 Hi, how's everybody doing today? I'm here with our very special guest, Yap Verbas, the CEO of Kavu Mining Corp. How are you doing today, Yap? I'm doing very well, thank you. Very excited to learn more about you and learn more about your company. I know our community is very excited about Copper and very excited about having you on the show. Now, the company's primary focus is Copper, which is great because there's a lot of excitement in our community about Copper right now. Can you tell us why Kavu chose Copper as its primary focus? Sure, that actually goes back to when we got the company started about a year, year and a half ago. And we saw that there was a lot of excitement in Gold. We felt that was maybe not the sector we wanted to be in for its ups and downs. And we were all kind of excited about Copper. Copper seemed to be somewhat of an underdog at the time. And so we got Kavu rolling as a Copper-focused explorer with, we're open-minded, of course, to other metals that will be used in the coming electrification of the world. But mainly we're focusing on Copper because Copper is used in anything that is electric, electric vehicles, of course, but also phones and other things, anything that you need, that you need wiring for needs Copper because it's such a good conductor. At the same time, there has been about a decade of underinvestment in exploration. And as the Copper price is now a lot higher than it was over the past few years, miners are rushing to get their Copper out of the ground, which means they eat their own supply. And so they need to increase their resource base. And that's really where Kavu comes in as an explorer. What we try to do is we try to find the next project that will be hopefully part of that resource base of an actual miner down the line. Fantastic. Now let's talk about the company's recent news highlights, which we've talked about here on Rich TV Live. Kavu has been releasing drill results on the current project in the Yukon both last week and this week. It looks like the market is responding quite well. Can you go through some of the news for us and break down for the viewers to better understand what these drill results mean? For sure, yeah. So what we've done and we're really happy with the results, of course, as you can imagine, what we've done is we took the project on in April or the last day of March, I think we closed the option agreement. And we planned our first drill program and so we're now seeing the fruits of that. We intersected 20 meters of 1.4% copper or 22.2 meters, I believe, of 1.4% copper, which was released last week. And that was the day that Kavu traded up, I think somewhere around 20% or so. So that was a great day for us. That really what that showed is that there's, and that was the longest high grade intercept to date on the project, the longest time 1% copper intersect on the project to date. And so we're really happy with that. What it shows is that our technical team knows how to get at the high grade zones in this area. It's a very large area, which we now call copper castle. There's a lot of copper mineralization there, but within that, of course, there's places where you wanna find the high grade and places where we know there is lower grade mineralization. And so this is really a vindication of that we know where to place our drill holes and taking these drill results together with some of the geophysics, which we've also put in our last release last week. It shows that there's a lot of potential for extending the high grade zone, where it's actually the lower grade area that seems to have been drilled more if we take that correlation with the geophysics to be correct. Today, we released results from our one hole in a new target area, which has hardly ever been drilled. And we also intersected 160 meters at 0.24 copper equivalent, which is in this type of area, this is a porphyry target. And so what we'd expect is longer intervals of lower grade, which is a little different than the copper castle area. But it shows that there are mineralized sections in that porphyry target, which are consistent with there being a mineralized intrusion, which it's a huge transformative drill hole for the company. Wow, congratulations. Yeah, thanks. And congratulations to the investors at home, because I know a lot of our investors are just gobbling up the stock. They love copper. Can you give the viewers that are watching an idea of how the recent drill results compared to historical Yukon properties? Sure, but you know what there's, the interesting thing is that the Yukon, the Yukon has some great copper projects, one that people know of well as probably the casino, there are others like Triumph Golds, Revenue and Nucleus area. What's important, but actually this copper belt that we have in Yukon, it continues into BC and Southern BC also has a lot of these copper projects. What's important to realize is that when you're looking at the resources of more developed companies, and of course, Kavu is an early stage explorer, so we've taken a leap in the right direction, but we're not, we don't have resources yet. But I prepared this, let me just bring up these numbers here. For example, in casino, the total measured and indicated resource is 0.2% copper. So if we're talking about a drill result, of where we have 100 meters at 0.2% copper, that's within that range. And so, yeah, that's great. It's great, it's on par essentially. And of course, it's now our job to show that the zone extends in all directions and to