Welcome to Money for the rest of us. This is the personal finance show on money, how it works,

how to invest it, and how to live without worrying about it. I'm your host David Stein. Today is

Episode 530, and it's titled Mining and the Global Race for Critical Minerals. This week on the show,

we share a fascinating interview that FEC's Greg Dalling conducted with two co-founders

of Cantera Capital, a private equity manager focused on the mining industry. The two

principles are Cheryl Brandon and Kamal Tour. They both have decades of experience investing in the

mining industry. Here are some of the topics covered in the discussion.

How mining and mineral processing work?

What are critical minerals?

What is the driving demand for them?

And will it continue?

How the rise of passive management has led to an underinvestment in mining?

How to reconcile care for the environment and the need to mine critical minerals.

What are the attributes that contribute to successful private capital investments?

And finally, why querying chat GPT is insufficient to get up to speed on an investing topic

and what to do instead.

I believe you'll find this discussion enlightening. I certainly learned a lot.

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