Missed the Munich Mining Conference? Get the full experience by wandering booth to booth with 6ix and learning about select companies who were in attendance.
Tue, October 14, 2025 at 2:00 PMendedReplay
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Meeting Overview The meeting featured discussions among various mining company representatives at the Munich Mining Conference. Key topics included project updates, drilling programs, and future exploration plans, with a focus on lithium, gold, and copper resources. Key Discussion Points - Jim McKay from Lithium Ionic highlighted the upcoming production of Brazil's next lithium mine, Bandera, with significant projected returns. - Mark Roos of Spanish Mountain Gold discussed impressive drill results and plans for ore sorting and a feasibility study. - David Stein from Creosilver shared updates on production ramp-up and upcoming drilling at the Bethania project. - Frank Callahan of Golden Caribou Resources provided insights into their open-pit model and ongoing drilling activities in British Columbia. - Rick Redfern from Fairchild Gold Corporation presented their gold and copper properties in Nevada and the potential for significant stock price increases. - Brian Boss from Capani Meta...
Mr. Bosse is an investor with three decades of experience in commodities, as well as both private and public equity. Brian has served as a business turnaround specialist for several Canadian investment firms. He spent a decade restructuring equity sales and trading departments, as well as proprietary investment divisions. Brian began his career as a Toronto Stock Exchange floor trader in 1995 following an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Wilfrid Laurier University’s School of Business and Economics. He became a CFA charter holder in 2001. From 2012 until 2016 Brian ran the Goodman Bluespring mutual fund. From 2018 until 2024 Mr. Bosse was integral to the very successful restructuring of Zenyatta Ventures into both Zentek Ltd. (Nasdaq: ZTEK) plus Albany Graphite Corporation. He is the largest shareholder of CUPANI Metals Corp.
Mr. Stein is the Founder of Kuya and President since 2017. Educated with a technical background in Geology and Engineering, Mr. Stein jumped into the capital markets very early in his career, in 2001, as a mining equities analyst for a prominent Canadian broker-dealer. More recently Mr. Stein was President and CEO of Aberdeen International, where he led various private equity and public company investment mandates.
Mr. Bliss has over 20 years experience in the mineral exploration industry having studied geology at the University of New Brunswick.
From 1995 to 2000, Mr. Bliss was an independent consulting geologist responsible for exploration projects for Nuna-Minerals A/S, in Nuuk, Greenland and, in 2000, for Crew Development in Norway. In Greenland, he worked in some of the most remote and rugged terrain using a model driven approach to efficiently explore large tracts of land despite short explorations seasons.
Mr. Bliss implemented a similar approach at Northern Shield to generate nickel projects that subsequently resulted in partnerships and investments with major mining companies including Impala, South 32, Teck. It was under his guidance that Northern Shield became known around the world as a leader in grass roots exploration for Nickel, Copper and the Platinum Group Elements. It was his understanding of exploration models that led to Northern Shield acquiring a unique epithermal gold project here in the Burin Peninsula they call Root & Cellar.
Mr. Bliss has served as President of Northern Shield since its inception in 1999.
Jim Mackay
Manager, Corporate Development at Lithium Ionic
Jim Mackay is currently the Manager of Corporate Development at Lithium Ionic. He is a mining engineer with over a decade of experience that includes technical roles at development-stage and operating mining companies as well as experience in metals and mining investment banking.
Replay transcript excerpt
Speaker 1: My name is Jim McKay and I'm the manager of corporate development for Lithium Ionic. We are a TSX-V listed Speaker 1: Toronto headquartered lithium development company with 2 very high quality assets in Brazil. Speaker 1: 1 of the things I'm most excited about in this upcoming Speaker 1: next few months is our flagship project Bandera, Speaker 1: which is poised to be Brazil's Speaker 1: next Speaker 1: producing lithium mine. So it's going to produce at a scale of 180, 000 tons per year of SC 5.2 concentrate. Speaker 1: We're currently waiting on our permits in the next few months here and following that construction will begin in the 2nd half of next year. With that schedule in mind, we're scheduled to start production in 2027. Speaker 1: High level numbers, we have a $1.5 billion NPV, Speaker 1: IRR of 61%, Speaker 1: all for the low, low price of $191 million US of initial capital. So it's very low CapEx and very, very juicy returns in terms of IRR and NPV. I would encourage all investors to check out our website, lithiumionic.com, Speaker 1: to check the corporate deck or reach out to me and the investor relations team. Awesome. I'm here with Mark Roos of Spanish Mountain Gold. Speaker 2: Mark, how are you at the Munich Mining Conference? What have you been excited to tell investors about? Speaker 3: Well, I'm totally excited about the fact that we're drilling, following up some Speaker 3: monumental holes that happened in the spring of this year. A winter drill program, we had 719 grams per ton in 1 of the holes, Speaker 3: 139 Speaker 3: meters, I think of 4.18 Speaker 3: grams average, which included that 1 high-grade at 179g Speaker 3: per tonne. That's really exciting. We also are going to look at ore sorting, Speaker 3: which is going to upgrade...
