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- 0:00Demand for copper is projected to skyrocket in the coming
- 0:04decades. Today, we're fortunate to be
- 0:06joined by Max Porterfield. He's the CEO of Calinex Mines.
- 0:12They are in the process of discovering and developing high
- 0:16grade copper deposits in Canada. Max, welcome to Ron's basement.
- 0:21Hi, Ron. I'm really excited to be here.
- 0:23Thanks for having me. Yeah.
- 0:24So your your company is a very interesting story.
- 0:28I know that, you know, kind of the district that you're
- 0:30exploring in has quite a history with Copper, but what you're
- 0:35finding that's new is quite impressive as well.
- 0:39Yeah, we were exploring an area that's got over 100 year
- 0:42production history, 32 mines. That's really what makes up
- 0:45these you know districts as you mentioned a very high grade
- 0:49polymetallic deposits that are rich in base metals, copper and
- 0:53zinc and also carry gold and silver as byproducts which is
- 0:57why you that you've seen such a long steady production profile
- 1:02out of the Flun Flun district we're exploring in is because of
- 1:06that that metals content and spread and and we're we're
- 1:09finding more of the same which is great because they're very
- 1:12rich in metals these deposit styles which is why we've
- 1:15selected them in in terms of our company's focus to explore and
- 1:19develop. So, so you're you're exploring
- 1:23and developing in a town called Flynn Flon.
- 1:26It does have like you said 100 year history.
- 1:29It's in Canada. We're going to dive into the
- 1:32success you've had with exploration, but in terms of
- 1:37finding copper and you're finding some gold and silver as
- 1:41well, I understand. But in terms of finding it in
- 1:44that location, what are the advantages that you would say to
- 1:47to to being in a established mining district in Canada?
- 1:53Well, rule of law is very, very important because you don't want
- 1:55to go out and take all the risks to find something and then have
- 1:59uncertainty of whether you own it or not And being able to
- 2:02actually produce and extract it out of the ground because
- 2:04ultimately that's when you you get the real value creation is
- 2:09through the discovery and then you realize that value through
- 2:11producing it for however long the mine life is.
- 2:14So in, in terms of focusing on proximity, infrastructure is a
- 2:18key focal point of our company and that really is, is to reduce
- 2:23your exploration risk in many ways.
- 2:24You're in a known jurisdiction, so you're a proven area
- 2:27geologist, proven that it's hosted numerous mines.
- 2:30I mentioned in our area 32 mines.
- 2:31And aside from that you're gonna have much lower upfront capital
- 2:38costs. So one of the biggest costs to
- 2:43taking a a mine or developing a mine is your upfront
- 2:46infrastructure cost and getting people out there power out
- 2:49there, Rd. access water out there.
- 2:53And it can have big, big CapEx. You know, a lot of these
- 2:55deposits that are, you know, remote when they're discovered,
- 2:59then it's just the beginning outside the discovery and
- 3:01drilling it out is then how you gonna build it and how you gonna
- 3:03raise the capital to build it 'cause, you know, CapEx can be
- 3:06over a billion dollars in in, in many of these instances.
- 3:09And so you can reduce that by being close to where all the
- 3:13people are, the skilled workforce who are power already
- 3:16sitting because the mines have already been producing there.
- 3:19And in in our instance, there's a lot of water with the lakes.
- 3:22So again, it reduces your upfront capital costs.
- 3:25And on the exploration side of things, we're also able to
- 3:27explore at much lower exploration costs because you're
- 3:31not bringing the people out there through helicopter
- 3:33assisted drilling, bringing fuel out to very remote locations.
- 3:38In our instance, we actually own two homes in the community and
- 3:41people commute from the community out to our mine site
- 3:45or where the discoveries sit to work and it's works quite well.
- 3:50So your location has access to electricity, hydroelectric power
- 3:57line I think runs nearby. I saw there's water, there's a
- 4:02town of Flint Flan with 5000 residents and they are is it, is
- 4:09it safe to say that they are accustomed to mining?
- 4:12It's been going on. They're miners.
- 4:15Yeah, they're mining. Call them anything else would be
- 4:18mislabeling all their key skill set.
- 4:20I mean they're mining. This is a multi generational
- 4:23mining community. The mining community actually
- 4:25dates back to the original discovery of the Flynn Flan
- 4:28deposit, which is the deposit the name the town's named after.
- 4:33That was why the town actually was built.
- 4:35So this town didn't exist until there were mines there and it's
- 4:39been mining community ever since and never looked back.
