The Vox Markets Podcast

The tungsten price has been roaring away lately, and has recently hit $300,000/t. It's the perfect time to be bringing tungsten projects on stream, and Pure Tungsten has not one but two projects on the go. The first, in South Korea, should be up and running by the summer, while the second, in Tajikistan will be producing within a year. These projects will then scale up, to the point where Pure Tungsten could well end up challenging established players like Almonty. The mines are big, the grade is good, and the price is right. Pure Tungsten executive director Jeremy Gray joins Vox to tell us more.
Pre-IPO Investment Opportunity: https://www.puretungsten.ca/puretungsten-equity-raise-rn?SQF_LEAD_SOURCE=vx

Tharisa has begun underground operations at its South African platinum group metals and chrome mine. The first underground blast took place this week, and development is now underway. The company already has a well established track record of production from its open pit operations and these will continue for some time yet. But the move underground is designed to secure Tharisa's long-term future, and the company is talking about continuing to mine the reef for 60 years. Phoevos Pourolis, Tharisa's chief executive, joins us to tell us more about the underground development, as well as to talk about sentiment around PGMs and chrome, and the new chrome trading facilities that the company has recently put in place.

Quantum Helium has been awarded the operatorship of its Sagebrush asset in Colorado, the last in a line of regulatory hurdles that it had to clear before it was able to initiate major testwork. Accordingly, testing will now get underway shortly after Easter with a view to assessing flow rates, and moving the existing resource, as verified by Sproule, towards a reserve. Quantum Helium's chief executive Howard McLaughlin joins us to fill in the details

In this week’s live smallcap show, UK equity analyst & markets commentator Paul Scott & I discussed our latest thoughts on 17 stock ideas.
Apologies again for the quality of my video today, albeit the sound was fine. As such we’re going to temporarily pause this weekly show until the technology has been fixed.
00:00 Portfolio returns in Q1. Recent buys & sells,
03:20 Topps Tiles & building products sector
08:25 BRCK/Brickability
11:20 Checkit
14:05 Fonix
18:50 Burford Capital
21:35 Airlines & jet fuel costs
24:00 hVivo
26:45 Spectra Systems
29:55 Activeops & software stocks
36:05 tinyBuild & gaming companies
41:00 Tribal
46:15 Keystone Law & possible impact of agentic AI on professional services firms
52:25 Plexus
58:05 Anpario
59:00 Lords Group Trading
62:10 Future & other internet real estate assets
68:50 Strix
71:20 Bioventix

Following today’s positive and in line Dec’25 results, CEO Jerry Randall and CFO Danny Wells of Venture Life - a leading consumer healthcare products firm - kindly takes me through the:
00:00 Key strategic developments over the past year
03:20 Drivers underpinning the double digit organic sales growth
04:35 Financial highlights
06:55 Future M&A strategy
09:40 Possible impact from Middle East
15:05  May FY’26 outlook & closing remarks