Podcasts about Marula

Namcor en sy gesamentlike ondernemingsvennote Totalenergies, QatarEnergy en Impact Oil and Gas, sê hoewel die Marula-1x-eksplorasieput droog was, bly hulle gefokus op die kommersiële potensiaal van die Venus-veld. Die Venus-veld is geleë in Blok 2913B in PEL 56, aflandig van die Namibiese suidkus, terwyl Marula-1x ver buite die veld was. Utaara Hoveka, kommunikasiepraktisyn by Namcor, het meer.

Jason Brewer flowed into London from Nairobi, Kenya, this week for meetings with broker houses, investors, and company representatives, not forgetting his flight today across to Dublin to attend the Unicorn Mineral Resources annual general meeting. Share Talk asked Jason to call into the London SE1 studio, where Zak Mir was hosting proceedings. Here is the full interview. We have not edited or removed any of the questions/answers. Holders and investors of Marula Mining should be aware that the company's directors are no longer in a closed period. Jason Brewer, a director involved with multiple junior mining companies discusses various aspects of the mining industry and companies he's associated with, particularly focusing on Marula Mining, Neo Energy Metals, and Unicorn Mineral Resources. Key highlights from the initial part of the video: Jason mentions he cannot pick a favorite company to avoid upsetting shareholders. He talks about the growth and progress of all his companies, specifically Marula and Neo. Neo recently gained attention due to a significant acquisition of uranium and gold resources in South Africa, which excited the market. Neo is working through additional transactions and has strong backing from uranium funds in Europe and North America, which helps alleviate concerns about funding in the current market climate. The interview continues with Jason Brewer discussing the unique position of his companies, particularly focusing on funding and strategic development: Secured Funding: Jason highlights that his companies have eliminated the uncertainty of funding by securing investments early on. This allows them to focus on project delivery without the need for frequent fundraising, which is a common challenge for junior mining companies. He mentions how some other companies rely on heavily discounted placements, which they avoid through strategic planning. Market Perception: Despite securing funding, there remains skepticism in the market, with investors frequently asking about the next fundraising round. Jason emphasizes that securing a strategic partner allows them to focus on project development in a more streamlined manner without interruptions. Unicorn Mineral Resources: Unicorn is a standard-listed company that has been on the market for just over a year. Jason's involvement has brought a focus on African projects, which are aligned with Unicorn's base metals strategy. He mentions a general meeting and ongoing due diligence on a series of projects in Africa, expressing excitement for the company's future. Marula Mining: Jason talks about Marula, a company focused on battery metals in East and Southern Africa. He mentions several operations, including manganese in East Africa, copper in Tanzania, and lithium. The company is pushing forward with projects like the Kify plant for manganese, a copper mining site in Tanzania, and plans for a large Heap Leach operation by 2025. https://www.share-talk.com/jason-brewer-london-se1-studio-interview-highlighting-maru-neo-umr-more/

00:00 - Introduction and Welcome - Market Musings podcast introduction and greetings with co-host Pam Sidhu.  00:00:54 - Guest Introduction: Jason Brewer - Introduction to Jason Brewer from Marula Mining and his role.  00:02:26 - Jason Brewer's Background and Early Career - Jason's childhood, mining family, and early experiences in the mining industry.  00:04:43 - Love for Africa - Jason discusses his attraction to Africa, its opportunities, and how he's thrived in this environment.  00:07:22 - Challenges and Success in Africa - Jason explains the determination needed to succeed in Africa and the entrepreneurial mindset that thrives there.  00:14:14 - Marula Mining's Ambitions - Jason lays out his goals for Marula Mining and the company's long-term vision of growth and sustainability.  00:25:15 - Daily Life and Routine - Jason shares his daily routine, work ethic, and the role of maintaining balance between work and health.  00:39:07 - Reflections on Past Career and Lessons Learned - Jason reflects on past career experiences, both successes and failures, and how they've shaped his approach to business today.  00:45:03 - Charity and Giving Back - Jason discusses his involvement with the Mayflower Children's Foundation and the importance of giving back in Kenya.  00:52:28 - Project Updates and Future Plans - Jason provides updates on Marula Mining's key projects and looks forward to transformative developments in 2025.

Zak Mir interviewing Jason Brewer. Brewer, a director of multiple London-listed mining companies, discusses the operations and strategic focuses of his companies, such as Marula, Neo, Shuk, and Unicorn. He highlights the emphasis on accelerating and expanding production projects, particularly in Africa, where these companies operate. Brewer details how his role involves actively participating in strategic planning and execution rather than merely holding a nominal position. The discussion also touches on the current state of commodity prices and their impact on mining operations, pointing out the challenges and opportunities within the junior mining sector in the UK and globally. https://www.share-talk.com/zak-mir-talks-to-jason-brewer-about-the-london-junior-mining-space/

This audio is brought to you by Wearcheck, your condition monitoring specialist. Platinum group metals (PGM) mining and marketing company Implats on Tuesday reported higher production in a period characterised by robust demand but lacklustre PGM prices. "Despite continued macroeconomic and geopolitical uncertainty, demand from our contractual customers remains robust, with elevated additional volumes requested via spot sales during the third quarter. "PGM pricing remains lacklustre however, with notable volatility in both platinum and palladium reflecting the continued influence of investor activity," Implats CEO Nico Muller stated in a production report for the period ended March 31. In the nine months ended March 31, the Johannesburg Stock Exchange-listed company recorded a 16% increase in total six-element (6E) group production volumes to 2.73-million ounces, with a 25% gain in managed volumes to 2.17-million ounces, a 4% increase in joint venture (JV) production to 410 000 oz, and a 31% decrease in third-party receipts to 149 000 oz. Gross 6E refined and saleable production increased by 15% to 2.47-million ounces in the nine months and 6E sales volumes increased by 11% to 2.52-million ounces. "Margins remain compressed and we are pursuing a set of actions to ensure that each of our operations is set up to more robustly deliver sustainable free cash flow through the PGM cycle. "It's imperative that each of our assets operates within the appropriate volume, cost and capital parameters relative to the current pricing environment and the broader operating context," Muller stated in a release to Mining Weekly. In late April, Implats embarked on a Section 189 (3) consultation process at its South African operations, which could affect 3 900 positions, equating to a 9% reduction in labour across the group's Impala Rustenburg, Impala Bafokeng and Marula operations, as well as at the corporate office, which is targeting a 30% reduction in head office costs. "We delivered a commendable operational performance while navigating several challenges in the period under review. Investigations into the 27 November tragedy at 11 Shaft progressed and the production ramp-up at the operation remains on track. "The rebuild of Impala Rustenburg's Number 5 furnace was completed and first matte has now been tapped. Notable operational performances were delivered by Zimplats and Mimosa, and at Impala Canada, where mining and milling was rebased," Muller added. Implats remains on track to deliver within the guided group parameters for the full 2024 financial year. MARCH QUARTER In the three months to March 31, gross group 6E production increased by 13% to 827 000 oz. Tonnes milled at managed operations increased by 16% to 6.48-million tonnes during the quarter. The maiden inclusion of Impala Bafokeng and higher milled volumes at Zimplats offset lower throughput at Impala Rustenburg, Marula and Impala Canada. The 6E milled grade of 3.64 g/t was stable and 6E production at managed operations increased by 17% to 657 000 oz. The 6E production from the JVs at Mimosa and Two Rivers increased by 7% to 134 000 oz. At Impala Refining Services, third-party 6E receipts of 37 000 oz were 23% lower than the prior comparable quarter as two contracts concluded in financial year 2023. There were negligible production losses owing to load curtailment in South Africa in the quarter, although regional electricity generation and distribution challenges did pose headwinds to operating momentum in Zimbabwe. Refined 6E production, which includes saleable ounces from Impala Canada and Impala Bafokeng, increased by 8% to 717 000 oz. Implats finished the period with 410 000 6E ounces of excess inventory and 6E sales volumes of 824 000 oz, including saleable production from Impala Canada and Impala Bafokeng, increased by 10%, and were 3% lower on a like-for-like basis from those in the prior comparable quarter, with some destocking of refined inventory to offset the impact...

Zak Mir talks to Jason Brewer, CEO of Marula Mining, regarding the latest developments at the African-focused mining and development company, running through the portfolio and its prospects. Here's a summary of the key points: Company Overview: Marula Mining is focused on battery metals, with several projects across different minerals. Jason Brewer provides an update on the current state and future plans of the company. Lithium Mining: The company operates a lithium mine in South Africa and has secured a long-term off-take agreement with a UK-based global trading group, Fuex. This agreement covers the sale of lithium ore and value-added lithium products. Byproduct Sales: Brewer mentions finalizing off-take agreements for byproducts like coltan, tantalum, and feldspar, which he says will more than offset the operating costs of their lithium business. Manganese Mine Acquisition: The recent acquisition of a manganese mine in Kenya is discussed. Upgrades to the plant and equipment are planned, with production and sales expected to start soon, impacting the bottom line positively. Graphite Mining in Tanzania: Marula is advancing a graphite mining project in Tanzania, characterized by high-grade, large flake deposits. The company aims to develop this into a high-value, high-margin graphite mine. Market Performance and Investor Sentiment: Despite significant milestones and developments, Marula's stock is described as being in a holding pattern. Brewer expresses frustration with the current share price levels and discusses the market's hesitancy to value the company more highly due to multiple active projects and the complexity of their portfolio. Management and Strategy: The CEO emphasizes the competence of the management team and their strategic focus on developing mines and generating cash flow. He also notes the backing from significant investors who see the potential in Marula Mining as part of larger energy transition initiatives. The interview highlights Marula Mining's strategic advancements and challenges in a bearish market, focusing on diversification and development of battery metals essential for modern technologies.

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On his flying visit to the UK, Jason gave up his time to call into the London studio this afternoon before boarding a flight this evening back to Nairobi, Kenya. November last year when Jason called into the studio, the share price stood at 9p now it is circular 14p. A lot is going on with Marula Mining, three listings are due, dual listing on the Nairobi stock exchange, and the first-ever mining company to list. He was completing further dual listing in South Africa, to follow quickly and the listing in London with the company leaving AQSE and bypassing AIM with a listing on the main market. Maru will hold a general meeting tomorrow to approve issues of shares to take the company's market cap to over £30 million. On 8 February 2024, the Company announced that it had signed a further amendment to the Subscription of Shares Agreement, in which K2 irrevocably and unconditionally consented to the novation of the entirety of its rights and obligations under the Subscription of Shares Agreement to the Subscriber. The Subscriber is AUO Commercial Brokerage LLC, a Dubai-incorporated affiliate of Q Global, one of South Africa's leading independent commodity, mining, logistics and investment funds. Under the terms of the Subscription of Shares Agreement, as amended, the Subscriber has conditionally agreed to subscribe for 147,800,000 New Ordinary Shares up to a value of £8,530,000. The Circular contains a Notice of General Meeting to be held at the office of Memery Crystal, 165 Fleet Street, London EC4A on 8 March 2024 at 2.00 p.m. (the “General Meeting”). https://www.share-talk.com/jason-brewer-ceo-of-marula-mining-aqse-maru-talking-to-share-talk-in-london-studio/

Even though we can't halt the aging process entirely, science and wellness practices have converged to offer us a glimpse into the potential of extending our vitality and well-being beyond what was once thought possible. The promising advancements in stem cell therapy, particularly in the fields of fertility and skin rejuvenation suggest that we may be able to slow down the physical and aesthetic signs of aging.In this episode of the Biohacking Beauty podcast, Amitay, CEO of Young Goose, is joined by Zack Varkaris, a marine biologist turned biohacker. Zack explains how by turning the clock on female reproductive abilities, we can turn the clock on skin rejuvenation and overall wellness. We discuss the exciting potential of stem cell therapy in rejuvenating fertility and skin health, which could extend human lifespan up to 125 years. We also explore the deep connection between emotional well-being and physical health, emphasizing the importance of personalized health and wellness strategies. Finally, we advocate for a holistic approach to anti-aging and wellness, discussing the importance of maintaining sexual reproductive abilities.Zack Varkaris is a biologist, author, founder, and scientific director of Austin Biotec.What we discuss: (0:00:08) - The intersection of fertility rejuvenation and skin care, insights into delaying menopause and organ vitality through stem cell therapy and Zach shares his journey from PRP to stem cell treatments.(0:14:50) - The significance of a biological baseline and targeting aging with stem cell therapy, and the potential of extending human lifespan by rejuvenating specific body parts(0:31:56) The importance of emotional health in personal development and fertility treatments and how to tailor health and wellness strategies through personality tests and mental health assessments(0:39:08) - The impact of aesthetics on personal perception and society and the importance of positive self-image on psychological well-beingTo learn more about Young Goose:Use code PODCAST10 to get 10% off your first purchase, and if you're a returning customer use the code PODCAST5 to get 5% off at https://www.younggoose.com/Instagram: @young_goose_skincareTo learn more about Zack Varkaris:Schedule a consult: https://www.austinbiotec.com/Marula oil: https://kalaharigold.com/

On this rare trip to the African continent, we look at a keystone savanna species: the Marula. These trees reflect the movement of the great Bantu Migration, play a key role in certain fertility traditions, and allegedly get elephants drunk. The Marula will also teach us that apparently everything is a nut tree.Tons of bonus content is available on my Patreon! (patreon.com/MyFavoriteTrees)Music is by Academy Garden (academygarden.bandcamp.com)Cover Art is by @boomerangbrit on InstagramScript Editing and Social Media is by Laurie Hilburn (lhilburn.journoportfolio.com)Follow me on Twitter and Facebook @MyFavoriteTrees and on Instagram @treepodcast

Marula Mining PLC (AQSE:MARU) CEO and Neo Energy Metals PLC (LSE:NEO) Non-Executive Chairman Jason Brewer speaks to Thomas Warner from Proactive London after Neo Energy Metals' successful LSE listing. Brewer gives a brief overview of the company and its Henkries uranium project in South Africa's Northern Cape. This project, initially advanced by Anglo American with a $30 million investment, is now poised for rapid development in a robust uranium market. He also speaks about his work with Quinton Van der Burgh, CEO of Q Global Commodities and a major investor in Marula Mining. Van der Burgh's shift in focus from coal to metals includes significant investments in Shuka Minerals and Neo Energy Metals, and underline his confidence in the future of the metals markets. Van der Burgh recently secured a billion-dollar fund from Abu Dhabi's F9 Capital. As 2023 draws to a close, Brewer's focus is on expanding Marula's processing capabilities at the Blesberg Lithium Mine, initiating production at its copper mine, and advancing Shuka's projects. He concludes by saying that Neo Energy Metals' successful listing is only a first step, adding that "all the hard work starts now" and that he anticipates a "busy run into the new year." #MarulaMiningPLC, #JasonBrewer, #MiningIndustry, #NeoEnergyMetals, #LondonStockExchange, #UraniumMining, #SouthAfricaMining, #InvestmentInMining, #GlobalCommodities, #MiningTechnology, #EnergySector, #NaturalResources, #EconomicDevelopment #IndustrialGrowth #ProactiveInvestors #copper #invest #investing #investment #investor #stockmarket #stocks #stock #stockmarketnews

