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⚡Gold and Silver Investors May NEVER SEE THIS Again⚡ · SILVER / GOLD / $UFD: Surviving Global Economic Shifts | RONS BASEMENT

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  This is unbelievable since gold has been hitting record highs.
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  And I look at, I look at the two main newspapers in Canada and I
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  look at their business sections and I have only seen one article
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  in the business section that has the word gold in it and that
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  wasn't even gold hitting record highs.
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  So you know once the press starts catching on to the story,
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  I think that will start waking investors up.
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  You know right now there is some have sent me a chart the other
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  day. Right now 1% of global
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  investment assets are allocated to gold and gold miners.
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  In other inflationary times in the past, let's say in 8/19/81,
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  I think that number was 25% or 26, something like that.
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  In 1928 it was 30%. So there's so little it's
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  allocated towards the gold sector and at some point that's
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  going to change. Even if that 1% were to double,
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  that still represents A tremendous amount of buying.
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  So why, you know, why do I think that's important to us?
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  Look, these majors have to replenish, not actually not just
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  replenish their depleting reserves, but grow their
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  reserves. And while there's lots of money
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  being spent on exploration, there aren't many new
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  discoveries being found. You know, first mining is in the
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  enviable enviable position of having several large multi
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  million ounce projects in great jurisdictions and I can talk a
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  little bit more about those. But these are projects that I
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  think would be of great appeal to some of these majors whether
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  they, you know, whether they want to get involved or try to
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  buy them or whatever puts us in a great situation.
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  The other thing is our stock. Our stock price is in my opinion
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  like significantly significantly undervalued.
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  Our projects have incredible leverage to the price of gold.
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  In fact, every out of every $100 that gold moves up, the after
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  tax net present value moves up by a total of $250 million.
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  Now our current market cap is in Canadian dollars about 130
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  million. So and and and by the way those
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  those when we did our, our studies of pre feasibility
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  study, we used the price of gold of 1600 and for the another
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  project the Du Parquet project in Quebec, we used 1800.
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  And even at that level we're currently trading at .1 times
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  net asset value. Historically that should be
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  between .3 and .5 S just leaving those gold prices as is in, in
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  the studies we did on the spring cold project, the pre
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  feasibility study that we did, we announced that back at the
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  beginning of 2021. And then our preliminary
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  economic assessment that we announced in September of 2023,
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  we used a price of $1800. So if you would, if you were to
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  adjust the .1 times net asset value up to what is a historic
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  norm, .3 to .5 a stock, a stock price should be much, much
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  higher. If you adjust that even further
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  to reflect the current gold prices, it's like significantly,
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  significantly higher. So that's why I think our
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  project, I'm sorry our company, our stock has unbelievable re
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  rating potential that that's the term we use in our corporate
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  presentation. I like to use and this is
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  probably me being an ex stockbroker, I like to use the
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  term yeah potential for significant appreciation of
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  capital gains and you know what's going to move that.
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  Well a bunch of things we've got, we've got to have money
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  coming back into the sector and I think we're on verge of
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  turning. I think you know gold for the
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  last couple of years was facing headwinds by interest rates
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  being pushed up in in the US that gave lots of headwinds.
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  Then all of a sudden you know that stock rates stopped going
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  up. I think the central banks
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  especially in China were buying gold like there's no tomorrow.
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  That was pushing the price of gold up.
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  And you know we went up to 2400 and now we're back down to 23
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  and change and and something else I should mention is the
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  resilience of gold is phenomenal every time.
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  You know, in the past, every time I had a good day, it seemed
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  to have got clobbered the next day with the Fed coming out with
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  news that was just bearish for gold.
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  Now it's the opposite. You know, gold moves up.