- 4:42So that is the key economic driver.
- 4:44If you look at the situation actually that further benefits
- 4:47what we're doing in terms of support from the community.
- 4:49And I actually just before this call I was presenting to the the
- 4:52community City Council fund fund.
- 4:55So they were getting another update and continue to be
- 4:58supportive of us. But again they had a a mine, a
- 5:02big flagship mine that shut down in July 2022 called the 777 mine
- 5:07and that was a mine that operated for over 18 years and
- 5:10was the key where the employer for the community.
- 5:13Again, you mentioned this 5000 people, over 700 of them worked
- 5:16at 777. And so when that mine shut down,
- 5:20not only do you have a huge job loss in the mine itself with
- 5:24those jobs that are dwindling down to 50 jobs that
- 5:27infrastructure goes on long term care and maintenance for the
- 5:29time being that's a a big impact to also the other service
- 5:35providers that were there to supply that mine in operation.
- 5:40With that being said, the skilled workforce still works
- 5:43in, I mean lives in Flint Flon because a lot of them are
- 5:46relocating to another mine about a about 100 miles away.
- 5:50So they'll do it two weeks on, two weeks off.
- 5:52I can tell you it's not the most comfortable work environment
- 5:56because you wait for your family half the month.
- 5:59And so there's a lot of eagerness to see us be
- 6:01successful. And I think in terms of
- 6:05attracting human capital, I think it'll be quite easy at
- 6:07that time because we'll be offering a similar job, but one
- 6:12where they can drive 20-30 minutes from home as opposed to
- 6:16leave for two weeks at a time. It it sounds like to me that the
- 6:20location and being so close to Flint like it's a mutually
- 6:24beneficial relationship. It's good for the company.
- 6:27It's good for your company because of all the factors that
- 6:30you just listed for us. But the people of the town are
- 6:35vested and interested in in your success as well.
- 6:40Yeah, no, I mean we were drilling not this last
- 6:42Christmas, but the Christmas before last and I was actually
- 6:46there with the drillers and you know we had the people, the
- 6:49community to bring them Christmas cookies.
- 6:52So there is, there is a lot of support from the community,
- 6:56which is great. I mean our success is really
- 6:59their success and that was the really when he I took over the
- 7:02company in in terms of management shift in 2014.
- 7:06The the company had a long history of exploring this area.
- 7:08But the real opportunity if you looked at it just strictly from
- 7:11a business standpoint is you know aligning yourself with
- 7:14interest to the common good and creating something that will
- 7:16facilitate their long term viability.
- 7:19You know you'll be rewarded by doing so.
- 7:22And that's really what you know Rainbow and the different
- 7:25discoveries that we have at our project represent is that you
- 7:28know culmination of a lot of those years worked and it took
- 7:31six years to hit our first discovery hole.
- 7:34Since that we've gotten a bit better at how to find these
- 7:37deposits on a property where they sit and we've had a couple
- 7:41other discoveries that are quite promising.
- 7:44So we're we're quite excited about, you know, the potential
- 7:46to meet that ultimate goal for the community of Flint Flock.
- 7:49So, so you call the the zone that you're working in Pine Bay,
- 7:54but within Pine Bay there's four deposits.
- 7:58Tell us a little bit, I I understand you've issued a a
- 8:02maiden resource this year. Give us a a read on on what you
- 8:06found there so far. Yeah.
- 8:08So Pine Bay is the name of, of the property area.
- 8:10It actually encompasses over 6000 hectares.
- 8:14We also see potential to further grow that land package
- 8:18strategically where it makes sense in the future.
- 8:21But it's a very, very large land package.
- 8:23It does benefit as you mentioned from a hydroelectric power line
- 8:27on site. It actually sits within 200
- 8:29meters of our largest deposit that we've discovered today
- 8:32called Rainbow Rd. Access Water and it's actually
- 8:36on a mineral lease. So it's advanced permitting.
- 8:39So the area encompasses an area that's been very favorable based
- 8:44upon geology and exploration has actually gone back to 1911.
- 8:47There all exploring for the big one is so to speak And and now
- 8:53we've now started to hit in modern day with the most
- 8:56substantial discoveries in the history of the property going
- 8:58over a century of exploration. We've got a rainbow deposits,
- 9:02the most advanced one, the first discovery that we made in 2020
- 9:06that culminated with that resource that you mentioned we
- 9:09announced last July of over nearly four, it's 4.7 million
- 9:13tons. We're averaging over 3% copper.
