Mining Stock Education

Bill Powers and Brian Leni discuss listener feedback and why shareholders often don’t push back when they are unpleased with management. The duo emphasizes building a disciplined investing process, protecting the downside, and avoiding FOMO. The conversation covers “luck” versus skill, learning from losses, and when to use other investors’/groups’ reputations as decision-making inputs. Brian’s tal...

MSE host Bill Powers applies Howard Marks’ January 2020 memo “You Bet” to junior mining speculation, emphasizing that decision quality and outcomes aren’t the same because both luck and process drive results. Drawing on Annie Duke’s book “Thinking in Bets,” Powers urges probabilistic thinking, accurate assessment of one’s own skills and being comfortable uncertainty. Marks’ framework distinguishes...

MSE host Bill Powers interviews Contango Silver and Gold CEO Rick Van Nieuwenhuyse for a quarterly update. Contango produced about 8,000 oz of gold in Q1 from its 30% share of the Manh Choh Mine with 2026 guidance maintained at 40,000–45,000 Au oz due to the transition from the North Pit to pre-stripping the larger South Pit; production is expected to rise through the year, with higher output proj...

MSE host Bill Powers interviews Midnight Sun Mining VP Adrian O’Brien for an update on the company’s Dumbwa copper discovery in Zambia’s Copperbelt. O’Brien shares how the company has now defined continuous copper mineralization over 5.3km of strike. He explains the release of assays from 99 drill holes after lab delays and QA/QC issues, saying results confirm continuity, scale, and a clear geolog...

Coppernico Metals CEO Ivan Bebek provides an update on the Sombrero Project in Peru, focusing on the Tipicancha target, where trenching/channel samples returned 22 meters of 0.6% copper and recent test pits suggest the mineralized footprint extends kilometers south within a large hydrothermal system. Ivan says Sombrero now has 7 drill-ready targets and a minimum 65-hole program over 18 months, wit...

Bill Powers interviews mining legend Ross Beaty, joined by investor Gianni Kovacevic, about Beaty’s Lumina “franchise” history of acquiring and monetizing large undeveloped deposits and the new IPO, Lumina Metals (TSX: LMCU). Beaty describes the company’s copper-silver discovery in Poland as potentially the world’s largest undeveloped copper-silver deposit, with over 1 billion ounces of silver res...

Scorpio Gold CEO Zayn Kalyan and VP Exploration Harrison Pokrandt explain the newest step-out discovery holes on the Zanzibar trend at the company’s consolidated Manhattan District in Nevada ten miles south of Kinross’ Round Mountain. Hole 26MN-067 returned 10.40 g/t gold over 5.67 metres from 34.29 m, including 455.52 g/t gold over 0.49 m from 36.27 m. Press release discussed: https://scorpiogold...

Bill Powers interviews Joe Mazumdar of Exploration Insights about Q1 2026 results from major gold miners, focusing on Newmont’s 16% year-over-year production decline alongside a much higher realized gold price, modestly higher AISC, expanding EBITDA margins, and sharply higher free cash flow that is being directed to dividends and buybacks rather than major growth CapEx. Mazumdar argues reserve gr...

In this month’s Junior Mining Insights discussion, Bill Powers and Brian Leni bring back the ‘Shady, Scam or Strategic?’ segment. Three recent questionable actions by CEOs and directors in the junior mining sector are discussed. The duo also shares firsthand experiences with lying CEOs and scumbag directors. The episode concludes with chat about developers and the DCF dilemma?! 00:00 Intro 0:53 Sh...

Pro investor David Erfle provides commentary about gold, silver, and junior miners after a sharp correction. Erfle says the current “boring” 2–3-month consolidation is bullish base-building after roughly 200% moves in GDX/GDXJ, noting relative strength in the TSX Venture and miners versus silver, and COMEX open interest at 20-year lows as gold rises without heavy speculator leverage. He highlights...

Rick Rule discusses recent mining M&A including G Mining’s acquisition of G2 Goldfields, which Rule views as uniquely accretive due to roughly $1B in 10-year operating and capital synergies from developing a unified district. They also cover Agnico Eagle’s consolidation in Finland as a logical infrastructure-leveraging deal, its disciplined per-share accretion framework, and its junior investments...

“Drilling at Eau Claire continues to reinforce resource continuity and demonstrate resource growth potential outside of the current block model between resource blocks in shallow previously untested areas,” commented Tim Clark, CEO of Fury Gold Mines. “Phase 2 drilling will continue to de-risk and expand Eau Claire, as we focus on connecting the current mineral resource outside of the PEA mineable...