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  It has a down day. It picks that back up the next
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  day and a little bit more. What do I think is going to take
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  gold to the next level. I think when we start seeing
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  even just the mentioned by the Fed of you know, inflation is
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  under control, rates are going to start coming down and I think
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  that takes gold to the next level, maybe 2500 and who knows,
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  listen, maybe it gets to the levels that some people laugh at
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  3000. But I well, I would say even at
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  2500 even the press has to start noticing reporting that I it's
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  it's just absolutely absurd. And I think these are some of
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  the, the most incredible sort of what I call the macro catalysts.
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  Actually, I divide catalysts into 3 categories macro, which
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  is the price of gold or the, the state of the sector, operational
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  catalysts, which can be things like drilling results or you
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  know, news on the permitting process, you know currently, as
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  you know, permitting a spring pole project and then what I
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  call the unexpected catalyst. These are catalysts.
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  When I was in the stock program, it was just wonderful when you,
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  you know, you go into the office, the market opens and you
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  know the stock that you bought at 2020 clients and all of a
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  sudden they've managed to drive this big contract.
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  Or in the case of a a mining exploration company, they fed a
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  castle pole and the stock goes through the roof.
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  So you know, what sort of unexpected catalysts could I,
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  could I be here, Who knows, maybe we get a big strategic
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  investor that looks at us and says hey, we've got to own that.
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  This is a company with two large projects, one of which both in
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  great jurisdictions, one of it which is at the tail end of the
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  permitting process and it looks like there's yo some light at
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  the end of the tunnel with and and you know, I think if we
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  could see something like that, then the stop just takes on a
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  new life. And yeah, but sometimes these
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  things happen overnight. You can try to predict what the
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  catalyst will be, but it's just gonna it's.
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  Just gonna it. It happens when you least
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  expected. You know, you talked about
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  ridiculous gold price predictions and you mentioned
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  $3000. What some people think is
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  ridiculous. I think it's important to point
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  out that Citibank, one of the biggest financial companies in
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  the world, has a $3000 prediction for gold sometime in
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  2025. S these numbers that a lot of
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  people call ridiculous, I mean, think about back, let's say, in
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  October just of last year. Paul, we would have thought that
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  $2300 gold, a lot of people would have called that a
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  ridiculous, ridiculous. But for a May, for a May 2024,
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  you know that if we had told investors back in October of
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  last year that that in six months we could have a $2400
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  gold price, they would have said, oh, you're crazy, that'll
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  never happen. So I think with all the macro
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  factors that you described and that things have changed that we
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  could be moving into an environment where we do hit
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  these numbers and the gold price that are that you know in the
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  past may have seemed a little far fetched.
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  I want to ask you a question because you also talked about
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  the resilience of the gold price as of late and I'm noticing it.
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  I'm sure our viewer is noticing it, but it's real, right?
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  Like you said, the price gets beat down.
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  It seemed like a year ago, two years ago, the gold price would
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  go up and then it would get beat down even further and then it
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  would go up and then it would get beat down.
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  I think that's like what most people call a bear market.
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  Would you say now that it's very possible that we're in a bull
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  market where the price of gold goes up?
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  Sure. You know it like we've had the
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  last few weeks, it gets pulled back to 2300 but then it
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  continues upward, pulls back a little bit and continues even
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  more. I heard Keith Neumeyer talk
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  about that 10 year bull market from O2 to 2012 and that's kind
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  of how he described it. Like the price of the metals
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  would go up we think oh it's over you know and then then they
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  would they would come back down, but then they would go to new
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  highs and then the same thing they'd come back is that, is
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  that, is that maybe what we're going through right now.
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  Yeah, I I I think so. You know, there's still, I think
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  you've still got factors like the central banks buying like
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  crazy that that helps. And I do think that a lot of
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  investors do feel that interest rates will pivot at some point,
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  that there's no more pressure for them to go up, that there's
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  more of an inclination for them to to drop.
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  You know, we've we've seen some horrible inflation.
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  God, I was, I was out for dinner last night and mediocre meal.
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  That cost for me and my friend that cost you know, over $200,
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  it's like it's nuts. I would have said that same meal
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  before, before COVID would have been 150 tops.
