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Brent Cook
Exploration Insights (co-founder, senior advisor; economic geologist)
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Asked whether $4,000 gold is a market bottom, Cook frames it as a battle over Fed policy ('does the Fed have to raise rates due to inflation or they have to lower them' @15:54) and central-bank treasury selling, then gives a one-year range call. Gold is repeatedly established on tape as trading about $4,000, down from a $5,000 top. Teaser duplicate of this line at 0:00.
“I personally, I'm expecting gold to jump around within $500 of where it is right now for the next year.”
His stated basis: 'There's a deficit in copper production coming' @5:05 and central banks buying gold while selling Treasuries; 'So I think the outlook for gold looks very strong' @5:15. This is the premise for his whole junior-miner stock-picking framework.
“I'm still looking at the long term, I think, you know, the gold and silver and copper prices have got to go up. And I mean that over the long term, the next few years.”
Asked for one stock he likes, Cook names 'Talon Metals Corp, T-L-O' @17:02: Michigan nickel-copper-PGM deposit plus a Minnesota discovery 'exceptionally rich' in nickel and platinum-group metals, all US critical minerals, with permitting 'mostly in hand' @18:07. Later: 'that's something I would be adding to' @19:07. Teaser duplicate 'There's one stock that you like' at 0:22.
“But it just seems like a great-- it is a fantastic deposit. It's growing exceptionally high grade and as your chart shows, it's come off markedly from $9. So I like this one a lot.”
Answer to whether record copper above $6 a pound looks frothy or justified. He ties the demand to 'the infrastructure build-out for all the energy that it's going to take to power AI plus everything else' @27:30, and adds 'I think neutral through the end of the year... certainly looking further out, yeah, it looks pretty strong' @27:49.
“It might be frothy right now, but if I look two years out, it's cheap.”
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