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Aug 2026

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Welcome to the Proactive podcast channel – the destination for breaking news on growth companies and up to the minute market coverage. Here we plug you into what’s new and exciting in the world of business.

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August 13, 20266 min

Pilbara Gold expands Mt York gold footprint

Pilbara Gold managing director Dr Peter Turner talked with Proactive about the company securing unconditional mineral rights over 367km² of prospective ground surrounding the Mt York Gold Project, which currently has a 2.1 million ounce gold resource. Turner said the agreement gives Pilbara Gold gold and base metal mineral rights across the additional ground and includes around 1,500 metres of further strike length connected to the Main Hill deposit. He explained that this means the transaction provides access not only to broader exploration ground, but also to known mineralisation extending beyond the existing deposit. The company is continuing a major drilling campaign at Mt York, with five rigs operating on site and a sixth rig expected to be added. Turner said the programme will exceed 50,000 metres and represents the largest drilling campaign Pilbara Gold has undertaken on the asset. Pilbara Gold previously increased the Mt York resource by around 700,000 ounces after approximately 27,000 metres of drilling last year. Turner said the company believes the current 2.1 million ounce resource may grow further as the expanded drilling programme progresses. Visit Proactive’s YouTube channel for more interviews and market updates. If you found this video useful, give it a like, subscribe to the channel and enable notifications so you do not miss future content.

August 13, 202611 min

Sharesight CEO: AI tax mistakes investors should watch for

Sharesight CEO Doug Morris talked with Proactive about the risks Australian investors face when relying on artificial intelligence to calculate investment tax obligations, particularly where capital gains, dividends, distributions and changing tax rules are involved. Morris said AI can be useful for broad research and for understanding investment concepts, but warned that it can struggle when investors need precise and repeatable tax calculations. He explained that AI tools may pick up recent information, such as changes to a company’s dividend, and incorrectly apply it across an investor’s entire ownership period. This can distort reported income and potentially result in an incorrect tax calculation. Morris also highlighted the importance of consistency as Australian investors prepare for changes to capital gains tax rules. He said investors need calculations that produce the same result each time, particularly when different methodologies may apply depending on when an asset was acquired or disposed of. While Morris cautioned against using general-purpose AI to prepare and lodge tax returns, he said the technology can still help investors understand tax rules in broad terms, analyse portfolio performance and compare investments with wider economic or market data. For more interviews and investor-focused market insights, visit Proactive’s YouTube channel. If you found this video useful, give it a like, subscribe to the channel and enable notifications so you don’t miss future content.

August 13, 20265 min

Ideal Power advances AI Data center and EV programs in Q2 2026

Ideal Power CEO David Somo joined Steve Darling from Proactive to discuss the company’s results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2026, highlighting continued progress in commercializing its B-TRAN® solid-state power technology across AI data centers, energy infrastructure, and electric vehicle applications. Somo said Ideal Power advanced its low-current solid-state circuit breaker (SSCB) project with a lead customer in Asia and continued a co-development program with an industry partner on a B-TRAN®-enabled SSCB prototype intended for evaluation by a U.S. hyperscaler supporting NVIDIA’s next-generation Rubin Ultra 800V DC AI data center power distribution architecture. The company also reported several commercial milestones, including a second shipment of next-generation B-TRAN® evaluation samples to Stellantis for EV applications, a new 800-volt SSCB reference design kit to accelerate customer adoption, and a long-term supply agreement with a high-volume Asian wafer foundry, which has already produced functional B-TRAN® first silicon. Ideal Power said demand for 800-volt DC architectures is increasing, with interest from industrial customers and major electromechanical breaker manufacturers seeking SSCB solutions. One distribution partner has already placed its first stocking order for the new reference design kits. Financially, Ideal Power ended the quarter with $41.3 million in cash and cash equivalents, following $27.7 million in net proceeds raised through a registered direct offering. The company reported a net loss of $3.4 million for the quarter and no long-term debt outstanding. Somo said the company remains focused on converting customer evaluations into production orders, particularly with its lead Asian SSCB customer, while advancing opportunities with Stellantis and other global automakers for EV contactors and battery disconnect systems. Ideal Power also announced that Dr. Sanjai Parthasarathi, Chief Marketing Officer of Coherent Corp., has joined its newly formed advisory board, bringing experience in AI infrastructure and data center markets as the company seeks to accelerate commercialization of its B-TRAN® platform. #proactiveinvestors #idealpowerinc #nasdaq #ipwr #EVTechnology #Davidsomo #AIInfrastructure #DataCenters #Semiconductors #ElectricVehicles #SolidStateCircuitBreaker #PowerElectronics #NVIDIA #TechnologyStocks