This audio is brought to you by Wearcheck, your condition monitoring specialist. Platinum group metals (PGM) mining and marketing company Implats is implementing a comprehensive operational and expenditure response to mitigate the current weakness in PGMs pricing and the resultant pressure on margins. "It's imperative that all our operations are set up to contribute sustainably and profitably through the vagaries of PGM cycles," Implats CEO Nico Muller stated in the JSE-listed company's first quarter production report for the period of July 1 to September 30. "Capital expenditure on projects considered key to strategic delivery will continue, but planned elevated levels of spend across the portfolio will be adjusted to reflect the prevailing current reality of compressed industry margins," Muller stated in the release to Mining Weekly. Total six element (6E) group production volumes increased by 21% from the previous comparable quarter to one-million ounces, with a 34% increase in managed volumes to 799 000 oz, stable production of 141 000 oz from joint ventures, and a 31% decrease in third-party receipts to 62 000 oz. While production metrics benefitted from the maiden inclusion of Impala Bafokeng in the period, notable improvements were achieved on a like-for-like basis at the group's mining and processing operations. Gross 6E refined and saleable production volumes increased by 25% to 885 000 oz and 6E sales volumes increased by 17% to 829 000 oz. "The strong operational delivery in the period is a testament to the flexibility and resilience our people enabled at our operations - with targeted investments in asset integrity and projects focused on harnessing the inherent competitiveness of our mining and processing portfolio yielding notable improvements. "Volume gains offset persistent industry-wide inflationary pressures and the operational impact of load curtailment was also minimised in the period. The integration of Impala Bafokeng gained momentum and focused efforts to improve and embed our safety performance remain a key focus," said Muller. Regrettably, Marula and Impala Bafokeng operations each reported a fatality in the period amid 16% year-on-year improvement in the lost-time injury frequency rate and an 11% improvement in the all-injury injury frequency rate. "Recent discussions with our core customer base confirm our underlying view of rising demand for our key products over the coming year. Residual customer caution reflects the persistent global macro-economic uncertainty and notable trade-flow shifts in primary mined supplies, resulting in adjustments to market liquidity and pricing," Muller added. PRODUCTION Gross tonnes milled at managed operations increased by 29% to 7.55-million tonnes during the quarter, augmented by the maiden inclusion of Impala Bafokeng, with 9% gains on a like-for-like basis. Milled grade increased by 4% to 3.77 g/t and 6E concentrate production at managed operations increased by 34% to 799 000 oz, with a like-for-like improvement of 12% from the collective production base at Impala Rustenburg, Marula, Zimplats and Impala Canada. Concentrate production from the joint ventures (JVs) at Mimosa and Two Rivers was stable at 141 000 oz. Third-party 6E concentrate deliveries to Impala Refining Service declined by 31% to 62 000 oz reflecting the conclusion of two contracts in the third quarter of the previous financial year. Consequently, group 6E gross production volumes increased by 21% to one-million ounces, 5% higher on a like-for-like basis. Refined 6E production, which includes saleable ounces from Impala Canada and Impala Bafokeng, increased by 25% to 885 000 oz. Production at Impala Rustenburg benefitted from previous investment in asset integrity and operational flexibility, specific internal interventions, and fewer external interruptions. Impala Bafokeng's BRPM operations delivered to plan in the quarter, but performance at Styldrift was negatively impacted by a lengthy Secti...

With the current news flow, it is quite hard to pin down Chief Executive Officer Jason Brewer, MARU is on a journey with liquidity never an issue on the AQUS market. If you blink you will miss the progress this company has made over 2023 with Q4 looking quite tasty as well.  Last Friday the company provided an update on the sale of high-grade lithium ore from the Blesberg Lithium and Tantalum Mine in South Africa. The initial sale of 27.5 tonnes of high-grade 6% to 6.5% Li2O grade material will now be transported to Cape Town and scheduled for shipment to Huangpu in China. Jason Brewer, Marula Mining PLC CEO said: It is very pleasing to see the progress that has been made on the resource drilling and mining works program at the Blesberg Lithium and Tantalum Mine over the past month. PDS Drilling are moving ahead at pace and are now almost 75% through the initial 20-hole diamond drilling program. With the core shed now completed on site, the actual core logging, cutting and sampling of the diamond drill core can now start and with spodumene mineralisation having been observed in some of the drill cores, I am looking forward to the commencement of the assay work and first assay results. In addition to this ongoing drilling work, we also have the geophysics and multi-spectral satellite imaging work starting across the Blesberg license area and over an additional 1,200km2 license area that we are looking to acquire and expand our footprint in the region. This airborne geophysics and multispectral satellite imaging work should show target areas as broad or bigger than the current area of mining and processing activities. Marula Mining Plc - Update on AIM Listing Update the market and shareholders on its intention to seek a listing of Marula's ordinary shares on the London Stock Exchange's AIM market and proposed dual listings on Kenya's Nairobi Securities Exchange and South Africa's Johannesburg Stock Exchange. https://www.share-talk.com/marula-mining-plc-aqsemaru-chief-executive-officer-jason-brewer-talking-to-zak-mir/

Do you feel like you have to be a chemist in order to create a skin care routine or feel overwhelmed by all the products to choose from? If so this episode is for you! Keep in mind I am not a dermatologist or estatician so if you are struggling with your skin consult a professional on what they recommend for you. 8 Step skin care routine: 1. Cleanser:  The purpose of this is is to remove dirt and make up from your face. It is important to get a gentle cleanser, I used to think if it's burning it's working but that isn't true. If it's burning it's irritating your skin so find one that feels good for you. 2. Toner (optional) While toners do remove excess dirt that was missed during the cleansing process there are two types of toner, hydrating and exfoliating, so make sure to check the active ingedients to see what type of toner it is. Hydrating toners can be used daily and contain verious active ingredients such as vitamin C or hyaluronic acid and can be used daily as an additional cleanse Exfoliating toners should not be used more than twice a week and they contain AHA or BHA. AHA (glycolic and lactic acid) can be used on most skin types, while BHA (salicin) is better for oily skin as it penetrates deeper, see dermcollective.com for more info 3. Serum Serums are used to treat specific skin conditions, if you don't currently have any issues with your skin you can use a generic serum with active ingeriendts such as vitamin C, there are different active ingredients that treat different things, but avoid trying to treat more than one thing at a time If you have acne scaring vitamin E serum can help minimize the appearance of scars Hyaluronic acid is a good serum to use for dry skin Retinol is an active ingredient that can help reduce or prevent the signs of aging Salicylic acid is an active ingredient to look for if you have acne prone skin Azelaic acid and hydroquinone reduce the appearance of hyperpigmintation 4. Eye cream I used to think eye cream in unnessecary because I could just use a moisturizer, but many moisturizers contain fragrance, alcohol and parabens that can damage the delicate skin around the eyes Additionally, eye serums contain specific active ingredients that reduce dark circles and puffiness. 5. Spot treatment (optional) I personally use benzoyl peroxide to treat breakouts, if you struggle with severe acne consult a doctor about the best course of treatment 6. Moisturizer You can use any moisturizer that works best for you, however you want to make sure it contains ceramides that will help restore your skins natural barrier, this will lock in moisture and create a barrier to keep impurities out 7. Oils (optional) While serums treat skin conditions and moisturizers moisturize, oils are designed to nourish the skin. They each contain various fatty acids, vitamins and antioxidants that can help improve the appearance of your skin. Marula and Coconut oils are good for dry skin, Argon oil is good for elasticity and dark spots, Rosehip oil is good for anti-aging Many moisturizers may also contain these oils so this step isn't necessary, personally I only include this step in my evening skin care routine 8. SPF (AM only) Make sure you are putting on a minimum of SPF 30 every single morning. This will not only protect your skin from getting damaged by UV rays it will also prevent signs of aging Don't forget to put it on your neck as well Having a skin care routine is a great way to incorporate self care into your daily routine and take care of your beautiful face. I hope thise helps make it a little easier on you, but of course find what works best for you.

Une société botswanaise réhabilite un fruit local face à la concurrence des produits importés et répond ainsi à la tendance d'un renouveau des fruits indigènes en Afrique. En fin d'émission, coup de projecteur sur l'écrivain précurseur afro-américain, Paul Dunbar, auteur des paroles de la comédie musicale "In Dahomey" il y a plus de 130 ans. Mais tout d'abord le mot du jour : "Mutinerie"...

In the episode we have a returning guest who appeared back in Nov 2022 (episode 294). Jason Brewer, CEO of Marula Mining who are an African focused mining investment company, exploring and discovering battery metals in East, Central and Southern Africa. Jason has over 25 years experience in international mining, financial markets and investment banking and has been responsible for structuring and arranging corporate and project financing facilities for mining and exploration companies with a particular focus on projects in Africa. He's gives us an update on the company and their upcoming AIM listing, progress update on their Blesberg Lithium and Tantalum Mine operations, news on their subsidiaries in Zimbabwe and Kenya and an overview on their recent acquisition. KEY TAKEAWAYS When you're on the ground in terms of project mining, it lends a sense of expediency and reliability to your operations. Marula has four key projects with a fifth in its early stages. They key project is a lithium asset in South Africa, where processing materials takes place. The reason that Marula has been able to grow so rapidly and effectively, is that a very clear strategy was decided upon - battery metals was the focus. In the next four to six weeks, Marula aims to be trading on AIM, having spent the last months preparing legally and financially. BEST MOMENTS 'I've been on the corporate side of mining here in Africa for the past 25 years' 'It was a shell of a company a year ago' 'We've been doing wonders over the past twelve months' 'Our stratgey was very much to get projects we could deliver on and get producing in several months' VALUABLE RESOURCES   Dig Deep – The Mining Podcast on iTunes Jason Brewer LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-brewer-771006207/?originalSubdomain=ke VALUABLE RESOURCES mailto:rob@mining-international.org https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ http://www.mining-international.org https://twitter.com/MiningConsult https://www.facebook.com/MiningInternational.org https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC69dGPS29lmakv-D7LWJg_Q?guided_help_flow=3 ABOUT THE HOST Rob Tyson is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specialising in all areas of mining across the globe from first-world to third-world countries from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. We source, headhunt, and discover new and top talent through a targeted approach and search methodology and have a proven track record in sourcing and positioning exceptional candidates into our clients' organisations in any mining discipline or level. Mining International provides a transparent, informative, and trusted consultancy service to our candidates and clients to help them develop their careers and business goals and objectives in this ever-changing marketplace. CONTACT METHOD rob@mining-international.org https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ Podcast Description Rob Tyson is an established recruiter in the mining and quarrying sector and decided to produce the “Dig Deep” The Mining Podcast to provide valuable and informative content around the mining industry. He has a passion and desire to promote the industry and the podcast aims to offer the mining community an insight into people's experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topicsThis show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Mining Weekly Editor Martin Creamer discusses Lethabo Exploration's off-take agreement; Marula Mining's listing on the JSE; and Copper 360's encouraging drilling results.

In conjunction with its Aquis Stock Exchange-listing in London, Marula Mining is going to have an additional listing on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), Marula Mining CEO Jason Brewer told the Junior Indaba on Wednesday. “We're in the process of appointing our advisers,” said Brewer, who spoke of Copper 360 as having done “a fantastic job” with its April listing on the AltX of the JSE. (Also watch attached Creamer Media video.) Battery metals investment and exploration company Marula, With its Blesberg lithium and tantalum mine in the Northern Cape, has received a funding boost by clinching a partnership with Q Global Commodities, headed by South Africa's Quinton van der Burgh. “We're very much focused on making sure we are an African focused company. Whilst listed in London, to be honest guys, it's post box for us. Our whole operating administrative team is based out of Nairobi. We have an office in Kimberley. We have an office in Dar es Salaam, and we have literally just there in Sandton, we have our major shareholder and our funding partner in place, which is critical for us. “One of the big reasons about being here and coming here on the JSE is we did a transaction earlier this year with Quinton van der Bergh, who is probably best known from the coal-mining sector. “He's diversifying into the metals, the hard-rock, and certainly into battery metals. He's coming on. Q Global Commodities are going to be taking a 51% interest in us. Quinton is going to be taking his first seat, I believe, on a listed company, and they are investing a lot. Basically he funds us through all our projects, the project here in South Africa, the three projects in Tanzania, and the one's we're going to be announcing duly in Zimbabwe and Kenya. So, Patrycja (a reference to JSE business development manager Patrycja Kula, who was present in the audience) we'll be working very closely with your team to make sure we add to those 12 junior mining companies on the exchange,” Brewer told the Indaba, chaired by mining luminary Bernard Swanepoel. “We're working with communities we live with and that brings on additional responsibilities. In the space of six months, we've grown our workforce from three to just over 100 people, here in the Northern Cape and up in Tanzania, so we're moving very quickly, and certainly by the end of the year, we're probably going to be about 250 to 300 people. Blesberg, operated intermittently for more than 80 years, has 250 000 t to 400 000 t of stockpiled waste. This was a small operation mined primarily for its tantalite. “Within that pegmatite, is very high grade spodumene, lithium. We've done multiple samples there. It's running between 5% and 8% of what is typically exported as a spodumene concentrate, so we stated reprocessing those dumps n November. We secured a prepayment from a Swiss-based trading group for $5-million to completely buy out all the minority shareholders and fund the initial development there. “Just last month, we took delivery of six brand new bits of mobile mining equipment, courtesy of Q Global Commodities, courtesy of Bell Equipment. That has allowed us in the space of a month to double production, double the movement of volumes from that mine. “We are now delivering the spodumene concentrate through to our offtaker. The first deliveries are taking place this week. “We've had a pilot plant in Joburg taking that spodumene and producing lithium carbonate, something we're focused on – not just producing a raw product but producing an intermediate product,” said Brewer. The lithium carbonate produced in the pilot plant has been tested and the process is being independently verified with a view to producing an initial 1 000 t a year of lithium carbonate which is going for roughly $40 000/t. “For a company of our size producing at a revenue base just purely on that is going to be something very significant for us,” said Brewer.

In this podcast, Vox Markets speaks to Marula Mining chief executive Jason Brewer about the critical metals explorer and producer's plans to bring its high-grade graphite projects into rapid production to meet burgeoning demand for the metals needed to support the energy transition.

