#1 Strategy for Junior Mining Speculation with Portfolio Manager Tavi Costa (Crescat Capital)

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Crescat Capital portfolio manager Tavi Costa reveals the fund’s approach to junior mining speculation, including the #1 thing they look for even more than management’s experience and qualifications. Tavi shared regarding the current opportunity for junior mining speculators: “the beauty of now though, with valuations where they are, is that you are able to find a company with already a discovery hole trading sub-$20mm market cap which is unusual”….“the market is giving us a gift right now to put money to work in things that we believe are, probabilistically-speaking, onto something very interesting.” Tavi is a Member and Portfolio Manager at Crescat Capital and has been with the firm since 2013. He is responsible for developing Crescat’s macro models as part of our thematic investment process. His research has been featured in financial publications such as Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Yahoo Finance, Real Vision, and others. Tavi is a native of São Paulo, Brazil and is fluent in Portuguese, Spanish, and English. Before joining Crescat, he worked with the underwriting of financial products and in international business at Braservice, a large logistics company in Brazil. Tavi graduated cum laude from Lindenwood University in St. Louis with a B.A. degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in Finance and a minor in Spanish. Tavi played NCAA Division 1 tennis for Liberty University. 0:00 Introduction 1:10 How Crescat Capital speculates in jr mining stocks 7:13 Investing in exploreCos before the discovery hole 8:22 Investing in privateCos 8:55 Top-down investing 10:24 How do you measure success? 13:32 Crescat is an activist investor 14:49 Exit strategy? 16:50 Buying pre-production companies 17:44 Trimming your winners? 20:20 Exercising warrants 22:27 Heading a jr mining portfolio 23:36 ESG 25:40 Bullish energy? 26:35 Bullish agriculture? Crescat Capital: https://www.crescat.net/ Tavi’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/TaviCosta Sign up for our free newsletter and receive interview transcripts, stock profiles and investment ideas: http://eepurl.com/cHxJ39 The content found on MiningStockEducation.com is for informational purposes only and is not to be considered personal legal or investment advice or a recommendation to buy or sell securities or any other product. It is based on opinions, SEC filings, current events, press releases and interviews but is not infallible. It may contain errors and MiningStockEducation.com offers no inferred or explicit warranty as to the accuracy of the information presented. If personal advice is needed, consult a qualified legal, tax or investment professional. Do not base any investment decision on the information contained on MiningStockEducation.com or our videos. We may hold equity positions in and/or be compensated by some of the companies featured on this site and therefore are biased and hold an obvious conflict of interest. MiningStockEducation.com may provide website addresses or links to websites and we disclaim any responsibility for the content of any such other websites. The information you find on MiningStockEducation.com is to be used at your own risk. By reading MiningStockEducation.com, you agree to hold MiningStockEducation.com, its owner, associates, sponsors, affiliates, and partners harmless and to completely release them from any and all liabilities due to any and all losses, damages, or injuries (financial or otherwise) that may be incurred.