OROCO Resource Corp $ORRCF $OCO - EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Ian Graham Project EXPANSION UPDATE

[Music] The following content you are about to review is paid for content. The particulars of my compensation on behalf of an entity is provided in the description below. I encourage all reviewers of this content to take note of those disclaimers and to understand that the information that is passed in the following video is aimed at information and is not to be misconstrued as investing information as there will be statements that are made based on the company's uh current operations as well as potential forecasts of where the company could be. Again, I encourage all investors to heed the disclaimers and disclosures provided in detail in the description below. Please enjoy. And we're back here uh on the independent investor channel with Ian Graham of Aokco Resource Corp. Uh we have been working with AROCO now for uh a few months updating marked progress especially in 2025 and Ian has been uh attending uh uh the channel on frequent occasions because there's so much going on at the project and Ian has been kind enough again to come on real time. He is on site at the project down in Mexico. Ian, welcome back to the show. We look forward to uh this uh update and and thank you again for your valuable time and coming on and updating uh wouldbe share owners in AOC and existing share owners in AOC. Ian, >> thanks for having me back, Ryan. And yes, it's always a pleasure to join from my happy place, which uh is here in Chik at the project with the team who, you know, attend everything they do and including when I'm here and and they get to take me out and and and show me what they're currently doing. Uh the the just unbelievable enthusiasm for what we have among the team. So, yep, I'm I'm here. It is hot out there. It was 42 degrees centigrade yesterday. Uh but we got in the field early, 6:00 a.m. and uh and and had an absolutely magnificent time. Uh and I was thrilled with what we saw. >> Fantastic. And and you know, we've we've expanded upon the Sto. Thomas project. Um for those that don't know, I will put the uh website to AOKO so you can stay up to speed on this everdeveloping project. But Ian is going to tell us a little bit more about what went into that, what their thought was in expanding an already incredible uh opportunity and value added, I might add, with the uh with the additional uh uh property that they've added in uh Bayionia. Uh Ian, >> thanks Ryan. Yes. So the core of our holdings are Stomas and will remain the core of our holdings and be our focus as we move into prefeasibility study there. Uh our partner on Stomas has held the Vineer concession for for an extensive period of time. It's always been on our radar screen to get to at the appropriate time. uh it is not possible to stake new ground in Mexico currently and so we've finally done this transaction an option on the Vineer project uh where we believe we see significant evidence for another pfrey intrusive center uh and included with that are replacement uh features commonly associated with pfurries such as at Santo Tamas where we see the terraformer uh and a couple of other adjacent uh smaller mining operations that are in the replacement deposits with zinc, gold, silver, etc. Uh and some replacement iron oxides. So, we're seeing those things at Vineer and there's been some uh historical government survey uh excavations. One excavation of over a 100 meters into the hillside at a showing at BIA which we visited yesterday. Uh and I have to say exceeded what I anticipated we would see adjacent to a very large magnetic feature that has been uh recorded by the government. Uh and then adjacent to the historical Mazika iron mine which includes iron copper uh segments of mineralization and replacement also with gold. Uh so we got to visit that. We did that Monday. Uh we that that visit was slightly cut short um uh at when we had to uh leave because a major thunderstorm was upon us uh in the late afternoon. Uh and because the hill is comprised of so much magnetite, it's a giant uh lightning conductor. So we departed that one slightly early, but not before we had had the opportunity to look at what was up there. So we will be up there with uh and putting together some mapping and looking to drill that. Uh and then the visit to uh El Platano yesterday. Uh that was actually quite something an extensive plus 2 kilometer breier with significant alteration uh and a lot of um carbonate copper and other copper mineralization uh throughout uh and on the margins of this bre. So uh very compelling uh indicators of a large system. And so the the challenge before us is to sort of isolate where the center of that system might be, what's causing mineralization to pre precipitate and to see if we can hunt down the potential porefree center. There have been mapped uh monzenites and some pferitic monzenites on the property. will be looking for courts enrichment uh similar to Santomas um but a very large system and and fortuitously the existing claim encompasses almost all those known showings. Uh so we're thrilled and and really you know can't wait to get our teeth into it. We believe that the expiration will be well priced because we have exposure at surface. we're going to be able to map it out and I think we're going to be able to drill some uh compelling test holes and begin to learn about the true potential of the project. But you know what really draws us in looking at it from a very high level you know that 60,000 ft view >> is that the known pfries centered on Stomas but there is a a a significant pferate pfrey copper resource called Baharachi to the northnortheast of uh of Stomas. Well, the the occurrence that we're projecting at Vimea is equidistant from Stomas to the souths southwest. So we believe we're sitting on a northerly trend. Baharachi stomas and potentially vineer and this is not uncommon in the volcanic centers that generate the pfries the intrusive centers that they're roughly equidistant between mineralized occurrences. Uh so whilst that is something of a rule of thumb, uh this particular situation at Vineer fits nicely into that rule of thumb with some very nice showings uh of the replacement and and explosive and hydrothermal breer deposits. So scale is right, location is right, and we're just very very fortunate to be able to option the property uh from our partner Donabaldo Traviso. So I think it is a little bit of a a little string of pearls and hopefully we have another one of the pearls at the south end of it. Um and uh you know just a very fortuitous uh series of of uh things extant things that are leading to this opportunity. So, you know, we're thrilled to be able to to kick that off and simultaneously be preparing to finance uh our phase 2 program at Sto. Tomas. So, the crew is going to be busy. They're really happy about that. Uh Andrew and I, Andrew the QP and I are going