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In this KE Report Company Update, Zach Flood, President & CEO of Kenorland Minerals (TSX-V:KLD - OTCQX:KLDCF - FSE:3WQ0), joins us to discuss progress across the company’s royalty and exploration portfolio. Kenorland continues to execute its prospect-generator model with active partners Sumitomo Metal Mining, Centerra Gold, Auranova Resources, and Newmont, while expanding its 100%-owned project pipeline across Canada.

Any follow-up questions for Zach? Comment below or email [email protected]. 

Click here to visit the Kenorland website.  

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Jeff Phillips, President of Global Market Development, and an activist investor in the junior resource space, joins us to review the benefits of investing in the prospect generator business model in some of his positions; while still maintaining other positions in pure explorers.  He goes on to unpack the value proposition in 4 different prospect generators that he holds in his portfolio, after participating in various private placement financings.   We also get more perspective on how Jeff evaluates opportunities in mining stocks and the types of management teams and share structure that he likes to see to participate in their financings.

Jeff has been involved in the natural resource space for the last three decades, and is a large strategic shareholder of over a dozen junior companies, and still a significant shareholder in a number of other mining stocks. Jeff also serves as a technical consultant and advisor to several companies in the junior resource space, working on improving their messaging to the marketplace, roster of investors, and liquidity. Even though he doesn’t do many public-facing interviews or write in widely followed publications, Jeff is one of the most influential and well-respected people in the business. You’ll often see him hard at work at mining conferences, doing his due diligence and connecting people to one another.

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Gold and silver have extended their historic run, with gold up 8 of the last 9 months (~50% YTD) and silver up over 60% YTD. Meanwhile, the mining ETFs (GDX, GDXJ, SIL, SILJ) have posted massive gains - GDX up 125% this year. Craig Hemke, founder and editor of the TF Metals Report, joins me to break down why this move is not parabolic speculation but part of a recurring pattern - and why miners may just be getting started.

Key Topics

Silver’s acceleration: Structural supply deficits, record industrial demand, and a FOMO-driven futures trade are propelling silver toward its prior highs. Craig outlines why $49–50 may trigger a short consolidation before a push into new territory.

Miners’ earnings leverage: With record quarterly average prices for gold and silver, falling energy costs, and strong margins, miners are set for spectacular Q3 results. Craig highlights why mid-tier, low-AISC producers offer the best torque and why developers remain undervalued on a per-ounce basis.

Flows & valuation reset: Even 1% of the $20 trillion combined market cap of the “Mag 6” mega-caps could buy the entire GDX ten times over. A small rotation into miners could rewrite valuation norms as ETF and fund flows broaden across the sector.

Macro backdrop: With the U.S. government shutdown delaying data and upcoming CPI/PPI releases, markets remain focused on the Fed’s next move. Craig also points to ongoing currency debasement, de-dollarization, and central-bank buying as key tailwinds for gold demand.

Investor playbook: Why “buy-the-dip” behavior persists, how to identify quality producers with low costs, and why the absence of 2011-style M&A suggests this bull market still has room to run.

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Kimberly Ann, President, CEO, Executive Chair of Lahontan Gold (TSX.V: LG – OTCQB: LGCXF), joins us for a comprehensive update on this Nevada gold explorer and developer, with 2 million ounces of gold at their flagship Santa Fe Project and an upcoming drill program at their satellite West Santa Fe Project.

We start of focusing on the Company’s flagship Santa Fe Project, including the updated Resource Estimate, advantages of all the brownfield infrastructure as a prior producing mine, the ongoing work to improve metals recoveries, and update the economics, and  where future drilling and resource expansion is planned once those permits come back in. The company is aggressively pursuing development of Santa Fe to get it into production by 2027.

The West Santa Fe Project, is a satellite project very near to the Santa Fe Project that was picked up 2 years ago, and it next in line for exploration once a drill rig can be put on site in the near future.   Their exploration team hopes to delineate a few hundred thousand more near-surface oxide resources that could supplement the main Santa Fe development plans.

Wrapping up we have Kimberly share her background in the resource sector along with the other Co-Founder and VP of Exploration Brian Maher, and then get into the financial health of the company and key strategic shareholders.

If you have any follow up questions for Kimberly and her team at Lahontan Gold, then please email those into us at [email protected] or [email protected].

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In this KE Report Company Update, I chat with Rob Carpenter, President & CEO of Prospector Metals (TSX.V:PPP - OTCQB:PMCOF - FSE:1ET), following the company’s discovery hole announced October 1st at the ML Project in the Yukon.

Hole 31 intersected 13.9 g/t gold and 1.9% copper over 44 meters, including a higher-grade core of 21.8 g/t gold over 24 meters.