- 9:17And then there's an adjacent deposit called Pine Bay, that's
- 9:20a million tons. So we're nearly 6,000,000 tons
- 9:23on the resource. Rainbow is open at depth.
- 9:27And then we've added the number of discoveries since then, one
- 9:30of them called Alchemists and the second one called
- 9:32Descendant, the descendant that was more recently made is we're
- 9:37quite excited about that one for immediate resource growth there
- 9:41and have plans moving forward to focus on that.
- 9:43So again, we're looking to now transition the project into a
- 9:48tier one asset by showing scale and scale it'll be in our, our
- 9:53focus is you know over doubling the resource base through
- 9:56expiration in the next 12 to 18 months.
- 9:59OK. So currently you're at six
- 10:01million metric tons. How big potentially let's say in
- 10:05the next one year to five years could you, could you see
- 10:09possibly the resource base getting to?
- 10:12Well, the resource base can grow, has the potential to grow
- 10:15pretty quickly based upon what we're seeing at descendant at
- 10:19Descendant, the geology and the kind of key indicators around
- 10:23there are showing there's a potential for it to be
- 10:26significant in size. And once you get on to these
- 10:29things and you kind of start defining them, you can define
- 10:31them rather quickly. It's just the hard part's
- 10:33finding them and kind of give an example.
- 10:35We had, we had three holes in the rainbow entering 2021 and
- 10:40then by 2023 we were able to put that resource on there and you
- 10:45can you can build volume much more quickly.
- 10:48The larger the system is and we believe we're in a much larger
- 10:50system based upon some signatures there with this new
- 10:55discovery. So we'd like to see ourselves
- 10:58north of 15,000,000 tons on the property or have a Direct Line
- 11:02of sight on that in the next, you know 18 months or so based
- 11:06upon successful expirations results And again a
- 11:09forward-looking statement, we have to have success with the
- 11:11drill bit to back that up. But that's the goal of ourselves
- 11:14moving forward is to really grow that from nearly, you know
- 11:196,000,000 tons to over 1516 million tons and that's when
- 11:23you're going to get a big operation for a long life of
- 11:26mine. OK, so I had a complete idea.
- 11:29That there's there's been 32 mines in this camp's history and
- 11:34there's been only three of them that have ever been over 20
- 11:37million tons. OK.
- 11:39OK. So and again it's safe to say
- 11:41that that Flint Flan is a mining town, no doubt about it, right.
- 11:46So, so and please correct me if I'm wrong on this, but as you're
- 11:51talking about this exciting drill results you got from
- 11:55Descendant in 2023, Is it safe to say that it I heard you say
- 12:02the hard part is finding it, is it, is it safe to say that you
- 12:06that you've kind of accomplished that at this point or that the
- 12:09indications are any way that possibly you've kind of gotten
- 12:13over that hurdle and now you're in the process of defining it?
- 12:18Yeah, that's the early indications we've got in terms
- 12:20of the descending. We've got a number of holes into
- 12:23it and the holes are are are showing things are improving at
- 12:27depth which has been the long standing exploration thesis on
- 12:31the property not just ourselves of previous operators that in
- 12:34that area of the property that the deposit would lie at death
- 12:37and a lot of these large deposits in this area of the
- 12:40world go deep that's just how they sit in.
- 12:44The deposits of Pine Bay are seem to be pointing the same
- 12:47way. So again we're early on that the
- 12:51the the drilling that we've done on it is indicating that we're
- 12:54in a a much larger system. The intervals are you know wider
- 12:58than what we've seen at the top of rainbow.
- 13:01We believe it's the Senate where the top of it and then you know
- 13:04as we get to drilling, you know moving forward and stepping out,
- 13:08you know things will build upon themselves and you know it takes
- 13:101 hole after another hole after another hole.
- 13:13To give you the idea of Rainbow, we started with one hole and
- 13:16when we put a resource base on it, we had eighty holes into the
- 13:18area. So it takes you know a lot of
- 13:21drilling and you know the what we see a descendant I would say
- 13:25is you know a lot of the early indications that we saw at
- 13:28Rainbow and Rainbow grew into something special and again it's
- 13:31a very risky business. So I cater that nothing's 100%
- 13:35in this business or we wouldn't be in it if it was that easy.
- 13:39But we, we are very excited about the potential for this
- 13:42discovery to emerge as something significant for ourselves in the
- 13:46community in the investor universe.
- 13:49In in terms of the deposit that you have established, how do
- 13:54your grades compare to what other copper mines, other copper
- 13:58discoveries that we're seeing around Canada and maybe around
- 14:01the world even? Yeah.
