In honor of Military Appreciation Month, our guest for this month’s episode is Jennifer Spitler, regional program outreach coordinator for the Pennsylvania Department of Military Affairs. Jennifer shares about the variety of ways DMVA supports veterans in the DOC—which is the largest employer of veterans in Pennsylvania—including participating in v…

Time Stamps Below. Tickers AZS.V and AZASF. I sat down with CEO Mike Stark for a brief news update. Since we last spoke, the company has released a couple sets of results from their ongoing drill campaign at their Philadelphia project, acquired land for a future heap leach pad, and have announced some $3.2 million in the bank in part courtesy of si…

Companion Article: https://juniorresourceinvesting.subst... Thesis Gold (TAU.V) came out with good news recently, announcing that mid-tier producer and Toodoggone neighbour Centerra Gold (CG.T) was getting involved with Thesis through a 9.9% strategic investment. Bringing on a strategic is a critical step in any devcos journey, and the strength of …

Companion Article: https://juniorresourceinvesting.subst... This is one I’ve followed for a while, including a couple of paid sub notes on them. The similarities (and therefore immediate allure) to another company I follow closely (Founders Metals) make for an awfully compelling narrative here. Consider the obvious parallels: Location of Sela Creek…

While a major focus of the Department of Corrections is preparing incarcerated individuals for reentry, victims of crime can never be overlooked. Fortunately, the DOC has a strong relationship with the Office of Victim Advocate! In this episode, Commonwealth Victim Advocate Suzanne Estrella joins the podcast to discuss the many ways her office work…

In this episode, Dr. Bret Bucklen discusses a new report released by his team this month, which is a cost-benefit analysis of the use of Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT). The study compares the benefit-to-cost ratio for four different types of MATs that are currently used by the PA Department of Corrections: Revia, Vivitrol, Suboxone, and Subloc…

Important Note: If you like my work, please click through here and subscribe to CTGO's newsletter so they can track the following I can bring to their story: https://why-invest-in-contango.com/ In this conversation, Rick Van Nieuwenhuyse, CEO of Contango Ore, discusses the company's recent cash distribution, tonnage delivery improvements, and finan…

Link to companion article: https://juniorresourceinvesting.subst... Back again with Founders Metals (FDR.V). They’re officially north of $6 CAD these days, breaking through ATHs alongside gold. And well-deserved considering the news they’re releasing. 72m of 2.29 gpt Au extending Van Gogh to depths of 200m, after opening it up with 28.5 of 7.12 g/t…

Companion Article: https://juniorresourceinvesting.subst... Tocvan Ventures (TOC.CN) is moving again. With the drill turning, they are starting to receive positive results from the lab that certainly appear to confirm management’s belief in their Gran Pilar project. Strong gold mineralisation has been intersected in the first-ever handful of holes …

Tocvan Venture (TOC.CN) remains one of my top picks. It’s a tightly-held and smartly-managed gold explorer/developer operating its Gran Pilar flagship project in the world-class mining district of Sonora, Mexico. Sonora is among the cheapest places in the world to both explore and produce gold. Tocvan is working to defy the typical junior exploreco…

As we prepare to celebrate Second Chance Month in April, the PA Prisons and Parole Podcast hosted DOC Workforce Development Specialist Dorenda Hamarlund to discuss her work in helping reentrants secure employment. Dorenda shared about barriers to employment for reentrants, how the DOC prepares inmates for employment upon release, and how second-cha…

A new company to JRI - Oroco Resource Corp is a copper porphyry developer operating in Sinaloa, Mexico. With 6 billion pounds of payable copper (including inferred), OCO’s Santo Tomas project is no small thing, and with a tiny 1.38:1 strip ratio, strong metallurgy, and solid economics, there’s a lot to like with Oroco. However, Oroco has taken on s…

Companion Article: https://juniorresourceinvesting.subst... Thesis Gold CEO Ewan Webster joins me again for a company update. Thesis continues its growth - both of its Lawyers-Ranch project (4.7m oz, 4.2m oz M+I) and of itself as a company and continues to offer a compelling valuation opportunity for investors - a lot of potential reward for not a …

Link to companion article: https://juniorresourceinvesting.subst... The rate that Founders continues to put new discoveries on the board is impressive, this time the impressive initial results coming out of the Da Vinci target that has seen strong grade in all 5 holes released to date, including 21m of 3.24 g/t Au and 36.0 m of 2.21 g/t Au. CEO Col…

This episode features a conversation between Dr. Bret Bucklen (Director of Planning, Research, and Statistics) and Dr. Lucas Malishchak (Deputy Secretary of Reentry) on the PA DOC’s brand-new Recidivism & Desistance Initiative (RDI). This initiative was introduced in January 2025 to provide quantifiable public safety goals for the agency and to mea…

With nickel sentiment and price continuing to suffer, CEO Mark Jarvis joins me to discuss Giga’s recent plans to explore for game-changing high grade. Giga's Turnagain deposit is one of the largest nickel deposits in the world, but with mediocre grade, its bulk tonnage advantages are muted in such dramatic nickel downturns as now. So, rather, than …

