Nicole Adshead-Bell, Director of Cupel Advisory, joins Kitco Mining’s Digging Deep with Paul Harris to discuss why gold equities are catching up to higher metals prices, why copper supply remains constrained, and how rising resource nationalism is changing the risk equation for miners.

After an August rally added an estimated US$357 billion to the value of the top 50 mining companies, Adshead-Bell says sustained strength in gold and copper is bringing generalist investors back into mining equities after years of underrepresentation and deep-value trading. She says the sector is still in the early stages of a long-term bull market, but warns that late-arriving generalist money, inflated junior valuations and M&A feeding frenzies often mark the danger zone.

Adshead-Bell also discusses Brazil’s mining-policy contradictions, including Vale Base Metals’ IPO uncertainty, Sigma Lithium’s license suspension and Belo Sun’s permitting challenges, while arguing Brazil can still work when companies understand the rules. She weighs Chile’s weak copper output, Ivanhoe Mines’ Western Forelands resource growth, why record copper prices may not bring meaningful new supply for five-plus years, rising government take, Collective Mining’s resource-risk moment in Colombia, and Liberty Gold’s Black Pine feasibility study in Idaho.

Recorded September 8, 2026.

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00:47 - Gold Stocks Catch Up
05:58 - Post-Summer Mining Outlook
06:57 - Vale Base Metals IPO Politics
15:00 - Sigma Lithium License Halt
18:34 - Belo Sun Permitting Purgatory
21:22 - Copper Supply Crunch
25:31 - Resource Nationalism Rising
30:36 - Collective Mining Resource Risk
37:10 - Liberty Gold Black Pine Feasibility
41:29 - Why Mining Communication Matters
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