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Rob Carpenter

Rob Carpenter

Geologist (Ph.D., P.Geo.) and President, CEO & Co-Chairman of Prospector Metals Corp., formerly co-founder and CEO of Kaminak Gold, discoverer of the 5Moz Coffee gold project in Yukon.

Sep 15, 2026

2:45
now you've uh we saw the presentation this morning you have uh 86 holes drilled so far it was uh like sixteen thousand five hundred feet correct meters uh meters thank you very different yeah and um you're hoping to get to twenty thousand by the end of the uh by the end of the season which is about another three weeks or so you're going about 75 meters a day uh out of all those 86 holes you've had two and a half of them assayed
3:13
Yeah, so the labs are really behind this year, slower.
3:17
I would have hoped by now, in a normal year, we'd have had 15 or 20 holes released.
3:21
Instead, we've got two and a half.
3:25
We asked the lab to give us expectations and they're completely backlogged.
3:29
We're hoping to get, I mean, it's August 27th today, we're hoping to get a batch of 68 holes within the next couple of weeks by mid-September.
3:37
But you'll see a steady stream of results up until about Christmas.
7:53
Okay, so what's the biggest unanswered question facing Prospector right now?
3:15
Yeah.
3:15
Um, slower.
3:16
I w- I would have hoped by now in a normal year we'd have had 15 or 20 holes released.
3:21
Instead, we've got two and a half.
3:23
Um, we ha- you know, we asked the lab to give us expectations, and they're completely backlogged.
3:29
We're hoping to get, I mean, it's, it's August 27th today.
3:32
We're hoping to get a batch of six to eight holes within the next couple weeks, uh, by mid-September.
8:03
Yeah

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