Metal Prices Helped, But a Bigger Leach Pad Transformed Bravada Gold’s Wind Mountain PEA

Evolve Royalties CEO Joseph de la Plante joins Ian Wagner to explain why the company is building a growing copper-focused royalty portfolio across the globe. He describes how Evolve buys existing royalties and finances projects, seeking exposure to long-life mines without operating them. The conversation covers cash-flowing interests at Highland Valley Copper and Copper Mountain, expected production at McIlvenna Bay, and exploration upside at Gaspé Copper and Sunnyside. De la Plante also discusses a tin royalty in Namibia, a lithium project in Argentina, and how Evolve weighs geology, operators, and contract terms when assessing future deals.

Collective Mining hit 14.25 m at 6.49 g/t AuEq at Apollo’s Shallow Halo Zone in Colombia, with 44 of 47 holes since its maiden resource clearing the open-pit cut-off. Elemental Royalty closed four of five royalty and stream assets from Orion Mine Finance for US$188 million in cash plus shares. Nevada King Gold drilled 2.58 g/t Au over 29.3 m from surface at East Ridge next to the Atlanta pit, its best intercept there to date. Eldorado Gold brought the first two tailings filter presses online at Skouries in Greece, a key step toward commercial production. Energy Fuels won conditional approval for up to A$180 million in Australian government debt for its Donald rare earth project, targeting a final investment decision by year end.Mining Stock Daily is brought to you by Vizsla Silver. Vizsla Silver is advancing the Panuco silver-gold project in Sinaloa, Mexico — one of the highest-grade silver development projects in the world. The project hosts the world's largest, undeveloped high-grade silver resource, and the company has been aggressively expanding its drill program to grow that resource ahead of a development decision.

Oreterra Metals CEO Kevin Keough says the first drill program at Trek South has put the company above what it believes is the intrusive core of a porphyry copper-gold system in BC’s Golden Triangle, next to Teck and Newmont’s Galore Creek. Assays are pending.

StrikePoint Gold CEO Mike Allen explains how a small Como claims deal with Newmont in January led to the US$70 million acquisition of Northumberland, a Carlin-style gold system in Nevada’s Walker Lane that sat orphaned outside Nevada Gold Mines for 15 years. Allen says he and Chairman Alan Pangbourne see untested transitional material that could support a low capex starter pit, and they plan to pair a core rig now drilling with metallurgical work aimed at a PEA in 2028.

**This interview was recorded Tuesday, Oct 20