 Aloha Friends, it's Robert Stehlik. Welcome to the third season of the Blue Planet Show. I started this show a couple years ago in my home office, in the garage during the pandemic, just to get to know other wing foilers find out more what drives them, what inspires them. And as always, I like to find a little bit more about their background and just get to know them a little bit better and learn for my own benefit. And I'm stoked to be able to share it with all of you. I get people coming up to me all the time saying I'll watch your shows all the way to the end. So I'm one of the 5% that watches the whole thing. So stoked to hear that. And I know many of you are also listening to it as a podcast while you're driving to the beach or going foiling and getting stoked or just listening to it while you can't go in the water because it's too cold, or you're traveling or whatnot. Stoked. Always to hear that kind of stuff, super stoked. And today's guest is James Casey, who also has a great podcast. So if you haven't listened to that, it's all about downwind foiling. You should check it out. And he also has a coaching club that you can join to learn about downwind foiling. He's an amazing athlete. He holds the record for the most kilometers foiled in one day. And a great coach for any of you who want to get into downwind foiling. And he also invented the sport of winging upwind and then deflating and foiling downwind. Really cool stuff that he's doing and pioneering also designing and testing equipment and so on. Without further ado, here is James Casey. Okay, James Casey. Welcome to the Blue Planet Show. Yeah. Thanks so much for having me. I've watched a bunch of these shows and yeah, it's cool to be on here myself now. Yeah. And I've been listening to your shows while I'm driving and getting stoked and motivated to do more downwind foiling. So thanks for doing that. A lot of really good information on your show. And I want to get into that, like Doman foiling, your Casey crew or the coaching crew, and then also the Moloka race, and then your announcement about joining Code foils and all kinds of stuff. Your record 213 kilometer record on a foil all that kind of stuff. But before we get into all those things, let's talk a little bit about your background. Let's go into a little bit like where, where you were born, how you grew up, and how you got into water sports and all that kind of stuff. Yeah. So yeah, James Casey. I was born in Sydney, Australia, and it's basically the east coast. And my mom and dad both surfed as a kid. They took me out surfing and like a boogie boarding first and then surfing. And I think I got my, I remember vividly actually gave you my first surfboard when I was like, probably a bit of a late starter compared to people nowadays, but I was like 10 or 11. I got like this PCUs, four Finn, super nineties board, skinny nose, like super pointy, heaps of rocker. But that was my first board. This was just one of my dad's old boards that he didn't use anymore. Yeah, this is your board now. You can, you can take this here, this out. And yeah, pretty much surfed all through my teenage years. I competed in like board riders, so I was I won the juniors movale board riders season sort of competition. But then I got 18, 19, I started getting worn in my rugby union. So I was playing a lot of rugby. Played for the, I guess the local club, the Ringer Rats, and was, I played a couple games in first grade, but I was basically just too small to be to be, following that dream as a, as an athlete in rugby. I was also competing against basically , who's now the Wallabies captain, Michael Hooper. So like in people who watch rugby would know what I'm talking about. But yeah, I was playing rugby against him a lot, so rugby was always, I was always second field to him, but I just loved it. It was great camaraderie and that sort of stuff and, but I was still juggling my rugby and surfing and basically as a rugby player you're pretty big and bulky and so it's not the best for surfing. But I got into standup paddling in my sort of I guess it was, I don't know the exact date, but I was. Pretty young. I was probably like 14 or 15. We, we were in Hawaii and I sprained my ankle kite surfing. And wait, so when, how did you get into kite surfing? Yeah, I was thinking that when I said that. Gotta explain that, . So I got into kite surfing. I used to go to Maui a lot. Basically my dad was a wind surfer and basically every July we'd go over to Hawaii to f as a family holiday to windsurf. And I was learning to windsurf and then all of a sudden all these kite around and I'd just nailed for windsurfing, I'd nailed my like water starts. So on the small sort of wave riding board, I was water starting, I was just starting into wave riding. And then I cut my foot on the reef out at uppers at Kaha. . And so I was outta the water for a bit and when I was outta the water, my brother, younger brother and sister learned to kite surf and then I was all fired up. I wanna learn to kite surf, it looks easier and you're on a smaller board. And so basically going backwards, I guess windsurfing my dad, cause he windsurf, he took us out in the lake a lot. Just a local Naraine lake. And we'd learned to windsurf on a big, we used to call it the island. Just a massive, it was a starboard, I think a massive starboard and you can get three people on it. It was super stable for us kids as well. So we did that. Then, so then I learned on a smaller board, wave, wave sailing and never really nailed it. I one or two trips down to OA and then Hawaii was almost there and then I cut my foot outta the water for a week. Then went to kite surf and kite surfing was what we loved to do as a family. Like my brother, my dad, and myself would all go out kite surfing at home and then me when it was sick. But yeah, then I sprained my ankle. Kite surfing this one time. I guess it was, it must have not been July cause there was some waves. Must have been, winter. And there were heaps of good. It was good surf that year too. So I cut my foot so sprained my ankle kiting and I couldn't pop up on a surfboard like, like regular surfing because my, an basically res sprained my ankle. So we went to the local shop what's it called? High Tech in Maui. And we rented Hawaii Paddle Surf, like standup paddle board. Cause we'd seen lad do it, we were in hook keep and Lad was doing his helicopters and that looks pretty cool. Yeah, we went down the hike. So can you, do you guys sell these salmon paddle boards? Yeah, we got a couple. So we rented two of those and we're actually staying at like near Mama's Fish house. , and there's a few reefs out there and basically, When there's no wind. We managed to score some really good sessions out there on the standup paddle board, just like glassy and like four to six foot kind of thing. And I was on a standup paddle board on these outer reefs and it was like, oh, this is pretty legit. And on the standup paddle board was easier because you're paddling out to his outer east and instead you're comfortable. So I'm like, this is cool. So he went home and St. Paddling wasn't really a thing yet. Went home and the local shop, I came in Sydney WSS boards. Sam Parker had, didn't have any production boards, but he did have a custom one that he, a local builder had built him just basically a big longboard. And so we grabbed that off him for a week and just was roughing out on that. No ankle is now better now. So it was just like, it was just cuz we liked it. And basically we, when the stock came in, we bought one, but be between that we were I actually grabbed my dad's windsurf board and we'd never paddled, so we had a rake and we cut the prongs off the rake, the plastic rakes, and we were paddling around the local spot on this windsurf board, like a smaller windsurf board had the full sandpaper deck. So we got all, got smoked rashed up on the stomach. But yeah, that was, and then, basically once the production stuff was out in Australia, we were riding it, but I was never really competing. So like I did all this is all like, 13, 14 or whatever, what's that sort of age? And so I was paddling it, but I didn't know there was competitions and my brother worked in the local shop WSS boards. And there was, I went to one competition at Long ra and I wasn't really, it was fun, but it wasn't really something I was motivated to, to pursue. We did a race, actually the fir, my first s race was Movale to Collary, which is like eight Ks. and it was a nice little northeast Lee Breeze. My I'd never paddled a race board before my brother working at the shop had organized a board for my himself, my dad and me. And there was two 14 footers and 1 12 6 and somehow I got stitched up and was put on the 12 six. So we're doing the race and it's all like a little down window. We just cruising cause we don't know how to race. We're just paddling like we are surfing, looking for little bumps to catch. And all of a sudden this storm comes through and we're about halfway through the race, we're at the back cause we're this cruising and this hail it starts hailing on us. So we, the massive storm, the wind was northeast hailstorm comes through the winds now south. And so we're all lying on our boards paddling into the winds like prone style. And because I had a 12 six I could keep it pointed into the wind easier. I wasn't getting blown around as much. So I, I remember vividly beating my brother. And he was all off it because he is oh, it was because you were the shorter board. It was easier for you to, paddle into the window. Mate, a shorter board should go slower. So it was, the competitive spirit was always there, but I didn't touch another race board for a very long time. So that was that was interesting. That was a not the best start to to the whole racing stuff. It wasn't until my now brother-in-law Grant Hardiman got into ums racing that I really got into thes racing stuff. But in the meantime, I was stop surfing heaps. So I still stop surfed a lot when the waves were small back home, I'd stop surf heaps, wasn't really competing, but just loved it. On the small days and you can then, you can just pedal out. The same as in, in Maui were ping out to these outer reefs and surfing waves by ourselves rather than sitting in the pack of 20 or 30 on a shortboard waiting for that one that came through. That's a muddled history, . Once I got into this, I actually got into the subs surfing, went down to an event in Marula it, so called the Maru Classic. Quite a famous event here in us here in Australia. Anyway, yeah had like guys like Rob Robby Nash come over in the history of it all. And, but I met two, two good friends now, JC Schara and Toby k Cracknell and Kai Bates as well, actually, and Sam Williams. And those sort of four people got me into the competitive side of s cause I didn't even know like the, a PPP world tour or the whatever it was called before that. I didn't know what it, I didn't know what it exist. I didn't know you could compete on a standup paddle board. I didn't know there were races. I just was just doing it for fun. Wasn't really in the scene. So they, I went over to Hawaii, did the sunset event trials, got into the main event and basically from there Tristan was like, oh, you've qualified for the whole tour now if you wanna come to Brazil and France. And I was like, oh, this is pretty cool. So I rallied. And, you I'd just finished uni at this time, so I was like, okay, I've got a bit of time. I haven't really locked myself into a job yet. So I just did that for, two, three years competing on the, the sup surf and race circuit doing, Molokai to Oahu and a bunch of races in did a few races in Europe, did a few surf events in Morocco and Hawaii and France, and went to the wave pool in Abu Dhabi. And yeah, it was a pretty cool, time and then Brun, I was doing that until Covid hit and then now Covid hit up. We basically, it's all, it all stopped all the racings on the stop stuff. And yeah. So here's I wanted to share this video. This was oh, sorry. Definitely. This was when I first met you that this was like at the mall. Mochi race. And you had a yeah, it was you and Marcus. Yeah. Marcus harder with Yeah. Talking about the dugout. I was just curious about it and interviewed you and that. So this was in 2016, was it the first time you did the mobile Kai race? This is the second time I did it. Yeah. This is the second time I, yeah and it was my third season competing, like racing over in Hawaii, but I didn't get in the first year to to do Molokai. Cause I hadn't done enough races, basically.  And that. And you were one of the first guys to use the dugout in the Molokai race, I think too. Or, and you did really well with it, right? So everybody started being curious about the dugout boards. Yeah, so dugout boards were, pretty common on 14 foot boards. But for for the unlimited boards, Not many people were using them. So yeah, it's probably good to talk about this. I was writing for JP and basically JP had said, oh, we don't make unlimited boards. You can get, one made from s i c, you can get one made wherever you want. And basically the year before I used a s I see. And Marcus had spoken to Matt Knowledge and said, oh, I think I can make something faster than your s i c what do you think? And he was like, yeah, Matt was keen. And then I got caught winded oh, if you are getting one, Matt, he was my like, sparring partner. I was like, I want one too. So we both, paid Marcus to design a board for us. And deep sort of made the boards and yeah, these are the first, unlimited dugouts that that we'd used. and basically it certainly caused a bit of a stir in Hawaii when people saw him. It was like the world's biggest bathtub when they filled up. But  Yeah, it was, they were super quick and, this relationship with Marcus, stems all the way through, like within us and Simon son over the following year. And and then I, won Moloka in 2019 on a board that Marcus and I actually built like in, in his backyard. And and that was the last, that was the last time the race was held. So you're the defending champion, theoretically. . Yeah. Look,  four years, , I only have to race once. Yeah. So yeah, no, it's it was a little project that for sure. Yeah. So I just wanted to share that. That's a classic older video. Yeah. Awesome. Yeah. That's the main, yeah. Marcus is now all clean cut too. He is. Got his hash and he is shaved and he wouldn't recognize him. . Yeah. And just so I'm in the background, so are you staying at his place right now or? Yes. I'm just, I'm over here in wa I was just cause we've just we're working together now with fun code foil, so it's been set started there that year deep that's, and then sent over and now with code foils and so it's pretty cool. But yeah, I marks my good mates and yeah, I'm over here in wa I was just doing a foil camp up in Exmouth and so I've flowed back down. get back to your history though. Okay. So then you started doing the kind of the racing and also computing as a subs, surfer subs, surfery competition. . Yeah. Yeah.   my, my best result in the subs surfing stuff was the second place at Sunset. I lost a ca vaz , but it was basically I got the, it was a good year for me. Like the surf was good, my ball was good. And that was, yeah, second place and that was, I was pretty stoked. And that year I won the overall race and surf sup champion, there wasn't an official world champion sort of thing, but it was like a thing they're trying to award, overall athletes, not just thes athletes, not just the races race athletes, but the overall. So I think that was 20 must have been like 2016 kind of time where I won that sort of thing. And that's probably the biggest, sup sort of world champion sort of thing I've done in that. But yeah, I did all that until until Covid hit really, I was doing all the s sub surf events and a lot of the supp race events and then foiling came out. It stalled the momentum, with the sup stuff because foiling the reason I got into the sup racing was because I I'm a surfer first, so I've always, I've, I still surf short boards longboards foils now, obviously and standups. But surfing was where it all started. And when I got into sap, competing in standup was all about s surfing and downwind racing, because to me, downwind racing was like longboarding out to sea and you're just trimming the whole time. So it's kinda like the longboard sort of style. . And then when the foils came out and you were, I started down winding them pretty early. I was like, this is like short boarding out to sea. I'm not long boarding anymore. I'm like, we are surfing now. And so that to me was like a real light bulb moment. And a lot of people are like, oh, you don'ts race anymore. And I'm like, oh, I still do the local events. Like I, I was at the Aussie champs last year  and still do a bunch of the local events. But yeah the foiling is and the downwind foiling especially is mind blowing honestly. It's it's pretty crazy. And I guess my foil history I started, I actually met Alex Aue when I was over in Maui for a ppp race event. And I was introduced him through the Spencers. So Jeffrey and Finn were testing ups to go for stuff Me. Oh Jimmy, you gotta meet Alex, you're gonna love this foiling stuff. And so I was actually staying with Vinny and Vinny Martinez and j Jake Jensen. And we were all in a house together. Cause we're doing a race and because I was introduced to Alex basically, but Vinny and I were both slopping boards and so we only had one foil set up. Cause Alex lent us a board and a foil, like one of the original cars. And we were out at Kaha lowers trying out then a bunch of other spots between there and who keep and just if one of us was on the fall, the other one would be on like a bigger surf up just filming each other with a GoPro. And we were just trying to get the shot of us flying above the water. And that was the, and as soon as we left there, we were like, man, I said to Alex, I gotta buy one, like when can I buy one? And he's, okay. That must have been like a sep September sort of time of year. It's 2016 and then maybe it was 2017 but around that time and I ordered probably the first go fall to ever arrive in Australia, It arrived in like November just before the event, the ISA event in Fiji. And I remember going over there, I was over there to race the distance race on the standup, but I brought this foil with me and on the, when we were all surfing cloud break and whatnot in between the events and I was towing behind the boat. on the drive out on my gofoil set up. And people are losing their shit. Oh, everyone's having a go. And that was the start of, the foil brain  and the downwind stuff. And yeah, it's been a cool, it's been a whirlwind four years, since then, or I guess five years, six years since then. But yeah then I was, and I heard like the first time you tried to do a downwind foil downwind, was it with the ca foil? Yeah, so it would've been just after I got from Fiji, I went over to Western Australia and there's a race called King of the Cut and all those, so it's really good downwind run cause the, you get these sea breeze and it's like super consistent. And basically one day we went out with my square JP board and the gofoil and must have been, the board must have been like seven two by 26, but a square not like the boards nowadays had this kind of pointy tails and stuff. Pointy noses, not long and skinny and . We went out the Mandra run and we paddled, A friend of mine, Matt  and I we were swapping boards, so one of us on the foil set up, one of us was on a race board stuff. And basically we did the run I think is about 10 kilometers, 10 or 11 Ks. We did half the run and we swapped out and I got up twice, which looking back, I'm actually pretty stoked, could get up. I got up twice for about a total of like maybe 50, 60 meters up on Foil . And I was like, man, this is hard. Cause we'd seen Kyle Leni do it on his, longer board. Oh, he must just need a longer board longer skinnier board at that time. And cuz Kai was on a sorn off race board, it's 12 foot kind of thing. It's funny how in the foiling world everything just comes back, right? So like  and then, cause now we're going back to that, but this was in 20, it must have been 2016 or 17. . But anyway, it doesn't really. And then I said to Alex, I think I need a bigger foil. So he sent me over the original malico the blue one that isn't curved down. It's like a flatter one. It was actually ahead of its time because it was it was higher aspect, than the macOS were. And like when I got that one, I got home and I did a downwind run from maybe I was, anyway I started downwind once I got that foil and once I had that bigger foil, I was getting up pretty much straight away because of my my, my sort of s racing and downwind knowledge. I could read the bumps well enough and was powerful enough to get up and foil and once up, I think I was just chasing bumps and it was, yeah, it was sick, but I had the, yeah that one definitely humbling moment where we got five Ks and 50 meters of foiling, , so yeah. Yeah, . But even for you, it wasn't easy to get started, but yeah, no way. No way. But the right equipment makes a big difference for sure. Yeah even just the slightly bigger foil was the biggest, the difference for me. I think I was still on the same board more or less. I can't remember my first successful downwind run actually because I definitely had gone to Maui again and I did a downwind run with Finn and Jeffrey on a prone board. We went from Kua to Sugar Cove and we were paddling into waves and then falling around. And then Alex had this 10 foot, it was like a square board. It was a like just a, he called it the aircraft carrier. It was super long and he'd just put a little bit more rocker in it. Yeah, super light. And I paddled that thing up easy and once I was up I was like, I was good to go thing. Cause the downwind knowledge I had from racing standups just translated straight across. But I remember that first run of that big board and it was like, oh, this is pretty cool. , this is pretty epic. Boiling down wind is, As I said before, short boarding and like surfing down the coast rather than, trimming on the longer, unlimited or 14 foot stops. Six. Wait, did you say you were prone foiling on a 10 foot board? Is that what it was? Nah, so I was, I was, I'll stand up, I'll stand up paddling on that one. Yeah, that was the aircraft carrier. It was like nine or 10 foot. long, long, but it was like square. It literally it was like this shape. Yeah. The early kma boards were like that too, right? That's at the time everyone thought that's how you get it as short as possible by just cutting off the nose and tail and like its square . Yeah. Yeah. It was interesting that one Alex made actually and, and it was it was like looking back at it if he just refined that shape. It was long and it it wasn't super skinny. It was probably like 25 or 26 wide, but it was like eight foot and just it was square for stability while going. Narrow for speed and long for speed. Looking back, like there's a lot of things that led us to, the latest design that, Dave has famously invented, the Barracuda style boards. Yeah. And then you're still a team writer for Sunova, right? So when did that relationship start with Sunova? So just that video you shared before was the year after? So it was it was just as when I got my Go Foil I started on JP boards, so that was November. And then the following year, January, February, I signed with Sunova. And the first thing I did was like, okay, we need to get on, we need to make foil boards because foiling is where it's gonna be. And so I went over to Thailand and we tested a bunch of staff and we drew up with Bert Berger. He was over there and Marcus was back here. So we didn't, but Bert and I drew up our first sort of, Foil board range, and it was long, they basically weren't thick enough. So I, my first s foil board that I did with them was seven two by 24 and a half, which like is a pretty good dimensions looking back like how it's aged. But it was super thin. Yeah. So it was only like, it was only like 80 liters or something. And for me it was fine. But I remember going, starting on that and then Marcus took over designing the FOIL awards cause he was head starter foiling too. And it made sense cause he understood it. And so we basically the rails on Bert's board were like super pointy like this. Yeah. And then Marcus just made him thicker and had the, added the chime in and that extra volume allowed us to go shorter. And a bit narrower. Yeah. And a bit narrower too with the same sort of volume. But yeah, I guess our the Sunova relationship was, has been, is epic. , we're still designing a bunch of boards. We've got a bunch of prototypes coming. And yeah, there's, because I persuaded them to build these foil boards, I said, ah, and then I built like a, created the Casey brand. They're like, okay we'll put the Casey logo on it. And, it's your job to curate the design with Marcus and make sure you write the design specs and the, the website, outline, explain to people what it is. So yeah, that relation relationship with Suno has been really good. And obviously like racing, they were helping me fly around the world and travel and and the stop surfing stuff. And yeah, it's been a very healthy relationship with the boys in Thailand. The over. . Yeah. And then for, regarding the foil, so I guess you were writing for Gold Foil and then at some point you tried a whole bunch of different foils and you ended up writing for access. So how did that ha all happen and what was yeah. Sorry. I was writing for Gofo for five years so Gofo for five years and basically, started with the Kai and then the MACO came out and then the EVA and the maico 200 and all that sort of stuff came out. And then the GLS came out, which was like mind blowing cuz they were these higher aspect things. Then the P 180 and basically I've all the way up to the RS and the GT wings. I was a part of the team and it was just, yeah, it was, I was just craving a bit more input in the design process because go for guys are just like fully Maui based and they've got a pretty good test team in Maui. They've got Dave and they've got. Jeremy Rigs and they got, Alex himself is great at testing too, so they didn't really need me. And unless I was there, and when I was there, I was heavily involved in the testing stuff. And remember vividly testing shimming the tail wing. We were out, off or out of Kalu Harbor in Alex's boat. And Connor and I were both testing some Damon wings for the, there was an oli, the Oli race was coming up. And so we were testing like how to shim, like basically we're tuning our foils to get 'em as fast as we could for the race. And unfortunately that year the wind was blowing like straight on shore, so it was just a course race. But the race we did was they dropped us out outside basically between uppers and lowers at Kaha. And we raced all the way back into shore. And I remember that, was that where there was a huge surf too coming in or was that huge surf? Yeah. Yeah. And a few guys, I think I got up last. , but I think Austin climber fell off in the surf This got maxed out. You got a bomb coming through and it was a, that was a pretty cool race that was just like full, like figuring it out, yeah, and it was a bit murky water coming through. I hit something coming in through at the end, but it was sick. It was a cool race. But yeah, so we I'd worked a lot with Alex and Alex was literally I've got a house over in Maui and my family is a house over in Maui and he's actually, we actually share a boundary with Alex. We're not direct next door neighbors, but like over the back fence, like Alex is our neighbor, so it's oh, cool. There's a pretty cool relationship. When I was in Maui, like last time I was in Maui Alex had literally picked me up and we'd go, okay, we're gonna go test this thing, James. Come on, let's go. And yeah, it was super cool to be doing that. But the problem was when I wasn't in Maui, I couldn't test anything and I was only really in Maui, maybe one or.  once or twice a year, and only really for maybe a total of three weeks. So I just, I was craving more input in the design and pushing the envelope to race the wings. But also I guess with my coaching stuff I wanted to be able to, have input to help people learn to. So yeah, about 18 months ago, I, announced I was leaving Gofoil and tried a bunch of different foils. was trying lift stuff, I was trying uni foil stuff access Armstrong. What else did I try? I felt like there was some cloud nine stuff too. And basically I, and I spoke to 'em all and basically the access guys were really keen to work on a range of foils with me. And basically in the last 18 months with access, I reckon I prototyped.  probably 50 sets of gear, wow. It was kinda like, be careful what you wish for , because then my job was like, one of the things they sent out six different towel wings. They didn't tell me what they did, but they said, go out and try them and tell me what you feel. And basically little examples like that. And, so we tried a bunch of different stuff and it was an awesome relationship with Evan and Adrian. And I was on the phone to Adrian after every session. And that was exactly what I craved, like with Gofo, I did the same thing, but I only spoke to Alex every now and then. Cause I only got prototypes every, once or twice a year. Whereas with access, I was getting like every month they were sending out a box of gear and saying, test this stuff for us, test that for us. And it was epic. And if fast forward to now, I guess I'm, I've just announced that I'm working with basically a few mates of mine, Marcus, Ben, and Dan. And.  basically creating our own brand, which is super exciting. Working with Code Falls and look, if this hadn't come up, I'd definitely still be working with Access because there was, there's basically, there's no bad blood with access. Like we're there we're still mates. Adrian's actually coming up. I'm just gonna miss him in Perth, but he's coming over and I've left a bunch of gear for him cause, given some of the gear back and yeah, they want me to come over. Adrian wants to come over to New Zealand and do a downwind foil clinic and yeah, but they were cool, especially like going know when I told them about when I told them about joining code about a month ago, they were obviously a bit upset, but they were super cool and they're like, they were stoked for me that we, that I was creating my own thing. So they weren't they weren't angry at me, and the beauty is we're still mates I guess. So it's it's cool. But as I said, like the relationship with Code Falls was really good. So it's, I'm sorry. Talk a little bit about that. So code photos, like who's behind it and what's the business plan and so on. Yeah, so basically Marcus and Ben basically ha they're brothers. They, their Batard brothers and they've been designing their own or basically in the sunova range. Marcus has been doing all the foil and stuff boards for a while and Ben Tark has been doing the same for one and basically for them to be working together. It's pretty cool cuz they've got some seriously good design brains and yeah, they just, they asked me did I wanna be a part of this company they're building and yeah, I was like, yeah, let's do it. Because I've worked with Marcus for, I guess five or six years now and I've known Ben for a bit longer and Basically the plan is to, just create foils for, for sorry, the dog's just done a fart. the plan is stinks, stubby . The plan is to create foils that that we want to use, you know and that I can teach with too. Cause my coaching business is super important thing too. So at the moment we've just had one, we've had two prototypes. Basically we've got a sort of surf wing and think it's around eight 50 square centimeters. And we've just had a prototype race wing that literally, I've only tried it twice, two or three times now, and it's been. Really positive. Like the whole philosophy I guess behind it is we want our stuff to be stiff and solid and the mast and the connection to the base plate, to the mast, it's all one. But like the connection point is overbuilt, but it feels so nice and stiff. And then likewise the master to the fuse. The fuse is thick and so that's, I'm seeing if I have one actually I've got a mask just here. I can show that. Yeah. Why don't you show us? Is it all one, you said it. The fuselage and front wing and tail wing are all one piece. No. So the don't think I've got a, a tail wing or No, there's none around to you. They must markers, must took it . But yeah. Yeah. Show the mask. So yeah, you can see like the, see how that's pretty chunky down the bottom here. But we just find it adds extra stiffness. And even the base plate's pretty, pretty chunky too. Uhhuh . And then the connection to the. , this is a thicker it's just like probably 30% thicker than the, like most other brands. , just, this just allows more Fuse to get onto. So that makes the fuse a bit chunkier. Yeah. What we found straight away was that it was just super stiff, even though like our first prototype, but everything was just so well connected. So yeah. The base plate things that I was talking about and then the fuse connection was just super solid.  