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And mate, they're drilling, 
they've listened to me because I

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said there's gold everywhere up 
there, get the bloody rigs 

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spinning. 
But they've got this eastern 

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stock work corridor which 14 
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18 metres and 6g. 
So it looks like there's some 

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pretty big potential. 
Righto money miners dilly back. 

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Mate, that voice is is miles 
better than it was yesterday and

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I imagine miles better than it 
was the day before. 

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I'd give you 95% back. 
Yeah, mate, I'll tell you what. 

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On the 23rd of May, it's going 
to be back to what it was 

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because on the 20 to 22nd of 
May, I'm going to be at the JRX 

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conference. 
You've got another. 

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Conference, it's going to be 
another voice destroyer, mate, 

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the industry LED conference that
is the centre for tech 

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innovation. 
The future mine is going to be 

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on display from 150 exhibitors, 
mate, tell you what. 

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And we're talking mining 
companies, OEMs, mining tech 

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companies, but and the exclusive
discount code buy money of mine 

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'cause we're just exclusive. 190
bucks off for members MOM, 160 

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bucks off MOMNM for non member. 
And mate, the links are in the 

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show notes. 
It's on LinkedIn, mate. 

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You're mad if you don't take the
free cash and you're mad if you 

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don't go. 
You're going to be there again 

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'cause. 
I'm gone, and apparently that 

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holds some weight these days. 
So whatever the world we live 

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in, go GRX partnered with 
between Osman and Oz, IMM can't 

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can't wait, boys. 
What do we got today? 

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We've got. 
We've got a line up that's going

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to be as good as the GRX 
conference, Manny, but not quite

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as good, you know? 
Yeah. 

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Your love for First Quantum 
continues. 

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They're having a punt. 
Yeah, they are. 

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They're they've, they've put $15
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Prospect Resources. 
I'm going to go into that, what 

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it means, why they need it, and 
if there's going to be 

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competitive tension in the long 
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JD is going into rare earths and
we're talking about in. 

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Honor of the great Stuart Hines.
Telfa. 

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While he's chilling on in. 
Spain, I think he's in Spain. 

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He's. 
Got a yacht, doesn't he? 

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Yeah, I think he. 
Could have got mate. 

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I'll show you the stock price 
chart. 

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If it keeps going back up, he 
can buy a bigger one. 

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Let's go. 
Let's go to Zambia to start Trev

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Prospect Resources and 1st 
Quantum. 

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I'm, I'm, I'm going down the 
value chain for a change and I 

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do want to talk about, yeah, 
Zambian copper developer 

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Prospect Resources today they 
they revealed that First Quantum

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is tipping in $15 million at 
$0.15. 

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And and to end up with a 15% 
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that's that's a lot of fifteens 
gents. 

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Do you know that discovered that
project in 2015? 

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I did not know that. 
Because it's not true I. 

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Was about. 
To say that importantly the the 

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share price that that first 
quantum is paying for for that 

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15% stake is reflects A36 
premium to prospects last traded

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price and the share price today 
is trading at 13.5 cents. 

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So not quite what what first 
quantums paying. 

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All right. 
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the the assets sort of came into
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happened because there's a 
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this one, isn't it? 
We've, we've touched on them in 

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the past and prospect they 
acquired the Mumbaisy project in

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early 2024. 
Before that it was, it was a 

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fascinating company because two 
years earlier they sold their 

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Arcadia lithium project in 
Zimbabwe to a Chinese company 

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for US, $378 million in cash. 
What did they do with the money?

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They distributed the 
overwhelming majority of it to 

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shareholders, 95% of the cash 
they they distributed via 

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dividend and a capital return. 
They only serve of the in Aussie

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dollar terms, there was like net
proceeds of 466 million. 

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The company only kept 34 million
of that in prospect, but that 

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was enough for the team to get 
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copper project in due course, 
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for, for exploration work once 
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And the project is interesting 
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Central African Cup about kind 
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Zambia and the DRC. 
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can see on on this map, just 
look at the vicinity of, of what

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is, is neighboring this, this 
project, right? 

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First Quantum's Sentinel 
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away to the West. 
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processing capacity for 
62,000,000 tonnes per annum 

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material and it produces 225,000
tonnes of copper per annum. 

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It is a monster. 
Six, that that's phenomenal 

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thinking of that amount of 
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copper. 
It's, it's low grade, right. 

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But yeah, I mean, I mean, 
everything's 2,000,000 tonnes. 

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Yeah, it's, it's a big, it's a, 
it's a big, big, big operation. 

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I think. 
I do think when we interviewed, 

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yeah, Mike Christie, he, he 
referred to 1st Quantum's 

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acquisition of the project in 
2010 for US $230 million. 

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I think he, I think he referred 
to that as Deal of the Century. 

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Do you remember that quote? 
I feel like he did anyway. 

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No it doesn't. 
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Run with you. 
He's he's clearly biased, but 

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undoubtedly like Sentinel has 
been a tremendous asset that has

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transformed kind of first 
quantum and and then to the to 

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the east, you can see on this 
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kilometers away, you've got 
barracks Lumwana copper 

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operation. 
Now Lumwana is currently 

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27,000,000 tons per annum and 
that produces 120,000 tons of 

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copper per year. 
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Lumwana into a super pit. 
They want to, you know, make it 

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a tier one asset, which it 
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And that means scale. 
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doubling the processing capacity
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and they hope to also double 
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tonnes per annum. 
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was 1.6 million tonne for 65,000
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Different scale, is it it? 
Is it is It is absolutely is. 

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So how does prospect fit into 
this then with the with the 

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majors around it mate? 
This this year prospect they 

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dropped their their maiden 
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large scale mining license from 
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The the maiden mineral resource 
estimate 107 million tonnes at 

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0.5% copper for 514,000 tonnes 
of contained copper. 

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And in the latest trend that's 
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There was also an expiration 
target another, another 420 

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million to to, you know, 1050 
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material at at a similarish 
grade is in the exploration 

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target. 
So there's, there's line of 

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sight to a fair bit of all there
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You know, that's 0.5%, right? 
The question is that you have to

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figure out, does first Quantum 
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And if they do, when do they 
need it on Barrack, their 

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Lumwana super pit ambitions? 
I think it's they say the 

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expansion's going to be about $2
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what they're gonna gonna embark 
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establish my life there out 
until 2060 by super, super 

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pitting it perhaps yeah 
prospects or could displace some

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of some of the mine plant 
earlier or provide blending 

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benefits. 
I'm not not entirely sure, but 

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let's let's move on from now to 
to 1st Quantum. 

