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Less than a year after its launch as a public company, LunR Royalties is already looking to compete for much larger precious-metals deals after establishing its first major cash-flowing asset at Fruta del Norte. Speaking with Kitco Mining’s Paul Harris at the 2026 Mining Forum Americas, CEO Adam Lundin said LunR is prepared to evaluate transactions ranging from $50 million to as much as $1.5 billi...

Solaris Resources says the Warintza copper-gold-molybdenum project in Ecuador is moving into a critical de-risking phase, with updated guidance targeting full permitting by the end of H1 2027 and a final investment decision in the back half of 2027. Speaking with Kitco Mining’s Paul Harris at the 2026 Mining Forum Americas, President and CEO Matthew Rowlinson said Solaris expects roughly $100 mill...

U.S. Gold Corp is approaching a major decision point at the fully permitted CK Gold Project in Wyoming, with financing advancing while unsolicited strategic interest continues to test the case for building versus selling. Speaking with Kitco Mining’s Paul Harris at the 2026 Mining Forum Americas, President and CEO George Bee said the company’s March 2026 feasibility study outlined initial capital...

Sunshine Silver Mining & Refining is targeting a late-2028 return to production at Idaho’s historic Sunshine Mine, while designing a larger operation and evaluating a return to integrated silver and antimony refining. Speaking with Kitco Mining’s Paul Harris at the 2026 Mining Forum Americas, CEO Heather White said Sunshine’s June IPO raised about $310 million gross, providing the runway to co...

Robert Quartermain, Co-Chair of Dakota Gold, joins Kitco Mining’s Paul Harris at the 2026 Mining Forum Americas to discuss the company’s plan to advance the Richmond Hill Gold Project in South Dakota toward production as soon as 2029. Speaking on September 29, Quartermain said Dakota Gold had about $99 million on its balance sheet as of June, which management believes can carry the company through...

Jamie Beck, President and CEO of Lundin Gold, joins Kitco Mining’s Paul Harris at the 2026 Mining Forum Americas in Colorado Springs to discuss how exploration success is extending the growth profile of Fruta del Norte in Ecuador. FDN began mining in 2019 with about 5 million ounces of reserves. Since then, Lundin Gold has produced more than 3 million ounces and still holds roughly 6 million ounce...

Ari Sussman, Executive Chair of Collective Mining, joins Kitco Mining’s Paul Harris at the 2026 Mining Forum Americas in Colorado Springs to discuss how Apollo’s maiden resource is accelerating the Guayabales Project toward permitting and development in Colombia. Collective announced Apollo’s first mineral resource on September 8, totaling about 5.4 million gold-equivalent ounces in indicated and...

Cor Coe, CEO of Sitka Gold, joins Kitco Mining’s Paul Harris at the 2026 Precious Metals Summit in Beaver Creek to discuss the next phase of the RC Gold Project in Yukon, which currently hosts more than 5.1 million ounces of gold across three deposits. Speaking on September 24, Coe said Sitka expects its 60,000-metre 2026 drill program to significantly expand the resource as it advances Blackjack,...

Alan Carter, CEO of Cabral Gold, joins Kitco Mining’s Paul Harris at the 2026 Precious Metals Summit in Beaver Creek to discuss how first production at the Cuiú Cuiú Gold District in Brazil is changing the company’s growth outlook. Speaking on September 25, 2026, Carter said Cabral had brought its Phase 1 oxide operation into production two months ahead of schedule and expected roughly 25,000 ounc...

Ian Harris, President & CEO of Copper Giant, joins Kitco Mining’s Paul Harris at the 2026 Precious Metals Summit in Beaver Creek to discuss how the billion-tonne Mocoa copper-molybdenum project in Colombia is moving from resource growth toward development. Copper Giant is targeting more than 23,000 meters of drilling in 2026 as it works to upgrade Mocoa’s resource ahead of a pre-feasibility st...

Tony Giardini, CEO of Trilogy Metals, joins Kitco Mining’s Paul Harris at the 2026 Precious Metals Summit in Beaver Creek to discuss the U.S. government’s investment in Trilogy and the push to advance Alaska’s Ambler Mining District. Speaking on September 25, Giardini said the U.S. Department of War’s $35.6 million strategic investment was significant beyond the capital itself. “I think for us it&...

Jorge A. Ganoza, CEO, Director and Co-Founder of Fortuna Mining, joins Kitco Mining’s Paul Harris at the 2026 Mining Forum Americas to discuss the company’s plan to grow toward approximately 500,000 gold equivalent ounces a year by 2028. Speaking on September 28, Ganoza said Fortuna expects roughly 60% production growth over the next 18 months through the Séguéla expansion in Côte d’Ivoire and dev...