to be busy. We're happy about that. uh and I think the shareholders of Arokco uh hopefully will be equally happy with our near-term busyness and uh and hopefully good news that will arise from that. So yeah, thrilled, absolutely thrilled and and uh super pleased to be down here uh with the team. Uh Andrew's here, some of the core geologists, and we had a whale of a time in the field yesterday. Well, you know, from from our chair here in uh our small piece of the world, congratulations. Um I do want to just take a moment and invite uh anybody that's viewing this content uh to review the disclaimers uh and disclosure uh in the description below. I am a share owner in the company. So obviously all of the dialogue that we um engage in today is uh does contain some forward uh uh thinking and and some comments about what we think is going to transpire. And I just want to encourage all investors out there to do their own due diligence as we provide this content for uh educational and awareness purposes. All right. So um Ian, fantastic. I I'm very very excited as a share owner in the company. I'm encouraged with what you guys have done in 2025. You know, I I'm a little discouraged, I guess, when I look at the spot price of copper. Uh I I'm a little discouraged when I look at what I consider to be a little bit of of of short-term volatility uh in the ore. um you know as as as well as uh a movement in the stock price that is probably yet to be desired and I don't I don't think it's reflective of what you guys uh are doing in 2025 but um hopefully that momentum can really kind of come full circle and start to realize the good work. Um, can you just touch on some of the influences now on AOKO as we enter into the back half of 2025 as it lends itself positively to your guys' operations because we're in a different environment here. Ian, we were speaking backstage a little bit about how things have changed over the previous couple of years and how 2025, let's just call it a transition year, but to not look to 2026, uh, with some optimism, I think you'd be crazy as as a share owner in the company. I know I am, and these frequent updates are a real help to me, and I know they are for the for the majority of the share owners out there uh, that get these invaluable insights. So, can you speak a little bit about that, Ian? Certainly, Ryan. Um, you led off with the the the sort of copper price environment. I I just remind folks that our pea was priced at $4 copper. >> I think that was appropriate as we look at the LME today, which I think uh reflects more of a sort of an an outside the uh the the confines of tariff uh uncertainties, a bit of an underlying copper price. >> That's right. And uh so I think as we look at that it's robust. It's well above $4 at sort of 10% over that today. >> So I think the the the forward look on copper as you said right at the beginning is still very strong. And of course we're taking a medium and and long-term view of it because we're in the business of preparing future copper production uh for for the global market. So, uh, we're still exceptionally bullish on that outlook and, uh, you know, we, so, so we take that long-term view. I think that's the appropriate thing to, to say. Some of what we've seen recently and and the volatility and the price was inventory management uh, in and outside of the US. We believe uh, little above our sort of area of expertise, but we're fully bullish on on copper over the medium and long term. Uh coming back to Aokco yes we've seen a fundamental pivot in in our opportunity at Santo Tomas now and now Vineer um with the support we've had here in Mexico. Now I've said it before we've always had state support in Sinaloa uh it's been constant and and and extremely supportive but we've now got the support at the federal level. uh we've covered that you and I in some detail the personalities etc. But I don't believe that can be overstated and we're seeing our situation in the context of what's going on in Mexico. So recently another Mexican uh c or another company operating in Mexico received a permit for a basically expansion in an open pit and we're seeing other indicators that the Shangbam regime is moving at a modest pace but steadily into normalization of mining operations and now including open pits. So the support we've recently had, the undertakings we've we've received for, you know, proper assistance to help us step through the the next uh series of requirements for our project to advance uh I believe is entirely there and the entire uh AOKA board and management and the team on the ground believe in that too. uh which is going to move us forward into uh a uh Canadian institutionalled financing uh to occur in the fall and to begin to underwrite the PFS at uh at Stomas and uh you know much more modest spend but also the beginnings of uh exploring uh what is at Vineer which I'm particularly looking forward to. So, uh, you know, I think I think we are queuing up for a, uh, a good 2026, but we're not going to wait until 2026 to get kicked off if we can help it. The plan is to raise money fairly shortly following the summer immediately. Uh, and then resource uh, drilling initially at Vineer. Um there's some quick tests there that we can undertake to help us calibrate that, but then to follow through with the steady and important work of the prefeasibility study. >> Found it. Fantastic. Um we're going to wrap this down uh within a within a a reasonable amount of time in respect of people's time, but um what a what an incredible update, Ian, on on the company. And uh um I know you'll be back to keep us updated on this. I anticipate this thing really catching some momentum as we you know enter into the back half of this year. And I I would just encourage investors to be patient. Um the AOKO project is just as unique as as as anything that I've seen. And this this project like Ian and and the rest of the folks down there are working really really hard on the ground floor uh to to to put that value in. and where he mentioned that that open pit permit was issued that was the very reason why AOK was a no touch last year investors were not touching your company and I think it's important to suggest that we've turned to 180 and we've entered into a realm of much more conducive uh opportunity for you guys as well as the optics for investors and that and that they can you know look at your company with a lot more uh uh confidence where that confidence just was not there uh as early as last year and and So we look toward the future. Um we will continue to be patient and and realize that we are in fact investing for the future and not the now. Uh but to Ian on behalf of the channel and all the uh investors in the company, keep up the good work and we'll be eagerly standing by uh waiting for your updates on the company. Good luck to you. Be safe down there and uh we'll catch you on the next one. Thanks Ian. >> Thank you so much Ryan. [Music]