Mining Stock Daily

Jean-Philippe Paiement is the Director of AI and Targeting at VRIFY. It was his work which began almost a decade ago which has led to the VRIFY's AI Product Launch this past week. JP shares his story about why he decided to combines geology with programming and machine learning. And how an event at PDAC almost 8 years ago would help launch his ideas into a tangible product to help improve exploration and generate better targets.

John is the Founder and Managing Partner of Maverix Private Equity, a private equity firm focused on technology-enabled growth and disruption investment strategies. During the VRIFY.ai launch this past week, John sat down with MSD to talk about the inbound of interest he's received regarding technology in the mining space. He admits there has been a dichotomy between the technologists and the explorers for far too long. John shares ideas of how the mining and exploration industry will change as technology continues to be adopted.

Comet Lithium's Vincent Metcalf joined us from the VRIFY.ai booth at PDAC to talk about their adoption of the new artificial intelligence platform the company has been beta testing over the past few months. The initial phase of VRIFY's collaboration is focusing on Comet Lithium's 100%-owned Liberty lithium property. The approach leverages complex data relationships to predict mineral exploration targets, streamlining the process of identifying viable mineral deposits. The automation of target generation will allow the trained model to be updated quickly with new data from ongoing exploration work.

Fred Earnest, CEO of Vista Gold, joins us on the PDAC floor for a general corporate update on the Mt Todd Project. Last year the accompany announced a royalty deal with Wheaton Precious Metals which will be adding to the company's bank account and fund new development and exploration endeavors.

Ari Sussman of Collective Mining joined us in PDAC this week to talk about the influx of $18M cash from a new unnamed strategic investor and how the money will continue to help the advancement and exploration of the Guayabales Project in Colombia. We also talk to him about the rumblings of concerns about the Canadian government being unsupportive of Chinese money coming into Canadian equities.

Martin Turenne of FPX Nickel joins us from PDAC to discuss the latest news and developments from the Baptiste Nickel Project in BC. The company's strategy is designed to prioritize critical path activities in preparation for entry into the Provincial and Federal environmental assessment. We also discuss some of the latest analysis from Macquarie regarding the nickel supply in China and how one's reporting thinks we may be getting it all wrong.

We welcome both Western Copper and Gold's Sandeep Singh and Paul West-Sells to this episode to clear the air about the hiring of Sandeep as the new CEO of the company while Mr. West-Sells takes on the position of President. We discuss what spurred this decision, how the market reacted to the news, and what Mr. Singh needs to accomplish with stakeholder relations to get the Casino project through to the finish line.

Claudia Tornquist, CEO of Kodiak Copper, discusses how the company has been utilizing the new VRIFY.ai product to beta test its system and also enhance prospectivity. Exploration results from the MPD project continue to expand the number of drill-confirmed zones and prospective target areas, which now stand at over 20 mineralized centres. Kodiak's management views AI technologies as a promising method to help prioritize drilling more efficiently and cost-effectively.

Steve de Jong, CEO of VRIFY, joins Trevor and MSD for special coverage of the company's latest product launch during the PDAC Conference in Toronto. Steve talks about how the system leverages public and private data to better inform exploration teams of prospective targets within projects. And like the original VRIFY platform, the AI generates probabilistic 3D maps of the Earth's subsurface, aimed at pinpointing prospective mineral deposits. Learn more at vrify.ai

Jason Jessup of Magna Mining provides some commentary to today's news that the amended Closure Plan for the Crean Hill Project had been filed with the Ontario Ministry of Mines. This allows Magna to move forward with an advanced exploration plan, which includes a surface bulk sample and development of a ramp from surface to perform test mining in the 101 Footwall, 109 Footwall and Intermediate mineralized zones.