Kitco MINING

Ammar Al-Joundi, President and CEO of Agnico Eagle Mines, joins Kitco Mining’s Paul Harris at the 2026 Mining Forum Americas in Colorado Springs to explain why the company is focused on growing from within as consolidation speculation builds across the gold sector. Al-Joundi says Agnico expects to add between 1.3 million and 1.5 million ounces of annual production over the next five to 10 years, l...

Edward Fishman, Senior Fellow and Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomics at the Council on Foreign Relations and author of Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare, joins Kitco Mining’s Paul Harris at the 2026 Mining Forum Americas in Colorado Springs to explain how control over currencies, critical minerals and trade routes is becoming a source of geopoliti...

Jenny Shaigec, CEO of Sandpiper Trading, joins Kitco Mining’s Paul Harris at the 2026 Precious Metals Summit in Beaver Creek to discuss why she believes investors should look beyond cryptocurrency when assessing the growing shift toward tokenization and digital assets. Shaigec examines Pax Silica, the U.S.-led economic security initiative launched in December 2025 around AI, critical minerals and...

Brett Heath, CEO of Metalla Royalty & Streaming, joins Kitco Mining’s Paul Harris at the 2026 Mining Forum Americas in Colorado Springs to explain why he believes streams are becoming a “mainstream form of financing” for the mining industry. Heath argues that rising borrowing costs and increasingly expensive copper builds could create a larger role for royalty and streaming capital, with some...

John Hathaway, Managing Partner at Sprott Asset Management, joins Kitco Mining’s Paul Harris at the 2026 Precious Metals Summit in Beaver Creek to discuss why he sees gold as an “all-weather strategy” and why he believes gold equities may be entering a stronger phase. Hathaway says miners are better managed than they were at the 2011 gold-price peak and more profitable than at any point he has see...

Grant Williams, author and host of the Grant Williams Podcast, joins Kitco Mining’s Paul Harris at the 2026 Precious Metals Summit in Beaver Creek to explain why he believes “the bond market is where people should be looking” as rising yields increase borrowing costs and expose stress across the financial system. Williams argues that governments and central banks are becoming increasingly constrai...

Greenheart Gold President and CEO Justin van der Toorn joins Kitco Mining’s Paul Harris for Kitco Spotlight at the 2026 Precious Metals Summit in Beaver Creek as the company drills its highest-priority exploration target at Tosso Creek in Suriname. Greenheart began an initial 2,000-meter diamond drill program at Tosso Creek in August following trench results including 56.0 meters grading 0.97 g/t...

Ronald-Peter Stöferle, Managing Partner at Incrementum and author of the In Gold We Trust report, joins Kitco Mining’s Paul Harris at the 2026 Precious Metals Summit in Beaver Creek to discuss why he believes gold is moving through a remonetization cycle rather than simply another bull-market phase. Stöferle says “trust is being repriced” as central banks accumulate and repatriate gold while confi...

Blackrock Silver President and CEO Andrew Pollard joins Kitco Mining’s Kitco Spotlight with Paul Harris at the 2026 Precious Metals Summit in Beaver Creek to discuss new drilling at the company’s Tonopah West silver-gold project in Nevada and its path toward underground development. Pollard says the latest step-out drilling has extended high-grade mineralization another 600 meters along the Denver...

Mackay Gold & Silver CEO and Director Darwin Green joins Kitco Mining’s Kitco Spotlight with Paul Harris at the 2026 Precious Metals Summit in Beaver Creek to discuss the company’s consolidation of Nevada’s historic Comstock district and the first results from its maiden drill program. Green says Mackay now effectively controls the major historic lodes across the district, allowing the company...

Newcore Gold President and CEO Luke Alexander joins Kitco Mining’s Kitco Spotlight with Paul Harris at the 2026 Precious Metals Summit in Beaver Creek to discuss the Enchi Gold Project in Ghana and what comes next after its pre-feasibility study. At a $4,200 gold price, the PFS outlined a $647 million after-tax NPV, a 45% IRR and roughly $351 million in initial CapEx. With Newcore trading at a mar...

Florian Grummes, Managing Director of Midas Touch Consulting, joins Kitco Mining’s Paul Harris at the 2026 Precious Metals Summit in Beaver Creek to discuss gold’s secular bull market, silver’s long-term technical setup, and why the next major move may take longer than many investors expect. Grummes says gold remains in a secular bull market but could take until mid-to-late 2027 to reach a new all...

Jesse Knutson, Head of Operations at Bitfinex Securities, joins Kitco Mining’s Paul Harris to discuss how tokenization could open a new capital route for mining and commodity companies after Bitfinex Securities facilitated a US$50 million raise for Alkemya Metacore. The raise, the largest to date on the Bitfinex Securities platform, will help Alkemya commercialize ultra-high-purity nickel wire for...

