 Today I have the pleasure of speaking with Frank Basseth from Granada Gold. How are you today, Frank? Always a pleasure to talk to you Tracy. Always good. Always good. Thanks. I'll tell you I'm gonna start somewhere different today You know, I know that gold is trending through the roof. It's not translating to the juniors yet But I'm not sure everyone out there appreciates what a significant history that Granada Gold has I mean you you actually were a producer historically. Is that not correct? Yeah, it used to be a historic producer and it then went through a lot of call for people that actually took some very nice large Surface bulk samples did a lot of drilling. They didn't interpret the data correctly and We just followed up on it and sure enough we found a lot of the gold they left behind and we're still finding it So I think everybody out there We all know that we are going to inevitably see a translation of these high gold prices to the exploration place Can you just tell us what the competitive advantages are of looking at Granada Gold? well, the first thing is we're on the Cadillac trend and If there's any address that you really should be on in North America or Canada You should be on a Cadillac trend. We're known for producing multi-million ounce deposit There's over a hundred forty million ounces have been mined in the immediate area and any deposit that anybody has ever worked on Cadillac trend Lots of gold high recoveries high grades. That's the norm and that's our deposit was the same when it was operated It was about 9.7 grams a ton Through the years people took a very large bulk samples 100,000 tons plus and this is right on surface You know three to five grams and this is the norm on the Cadillac trend And of course, that's exactly the argument a lot of people make when they send me Granada Gold information I get a lot of information Some of your shareholders are always talking about market valuations of other properties in the area And why I really need to be looking at Granada Gold. Can you tell us a little bit more about that? Well, what we've done is we we try to what we call ride the wave And so we did a few false starts and if you look at our trading pattern You know, I took the stock to 40 cents a couple of years back and then after that I took the 22 cents and the reality is we didn't ride the wave the right time So we kind of said, okay, we'll wait for the wave. So I think we've got the wave thing figured out now So I think we'll probably do a pretty good run last time We hit the wave right on and we took this company to about 120 million market cap in 18 months on drilling only So hopefully we'll do the same thing now Well, you've also been putting out regular flow of noose, of course And you recently announced that Canada Silver Cobalt repurchased back-in options from Granada Gold Can you tell us a little bit more about that? It was one of those issues where we used one company to be an incubator for the next company So when we're working at Granada, the Silver Acid became available Actually was one of the highest-grade Silver Mines at Neco Eagle operating the Cobalt Camp We used to work for a Neco Eagle with Silver Camp And what it does it came available, we picked it up for 25,000 We stuck it into Granada Gold We spent a bit of money, but really didn't do anything with it And then what happened was we did get an offer on Granada and it was actually quite a good offer Then at the 11th hour, you know, the people trying to take us over changed their mind They want to reprice the deal and I declined it But in the process, I spun out the Silver Acids But when we were spinning out the Silver Acids, we forgot five claims And so we thought the claims were worthless We said, okay, we'll do a half a million dollar back-in clause thinking it's never going to happen Lo and behold, we hit this super-high-grade Silver You know, it ran up to 70,000 grams of tan Silver plus Cobalt So we thought, you know what? Let's give it back to the people at Granada at CCW Granada is going to benefit from the share price increase in CCW And it's a win-win for everybody So we want to only focus on one project And we want to focus on developing the Granada project We're only 20% explored You know, we do have a resource We've also done a PEA, a PFS We have multiple things But I think now, you know, we've kind of refocused our direction We found a lot of high-grade And I think we might end up building our own mill on our property at the Granada mine Well, you just announced that Tetra Tech has begun studies for an onsite You know, I guess you're referencing that You want to tell us a little bit more about that Yeah, you seem for a long time trying to custom-mill in the area And you know, we did have two custom-milling contracts And then when they figure out how big the contract was Basically, we took over their mill for three years So a lot of them declined it So, you know, we're okay with that And, you know, we always thought, you know, the people with the custom-milling capability Within our immediate area can take our mills But just recently, you know, we did a bit of stripping And, you know, in preparation for taking a bulk sample And we found this massive native gold component So we actually, you know, we're going to sample this We're just going to do a grab And we'll send it to TTL and see how much the native gold is in there But what I've seen from my experience There's no mill in the immediate area That can handle this high-grade gold So, Frank, just, you know, I'm going to ask you What we should anticipate in the upcoming quarter or two But how's COVID-19 affecting your plants? Well, it was kind of interesting The way our companies design, you know We run what we call a virtual office from day one So, basically, we raise money, it goes into the ground Nobody has a desk, nobody has a chair, nobody has a computer So when the C-19 happened, it never affected us You know, you'll notice our financials done on time Everything's done on time Because our people are spread all over the place And where we are in North or North Carolina Especially where we are There are no cases We have zero cases And, you know, but still people wear masks here You know, you go to a store and, you know Go to a restaurant and everybody, you know Clean, you know, you know Cleans their hands and all this and then they But we have zero cases It's unbelievable But we're isolated also Depending how you look at it I mean, it's a small community We have to put three little towns together To get about 11,000 people And, you know, so zero, zero, zero issues here, right? So we never stop And then come back to the same thing We never stop So, are you on track for your plans for fall? Yeah, we're actually kind of ahead of schedule On some of the stuff We're kind of very happy I was progressing I like I said, we're very pleased I think we got the wave right You know, we got it wrong twice But I think we got it right this time And I think we'll do what we've done best You know, we drill We bulk sample and we put a lot of news releases out And we have a tendency of hitting our targets For those of you out there If you haven't gone to the Granada Gold site I was just reading you've done Approximately 120,000 meters of drilling That have been completed to date Is that correct? Yeah, that's only 20% of explored So, you know, we're looking at this stage of this program Might be over 100,000 culture 200,000 We're targeting our unique structures We found three high-good structures Within our 9 to 22 Which trend east-west over five and a half kilometers So I think we're kind of exciting A lot of drilling, a lot of results Just what we're known for As always, Frank, it's a pleasure talking to you And getting an update on Granada Gold It was a pleasure, thanks a lot Thanks for taking the time to talk to us Appreciate it