depth, et cetera. And we can't do that without more drilling, of course. So that's what we're planning to do. And it's the same going further to the South and to BC. These porphyry targets tend to be low grade, bulk tonnage projects, but somewhere in the range of 0.2 to 0.3% copper in the resources. So that's why we're so excited. Another thing that investors should know is that the age of the geological environment of the hopper, and we have a lot of experience with the geology of the Yukon, it's an area I did my PhD on and our vice president of exploration did his masters in the Yukon. That's how we met. He actually continued to do a PhD at Laurentian University, again on intrusion hosted polymetallic systems. The product is a great fit for us. Anyway, I digress. But the reason this is geologically so interesting to make that comparison between casinos that casino is the exact same age as the hopper project. And so we believe that we've extended the known copper region of the Yukon quite a ways to the South by this drill hole. Very good. Now your flagship hopper project, can you tell us why you selected this location? Sure, yeah, it was a long exercise essentially in what we did, and we tried to take the opposite approach from what most juniors would take normally, which is normally what you do is somebody comes to you with a project and you say, okay, there is some drilling here and there's some mineralization that's served or for sure we'll take a stab at it or not. But really what you wanna know is that you're in the right region and in the right district, et cetera. So what, but Luke and I, Luke is our vice president of exploration. What we did is we reviewed all the government and the available data from the Yukon and BC and try to figure out, okay, well, what do these good copper deposits and copper projects look like in the data? Where are the faults? Where are the magnetic highs, the magnetic lows? How does all the data fit together? It creates the type of signature for that and then try to look at where else can we find that? And that's our mantra throughout this process has sort of been we wanna work on something that has the potential to be world-class because life is too short to work on anything else. And that's what we've held up and we kept doing that and that's how we settled on the copper projects. Fantastic. Now I understand in the past, it's attracted attention from some of the majors and there were some big transactions like Rio Tinto Canada Inc. Investing 25.6 million Canadian, 21.2 million US to acquire roughly 8% stake in Western, copper and gold corp and a foothold in the exploration company's casino copper project in Canada's Yukon. Can you tell us what this means for the Yukon region and how Kavu compares to the casino copper project? Sure, yeah. So the, I mean, the majors get into these projects because they see the ability to develop a mind down the line, right? And that means that the jurisdiction is good enough, the permitting process is clear enough. The, there are no big jurisdictional risks that would stop the permitting of a large mine. And so if you get majors that come in that say, well, we see that this is an economically viable project and we see that, you know, this could be a mind down the line that is great news for the jurisdiction for the Yukon itself, as well as for the company that they invest in, of course. And so for us that tells us as a junior explorer, it shows that we're in the right district because that, you know, there are majors active there and it's, it is a Rio Tinto for the casino project, but there's also Zijin mining and I believe Newmont that have a stake in Triumph Gold Corp, which have a large porphyry project to the north of us. So that's, that type of interest is, it's a very big deal for a region. And it gives us a way to, you know, look at the future and see what may be possible if things go in the right direction for Kavu. How does Kavu compare? Well, as I said to the, to a project like casino, of course, we're an early stage explorer. So there is much less drilling on Kavu's project than on casino. So it's essentially, you know, where, where casino would have been a long, long time ago before they knew that they had resources, et cetera. And so, and the disclosure I should add is that we don't know if we'll get to a resource but if you are willing to, you know, trust that we know where to put the drill holes and that the project is as good as we think it is, then investors can follow us along that growth path. Can you give us an idea of how it's been to work up in the Yukon region and how Kavu has shown resilience? Sure, so I guess really what, you know, the Yukon is a great place to work but it's been challenging the plan remote exploration for any exploration really since the global pandemic, the COVID-19 pandemic that's made things fairly difficult. The Yukon had some border restrictions when we started drilling, which meant there was a lack of manpower in the Yukon. I had to isolate when I crossed the border into the Yukon in camp, for example, those things. And that makes it a little harder and the industry is incredibly hot right now. So there are not a lot of drill crews available, for example. But despite, you know, our short timeline because we acquired the project in, as I said, the last day of March, we were drilling by I believe the 10th of July or so. So just a few months later, we really, and not, you know, it was quick. But I think thanks to myself and Luke, we were able to really