 Today I'm at PDAC 2022. They're at record capacity here and we're delighted to have Byron W. King with us. Byron how are you? I'm doing just great. PDAC is great. My goodness just getting in this morning was a was a chore. There's a 45-minute wait outside They had Toronto police controlling the crowd and then over an hour to get your get your badge So I got here a little bit early, so I only had to wait like about 55 minutes Yeah, that's with pre-registration. This place is crowded. It tells you something It does tell us something but for our audience could you tell them what it is that that it tells them? If you haven't figured it out yet Stuff is back. Okay all that pie in the sky vaporware Software vapor crypto all that's it's goodbye. Hello real things Hello rocks in the ground or as minerals copper lead zinc gold silver platinum palladium rare earths This is where it's at right here. And of course you're reading my mind Byron. I want to know there's a lot of critical materials There's 35 we've got the base gold everything here pick one for us or pick your top three well the one is Copper because you know whatever happens with the world the stock market was up the stock market goes down War in Ukraine peace in Ukraine whatever copper the world needs copper to do what the world's going to do in the next You know the next cycle So number one is copper number two is copper and you know, then we can get into you know We can get it and then I'll you know, okay gold silver because look what's going on with you know with the world's economies plural, you know the dollar the euro zone You know, it's inflation's out of control gold is going to have another run Okay, so if gold's going to have another run, you know, of course the numbers are not backing you yet Of course, I'm also a gold bug as you know Byron While you're here on the floor. Can you talk to us about something you've seen interesting here today already? well The couple of the really interesting things that I saw today are just classic gold mining stories I Visited the Corsac and I was looking at newfound gold for example up in you know, Newfoundland and We're looking at the core and it's this quartz site that they're pulling out of the ground And you can just see the little flakes of gold in the quartz. I mean it's super high-grade ore Fabulous you can visible gold right there at the surface ready to mine At this, you know on another angle of the mining industry I visited with the Barrick people the nice people from Barrick and particularly their northern Nevada operations In that in that partnership that they have with Newmont and the very very nice Geologists said she showed us this box of core and said which one do you think has the highest gold content? and because these are carlin deposits where it's the invisible gold and I think it was probably the fourth or fifth guess before I found the scuzziest most disgusting looking piece of rock on You know in their core box and we pulled it out and it's in the range of about 20 ounces per ton 450 some you know grams per ton of of Invisible gold carlin style gold so I mean classic old gold mining districts are there And they are they're they're producing they're ready to produce And then you know then we start to get into the exploration plays Which are a whole another story and we could talk about that too, but you know, I'm sure you have another question I Do but let's go to copper for just a second second Have you dropped by any of the copper booths and in if so, which one have you looked at so far this morning? Well when somebody says you know find me an up-and-coming copper player I the first word that pops into my head is Kodiak Kodiak copper wonderful management team Outstanding drilling results so far Really, you know, it's an early stage play, you know, they're into their exploration You know, they're not really They haven't come out with big huge resource or anything like that But they're doing all the right things in all the right places to find One of those big deposits that really moves the needle and moves the share price Kodiak Kodiak copper Well, I know we're preparing for a silver panel next and you're gonna be one of the experts So if you'll come back and visit with us because we want to ask you about critical materials and in particular rare earths During p-dac, I hope you'll join us again by happy to join again and good luck to all the investors out there And like I said stuff is back. It's time to get back into stuff real things real things not that vaporware stuff Okay, I told I'm telling you do it