Aeonian Resources is drilling its Kukanusa project, a 350km² land package in southeastern British Columbia near the Sullivan mine district. In this interview, CEO Andy Randell discussed the recently announced first hole at the Jake target, the geological model (Revett-style sediment-hosted copper, analogous to deposits in Montana), the corporate structure post-RTO, and plans to return to drilling.
Independence Gold’s flagship project is a low-sulfidation epithermal vein system about 16 km from Artemis Gold’s Blackwater mine in central British Columbia. The company also holds the Boulevard project in the Yukon, adjacent to Newmont’s Coffee deposit, and the Ootsa block within the same Nechako plateau land package. The conversation focused on the current 10,000 metre drill program at 3Ts, the path to a 1 million ounce resource, financing position, and the company’s exit-oriented business strategy.
Sun Peak Metals is working on VMS and gold targets across roughly 1,000 square kilometres in the Arabian-Nubian Shield in Saudi Arabia. The portfolio includes Safra, Halahila, Al Miyah, two pending Southeast and Southwest Massa licenses, and seven new licenses acquired in Round 9. The conversation focused on the start of the company’s maiden drill program at Safra, the planned follow-up at Halahila, the Round 9 ground, treasury position, and the broader Saudi operating environment.
Gemdale Gold is focused on the Pontio gold project in western Finland, with a portfolio of additional gold and critical metals licenses across the country. The interview covered the flagship Pontio asset, the current 6,000 metre drill program, the company’s path to a maiden resource, the recent strategic investment from Eldorado Gold, and the broader project portfolio and earlier-stage critical metals ground.
We kicked off a new format last week. We’re lining up four exploration executives in the same virtual room and walking each one through the same framework on their home turf. I borrowed the PESTLE framework (Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal, Environmental) and gave it two tweaks for resources. The T stops meaning Technology and starts meaning Transport, because a discovery you cannot truck out is a problem on a slide deck, not an asset. And the second E stops meaning Environment-in-the-ESG-sense and starts meaning the geological environment.
Relevant Gold is an early-stage gold explorer operating entirely in Wyoming, USA. The company controls roughly 55,000 acres across two separate camp areas spread across five projects. The main interview topics were the results from last year’s first drill program at the Apex target, the upcoming 2026 drill campaign (the largest in the company’s history), the Lewiston project’s early results and the polymetallic signal coming out of it, and the recently closed C$12M financing.
Golconda Gold is a small gold producer with the flagship asset, an operating underground gold mine, in South Africa’s Barberton Greenstone Belt. They also have the Summit Mine, a past-producing underground gold-silver mine in Grant County, New Mexico, which is currently being restarted. The interview covered Galaxy’s ongoing production ramp-up, Summit’s imminent restart timeline, the plan to eventually spin Summit out as a standalone listed company, and how CEO Ravi Sood is thinking about capital allocation in what he considers a gold bull market.
Miata Metals is an early-stage gold explorer operating in Suriname, on the Guiana Shield. Its flagship is the Sela Creek Gold Project (~215 km²), where they currently hold a 70% interest with an option to earn 100%. MMET also holds a 70% beneficial interest in the Nassau Gold Project (~200 km²) with the same earn-in option. The interview covered the company’s exploration progress at Sela Creek, its two active discoveries (Jons Trend and Big Berg) cash position, share structure, community relations, and what they expect for the rest of 2026.
Tudor Gold is a single-asset explorer-developer with an 80% operating interest in the Treaty Creek Project, located in the Golden Triangle of northwestern British Columbia. Teuton Resources holds the remaining 20% as a carried interest through to a production decision, along with a net smelter return (NSR) of approximately 0.98% on some claims. The property covers roughly 180 km² and hosts the Goldstorm gold-copper-silver deposit, which is the company’s sole focus. The interview covered the strategic direction of the project, the status of a live legal dispute with neighboring Seabridge Gold over proposed tunnel access through the Goldstorm deposit, plans for a PEA, and the 2025 exploration program.
Tribeca Resources is a junior copper explorer focused on a portfolio of three projects in northern Chile, with management based partly on the ground in Iquique. The flagship is La Higuera in the coastal IOCG belt, alongside Chiricuto in the Mantoverde/Mantos Santo Domingo district and a newly added porphyry target called Jiguata in the high Andes. The interview with CEO Paul Gow and President Thomas Schmidt covered drilling now underway at the Chirsposo Sur target, exploration progress at Jiguata, the option payment due on Gabby, financing position, and marketing strategy.
ESGold is advancing the past-producing Montauban project in Quebec, located about three hours from Montreal and one hour from Quebec City. The company plans to generate near-term cash flow by reprocessing historical tailings for gold and silver, while using internally generated revenue to fund exploration of what management describes as a clustered VMS-style system in the Grenville. CEO Gordon Robb walked through the Montauban build-out, recent financing, the offtake with Ocean Partners, the upcoming maiden drill program, and a recently completed ambient noise tomography (ANT) survey.
Bunker Hill Mining is restarting the historic Bunker Hill mine in the Coeur d’Alene district of Shoshone County, northern Idaho, a past-producing zinc, lead, and silver operation that ran for roughly 90 years before shutting in 1981. Executive Chairman Richard Williams, formerly COO at Barrick Gold, walked through restart timing, the asset’s geology and history, environmental status as a former Superfund site, capital structure, and the path from commissioning into ramp-up.
