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The Hole Truth

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The Hole Truth is a Resources Rising Stars podcast hosted by Paul Armstrong, a seasoned expert in the world of finance and resources. With more than 30 years of experience as a finance journalist under his belt, Paul brings a wealth of knowledge and insight to his conversations with some of the most prominent figures in the industry. Each episode of The Hole Truth is a deep dive into the inner workings of those resources companies which are making things happen, quizzing those in charge abou ...
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Peter Krauth, is highly regarded silver analyst and author of the book The Great Silver Bull. In this addition of the Hole Truth Podcast, he outlines why he believes we're on the cusp of a huge explosion in the silver price. With falling supply and rising demand largely off the back of solar panel consumption. Peter, is an absolute expert in his fi…
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AFL legend turned fund manager Chris Judd, had a fireside chat at a recent investor lunch with Bell Direct analyst Grady Wulff, during the chat Chris, provided some great insights into his life in football, his new career as a fund manager and what he thinks the outlook is for his old team the West Coast Eagles. He also shared some thoughts on what…
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Alex Kersten is an automotive YouTuber, Presenter and Podcaster, best known for producing relatable, authentic and passionate car related content. His Mazda MX5, affectionately named 'Phil' has brought in more than 100 million views across his social channels. Alongside his own content, Alex has pulled together a group of new channels (and friends)…
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Hammer Metals (ASX: HMX) has just agreed to sell some of its interests to its neighbour Carnaby Resource (ASX: CNB). This will see the company put $4 million cash in its bank account immediately with the potential for up to $20 million through the sale process. The funds will be used to explore its growing copper inventory in the Mount Isa region o…
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DevEx Resource (ASX: DEV), is looking for high grade uranium in the Northern Territory. It has a large parcel of highly perspective land in what's known as the Alligator River Uranium Province. Previous drilling by DevEx has returned some fantastic results. The wet season is about to end, drilling is about to resume to extend that known mineralisat…
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The majority of enthusiasts get quite excited at the prospect of sustainable fuels, and for good reason. Their success could ensure the survival of the internal combustion engine. To find out more about the development of these fuels, and what is really going on behind the scenes, we spoke to Guy Lachlan. Guy is the Managing Director of Motor Spiri…
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Lachlan sits down with Matt Madden, translator of Chan Samoeun’s Prisoners of Class. The book, having been recently released in English for the first time, is an amazing example of a Khmer Rouge survivor memoir. They discuss Matt’s journey in finding the original book, meeting the author and translating it over many years. The book itself, includin…
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Kingsland Minerals (ASX: KNG) has just announced a maiden resource on its Leliyn Graphite Project in the Northern Territory. It now officially has the biggest graphite resource in Australia. This puts it in the box seat to become a key supplier of this essential battery material to European, American and Asian EV makers and battery producers. Manag…
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Justin Lunny is the CEO of Everrati, a company that specialises in electrifying classic & iconic cars. In our interview, we discuss the ethos behind Everrati, the current EV landscape, the evolution of battery technology, and the co-existence of sustainable fuels. Thank you for listening! For more information, check out Everrati's website - https:/…
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Talisman Mining (ASX: TLM) has made a substantial discovery at the Rip and Tear prospect in New South Wales. Wide intersections of lead and silver with some zinc have already been announced, further assays are pending. Mineralisation is being outlined over 2.6 kilometres and it remains open. The discovery is big, just a question of how big it is! Q…
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Gateway Mining (ASX: GML) has a market capitalization of just $9 million, it also has a resource of more than 500,000-ounces at the Montague Project in WA. The company is drilling a host of new targets, it generated some great results from the first couple of holes, it also has a fascinating copper target - there is a big anomaly there and diamond …
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For more than thirty years, Patrick Peter has been a driving force behind classic and contemporary motorsport events. During the 1990s, alongside Stéphane Ratel and Jürgen Barth, he played a pivotal role in revitalising endurance sports car racing through the creation of the widely acclaimed BPR Global GT Series. His company, Peter Auto, is famous …
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Spartan Resource (ASX: SPR) and it's Managing Director Simon Lawson, can lay claim to having one of the greatest turn around stories the WA gold industry has ever seen. The Never Never gold deposit in WA now has a resource of nearly 1,000,000 ounces. The results they put out this week suggests this is just the start. Mineralisation is being interse…
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This first episode for 2024 comes courtesy of Legacy Minerals (ASX: LGM). Managing Director, Chris Byrne is a young geologist who is looking to make a name for himself and his company. Legacy has three highly prospective land holdings in the Lachlan Fold Belt in NSW. It’s a very desirable residence for exploration and the company did very well to p…
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Few cars in recent memory have garnered as much attention and admiration as Porsche's prototype 'Half 11'. It's the creation of Nikita and Iliya Bridan, Canadian twins who dropped out of high school at 13 to study car design in Italy. We had the pleasure of chatting to Nikita about the Half 11, modern car design, and what's next for the brothers an…
