Money of Mine

We’re at IMARC, and we sat down with four guests from four very different corners of mining capital.

Mark Kristoff of commodity trader Traxys, Sylvain Eckert of InfraVia’s French-backed critical metals fund, Jason Chang of private equity group EMR Capital, and Rob Stein, who left Macquarie’s research desk to join Latrobe Magnesium.

We cover:

• How a commodity trader actually makes money, and why tungsten won’t go back to $300

• InfraVia’s Core Lithium thesis, and why DLE isn’t the water fix it’s sold as

• The role of private equity in mining, and why Australia’s margins are narrowing

• Magnesium: a 1 million tonne market with 97% of supply from China and Russia

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TIMESTAMPS  

(00:00) Intro
(01:20) Mark Kristoff, Traxys
(14:40) Sylvain Eckert, InfraVia
(30:10) Jason Chang, EMR Capital
(47:30) Rob Stein, Latrobe Magnesium
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There's chaos across the board for mining shares… it’s red everywhere. 
The materials index officially a bear market losing over 20% of its value in just over a month. 
With this in mind, we dig into: 
What's behind the relentless selling  

Is it justified – or overdone 

Are we finding value out there 

Plus, some of the most fascinating stock news from the week 
The Goldfields Northern Star dance continues 

New Hope scoops up Malabar 

Genesis to sell some assets 

CuFe consolidates Tennant Creek 

Stocks mentioned: BHP, RIO, FMG, PLS, IGO, CSC, SFR, FEG, PDN, BOE, NXG, GFI.J, NST, YAL, NHC, SMR, WHC, 29M, OBM, ALK, GMD, HWK, CUF, Entrée, Tether 
This was recorded on 23/10/2026.   

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TIMESTAMPS  
(01:20) The Mining Sell-Off(05:30) Thermal Coal and New Hope's Malabar Deal(09:20) The Three SR Trade and Record Short Interest(14:00) Why the Market Is Short Resources(18:50) Gold Fields, Northern Star and Deal Updates(23:10) 29Metals
(28:30) Entrée Resources and Hawk Resources
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M&A whiz Ben Bailey, Portfolio Manager at Harvest Lane, is back.

Ben is one of the most knowledgeable minds in the M&A investing space, with the team at Harvest Lane running a relatively unique strategy by solely focusing on companies involved in deals.

With him, we dig into a number of transactions, including CZR’s bid for Zuleika, where a company trading below cash is issuing shares to buy another Creasy-controlled vehicle, as well as gold up-and-comer Forrestania’s takeover of Zenith, in which Harvest Lane took FRS to the Takeovers Panel.

We then jump into Global Lithium and Atlantic Lithium, picking apart the differences and similarities in their respective takeovers.

In the show, we cover:

• Why Harvest Lane is pushing back on the CZR and Zuleika deal
• Independent experts and “fair and reasonable”
• Forrestania, Zenith and the Takeovers Panel
• “You’re not lawyers. Go away.”
• Global Lithium, Atlantic Lithium and FIRB

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TIMESTAMPS  
(01:40) How Harvest Lane Got Into CZR Resources
(08:50) The Zuleika Takeover
(14:30) The Case for a Capital Return
(21:20) The Independent Expert Reports
(25:40) The Vote and What Comes Next
(33:10) Forrestania and Zenith Minerals
(38:40) The Takeovers Panel
(44:30) Global Lithium, Atlantic Lithium and FIRB
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Alex Turnbull once sent an out-of-work Mongolian translator with a drone to the Chinese border to count coal trucks.

Two years ago he told us data centres were the new EVs, and that silver could get very silly. It was $28 at the time. It hit $100 in January.

The former Goldman special situations banker and founder of Singapore’s Sagax fund is back, and he thinks the critical minerals market is trading on vibes.

Alex covers:

The Mongolia drone story
Why critical minerals equities now trade tick for tick with Trump’s polling
China’s “magic pudding” of diesel, and whether it has run dry
A jet ski, some explosives and a guidance system: the new veto on global shipping
Electric haul trucks, and why he thinks BHP will regret its stance
The photonics breakthrough that could make data centres 20 times more efficient
Why Caterpillar looks more exposed than copper
Gallium, germanium and indium: the trades the big houses won’t touch

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TIMESTAMPS  
(0:00) Intro
(01:30) The Mongolia Drone Story
(05:10) Critical Minerals and the Trump Trade
(09:30) The Hormuz Crisis
(13:20) Diesel and Electric Mining Trucks
(19:10) Refining and Fertilizer
(24:20) Coal, Power and Data Centers
(32:20) Data Center Energy Efficiency
(38:40) Copper and Uranium
(44:20) Lithium
(50:10) Gallium, Germanium and Indium
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We went hunting for value disconnects with a clock ticking and came up with 10 special situations in ASX small cap resources.

Some are textbook merger arbs, some are cash boxes the market refuses to count, and a few are special situation adjacent at best.

Along the way there’s a gold vault carried at cost for 20 years, a bidder who already owns 20%, and a Chinese parent trying to take the board instead of paying for the company.

None of them are layups, so we dig into the downside as well as trying to quantify the upside.
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TIMESTAMPS  
(00:00) Intro
(01:40) Situation #1
(06:30) Situation #2
(12:00) Situation #3
(17:30) Situation #4
(24:40) Situation #5
(29:40) Situation #6
(35:40) Situation #7
(41:50) Situation #8
(47:30) Situation #9
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