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First Quantum Sentinel is a 
massive 62 million tons per 

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annum and the current feed grade
is around that 0.5% copper mark 

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right now too, maybe kind of 
slightly lower than that. 

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But there's also this technical 
report on Sentinel that came out

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in 2020 and what it showed was 
the mill could be fed at 60, you

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know, 62 million tons per annum 
up until 2032. 

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However, the grade really falls 
off substantially between 2029 

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and 2033. 
Look at this, this chart and you

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can just see like that, you 
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there, it just falls from 0.49% 
to 0.34% where it where it 

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unfortunately stays for quite a 
quite a number of years. 

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which of course would mean no 
much lower production. 

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So you can you can pretty easily
see now why first quantum is, is

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going to be interested in, you 
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prospect resources right now. 
There's there's feed that could 

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clearly displace the low grade 
ore there and, and have a have a

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substantial impact on, on the 
incremental value that that 

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first quantum get out of 
Sentinel. 

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Yeah, wow. 
Once you convince yourself that 

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first quantum need this and that
they they, they need it before 

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2029, then you just have to do 
the math on like what the 

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incremental value to 1st quantum
is. 

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The, the market cap of, of, of 
prospect resources is under $100

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million Australian at the 
moment. 

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I read Hoffy's analysis sort of 
suggesting incremental value to 

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1st quantum could be between US 
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If you know, if if that were 
that were feeding us through 

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through Sentinel in time, but I 
don't think like a a deal gets 

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done at full MPV here. 
You a deal like if if a deal 

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happens, there's gotta be 
something on the table for first

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quantum to to to still get 
benefit out of it as well, you 

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know, so. 
Yeah, they've got their foot on 

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them. 
They've got their foot on them 

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and that's important because 
you've got you've got barrack in

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the region who like the, you 
know, the all could, could have 

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reasonably also gone towards if,
if it, if it suited the mind 

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plan too. 
But you know, first quantum's 

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there, they've got their foot on
that. 

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There's rights that come with 
the the investment too, 

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including board representation 
and and the like. 

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So yeah, it's, it is, it's, it's
an interesting one, but I'll 

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watch it. 
You know, I'd expect in due 

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course, no, no, no sense of 
urgency now because I've got the

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foot on them. 
But in due course, like I 

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wouldn't be surprised to see 
this kind of wrapped up by first

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quarter. 
Yeah, right. 

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So what? 
Anything else interesting about 

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this? 
In addition to 1st Quantum's 

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investment here prospect, they 
have this existing 15% 

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shareholder called Eagle Eye 
Asset Holdings. 

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They are also tipping in 
$3,000,000 at $0.15 to retain 

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their own 15% shareholding in 
the company. 

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Equal eye is interesting. 
I, I had to look into them 

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because I was like, I think I 
got another strategic, but it's 

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not a strategic investor on the,
on the register. 

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It's, it's the mining investment
division of a family office 

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called Fortuna Holdings SFO. 
And if you're trying to figure 

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out a family office, which 
family, good luck finding kind 

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of public disclosure of which 
family it is. 

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It's not it's not available in 
the kind of the public domain 

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of, of Fortuna. 
All all it refers to in in all 

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of their docs is the the 
promoter family. 

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However, one of the other 
companies that that Eagle Eye is

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a substantial shareholder of on 
the ASX is Canyon Resources and 

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you can see the signatory on the
recent change in substantial 

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notice for them on Canyon is is 
Gaurav Gupta now. 

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Aussie fella. 
Aussie fella, Yeah, you won't 

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find any kind of public details 
that link Gaurav Gupta. 

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I'm probably saying his first 
name wrong to the Gupta that is 

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very controversial in South 
Australia right now. 

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Sanjeev Gupta Gaurav is the CEO 
of Adani Capital. 

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Adani of course is you know, 
there's lots of links to 

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different sort of set of Guptas,
but they all there is a lot of 

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connection. 
There's connection between 

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Guptas. 
But anyway. 

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It's simply not the same Adani 
that was doing the. 

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Coal Board and. 
Well, it's land. 

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Or a different Adani? 
That's Adani Group. 

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And then there was these 
financial divisions and then you

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had kind of, you know, because 
the whole Greensill drama, it 

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kind of got chopped up. 
And anyway, this is just like 

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one of the the financial bits 
that was chopped up. 

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It's the way I read it. 
Yeah, right. 

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Anyway, but but eagle eye isn't 
isn't Adani. 

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That's just somehow Grave is 
signatory and Grave is also CEO 

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of Adani Capital. 
For simplicity, it appears to be

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Gupta money. 
I'm just not sure which Gupta's.

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But anyway, I found I found all 
that fascinating. 

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Yeah, cool. 
Right. 

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Looking at that region, you know
what I'm thinking. 

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What are you thinking, Maddie? 
What would be the most out there

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thing that you think could pop 
into my head after your 

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discussion? 
It's it's you've, you've known 

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me for two years. 
Could you imagine a mega merger 

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between Barrick and 1st? 
Quantum. 

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It's it's. 
It's I was about to say that 

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they've tried and it makes 
perfect sense. 

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Quite literally 2 years ago they
Barrick. 

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Bid for First Quantum. 
Yeah, no, no joy. 

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But but yeah, it's, it's, it's, 
it's certainly, I mean, there's 

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massive synergies there, right? 
And I think LA Minor has been a 

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fair bit harder for Barrack than
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And yeah, Sentinel was, was, was
maybe kind of would would help 

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unlock it in a way that that was
more straightforward. 

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And yeah, First Quantum had, you
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shareholder on the register 
which helped them knock it back,

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but I can't remember. 
Best quantum of a very big 

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Chinese shareholder. 
Yeah. 

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Do you see Barrick also dropped 
gold from or they're trying to 

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drop gold from their name right 
now because they want to become 

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a copper miner. 
Too bad that ticker is GOLD. 

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Like to work on that one. 
That's a bit. 

