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Money of Mine

Money of Mine

Mineral Media 555 Episodes Jul 25, 2026

Where mining meets equity markets, and noise gets cut to signal. We unpack the stories moving commodities, companies, and capital without the fluff. Featuring candid conversations with fund managers, executives, and commodity specialists. Hosted by Travis Ricciardo and Jonas Dorling.

Episodes

Developers Are Generationally Cheap (Darren McLean)
Developers Are Generationally Cheap (Darren McLean) Jul 25, 2026 01:20:14 Darren McLean is back. A longtime mining investor, Muddy Waters consultant and Chairman of Mayfair Gold, Darren has spent his career hunting dislocations in the development space, and he argues developers are now the cheapest he has ever seen.We get into why the setup is so unusual: quality assets trading at a fraction of NAV, a permitting environment that has finally turned, and a market he think
Here Comes the Scandium Supercycle (Koala)
Here Comes the Scandium Supercycle (Koala) Jul 17, 2026 00:37:30 The Koala is back on the show. Our favourite pseudonymous investor joins to unpack the most niche commodity story in the market: scandium, a metal with barely 80 tonnes of annual production that Bloom Energy's fuel cells have suddenly made indispensable to the AI buildout.With short sellers circling Bloom over its Chinese supply chain exposure, the timing couldn't be better.In this ep, the
Is It Too Late to Break China's Minerals Grip? (Henry Sanderson)
Is It Too Late to Break China's Minerals Grip? (Henry Sanderson) Jul 14, 2026 00:46:53 Henry Sanderson, the author of Volt Rush and writer of the Volt Insight Substack has spent two decades reporting for the FT and Bloomberg, including seven years in Beijing. There are few better guides to China's grip on batteries and critical minerals.Fresh from a trip to China, Henry unpacks where the East versus West supply chain battle really stands.In this ep, Henry covers:• Where China&#3
Why Small Caps Are Trading Too Cheap (Matt Griffin)
Why Small Caps Are Trading Too Cheap (Matt Griffin) Jul 10, 2026 00:52:11 Matt Griffin is back. Two years on from his last chat with us, the Maple-Brown Abbott small caps PM returns to unpack a macro-dominated FY26 that saw 75% of active managers underperform the index.It's a full tour of the small cap resources landscape, from gold to uranium, aluminium and the mining services boom.In this ep, Matt covers:Why gold swelled to 18% of the small cap index, and why the comi
The Battle for Leonora’s Final Act
The Battle for Leonora’s Final Act Jul 7, 2026 00:28:58 We're back to where it all began. The Battle for Leonora.  Undoubtedly, our favourite M&A saga, taking us back to where it all began. It’s as if things have come full circle with the announcement that Genesis will interrupt the Regis-Vault merger, making its own long-anticipated play to acquire Vault (in a “merger”). In this ep, we discuss: Is this Luke Tonkin's finest act Why didn&#39
Discovery, Luck and the Thrill of the Chase (Mark Bennett)
Discovery, Luck and the Thrill of the Chase (Mark Bennett) Jul 3, 2026 01:15:23 Exploration geologist Mark Bennett joins us for a conversation on his journey finding world-class ore bodies, from his start at Western Mining, through discoveries at Thunderbox and onto the staggering story of the Nova-Bollinger discovery.Mark shares stories from WMC, getting a taste for success at LionOre, the disaster at Apex that taught him how boards really work, and his deal with Mark Creasy
From Boom to Bust and Back (Ken Brinsden)
From Boom to Bust and Back (Ken Brinsden) Jun 30, 2026 01:35:40 Ken Brinsden joins us today to trace a remarkable career across the mining industry, from underground gold and Victorian mineral sands to building Atlas Iron and turning Pilbara Minerals into a lithium powerhouse.Ken shares his journey from the highest highs and down to the troughs, only to rise back up. From the debt & commodity cycle that stumped Atlas, to the brutal 2020 lithium downturn an
Hunting For Outliers (Tony Manini)
Hunting For Outliers (Tony Manini) Jun 26, 2026 01:11:05 Tony Manini joins us for a wide-ranging conversation on a career built around discovery, from leading the team that found Sepon in Laos to the wild ride of Oxiana/OZ Minerals and the founding of EMR Capital.Tony lays out his core belief that exploration and investing are fundamentally the same venture capital game — all about managing probabilities, sizing the prize, and having the discipline to c
Time Arbitrage & Fourth Grade Math (Mike Alkin)
Time Arbitrage & Fourth Grade Math (Mike Alkin) Jun 23, 2026 01:11:43 We're joined by Mike Alkin of Sachem Cove to break down where we are in the uranium cycle, why his supply-driven thesis evolved, and what he thinks of the SMR and data centre hype.He digs into the broken price reporting that distorts the market, Kazakhstan's value-over-volume shift, the East-West bifurcation of supply, and how to think about a world-class asset like NexGen's Rook I in
The Oil Shock That Wasn't (Rory Johnston)
The Oil Shock That Wasn't (Rory Johnston) Jun 19, 2026 00:48:32 Oil analyst Rory Johnston joins to unpack a wild three months in the oil market, as an Iran deal is on the cusp of being signed and Brent bounces around. Rory walks through what actually moved the market, why prices underreacted to a major supply shock, and what it all means looking forward.• China’s import collapse: the biggest surprise of the crisis• How jawboning and volatility crushed bullish
Deficits Drive Bull Markets (Sam Berridge)
Deficits Drive Bull Markets (Sam Berridge) Jun 16, 2026 00:54:26 Sam Berridge from Perennial is back after a wild first half of 2026. We run through just about every commodity under the sun.Gold's sold off, but the fundamentals haven't changed. What next? We also get into why the structural deficits he chases tend to survive the chaos, as well as the latest on the aluminium setup.In this one we cover:Gold's sell-off and the long-term thesisThe Iran
Buying Gold Miners When Everyone is Selling
Buying Gold Miners When Everyone is Selling Jun 12, 2026 00:59:59 Chase Taylor and Zach Abraham from Bulwark Capital join the show to unpack a world turned upside down. The pair walk through why oil could be mispriced by $30 or more, how cheap drones and missiles have rewritten the global security picture, and why the debasement trade is only taking a breather.We also dig into the quiet detente between the US and China, the "electric stack" thesis span

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