Prospecting Progress: Advanced Gold Exploration's Annual Review and Vision

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Speaker 1: Hello everyone and welcome Speaker 1: to Speaker 1: Advanced Speaker 1: Gold Speaker 1: Explorations Speaker 1: live event. We're joined with our CEO, Jim Atkinson. Speaker 1: Today we're gonna be looking back at 2023 and discussing what we can expect moving forward in 2024. Speaker 1: And rather than it being Jim sharing a corporate presentation, we thought it'd be best to just have a casual conversation reflecting on last year and what to expect Speaker 1: in 2024. Speaker 1: Just as a reminder this is being recorded so if Speaker 1: you want to re-watch it you can do so on YouTube in the coming days. There's also a live chat feature so if you look to the bottom right corner of your screen Feel free to submit questions in the chat and I will try and incorporate them in the most logical Speaker 1: sense throughout the conversation. Speaker 1: Jim, Speaker 1: thank you for joining us today. I know you spent many years in the industry. Looking back in 2023 Speaker 1: and the mining and exploration space specifically, Speaker 1: how would you sum up last year? Speaker 2: Well, I'd just say a happy new year to everybody and wow are we glad that year is over. Speaker 2: We have been through some times as you said I've been around the business for a few years and we see cycles, Speaker 2: cycles come and go. But last year was, and 2022, were particularly Speaker 2: tough years. The funding for junior exploration companies was very limited Speaker 2: and it was, along with everybody else, We had similar type of struggles to Speaker 2: get funding. The only bright spot last year, as we know, was lithium and we decided not to get into that space Speaker 2: because we thought, at management, we thought it was kind of a bubble and you know only the early adopters ki...