go through all the data in detail and pick good targets. And that's really what we're now seeing the results from in our drill results. And so yeah, drilling in July, we got the program started going properly, probably 10 days in or so. You know, there's always a bit of a startup when you have to get camp together and drill yourself to get used to the rocks and all these kinds of things. Then there was a fire about 300 meters from our exploration camp, maybe 400 meters. But that's where the fire started. So we had to evacuate. Wow. We got all the crews out. We made the decision to evacuate very quick because how close it was. And we were, you know, we're in contact with the RCMP on how the fire may have started on, and it ended up being just a camper. It's the downside of road access is that there's a lot of recreation along that road. And so people build campfires and they do that sometimes when it's too dry to build a campfire in the wrong spot. But regardless, we were drilling again, I believe two and a half days later when the fire crews were still mopping up the fire, we were thankfully in time for the fire crews to save our camp, et cetera. They held the line next to our camp while the fire raged another kilometer to the other side. So it was pretty exciting. I would say that's a bit of resilience there on, you know, from the entire team. And we finished our drill program. Wow. Yeah, so that was great. As far as the Yukon goes, otherwise, you know, it's, a lot of people think it's far into Canada's North and it's remote and it's in a difficult place to work. We've got road access. The road is mostly maintained by the government. There is power that goes over that road, 20 kilometers to the south. There's a hydroelectric dam there. So all these things are covered on our project. And you can fly into Whitehorse, which is, you know, the main city in Yukon and drive to our project with a standard truck in two and a half hours or so. Wow. Yeah, that's a lot of resilience and the fact that you guys were back to drilling just two days later, that shows that you guys are very serious about your success. Now, in addition to that, I thought this was pretty cool. There was an advisory board appointment of a First Nations board member. Why was this important to Kavu? And what does this mean for investors? Yeah, a good question. We've been, that's Alan Adirza is, I can't remember exactly when he became our advisory board member, but it's fairly recent where we've worked together with him on a couple of things now. There's a few things that are important there. I mean, he's a mining entrepreneur himself. He's negotiated several, you know, big agreements between industry, government and First Nations. And so what he brings to us mostly is a First Nations perspective on the mining industry. And one thing that the mining industry has a bad reputation for is that, or used to have, I think a lot of that has changed. But, you know, what's happened in the past is mining exploration companies, mining companies would go into the traditional territories of First Nations and they would open up a mine, exploited, reap the benefits without giving anything back to the community in terms of employment, et cetera. So the people that live closest to that mine actually don't benefit from it. And that's wrong. That's unethical business and that's not the way we want to work. But we also realize that we don't, within our board and, or the board of directors and myself and there's no other First Nations member there. And so we thought we need another, we need a First Nations perspective within the company. And so he's been very helpful for that. The other thing that investors need to realize is that First Nations in Canada are the largest private landowner. And so when it comes to finding the best regions and districts that may host good projects, many of those will be on private land, which is not open for exploration unless you can come to some kind of agreement with First Nations or with the local First Nations. And Alan has the connections to to start talking about these things. That's two things. The other thing that it shows, I think from Kavus side is that we're willing to be held to the high standards because Alan has been very clear to us as well. He's like, you know, there's having me on your advisory report doesn't help you get away from having the tick of the environmental boxes and doing your exploration in a way that is as sustainable as possible, et cetera. So we're here, we want to do things right. And Alan is a part of that. Fantastic. And lastly, what do you think Kavus growth plan to success is? So we're of course, we're super excited by the Hopper project and we see the potential there for a big mineralized porphyry system as well as our copper castle success from this year. That is in itself, you know, there's a lot more drilling we can do there. We will be doing a bigger drill program next year. So you can expect much more results to come onto the market from the drilling. At the same time, we continue to look for other properties in Canada as well as elsewhere in the world. And that includes copper projects, but also we're looking at potential nickel PGE cobalt acquisitions. And so we're an explorer that is, you know, continually looking for great projects and at the same time has a good growth plan just with the Hopper project. Well, thank you so much for your time today. The CEO of Kavu Mining Corp, Yap Verbas. 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