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  Like it's it's it's nuts. I can't see, I really can't see
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  inflation you know worsening. It's it's been tough enough
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  already and I think I think households are having a a tough
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  enough time as our businesses have seen their you know input
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  costs go through the roof. So you know, I think just you
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  know the market moves in the expectations, but you know
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  future expectations and I think maybe you know rates coming down
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  might be built in. Well, because because can can
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  the Fed really raise interest rates at this point, we have a
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  record amount of government debt, a record amount of
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  corporate debt and a record amount of consumer debt.
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  I don't think that any of those categories have much more
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  bandwidth or ability to absorb interest rates going much
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  higher. You know it would it would it
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  would kill the consumer, it would kill corporate profits
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  because these big corporations have to have to roll over all
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  this debt. And of course the United States
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  government has 10 trillion that whatever in the next 18 months
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  they need to refinance. I don't think that we can raise
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  rates. But if we lower rates, which is
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  the more likely scenario at this point, that will feed even more
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  inflation. And what the gold and silver for
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  that matter, love more than anything?
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  Is that inflation or even more so, a stagflationary
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  environment, which a lot of people think we're already in
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  right now? Yeah, no, listen, I I agree.
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  And I think that's, you know what as I said earlier, once we
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  see rates start to come down, I think you see the other gold
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  move significantly, silver as well.
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  And you know I'm look I'm obsessed with with you know
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  mining stocks a lot of My Portfolio probably way too much
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  is invested in gold and silver. So I'm you know I'm rooting for
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  much, much higher commodity prices.
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  I think listen I think it's I think it's going to happen.
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  You know I we haven't seen yet the generalist investor come
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  back in. You know, they're still into all
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  these high techs that are trade fantastic companies that the
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  multiples just kind of make your head shake a bit.
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  There will be a rotation. You know, you do get some people
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  say no, that cryptocurrency is the place to be.
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  I won't express my opinion on cryptocurrencies, but I think
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  just mentioning that suggests my opinion.
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  But gold has been around for thousands of years.
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  It's been a phenomenal investment and even long term
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  you look at even the gold mutual funds over the long term, they
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  have all done very well. The problem is we've probably
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  been like I was a stockbroker as I mentioned, you know this is
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  it's gold. The metals are cyclical.
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  This is going to be one of the worst cycles I've I've ever seen
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  and I think when it turns, I think we've got a lot of catch
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  up to play and I'm kind of a lot of catch up to see.
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  And I think we could be in for a bit of a mania where you know
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  prices go go crazy. And I'm looking forward to
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  seeing some valuations that people say, oh, it's a, it's a
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  little rich right now, I'm forward to that.
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  So, so, so you just you just said that in your years that
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  you've been following this sector that this is about the
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  the the most challenging environment that you've seen or
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  it at least matches any of the previous challenging
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  environments that you that you've witnessed for the mining
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  stock. So is it safe to say that the
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  pendulum right has has swung so far to the negative sentiment
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  side that that as it starts to swing back, I think I heard you
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  say it may overshoot we could get into a mania environment.
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  And I wanna and I wanna also ask your opinion on this Paul, this
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  sector is so small. The market cap, you know when
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  you look at the statistics of all the precious metal mining
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  stocks added together, you know are are are are dwarfed by the
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  market cap of some single companies like Apple or
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  Microsoft or even Home Depot for that matter.
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  That that that just a little bit of money coming into this sector
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  can have a major impact on the prices of the exploration,
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  development and even the producing company.
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  Absolutely. I mean look I mentioned this
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  earlier, you know one one of our good supporting investors sent
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  me a chart showing how much is currently invested globally in
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  gold and gold miners. It's 1% that's you know where
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  whereas in 1981 it was, it was over 20%.
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  Even if we went to 5% right now that represents a massive,
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  massive amount of buying both to the producers, developers and
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  the exploration companies. And one thing I should mention
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  like the, you know even a had it $2000 gold, the exploration, I'd
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  say the producers were making unbelievable amounts of free
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  cash flow even though we've seen inflation and their costs have
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  gone up at 20. I think they've gone up as much
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  as the price of gold at $2300 gold.