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Yeah. 
But yeah, with Rico Dick and 

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everything, they are moving more
and more toward being a copper 

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miner. 
And I, I, I don't think First 

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Quantum would ever want that, by
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they could get a premium all 
that sort of stuff. 

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But the, the, the culture, the 
culture of, of First Quantum, 

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like we've talked about is, is 
nothing like the culture in a 

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place like barrack and that 
place would, you know, the, the,

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the thing that really drives it 
and, and why it's efficient and 

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why it's lean and why they can 
do so much, yada, yada. 

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That would be, that would be 
completely eroded if it was, you

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know, engulfed by a barrack. 
Yeah, because Barrack can't 

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lean. 
Not they're not lean, they're 

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not entrepreneurial, they don't 
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nimble and fast way in the same 
way that that First Quantum is 

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empowered to do. 
I think it would be a lot harder

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for Barrack to deploy capital to
get a lot of lot of change to go

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through to get that happening. 
For sure, yeah. 

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Right, buddy, sit back Stewie 
Hines most famous great 1 gold 

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shareholder. 
And if anyone can become a more 

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famous one, I'll buy you a cart 
and a piece. 

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Most famous retail shareholder. 
Yeah, most definitely. 

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So at least we've got a free up 
a free link coming up on Twitter

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because he always gives us a 
share. 

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Have a look at Greatland up she 
was he's up what 120% in the 

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past year up to 14 lbs. 
And I think they like after the 

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rise and stuff they'll back down
at six. 

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So it's had a good, good bloody 
rise since they've it's all gone

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through after the after the 
capital rise. 

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If you look at the long term 
chart here. 

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It's a pounds or Pence, Pence, 
Pence, Pence. 

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Sorry. 
Yeah. 

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What's What's the difference 
between a pound and a pence? 

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So pence, Pence is like 0.60 
cents. 

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. 
Cents in dollars. 

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Oh yeah, that's why bloody 
Glencoe is like fucking 284. 

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 
Yeah, it's like 2 bucks, 80 or 

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280 pence. 
It is confusing with that. 

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I put the decimal though and 
yeah and it says GBP but it's 

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fucking. 
Got it, Got it now. 

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Yeah, Lord saved the coin. 
Yeah, bloody now. 

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God saved the coin. 
God save the queen, the king, 

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right? 
Oh yeah, true. 

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Go, Charles. 
He's the king. 

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Yeah. 
Lose track of all these, right. 

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Great. 
Look at the bloody long term. 

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It's like Stewie, you might get 
the bloody. 

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It's it's coming back. 
It is coming back. 

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Look at the ultimate high. 
I think what was the high about 

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38. 
So right it is. 

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It is on the rise again. 
Plenty of happening at Telfa. 

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Plenty happening at bloody have 
her on. 

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With that much going on they 
definitely need to bloody call 

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KCI. 
That is like just pretty mate. 

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They probably need 38 I TS on 
site up there, probably more Oh 

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mate and no one else in 
Australia has 38 I TS other than

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KCI. 
And if they need more KCI got 

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more coming in the next 6 months
mate. 

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That road between Telford and 
Haveron needs to be maintained. 

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AKCA grader arrived this month. 
Perfect bloody home for that. 

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And they'll probably need people
too. 

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Maddie. 
Mate and KCA can deliver them in

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all shapes and forms on a 
variety of arrangements and I'll

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tell you like we're talking 
ITSITSITS, machinery, machinery,

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people, people, people, people. 
And you just have to pick up the

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phone and call KCA. 
It's a. 

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Pretty simple message. 
Oh bloody hell, what a bloody oh

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and oh. 
Cheers guys. 

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Yeah. 
Alrighty, tell us about the. 

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Cording so the the the 
highlights 250 these are in 

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Aussie dollars 253 mil of free 
cash flow debt free closing cash

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balance of nearly 400 Aussie. 
So there's about been three and 

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a bit months, three, nearly four
months of great land production 

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because they released their 
those partial December numbers. 

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Now this is their first you'd 
say full quarter side, 90,000 

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ounces of gold produced all in 
sustaining costs 2100 Aussie. 

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Remember they've got copper 
associated well, so 3 1/2 

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thousand tonne of copper as 
well. 

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I assume they'd have a little 
bit of like impet, what would 

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you call it rehandling under the
all in sustaining 'cause there's

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some stockpiles they produced as
well. 

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So gold recoveries, there was a 
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So previously I think they were 
modelling 78%. 

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So recovery was really good. 
And they've just approved and 

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commenced mining in the stage 7 
cutback for the new West Ham 

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open pit. 
So they've released a guidance 

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which they hadn't previously. 
So gold production for FY25 S 

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essentially 6 and a bit months, 
196 to 210,000 ounces and 

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looking to pump about 100 mil of
growth capital in it. 

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So that's gonna be around seven 
months of great land ownership. 

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So, and mate, they're drilling. 
They've listened to me 'cause I 

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said there's gold everywhere up 
there. 

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Get the bloody rig spinning and 
they are they're I think they're

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gonna well they say they're 
gonna have 6 by by June quarter 

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they're adding another two and 
they're gonna have 6 drill rigs 

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up there, which is the most 
they've had up there since 2020.

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I'll go over some of the results
later. 

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So, so you can see here the the 
beauty of the gold price, their 

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average realised price for the 
quarter four and a half 4585 and

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just look at how much bloody 
better this is environment is 

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compared to new Crest. 
So the new Crest days and that's

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so 4585 and then you can imagine
this quarter. 

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So it is. 
It's pretty awesome that that 

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the yeah, that gold price 
dynamic is also just let them I 

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completely clean up the balance 
sheet to you know, there's no 

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yada yada. 
And the reinvested into the 

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growth of, of Telfer as well at 
the same time as they bring in 

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everyone online because that, 
that can, that can, you know, 

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buy you more, more time as well 
in terms of replenishing your 

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stockpiles and, and the locks. 
Yeah, yeah. 

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And and like in terms so for you
know, 250 free cash this 

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quarter, so up the gold price 
and I think there's going to be 

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a bit less lower recovery in the
coming quarter. 

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But like that's, you know, what 
was Havron's, I think the latest

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CapEx was 480 US predicted in 
the 2021 numbers. 

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So like it's gonna be, it's 
gonna be a billion plus. 

