 Today I'm speaking with Darren Hazelwood, the CEO of Panther Metals, a company that I have not before seen. And I understand, Darren, that your focus is on volcanic mass of sulphide deposits in Northern Ontario. Can you please tell us something about this? I wasn't aware of there were such deposits in Northern Ontario. Yeah, so it's commonly known as VMS, Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide. Now, they're polymetallic deposits, generally. Now, in Canada, 49% of the zinc produced is from VMSs, about 25% of the copper from VMSs is the same. But in the Northwestern Ontario, we're about 80 kilometres from the west to us away is Sturgeon's Lake Greenstone Belt. Now that's a renowned Greenstone Belt for VMS deposits. There was five past producing mines. They all produced commercially from the late 60s to the early 90s. And actually, Glencore were back prospecting on there in 2023. But Jim Franklin, who's a Canadian legend, but world-renowned expert on VMSs and a world-renowned geologist, he's actually said that he believes that a bonga, which is a Greenstone Belt we're working on, is the sister Greenstone Belt to Sturgeon's Lake. So we couldn't wish for a better exploration property than a bonga. What metals and minerals are we talking about in these deposits? So they're predominantly zinc, zinc, copper, lead, silver. You can get some gold in them, and the four main commodities, zinc, copper, lead and silver. What's your timetable? What are you going to start and what is your goal? Right. So we've put it on the VMS side on a bonga. We've put six holes into the VMS targets in total today. Now, a bonga is an underexplored Greenstone Belt. And what we've done, we've drilled five holes at one area a week, or wishbone. Within those five holes, we've hit four separate lenses. Now, along any individual lens, you can find a deposit. It's been a remarkable technical success. We've actually confirmed that this is a VMS area as well. And let's remember that VMSs tend to cluster. But in our marketing, we're saying that we're uncovering the next VMS camping candidate, which we are. Now, if four lenses out of five holes at a wishbone, we've also hit mineralization. We've probably topped out the two-metre zinc, nearly 7%, had nearly 5% silver, and a circle of 0.19% copper. Whilst the intercept wasn't huge, what it did do for the first time ever confirmed that this VMS system is carrying mineralization. And that was a major breakthrough for a bonga. He had BHP there in the early 1990s. They liked the area, but they pulled out drew to the windy craggy scandal of 92, where all explorers, basically, due to what we met on with the Canadian government at the time, just down tools and walked out of Canada. It actually took them a good few years to recover from that. But we've also put one, and now at the wishbone area, we've got anomalous copper over a very defined area. The area is about, and this is in Lake Sediments. The area is 10 kilometers north to south, probably a couple of kilometers wide. Now, we've got copper in Lake Sediments, part per million, and there are numerous grades of anything up to 860, 870 PPM, part per million. And you've got 700 PPM, 500 whole confiny of copper PPMs between 100 to 500. And it's in an area that very quickly the copper drops back to the background levels from tarot. You know, tarot, copper, circa 25 parts per million copper. And outside of this defined zone, it drops back to the background levels. Now, that leads us with a lot of confidence to believe that that copper is actually leaching out of the area as opposed to being erosion. If it eroded, then that would have been spread out over a lot wider area, and you wouldn't have had such high concentrations if it was erosion. Tell me, tell me, what kind of access do you have to these areas where you're looking for discoveries? And this is the reason that the area has been a valuable check. So, a bong as a Greenstone Belt has no... We are very close to the main road from Thunder Bay to Armstrong, but actual roads and trails are non-existent on the Greenstone Belt. So we're having to put in our own trails, and that's our next step. At the moment, everything we've done has been by helicopter support, but that's also why it's been underexplored to have such a prospective area. So what we did, you mentioned what's the plan. We actually state, we've now got access or have an option over 90% of this entire Greenstone Belt. And it's a very clear plan to snag interest from majors. You're looking at 291 square kilometres of ground. We've put one hole in a separate area on a bong for VMS, it's called Survey. The MAG and EM signatures, three kilometres by half a kilometre, and we put one hole in and we actually discovered anomalous zinc over about 15 metres. And the metallurgical work on that also confirmed that the survey area on its own is a VMS. So the plan is, Jack, we'll now start to... We're talking with the Indigenous communities at the moment, is to cut trails into a bonger so that we can have road access rather than the expense of helicopters, but that's what's kept juniors out of the bong Greenstone Belt and why that opportunity is there. Okay, tell me, what's your background? Right. So I was, personally, I was a private investor in London. I was notifiable in a collection of companies within the sector whilst running my own private business. And I had a choice of continuing to grow my own private business or step directly into the industry at a board level. And the realities are that the capex of building the business that I was in didn't offer the same potential returns that I saw in the industry at the time. And in fact, all of those metrics have continued to grow in terms of medium to long-term supply shortages and everything else that's going to drive this. Now, we couldn't forecast COVID. We couldn't forecast the bear market that we saw suffer globally over the last two years. But it was basically to make more money in this industry than in the industry I was in. And that's something that never gets talked about. But that is ultimately what we're all here for, Jack. I want to build this business. I want to build a big business. The thing that is so noticeable about the junior mining industry is that there's no businessmen in it. It's usually geologists with a dream. And so you bring a different dimension to the business because you're starting off thinking like a business. And so that's, to me, a very good thing, okay? Especially this business. So I assume that you have on staff though, the geologists and core drillers and people that actually know how to do this. Listen, I'm about building teams, okay? You build great businesses through building great teams. And my chairman, Nico Reilly, he's actually a reporting geologist's competent person for London Stock Exchange. He does a huge amount of work behind the scenes at a geological society in London, highly respected. But in fact, our option partner on the bonga is Leanne Boya. She's Canadian. She's out of Thunder Bay, highly respected geologist. I'm not going to go too much into what she does as a day-to-day basis. But I will add that she works to an extremely high level. And there's no difference to anything. You build your teams. You've got to have the confidence in your teams and the belief. And also what I strongly believe in and something that will become obvious as this business develops because and grows, I found out to implement this over the last four years since we listed and there's two reasons. One was we listed in January 2020 and we come straight into COVID. I couldn't have timed it worse. COVID's kicked off in the late February of 2020. Where are you listed? We're listed in London. We were at main market listing in London. And then we had, Canada opened up on the 7th of September to flight 7 September 2021. I flew in on the 11th. And of course, after Christmas, the Russia invaded Ukraine and the bear market hit. And I took a decision. We haven't actually raised as a business any capital for the last 18 months. I took a conscious decision to work on the foundations of the business whilst we were on the public market. Because I didn't believe that the public markets were offering any value to explorers or mining companies within that period. Now, I also believe that we're actually coming out of that moment in time. I think it's looking more bullish. It will take time. But as a result, I've now got to prove my worth and show what I believe. And within that, I believe in structures that allow people to get on and do things. Decentralized structures is what it actually is. So you can build our teams in the separate areas that we want to build the business. And you can build some great things by doing that. Thank you very much for the time today. I'm looking forward to the following. Now listen, the pleasure is all mine to be on a call with the legend that's Jack Nifton is all my honor. So I thank you for your time. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thanks, Jack.