How to Speculate in Mineral Exploration Stocks with Geologist Joanna Ponicka

“A lot of people start with management; I start with the project. Is the project actually good? Because there [are] a lot of good management that have really bad projects unfortunately. What we have is a shortage of good projects in this industry. [You] see a lot of recycling of the old assets.”…“We have to improve something about the industry; where the capital goes. It has to start going into smarter projects,” shares investor and exploration geologist Joanna Ponicka of Equivest Capital.

0:00 Introduction

2:27 “Start with the project”

5:28 BHP Xplor program

7:49 Driver of senior miners investing in juniors

10:10 Majors vs juniors’ exploration goals

18:29 Cost of discovery increasing

24:46 Europe: jurisdictional risk

29:47 Copper exploration

33:26 Timely greenfield discoveries

35:10 Agnico Eagle’s nickel investment

37:31 ESG