For this week's long-form interview on MSD, we step away from junior exploration and precious metals and spend some time talking industrial metals, including thermal and metallurgical coal with Matt Warder. Matt talks about his back ground from musician to coal analyst while living in the heart of coal country West Virginia.

We spend some time talking about the boom in the coal markets during covid and the Russia invasion of Ukraine. But where are the coal markets now and when and where will they re-emerge once again? And if an energy transition is to take place, coal holds a likely key to the heart of the matter.

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