August 13, 20265 min

Sprott: Copper rally driven by supply deficit and U.S. tariff expectations

Sprott Asset Management Director, ETF Product Management Jacob White joined Steve Darling from Proactive to discuss the outlook for the copper market after copper prices reached new record highs above US$14,300 per tonne in August 2026. White said the rally is being driven by a deepening global supply deficit and by traders moving physical copper into the United States ahead of a potential 15% import tariff proposed for January 1, 2027. He noted that earlier expectations of a much higher tariff had already created a significant premium for U.S. copper prices relative to European markets, encouraging additional imports and tightening global supply. On the supply side, White highlighted long-term production challenges, pointing to Codelco in Chile, historically the world’s largest copper producer, where output has declined over the past two decades despite much higher copper prices. He also emphasized that developing a new copper mine is a slow process, with an average of about 17.5 years from discovery to production, limiting the industry’s ability to respond quickly to higher prices. White said copper’s recent addition to the U.S. critical materials list has increased strategic governent attention, including investment activity and efforts to accelerate permitting for domestic projects. Looking ahead, he identified major demand drivers including electricity grid expansion, AI infrastructure buildout, and defense spending, all of which are expected to require substantial additional copper. White said Sprott believes these structural trends support a constructive long-term outlook for the copper market even after the recent price surge. #Sprott #Uranium #NuclearEnergy #Investing #HANetf #Sprott #Copper #CopperMarket #CriticalMinerals #Mining #AIInfrastructure #EnergyTransition #Commodities #Metals #Investing

August 13, 20264 min

Arizona Gold & Silver expands high-grade Perry Zone at Philadelphia project

Arizona Gold and Silver SVP of Exploration Dr. Lex Lambeck joined Steve Darling from Proactive to discuss new drill results from the Philadelphia Project in Arizona, where four diamond drill holes have extended both high-grade and broad gold mineralization approximately 150 metres vertically above previously reported high-grade intersections in the Perry Zone. Key results included PC26-169, which returned 21.79 metres grading 4.10 g/t gold and 5.8 g/t silver within a broader interval of 73.46 metres grading 1.69 g/t gold, and PC26-167, which returned 15.24 metres grading 2.66 g/t gold and 5.6 g/t silver within 66.81 metres grading 1.12 g/t gold. Lambeck said the new results strengthen the company’s geological model by confirming the geometry and continuity of the Perry Zone and demonstrating a substantial mineralized envelope surrounding the high-grade core of the system along the Arabian Fault. With recently expanded Bureau of Land Management permits now in place, Arizona Gold and Silver has access to 16 additional drill pads and has shifted drilling toward testing the projected down-dip continuation of the Perry Zone beneath the Red Hills alteration cap. The company is also evaluating a CSAMT geophysical target beneath Red Hills, which management views as a significant exploration target. Lambeck said the deeper drilling phase now underway represents an important next step in expanding the high-grade core of the Perry Zone while testing the broader district-scale potential of the Philadelphia gold-silver hydrothermal system through the remainder of 2026. #proactiveinvestors #arizonagoldandsilverinc #tsxv #azs #otcqb #azasf #PhiladelphiaProject #Gold #Silver #Mining #ArizonaMining #Drilling #ResourceExpansion #MiningNews