Will Thomson of Massif Capital reviews three stock picks he has shared on MSE over the years and discusses two other stocks he currently owns. He also explains why “country risk” is company-specific and depends on the relationship between a firm and the state, not an inherent risk in a country. Thomson argues consistent returns in real-asset equities come less from predicting commodity prices and...

Quinton Hennigh, exploration geologist, fund advisor, and CEO of San Cristobal Mining, shares tips on how to identify elite geologists and new discoveries which others miss. He talks about the current exploration market and where the industry is in a metals bull cycle. Hennigh argues mining and exploration have been undercapitalized for years and that supply constraints, permitting delays, lab cap...

John Passalacqua, CEO of First Phosphate, provides an update on the company’s Quebec igneous phosphate project intended to produce purified phosphoric acid for LFP batteries. Passalacqua discusses a Danish Export Credit Agency LOI for up to 170 million euros for equipment and services, building on prior support including a Canadian federal non-repayable $16.7 million contribution and a similar 170...

Veteran junior mining speculator John Kaiser of KaiserResearch.com, believes we are “in the third inning” and on the threshold of a three to five year “mother of all resource bull markets.” John explains how he is playing this bull market and offers his current forecast in this MSE episode. 00:00 Bull Market Setup 00:54 Gold Pause Outlook 02:46 Rotating Winners 04:24 Portfolio Framework 07:19 Smal...

Lara Exploration President and CEO Dr. Simon Ingram provides an update focused on the company’s recently closed C$33M (about US$25M) financing at C$3/share with no warrants. Ingram says the funding provides several years of runway to advance the Planalto copper-gold open-pit project from PEA toward feasibility by drilling the resource (moving inferred/indicated toward indicated/measured) and compl...

Coppernico Metals CEO Ivan Bebek shares the rationale behind optioning key adjacent concessions near its Tipicancha epithermal-porphyry target prior to commencing drilling at its Sombrero copper-gold project in Peru. Coppernico has identified seven large-scale targets to be drilled over the upcoming 18 months, Ivan explains. Drilling is expected to begin in May 2026. Sponsor: https://coppernicomet...

Host Bill Powers interviews returning guest Jamie Keech of ResourceInsider.com, a former mining engineer, on why his “energy decade” thesis is strengthening as tech-driven demand (especially data centers) pushes huge new power requirements. Keech explains how Resource Insider evolved from a gold-and-copper newsletter into a larger team with expanded exposure to uranium, lithium, and privately buil...

Dundee Corporation CEO Jonathan Goodman argues mining has entered a “generational opportunity” after generalist investors largely abandoned the sector post-2010 and amid growing recognition that North America needs secure domestic supply chains and new mines. Goodman expects Canada and the U.S. to streamline permitting, citing direct government outreach and the view that permitting should not take...

Atomic Eagle CEO Phil Hoskins stated: “To deliver a 24% increase in total resources from our maiden drill program – and to do so at a cost of just US$0.05 per pound – is a strong endorsement of our exploration approach and the potential scale of the uranium resources across our Muntanga Project area. This resource upgrade is a great start to achieving the Exploration Target we announced for the Pr...

Host Bill Powers interviews Scorpio Gold CEO Zayn Kalyan and Executive Technical Director Leo Hathaway about exploration at the consolidated Manhattan District in Nevada ten miles south of Kinross’ Round Mountain. Hathaway explains why the underexplored trend with historic pits and workings attracted him, his role overseeing exploration and communicating a Lumina Group-style plan to grow the curre...

Pro Investor David Erfle reveals how he is managing the recent junior mining volatility and sell-off. David reminds listeners that in small resource stocks risk management is number one. Although he is not predicting it, he even sees the possibility where gold might trade down to $2,800/oz. If gold closes a week below $4,200/oz that is a threshold that David expects would trigger more selling. Thi...

In this month’s Junior Mining Insights discussion, Bill Powers and Brian Leni discuss the topics of recent junior mining volatility, opportunity cost, overthinking and “it’s cheap enough.” The duo shares their investment psychology, observations of sector participants, first-hand experience, and real-life stories from their own lives and portfolios. Bill and Brian also reveal a few books that they...

Tim Clark, CEO of Fury Gold Mines, provides an update on the advancements at the Eau Claire gold project in northern Quebec as well as an overall corporate update along with SVP Bryan Atkinson. The key Eau Claire highlight was infill drill hole 26EC-099, which targeted an inferred portion of the Eau Claire resource and intercepted 11.74 g/t gold over 6.63 metres approximately 40m down plunge from...