And that to us was a really important thing coming out with a brand now and like after seeing a bunch of brands, work on certain things, then realizing their mask is a bit stiff, isn't stiff enough. And having the connections to the front fall or the rear fall a bit, basically don't want any flex. So having that able to see what other fall brands have done, we've learned from that and basically created a pretty. Pretty what I'm loving, especially in the surf, the eight 50, it's super well connected and a lot of people, so is it, is the fuselage like aluminum like the access foils or is it more like the lift flows where it's like a front piece together with the Yeah, it's yeah, more like the lift and uni foil sort of stuff. How it's just like the front one goes on and then the fuse bolts on. Like a lot of people are comparing it to the cab, how it's on the angle, so Oh, you kind, yeah. So it's it's a super snug connection. , I can't, there was one just on the couch there, but Marcus just took off with it. No worries. Show on the shop . But yeah, we're super So you, so are you actually a partner in the business or a team writer and r and d? Or like how does that work? Yeah. More of a partner not just team riders, which is why it's like an exciting. Sort of project. So there's, we're building a brand up from nothing, so it's, yeah, four. then, so Marcus is, designer Sonova. Ben was a designer of one, no, is the designer of one. And then Dan, he's actually a, he lives three doors down and he's an architects builder, but he's really good at basically drawing everything up and making it all, so the designs, he puts it into software that makes the, it can blend everything so super clean and, slick looking connections. And he's actually, he's been working the hardest of late trying to get all the files ready to build. It's been a, it's been a, it's been a busy month, that's for sure. Yeah. And that's why you're in Perth right now? I was actually over here to do a foil camp up in Exmouth, and I extended two days before and two days after, just so I could catch up with the team and. and, talk about a lot of things and get some footage and just work on all things code as, as well as do a bit of work up the coast here. Just, it was good timing, it wasn't planned, it was just good timing. Cool. Yeah, like when we look at Australia on a Globe or something, it looks like a small little island, but to fly from Sydney to Perth is like a six hour flight or something, like three time zones, or what is it, three or four time zones? Yeah. Yes. It's, I think it's a four and a half, five hour flight, depending on the winds. And yeah, it's a, it's three hours difference. Yeah. So back home when I chat to my wife, she's, at home now it's nine o'clock here and it's midday in, in Sydney. So yeah, it's a big country. It's a big country, that's for sure. Yeah. I haven't been over and during Covid we actually couldn't fly to Perth Bec because. Everything was locked down, so it was, yeah, it's it was almost like a new country over here in Western Australia for a while. Yeah. Everything, everything went yeah. Starting new for company, with like access, they have so many different foils and design, like shapes, like different, so many different wings you can choose from and stuff like that. So starting a new company, I guess one of the hard things is the tooling costs are pretty expensive. Every time you make a new wing you have to make a mold for it and all that. Yeah. And then if it doesn't work, you have to like toss that mold and make another one or whatever yeah, exactly. Yep. It's not easy. Yeah, it's not easy at all. Yeah. The plan for the Rangers at the moment is we've got our surf wing all round, surf wing and downwind wing, which is the eight 50. So I've been surfing and down winding it , and it's been unreal in terms of size, it's. , I feel like the area's not that good a guide. Cause we all know the one 20 probably surfs a bit bigger than what, or down winds a bit bigger than what the area is. . But it's, it, this eight 50 feels somewhere between the one 20 and the one 70. Probably like a one 30 or one 40 sort of size.  If you were to compare in the lift range in the access range, it feels like an 8 99, so that's the kind of size that the one we have now. And we've got plans to build one bigger and one smaller , at the very least. And we're probably gonna go at least two bigger. So probably have five or six foils within that range. And then we're gonna do an, a race range, which we are busily working on now to get ready for mochi because it may only be March, but it takes time to build molds and test stuff. And so we've got our first one here and we've it, it's great, but there's things we can improve upon it. So we're back to the drawing board and try to make it, better. And then we're gonna do like a more of a, lower aspect sort of style foil for basically bay runs, small, slow surf and just a sl a foil that goes slower so you can so especially for me when I'm teaching, I want, I wanna fall that I can teach with that isn't going so fast that it's like scaring people,  and it doesn't have to be a really big foil to go slow. You can make us foil that is still like compact, that goes slow. So we they're the kind of the three rangers that we're working on. But really we're just focusing on getting everything released and the launch date, I guess for shops to, to have these code falls in shops for the eight 50 and I guess, and that's first surf range is or the all round range is the 1st of June. So that's what we're working towards, which doesn't seem that far away.  For us, but for everyone else, we're like, oh, June, that's like March, April, may, June. It's three months. But I think Robert, you probably know it, it takes more than just, the stuff is good now. We're just getting stuff, ordering like our, the manufacturing and logistics and stuff. Yeah, just three months is not a long time.  Not at all. So three, four months. Yeah, we're pushing hard, but it's and obviously we're hoping to have to release the bigger and smaller wings in that range. But it probably won't be till after June. So the first one will be the eight 50 that sort of slightly bigger than the lift one 20 sort of size 8 99 axis sort of size. And then the rest will come after that. But yeah, baby steps because it all, the need a cost a bit, but it takes a lot of time too. So it's, yeah, it's been a. Spend a bit of a journey already. Just I'm only one, officially one week in . Cool. And then what about boards? Are you con gonna continue with Sonova making, like the Casey labeled boards or that, or are you gonna make code foil boards also, or? No, at this stage we're gonna, like Ben still works for One Ocean Sports and Marcus and I still work for Sunova. So it just, it makes sense for us to stick with them, for the, yeah. For the time being because it's we've got great relationships with Ben's got a great relationship with Jacko at one and Mark and I have a great relationship with, Tino and Dylan at Sunova. We don't wanna, we don't wanna break that relationship and Sure we've got good products and we're super happy with how it's all working. As is and the foils, are they made at the Sunova factory or where are they made? The fos are made in China. Yeah. So they're, that we've different factory, the Sunova. Don't really do carbon fiber. I guess they're more of the bolser and polonia skins, which for a foil doesn't really work. . Yeah. It's a, it is a very specialized manufacturing process and yeah. Definitely not simple. You have to have Yeah. Get everything right. Especially like to make the mass stiff and torsional and all that, all that kind of different kind of things to consider. But anyway, yeah. Cool. Congratulations. That's pretty exciting. Yeah. Super exciting. It's been, and let's talk about the Moloka race. Since 2019 we haven't had it. And then this year it's gonna be on July 30th, I think. And I got to see the list of people for the for the foil race. And it's a pretty, pretty impressive list. A lot of people are entered. Yeah, including you and Kailan and a bunch of other really top top writers are doing the foil race, so I almost feel like that's gonna be like the main event, almost like the down one foiling, yeah. But yeah, talk a little bit about that. Yeah. Obviously 20 Montana wanna 'em a stand up and uh, basically that was my goal. That was when I first started stop Racing, my goal was to win Malachi to Oahu when I was stoked to be able to do that. And I dedicated to my dad who's now passed away. And that was a really emotional, experience to be doing that. But I feel like to me, like a lot of people are like, oh, you gotta do it again. Go back to back on the s And to me, I feel like it's almost not that chapter's done, but it's like I've achieved what I wanted to achieve on the standup. Not only that, since I started racing mochi on a sap, like the first year I did that, there were 15 to 20 big names. And probably of those we five people could have won it. The previous year, the year I won, there were probably only like probably five or six people that were like really racing it com like super competitively with a win. And of that sort of five or six, there was probably only two or three or four that were real serious contenders. So it, what I've seen is the s downwind supp racing has declined a bit, or a lot. Yeah, for sure. Like all the guys that were downwind, downwind, standup paddling are now supp foiling or just, prone or they're downwind foiling now. So to me the sport that I was interested in has shifted to foiling, so for me, the foil stuff, it was even in 2019, I was foiling like a lot. And for Malachi, I put my, gave myself a bit of a foil band and Marcus was foiling and training for the foiling and He was like, come on, Jimmy, come on the phone. I'm like, nah man, I just gotta, I just gotta tick this off. I gotta win this race on the standup and I just wanna, I wanna get that done. And yeah, I'm stoked I did that because then it wasn't on for 20 20, 20 21, 20 22, and it's just come back in 2023. I could have been I could have been, still wanting to win it on a standup and, not having it mean for a while. They were talking about maybe doing the the foil event on a Saturday and then the paddle and prone event on the Sunday. If they would do that, would you do try to do both or would you just Only on foiling? Oh, I'd focus on foiling, but like the factors on the day before, I'd do both because I'm over there, so I, and I still have all my gear over there. It's all ready to go. The only thing is the extra cost. The moloka to a race is not a cheap event, and an escort boat is super expensive. And hard to find. That's one of the biggest challenges I think like this year especially. Cuz during the pandemic, a lot of the escort boats got out of the business or they, sold their boats or got into fishing or doing other things and then, yeah. So it's actually gonna be really hard to find escort boats for all the competitors I think. Big time. Yeah, absolutely. So yeah that, I'm lucky enough, I've got the same boat captain and Andrew he actually hit me up. He goes, I got a few people asking you doing mochi cuz people are hitting me up to do their escorting on it. Your first, you won it last year so last time we did it. So you are, you're my first guy and he is like, and he goes, and I hope you're foiling . Cause obviously for a boat it's quicker on a foil. Yeah. You need a fast boat to it, . Yeah, exactly. So yeah. Yeah. I signed up to do it on a wing foil this year, so I'm excited to, to be wing foiling. Yes. It's so cool that they did a wing event too. I assume. The wings should win. Like the wings should be the quickest really. But it'd be interesting to see how they go on the final bit. That up win leg could be pretty, there'd be a bit of tacking going on, and if there's no win, yeah. Going into the finish is gonna be tricky. But for you to, for you guys too, going into the wind with a Yeah, it's the same. Yeah, it's, yeah. And the foil board's gonna be super cheeky yeah. But yeah, last year we had that blue water race where jack hole came in like third overall I think the first two finishers were wing foyers and then he came in third, so he beat a lot of wing foyers on the standup foil board, yeah, pretty fast. Cuz you can go straight down wind versus on a wing, you have to angle more, a little bit angle off. Yeah. Yeah that's a big question. Can you go quick enough over further distance to, to beat the sub guys? We're going more direct I guess, but Yeah, I think you said you did the king of the cut with where there was wingers and standup foyers, a king of the cut race or something. Yeah. I haven't done it when there's wingers because it wasn't on last year and the year before. In 2019, winging wasn't a thing, wasn't a, what, people weren't racing. So the last time I did King of the Cup was 2019 and then Covid hit, so we couldn't get over here. And then when everything opened up last year, end of 2022, the King of the Cup wasn't on anymore. Basically all the volunteers, but they couldn't get enough volunteers together. But have you competed in any doman races that have both wingers and standup foil? I don't think I have actually. Yeah. I don't think I have. Yeah. I haven't competed again or rice against. It'll be interesting to see. Yeah. Who's faster . Yeah. You would think, definitely like with the Wing, you do have an unfair advantage and you can probably use a smaller, faster foil, yeah. But yeah, I think it, I think there's Yeah. A lot of, yeah. Yeah. A lot of animals that go into, I've had the Marcus about this, and he did the race when speaking of the cup when there were wingers and foyers and the wingers smoked them, not only because they were from the start, they were up and going. But smaller foils, they're using small foils. They're using big wings, like big sails and yeah. They're just, , they're moving. Yeah. The wings were quicker, even though they were having to go a little bit further distance. They were faster by, by fair bit, actually, five, 10 minutes I think it was. Okay. That's good to know. Yeah. Cool. So yeah, I think that's gonna be super exciting. We're gonna try to interview some more people that are in that race and yeah, it should be fun to be part of it, the first time they're doing wing foiling too, yeah. So actually, have you done much wing foiling or just more focused on down winding and surf foiling? Yeah, more focused on down winning and surf oiling. But I, I've done the, I guess the stuff the wing that I do is mainly around wave riding. So I'm, and not even heirs. So I'm, I do a few, hes, but I'm not a trickster. Like I don't, I'm I'm not as interested in the big jumps and the flips as I am, like the calves and, the re-entries and the cutbacks and that sort of stuff. So to me winging, winging is like poor man's towing, it's like toe falling cuz you can to toe yourself into the wave and then you just drop it in the back end and you're just surfing like you would anyway. So it's And then talk a little bit about I know you've done like upwind on the wing and then deflate and then just go down one with the wing under your arm or something like that. Or put on your back. Yeah. The wings is, talk a little bit about that. It's such an epic tool for that. So in Sydney especially, we get a lot of days where the wind is in winter we get offshore breezes, so it's like howling like 30 knots offshore. And we can go into sort of harbors or bays or river entrances and we can like big river entrance and we can what we do is we wing up wind, like five ks up wind, which is like almost 10 Ks cuz you have to z and zag up wind.  You attacking. And then I'll I, in what a lot of guys were doing was they were going on onto the shore, deflating their wing on a beach, rolling it up, putting the backpack, and then paddling up. And I was like, why are we doing this? Why don't we just deflate it on the water? So I started deflating on the water wrapping up trail on the backpack. It was a bit wet, bit soggy, but it was still doable. . And then I was like why am I sitting down and doing, why don't I just deflate it whilst en foil? So I deflate it whilst en foil and then hold it under your arm until you stop. And then you've got your paddle on your back knee. You pull that out once you're ready. But yeah, and then I was chatting with mate and I'm like cuz it's this run we do it's in a river and basically there's a national park so you can't drive. It's hard. It's like a bit of a, it's like a two or three K hike to get to the beach that you'd start at. . So instead of going there, we actually just start at the finish point and we wing up wind and then we do our pack down, however you wanna do it. And then we'd go like most of the way back to the finish. But you can go, there's two options you need to pull in to this little bay where the car is, where you can go around this headland and there's like, it's just a peninsula, so it's a sand spit and you can go around the other side so you get like an extra three or four kilometers. So I guess two, three miles of down winding and it's just it's like a kilometer. Upwind back to the beach. And so what I was doing was I was de like doing my deflate, like wing up wind deflate at the top of the run, and then I'd wing all the way down to the bottom of the run and I rigged up this soda stream bottle so I could use press a button and it reinflated the wing whilst I was up on fo. So instead of sitting down and pump, I was actually pumping up the wing. Prior to this, I was pumping up the wing of the water. Yeah. And I'd I sort do it that way. But yeah, the soda stream bottle is pretty sick. So you also don't have to carry that big pumper around, right? Yeah, exactly. Yeah, exactly right. Yeah. But I heard someone say that the carbon dioxide is like not good for your bladder or something like that, that they used to do that with kites and it wasn't good for the bladder or something like that. Have you had any problems, like with your bladders or anything like that from the, I've only done it like three or four times. The soda, I use a soda stream bottle and I just rigged that up. So it's just a big, like a big CO2 canister. And yeah, I'm sure it's not great for it, but it was I still pump up on the water a lot of the time because to set up the Soda Stream bottles is a pretty specific thing, whereas I can just grab my pump and a dry bag and I'm good to go. , whereas the soda stream, gotta, you gotta attach it onto the boom and, have the hose. And it was just a cool it was an idea that Matt made of on Grant Perry and I worked on for a little while and yeah he, he's on a, he's on an E four, so he filmed it all. It was a pretty cool little clip. Yeah, it still has a lot of function, but yeah, the biggest thing that we noticed was when you did the co2 the wing itself got really cold. So the CO2 was a really super cold air. And it like sort frosted the now the outside of the. The canopy or the inflatable edge of the stratt. Yeah. The leading edge was like, freezing around the belt, probably especially, yeah. Yeah, exactly. So I'm not sure how good it is for the long term . I haven't tested it enough times to know, but I've done it four or five or three or four times and it was fine. Prob actually probably four or five times. It didn't it didn't blow anything up. We tested it on land first because we were worried about that. What's gonna happen here? But yeah, it was sweet. It was sweet. Nice. There's I'm sure there'll be like, there's, I feel like there's a bit of a, there's a bit of a potentially a cool market in that, like if you can cuz winging down wind is epic. Yeah. But it takes a bit of wing management. So like I find it easier to downwind with a paddle than I do with a wing. Cause once I have the wing and I'm like letting go of it and it's just, flagged out, it's behind me. , it's all in front of me, I've got, if I change directions, , there's a bit of technique to either, you either swap hands or you've gotta bring it behind you and drop it down behind you and try to, it's there's a bit of, there's a bit of admin to, to keep the wing out of the way and not yes. To be able to go the same lines. Cuz what I find is when I'm wing it, I'm gonna cut across the wind a lot more than I would when I downwind. Even if I've just got flagged out to go straight down wind, the wing wants to blindfold you, essentially. So that's where it came from. The whole deflate thing. I I love the downwind thing, but, and I winging up wind was the free shuttle, but the downwind part, I was like, man, this wing just doesn't get, doesn't get outta the way and back home I'm using a four or five meter wing most of the time when I'm down winding. It'd be easier with a two or a three obviously. it's even easier for you to stay Flighted. . Yeah. What I've been doing for if you're doing, if you're racing downwind, what you can do is just put the wing up over your head and have it almost level so that if you're going faster than the wind, straight down wind it's just of been neutral over your head, so that works pretty well too, but it's, yeah, but it's not really, your sounds get tired. Yeah. Your arms get tired, right? Yeah, not so much cuz you can't really stay in that po you can do that when you're on a good bump and you go really fast, straight down wind. But then once you of come off the bump and you catch the wind again, so you bring the wind, bring it back down, wind, wind back down and stuff like that. But yeah, that makes a lot of sense for like speed going down wind, because you're like, I was thinking too, like the electric pumps are getting pretty good, like battery powered electric pumps. I wonder if you could set up something like that, but then you have they probably can't get wet, so be hard to make that waterproof. So yeah, I've had so many people hit me up and say, oh, you should try this electric pump. And I'm like, yeah, but electric I'm in the water. Like it's going to get wet. If I fall off all of a sudden that's 30, 40 bucks down the drain and electricity and water is something I don't really wanna be too close to. Yeah. Yeahium battery and stuff. Yeah. Yeah. The other, I think even better options, you just get a decent pump. Like electric pumps are great, but like you get good pumps that, like hand pumps instead of the ones we stand on and get hand pumps. Yeah. And you can just pump it up. It doesn't take that long. And a lot of the time I'll just deflate the leading edge and leave the middle strut inflated. So it's just pumping up the leading edge. So it's not the end of the world. And water in a pump is a lot less. It's less worse, it's less bad than water in a electric pump . Yeah. And you can make 'em pretty small to the hand pumps maybe. Yeah. Actually it's cause you definitely don't want something that you have to push against your board or something like that cuz it's like everything's moving around. It's more almost like you want two handles that you can push together or something like that. Yeah. Accordion style pump. That'd be pretty serious. Yeah. Oh, there you go. . Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think, I just think it's all coming. It's all part of the evolution and I think I was probably people think it's a bit, hard to do or whatever, but I promise you any wingers out there who wanna learn a downwind like and downwind like we do on a sap or. it's way easy to learn to daylight your wing than it is to learn to paddle up . I guarantee you. Yeah. There's this guy, Paul, that he wants to do like channel crossings and stuff like that. And like one of the risks is that your paddle breaks, right? So he's thinking as a backup, he's gonna take a wing and a pump with him, so that just paddle breaks or you can't, the, you can, as long as there's wind you can, wing with it, so yeah. I think a better backup plan is the hand paddles. Have you guys seen those? Oh yeah. They just, you can, cause they're much smaller, like a wing and a pump gets pretty heavy. And that's gonna, that's gonna limit your ability to paddle up, which is probably gonna increase the chances of you breaking your paddle Cause the more you're paddling and the more weight you have to paddle. That's the biggest disadvantage of the deflate downwind.  Is that once you wrap it all up and put it in a backpack, The extra weight of the wing, like it's probably maybe five or six kilos. So it's a lot of water weight too, if it's still wet, right? Yeah, it's a lot of water weight and so I've actually done some of my fastest ever like downwind runs when I've had the wing in my backpack because the extra weight, I can just go faster, but it's way harder to get up. Oh, that, that's an interesting point actually. And I wanted to talk about that as well. And cuz Dave Klo also says in the down windows, when he is going fast, he likes a little bit heavier board just for better, more momentum and stability and more. Yeah. And I found that too actually, that sometimes weight is a good thing and lot of people I talk to is no weight is never good. You just wanted the lightest gear possible, you and it totally depends, like in my experience that's not really true. But what, how do you feel about weight in the board and the foil and so on? Like you said, like wearing weight on your back actually helps with going faster. Yeah, no big time. So the only thing is so Dave, for example, if it's only 10 knots, Dave being heavier compared to me will have a harder time getting up than I will if we're on the exact same foil. If Dave gets up and then, so let's change it up. So let's say it's a really windy day and Dave and I are on the same foil, the same setup, exactly the same, but he's heavier. Once we're up on foil, he should be faster. Ju just based on, and this is not taking into account how you read a bump or how you do all that, and you're pumping ability or any of that. But just on the, if you were going in a straight line together then, and you're next to each other on the exact same bump, Dave should be able to go faster than I can in big conditions, but in smaller conditions on the same foil. If he's slightly under foil, I'm just right, then I'm gonna go quicker. So the weight is a big thing and it's a hard thing to plan for because look, you're not gonna, you're not know for mochi, Oahu, the start of the race is generally a lot lighter than it is at the, in the middle. . So if I'm to, if I'm to wait my board for the start of the race, I'm gonna have a harder time to paddle up. But if I can get up with that heavier board, it's gonna be better for me in the middle. . But the other thing with Malachi is you got the off wind at the end. So you, I think for a race like Malachi where there's lots of different conditions, there's definitely an advantage for the lighter guys and lighter equipment, but not in the middle of the channel, just for the beginning and end. Yeah. Because for the middle of the channel, a big guy can probably make up a lot of ground on the guys that are smaller, but they've gotta be able to get up early and then foil as far as they can, as close they can to the finish. So it's interesting, there's a few things going on fo I can't wait to get into this foil racing because I've done a bunch of downwind fall races here in Australia, but mainly against surf skis in ri canoes and a few mates who are learning. I have, the best race I've had has been over here in Western Australia against the all the WA crew and Marcus and then Z Westwood, but there was heaps of seaweed, so it was like, it was who could foil through the seaweed best  and bit of a like, it it was like a obstacle course, but yeah, I'm looking forward to getting outta Hawaii and getting some. Some good rising and good conditions for sure. Should be fun. Yeah. Not too much seaweed in Hawaii, but yeah, sometimes I've noticed like just a little tiny thing that stuck on your foot makes a big difference in your speed, so huge. Yeah. Yeah, I was just thinking the way too, like I remember, back in the windsurf racing days, like slalom racing and stuff guys would wear like weighted jackets, like weighted life jackets so they can hold a bigger w sale basically, yeah. So that's another interesting thing, like yeah, where you wouldn't think that it doesn't really make sense, but when you're using he heavy equipment sometimes it's wow, this is nice, yeah. Anyway, but uh, you've seen the, to the to foil guys do it a bunch too lids on a big weighted heavy board putting lead, lead weights on their boards and stuff like that. Yeah. And that just means they can get away with a Basically going faster with the same foil, because I think especially in the toe falling and stuff, we're just in the, tip of the iceberg. There's a whole bunch of stuff that's gonna be like, basically I think toe oil is gonna be a lot smaller than what they are, so you shouldn't have to weight it up. You should just be able to use a smaller foil. But at the moment, the foils have too much lift, and we've gotta weight our gear up to make them work. So it's, I just think the fo they aren't enough. There aren't enough iterations of it yet.   I think it's similar to also, it's similar kind of to having a longer fuselage. It's less pitch sensitive. So if you have a heavier board, it balances out that pitch sensitivity, yeah. True. Lightboard will just, Harder to control the pitch and the heavier board just has so much momentum that you don't have to make as many adjustments, it's like more comfortable ride in a way, absolutely. Absolutely. But there, I think there's something to it, I, I would say lighter is not always better. That's what some people think, but it's not true. Yeah. I don't, I feel like for what most of us are using, like in, in smaller waves the lighter stuff is epic. Cuz a light set up is gonna be really reactive. . But when you start to get too much power and too much speed and that's when you want the heavy stuff, that's when you wanna dull everything down. Yeah. It's like having a nicer suspension or something, like a smoother, smoother ride or something like that. I don't know. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. For sure. All right let's talk a little bit more about equipment, like the foils. What have you learned from riding all these different foils and and what, now you're developing the quote foils, like what, what kind of things are you trying to put together and what, I guess when you're down with foiling, you're always trying to create a foil that's easy to pump up on and then fast and easy to control at the maximum speed or, has a high top end speed. So how do you do that? What's, how do you achieve that compromise? Yeah, so I guess if we talk about the range, like we've got our, like the planned range for co, the planned range for code foils is a race wing, which is obviously gonna be super as high aspect as we can get it because we want to be going, be able to go really slow and really fast. with the one foil, like for a race like mochi, you start in pretty much, no bumps. It's like howling offshore, but it's, there's no fetch in the middle. So at the beginning you need that foil that can paddle up easily, and then in the middle you wanna fall. That can go fast cause you're out in the middle of the ocean. There's a lot of stuff going on. And then at the end of the race, you've got an upwind pump. So like you need a foil that can pretty much do it all. And that's what we see a race wing is, I, it's something that it doesn't necessarily we don't want it to turn really well. Like we prefer to add another, two kilometers on the low end and two kilometers on the top end, rather than have it be able to do really nice roundhouse