Rick Rule, President and CEO of Rule Investment Media, joins Kitco Mining’s Paul Harris to discuss gold’s breakout, silver’s leverage, record copper prices, and why mining investors should focus on the gap between price and value. Rule says gold remains sensitive to U.S. real and nominal interest rates in the near term, but longer term he expects artificially low rates and quantitative easing to s...

Michael Rowley, President and CEO of Stillwater Critical Minerals, joins Kitco Mining’s Paul Harris to discuss how US$150 billion in pledged drone and counter-drone spending is sharpening the race for critical minerals, domestic supply chains and U.S.-based mining projects. Rowley says geopolitics are changing the market for metals used in drones, robotics, defense systems and advanced manufacturi...

Richard Williams, Executive Chairman of Bunker Hill Mining, joins Kitco Mining’s Paul Harris to discuss Bunker Hill’s Silver47 takeover, a US$163 million all-share deal aimed at turning its Idaho mine restart into a broader “made in America” silver and critical minerals platform. Williams says the deal combines Bunker Hill’s mine, which is ramping toward commercial production by year-end, with Sil...

Gold is above $4,000 and silver in the $60s, yet Empress Royalty Executive Chairman David Rhodes says the recent pullback is exactly when disciplined royalty buyers should be shopping. Rhodes joins Kitco Mining's Kitco Spotlight with Jeremy Szafron at the Rule Symposium 2026 in Boca Raton to explain the small-stream niche Empress built its business on: $20 to $30 million financings on near-te...

Silver has been cut in half from its highs, but Blackrock Silver CEO Andrew Pollard says the long-term thesis has not changed. Pollard joins Kitco Mining’s Kitco Spotlight with Paul Harris to discuss silver’s correction, structural deficits, and why high-grade projects can stand out in volatile markets. “High-grade stories are all-weather,” Pollard said. The focus is Blackrock Silver’s 100%-owned...

Mackay Gold & Silver (TSXV: MACK; OTCQB: MKGSF) CEO and Director Darwin Green joins Kitco Mining’s Kitco Spotlight with Paul Harris to discuss Mackay’s recent IPO, its $60 million financing, and its first major drill program in Nevada’s historic Comstock District. Mackay is targeting the Occidental-Brunswick Lode, a 3-mile structure running parallel to the historic Comstock Lode. Green said fr...

Silvercorp Metals (TSX: SVM; NYSE American: SVM) President Lon Shaver joins Kitco Mining’s Kitco Spotlight with Paul Harris to discuss silver’s volatile run, the company’s low-cost China operations, and its plan to grow across Ecuador and Kyrgyzstan. Shaver said silver’s pullback should be viewed against the scale of the move that came before it, with the metal still trading near $60 per ounce aft...

Kootenay Silver (TSXV: KTN; OTCQX: KOOYF) President and CEO Jim McDonald joins Kitco Mining’s Kitco Spotlight with Jeremy Szafron to discuss the company’s June 15, 2026 preliminary economic assessment for its 100%-owned La Cigarra silver project in Chihuahua, Mexico. The study outlines a 14-year open-pit project with a $763 million after-tax NPV, 41% after-tax IRR, $332 million in initial capital,...

Nicole Adshead-Bell, Director of Cupel Advisory, joins Kitco Mining’s Digging Deep with Paul Harris to discuss gold M&A, Barrick Mining restructuring speculation, activist pressure at Northern Star Resources, rising copper prices, and capital deployment across the mining sector. Adshead-Bell says potential restructuring at Barrick, Elliott Investment Management’s pressure at Northern Star, and...

Integra Resources is moving deeper into producer territory as it stabilizes the Florida Canyon gold mine in Nevada and advances the DeLamar gold-silver project through federal permitting in Idaho. George Salamis, President and CEO of Integra Resources, joins Kitco Mining’s Paul Harris to discuss the company’s plan to grow organically into a mid-tier gold producer with more than 300,000 ounces of a...

This Kitco Mining feature is sponsored by OceanaGold. Kitco Mining goes on site at OceanaGold’s Haile Gold Mine in Kershaw, South Carolina, the fourth-largest gold mine in the United States and the largest east of the Mississippi. Gold was first discovered at Haile in 1827. Nearly 200 years later, the mine is entering a new growth phase, with OceanaGold targeting a production increase of close to...

Rick Rule, President and CEO of Rule Investment Media, joins Kitco Mining’s Digging Deep with Paul Harris to discuss gold’s pullback below $4,500, U.S. interest rates, critical minerals funding, and the next wave of mining deals. Rule says the gold weakness is “heaven-sent” for long-term buyers and says political pressure on the Fed could eventually drive rates lower, creating a more supportive se...