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But they they've got a good 
opportunity here to generate a 

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lot of free cash to take the 
pressure off that that CapEx and

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not have to tap the market or 
the debt facility maybe maybe. 

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But the IPO on ASX is, I think 
scheduled for June. 

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Scheduled for June, Yeah. 
I think they're just going 

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through the process of the the 
admission from the AIM that all 

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the votes that go, the scheme 
votes and all that to go with 

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it, so scheduled for June. 
And look at this, an AIM company

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and everything's reported in 
Aussie dollars. 

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Yeah, yeah, it's 'cause they're 
looking after Oh no, Stewie Ions

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is over there. 
I think it's probably Stewie 

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might have asked that can we 
have it all in Aussie dollars? 

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So good on you. 
So all milled so for nearly 4.6 

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million tonne milled .68g gold. 
So from that there was 4.2 point

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6 of actual ore mine from open 
pits, 278,000 tonne from 

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underground. 
So it looks like they they went 

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through about 1.9 million tonne 
of stockpiles for so remember 

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they got and the 2/3 of that 
stockpile you got 20 million 

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tonne at very low grade at .33 
and they got 9.2 million tonne 

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at .64 which is around what 
they're doing. 

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So they've they're not just 
running that whole stockpile 

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through the dual trains. 
They've buddy just chipping away

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as they need it courtesy of the 
Newmont folk that left him 

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there. 
So that's giving him a good 

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runway. 
But so they're, yeah, not, not 

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just sitting there 'cause that, 
that that's what would have 

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killed him because they just 
bloody sat there and processed 

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stockpiles. 
But they're, they're hammering 

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the underground, it's bloody and
the open pits, it's good. 

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And you see the recovery 86.7% 
compared to historically ranging

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from 78 to 82. 
But they've actually they've 

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flagged at the June 2025 
quarters, probably gonna be back

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around 82 saying the Stage 7 
area of the West Dome was 

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historically. 
A lot lower recovery due to the 

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oxidation state. 
So they I don't think you'd get 

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used to the 86%. 
So you can see in this picture 

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here they've got the stage 7 and
the stage 2 five and eight. 

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I think it is they're mining in 
the West time. 

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Then they're down the bottom of 
the mine in the A reef, the rye 

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and then doing some mining up in
the M reefer, which is a bit 

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higher up. 
So that's where all the ores 

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coming from at the moment. 
So, and you look at the, the 

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drilling they're doing. 
So this looks like pretty close 

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to the bottom, the a reef and 
you know, 5 metres at 6 grams, 

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8.3 at 4.6. 
So as I said, there's bloody 

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gold and it's look like it's 
only from like 16 metres from 85

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metres. 
So they've like must be just 

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these parallel structures 
they've punching off an existing

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or drive or a drill drive to 
find those new lights. 

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So based on those distances, 
it's not that far to develop out

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to those areas. 
Then they got this, this looked 

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bloody pretty cool. 
The up in the MRF. 

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So the MRF is higher up sort of 
halfway down effectively like 

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the caves at bottom of The Cave 
was about thousand 1100 MRF was 

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sort of top bitten down to 
halfway. 

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So they've got this eastern 
stock work corridor, which 14 

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half metres at 11 half grams, 18
metres at 6g. 

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So it looks like there's some 
pretty big potential and that's 

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a looks like 1000 metre strike 
target, 100 metres wide, 40 

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metres high. 
So that's like that's, that's 

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what I said. 
Just got to get those friggin 

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drills pumping. 
So there's looks like and as you

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mentioned before, ASX listening 
in June 2025. 

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I think what they're so they 
market cap I think is I think it

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works out at the moment. 
Aussie 3.8 billion. 

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So it's actually a couple 100 
million less than Genesis. 

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But how you compare that look at
what they're producing, look at 

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the infrastructure they've got 
Haveron is that's the the best 

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thing about the this Haveron job
is for them. 

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It's going to be a freaking big 
job and it and it will have 

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challenges with the water, but 
they've got Telford ticking 

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along. 
So not like, it's not like it's 

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all going to have this bloody 
primary focus like a single 

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asset company on what Haveron's 
doing because you've got Telford

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ticking away and you're still 
going to be producing and you're

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hopefully going to be making 
money. 

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So because it's, I think the 
last one was, I think what are 

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they talking about 2.8 million 
tonne? 

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I think that was their last 
study. 

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No doubt they're probably going 
to want to get more out of it. 

444
00:22:56,080 --> 00:23:02,680
That was for US 46476 CapEx. 
So, but I would imagine probably

445
00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:05,480
going to need at least a billion
like because they're going to 

446
00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:07,080
have to Chuck. 
Aussie, yeah. 

447
00:23:07,120 --> 00:23:10,200
Oh yeah, because that number's 
7/7/58 hundred. 

448
00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:13,640
Oz They're they're going to like
the haulage system or because 

449
00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:16,240
they won't be just hauling it up
a bloody single decline. 

450
00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:21,640
So there'd be either a haulage 
shaft or a another decline going

451
00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:23,360
in which will be a conveyor 
system. 

452
00:23:23,360 --> 00:23:25,640
Could be well over a billion. 
Oh well, over. 

453
00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:27,320
Yeah, yeah, it's going to be a 
big job. 

454
00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:33,120
And then that's Primary Crusher 
underground, you've got all the 

455
00:23:33,120 --> 00:23:37,280
ventilation shafts And remember,
every piece of shaft decline, 

456
00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:39,720
everything has to go through 
that water table. 

457
00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:43,040
And I don't think they're 
actually at the big water yet. 

458
00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:47,880
So there's a lot of and I know 
they've probably done it, done 

459
00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:49,360
it before. 
They know what's coming up. 

460
00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:51,720
So they'll, they'll know how to 
get through it, but it doesn't 

461
00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:53,560
still make it quicker to get 
through. 

462
00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:55,920
It's gonna it's gonna be a big a
big job. 

463
00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:59,560
It's not just gonna be a let's 
RIP in and get 3,000,000 tonne 

464
00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:02,440
out of the joint. 
So size the price a lot of and a

465
00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:04,480
lot of infrastructure to deal 
with that water. 

466
00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:06,360
I assume you gotta you gotta put
it somewhere. 