When Jason came to the London studio back in November 2022 the market Cap was then £2 million, under 2p and he gave a warning to the markets that Marula Mining was making progress. What no one expect was the rapid progress the company would make in such a short space of time. We spoke to him in January and momentum was gathering for the push into 2023. Yesterday we had the pleasure to talk to Jason in the London studio, if anything he is pushing on and has high expectations for the company, and shareholder value moving into 2023. Recently the company announced its intention to seek a listing of Marula's ordinary shares on the London Stock Exchange's AIM market (“AIM”) (“Listing”), subject to the preparation and acceptance of all the requisite documentation and regulatory approvals. Here is the format of the interview in no particular order: Since we last spoke Marula has completed more deals, can you give us a quick overview? Are you going to build – will we see further growth in the portfolio moving forward this year? The SP has gone on what, 3/4 bagger since our interview in Nov, you did call it back then, Jason, you must be a happy man. With your market cap growing expeditiously, how do you see the momentum of the company over 2023? You look at the dual list shortly onto AIM, what is the current situation with the company preparations? We have been watching your Twitter feed, a bit cold in old blighty this time of year…

Join Rick and Vicky as they explore new products and trending ingredients to hit the Oborne Health Supplies warehouse shelves this month.  You'll hear Rick talk about what helped with his COVID brain fog and upset belly.  He will also talk about new chewable magnesium tablets and some new amino acids to keep an  eye out for.  Vicky will delve into research on some exciting ingredients Inavea Acacia, Teacrine as well as Marula and Mongongo oils.  Be informed - learn how to help customers who come in wanting to know more about these interesting ingredients and how they can be best used.  Sit back and relax.  Use the chapter markers below to skip to your area of interest. Chapter Markers01:25 - Roogenic Gut Restore05:12 - Melrose New product lineup - focus on Gut Support Blend10:00 - Herbs Of Gold Chewable Magnesium Raspberry Flavour12:21 - Locako New Apple Keto product with Teacrine and BHB16:41 - Tonika NAC Elderberry + new sized amino acids from Health Wise22:52 - REGROW Hydration Hair Mask - Marula and Mongongo Oils---*This video is the property of Oborne Health Supplies and is intended only for educational purposes only.  Re-distribution and/or modification of this video to recipients other than Approved Oborne Health Supplies is strictly prohibited.  Oborne Health Supplies does not supply at retail to the public.Stay informed, follow us on socials and subscribe to our YouTube Channel. Instagram: @obornehealthFacebook: @obornehealthYouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFEYFZfOKEyxU48TeAGD-Kg0mNIyUEoTGRick Hay & Vicky Tsoleridis --DISCLAIMER: All information provided via The Health Chat is for educational and informational purposes only. The information provided is not, nor is it intended to be, a substitute for independent professional advice. Please seek the advice of a qualified health care professional in the event something you learn here raises questions or concerns regarding your health. Oborne Health Supplies does not supply to the general public. Thank you.