- 14:03So in terms of the grades that we've intersected at Pine Bay,
- 14:08they do stand out on a global basis and really which is you
- 14:12know Flynn Flan's always been known for having these type of
- 14:15grades which is why we started exploring them first place and
- 14:18and why so many people prior tests and explored that area for
- 14:23these type of deposits. In, in terms of on a global
- 14:26basis, if you look at copper grades that are mined around the
- 14:29world, the average grade is less than half a percent.
- 14:32So over 30% of that production is going to come out of Chile
- 14:35and Peru. And these are very, very large,
- 14:38very low grade operations. So you're looking in any
- 14:41instance down to .25% copper for example, .35% copper, whereas
- 14:48we're averaging over 3% copper. Then also on top of that have
- 14:52the the, the base and precious metals, the zinc, gold and
- 14:55silver as additional credits as what they call them in, in
- 14:58mining to the the primary metal which is in our instance copper.
- 15:04So the including that which just makes it so great is it we're in
- 15:08the that much higher end of that spectrum in terms of grades.
- 15:11If you want to find some of the highest grade copper mines in
- 15:13the world, you got to go to the DRC in the Congo.
- 15:16And I've actually visited the Congo several years ago.
- 15:20I went to see the mountain gorillas, not to see any copper,
- 15:23the gorillas are great, but I, you know I think that was
- 15:25probably once in a lifetime thing.
- 15:27I don't think I'm gonna make that a regular stop
- 15:29professionally or for my vacation endeavors moving
- 15:32forward just because it's a very unsafe area.
- 15:35But they're averaging 2 to 3% copper and the DRC and actually
- 15:39the highest grade copper mine in the world is 6% the Cokula and
- 15:43that's operated by Ivanhoe Mines and Ivan Mines, great leadership
- 15:49in in Robert Friedland there, but they were there because of
- 15:53the grades. And uniquely enough they brought
- 15:55a hydroelectric power line into the Congo.
- 15:58So they could be mining have the cleanest copper concentrate in
- 16:01the world. And I I like to you know, think
- 16:04that we're a much safer version of that.
- 16:05We have the exceptionally high grade copper.
- 16:07We didn't need to build a hydroelectric power line
- 16:09ourselves. And you know, again, we're in
- 16:12proximity to that infrastructure and that known workforce and I
- 16:15don't need to worry about my life driving down the road
- 16:17there. You you, you feel relatively
- 16:20safe in Flint Flan. Another key component that
- 16:24everyone looks at when evaluating mining companies is
- 16:27management. And we're going to talk
- 16:29specifically about you a little bit later, but what about your
- 16:32management team? From what I was able to discern
- 16:35as I dug in, you have an experienced team, but on top of
- 16:40that, a team that's also experienced in that Flan Flan
- 16:44district. Yeah, no, absolutely.
- 16:46They've got a lot more Gray hair than me.
- 16:47I've got a lot of Gray hair from my age, but I think that's just
- 16:50part of life and the stresses that come from it.
- 16:53But you know, certainly our technical team that we, we have
- 16:57it here at Calinex is I'm biased but they're, I think they're the
- 17:01best of the best and what they do, I spent a lot of time and
- 17:04you know on each one of them getting to join the team and
- 17:06they've all comment at the right time.
- 17:09I always call Pine Bay that you know, feel the dreams, you know
- 17:11if you find it, they'll come. And so they've all come to help
- 17:15support in their respective roles for the discovery and the
- 17:18development of these deposits, you know, as they they progress.
- 17:21So our team's been credited with the discovery over half of those
- 17:24mines that I mentioned, the 32 mines in the history.
- 17:28So and not just some of them but then some of the biggest ones.
- 17:31So you know my mentor, former Chairman of the company, Mike
- 17:33Mozlassky, who put the project together.
- 17:36He's in the main in the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame for a dozen
- 17:38mines in this area of the world, the largest of which was the
- 17:41Trout Lake mine that carry this community for over 3 decades.
- 17:46Our team's also been credited to discover the 777 mine that I
- 17:49mentioned that operated for 18 years and just recently shut
- 17:52down as well as the currently operating Lawler mine that's in
- 17:55a different area, the the belt about 100 miles away where
- 17:59everyone's working now and then on engineering side went out and
- 18:03joined us about a year ago. His name is Peter R Jones and
- 18:07and Peter is probably the best engineer you can find to to
- 18:11engineer a mine in Flint Flon 'cause he's the founding CEO of
- 18:14HUD Bay who's the mid tier producer that's has
- 18:17infrastructure in Flint Flon and help build and finance 777 and
- 18:22and Lawler and those are two of the three largest mines in the
- 18:26camp's history. So again, we've got a A-Team
- 18:29that's found them, a team that's built them and financed them and
- 18:33we're looking to do it again collectively here with Kalanick
- 18:37Center Discoveries at Pine Bay. Interesting.