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What did the Tet offensive achieve? How was the Battle of Hue waged? Why were almost 3000 people murdered by the Viet Cong? Time Period Covered 1968 This episode covers the Tet Offensive of early 1968. Lachlan links the media coverage of the event, with the extreme scenes in Saigon, to the reality of the offensive and what the communists hoped to a…
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Our guest this week is Walter Heale, founder of Historic Motor Car Workshops; a firm that specialises in the restoration and race preparation of pre and post war cars, with a leaning towards French and Italian marques of that period. In our interview, Walter shares the stories behind some of the incredible cars he has worked on, including a rare La…
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Arrow Minerals (ASX: AMD) is a tiddler… The company’s share price at the time of recording this podcast was just .3 cents a share. Incoming Managing Director David Flanagan, is anything but a tiddler. He's got a big reputation, he was the founding Managing Director of Atlas Iron and he’s well known throughout the Australian business community as a …
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On this week's episode of the Apex, we are joined by four times Masters Historic Formula 1 champion and Goodwood lap record holder, Nick Padmore. Nick climbed the ranks of single seater racing and excelled as a Works driver in Radicals, before becoming more involved in historic racing. Alongside his impressive resume, Nick is also one of the world'…
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Mitre Mining (ASX: MMC) has just acquired the Cerro Bayo silver gold project in Chile, the project has an existing resource of almost 25-million ounces of silver equivalent. More importantly it has huge exploration upside. Mitre plans to start drilling in January, it has numerous walk up drill targets, the objective is to grow the resource substant…
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Equinox Resource has just pegged a big lump of land in Brazil, they're searching for REEs. The project, Campo Grande is right next door to the big project held by Brazilian Rare Earths. Brazilian Rare Earths, features Gina Rinehart, as one of its big investors. Chief Executive, Zac Komur, tells us why they like Campo Grande, why REEs is so hot in B…
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On this week's episode of the Apex, we are joined by the legendary Tiff Needell. Tiff has competed at Le Mans 14 times, climbed the single-seater ladder all the way to F1, and competed in touring cars, British Rallycross and the 24 Hours of Daytona. He also commentated alongside Murray Walker and entertained the nation with his work on Top Gear and…
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Spartan Resources has been one of the hottest gold stories on the ASX this year. Managing Director, Simon Lawson, has done an amazing job turning around what was a troubled asset into fantastic exploration story. The project already has resources of 721,000-ounces at more than five grammes per tonne. A resource update is scheduled for the next few …
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How did the CPK develop their plan to genuinely start a war in Cambodia? Why did Sihanouk seek rapprochment with the United States? How did the bombing of Cambodia begin? Time Period Covered 1967-1968 January 1968 will prove to be a pivotal month for the Vietnamese, Cambodian and American interests in the war. This episode details how the Cambodian…
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Auteco recently acquired the Green Bay copper and gold project in Newfoundland, Canada. The project already has a substantial resource and Manage Director Steve Parsons, who was the founding Managing Director of Bellevue Gold, is confident that they will quickly grow this resource by drilling. It already has one drill rig turning on site and others…
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On this week's episode of The Apex, we have the pleasure of welcoming a seasoned racing driver, coach, stunt driver and commentator. Having competed at the top level of the junior formulas, Oliver Webb has gone on to win the European Le Mans Series, the Dubai 24 hours and the Gulf Historic Grand Prix in James Hunt's race winning Hesketh. He joins u…
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Eastern Metals (ASX: EMS) has three exploration projects in Australia, the flagship project is Browns Reef in the heart of the Cobar Basin in New South Wales. The company aims to put out a maiden JORC resource for Browns Reef next year. Ley Kingdom was recently appointed Chief Executive, she's a geologist who sees the upside in this company, partic…
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After listing on the ASX only a couple of months ago Executive Director Andrew Dornan, says James Bay Minerals has made what looks to be a very promising discovery of spodumene at its property in James Bay, Canada. Andrew and his team came out of Pilbara Minerals, they know the industry very well and know what they're looking for in terms of outcro…
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After a hiatus of almost two years, we are relaunching the Apex podcast! Our guest for this week is Karun Chandhok. He's competed at the highest levels of motorsport, racing in Formula 1, at Le Mans and in Formula E. Karun is also a renowned commentator, analyst, writer and historic racer. He joins us to talk about his journey into the world of rac…
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Greenvale Energy, is developing a torbanite project in Queensland, torbanite is the key ingredient in bitumen. Australia currently produces no bitumen, it imports all its requirements. Greenvale is promising to become Australia's first producer of bitumen by producing the torbanite. It also has a gas prospect in the NT where it believes it could be…
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Nordic Nickel is exploring the Pulju Project in northern Finland, it's located within the central Lapland greenstone belt. The project already has a resource of 278,000 tonnes of contained nickel and more than 12,000 tonnes of cobalt, the aim is to continue growing this resource. A resource update is scheduled for the end of this calendar year. Dri…
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Alicanto Minerals has just started drilling at the Falun Copper-Gold Project in Sweden. Falun is a historic world class mine, it produced mass quantities of high-grade mineralisation for many years, but it has never been subjected to modern exploration. The Alicanto team has identified a host of compelling targets in a 3.5-kilometre corridor stretc…