The last time we had Jason in the London studio was back in November 2022 and he did not hold back for sure. The market Cap was then £2 million, and the shares have gone north since then, what a cracking couple of months. We said then that Marula Mining PLC has an experienced team with a proven track record across the entire project development pipeline. Collectively, they present an in-depth understanding of the mining and exploration sector. What we did not expect was the rapid progress the company would make in such a short space of time. The company should be putting out a formal update next week RNS to confirm work is underway to trade on the AIM this first quarter. Thank you to Jason for chatting with us from Kenya, and it looks like 2023 is going to be an explosive ride for holders. Marula Mining (AQSE: MARU) an African-focused mining and development company, is pleased to update the market and shareholders on mineral processing activities at the Blesberg Lithium and Tantalum Mine in South Africa (the “Blesberg Project” or “Blesberg”) where initial deliveries of 1,000 tonnes of high-grade ‘run-of-mine' lithium ore under the US$5 million Lithium Prepayment Facility (“Prepayment Facility”), that was announced 27 October 2022,  are due to commence shortly. https://www.share-talk.com/marula-mining-plc-aqsemaru-chief-executive-officer-jason-brewer-talking-to-share-talk/

Alan Green, CEO of Brand Communications talks about 2022 & the outlook for 2023 plus covers the following companies: Poolbeg Pharma #POLB, Georgia Capital #CGEO & Marula Mining #MARU