467
00:24:07,360 --> 00:24:11,160
I just Gerard James needs to run
his eye over that joint mate 

468
00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:15,840
that the team at WA water balls 
have seen more water than the 

469
00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:18,440
Titanic. 
They've like mate, and you know 

470
00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:21,440
how long the Titanic's been 
dealing with water, mate. 

471
00:24:21,760 --> 00:24:23,480
It's a 3 hour long movie. 
It's a long time mate. 

472
00:24:24,560 --> 00:24:26,720
Just. 
Titanic looks at it all day, 

473
00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:29,480
just like Gerard James and the 
WI. 

474
00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:33,400
And they're not just the best 
drillers in the best mud Rotary 

475
00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:35,760
drillers in the world. 
They're just the best water 

476
00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:38,280
people in the world. 
They know how to find it. 

477
00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:41,760
They know the methods, how to 
get rid of it, to store it, to 

478
00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:44,520
put the ball fields in, to put 
the dewatering balls. 

479
00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:47,720
Like mate, you just need him up 
there as an expert water 

480
00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:49,560
consultant to run his eye over 
this. 

481
00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:51,800
I'll get one further Not just 
the best water people in the 

482
00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:53,520
world, the best, one of the best
people in the world. 

483
00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:56,280
Just best, definitely the best 
people in Jarrah, yeah. 

484
00:24:56,520 --> 00:24:59,040
Yeah. 
That's it I heard, probably got 

485
00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:00,640
good people probably in 
Australia. 

486
00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:04,720
So right, just get him up there.
He's the only man in Australia 

487
00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:07,000
that can do it. 
I reckon if it's the aquifers, 

488
00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:09,160
tricky water board then, then 
Jerry James will help you. 

489
00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:13,080
Hey, to get him up there. 
So yeah, no exciting done. 

490
00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:15,920
Bloody good job. 
Good, good numbers, good cash 

491
00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:19,320
under the transition crew on 
site. 

492
00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:20,760
So I look forward to seeing more
of it. 

493
00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:22,720
Yeah, I think they're on the RSX
then. 

494
00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:25,200
The presentations are just 
easier to get to I think. 

495
00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:27,320
I think the last comment on that
one would be it's very 

496
00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:29,840
interesting. 
It'd be interesting to see how 

497
00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:31,360
they go about their their Aussie
raising. 

498
00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:33,120
They're not. 
They're not raising money. 

499
00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:35,640
Well, they, they said that in in
the past, obviously. 

500
00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:36,880
So I don't think they're 
raising. 

501
00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:38,480
I mean they, they, they. 
Shouldn't need to. 

502
00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:39,840
It's it's a compliance list, 
Yeah, I think. 

503
00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:41,320
Yeah. 
It was just interesting that 

504
00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:43,960
that had three brokers for it. 
Sort of thought that was a bit 

505
00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:46,600
curious, yeah. 
They say they're not raising 

506
00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:48,880
money, but the. 
Companies have said that before.

507
00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:50,720
Yeah, that's true. 
I I. 

508
00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:54,760
It's just, it's just a way to 
get like an invest like funds as

509
00:25:54,760 --> 00:25:57,520
well. 
Love buying in a in a whack like

510
00:25:57,520 --> 00:25:59,320
that. 
Not that it's great for existing

511
00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:02,280
shareholders and that's kind of 
why they did the previous raise.

512
00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:06,040
It might be, it might be a big 
shareholder that can like sell 

513
00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:09,040
kind of like when Capstone came 
over, they didn't didn't raise 

514
00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:12,280
money, but that the Ryan sold 
down and then obviously brokers 

515
00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:13,960
placed that stock and yeah, 
depend on that. 

516
00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:16,800
There we go. 
Right, let's get on to rarest 

517
00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:19,200
JD. 
The bloody bit going on, the 

518
00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:24,360
rarest bit against today. 
Yeah, quite, quite a bit going 

519
00:26:24,360 --> 00:26:26,280
on. 
And I'll start up with Santa 

520
00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:29,080
feel pretty, pretty unqualified 
to speak about this because 

521
00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:31,880
it's, you know, it's. 
Been doing this for two years, 

522
00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:34,920
you are quite fine. 
There are big forces at play 

523
00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:38,920
here in in the rarest market and
I think what we're seeing right 

524
00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:42,120
now is one of the most 
influential stories in the 

525
00:26:42,120 --> 00:26:45,040
commodities market and it will 
be for for the year and for 

526
00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:48,040
quite some time to come. 
So let's give it a bit of a go 

527
00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:50,560
and and chat about it. 
I think the the eye-catching 

528
00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:53,600
part of this story is what we've
seen in stocks like MP 

529
00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:57,280
materials. 
So they jumped over 20% last 

530
00:26:57,280 --> 00:26:59,320
night. 
Obviously MP materials is 

531
00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:02,160
America's golden child when it 
comes to rare earths. 

532
00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:08,160
They are the owner of the sole 
operating rare earth mine in in 

533
00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:09,840
the USA. 
It's in California Mountain 

534
00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:11,800
Pass. 
Wasn't always the golden child, 

535
00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:14,400
but it was Molly Corp. 
It certainly wasn't it had a it 

536
00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:17,520
had a tough time, but the the 
new owners have done a bit 

537
00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:19,440
better out of it than previous 
owners have. 

538
00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:23,920
Now that positivity is being 
seen on the ASX as well. 

539
00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:26,120
Not so much in Linus, although 
they've gone sort of from 

540
00:27:26,120 --> 00:27:28,480
strength to strength. 
But you've seen big jumps at the

541
00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:32,640
the smaller end of town from the
likes of Meteoric and others, 

542
00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:34,360
and. 
Great data release of mineral 

543
00:27:34,360 --> 00:27:37,760
resource upgrade. 
A good a good day indeed. 

544
00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:39,800
Yeah, we're seeing sort of plus 
20% moves. 

545
00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:42,360
And I just want to make a quick 
comment. 

546
00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:46,560
I think with how mainstream this
kind of debate about rare earths

547
00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:49,600
and and critical minerals has 
gone, I think you need to kind 

548
00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:51,600
of be careful. 
There's pretty kind of liberal 

549
00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:54,680
use of the words critical 
minerals, rare earths and 

550
00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:57,040
everything. 
And you know, it's, it's a bit 

551
00:27:57,040 --> 00:27:59,000
confusing at times because I 
think people use it very 

552
00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:02,200
interchangeably. 
You know, rare earths, critical 

553
00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:03,880
minerals, they're all getting 
tied in. 