Daniel Noone, CEO of G3 Goldfields, joins Kitco Mining’s Paul Harris at the 2026 Precious Metals Summit in Beaver Creek to discuss the new Guyana-focused explorer created from the G2 Goldfields transaction with G Mining Ventures. G3 was spun out with C$45 million in cash, the Peters Mine, Tiger Creek and other Guyana exploration assets, plus contingent rights worth up to US$200 million tied to fut...

Warren Irwin, President & Chief Investment Officer of Rosseau Asset Management, joins Kitco Mining’s Paul Harris at the 2026 Precious Metals Summit in Beaver Creek to discuss gold’s long-term outlook, why mining equities continue to lag, and where stronger gold prices may be masking risk across the sector. Irwin says it is “pretty easy to call 10,000 gold” over the long term as government spen...

Victor Cantore, President & CEO of Amex Gold Mining, joins Kitco Mining’s Paul Harris at the 2026 Precious Metals Summit in Beaver Creek to discuss how the company is advancing the high-grade Perron gold project in Quebec from exploration toward production. Amex is developing a permitted 40,000-tonne bulk sample while building underground infrastructure intended to carry into Phase 1. Cantore...

John Miniotis, President & CEO of AbraSilver, joins Kitco Mining’s Paul Harris at the 2026 Precious Metals Summit in Beaver Creek to discuss how the Diablillos silver-gold project in Argentina is moving rapidly from exploration into development. AbraSilver now has a 454-million-ounce silver-equivalent Measured & Indicated resource, environmental approvals from both Salta and Catamarca, RIG...

Jon Gilligan, President & CEO of Liberty Gold, joins Kitco Mining’s Paul Harris at the 2026 Precious Metals Summit in Beaver Creek following the feasibility study for the Black Pine oxide gold project in Idaho, which outlines a $411 million initial build, a 16-year mine life, and average life-of-mine production of roughly 177,000 ounces of gold per year. Gilligan says Liberty has deliberately...

Allen Sabet, CEO of Mogotes Metals, joins Kitco Mining’s Paul Harris at the 2026 Precious Metals Summit in Beaver Creek to discuss the company’s two recent discoveries at Filo Sur in the Vicuña District and the much larger drill program planned for the 2026–2027 season. Sabet says Mogotes spent four years systematically building and exploring its roughly 100 km² land package beside Filo del Sol be...

Drew Clark, President, CEO & Director of Summit Royalties, joins Kitco Mining’s Paul Harris at the 2026 Precious Metals Summit in Beaver Creek to explain how the newly public royalty company is scaling through acquisitions while trying to grow value on a per-share basis. Clark says Summit has gone from zero to nearly 50 royalties in roughly 18 months, with a strategy he describes as “professio...

Joaquin Marias, President & CEO of Argenta Silver, joins Kitco Mining’s Paul Harris at the 2026 Precious Metals Summit in Beaver Creek to discuss how metallurgical testwork, resource expansion and existing infrastructure are shaping the next phase of the El Quevar silver project in Salta, Argentina. Marias says preliminary variability testwork across 15 samples returned roughly 95% average sil...

Paul Rollinson, President and CEO of Kinross Gold, joins Kitco Mining’s Paul Harris at the 2026 Mining Forum Americas in Colorado Springs to discuss the company’s recent production guidance trim, higher shareholder returns, and the organic growth pipeline it expects to drive stronger margins and cash flow per share. Rollinson says extreme weather and higher-than-expected copper at La Coipa weighed...

Willem Middelkoop, Founder & CEO of Commodity Discovery Fund, joins Kitco Mining’s Paul Harris at the 2026 Precious Metals Summit in Beaver Creek to explain why stronger financing and higher metals prices are still not producing enough major new discoveries. Middelkoop says the industry is seeing “the start of a new bull market,” with more capital entering the junior space and more drills turn...

Jalen Yuan, CEO of New Pacific Metals, joins Kitco Mining’s Paul Harris at the 2026 Precious Metals Summit in Beaver Creek to discuss how Bolivia’s changing mining and investment framework could affect the company’s two permitting-stage precious-metals projects, Silver Sand and Carangas. At Carangas, New Pacific signed its Administrative Mining Contracts in August and launched a 30,000-meter drill...

China has added gold to its reserves 22 months in a row, while Beijing keeps Bitcoin trading banned. Cory Klippsten, founder and CEO of Swan Bitcoin, says there's dark logic behind it: gold is hard money a state can still control. Klippsten explains what China can and can't control about gold, why he went looking for a new gold standard and found it falls well short, and the four horseme...

Jim Rickards says Washington benefits from inflation. For people trying to protect their savings, that creates a very different problem. In this Kitco News interview, Jeremy Szafron asks Rickards who could drive gold’s next move, why he thinks China needs dollars even as it reduces its Treasury holdings, and what happens when the government’s debt problem collides with the saver’s need for stable...