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Ausgold is a junior gold stock that has been flying under the radar in recent years. But that might all be about to change as it starts to ramp-up development of its 3Moz Katanning gold project, located in Wheatbelt country three hours’ drive south of Perth. Katanning ticks lots of boxes from an investor’s perspective and, fresh from a resource upg…
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Canada is hot property when it comes to lithium exploration. Just ask Clinton Booth, the new CEO of Pioneer Lithium – which has made an impressive start to its life as a lithium explorer after making its ASX debut last week. Booth joined Pioneer from a senior position working for Andrew Forrest as Global Head of Integration at Fortescue Future Indu…
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What led to Mao's launching of a 'cultural revolution' in the People's Republic? What were the aims of this movement? Why did perhaps a million people die at the hands of their countrymen in less than four years? Time Period Covered 1964 - 1969 In what could be considered a belated "Part Two" to the episode introducing Maoism and the Great Leap For…
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Astral Resource has just released a scoping study on its Mandilla Gold Project in the eastern goldfields of WA, the study shows that Mandilla is set to generate strong cash flow from a big open pit. Managing Director Marc Ducler, tells us that the company’s valuations are relatively low compared to its peer group and it appears he has good reason t…
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Triangle Energy must be one of the most leveraged resources stocks on the ASX. The company is preparing to drill three oil and gas exploration wells in the North Perth basin, with a market capitalization of just $30 million this company is highly leveraged to exploration success. Managing Director Conrad Todd, provides a fascinating insight into th…
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Kingsland Minerals has a rapidly emerging graphite discovery in the Northern Territory, the Leliyn Project looks extremely promising with spectacular assays including 209m at 10% graphite. Mineralisation has been outlined over 5 kilometres and this sits within a longer graphitic schist which measures 20 kilometres. Managing Director Richard Maddock…
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Chalice Mining has had a bumpy ride since releasing the Scoping Study on its Gonneville Nickel-Copper-PGE Project in WA. The share price fell as the market grappled with a range of complex factors relating to both technical and financial aspects of the project. Managing Director Alex Dorsch addresses each of these issues in full and frank detail, e…
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Astute Metals has a fascinating lithium exploration story in Nevada. But you won’t hear the words pegmatite or spodumene once. That’s because the lithium Astute is looking for is in claystone, effectively meaning it is disseminated in a manner similar to a gold deposit. The key advantage is that all this rock can be dug up and placed in the process…
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As well as being as simple a story as you could hope to come across in the exploration space, Critical Resources is bang in the investor sweetspot. With a maiden Resource already under its belt at the Mavis Lake lithium project in Ontario, Canada, Critical is drilling around the clock to continue growing the inventory. In this episode of The Hole T…
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If the analysts, fund managers and just about everyone else who follows the uranium market are even half-right, then the price of the nuclear fuel is about to take off in a big way. They all cite lack of new supply and surging demand as reasons to believe that the next uranium bull market is almost upon us. If the price does meet these expectations…
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CZR Resources has an iron ore project at both the northern and southern ends of one of Rio Tinto’s Pilbara iron ore projects. The feasibility study on the CZR project, known as Robe Mesa, is almost finished, fuelling speculation about whether Rio will bid for it. CZR also owns the big Ashburton magnetite project in the Pilbara, where it has started…
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Special guest Matthew Jagel joins Lachlan to talk about his new book: Khmer Nationalist. The book is an exploration of Cambodian history using Son Ngoc Thanh as the central focus, and they join up to talk about Cambodian nationalism, the influence of Imperial Japan, Sihanouk's antagonism, the Khmer Serei and the CIA. Visit https://www.cornellpress.…
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Minerals 260, a member of the Tim Goyder stable, was spun out of lithium success story Liontown Resources. The idea was to put all the non-lithium assets in a new company. But as things have turned out, Minerals 260 now boasts a compelling lithium exploration project near the big Delta lithium project in WA. But the story certainly doesn’t stop her…
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Nimy Resources (ASX: NIM) has a market capitalisation of $20 million it owns The Mons Project in the heart of WA, the company has done a lot of early stage exploration work including extensive geophysics and early stage drilling. It’s identified numerous highly promising nickel and lithium prospects and is now about to start a new drilling programm…
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Alicanto Minerals is preparing to drill a host of strong targets near the rich historic Falun copper-gold-zinc-lead-silver mine in Sweden. Falun was a world-class project in its day, but has not been exposed to any modern exploration. Managing Director Rob Sennett and his team have been working hard behind the scenes and have already identified sig…
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What was the Samlaut Rebellion, and how did it start? Who was responsible for this outbreak of violence? What leads to Khieu Samphan disappearing over night? Time Period Covered 1967 In the first part of an explanation of how the Cambodian Civil War begins, Lachlan looks into the circumstances which lead to an outbreak of violence in the province o…
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