- 18:41When I look at the share structure of the company, almost
- 18:4525% inside ownership. Is that accurate?
- 18:49That's correct, yes. Which is very high, 45% is owned
- 18:54by institutions, which is also very high.
- 18:57Tell me a little bit about the inside ownership and and and
- 19:01your personal interest in the company to the extent that you
- 19:05that you want to share. Yeah, no, certainly.
- 19:07I mean I I I put my money where my mouth is and I got a pretty
- 19:10big mouth. I've always had a a pretty big
- 19:12mouth. My family about that one and
- 19:13certainly my friends. So you know I own just under 4%
- 19:17of the company outright and that has been built, the positions
- 19:20built, built since I joined the company.
- 19:22So there was no founders here as I came in after the company was
- 19:24founded and just built that over time and then it had strong
- 19:29support from you know family as well.
- 19:32So collectively you know I think you know the Porterfield family
- 19:35is roughly around 10% of the float.
- 19:38So again long term shareholders, long term believers on these
- 19:42discoveries and gonna see this, this company through and shown
- 19:46that historically and told to be moving anytime soon.
- 19:49We're finally having a lot of fun doing it.
- 19:51And then on the institutional side had strong institutional
- 19:54support. It's very critical for a company
- 19:56like ourselves because again we don't generate revenue and we're
- 20:00really many ways like a biotech company where it's a lot of
- 20:03research and development but our research is done with the drill
- 20:06bit or some geophysical tools and those are analyzed at a lab
- 20:10but they're an assay lab not a you know on human trials or
- 20:13anything like that. So with that being said, we've
- 20:16got some of the most known and well respected resource
- 20:20investors that are on the Shielder registry.
- 20:23The likes of 1832 McKenzie Resource Capital funds, which
- 20:27are you know, big funds that have been around this industry
- 20:30in a very long time and are stable shareholders and and
- 20:34aside all that, the structure is very, very tight.
- 20:36So I should say all that with just 17.1 million shares
- 20:40outstanding and again no debt on the balance sheet, I don't
- 20:44believe an exploration company should ever take on debt.
- 20:46That's you know more from when you build the mine, but again
- 20:50very tightly held, very small float and and that is gonna help
- 20:55out tremendously. So historically we put out for
- 20:58results. They've been positive.
- 21:00Of course the shares have have responded quite quite positively
- 21:04as well. So 2023 sounds like it was a
- 21:11successful year for the company. As you look out throughout the
- 21:15rest of 2024, what what are you most excited about?
- 21:21Well, we're most excited about the potential to significantly
- 21:23go with the resource base and grow Pine Bay into just not a
- 21:26great high grade discovery, but really stand out as a tier one
- 21:30asset on a global basis. And that's just going to be you
- 21:33know showing size. And we've got really I believe a
- 21:36strong potential for path to size with the emerging
- 21:39discoveries that we have. Again, a rainbow deposit that
- 21:42we've announced a resource on is open at depth.
- 21:44We've got in addition to that two emerging discoveries at
- 21:48Alchemist in Descendant, which is spent some time talking about
- 21:51today. And we've got a pipeline of
- 21:53further exploration targets to feed into that longer term.
- 21:56And we've with it the potential to grow a significant resource
- 22:01through those discoveries with additional drilling and
- 22:04geophysical work which we're doing right now over the next 12
- 22:07to 18 months. Interesting.
- 22:10So as I'm I'm jotting down some notes here as we've talked I I I
- 22:14hear great location, copper is a great metal to be in.
- 22:19We didn't really touch on that but we know that the projections
- 22:22for copper demand are are incredible as we move into these
- 22:25coming decades. Your deposit is high grade, but
- 22:31there's also a real tangible opportunity not only that it's
- 22:36high grade but that the, I mean it's already respectable size,
- 22:39it's 6,000,000 metric tons, but that it could grow much larger.
- 22:44What am I missing? Is there?
- 22:45Is there anything I forgot to ask you?
- 22:47Or or or? The I mean one thing they I
- 22:50should also mention that it kind of gets you know it's Steve Jobs
- 22:52is always great but this always gets better.
