Barksdale Resources CEO Rick Trotman joins us from Roundup to talk about the last stretch of the permitting process for the Sunnyside project. In the meantime, the company is working on solidifying the first drill targets on the project. 

We conclude day 3 of the AME Roundup Conference with Henry Lazenby of The Northern Miner. Henry discusses a few of his articles he published while attending the conference this week, including comments from Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre and a record breaking year for exploration in British Columbia.

We then chat with Charles Morven of the Nisga'a Nation and Director of the British Columbia Regional Mining Alliance. Charles discusses the strengthening partnerships between industry and first nations and how indigenous communities continue to expand their invovlement in resource development. 

Inventa Capital's Craig Parry joins us for an in-depth conversation about the challenges of raising capital and generating new projects and companies last year. But through the challenging market environment, Craig believes the mining sector is turning its corner for a generational move higher. We talk about Inventa's portfolio of companies, the Vancouver deal-making environment, and the drive for prefection in the exploration sector. 

Jason Kosec of Millennial Precious Metals jons the podcast to talk about the Plan of Operations submittal for both Mountain View and Wildcat projects. Its in important step in expanding its working footprint on the projects following a year of de-risking and met work. 

We welcome in Cassie Boggs, Chairperson and Board Member at Hecla Mining for a conversation about her keynote speech earlier today at the conference. With 40 years experience in the mining industry, Cassie believes everything is aligned now for a booming mining sector.

We then welcome in Richard Truman of Geoscience BC. Richard provides an introduction to the organization's work and the latest round of geoscience data released yesterday for explorers in the province.

Ridgeline Minerals CEO, Chad Peters, joins us from Roundup to discuss the drill results reported earlier today from the Selena Project in Nevada. The company reported 6.1 m grading 480.52 g/t Ag, 12.0% Pb, and 6.39% Zn, 0.14 g/t Au in SE22-045.

VP of Exploration Christina Antsey joins us from Roundup to talk about some of the untested targets at the Thorn project in British Columbia. The company shared sample results recently, and included some very high-grade copper and gold. 

Philippe Cloutier of Cartier Resources joins us from AME Roundup Conference to discuss this morning's drill results from the West Nordeau deposit within the greater Chimo Mine Area. These promising results confirm what the company believed to be the case, that mineralization does continue below the current known deposit of West Nordeau. 

We conclude day 1 of Roundup 2023 with two special guests.

First, Tania Demchuk, Assistant Deputy Minister, Ministry of Energy, Mines and Low Carbon Innovation for the Province of British Columbia joins us to talk about the three pillars behind the government's approach to resource exploration and development of critical minerals.

Sonia Scarselli, VP of BHP Xplor, provides insight into the Xplor program and how BHP is expanding its reach by supporting early stage mineral projects important to the development of the energy transition.

Dustin Perry, CEO of Kingfisher Metals, joins us from AME Roundup today for a corporate update into the work at Goldrange. The company continues to await more assay results from 2022 work as it will be indicative of the 2023 field program.