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12 March 2023 · 1h 12m

Copper, patience and the long cycle

A calm conversation on the structural copper deficit and why small-cap explorers may be the leveraged play of the decade.

Helena MarshTom Bryant#mining#copper#macro

Transcript

Host

Welcome to The Sunday Roast. This morning we are taking the slow road through copper — supply, patience, and the companies that might still be standing in ten years.

Helena Marsh

The deficit is not a headline, it is an arithmetic problem. Grades are falling, permitting is slower everywhere, and nobody has been rewarded for building a mine in a decade.

Tom Bryant

Which is why we keep coming back to Kestrel Copper. It is small, it is unloved, and the drill results in the northern zone were genuinely interesting.

Host

And you are comfortable with the balance sheet there?