Contango ORE: Meet the Team

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I'm delighted to introduce today Chris Kennedy, the General Manager for Contango Or's LuckyShot Mind. How are you today, Chris? Fine, fine, doing fine. Thanks for having me here today. Awesome. So I wanted to get into a bit of your experience before I get into Lucky Shot. Cause I know, I mean, really honestly an impressive bio, but in addition to just really your extensive experience working in Alaska on multiple projects over the years. You also worked in Chile and in Peru and all over. So 1 thing that I think our listeners will be interested in is how is working in Alaska different and what kind of specialized expertise do you need? Well, you know, we all know that there are a few areas that are so-called Tier 1 areas to work in, and Alaska is that, you know, compared to, I guess, Chile. I guess if you ask people in Chile, their Tier 1 is, in their opinion. But my experience and the difference is that mining is mining, right? Whether it's open pit or underground or whatever, you develop, you design, and then you go after a processing plant that meets what your requirements are. All of that's the same. So that's pretty much the same as far as comparative, but there's a political difference as well. And that's not only with your, I guess the main difference I would have to say is with the local villages that are close by and local towns are close by to the mines. They are starting to learn that the cash cow, if you will, the mine, the request to help and seek financial assistance is something that they're always looking for and have learned to ask more and more based on the experience from what's happening in other areas and other countries. That's 1 of the big differences. As far as expertise goes, there is a bit of a missing in that. So there's a lot of, here in th...