August 13, 20262 min

Arizona Gold and Silver completes hole 172, resets for deeper hole 173

Arizona Gold and Silver CEO Mike Stark joined Steve Darling from Proactive to provide a live update from the Philadelphia Gold Project in Arizona, where the company has completed its deepest drill hole to date and continues to expand its exploration program. Stark said hole 172 has been completed, extending the known mineralized vein well beyond the previous drilling depth of approximately 1,100 to 1,200 feet. The drill rig is now being repositioned for hole 173, which is planned to test the system at even greater depths. Management believes the mineralized vein could ultimately extend to approximately 2,800 feet, although Stark emphasized that further drilling will be needed to confirm the full extent of the system. The company also reported encouraging visual observations at the newly permitted BLM Pad 10, where geologists encountered distinctive green and yellow quartz, a style of alteration the exploration team had been targeting. Laboratory assay results are pending. Beyond Pad 10, Stark said drilling infrastructure continues to expand, with Pads 11 and 17 completed on one side of the property and Pads 14, 5, and 12 completed on the other. With recently approved BLM permits now in place, Arizona Gold and Silver has an estimated two-and-a-half-year drilling runway, providing flexibility to continue systematically testing the district-scale potential of the Philadelphia Project. #proactiveinvestors #arizonagoldandsilverinc #tsxv #azs #otcqb #azasf #GoldExploration #PhiladelphiaProject #EvolutionMining #PreciousMetals #MiningNews #Exploration #Gold #Mining

August 13, 20266 min

Deep Isolation advances mile-deep nuclear waste disposal demonstration in Texas

Deep Isolation Nuclear CEO Rod Baltzer joined Steve Darling from Proactive to explain how the company is adapting directional drilling technology from the oil and gas industry to dispose of spent nuclear fuel in boreholes drilled roughly one mile underground. Baltzer said radioactive waste is sealed in steel canisters and placed within steel-lined, cement-backed boreholes, leaving the material isolated beneath approximately one billion tons of rock. According to the company’s safety modelling, the peak radiation dose would occur 1.6 million years in the future and would be extremely small, comparable to the radiation exposure from eating about one banana per year. Founded more than a decade ago, Deep Isolation has built a portfolio of around 100 patents covering site selection, borehole design, canister engineering, monitoring systems, and final well plugging, spanning the full disposal lifecycle. Baltzer noted that the company operates internationally as well as in the United States. The company also helped establish the Deep Borehole Demonstration Center in Texas, where a full-scale, at-depth demonstration project was launched in January. Long-lead equipment has been ordered, drilling is expected to begin later this year, and the current target is to begin placing and retrieving canisters by mid-next year. Baltzer highlighted growing interest from policymakers, noting that several states have expressed interest through the U.S. Department of Energy’s Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campus initiative, with the list expected to narrow in the coming months. He also cited company survey work indicating that a large majority of Americans view nuclear waste disposal as a national security priority and generally prefer disposal solutions located near existing nuclear facilities rather than transporting waste through additional communities. #proactiveinvestors #deepisolationnuclear #otcqb #dbhl #nuclear #NuclearEnergy #NuclearWaste #SpentFuel #DirectionalDrilling #EnergyTechnology #CleanEnergy #NuclearInnovation #NationalSecurity #GeologicalDisposal

August 13, 20269 min

Light Science Technologies reports transformational H1 as acquisitions reshape group

Light Science Technologies CEO Simon Deacon joined Steve Darling from Proactive to discuss the company’s unaudited interim results for the six months ended 31 May 2026, describing the period as transformational following a £6.6 million fundraising (£6.1 million net) that funded three strategic acquisitions. Deacon said the acquisitions, particularly the purchase of RLUK Injection Ltd and its patented Injectaclad system, are materially reshaping the group’s operational footprint and positioning it for high-margin growth in the second half of the year. Reported first-half revenue was £3.73 million with a 30.5% gross margin, while the adjusted operating loss was £0.69 million as the business absorbed integration costs and experienced delays in Passive Fire Protection (PFP) project approvals. Operationally, the PFP division completed the integration of Injectaclad and established a fully operational northern distribution hub in Manchester. Since the acquisition closed in April, the division has secured significant commercial activity, including contracts announced in May and June valued at between £1.28 million and £1.66 million expected to be recognized during the current financial year. The Contract Electronics Manufacturing division added four new clients expected to contribute up to £1 million annually, while the AgTech division advanced the £0.6 million Nottingham Trent University Smart Agriculture Research Centre project and secured a further £0.3 million university contract in Wales. Deacon said trading momentum has improved sharply since the period end, with £2.15 million of revenue generated in the two months to 31 July 2026 and a committed forward order book of £3.09 million. He added that improving Building Safety Regulator approvals are accelerating pipeline conversion in the PFP division and underpin management’s confidence in a substantially stronger second half and a return to profitable growth. #proactiveinvestors #lightsciencetechnologiesplc #aim #lst #PassiveFireProtection #Injectaclad #AgTech #ElectronicsManufacturing #GrowthCompany #UKStocks #IndustrialTechnology #BusinessGrowth #passivefireprotection #contractelectronics #agtech #buildingsafety #UKsmallcap #AIM #investing #proactiveinvestors