554
00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:07,080
And I think the perspective we 
all kind of have is like, if you

555
00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:09,640
need it, if you can't produce 
it, it is critical. 

556
00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:13,080
You know, rarest is something 
completely different, obviously,

557
00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:16,680
but the US is learning pretty 
quickly that a lot of these 

558
00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:21,000
minerals are quite critical for 
them because they don't have the

559
00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:24,200
capacity to produce them. 
That's why they're at the crux 

560
00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:27,880
of this trade war, and that's 
why we've seen these pretty 

561
00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:30,800
dramatic moves. 
There's been an evolution in the

562
00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:33,120
trade war and to be honest, I 
think people were kind of 

563
00:28:33,120 --> 00:28:36,840
actually sleeping on it a little
bit like what we saw with how 

564
00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:40,120
China reacted to the tariffs 
coming on was over a week ago 

565
00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:43,120
now. 
And yeah, the US has started to 

566
00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:47,040
do bits and pieces, but people 
didn't quite perhaps 

567
00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:50,000
acknowledge, and I put myself in
that camp as well, how kind of 

568
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:54,120
positive this would be for 
national champions being MP 

569
00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:57,200
materials, being lioness here in
Australia and the other kind of 

570
00:28:57,560 --> 00:28:59,680
main players. 
And yeah, I mean, it's no 

571
00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:03,480
surprise to ask like China 
refines 85% of, of rare earths, 

572
00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:06,800
even the operation in in the 
States, like the US is actually 

573
00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:10,240
the second biggest producer of, 
of rare earths, but 2/3 of their

574
00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:12,160
stuff gets sent to China for 
processing. 

575
00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:16,680
So these are all challenges that
the West needs to tackle. 

576
00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:22,600
And rare earths are one of, you 
know, the best, maybe the the 

577
00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:26,080
kind of perfect market for China
to put the squeeze on, right? 

578
00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:29,360
Because if you're Chinese and 
you look at the railroads 

579
00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:31,840
market, it's really not a 
massive part of your economy, 

580
00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:36,840
but it's crucial to a whole heap
of things downstream in the US. 

581
00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:41,800
So it's it's something they can 
really pinch and really hurt 

582
00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:45,120
their, you know, enemies 
overseas. 

583
00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:48,800
And yeah, I think this is 
nothing new to to most of the 

584
00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:50,400
people who listen to to the 
party. 

585
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:53,360
So we can kind of get in, get 
into get into it in a bit more 

586
00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:57,400
detail, but I think the wider 
world outside the very small 

587
00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:00,240
audience that that knows about 
commodities is learning about 

588
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:03,520
this very quickly. 
So what was the actual news that

589
00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:08,680
made the stocks soar overnight? 
So Trump came out and, and spoke

590
00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:12,240
about creating sort of a 
critical metals stockpile. 

591
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:15,160
And it was kind of interesting 
how it all came about. 

592
00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:19,240
He it was reports that he would 
sign an executive order that 

593
00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:23,400
will allow the US to create this
stockpile from minerals that 

594
00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:26,960
would be mined from the floor of
the Pacific Ocean, but kind of 

595
00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:30,440
ignore that that last bit about 
mining from the the bottom of 

596
00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:31,800
the ocean. 
And I think that's what most 

597
00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:36,240
investors did, piling into MP 
materials because the US does 

598
00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:38,600
have projects and deposits in 
its country. 

599
00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:41,680
It just hasn't been interested 
in developing them because the 

600
00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:44,960
Chinese have flooded the market 
for the last 20 or 30 years. 

601
00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:49,960
We spoke about Trevor and I last
week what the Chinese had done 

602
00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:52,720
and they were very specific. 
They hand picked a certain 

603
00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:55,040
number of, of elements, 
particularly the heavy rare 

604
00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:58,240
earth elements. 
And what they did was more or 

605
00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:00,720
less put export controls on 
without kind of saying that. 

606
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:02,680
And we've seen it in the numbers
already. 

607
00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:06,440
Shipments and exports of these 
minerals have slowed right down.

608
00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:09,000
So people are feeling the the 
pinch already. 

609
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:12,160
And you can see that there's 
sort of quotes in some articles 

610
00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:14,960
going around from chemical 
supplies in places like Los 

611
00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:18,720
Angeles saying that it's going 
to take 45 days for them to get 

612
00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:23,080
an export license. 
And, you know, in that interim, 

613
00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:26,160
they're not getting anything 
shipped over from China. 

614
00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:28,680
So if they don't have the 
inventory, they're caught pretty

615
00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:31,960
short at the moment. 
And as well as that, you've got 

616
00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:35,720
the Chinese adding a lot of 
American companies, specifically

617
00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:38,360
military related companies to 
their kind of naughty list, 

618
00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:41,240
which means Chinese companies 
can't deal with them whatsoever,

619
00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:42,600
can't do any sort of business 
with them. 

620
00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:47,400
So it's getting pretty, pretty 
sort of cagey in in that realm. 

621
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:51,320
And if you look around the 
world, go to say, Japan, for 

622
00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:55,600
instance, they felt the brunt of
rare earths specifically, you 

623
00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:58,720
know, it's a trade war when they
send some of their ships into 

624
00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:03,640
Chinese water. 
And they, because of that 

625
00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:06,920
lesson, some of them keep over a
year's worth of inventory on 

626
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:09,400
hand. 
Now, American companies don't do

627
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:11,040
that. 
That is, that is dead capital. 

628
00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:14,320
That's a drag on your returns. 
They're holding maybe a few 

629
00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:16,960
months at most in inventory of 
these these magnets and other 

630
00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:18,680
bits and pieces that you might 
need. 

631
00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:20,480
Exactly. 
It's it's the world we live in. 

632
00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:24,400
Just in time manufacturing and 
the Japanese who went through 

633
00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:27,360
that painful experience and at 
the back of that we saw lioness 

634
00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:30,840
and everything sort of emerged. 
They they learnt their lesson 

635
00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:33,360
and they, they keep a lot of 
inventory on hand. 

