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--- interview_20240822 [2025/03/02 12:39] – created robertpeacock22
+++ interview_20240822 [2025/03/02 12:42] (current) – robertpeacock22
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-Rodney
+**Rodney**
  yep I think that's a nice uh that's a nice segue for frank uh yeah
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  advanced chemistry that goes into it
-Frank
+**Frank**
  well uh hi
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  to let also every like the one guy on the municipal council of some small you know uh
-Rodney
+**Rodney**
  generally speaking, Frank
-Frank
+**Frank**
  yeah yeah no I agree but yeah I know exactly let's please for whomever is listening I'm not talking about you
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  prairie in in Albert..
-Rodney
+**Rodney**
  they're very different places
-Frank
+**Frank**
  yeah and I don't know how we get out of this without without having people saying oh you have some favorites
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  their bad side
-Rodney
+**Rodney**
  Well, to skate where the proverbial puck is going um you know looming government change
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  to take us are we going to be in a better spot?
-Frank
+**Frank**
  I don't know because again this is the the separation
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  the layout of that village. But if you go into a city that's 200 300 000 people
-Rodney
+**Rodney**
  Yeah the threshold needs to be a bit higher
-Frank
+**Frank**
  uh yeah so so again
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  so uh this is the...
-Rodney
+**Rodney**
  Only in French Frank, only in French
-Frank
+**Frank**
  Yeah, yeah that's what they told me I have I've been to
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-Rodney
+**Rodney**
  Well I don't think I've ever seen the country so united on the idea that there needs to be political
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  about to face.
-Frank
+**Frank**
  I think the place where they can have a big difference a big impact right away would be
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  countries and for you also uh on other aspects and they don't do that.
-Rodney
+**Rodney**
  I think that cuts both ways so I think there's a certain hesitancy from most people involved in junior capital markets
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  those issues
-Frank
+**Frank**
  Well I think also it's a matter of financing and resource. So I'll take a very pragmatic
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  small exploration companies in some regional area and being able to accelerate that process and gather expertise from these people
-Rodney
+**Rodney**
  yeah that goes back to you know the point we made the other day that you know the the playbook of five years ago where you were looking
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  to get to the scale to operate effectively
-Frank
+**Frank**
  and they change a lot of regulation(s) – I'm talking really Québec and it's unfortunate uh I apologize for people that would
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  the Ontario government and then you
-Rodney
+**Rodney**
  there's a lot more inertia it's a lot bigger civil service in Ontario, it takes longer...
-Frank
+**Frank**
  it's it's absolutely absolutely the inertia force is there for sure that's one of the aspects but
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  letter here before we move to the next step. So a lot of these things...
-Rodney
+**Rodney**
  Well you know I first had knowledge of people have left the ontario civil service and moved to the Alberta one
  and find the Alberta civil service quite refreshing
-Frank
+**Frank**
  Yeah and it is, it is. I, I only have good things to say about them for now –
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  wants to see the pro the process that existed for the last 150 years that's proven
-Rodney
+**Rodney**
  Well for many people it's uh it's a it's oh it's a novel extraction process then I'm not interested I mean it just
  goes in the no category automatically
-Frank
+**Frank**
  It's an instant no and that's a problem that's a big problem and
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  it's uh
-Rodney
+**Rodney**
  generally speaking again I must I must say
-Frank
+**Frank**
  Yeah no no absolutely I'm not actually divulging
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  you oppose you lose your your voice on the table and until
-Rodney
+**Rodney**
- it's interesting to see I've bumped into a few times some former regulators who are very concerned about what's going on
+ It's interesting to see I've bumped into a few times some former regulators who are very concerned about what's going on
  with some of the regulatory bodies in the securities market and they seem to be working towards organizing um in a way
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  It seems like we could be getting there though towards making some progress on this issue
-Frank
+**Frank**
  And the brokerage has changed also so you you look at uh how they were 20 years ago 30 years ago you could go to
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  from the industry from from everything has changed and you're a dying breed
-Rodney
+**Rodney**
  well I think that's also part of the issue of needing to pass the baton in the junior mining from exploration to development
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  industry
-Frank
+**Frank**
  And maybe it's because you know it's it's um uh it's a situation where where there's a siege
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  would have to change and learn new things
-Rodney
+**Rodney**
  Yeah don't ruin the party Frank
-Frank
+**Frank**
  Oh yeah I'm I'm... I'm gonna stay. I'm gonna keep being that guy. I don't care. I'm planning to have like major success on
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  points that they're going to require to move to their project to production
-Rodney
+**Rodney**
  Right so I know it's not our style to talk about the uh the subject that we talked about before...
-Frank
+**Frank**
  I'm not going to be popular but I'm not
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  on something that does not exist it's not going to make it real
-Rodney
+**Rodney**
  there's the right size of company and the right amount of investment to keep things lean to have to make really good
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  you're you know you're going to run into trouble so you you might be threading the needle on that uh...
-Frank
+**Frank**
  And we still we're still learning. We're not... again we're not that good. We're still learning on the on the job
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  will grow drastically but in in shockwave
-Rodney
+**Rodney**
  well and at this stage of the market you don't have to be Ford or Chevrolet you can do you can be perfectly
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  that get consolidated up so being in the game of a growth industry like this is a big thing
-Frank
+**Frank**
  I think at this point you could you could even be uh
  you know the the the company that does the spare spare parts the small shop that does the spare the
- spare parts uh I forgot uh [[that movie that had this company that was selling parts|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Boy]] uh brake parts and
+ spare parts uh I forgot uh [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Boy|that movie that had this company that was selling parts]] uh brake parts and
  stuff like that and I was doing very badly with uh these SNL comedians I remember but that's kind of
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-Rodney
+**Rodney**
  Um do you want to make a quick comment on the nickel market as we segue over to greg?
-Frank
+**Frank**
  Oh my god hello Greg! is he is he there on the line already or...
-Rodney
+**Rodney**
  he's he's listening I'm trying to bring him up to speak um
-Frank
+**Frank**
  well I'll probably put him to sleep that's the thing
-Rodney
+**Rodney**
  He'll be fumbling with his phone as we speak I'm sure. He's like oh how do I do this?
-Frank
+**Frank**
  oh well uh and and I I've uh well the nickel market I think I have these days I have more comments on the gold than the nickel but uh
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  if you can call it it's a battery...
-Rodney
+**Rodney**
  catalytic converter
-Frank
+**Frank**
  ...catalytic converter uh stolen as much as you you you
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  about it and it would be uh interesting to see his position on this but
-Rodney
+**Rodney**
  Yeah let's let's get uh Greg.. are you uh the floor is yours