While the PA DOC’s dog training programs are highly popular throughout the commonwealth, the DOC also features a separate dog program: the Bureau of Investigations and Intelligence K-9 Unit. Capt. John Evans joins the podcast to discuss the vital work his unit performs in keeping contraband out of our facilities. He discusses the training the dogs …

This episode is a conversation between Dr. Bret Bucklen and Jim Stover (JRI Coordinator for the PA Department of Corrections) on the Justice Reinvestment Initiative (JRI). We discuss what exactly JRI is, and also the history and impact of JRI efforts in Pennsylvania.By The PA Prisons and Parole Podcast

Our year-long trip around Pennsylvania comes to a close as we wrap up this series focusing on each of our prisons with a visit to SCI Houtzdale and SCI Huntingdon. The episode begins with Huntingdon Supt. John Rivello discussing the oldest facility in Pennsylvania, including its many vocation opportunities and its relationship with the community as…

In this year-end episode, Dr. Bret Bucklen and producer Jeff Coleman sit down to review and discuss some of the research and evaluation accomplishments at the PA Department of Corrections during 2024. They discuss results from studies on topics such as inmate visitation, Intensive Parole Supervision caseloads, reentry relocation, and the in-prison …

Time Stamps Below Companion Article Found here: https://juniorresourceinvesting.subst... Bought deals, big board members, and bonanza grades - 2024 has been a heck of a year for Founders Metals (FDR.V). So despite all its successes, you might wonder why yesterday’s news release - 81.9m of 1.01 gpt au - managed to goose the share price some 12%. Col…

Written Summary and Companion Article: https://juniorresourceinvesting.subst... I have CEO Greg Beischer on to talk developments in the AEMC story with him. We discuss current exploration at their Eureka and Canwell nickel targets, how AEMC has responded to adverse macro nickel conditions, AEMC’s Quebec project and its priority status within the co…

Companion Article and Summary at: https://open.substack.com/pub/juniorr... I have on Cassiar Gold Corp for the first time. If you’ve been active in this space the past few years, there’s a good chance you have come across this one. They burst onto the scene with new management and a new land package just in time for the mini-bull run from 3 or so y…

Back with Colin Padget and Founders Metals. It has only been a couple months since our last sit down, but the news flow Founders has put out since justifies another catch-up chat. Here, Colin fills me in on their new board appointment (one Chris Taylor), the recent $20m bought deal and $12+m strategic investment, & the requisite drill update/upcomi…

Link to Companion Article: https://open.substack.com/pub/juniorr... Building off my previous conversation with CEO Mike Stark, this news update from Arizona Gold discusses how they opened a $3 million financing on Sept. 18 and closed it for $4.6 million on Oct. 3, with Sprott and Rick Rule along for the ride. That impressive show of market interest…

Our podcast’s tour of DOC facilities is winding down with only a few left, but not before a chat with SCI Greene and SCI Laurel Highlands. This episode kicks off with a chat with Greene Superintendent Randy Evans and Deputy Superintendent for Centralized Services Mark Dialesandro. The duo share about Greene’s PA Correctional Garment Shop, its uniqu…

In this episode we speak with Bill Nicklow, deputy superintendent for facility security and special operations at the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections. Bill talks with us about the practical side of efforts to reduce prison violence. He also shares highlights of his long and interesting career in the department. Bill provides context to the p…

In this episode we speak with Dr. Nancy Rodriguez from the University of California-Irvine about a multi-state project that she and several of her colleagues have been conducting for the past five years to examine the causes and consequences of prison violence. As this project is now coming to a close, Dr. Rodriguez shares with us some of the major…

Our podcast visits Schuylkill County this month as we shine a spotlight on SCI Frackville and SCI Mahanoy. This episode kicks off with Mahanoy Superintendent’s Assistant Jen Mahally sharing about her facility and its various programs, including how the Pennsylvania Correctional Industries warehouse provides job skills that can be invaluable to reen…

In this episode we continue to remember the life and legacy of Mark Kleiman. We review perhaps his most important practical contribution to the field, what he called Swift, Certain, and Fair (SCF) Supervision. The principles of SCF Supervision were laid out in in his 2009 book, “When Brute Force Fails.” We discuss various ways that the PA Departmen…

Mark Kleiman was a special friend to the PA Department of Corrections, partnering with us on many initiatives over the years such as assisting in incorporating the principles of swift, certain, and fair (SCF) supervision into practice, in-prison violence reduction initiatives, and other evaluation and innovation efforts. This special episode is a t…

Companion Article and Written Summary: https://juniorresourceinvesting.subst... Prismo Metals have officially begun drilling their Palos Verdes project immediately adjacent to Vizsla Silver’s Panuco project. With 3000 meters budgeted, this drill campaign will test the property at depth and along strike in ways it has never been before. Success with…

