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Great Western's new CEO Ed Loye, lays out his vision for the future

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Ed Loye says tungsten demand could rise through defence, tooling, and fusion reactors.

1. The Vox Markets Podcast episode centers on Great Western Mining and Ed Loye’s plans for the company’s Nevada assets. 2. Ed Loye is the new chief executive, and Alistair’s role matters because he notes he is also a director of Great Western Mining. 3. The episode asks what Loye’s vision means for Great Western after a 3.2 million raise and a new chief executive appointment. 4. Loye says the company raised 3.2 million for its exploration campaign, with Nevada and the Walker Lane Belt at the center of the plan. 5. He says Great Western wants to delineate a tungsten occurrence that has already been sampled and mapped on the ground. 6. He points to the M2 copper resource at 4.5 million tons at 0.45% copper as the company’s only existing resource. 7. Loye says the tungsten target may link for another two kilometres to the pre-existing M2 resource. 8. He explains that soil sampling only gives geological vectoring, while trenching and drilling are needed for real numbers. 9. He says the company expects to be drilling by May or June and wants a maiden mineral resource estimate in late summer or early fall. 10. Loye says geophysics is booked because the skarn horizon sits between limestone on one side and granite on the other. 11. He says gravity should identify the density differential, helping with collar positioning and detailed mapping. 12. Loye gives the example of West Huntoon, where the last two drill holes intersected granite and returned gold and silver credit. 13. He says Great Western will do detailed rock-chip sampling at West Huntoon while the tungsten program is being prepared. 14. He says the M2 area will also be revisited through desktop studies and re-assaying samples for tungsten showings. 15. Loye explains skarns with a “burnt top on a creme brulee” analogy and says their broad widths can help mineability. 16. He says the geological setting may host tungsten, copper, gold, and silver through overprinting and related igneous activity. 17. The interview style is direct and technical, with Alistair pressing for timelines, grades, and the implications for investors. 18. Loye speaks in a practical, geology-heavy tone, using examples like flat slab tectonism, MREs, and step-out drilling. 19. Investors tracking Nevada exploration, tungsten demand, and skarn geology would likely want this episode. 20. Listeners wanting polished investor narrative without technical geology may skip it.

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