Aeonian Resources is drilling its Kukanusa project, a 350km² land package in southeastern British Columbia near the Sullivan mine district. In this interview, CEO Andy Randell discussed the recently announced first hole at the Jake target, the geological model (Revett-style sediment-hosted copper, analogous to deposits in Montana), the corporate structure post-RTO, and plans to return to drilling.
Independence Gold’s flagship project is a low-sulfidation epithermal vein system about 16 km from Artemis Gold’s Blackwater mine in central British Columbia. The company also holds the Boulevard project in the Yukon, adjacent to Newmont’s Coffee deposit, and the Ootsa block within the same Nechako plateau land package. The conversation focused on the current 10,000 metre drill program at 3Ts, the path to a 1 million ounce resource, financing position, and the company’s exit-oriented business strategy.
Sun Peak Metals is working on VMS and gold targets across roughly 1,000 square kilometres in the Arabian-Nubian Shield in Saudi Arabia. The portfolio includes Safra, Halahila, Al Miyah, two pending Southeast and Southwest Massa licenses, and seven new licenses acquired in Round 9. The conversation focused on the start of the company’s maiden drill program at Safra, the planned follow-up at Halahila, the Round 9 ground, treasury position, and the broader Saudi operating environment.
Gemdale Gold is focused on the Pontio gold project in western Finland, with a portfolio of additional gold and critical metals licenses across the country. The interview covered the flagship Pontio asset, the current 6,000 metre drill program, the company’s path to a maiden resource, the recent strategic investment from Eldorado Gold, and the broader project portfolio and earlier-stage critical metals ground.
We kicked off a new format last week. We’re lining up four exploration executives in the same virtual room and walking each one through the same framework on their home turf. I borrowed the PESTLE framework (Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal, Environmental) and gave it two tweaks for resources. The T stops meaning Technology and starts meaning Transport, because a discovery you cannot truck out is a problem on a slide deck, not an asset. And the second E stops meaning Environment-in-the-ESG-sense and starts meaning the geological environment.
Relevant Gold is an early-stage gold explorer operating entirely in Wyoming, USA. The company controls roughly 55,000 acres across two separate camp areas spread across five projects. The main interview topics were the results from last year’s first drill program at the Apex target, the upcoming 2026 drill campaign (the largest in the company’s history), the Lewiston project’s early results and the polymetallic signal coming out of it, and the recently closed C$12M financing.
Golconda Gold is a small gold producer with the flagship asset, an operating underground gold mine, in South Africa’s Barberton Greenstone Belt. They also have the Summit Mine, a past-producing underground gold-silver mine in Grant County, New Mexico, which is currently being restarted. The interview covered Galaxy’s ongoing production ramp-up, Summit’s imminent restart timeline, the plan to eventually spin Summit out as a standalone listed company, and how CEO Ravi Sood is thinking about capital allocation in what he considers a gold bull market.
Miata Metals is an early-stage gold explorer operating in Suriname, on the Guiana Shield. Its flagship is the Sela Creek Gold Project (~215 km²), where they currently hold a 70% interest with an option to earn 100%. MMET also holds a 70% beneficial interest in the Nassau Gold Project (~200 km²) with the same earn-in option. The interview covered the company’s exploration progress at Sela Creek, its two active discoveries (Jons Trend and Big Berg) cash position, share structure, community relations, and what they expect for the rest of 2026.
Tudor Gold is a single-asset explorer-developer with an 80% operating interest in the Treaty Creek Project, located in the Golden Triangle of northwestern British Columbia. Teuton Resources holds the remaining 20% as a carried interest through to a production decision, along with a net smelter return (NSR) of approximately 0.98% on some claims. The property covers roughly 180 km² and hosts the Goldstorm gold-copper-silver deposit, which is the company’s sole focus. The interview covered the strategic direction of the project, the status of a live legal dispute with neighboring Seabridge Gold over proposed tunnel access through the Goldstorm deposit, plans for a PEA, and the 2025 exploration program.
Tribeca Resources is a junior copper explorer focused on a portfolio of three projects in northern Chile, with management based partly on the ground in Iquique. The flagship is La Higuera in the coastal IOCG belt, alongside Chiricuto in the Mantoverde/Mantos Santo Domingo district and a newly added porphyry target called Jiguata in the high Andes. The interview with CEO Paul Gow and President Thomas Schmidt covered drilling now underway at the Chirsposo Sur target, exploration progress at Jiguata, the option payment due on Gabby, financing position, and marketing strategy.
ESGold is advancing the past-producing Montauban project in Quebec, located about three hours from Montreal and one hour from Quebec City. The company plans to generate near-term cash flow by reprocessing historical tailings for gold and silver, while using internally generated revenue to fund exploration of what management describes as a clustered VMS-style system in the Grenville. CEO Gordon Robb walked through the Montauban build-out, recent financing, the offtake with Ocean Partners, the upcoming maiden drill program, and a recently completed ambient noise tomography (ANT) survey.
Bunker Hill Mining is restarting the historic Bunker Hill mine in the Coeur d’Alene district of Shoshone County, northern Idaho, a past-producing zinc, lead, and silver operation that ran for roughly 90 years before shutting in 1981. Executive Chairman Richard Williams, formerly COO at Barrick Gold, walked through restart timing, the asset’s geology and history, environmental status as a former Superfund site, capital structure, and the path from commissioning into ramp-up.