Join the Community at: / discord Companion Article and Summary at: https://juniorresourceinvesting.subst... Published Sept. 21, 2024 Thesis Gold (TAU.V) has had a pretty good run over the past month or so since my site visit, rising some 60% from 60 cents to $0.95. Obviously someone has caught wind of the deep value imbalance that was (and still is…

Overview AbraSilver (ABRA.V) is a well-known name in this industry, and for good reason. It’s Diablillos project is big, high-grade, and full of potential. For some companies, an annual update might be enough to stay up to date. Not so with Abra. CEO John Miniotis fills me in on the many different important pieces of news Abra has released since we…

Link to Companion Article: https://juniorresourceinvesting.subst... Sometimes, timing is everything. Arizona's Philadelphia Property is a gold and silver vein/disseminated target located in Arizona in the Oatman Mining District (which historically produced over 2 million ounces of high-grade vein gold). Under Mike Stark as CEO, AZS has continued to…

CEO Alain Lambert and President Steve Robinson join me to discuss their company Prismo Metals. Prismo had been advancing a high-grade silver+gold system in Mexico but have pivoted in the last couple of years to advance their new Hot Breccia property in Arizona's prolific copper belt. Next door to the long-lasting Christmas mine, Prismo's thesis is …

Written Summary and Companion Article: https://juniorresourceinvesting.subst... Tocvan Ventures is drilling again, ready to continue to rapidly advance its Pilar project to production. CEO Brodie Sutherland stopped by again for a drill campaign update and to touch on other recent news releases. Met work, the expanded land package, Mexico as a juris…

CEO Claudia Tornquist and Chair Chris Taylor join me once again to talk recent news from their company Kodiak Copper. Kodiak continues to eat their elephant one bite at a time as they progress their massive MPD porphyry project in southern BC. We discuss 2023 results and the impact of VRIFY's powerful new tool to be used in 2024, wherein Kodiak wil…

Sendero Resources (SEND.V) released 3 more holes from its La Ollita target today. The results were not barn burners, but were still successful, particularly as part of a first drill campaign, as they delineated hundreds of meters of economic (at scale) mineralisation. Nevertheless, the market was unimpressed and SEND.V is now off its recent highs c…

Thesis Gold (TAU.V) CEO Ewan Webster returns to discuss the final results from their 18,000 meter 2023 drill campaign at their 100% owned Ranch project in the Toodoggone region of BC. There was a lot of success to be found this year - areas of long intercepts of high grade gold buried within even longer intercepts of disseminated mineralization. Wi…

Invictus - despite objective success in unlocking its Cabora Bassa basin - wallows near 52 week lows. MD Scott Macmillan joins me once again to try to reconcile what Invictus has accomplished with its current market valuations. Updates on financings (past, present, and future), the PPSA, flow testing and 2024 exploration all made it into this long,…

Time Stamps below. Companion Article and Written Summary: Managing Director of iTech Michael Schwarz joins me today to provide an update on iTech's Lacroma Project. The project hit a rough spot a few months back with some questionable drill results as graphite sentiment bottomed out. However, as Mike demonstrates, iTech has found success enough to …

Overview I sat down with base metals analyst Connor Mackay of Pi Financial to discuss @fireweedmetals. Connor covers Fireweed and I took this opportunity to pick his brain and have him show his work a little bit on the process and logic behind his work. Fireweed is a best-in-class asset that, because of this status, makes it a bit of a trick to pro…

Substack Written Summary and Companion Article: https://juniorresourceinvesting.subst... Recent drill results out of Founders Upper Antino project have served to redefine the potential of it. Strong drill results have become the norm for Founders, and these last few batches of results are no different. But it is not so much what has been found, but…

Chris Taylor (Chairman Kodiak Copper, former CEO of Great Bear Resources) recently joined me to discuss BC's newly-released critical mineral strategy in a long-form interview meant to help investors themselves make sense of these incoming changes. Ever articulate and unafraid to express his opinions, Chris makes for a great interview and has ideas …

Founders Metals (FDR.V) is already a heck of a story and is just going to keep getting bigger. Honestly, that’s it in a single sentence. Of course, CEO Colin Padget and I talked about a lot more than that in our longform intro interview - historical mining, modern exploration success, permitting, mining tailings, future plans, and much more - but a…

(Reuploaded with improved audio) Make sure to use the time stamps below to navigate this longform interview. @tocvanventures New Resource Exploration Discord: https://discord.gg/X9mmUMtU Written Summary and Companion Article: This is a good one. TOCVAN is pursuing an aggressive growth strategy to get to production within a couple years. Very cheap …

@AlaskaEnergyMetals New Resource Exploration Discord: https://discord.gg/X9mmUMtU CEO Greg Beischer of AEMC.V sat down with me again to discuss some of the headlines his company has produced since we last spoke, including impressive drill results and initial MRE, an interesting BoD appointment, and the activity of their neighbours. We close into a …

My first sit down with CEO Martin Turenne of FPX was a busy one. The morning of our interview, news came out that FPX had acquired another strategic partner, bringing on Japanese company Sumitomo in another major derisking event for the company. Designed with the idea in mind that FPX is already well known, topics were more involved than your typic…