Gespenst, Piratenschatz und Gottfried Kramer: die besten Zutaten für ein spannendes Die drei ??? Abenteuer. Meeresbiologe Andreas Fröhlich trampt mit Victor Hugenay verkatert durch Kapstadt – dank mächtig viel Marula, the forbidden fruit of the elephant tree. Kai Schwind, heute im gelben Regenmantel, hat zwar panische Angst vor dem Höhlentauchen, lauscht dafür aber umso lieber interessiert dem Gemeinschaftsanschluss. Und beide Hörspielbesprecher verraten beim Analysieren von „Die drei ??? und die Geisterinsel“, wie die ultimative Erfolgsformel der Kultreihe lautet. Außerdem wird nach über 40 Jahren endlich das Ende einer Leine erklärt, der Datenschutz war damals total egal und in dieser Männerfolge hat nur eine einzige Frau einen kurzen Cameoauftritt. Bleibt die Frage: Ist Justus eigentlich erkältet?? Ändert noch schnell Euren WhatsApp-Statusspruch in „Ich lebe vom Fischen und von der Suche nach Golddublonen“ und los geht´s mit dem Bobcast! Ihr habt Fragen, Wünsche oder Anregungen? Dann schickt einfach eine E-Mail an: bobcast@dreifragezeichen.de „Haschimitenfürst – Der Bobcast“ ist ein Podcast von EUROPA, a division of Sony Music Entertainment Germany GmbHIdee: Andreas Fröhlich/ Regie & Konzeption: Ralf Podszus/ Moderation: Kai Schwind und Andreas Fröhlich/ Titelmusik: Jan-Friedrich Conrad/ Redaktion: Jens Nimmerrichter/ Produktion: Carina Schwarz/ Management & Koordination: Nina Schulze Pellengahr/ Redaktion Sony: Maike Müller/ Covermotiv: Aiga Rasch (Illustrationen), Tom Presting (Gestaltung), Christian Hartman, Haakon Dueland (Fotos)/ Eine Produktion von Podever Wir freuen uns über Fragen, Wünsche oder Anregungen! Bitte per mail an an: bobcast@dreifragezeichen.de Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, we chat with Jason Brewer, CEO of Marula Mining. An African-focused mining investment company, exploring and discovering battery metals in East, Central and Southern Africa. A mine engineer by trade, Jason has over 25 years of experience in international mining, financial markets and investment banking and has been responsible for structuring and arranging corporate and project financing facilities for mining and exploration companies with a particular focus on projects in Africa. He talks about Marula Mining and what they are looking to achieve in the battery sector in Africa including their Blesberg mine, their potential graphite mine and copper development in Tanzania and their rare earths project in Zambia. KEY TAKEAWAYS Marula Mining has projects in South Africa, Zambia, and Tanzania. Their portfolio includes Lithium, Tantalum, Rare Earths, phosphates They are planning to move into graphite, copper, and other battery products. For new projects, the focus is on operations that can be put into production within a year. They aim to get returns for shareholders fast. Blesberg has a lot of historical mining for other materials. Much of the waste generated over the past 80 years has processable spodumene in it. The first sales of lithium out of Blesberg are expected in Jan 2023. Their customers have provided the funding they needed to do this. They are exploring the idea of wind power for the mine. Marula has found surface copper deposits at their Zambia project. In Tanzania, they have good copper results. Their Zambian rare earths project is already JORC compliant. BEST MOMENT ´ We're looking at projects, which we feel we can get into production within a six to 12-month period. ´ ´ We're are ahead of schedule of where I thought we would be.'   EPISODE RESOURCES LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-brewer-771006207/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/JB_MiningAfrica Twitter Marula PLC: https://twitter.com/MarulaPlc     VALUABLE RESOURCES mailto:rob@mining-international.org https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ http://www.mining-international.org https://twitter.com/MiningConsult https://www.facebook.com/MiningInternational.org https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC69dGPS29lmakv-D7LWJg_Q?guided_help_flow=3     ABOUT THE HOST Rob Tyson is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specialising in all areas of mining across the globe from first-world to third-world countries from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. We source, headhunt, and discover new and top talent through a targeted approach and search methodology and have a proven track record in sourcing and positioning exceptional candidates into our clients' organisations in any mining discipline or level. Mining International provides a transparent, informative, and trusted consultancy service to our candidates and clients to help them develop their careers and business goals and objectives in this ever-changing marketplace. CONTACT METHOD rob@mining-international.org https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/   Podcast Description Rob Tyson is an established recruiter in the mining and quarrying sector and decided to produce the “Dig Deep” The Mining Podcast to provide valuable and informative content around the mining industry. He has a passion and desire to promote the industry and the podcast aims to offer the mining community an insight into people's experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry tSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week Ashley is joined by her friend Hannah to talk about Asian Elephant conflicts in Asia - why was an elephant nicknamed Osama Bin Laden? Do Asian Elephants really commit B&Es to get alcohol? How do people in India live peacefully among Asian Elephants? We answer those questions and more in Episode 40. Support the show by shopping at www.getoutalivepodcast.com/shopFollow us on Instagram,  Facebook, (finally) Tiktok, check out our website GetOutAlivePodcast.com and join us on Patreon!You can find Ashley @TheAngryOlogist on Twitter, and Hannah @hannahgorton97 on Twitter and Tiktok @hannahgortStudies mentioned in episode:Patterns and determinants of elephant attacks on humans in Nepal by Ram et al.Human-Elephant Conflict: A Review of Current Management Strategies and Future Directions by Shaffer et al.Myth, Marula and Elephant: An Assessment of Voluntary Ethanol Intoxication of the African Elephant... by Morris et al.Genetic evidence of widespread variation in ethanol metabolism among mammals: revisiting the 'myth' of natural intoxication by Janiak et al.Disclaimer: This is not professional advice; Follow at your own risk.Support the show

Marula Mining PLC (AQSE:MARU) chief executive Jason Brewer and chairman Rich Lloyd speak to Proactive about Marula's various battery projects across south and eastern Africa. Marula, previously known as All Star Minerals, has three key projects on the go, he says, the most exciting of which is the Blesburg mine in Northern Cape, South Africa, which is home to one of the largest hard rock lithium deposits in the region. He expects production from the site to begin early next year. Lloyd adds that the company is planning to list on AIM in the first quarter of 2023 and has recently secured sufficient funding to give Marula the ability to "crack on and move forward" with its portfolio of projects. #marulamining #aquis #proactiveinvestors

Jason flying visit to London from Africa this weekend was a chance too good not to miss, and he kindly agreed to come into the London studio to give this exclusive interview. Marula Mining PLC has an experienced team with a proven track record across the entire project development pipeline. Collectively, they present an in-depth understanding of the mining and exploration sector. https://www.share-talk.com/marula-mining-plc-chief-executive-officer-jason-brewer-talking-to-share-talk/

Platinum group metals (PGMs) mining and marketing company Impala Platinum (Implats) on Friday expressed determination to maximise the tailwinds of strong prevailing PGM prices and deliver its guided business performance for the benefit of all stakeholders. Six-element (6E) concentrate volumes were a 2% higher 824 000 oz in the three months to the end of September made up of unchanged managed volumes of 593 000 oz, 2% higher joint venture production to 141 000 oz, and 14% higher third-party receipts of 91 000 oz. Aligned with scheduled processing maintenance, gross 6E refined and saleable production volumes declined by 5% to 705 000 oz, while 6E sales volumes of 708 000 oz were largely unchanged from those in the prior comparable period. Electricity load curtailment by power utility Eskom necessitated adjustments to hoisting, concentrating and smelting rates, and socio-economic pressures were compounded by rising global inflation and local currency depreciation. But notwithstanding the complex operating environment, Implats CEO Nico Muller reported good progress across the company's suite of mining and processing projects, with revenue expected to remain robust and discussions with core customers confirming expectations of rising demand for key products over the coming year. Guidance parameters for the financial year to the end of June have been maintained amid group unit costs and capital expenditure remaining vulnerable to sustained rand depreciation. “We are determined to maximise the tailwinds of strong prevailing PGM prices and deliver our guided business performance in FY2023, for the benefit of all our stakeholders,” Muller stated in a release to Mining Weekly. PRODUCTION Gross tonnes milled at managed operations improved to 5.85-million tonnes on volume gains at Impala Rustenburg and Zimplats, stable production at Marula, and marginally lower mill throughput at Impala Canada. Milled grade declined marginally to 3.61 g/t, resulting in unchanged 6E concentrate production of 593 000 oz at managed operations. Concentrate production from the Mimosa and Two Rivers joint ventures improved by 2% to 141 000 oz, while third-party 6E concentrate deliveries to Impala Refining Service rose by 14% to 91 000 oz. Consequently, Group 6E-in-concentrate production increased by 2% to 824 000 oz. Refined 6E production, which includes saleable ounces from Impala Canada, was impacted by scheduled processing maintenance and ongoing power disruptions in South Africa and declined by 5% to 705 000 oz. The scheduled maintenance was successfully completed in July and August, with smelting rates impacted by the increased frequency and severity of load curtailment in September. Refined production of platinum declined by 4% and palladium by 3%, with a more notable reduction in refined volumes of rhodium and other minor PGMs. This timing difference was directly owing to the longer duration of the refining process for these precious metals and the impact thereon of the maintenance programme during the period. IMPALA RUSTENBURG Milled production at Impala Rustenburg increased by 2% to 2.65-million tonnes, but milled head grade declined by 4% to 3.85 g/t owing to changes in the ore mix across the shaft complex. As a result, 6E-in-concentrate production declined by 2% to 310 000 oz. Production momentum at Impala Rustenburg was impacted by unprotected industrial action among the contractor workforce at the end of FY2022 and again in September 2022 when a two-day dispute arose with permanent workers as a result of the individual tax status of certain permanent employees, which impacted the quantum of their employee share ownership trust payouts. Production was further impacted by Eskom loadshedding during the reporting period and safety stoppages following the fatality at 16 Shaft. Refined 6E production of 300 000 oz was 3% higher during the quarter, up from 292 000 oz in the prior comparable period. ZIMPLATS Zimplats' tonnes milled increased by 3% to 1.7...

Platinum group metals mining and marketing company Implats is planning to introduce 520 MW of renewable power as part of an ambition to reduce its carbon footprint by 30% by 2030 and become carbon neutral in 2050. The current carbon generation of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange-listed company is about 3.3-million tons of carbon a year, which it aims to reduce to 2.2-million tons, a saving of 1.1-million tons. Of that, its aspiration is to reduce its carbon footprint in South Africa by 780 000 t and its carbon footprint in Zimbabwe by 280 000 t. “The carbon is primarily generated through carbon-fueled energy consumption. When we project our total energy demand in 2030, it amounts to around 710 MW of power. To effect the saving, we have to install around 520 MW of renewable energy,” Implats CEO Nico Muller said in response to Mining Weekly. That has been divided into different projects. In Zimbabwe, the group is aiming to produce 185 MW of renewable energy and Zimplats CEO Alex Mhembere is already executing Phase 1, which is 35 MW of solar photovoltaic power. In Rustenburg, the aspiration is to generate 290 MW of renewable energy, 170 MW of it solar and 120 MW the subject of a wheeling arrangement. “This also then provides us with an opportunity to collaborate with the local communities in order to get localisation off the ground in the North West province,” said Muller. The 290 MW would, Muller said, be made up of several individual projects, typically aimed at supporting mine shafts that have lives sufficient to support a renewable energy project ­– or shafts close to smelters, so that power supply can be rerouted to smelters with the least effort in the event of shaft closure. At the Marula mine, the generation of 30 MW of renewable energy is envisaged, also in the form of solar power. At Springs, the aim is to receive 15 MW of renewable energy as part of a wheeling arrangement as Implats has insufficient property in Springs to erect a solar or wind project. “All of these projects have been scheduled to culminate in 520 MW by 2030 but I do not have a conclusive answer in terms of the capital cost or the potential that will be generated by these projects, which are mostly in the study phase. “As soon as we conclude the studies, we will start reporting back on expected financial returns and benefits. “The only areas where we'll probably be an owner-operator of the installations is probably in Zimbabwe. Generally, I think we'll probably enter into an offtake agreement with an independent provider. Again, the outcome of the studies will determine the most efficient outcome, but that's generally how I see it working,” Muller added.

Platinum group metals (PGM) company Implats, which generated free cash flow of R28.8-billion in the 12 months to June 30, said on Thursday that it had allocated R4.3-billion over the next five years to energy security and decarbonisation. Gross profit totalled R41.3-billion at a gross margin of 35% with earnings before interest tax depreciation and amortisation (Ebitda) of R53.4bn at an Ebitda margin of 45%. The Johannesburg Stock Exchange-listed company, headed by CEO Nico Muller, declared a final dividend of 1 050 c a share, bringing the total dividend for the 2022 financial year to 1 575c a share. The company closed the period debt free and with net cash of R26.5-billion excluding leases. A suite of organic growth projects have been advanced and value-accretive acquisitive growth pursued amid rising input costs, constrained supply chains and labour market tightness particularly in Canada, the impacts of which were compounded by extended safety stoppages, intermittent power supply and periods of community unrest. Implats is committed to a five-year, R50-billion capital investment programme to extend life-of-mine development at several of its operations, increase beneficiation capacity, strengthen energy security and ensure the group meets its decarbonisation targets. Of this capital investment, R9-billion is earmarked to expand its South African and Zimbabwean smelting and refining facilities. In addition, around R8-billion will be invested across managed and joint venture South African mining operations over the next few years to extend life-of-mine at producing mines, secure meaningful employment and entrench South Africa's status as a stable and sustainable global PGM producer, to support enduring benefits for all stakeholders. Added to several other life-of-mine extension projects at the Impala Rustenburg operation, Implats is confident of sustaining and growing total refined six element (6E) PGM supply from its southern African assets over the next decade. Projects under study and in implementation at integrated processing assets will benefit the Southern African region's production, reduce the group's processing environmental footprint, and directly increase local beneficiation, positioning the region more competitively as a global mine-to-market PGM producer. Regarding the R4.3-billion allocated to ensure each operation has renewable energy in the mix to meet decarbonisation targets and strengthen energy security, Impala Canada is already 95% powered by renewable hydropower (5% natural gas), and Zimplats' energy mix is 50:50 thermal to renewable hydropower. Zimplats has obtained a 185 MW power generation license, with the first phase of a solar photovoltaic (PV) project (35 MW, $37-million in progress. This is the first large-scale project towards meeting the short-term (2030) decarbonisation target of a 30% reduction against the 2019 baseline, and it supports Implats' stated ambition of achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. In addition, several studies are underway — 33 MW of solar PV generation is at feasibility stage at Marula, and pre-feasibility studies were completed at Impala Rustenburg and Impala Refineries — to establish additional renewable energy capacity of around 300 MW by 2030, with additional capacity possible. These studies are conducted in parallel to Implats' programme to purchase electricity from independent power producers. PROPOSED RBPLAT ACQUISITION In November 2021, the proposed acquisition of Royal Bafokeng Platinum (RBPlat) was launched, a transaction with the potential to transform the outlook of its key Western Limb assets at Impala Rustenburg, while ensuring long-term sustainable PGM production and continued economic benefits for the greater Rustenburg area and its communities. Implats is pursuing the conclusion of the offer process associated with its proposed acquisition of RBPlat, with a key focus on securing outstanding regulatory approval from the Competition Tribunal. Near-term oper...

Aquesta setmana comencem amb el nou disc de Leyla McCalla que fa recerca en la música criolla d'Haití, seguim amb la descoberta de la Taranta d'Antonio Castrignanò, les percusions afrocubanes de Gabriele Poso, celebrem els 70 anys de David Byrne amb Talking Heads i recomanem concerts de salsa a Barcelona amb Papa Orbe al Cafè Marula.

