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In this KE Report update, we speak with Roger Moss, President & CEO of Labrador Gold (TSX.V:LAB - OTCQX:NKOSF - FSE:2N6) , and Ian Bliss, President & CEO of Northern Shield Resources (TSX.V:NRN), to discuss Labrador Gold’s strategic shift toward a hybrid mining and investment issuer and its first investment under this model.

Labrador Gold has deployed $1 million into Northern Shield Resources, gaining exposure to an early-stage but highly prospective gold–silver–copper–tellurium project in Newfoundland, while continuing to advance its own exploration assets.

Key discussion points:

Please email me with any questions for Roger or Ian. My email address is [email protected].

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Akiba Leisman, President and CEO of Mako Mining (TSX.V:MKO – OTCQX:MAKOF), joins me for a comprehensive review of all 4 company Projects, on an operational, developmental and exploration perspective. The Company operates the high-grade San Albino gold mine in Nueva Segovia, Nicaragua. Mako owns the Moss Mine in Arizona, an open pit gold mine in northwestern Arizona, which is ramping up production. Mako now controls the permitted Mt. Hamilton Gold-Silver Project located in White Pine County, Nevada, USA as the next key development project in the cue.  Mako also holds a 100% interest in the PEA-stage Eagle Mountain Project in Guyana, South America.

Initially we review the San Albino operations, how Q3 was a solid quarter, but not running as optimally as it has been in Q4.  San Albino ranks as one of the highest-grade open pit gold mines globally and this is translating over to great revenues in light of the higher metals prices.  Akiba points out that really Q4 will be the strongest quarter of the year, and this is what company has been guiding all along, but that December is turning out to be the strongest month operationally thus far.   Additionally, we discuss all the district-scale exploration potential and multiple drill rigs turning around the mine and across the land concession.

We also unpack the ramp of mining at the tail end of Q3 and into Q4 at the Moss Mine, in Arizona.   Akiba unpacks some of the operational and site layout challenges their team has overcome or has a process in place to address in the year to come.  Even though Moss is a lower-grade mine, and has only been operating as partial efficiency, it has still been profitable. As mining increases by accessing better areas of the mine, and debottlenecking certain processes, then costs will come down and it should become a bigger contributor as next year progresses.

The Mt. Hamilton Project has all major state and federal permits to allow construction of an open pit, heap leach gold-silver project, and has a current mineral resource estimate with an effective date of September 23, 2025. We discuss the related-party transaction involving Sailfish Royalty Corp, and some of work flying drones over the property a couple of weeks back before the snowy weather came in, setting them up for development work this April.

Additionally, we discussed the 2nd layer of mineralization and value proposition of the Mt Hamilton Project, because it also hosts a tungsten/copper/molybdenum target, located below and independent of the gold and silver Mt. Hamilton MRE. This tungsten target has been defined by over 100,000 ft of historical exploration drilling. In a report by the Department of the Interior, dated August 25, 2025, tungsten (W) was named as one of the top 10 critical metals listed by their estimated probability-weighted impact of supply disruptions on the U.S. economy.  There is the potential to seek government funds allocated for the development of critical minerals for this portion of the deposit down the road as another potential opportunity.

Wrapping up, we delve into the next key steps for permitting and development work at the Eagle Mountain Gold Project in Guyana; set to be in construction in late 2026 and production by H2 of 2027.. 

If you have any further questions for Akiba regarding Mako Mining, then please email them into me at  [email protected].

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Oliver Turner, Executive VP of Corporate Development for Americas Gold and Silver Corporation (TSX: USA) (NYSE American: USAS), joined me for a comprehensive review of the several key optimization initiatives ongoing at their producing 100% owned Galena Complex, located in Idaho, USA; as well as at the EC120 mine at their Cosalá Operations, located in Sinaloa, Mexico.  Additionally, we reviewed the news out today regarding the closing of the acquisition of the Crescent Silver Mine located just 9 miles away from their Galena Complex in Idaho.

We started off unpacking the multifaceted approach to optimizing their Galena mining complex this year, comprised of 4 shafts and 2 mills currently being underutilized, but setting up for a marked incremental increase in production growth over the next few years.

Next we discussed the big news out today on December 12, that the Company has closed the acquisition of Crescent Silver, LLC, which owns the Crescent Mine in Idaho. The consideration under the Acquisition is made up of US$20 million in cash and approximately 11.1 million common shares of Americas Gold and Silver. The Crescent Mine is a synergistic addition located just 9 miles from the Galena Complex, and is a fully permitted past producing mine which will be advanced for a restart in 2026.  The Crescent Mine will provide a supplementary high-grade source of feed to their 2 mills at Galena, further utilizing processing capacity.   The mineralized material at Crescent is very similar to the tetrahedrite material at Galena which contains high grade Silver and significant by-product potential from antimony and copper, which meshes perfectly with their strategy to maximize the production value across all metals.

