Digging Deep
Join a discussion with the brightest minds in the resource investing sector and learn how to navigate the complex world of mining investment. Kitco Mining's Digging Deep, hosted by Paul Harris, is your weekly appointment to understand the key trends in the resource investment space. Paul sits with experts to dissect investment trends and understand the dynamic landscape shaping the future of natural resource extraction. Digging Deep is your guide to understanding resource investment and how to profit from it.
Digging Deep
Gold Prices Cover Mining Cracks
Will the current M&A wave reshape the mining sector in 2025? Nicole Adshead-Bell, Director of Cupel Advisory, joins Kitco’s Senior Mining Editor and Anchor Paul Harris to break down a pivotal Q1 for the gold and copper sectors. In this Digging Deep episode, she unpacks the M&A frenzy sweeping the mining space, the implications of record gold margins, and why high prices may be masking deeper production issues. Nicole also weighs in on China’s aggressive push into Latin America, a massive copper-gold discovery by Lundin-BHP, and the financing turnaround at i-80 Gold.
Key points:
- Majors see gold output slide by 1.5M oz while margins exceed 60%
- M&A cycle is accelerating, investors now demanding near-term growth
- Lundin-BHP’s Vicuna project revealed as biggest copper discovery in 30 years
- China’s long-game: Latin American copper takeovers amid Western inaction
- U.S. permitting delays, rising arsenic ore challenge future copper supply
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