Out of the GRND's Podcast

David Price has spent four decades finding mines. His career started the day after his final exams, when Robertson Research put him on a plane to Papua New Guinea to hunt for gold from a helicopter. Since then he has drilled out some of Australia's best known deposits, built and sold gold projects in Fiji and Austria, run an explorer in China, and grown a Greek gold resource from 100,000 ounces to over a million.Now he is back in Greece as CEO of Rockfire Resources, and the story behind Molaoi is worth hearing. David found it by sorting a database of 750 European deposits by zinc grade and tonnage. Molaoi topped both. Then in 2022 he had historical core assayed for germanium, a metal China controls around 85% of, and the first samples came back at 149 g/t.In this episode, David covers the path from PNG to the Peloponnese, why time spent underground shaped how he explores, what the Greek government told him about community relations 25 years ago, and how Rockfire puts that advice into practice today. He also sets out the plan: drilling through 2026, feasibility from 2027, and long-lead studies already underway to compress the timeline.A conversation with a geologist who has seen the whole cycle, several times over.

Tungsten, germanium, oil, biofuels, tailings. Plenty of ground covered in this one.Paul Johnson joins Out of the GRND for a wide-ranging conversation on the junior resource sector and four companies worth a closer look. Paul is the founder and former CEO of Power Metal Resources, and has spent many years working across AIM-listed mining and exploration businesses.The conversation starts with his read on the current market and where sentiment sits in critical minerals, before moving into specifics.Companies discussed:Guardian Metal Resources and the Pilot Mountain tungsten project, sitting at the intersection of US supply chain policy and critical minerals demand.Rockfire Resources and the Molaoi project, with germanium and zinc giving the story two angles.80 Mile and a genuinely diversified setup covering the Greenland oil partnership at Jameson, the Disko project, and biofuels in Italy.Panther Metals and Winston Tailings, a low-cost, near-surface story that doesn't get the attention it probably deserves.Honourable mentions along the way for Conroy Gold and Natural Resources, Arkle Resources and First Development Resources.Whether you agree with Paul's view or not, there's enough here to sharpen your thinking on the sector.Have a listen.

Before Darren Hazelwood was the CEO of Panther Metals, he was a retail investor. That background still shapes how he runs the company. Videos on every RNS, regular podcasts, AGM appearances where he stays around afterwards to chat with shareholders.The story he's running is one of the more compelling on AIM right now.Panther owns the historic Winston Lake site in Ontario, a former zinc mine that closed in 1998 when low prices made it uneconomic. The waste left behind is the asset. Recent vibracore work, an SRK-led Mineral Resource Estimate in progress, and a Letter of Interest from Traxys all point to a project with an indicative contained metal value north of a billion US dollars. Behind it sit Obonga, Dotted Lake with a 200-metre-plus magnesium intercept, and Wishbone's VMS potential. A CSE listing is also on the table to broaden the shareholder base.This conversation covers the lot. How the tailings became viable, what surveying a frozen Canadian lake involves in practice, what investors should make of the billion-dollar headline number, what the next six months look like for Panther, and what success means to Darren three years out.A properly substantive sit-down. Worth your time.Do your own research.