
Derek Macpherson
President & CEO of West Point Gold Corp (TSXV: WPG), a mining exploration company focused on gold discovery in the Walker Lane Trend in Nevada and Arizona.
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Aug 14, 2026
21,000m Drilled & Assays in; What’s Next for West Point Gold
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Cali Van ZantHOST
For anyone that is new to the story and has not seen all the other podcasts, do you want to talk about like some of the best results you came out with on this 21,000 meter drill program at the Tyro Main and Northeast Tyro? Because there's some pretty spectacular ones.

Derek MacphersonGUEST
Yeah, there are a number of spectacular holes, particularly at Northeast Tyro.

Derek MacphersonGUEST
I think the best hole that we drilled in Northeast Tyro and the best hole this program was 66 meters at six and a half grams.

Derek MacphersonGUEST
That is a spectacular hole, especially considering it's only 300 meters from surface.

Derek MacphersonGUEST
I mean, that's what really opened up Northeast Tyro and gave us that idea that we had multiple boiling zones.

Cali Van ZantHOST
Again, for anyone that's new to the show or hasn't seen all the other podcasts with us for that possibility of the mind, do you want to just walk us through the great land package that you guys have, like all the benefits and upside of obviously being in the U.S. A lot of people know, but just walk us through like the project and all the infrastructure, et cetera.
West Point Gold (TSXV:WPG) High Grade Gold Continues to Depth: Breaking Down the New NE Tyro Results
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Cali Van ZantHOST
How significant is this depth and width grade that you just came out with, with this whole, like for the Northeast Tyro as a whole, as you continue out with the project?

Derek MacphersonGUEST
We'd seen a few holes a little bit shallower than this that were maybe not as exciting, still decent grades, but not as exciting as some of the 200 gram meter intercepts we've been hitting.

Derek MacphersonGUEST
And this is another, you know, on a true width basis, this is another 200 gram meter intercept.

Derek MacphersonGUEST
And so I think that this just really highlights the scale potential, right? And the intensity of mineralization, you can kind of see it in the core photos that we show in the press releases.

Derek MacphersonGUEST
What it shows in those core photos, and I'm not a geologist, so I'm kind of parroting what Rob, our VPX said, but what happens there is that we have a breccia, and that breccia has a lot of energy in it.

Derek MacphersonGUEST
which implies that actually that gold and that forms that breccia, which is kind of a collection of quartz glued together, is coming from deeper, which means you still have boiling below where this zone hits.

Cali Van ZantHOST
Again, with the success that you've had at the Northeast Tyro Zone, assuming you are going to plan your drilling for later this fall, 2026, 2027, into 2027, and focus there, or has anything changed for those plans now with this amazing poll that you've come up with?
West Point Gold Corp: Pending 7,000m Assays, Step-Out Success & Upcoming Maiden Resource 2026
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Cali Van ZantHOST
Can you just walk us through where that takes you across the line with that funding, and then with that doubling of your drill program, what you got to see for some of the broader mineralization?

Derek MacphersonGUEST
We announced the financing in January and closed it in February, uh, really before the, kind of the market got challenged with the, with the Iran war.

Derek MacphersonGUEST
And so that $25 million, coupled with the money we have, coupled with the in-the-money warrants, uh, that we also have, we got pretty good runway ahead of us.

Derek MacphersonGUEST
We've now just wrapped up a 20,000-meter drill program, finished at just over 21,000 meters.

Derek MacphersonGUEST
Um, but we're funded for, you know, if we drill about 30,000 meters in our next drill campaign, so our operational year is roughly September to May, so if we drill 30,000 meters next year, we would finish, uh, you know, kind of May next year with about $10 million in cash.
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Cali Van ZantHOST
Um, as far as, 'cause you can speak on the macros as well, what are you thinking long-term or still paying attention to as we're going through this all?
"More Bullish Than Ever on Gold:" Getting "Ahead" of Next Metal Rally
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Walk us through your broad thoughts on gold's price action since the war began and really what this is signaling about risk and overall confidence in this market right now.

Derek MacphersonGUEST
A lot of people have pushed back on the gold price because it went down when you had this sort of significant geopolitical event.

Derek MacphersonGUEST
But the reality is risk premiums came out of the market across the board and lots of people had profits in gold.

Derek MacphersonGUEST
And I think as you saw investors deleverage, gold was one of those places where they took profit.
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But in your opinion, what matters the most when you consider, I mean, government spending, geopolitics, declining trust in the U.S. dollar? I mean, what right now do you think is one of the most important factors?
Gold Near Record High: Central Banks & Retail Investors Pile Into Commodities
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Are those likely to be those sorts of trends that continue to drive this higher into the new year?

Derek MacphersonGUEST
Well, I think you kind of outlined those key factors, right? You have central bank buying, which I think is going to continue.

Derek MacphersonGUEST
I mean, there's still the weaponization of the SWIFT system with respect to that.

Derek MacphersonGUEST
I think it's still something that central banks are going to be focusing on and continue to de-dollarize at the slow pace that they are doing that.
Gold Soars 60%: West Point Gold CEO Explains the Shift from West to East
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Marley KaydenHOST
And how meaningful is that shift in physical gold from west to east in terms of global economic power?

Derek MacphersonGUEST
I think it really relates back to what happened with Russia when they got shut out of the global SWIFT system.

Derek MacphersonGUEST
If you're a holder of US dollars and you think you might need those US dollars to fight a war, you need to get out of those US dollars and get into something that you can trade with anybody.

Derek MacphersonGUEST
I mean, if you look at the largest buyers of gold, it's been China, It's been Russia when they could.
Marley KaydenHOST
And for the investors who are watching, who are interested in gold, what's the best play here with the price action that we're seeing? Is it in physical gold? Is it in gold-tied equities and ETFs here? If they want to make an entry point, what do you think is the best approach? And also, where do you see gold going by end of year or early 26th?