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  Their free cash flow is just unbelievable.
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  And you, you know, I think we're going to start seeing some more
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  M&A activity. We're seeing it.
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  We're seeing it a bit already. But they're going to have to do
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  something with that cash and they're going to have to get I
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  think a little more aggressive in looking for looking for ways
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  to replenish their reserves. And I have to tell you honestly,
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  I'm an investor at First Mining, I work with First Mining.
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  You know we've got a couple of projects that I think you know
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  make great sense or are are are of a potential size to be
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  meaningful to those companies. You know a spring pole project,
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  it's slate, this is one in Northwest Ontario.
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  According to our pre feasibility study that we released in early
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  2021, this is we scoped that to be a produce over 300 thousand,
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  300,000 ounces of gold a year at cash costs all all in sustaining
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  costs in the lowest quartile of the industry that is huge.
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  And then this project is going currently in through the
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  permitting phase. This is a phase that any mine
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  that gets built has to go through permitting.
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  That's definitely not unique to us, but we're in the advanced
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  stages of permitting. We we submitted back in the
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  middle of 2022 a draft environmental assessment
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  document. This is a 10,000 page document
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  talking about everything the mine plan tailings reclamation
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  and very importantly the environment and the fish habitat
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  and and the Caribou, you know Caribou studies and Wolverine
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  studies. We submitted that and the the
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  regulators came back to us with I think about 1600 comments
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  questions and none of them were show stoppers and those.
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  Comments and you know the answers to those questions are
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  being formulated into a final environmental assessment, the
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  final document that we're planning on submitting later
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  this year. And from, you know, once we
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  submit it should take maybe a year, year and a half till we
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  get approval. Obviously we're working with the
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  you know indigenous communities in the area and you know we've
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  got to make sure that they are you know they're they're you
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  know they're they're the plan is you know acceptable to to all
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  parties. Obviously the potential benefits
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  to the to everyone is a huge. So it's very this is very
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  exciting very exciting time. This is a project that is in the
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  advanced stages of of permitting and there are only a few I think
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  I can think of one other company that has a project in Canada
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  with with you know similar size to us close to permitting
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  approval which we should hopefully get before the end of
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  next year and it's it's, it's exciting, exciting times.
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  So I think with all, with all that said, it makes us very
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  attractive. To whoa, whoa, whoa.
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  But wait, Paul, there's more, right?
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  There's a huge project in Quebec, the Duparque project as
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  well, which you mentioned earlier.
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  But can you give us a little more color on what's going on up
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  there and and and the prospect? Yeah, this is a project when
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  look when Keith founded the company founded First Mining
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  back in 2015, this he he acquired a company called
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  Clifton Star that had 10% interest in the Duparque
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  project. The balance was owned by a
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  primarily a group, a small group of family.
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  It had been in the family for years.
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  We finally acquired that balance of 90% from.
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  So we now own 100% of this project in probably one of the
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  most sought after prolific mining regions in the world, the
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  Abbott Tibi region of of Quebec. You know what mines are close
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  by. Well you you know Nico Eagles,
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  Melartic and and you know Detour, these are massive
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  massive mines. We're very close, very close by.
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  We, we did a preliminary economic assessment.
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  We released it in September of 2023.
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  Also robust economics, you know, slated to produce over 200,000
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  oz a year at all in sustaining costs of less than $1000, You
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  know, very, very exciting and we're looking at some other
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  potential situations there that could also be quite exciting.
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  Because is it, is it? Is it accurate to say that
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  there's some excess milling capacity in that region as well?
