Brent Cook is a renowned exploration analyst and economic geologist with more than 40 years of experience in mineral exploration, mining and related financial sectors, having worked in over 60 countries and in virtually all geological environments. Brent has been and remains a highly respected consultant to various funds, major mining companies and junior explorers.

Brent Cook joins Lel Smits from The Stock Network to discuss how shifting exploration appetite among major miners may shape the next phase of the commodity cycle and how he is seeing the resource market, particularly from a North American perspective.

🌍 Track record working in more than 60 countries
📈 Mining cycle outlook and why majors are revisiting growth
🔎 Commodities to watch and emerging districts in 2026
⚒️ Role and relevance of prospect generator models
💼 Where Brent Cooper is investing time and capital

Western Australia–focused explorer and emerging gold producer Rumble Resources Limited (ASX:RTR) is accelerating development across its multi-commodity portfolio, underpinned by recent resource upgrades, a maiden tungsten resource and ongoing drilling designed to expand high-value assets.

MST Access’ research note values Rumble Resources at A$0.23, significantly above the current A$0.038 share price, supported by a A$50m market cap and a strengthened cash position of A$4.99m plus A$3.9m pending from the raise. Key upcoming catalysts include drilling results, the final ore processing agreement, the tungsten production strategy, and project approvals expected through 1QCY26–1HCY26.

Joining The Stock Network’s Lel Smits, Managing Director and CEO Peter Harold outlines how Rumble is fast-tracking its Western Queen gold and tungsten project towards near-term production, advancing the globally significant zinc-lead-silver discovery, and leveraging a disciplined technical methodology.

⏳ Transitioning to near-term gold production
📊 Unlocking value across a multi-commodity portfolio

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Moonlight Resources has listed on the ASX with a ticker code of ML8. The company is a mineral explorer with a primary focus of defining a resource estimate at its flagship Clermont gold project in Queensland. The group is also advancing its MacDonnell Ranges project in the Northern Territory, where it has identified district-scale potential for rare earths and uranium mineralisation.

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Exultant Mining has listed on the ASX with a ticker code of 10X. The company is a mineral explorer focused on advancing its Peak View and Black Hammer gold, silver, copper, and base metals projects in the Lachlan Fold Belt of New South Wales. It also seeks to progress its Deep Dykes gold and lithium project in Western Australia, located along the Mt Ida -Ularring Greenstone Belt.

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Immutep Limited (ASX:IMM, NASDAQ:IMMP) has inked a deal to commercialise its oncology drug Eftilagimod Alfa (efti). The strategic collaboration is with India-based pharmaceutical group Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories (BSE:500124, NSE: DRREDDY, NYSE: RDY). Dr. Reddy’s will get exclusive rights to roll out efti across most global markets excluding North America, Europe, Japan and Greater China. In return, Immutep will receive an upfront USD $20 million (~AUD $30.2 million), also plus eligibility for up to USD $349.5 million (~AUD $528.4 million) in milestone payments, along with double-digit royalties. Efti is designed to activate the immune system to fight cancer, currently in Phase III trials for lung cancer and being tested across other tumour types

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Copper has quietly surged to all-time record highs, yet the conversation among investors remains unusually muted. Against tightening supply, structural deficits, and accelerating demand from electrification, AI-driven data centres, and global manufacturing recovery, copper is emerging as an increasingly important and strategic critical metal.

Kincora Copper (ASX:KCC, TSXV:KCC) Kincora President and CEO, Sam Spring, joins Lel Smits from The Stock Network to explore why copper’s price breakout is not a temporary spike, but a symptom of a market fundamentally short of metal, with UBS forecasting persistent deficits, constrained production growth, and structurally rising demand into 2026 and beyond.

📈 Record copper prices
🗓️ 2026 supply squeeze
⚒️ Gold and copper price correlation

The price of copper is surging to record highs as demand shifts at global levels. Every electrical vehicle needs up to four times more copper than a petrol car, renewable energy needs copper and AI data centres are copper-intensive by design. Supply can’t keep up and Morgan Stanley says this is set to continue into 2026. Copper has become essential to energy, transport, computing and national grids and the world can’t dig it up fast enough. Prices aren’t just climbing, they’re breaking records. As one analyst said, “Lithium may be the spark, but copper is the backbone to electrification.”

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