636
00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:38,640
So, yeah, I mean, if we if we go
around and and look back in the 

637
00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:42,280
states at a company like MP 
Materials, they still have 

638
00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:45,080
Chinese ties, right? 
Like Shanghai, the the Chinese 

639
00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:48,440
rare earth player was a big 
backer of them getting their 

640
00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:52,200
feet off the ground from being a
spec in the late twenty 10s to 

641
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:55,720
to where we are today. 
And they still send 2/3 of their

642
00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:59,400
concentrate to China. 
So it's really the implicit 

643
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:02,280
backing that the the US 
government would be behind them 

644
00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:07,400
that is sent a fair bit of 
capital, you know, chasing them.

645
00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:11,160
They're up I think 40% on the 
year now in, in the face of a 

646
00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:13,880
pretty tough broader market as 
we all know. 

647
00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:16,840
And yeah, closer to home, Linus 
is trading very strongly, pretty

648
00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:22,600
far away from any kind of basic 
valuations that we we kind of 

649
00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:25,080
like to employ. 
I could say why you were talking

650
00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:28,000
to your computer today, JD. 
You've gone deep and 

651
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:31,480
philosophical on rare earths 
today, like a real global 

652
00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:33,720
understanding of this. 
Trying to. 

653
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:35,520
I'm trying to because. 
You're trying, you're trying to 

654
00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:38,000
make sense of like, what does 
the politics actually mean to 

655
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:41,040
that the, the free cash flow of 
these of these companies? 

656
00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:44,040
Because if you have a hefty 
valuation, it's got to be kind 

657
00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:47,000
of substantiated by some, some 
free cash flow at the end of the

658
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:48,320
day. 
And just trying to piece all 

659
00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:50,840
that together is the the 
question mark, is it, are they 

660
00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:52,440
trading? 
When it changes every night. 

661
00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:54,000
Yeah. 
Are they, are they, is it 

662
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:55,800
thematic? 
Is it just like a thematic move 

663
00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:58,320
and then kind of that will fall 
off and nothing really changes 

664
00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:00,600
or is there actually a 
meaningful difference into free 

665
00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:02,480
cash flow? 
Yeah, I mean, we spoke about it 

666
00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:05,120
maybe two months ago now and 
thought like, when's Linus going

667
00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:08,600
to do a capital raising? 
And I I don't feel that 

668
00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:10,960
differently about that. 
You know, their, their cash pile

669
00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:13,520
is kind of dwindling. 
We haven't seen rare earth 

670
00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:16,199
prices tick up massively. 
It's obviously a very kind of 

671
00:34:16,199 --> 00:34:18,080
opaque market. 
So take that with a pinch of 

672
00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:21,040
salt. 
But you're not getting there on 

673
00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:24,440
on valuation grounds right now. 
But with the the backing of 

674
00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:26,440
Western governments around the 
world, maybe you do kind of get 

675
00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:27,960
there. 
It's a, it's a different way of 

676
00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:29,840
kind of looking at it. 
Because you don't know. 

677
00:34:30,199 --> 00:34:31,719
You don't know if the price 
ticks up. 

678
00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:34,520
You don't know what the 
payability is doing in China. 

679
00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:37,960
Like, who knows? 
Yeah, yeah, absolutely to to add

680
00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:41,320
a few more comments to US and 
Western policy because there 

681
00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:43,719
there has been some more 
comments made to to what we 

682
00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:46,560
heard about Trump just before. 
I actually don't think what 

683
00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:49,719
we're seeing right now is a 
massive change in the states 

684
00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:51,800
from the previous 
administration. 

685
00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:55,320
The the previous Biden 
administration, they spoke about

686
00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:58,480
this a fair bit. 
They, they allocated money to 

687
00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:01,240
sort of certain similar buckets,
rare earths and these types of 

688
00:35:01,240 --> 00:35:05,560
projects being one of them. 
There are certainly varying 

689
00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:08,440
opinions and how effective they 
were with spraying that cash 

690
00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:09,920
around. 
That's that's fair enough. 

691
00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:12,720
But you can't accuse them of 
sort of not putting the capital 

692
00:35:12,720 --> 00:35:14,200
up. 
We saw it with a lot of ASX 

693
00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:17,160
listed companies. 
They were recipients of of this 

694
00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:20,320
sort of money. 
There was still a lot of delays,

695
00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:22,720
regulatory, environmental, all 
these sort of hold UPS. 

696
00:35:22,720 --> 00:35:25,320
They were an impediment even if 
the money was dealt out. 

697
00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:27,400
And I think Lioness is the 
perfect example of this. 

698
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:32,240
They were awarded nearly US $260
million in 2023 to build a 

699
00:35:32,240 --> 00:35:34,800
processing facility at Sea Drift
in Texas. 

700
00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:37,560
And as of today, construction 
hasn't started. 

701
00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:41,360
We're two years later and that 
comes down to environmental and 

702
00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:43,120
wastewater management delays, 
so. 

703
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:46,360
On those delays, it's part of 
the new administration is like a

704
00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:48,360
promise to fast track. 
Yeah, yeah, yeah. 

705
00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:51,680
And the same goes for for 
resolution copper mine or all 

706
00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:55,040
these, you know, there is 
Trilogy Metals is another one. 

707
00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:58,720
Those stock ticked up massively 
because of the the understanding

708
00:35:58,720 --> 00:36:02,400
that these the sort of red tape 
around projects is going to get 

709
00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:04,160
pulled back. 
So we'll we'll wait and see what

710
00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:06,760
kind of happens on that. 
I was also listening to an 

711
00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:10,320
interview at lunch today when I 
was just eating before an 

712
00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:12,280
interview with Treasure. 
What you do at lunch? 

713
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:16,440
It's true. 
This is an interview with 

714
00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:20,400
Treasury Secretary Scott Besson,
who I'm sure most listeners will

715
00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:25,400
be pretty familiar with now. 
And something he said in this 

716
00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:28,960
interview, I wasn't listening to
this for any sort of take on on 

717
00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:31,200
minerals or anything mining 
related, but he said something 

718
00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:34,200
that really sort of stood out to
me, so I'll play it now. 

719
00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:37,720
There's been an early focus on 
Latin America writ large from 

720
00:36:37,720 --> 00:36:39,880
the Trump administration in the 
1st 100 days. 