Throughout  2025, there has been very promising metallurgical testing, confirming high recoveries of antimony alongside strong silver and copper recoveries from ore currently being processed.  Until recently the company was not getting paid for antimony or copper, but that will be changing in 2026 based on a new off-take agreement signed with Ocean Partners USA Inc. for treatment of up to 100% of the concentrates from the Company’s Galena Complex at Teck Resources Limited’s Trail Operations in Trail British Columbia; one of the world’s largest fully-integrated zinc, lead and critical metals complexes.

Next we shifted down to the Cosalá Operations in Mexico, with the operating San Rafael and El Cajon mines, which has been critical to getting the company through tougher markets over the years.   The Company is investing in exploration to extend the San Rafael mine, and importantly tunneling over into a new area of the El Cajon mine called the EC120 mine, which will now see increased silver production in the years to come. This brought up the point that this company is one of the few North American silver-focused producers with the objective of over 80% of its revenue generated from silver in the year to come.

If you have any questions for Oliver regarding Americas Gold and Silver, then please email those to me at [email protected].

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Jason Jessup, CEO and Director of Magna Mining (TSX.V: NICU) (OTCQX: MGMNF), joins us for a Q3 financial and operations review at their producing McCreedy West copper mine, located in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.  We also review the continued high-grade drill results across copper, nickel, platinum, palladium, gold, and silver in more recent assays returned from the ongoing exploration and development work at the Levack Mine. Additionally, we get a nice update on the development pathway at the Crean Hill Project to round out the discussion.

Q3 Financial and Operational Highlights:

Next our conversation with Jason shifted over the workstreams building towards a mine restart plan at Levack Mine in 2026; based on the recently released resource estimate. We reviewed the steady stream of drill assays reported this year from Levack with high-grade copper, nickel, platinum, palladium, gold, and silver intercepts.  Jason highlights the optionality the different zones give the company as far as potential mine sequencing, and he notes growing value of precious metals as contributing metals credits to the project.

We discuss some of the critical zones of mineralize in areas like the No.1 to No. 2 Main area, the Morrison Footwall Cu-PGE deposit, the Keel Zone, and the footwall environment between the No.2 and No. 3 Ni-Cu Zone.  However, another newer discovery area, the R2 Zone, is quickly growing in importance as to how it could impact the early stages of mining in a development scenario; but being earlier-stage it still requires much more drilling.

Levack Exploration Highlights from the R2 Zone, released December 9th include:

Wrapping up we widened the scope beyond just the currently producing McCreedy West mine, and development of the Levack Mine into an upcoming production decision next year, into another flagship asset in their portfolio at Crean Hill. Jason reviews some work being completed at present by a contract with regards to water treatment, and that there are further development initiatives at Crean Hill ongoing in the background where they will be summarized for investors in the middle of 2026.   

With a number of government grants and initiatives available at both the provincial and federal levels, targeting the development of critical minerals projects, Jason highlights that there could be a pathway for dual development of Crean Hill in concert with Levack over the next couple years if they were able to secure some of this non-dilutive capital, or at least an attractive cost of capital.  He reiterated that the Company maintains its ambition to become a multi-mine producer in the Sudbury Basin.

If you have questions for Jason regarding Magna Mining, then please email me at [email protected].

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In this KE Report company update, I am joined by Tara Christie, President & CEO of Banyan Gold (TSX.V:BYN - OTCQB:BYAGF), to recap recent drill results from the AurMac Project in the Yukon. The focus is on how drilling this year is successfully defining and expanding higher-grade gold zones within one of Canada’s largest undeveloped gold resources.

Key discussion points include:

If you have any follow up questions for Tara please email me at [email protected]. 

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In this company update, I’m joined by Stephen Soock, VP Investor Relations & Development at Heliostar Metals (TSX-V:HSTR - OTCQX:HSTXF - FSE:R0G1), to discuss the newly released Pre-Feasibility Study (PFS) on the Cerro del Gallo Project and how it fits into the company’s broader production pipeline.

Key discussion points include:

Please email me at [email protected] with any follow up questions for the team at Heliostar Metals. 

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Drew Clark, President and CEO of Summit Royalties Ltd. (TSX.V: SUM), joins me to introduce the value proposition and coming growth catalysts from their portfolio of 47 royalty partner projects, mostly focused on gold and silver.

We discuss how this Company started off privately when closing the IAMGOLD Royalty Portfolio Acquisition for $17.5M on May 30th, then the acquisition of a royalty at West Red Lake Gold’s Madsen Mine on September 4th.  Then on November 5th the company released news of their “go public” transaction with the reverse takeover of Eagle Royalties the prior day on November 4th, and then their listing as Summit Royalties on the TSX Venture exchange on November 10th.

