World On Fire: Why This Asset Is Going Parabolic | Allen Sabet

Watch on YouTube ↗  |  July 31, 2025 at 16:50  |  41:23  |  The David Lin Report
Speakers
Allen Sabet — CEO, Mogotes Metals

Summary

Allen Sabet, CEO of Mogotes Metals, discusses gold and copper markets, arguing copper faces a structural supply deficit while gold remains a resilient store of value. He explains how producers can use high gold prices and diversify into copper, then presents Mogotes Metals' copper-gold exploration project in Argentina and Chile near Filo del Sol. The discussion also covers permitting reform, major-miner M&A interest, and his career shift from consulting to mining.

  • Gold has outperformed equities in some periods and is viewed as a store of value amid volatility and geopolitical risk.
  • Copper demand from electrification and grid upgrades faces insufficient supply, with forecasts seen as underbaked.
  • Gold producers are described as enjoying high margins and free cash flow, with M&A and copper diversification strategies.
  • Major miners need large copper deposits and are seeking scarce high-quality exploration projects.
  • Mogotes Metals is a pre-resource copper-gold explorer adjacent to Filo del Sol, with funding and upcoming drilling.
  • Permitting reform and geopolitical supply concerns are changing the mining industry backdrop.
  • Allen Sabet contrasts mining exploration with investment banking and discusses his career shift.
Ideas
Allen Sabet CEO, Mogotes Metals 2:42
Gold is resilient store of value.
Gold is a resilient store of value that has outperformed equities over some long horizons and acts as a place to park money during volatility, risk, and geopolitical uncertainty; that safe-haven demand helps explain its strong bid this year.
Allen Sabet CEO, Mogotes Metals 6:12
Gold producers enjoy high margins, cash flow.
Gold producers are earning unusually high margins and free cash flow because record gold prices have disconnected from operating costs; they can accelerate production and buy ounces cheaply through M&A while this window lasts.
Allen Sabet CEO, Mogotes Metals 7:56
Copper deficits drive higher long-term prices.
Copper is structurally bullish because electrification, grid upgrades, vehicles, and renewable energy require massive new supply while there are no substitutes; the speaker says consensus forecasts are too conservative, deficits are expected to emerge around 2027 and widen, and even if enterprising miners fill the gap, the consequence is higher copper prices, with consensus around $4-6.
Allen Sabet CEO, Mogotes Metals 9:15
Scarce copper explorers attract major M&A.
Major miners, including gold majors diversifying into copper, need large-scale copper deposits to move the needle, but high-quality copper projects are scarce and not much is being found; this creates an attractive setup for copper exploration/development companies with large targets to attract capital or be acquired.
Allen Sabet CEO, Mogotes Metals 18:33
Mogotes offers discovery upside near Filo.
Mogotes Metals is a pre-resource copper-gold explorer in the high Andes of Argentina and Chile with a 100 km² land package adjacent to Filo del Sol, which BHP and Lundin Mining acquired for about C$4.5bn, and near NGEx's Lunahuasi; it has multiple targets in the right geology, about C$25-26M cash and no debt after a recent C$22M financing with strong mining investors, and plans to drill from October/November. A discovery could significantly re-rate its roughly C$70-80M market cap, and large miners have already approached the company, giving takeover optionality.
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