the data behind the stories at JuniorMining.gold.