- 22:54The reality is, is beyond just our asset base in Flint flown,
- 22:58we also host two very sizable base metal rich and precious
- 23:02metals rich deposits in the Maritimes in Canada.
- 23:05So as we've kind of shown you the playbook in terms of
- 23:08proximity infrastructure in Flint Flon and Flint Flon being
- 23:10one of the most famed VMS camps in the world and the discoveries
- 23:15that are there that you know we're actively pursuing.
- 23:17We're also backstopped by some sizable resources in the
- 23:21Bathurst district of New Brunswick and that's a zinc
- 23:25deposit again in proximity infrastructure, deep water port,
- 23:29rail line, power station in a safe jurisdiction where we're
- 23:33very welcome, very high unemployment rate there.
- 23:35Mining history as well. The one of the largest
- 23:38underground zinc mines in the world was recently shut down in
- 23:41in Bathurst not too long ago. And then in, in Newfoundland
- 23:45where there's been a lot of success on the gold front, we've
- 23:47got a a 20 million ton gold, copper zinc deposit that's near
- 23:52surface. It's pit constrained also within
- 23:55a mineral lease just like Pine Bay has a mineral lease Point
- 23:57Leamington in Newfoundland does and those are both those
- 24:01projects have known a 43, one O 1 resource estimates on them
- 24:07Nash Creek in New Brunswick over 19,000,000 tons and in
- 24:12Newfoundland Point Leamington is 20 million tons.
- 24:16So and those are there and and that gives you real exposure in
- 24:19a rising metal price environment.
- 24:21I like to think that they're kind of option calls and and you
- 24:24know an asset can go out of the money to end the money very
- 24:26quickly. And you know these deposits
- 24:29become more and more economic obviously in a rising price
- 24:32environment assuming you know cost stay in line to some degree
- 24:36you don't have you know cost eroding any kind of margin that
- 24:40you're making as prices rise and that's just beyond our
- 24:43discoveries at Pine Bay which is our flagship.
- 24:47Right. So, so wait, there was more and
- 24:50I appreciate you. Yeah.
- 24:52I appreciate. It certainly is more.
- 24:56If people want to learn more about the company calnx.ca, is
- 25:01that correct for the website? CALLINE x.ca, we trade in the US
- 25:08on the OTCQX under the ticker CLLXF and then in Canada if you
- 25:14happen to have access to the Canadian markets, we trade on
- 25:16the Toronto Venture Exchange under the ticker CNX.
- 25:21OK, well, we're not done yet. Max, I have one more question
- 25:23for you, because people always want to get to know the CE OS or
- 25:27learn a little bit more about them.
- 25:29So I was going to ask you what your best friend if I was out
- 25:32having a cup of coffee with your best friend, what they would
- 25:35tell me about you. But I think you said you're with
- 25:38your dad right now. So if I was talking to your dad,
- 25:41or he was out with his buddies and he was going to brag about
- 25:44about his son Max, what are what are one or two things he might
- 25:47say about you? I certainly very, very
- 25:52passionate person about making mineral discoveries, eccentric
- 25:57in a lot of ways and and likes to try new things and so I think
- 26:00that, he says. Since a very young age, I've
- 26:02always had an affinity for rocks.
- 26:04I've had an for exploration. I was very into exploring space
- 26:07as a child and I've always, even since I was a little kid,
- 26:10carried around a treasure chest. Not that I carry around a
- 26:12treasure chest now, yeah, but when I was 6-7 years old, even
- 26:16when we go to family trips, I carry around this little
- 26:18treasure chest. So I've always been looking for
- 26:20treasure, continue to look for treasure in my adult life and
- 26:23it's very, very rare. Well, I'd like to think it's
- 26:25rare. Hopefully it's not so rare where
- 26:27you get to live out your kind of your passions in your day-to-day
- 26:31job. We were just talking about
- 26:33dinner last night and I said I don't know what I would probably
- 26:36do if I wasn't doing what I'm doing today, which is the
- 26:39perfect thing to be doing when you realize that.
- 26:42Yeah. I was going to say sounds like
- 26:43you're in the right business. And as a shareholder like I am,
- 26:47I feel confident that that you're the right guy for the
- 26:51job. Max, thank you for joining me
- 26:53today. On behalf of our viewer, thank
- 26:56you. I think there's a bright future
- 26:57with Kalanxx and we'll look forward to seeing you succeed as
- 27:02we head into the coming years. Thank you very much for having
- 27:05me and and hope to be here and a part of your show again in the
- 27:08future.