The Corporation's current portfolio is backstopped by 3 cash-flowing production assets, and an additional 44 royalties on development-stage and exploration-stage properties. The Corporation intends to become the next mid-tier streaming and royalty company through future actionable and accretive acquisitions to increase production and cash flow growth. The Corporation currently has no debt and sufficient cash on-hand for use in future acquisitions.

Drew starts off taking us through the growth on tap for 2026 and beyond at their 3 producing royalties and streams.

Next we reviewed 2 of their key development royalties:

Drew briefly mentions a few other royalties in their portfolio that he sees as valuable, and also highlights that their Net Asset Value (NAV) is weighted towards Canada after Eagle & Madsen Acquisitions, and is trading at an attractive P/NAV multiple at present.

Wrapping up Drew shares his background in the sector, along with other members of the management team and board, along with the capital structure, key stakeholders, and financial health of the company to keep executing on more deals in the year to come.

If you have any follow up questions for Drew about Summit Royalties, then please email them into me at [email protected].

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George Ogilvie, President and CEO of Arizona Sonoran Copper (TSX:ASCU – OTCQX:ASCUF), joins us to outline the key metrics from the Pre-Feasibility Study (PFS) on the Cactus Project in Arizona and the envisioned mine plan.  We also get an exploration update, more clarity around the permitting process, discuss the recent capital raise, and review the pathway to production.

PFS Highlights include:

George reviews how the incorporation of the newer MainSpring area into the larger Parks-Salyer deposit, over the last 2 years has allowed for a shift in strategy from underground mining over to an open-pit mining method.  They are reviewing moving the center of the open pit more towards the high-grade portion of the  Park-Salyer deposit, the infill drilling showed it expanding towards that direction, which presented better economics and a faster payback period, as outlined in the PFS.

George also provides some updates on permitting for the project, and the importance of it being on private land to help expedite the process, and that they should be submitting their applications later this year for administrative acceptance by early 2026, and then approval 6 months later.  This permitting process will time out well with the release of their Bankable Feasibility Study.

Next we discussed the news on December 2nd, which announced that the Company closed its previously announced private placement of common shares of the Company pursuant to which the Company issued, on a “bought deal” basis, 25,746,300 Common Shares, including 3,358,200 Common Shares granted to the underwriters, at a price of $3.35 per Common Share, for aggregate gross proceeds of C$86,250,105.  This gives the company the runway to execute on all coming workstreams heading into the Bankable Feasibility Study and the capital stack coming together for a construction decision late next year.

If you have any follow up questions for George about Arizona Sonoran, then please email us at [email protected]  or [email protected].

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Dr. Thomas Mumford, President of Scottie Resources (TSX.V:SCOT – OTCQB:SCTSF),  joins me to review the key takeaways from the Bulk Sample report, when compared with expectations from the October 2025 Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA).   Additionally, we get an update on the ongoing ore-sorting studies, what was learned from this year’s drill program, the preparation for the largest drill program to date in 2026, and the Feasibility Study workstreams underway at the Scottie Gold Mine Project; located in the Golden Triangle of British Columbia.

The recent PEA outlined a robust Direct-Ship Ore (“DSO”) development scenario for the Scottie Gold Mine Project, with strong economics and leverage to the current gold price environment, and additional upside potential through local toll milling.  The DSO process was successfully demonstrated during this trial mining and Bulk Sample, which was mined at the Bend Vein pit at the Scottie Gold Mine Project, then mucked, visually sorted, and crushed over the 2025 summer season. The transportation of this material was completed moving around 100 truckloads of material down the Granduc road to the Stewart bulk shipping facility without any concerns or challenges, and it is going to be shipped over to Ocean Partners imminently.

Highlights:

Thomas outlines that the company plans to move straight into work streams for a Feasibility Study (FS), with actual cost estimates and more detailed economics, as the next major economic study to be undertaken.  The FS is slated to take about 8-10 months after all the 2025 drill results from the 27,309 meter program are in hand and integrated into their resource model.

We got into the resource assumptions used in the PEA and Thomas outlined how these resources are going to expand now that 4 diamond drill rigs were turning this year in the largest exploration program to date, across different parts of the high-priority Blueberry Contact Zone, and around the past-producing Scottie Gold Mine. A key initiative was infilling areas with tighter spacing, focused on upgrading the resources from inferred to indicated categories at the Blueberry Contact Zone. However many of the holes also went deeper, doing some true exploration work with a focus on expanding the potential open pit and upper portions of the underground resources at both Blueberry and Scottie areas.

Wrapping up we discussed the preparations for the largest drill program to date for 2026, the various Feasibility Study workstreams, and the financial strength of the company which is fully-funded for all these initiatives.

If you have any questions for Thomas regarding Scottie Resources, then please email them in to me at [email protected].

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