This hole confirmed a brand-new discovery, dubbed the TESS Zone, located beside the North Vein Zone. Both zones were intersected by the same hole - just one of two holes drilled in this area during a 39-hole, 6,648-meter program.

Key Discussion Points:

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

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In this KE Report Company Update, Tim Warman, CEO of Fuerte Metals (TSX.V:FMT - OTC:FUEMF), outlines the company’s transformational acquisition of the Coffee Gold Project in the Yukon from Newmont (NYSE: NEM) - a project boasting 3Moz M&I and 0.8Moz inferred gold.

Highlights:

Click here to visit the Fuerte Metals website to learn more about the Company. 

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This weekend’s KE Report dives into two overlooked corners of the resource market. First, we sit down with Brian Leni, who shares why rotating profits from precious metals into copper, nickel, and undervalued juniors is the contrarian play. Then we shift gears with Josef Schachter of the Schachter Energy Report, who outlines why oil and natural gas remain sluggish today but could be setting up for a major multi-year rebound.

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This content is for informational and educational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice, an offer, or a solicitation to buy or sell any security. Investing in equities and commodities involves risk, including the possible loss of principal. Do your own research and consult a licensed financial advisor before making any investment decisions. Guests may own shares in companies mentioned.

Marc Chandler, Managing Partner at Bannockburn Global Forex and editor of Marc to Market, joins us to unpack why stocks keep hitting record highs, gold is breaking into uncharted territory, and what’s next for bonds and the U.S. dollar.

Marc breaks down:

Click here to visit Marc’s site - Marc To Market. 

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Brad Rourke, CEO of Scottie Resources (TSX.V:SCOT – OTCQB:SCTSF), joins us to review the latest batch of high-grade gold assay results from the largest ever drill program, and a number of key ongoing initiatives and further derisking work building towards an upcoming Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA), with a bulk sample in progress, and an ore sorting study underway at the Scottie Gold Mine Project; located in the Golden Triangle of British Columbia.

We start off reviewing the next batch of high-grade drill results returned from the ongoing planned 25,000 meters exploration program at the Blueberry Contact Zone.

Highlights:

Brad highlights that 4 diamond drill rigs have been turning across the property at the high-priority Blueberry Contact Zone, around the past-producing Scottie Gold Mine, including at the Wolf Zone discovered last season, and at the C & D veins. Brad points out that about 21,000 meters has been drilled thus far, and that the big percentage of that will be 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 will also go 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.

Ongoing geotechnical and hydrogeology drilling will also provide data to inform mine design and assist efforts with the recent initiation of Baseline Environmental Studies. With all this exploration and fieldwork now underway, the Company remains on track to deliver a low-capex PEA based on a Direct Shipment Ore (DSO) scenario in October.  Brad reiterates that the management team and board believes this coming economics study will clearly highlight the significant, untapped value of the Scottie Gold Mine Project.  The company then plans to springboard over the Pre-Feasibility Study and head 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.

Next we touched on the ongoing 10,000-tonne surface bulk sampling program where they have been blasting and mucking mineralized material from the road-accessible outcropping Bend Vein located on the north end of the Scottie Gold Mine Project.  Bulk sample progressing on schedule, where the mucking has now been completed and crushing and transport has commenced down the Granduc road. Brad outlines that this bulk sample will be a nice opportunity to learn more about a number of metrics and provide a nice proof of concept, as well as generating some non-dilutive capital for the Company in the process.

When reviewing their direct-ship ore strategy, Brad highlighted that Scottie has one of the closest gold projects to a deep-sea shipping terminal, which based on its location is positioned in one of North America’s cheapest commercial shipping lanes to Asia. In addition to the ease of a proposed open-pit mine, which already has an existing mine permit, there is also key external infrastructure in place, such as power lines and hauling roads right to site.  Ocean Partners recently participated in a financing for the company this summer, and has expressed interest in the offtake of this material in a development scenario.

Wrapping up we discussed the ongoing Phase 2 ore-sorting study underway, that will be a more advanced Feasibility Study level test of upgrading the ore, with the strategy to reduce the amount of waste rock before shipping.  Ore sorting could significantly enhance the efficiencies of the overall DSO strategy, and those results are due out in Q4.

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

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In this company update, I welcome back Blaine Monaghan, President & CEO of Pacific Ridge Exploration (TSX.V:PEX - OTCQB:PEXZF). The company is advancing its 100%-owned copper-gold projects in British Columbia’s Toodoggone District, with a focus on the Kliyul and RDP Projects.

Click here to visit the Pacific Ridge Exploration website. 

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