Event - Miners Mingle November 2026: Dig, Drill, Deal or Die – The Diabolical Diaspora of the Junior Miner

Every junior starts with a story. Not every junior gets to build a mine.

Finding the resource is only the beginning. From there comes the harder part: proving it, funding it and working out whether you’ve actually got something that can become a mine.

Dig. Find it.

Drill. Prove it.

Deal. Raise, partner, merge, acquire or sell.

Die. Know what happens when the original plan simply doesn’t work.

With capital finite, commodity markets moving and shareholders expecting progress, how do junior miners decide where to put their next dollar? When do you keep drilling? When do you stop chasing scale and start developing? When is giving away part of a project better than owning all of it? And when does survival require accepting that the strategy needs to change?

Dig, Drill, Deal or Die brings together leaders from exploration, mining, project development and capital markets for a candid look at the decisions that separate the juniors that progress from those that disappear.

No textbook answers. Just the realities of trying to turn rocks, rigs and raises into a mine.