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  Well, yes. So there are, there's definitely
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  some mills there and you know we're we're quite frankly
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  looking at to see if there's a way that we could take part of
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  the ore maybe higher grade ore and rather than go through the
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  whole you know construct you know immediate construction of a
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  mill processing plant that we actually can take some of that
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  ore and and told me that have it have it you know milled at one
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  of these other mills in the in the area of which there are
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  quite quite a few. So you know that's an exciting,
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  what's the word potentiality. And so you know the fact is this
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  is a company with you know two large flagship projects and
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  sorry I should mention that with Dupal K you know it's a multi
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  million ounce project. We are drilling there right now
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  because we feel that there is potential to find quite a bit
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  more. And there was a massive amount
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  of drilling already on that project from previous operators
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  is my understanding as well. Yeah, That was I think 270,000
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  meters and yeah, but so it's, you know, it's, it's, it's a
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  really interesting project. And the other thing is like
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  infrastructure's right there. You just drive from a lot to
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  there. Yeah, we've we've been there.
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  We've been and and and and I think it's also important to
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  mention that this is an area that's very accustomed to
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  mining. There's a lot of infrastructure
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  in the area. This is not a Greenfield type.
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  It was a pass producing mine at the site.
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  So it's more likely that the community will be, you know,
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  even more excited about the potentiality of of of of mining
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  occurring there again. No, listen, absolutely.
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  And you know this was, I think it was mine from the 30s to the
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  50s at one point. I think it was the largest gold
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  mine in in the province of of Quebec.
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  There are a little couple of, you know, some environmental
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  legacy issues there which you know if we build a mine or we
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  start mining there, part of the development will be cleaning up
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  those that environmental legacy, which I can't imagine that would
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  be opposed by any of the, what do you call them, the town, town
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  folk. So yeah, it's it's lots of lots
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  of lots of positives and yeah and and yeah, as you said
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  phenomenal infrastructure in the area.
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  So look, great. Yeah, great company.
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  Yet I've got a few companies that I own particularly with the
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  I kind of sometimes if I wake up in the middle of the night I I
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  think about them. This one I don't, this one does
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  not keep me up at night. I do not lose both of this one,
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  you know and just to really to summarize, you know great, great
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  projects, you know one that is in the advanced stages of
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  permitting. You know sizeable projects in
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  fantastic jurisdictions, management with a great track
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  record. You know we have cash in the
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  bank but we have sources of of you know or potential sources of
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  cash to help us continue to advance the work.
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  I think the potential appreciation from current levels
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  is is huge. You know, and I explained that
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  before trading at .1 times net asset value, historically that
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  should be .3 to point .3 to .5 for a developer that's assuming
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  much lower gold price assumptions and if you just
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  raise the current prices, that goes even higher.
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  And yeah, it's yet at a time when I think the sector is on on
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  the verge of turning, our stock price has not performed well,
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  not unlike the stock price of many, if not most other mining
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  companies over the last number of years.
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  Down, down, we're starting to see a little upturn and you know
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  I think it's it's it's really exciting when people look at a
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  stock price they I'm like oh what?
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  You know, what's what's happening?
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  Why? The the, the stock price
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  performance is not unique to the sector.
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  The whole sector's been beat down.
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  And all of this is occurring in an environment where there's
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  kind of a tale of two cities. We have sentiment for gold as a
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  physical investment on the rise in the world.
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  We have the world central banks. We can't forget that, right?
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  Buying gold like never before. So we have that up here and then
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  down here we still have the entire precious metal mining
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  sector, which is suffering from a bit improved but still very
• 28:55
  challenged sentiment. Overall this this difference has
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  to be rectified and I think most likely most people that I talked
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  to and I think if you apply a common sense to what's going on
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  in the physical gold market, it's more likely that the the
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  mining sector in general will will rise up.
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  And that could be great things for companies like first Mining
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  Gold. And you know, the entire sector
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  in general could be a very lucrative, could be a very
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  lucrative and exciting time period for people who are
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  willing to to see the capital appreciation potential within
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  the whole sector and within companies like First Mining
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  gold. No, absolutely.
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  And I think when it turns, it turns quickly.