721
00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:43,920
Is Latin America policy also in 
a sense China policy for this 

722
00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:47,400
administration? 
Well, I, I think that might be a

723
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:50,760
good description because what we
are trying to keep from 

724
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:54,080
happening is what has happened 
on the African continent where 

725
00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:57,920
China has signed a number of 
these kind of rapacious deals 

726
00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:02,760
marked as aid where they are 
really, they take, they've taken

727
00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:07,240
mineral rights, they've added 
huge amounts of debt on to these

728
00:37:07,240 --> 00:37:11,000
countries balance sheets. 
It's undisclosed to any of the 

729
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:12,680
other international 
organizations. 

730
00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:14,040
They've got tolling 
arrangements. 

731
00:37:14,240 --> 00:37:18,080
So they're they're guaranteeing 
that future generations are 

732
00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:21,400
going to be, they are poor and 
without resources and we don't 

733
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:23,920
want that to happen any more 
than already has in Latin 

734
00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:25,920
America. 
I, I find that super 

735
00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:28,840
fascinating. 
And that is much wider than rare

736
00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:32,200
earths, obviously. 
But for one, I think Latin 

737
00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:35,600
America is going to be a winner 
in the, in the years ahead. 

738
00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:39,840
We saw with all these tariffs 
that came out, Latin America to 

739
00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:41,640
an extent was carved out of a 
lot of them. 

740
00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:45,160
They didn't cop the, the brunt 
of it because America is 

741
00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:49,120
realizing how important that is.
So I, I think, you know, maybe 

742
00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:51,600
we see some Aussie juniors be 
winners, you know, the ones 

743
00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:54,280
maybe with Brazilian rare earth 
projects and these sorts of 

744
00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:56,240
things be winners. 
I think first and foremost, 

745
00:37:56,240 --> 00:37:58,000
you're a winner if you're in 
America. 

746
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:03,600
But that is a, that is a notable
different tone from, from the US

747
00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:05,560
than it has been for the last 20
or 30 years. 

748
00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:08,040
I'm not sure if you guys had a 
different take on that. 

749
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:10,600
Yeah, I agree. 
I agree. 

750
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:13,200
I am, I am curious. 
I mean, this is, this is talk of

751
00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:15,960
a of a stockpile or strategic 
reserve. 

752
00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:18,880
You've been, you've been 
thinking a bit more about the 

753
00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:22,000
rationale for stockpiles versus 
versus downstream. 

754
00:38:22,240 --> 00:38:23,680
Yeah. 
I mean, we, we heard about this,

755
00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:25,600
we spoke about it when we were 
in Africa. 

756
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:29,280
And you have the kind of debate 
of should a country that doesn't

757
00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:31,840
know how to do this, say in rare
earths in Australia, just build 

758
00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:35,560
the downstream processing or 
should they build up a strategic

759
00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:38,920
reserve? 
And then if a particularly 

760
00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:42,040
prickly moment happens in 
future, then you have to kind of

761
00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:45,200
hit the ground running and build
your downstream capability. 

762
00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:47,760
Are those stockpiles going to be
like just mixed rare earth 

763
00:38:47,880 --> 00:38:52,280
concentrate stockpiles or 
finished rare earth stockpiles 

764
00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:55,200
I. 
Would be stockpiling if I was 

765
00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:59,880
going to build a stockpile, the 
product that your manufacturing 

766
00:38:59,880 --> 00:39:02,680
needs or you need because 
there's no point having a yeah, 

767
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:04,640
there's no point having a 
stockpile, right. 

768
00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:07,920
If if there's a gap between that
what that stockpile is and what 

769
00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:11,280
you actually need it for, you 
know, IE if you're in America 

770
00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:14,080
and you've got car makers, 
there's no point having 

771
00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:15,600
stockpiles of rare earth 
concentrate. 

772
00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:18,560
You know, you want stockpile of 
magnets or something like that 

773
00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:23,080
much further downstream. 
And this is very kind of early 

774
00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:25,080
discussion. 
Madeleine King, our resource 

775
00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:28,480
minister, was actually speaking 
about this yesterday. 

776
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:31,760
There was a few articles 
circling about. 

777
00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:35,000
I'm not sure how far Australia 
gets along in the process 

778
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:39,360
because we don't have the 
manufacturing and there isn't a 

779
00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:42,760
massive interest around 
Australia to build that 

780
00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:46,280
manufacturing capacity. 
So what what exactly what we be 

781
00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:50,120
stockpiling it for send it back 
to China so they can build the 

782
00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:51,760
stuff for us. 
I don't quite know. 

783
00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:55,560
But I think it is something with
America's kind of made in 

784
00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:57,640
America policy that they're 
going to be considering pretty 

785
00:39:57,640 --> 00:40:02,040
heavily over the over the coming
decades and particularly over 

786
00:40:02,040 --> 00:40:05,000
the next year or two. 
So certainly sort of 1 to watch.

787
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:06,040
I don't think there's any kind 
of. 

788
00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:11,320
Easy, easy answers out there, 
but I think, but what's most 

789
00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:14,240
relevant to to listeners of this
podcast, I think there are 

790
00:40:14,240 --> 00:40:18,520
projects like in in America 
specifically that are maybe 

791
00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:20,800
going to get favourable 
treatment and going to do quite 

792
00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:22,600
well. 
And MP Materials is the best 

793
00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:24,720
example of that. 
But there's other players that I

794
00:40:24,720 --> 00:40:26,600
think might have a good run of 
it too. 

795
00:40:27,240 --> 00:40:30,000
Very good, good buddy. 
I'm going to, I'm going to 

796
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:32,240
really listen to that. 
Very good. 

797
00:40:32,280 --> 00:40:35,000
Hopefully it made sense, yeah. 
No, it didn't. 

798
00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:39,720
That's why I'm going. 
To many peaks, Trev. 

799
00:40:40,720 --> 00:40:42,320
Yeah, I just, I just thought it 
was funny. 

800
00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:44,480
I've got nothing to say about 
this other than the fact that 

801
00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:46,200
the many Peaks share price now 
looks like it's logo. 

802
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:49,080
There you go, many. 
Peaks. 

803
00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:54,080
I love to plug. 
Oh beautiful good work boys. 

804
00:40:54,080 --> 00:40:57,280
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