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Brent Cook

Exploration Insights
https://www.explorationinsights.com/

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Brent Cook brings more than 30 years of experience to his role as a geologist, consultant and investment adviser. His knowledge spans all areas of the mining business, from the conceptual stage through detailed technical and financial modeling related to mine development and production. Brent's weekly Exploration Insights newsletter focuses on early discovery, high-reward opportunities, primarily among junior mining and exploration companies



Recent Interviews

Brent Cook's Primer on Reading Drill Result Press Releases (5/20/13) "Half science, half art, half luck," is how Brent Cook describes a geologist's work in distinguishing an anomaly from a deposit. But in his interview with The Gold Report, the publisher of Exploration Insights suggests investors will have an easier time distinguishing good drill results from bad if they know how to dissect a company's press releases. And despite the current preference for cost cutting over discovery, Cook discusses several miners whose futures are bright.

Tips for Diversifying Beyond Gold from Brent Cook (5/14/13) Last month's landslide at Utah's Bingham Canyon, one of the world's largest copper mines, triggered significant discussion on possible copper shortages. Brent Cook, veteran geologist and publisher of Exploration Insights, puts the landslide into perspective in this interview with The Metals Report. And for investors who want to dig out profit potential beyond the yellow metal, Cook gives us a byproduct primer and suggests base metals are a great way to diversify.

Brent Cook: How to Turn Rock into Money (1/4/13) What if the shockingly low valuations of some junior mining companies are really all they're worth? As the market shakes off years of exuberance, Brent Cook, co-editor of the Exploration Insights newsletter, searches for the truly undervalued—finds as rare as gold itself. In this interview with The Gold Report, Cook talks about high-margin deposits that the rest of the market can't see.

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Recent Quotes

"AMM is the kind of company an investor wants to be involved with." (5/20/13) Almaden Minerals Ltd. - The Gold Report Interview with Brent Cook More >

"ATY had some very good drill results and its VMS project is certainly economic." (5/20/13) Atico Mining Corp. - The Gold Report Interview with Brent Cook More >

"I like LYD because of its simple, low-capex project." (5/20/13) Lydian International Ltd. - The Gold Report Interview with Brent Cook More >

"ROG's Burkina Faso deposit will be easy to mine, inexpensive to build and very profitable." (5/20/13) Roxgold Inc. - The Gold Report Interview with Brent Cook More >

"I think more high-grade mineralization is yet to be intersected at AMM's Ixtaca project." (5/14/13) Almaden Minerals Ltd. - The Metals Report Interview with Brent Cook More >

"ATY has a gold-rich VMS deposit; gold will be ~40% of total revenue." (5/14/13) Atico Mining Corp. - The Metals Report Interview with Brent Cook More >

"FCU is on to the most exciting uranium discovery to come around in quite a while." (5/14/13) Fission Uranium Corp. - The Metals Report Interview with Brent Cook More >

"Lead, zinc and gold factor heavily into the economics for MAG's Juanicipio silver project." (5/14/13) MAG Silver Corp. - The Metals Report Interview with Brent Cook More >