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  People suddenly shake their heads and go, Oh my God, you
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  know what, Honestly, the potential, the potential is
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  huge. It's tough for people to get in
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  at the bottom. It's tough to be a contrarian
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  investor. You could look at something
• 30:03
  that's been going down, down, down and say, oh, companies
• 30:06
  going broke or the business, you know, in the case of a an
• 30:09
  operating business, a different business.
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  Oh, the business is going, going broke.
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  It's tough to be a contrarian, but you know, and often times
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  investors miss the 1st 20%, thirty percent, 100%
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  appreciation. But you know, I think what
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  people want to see is a little bit of a curl, you know, curl up
• 30:34
  and our stock price has been down, down, down, but it's
• 30:37
  starting to curl up. The sentiment is starting to
• 30:40
  improve. We haven't yet seen, as I
• 30:43
  mentioned before, the press coming back into, you know,
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  following the gold story. And you know, wouldn't it be
• 30:49
  nice to see a headline that says, you know, gold hitting new
• 30:53
  highs may be time to consider raising your allocation to the
• 30:57
  sector as opposed to new ETF formed with NVIDIA and great
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  companies. Maybe, Paul, maybe, just maybe,
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  the headline will say artificial intelligence predicts precious
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  metal mining sector to be the hottest sector over the next 10
• 31:19
  years, right. They can.
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  We can incorporate the two together.
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  Fabulous. Fabulous.
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  That will put a smile on my face, but I smile anyway.
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  But yeah, no, listen, I think we're in.
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  I I do, I do think we're in for some exciting times.
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  I'm the sort of person, you know, I'm, I'm an investor.
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  I've been an investor since 2015.
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  I want to see higher prices. My aspirations are very high.
• 31:46
  I mentioned, you know how First Quantum, the big copper producer
• 31:50
  that Keith founded, you know that that was a lot more than a
• 31:53
  10 or 20 bagger, same with First Majestic.
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  My aspirations for First mining are significant and all I want
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  to do, I speak to investors because fantastic investors and
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  I encourage anyone who's viewing this to, you know, to contact me
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  because I, you know, I will get on the phone or you know,
• 32:15
  arrange a video call to go over, you know more, more details.
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  But I want every single investor to, you know, ultimately make
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  superb returns. And and you know, quite
• 32:31
  honestly, especially for investors who've been in this
• 32:36
  company for a long time, at the end of the day when they
• 32:39
  ultimately sell, you know, I want their returns, their
• 32:46
  average annual compounded rate of returns to be of a sufficient
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  level that it more than compensates them for the years
• 32:57
  of, you know, suffering in a sector that has just not moved
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  and. And and it's been the whole
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  sector. I think there's bright days
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  ahead. You know Paul, on behalf of our
• 33:10
  viewer who joined us today, again I want to mention Paul
• 33:14
  Morris here. He is the a Director of Investor
• 33:17
  Relations at First Mining Gold. I will have a link in the
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  description below with his e-mail address.
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  He's happy to talk to you about the company, about the sector,
• 33:27
  about the opportunities. Paul, again, from all of us,
• 33:31
  thank you for sharing your insights not just into first
• 33:33
  mining gold and the opportunity there, but in general what
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  you've experienced during your career following closely what
• 33:41
  goes on in the mining sector, in the precious metal sector.
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  But even where you see us sitting right now, because I do
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  think that we're on the precipice of some really great
• 33:51
  times for the precious metals and for the mining sector.
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  Yeah, I mean, and I keep my fingers crossed, but that's not
• 33:58
  an investment technique. But yeah, no, listen, it's
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  great, great to see you. And please, yeah, I encourage
• 34:04
  people to contact me, send me an e-mail, I will get back to you
• 34:09
  and you know if we can arrange a a phone call or a video call, as
• 34:15
  I said, and I'd love to tell you, you know the story in a
• 34:18
  little more detail, so. Sounds great, Paul.
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  Thank you. Thank you.
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  And we'll we'll look forward to talking to you next time.
• 34:26
  Terrific. Thanks, Rob.