August 13, 20265 min

Domestic Metals' Smart Creek Project: Geologist sees high-potential gold-tungsten skarn target

Independent consulting geologist Dr Peter Megaw, fresh from a site visit to Domestic Metals Corp's Smart Creek project near Philipsburg, Montana, tells Proactive that the project's western Sunrise area is a very high potential target for an undiscovered gold-tungsten skarn. Historic placer mining for gold and tungsten has been active in the area, but the bedrock source of those placers has never been found. Megaw believes a skarn deposit upstream is the most likely explanation. Megaw explains why the Philipsburg region is exceptionally well endowed with copper, gold, silver, lead, and zinc. He points to the nearby Butte district—home to one of the world's largest copper deposits and at least two major porphyry centers—as evidence that the area sits within genuine elephant country for mineral discovery. Porphyry copper systems, he notes, occur in large regional clusters, and Butte is not alone. The geologist outlines how porphyry, skarn, and carbonate replacement deposit (CRD) systems form part of a single continuum. Where reactive limestone and dolomite host rocks are present, as at Smart Creek and Philipsburg, the same mineralizing fluids that created Butte's giant vein system can instead produce skarns and CRDs. Smart Creek has both the right geological ingredients and the right host rocks. On what makes an old mining district worth revisiting, Megaw says the key is identifying hallmarks of large, long-lived systems and using modern geophysical techniques to locate mineralization the original miners missed. At Smart Creek, he says those signs are present, with an active copper zone already under exploration and the Sunrise gold-tungsten target representing a separate and distinct opportunity. #DomesticMetalsCorp #DMCO #SmartCreek #Montana #copper #gold #tungsten #miningexploration #juniorminers #resourceinvesting

August 13, 20268 min

Crypto ETP market: Fineqia's Matteo Grego on whether a recovery is getting closer

Fineqia International Inc (CSE:FNQ) senior associate Matteo Greco spoke with Proactive's Stephen Gunnion about trends in the crypto exchange-traded product (ETP) market - investor flows, Bitcoin and Ethereum performance, and what could signal a broader recovery. Greco said the tough crypto conditions of late 2025 have carried into 2026, contrasting with stronger traditional markets: while the S&P 500 hits new highs, Bitcoin remains well below its record, weighing on ETP demand. Even so, outflow pressure has stayed manageable. Greco pointed to strong 2024-2025 inflows and argued the recent drop in assets under management largely reflects falling asset prices, not investors exiting: "The vast majority of the drop in AUM, it's still price driven," with overall outflows relatively minor. He also discussed Ethereum ETPs after a strong July rebound, cautioning that momentum hinges on the wider crypto market, and noted basket products could see rising demand as the digital asset market matures. Looking ahead, Greco said sustained positive price action, two or three consecutive months of growth, could be key to bringing investors back with greater strength. Visit Proactive’s YouTube channel for more interviews and market insights. Give the video a like, subscribe to the channel and enable notifications so you don’t miss future content. Read Proactive's Editorial Policy here: https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/pages/editorialPolicy #Fineqia #CryptoETP #Bitcoin #Ethereum #Crypto #BitcoinETP #EthereumETP #CryptoMarket #DigitalAssets #Cryptocurrency #CryptoInvesting #ETP #BitcoinMarket #EthereumMarket #InvestorFlows #CryptoInvestors #AssetManagement #CryptoAnalysis #BTC #ETH #Fineqia #CryptoETP #Bitcoin #Ethereum #CryptoMarket

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