The gross refined production of platinum group metals (PGM) mining company Implats declined by 6% to 2.35-million ounces in the nine months to March 31, when sales volumes of 2.38-million ounces were 4% lower than the prior comparable period. “The operating landscape continues to be challenging,” Implats CEO Nico Muller stated in a release on Friday. The JSE-listed company head cited escalating geopolitical conflict, rampant inflation, constrained supply chains and a tight labour market as compounding the production impact of extended safety stoppages and the operating protocols required to manage Covid-19. But improved organisational flexibility enabled Implats to withstand considerable headwinds, which Muller described as being “a credit to our people, who continue to demonstrate remarkable adaptability, resilience and innovation”. Though volatile, PGM pricing has remained particularly robust. “We continue to experience strong demand for our primary products from our customer base, despite the demand impact of constrained auto supply chains and the increasingly uncertain outlook for global growth,” said Muller. Free cash flow generation during the period has kept the balance sheet strong and flexible. Focus for the remaining months of Implats' financial year to end June would, Muller said, include embedding operational stability in a period where the risk of unplanned interruptions had increased. “In the face of an increasingly complex and variable operating context, it is critical that we continue working closely with our key stakeholders, in a constructive and positive way, to ensure safe and profitable production – through which we can deliver value to all our stakeholders.” Two fatalities were recorded in the third quarter, despite a 24.3% improvement in the reported lost-time injury frequency rate. Production in the nine-month period to March 31 was negatively impacted by several operational challenges across the group. A notable impact on production was recorded after extended safety stoppages, intermittent industrial action and power supply interruptions at Impala Rustenburg, and supply chain and labour availability constraints at Impala Canada. Tonnes milled from managed operations declined by 4% to 16.66-million tonnes, while the average six-element (6E) mill grade declined by 1% to 3.60g/t. The 4% decrease in mine-to-market 6E concentrate production to 2.11 million ounces reflected the impact of lower contributions from Impala Rustenburg, Impala Canada and Mimosa, which offset the benefit of stable volumes from Zimplats and Two Rivers, and a record result at Marula. Received 6E third-party and toll material in concentrate of 277 000 oz was stable relative to the prior comparable period and, in total, gross 6E concentrate production decreased 3% to 2.38-million ounces. Refined 6E production in the prior comparable period benefitted from increased processing availability due to the timing of annual processing maintenance. In the period under review, scheduled maintenance in the first quarter, together with lower concentrate production and the full rebuild required at the Number 3 furnace in Rustenburg, resulted in the 6% decline of total gross refined 6E production to the level of 2.35-million ounces. Changes in concentrate feeds and individual metal pipelines resulted in a decline in minor PGM production, while refined nickel volumes increased by 4%. Impala Rustenburg's refined 6E production declined by 16% to 860 000 oz ounces, while refined volumes at Impala Refining Services (IRS) increased by 2% to 1.32-million ounces. The 4% 6E sales volumes decrease to 2.38-million ounces benefitted from the destocking of iridium and ruthenium as demand and pricing strengthened during the nine-month period. Marula delivered record production in the nine months, with tonnes milled up 9% to 1.51-million tonnes, milled 6E head grade 3% higher at 4.51g/t and 6E concentrate production increasing by 9% to 197 000 ounces. Impala C...

Platinum group metals (PGMs) mining and marketing company Impala Platinum (Implats) affirmed at the South African Investment Conference on Thursday that it would commit close to R50-billion to its Southern African capital investment programme over the next five years. The investment capital would be targeted at the group's mining and processing assets, across stay-in-business operations and new growth projects, the JSE-listed platinum major, headed by CEO Nico Muller, stated. “Southern Africa is the world's largest source of primary PGMs supply, and Implats' investment in increased beneficiation capacity and extended life-of mine (LoM) development at several of our operations will position the country more competitively as a global mine-to-market PGM producer,” Muller said in a release to Mining Weekly. Implats has committed up to R12-billion over the next five years to expand its South African and Zimbabwean smelting and refining facilities, which would, it said, benefit the region's production, reduce its environmental beneficiation capacity footprint, and bolster increased local beneficiation. An initial $521-million (R8.2-billion) would be invested in the expansion of existing Zimbabwean smelting capacity and the construction of a sulphur dioxide abatement plant to mitigate air quality impacts. Access to hydropower would be supplemented by electricity provided by a 35 MW solar plant, which would be expanded to 185 MW in a phased approach. This would improve the environmental footprint of the Zimbabwean smelting facilities. This expansion will accommodate an additional 600 000 oz of six element (6E) PGM ounces a year, which post-smelting would be transported to Implats' South African processing facilities for further refining and in support of local beneficiation. Muller said that this investment would benefit South Africa by opening up additional smelting capacity at Implats' South African facilities to accommodate new production growth opportunities in South Africa. The extra smelting capacity would service new Implats projects and provide additional treatment capacity for third-party customer requirements. In addition, the increased concentrate production from Implats' Zimbabwean operations would be brought to South Africa to refine at the group's Springs refineries, in Gauteng, thus contributing to South Africa's beneficiation of precious metals. Moreover, Implats would invest a further R4.4-billion into improving its South African processing facilities. Some R500-million, the release stated, had already been approved to expand treatment capacity by 10% in the medium term at its base metal refining facilities in Springs. In addition, feasibility studies into further capacity expansions at Implats' South African base and precious metals refineries were well advanced. LIFE-OF-MINE EXTENSIONS TO SUPPORT ENDURING BENEFITS FOR ALL STAKEHOLDERS Implats also confirmed that it would invest more than R8-billion across its South African mining operations over the next few years – including attributable capital at its joint venture. This investment would extend the LoM at existing producing mines and secure employment, entrenching South Africa's status as a stable and sustainable global PGMs producer and supporting enduring benefits for all Implats' stakeholders. In partnership with African Rainbow Minerals, Implats had committed R5.7-billion to the construction of a new Merensky project at the Two Rivers' Platinum Mine. Implats has a 46% stake in Two Rivers, but 100% of the 180 000 oz of the 6E PGM project's production will be treated through the groups' smelting and refining facilities. A R5.1-billion investment at Implats' Marula mine will increase the operation's LoM by about 17 years and expand capacity by 40 000 6E PGM ounces a year. Together, these projects will increase local beneficiation by about 220 000 6E PGM ounces a year from 2028 onwards. Together with several other LoM extension projects at the group's Impala Ru...

In episode 261, Kestrel welcomes Marula Tsagkari, a degrowth advocate and PhD candidate at the University of Barcelona in the Department of Economics, to the show. Marula's work focuses on energy communities, energy self-sufficiency, and energy democracy. "Degrowth is not about austerity, it's not about living in a primitive way in a cave — nothing like that. And of course degrowth is not COVID-19 lockdown. It's about happiness, it's about wellbeing, it's about living happy with less things. And what real happiness is for each and every one of us — I think I will leave it up to all of you to decide, what real happiness means for you." -Marula For many people, a degrowth world is a utopia – and to some, that means it's totally unrealistic. Yet to others, it means we can strive to reconstruct a world with many of these ideals at the core of how we exist, and while it may take time, it is possible. This week's guest is a degrowth advocate and also a lover of fashion. Many may instantly think that the two cannot coexist.  Even other degrowth advocates in our guest's field have in a sense turned their noses up at her, scoffing at the idea of degrowth and fashion coinciding. At one event that she organized, a fellow degrowther said, “there will be no high heels in a degrowth world.”  No high heels? Really? For our guest – high heels are totally welcome in a degrowth world. As she reminds us, high heels don't have to be made in a fast fashion way – they could be a form of art and if someone wants to wear high heels and they feel good in them, they should be able to wear them. As our guest reminds us, there's a misconception that the fashion industry and fashion art are synonymous – but she definitely doesn't buy into that. Quotes & links from the conversation: “Degrowth means the abolition of economic growth as the main goal of our society … in other words, it means liberating ourselves from the idea of growth that mistakenly, we have made the religion, the dogma, of our societies.” (8:38) -Marula “We cannot discuss climate change without discussing capitalism, and we cannot discuss degrowth without discussing alternatives to capitalism and social transformation.” (9:08) -Marula “Scale can be different for everyone, but I think for me, what we need to do is move to a lower scale, so start talking more about the local level, about the community level. We don't need all of us to have access to the same clothes at the same time. We don't need 25 different fashion seasons. I think that what we need to do is actually to descale, go lower, and start supporting our local store, our local designer, and understand that there's no way that a local designer can produce of course this amount of clothes at the same time frame that a bigger company was doing. I don't know, we expect a writer to write 2 books during their own life, but we expect a designer to produce 25 different seasons in one year. So, I think we need to scale down a bit our expectations and start focusing more on our community level, on our local level.” (26:10) -Marula “Rethinking Fashion: A Confession Of A Degrowth Advocate”, article by Marula on Resilience I CAN MAKE SHOES, IG account that teaches you how to make shoes (Kestrel mentions it) “Why Degrowth Is The Only Responsible Way Forward”, article coauthored by Marula on Open Democracy Research & Degrowth (R&D) Organization Explore more of Marula's work here > Follow Marula on Twitter >

Martin Kingston, leader of the economic intervention work group at Business for South Africa on the sector's preparation for COVID19's fourth wave. As the country continues to battle with load-shedding, big retailers such as Shoprite have responded by using renewable energy to power their businesses. Sanjeev Raghubir, sustainability manager at Shoprite Group discusses how they aim to electrify 25% of their operations with renewable energy. For Friday File, Monique Spaltman , formulation specialist at Lulu & Marula discusses their natural and ethically skin products See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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We have one of our favourite returning guests on the podcast today, entrepreneur and practicing MD Molly Maloof, who is back this time going straight to the heart of health and happiness; Love, sex, relationships, and the harmonious intersection of medicine and love. One of the many reasons we love the work of Dr. Molly is she's all about maximising potential and better function within the human body. Evolving in her practice and true to form with her ever-innovative mind, Dr. Molly's work has recently taken a more focused move into the space of relationships and how the quality of our close relationships significantly determines our long-term health. Healthy relationships help us cope better and defuse the external stresses of life; So why not focus on improving relationships? Inspired by years of experience and research in psychedelics, the neurobiology of love, and drug-assisted therapy, Dr. Molly is developing a company that aims to improve relationships and strengthen bonds through drug-assisted therapy. A complete paradigm shift in the way we view modern medicine and an upgrade to the human condition and relationships. As always with Mason and Dr. Molly, this episode is energised and thought-provoking. They explore the topics of psychedelic-assisted therapies, sexual dysfunction and the root causes of relationship problems, the history of MDMA and couples therapy, where modern medicine is falling short, and so much more. Tune in for good convo and sovereign health.   "I think technology is where we see these bonds decay. We're seeing people give up their marriages, we're seeing people walk away from long-term relationships, and we're seeing families and children affected. One of the most adverse childhood experiences a kid will have is a divorce. Why are we not looking at these fundamental facets of society and saying, gosh, why can't we do better?" And maybe there's a way we can do better that's ethical, honourable, that's scientifically sound, and will leave people better than we found them".   - Dr. Molly Maloof     Mason and Molly discuss:   Natural Aphrodisiacs. Entactogens (empathogens) The psychedelic movement. Psychedelic assisted therapy. Combatting stress through love. Relationships, community, and happiness. How relationships affect long-term health. Exploring root trauma and healing sexuality. Technology and the decay of relationships. Sexual dysfunction and relationship problems. Dopamine, Norepinephrine, Oxytocin, and Serotonin.   Who is Molly Maloof? Dr. Molly Maloof's goal is to maximise human potential by dramatically extending the human healthspan through medical technology, scientific wellness, and educational media. Her fascination with innovation has transformed her private medical practice, focused on providing health optimisation and personalised medicine to San Francisco & Silicon Valley investors, executives, and entrepreneurs. Molly's iterative programs take the quantified self to the extreme through comprehensive testing of clinical chemistry, metabolomics, microbiome, biometrics, and genomic markers.   CLICK HERE TO LISTEN ON APPLE PODCAST    Resources: Cordyceps Deer Antler Molly's Twitter   Molly's Linkedin  Molly's Website Molly's Facebook Molly's Instagram  Psychedelic News Hour with Dr Molly Maloof Maximising Your Human Potential with Dr. Molly Maloof (EP#47) Spiritual Awakening and Biohacking with Dr. Molly Maloof (EP#108)   Q: How Can I Support The SuperFeast Podcast? A: Tell all your friends and family and share online! We'd also love it if you could subscribe and review this podcast on iTunes. Or  check us out on Stitcher, CastBox, iHeart RADIO:)! Plus  we're on Spotify!   Check Out The Transcript Here:   Mason: (00:03) Molly, how are you?   Molly Maloof: (00:05) I'm alive and well in the middle of a chaotic world. And somehow I feel like one of the more sane people in the room these days.   Mason: (00:14) You're the sane person. It's great because I like the fact that the sane person and one of the sane people on Instagram. I love your Instagram endlessly.   Molly Maloof: (00:23) Thanks.   Mason: (00:23) And I love you're the doctor whose drugs I want to take.   Molly Maloof: (00:28) Yeah, right. Like I kept on asking myself, "What if we made drugs that people wanted to take? What if we made drugs that actually improve the human condition?" What if we made drugs that actually improved resilience and improved our relationships? How come that's not medicine?   Mason: (00:46) Now, let me start with this little light question.   Molly Maloof: (00:48) Yeah.   Mason: (00:49) Where does the intersection of medicine and love begin and integrate?   Molly Maloof: (00:56) Yeah, right? Okay. Here's what occurred to me. And I haven't really even announced my company because I've been stalled, but I can talk about the big picture because I think it's really important. I spent my entire life trying to figure out how and ever since I was a child, and I was like, wanting to become a doctor at a young age, and then hit puberty in all sorts of hormonal disarray. And I was just like, "What is this happening to my body?" I remember thinking, someday I'm going to figure out my whole body, and I'm just going to understand all this weird shit that's happening to me. And so I spent a lot of my life trying and testing out things to see what would they would do. I would take supplements when I was in ninth grade. I was just constantly doing weird stuff to see what I could do to make my body function better.   Molly Maloof: (01:41) And then, left my residency, started my own medical practise, and really was like, "Fuck, I want to make a practise around optimising health, instead of just fixing sickness." So I want to understand health from first principles. So I spent all this time studying and practising . And fortunately, I had patients who would pay me a lot of money to like, be my lab rats. And they were willing, they were coming to me with experiments that they're like, "I want to do this, will you be help me?" And I'm like, "Sure." So I was one of those doctors that was just like, helping executives find greater performance. And then I had a bit of a come to Jesus moment.   Molly Maloof: (02:18) And I was just like, I did not go into medicine to be doctor just to rich people. That's not cool. And this is like been an interesting experiment. But I should probably be doing more with my life than just helping rich people stay healthy. So it really was that. That was really going through my head. I was at Esalen Institute, and I was just like, "Yeah. I'm pretty sure that there should be more to life than this."   Mason: (02:39) It's an elephant a lot of the time in the health sector.   Molly Maloof: (02:42) Yeah. But at the same time, I'm super grateful that I actually was able to do what I did because A, I could show I actually was part of like a massive trend movement, which was like, precision medicine for individuals was like, not a thing until, a few years after I started practising . So I've always been a bit ahead of the curve. But I've always also been one of those people who's just like, I can't settle for like surface level anything. So I have to get under the surface. So I got asked to teach at Stanford, a course. And she was like, "You seem to be this healthspan expert. So why don't you teach about it?" And I was like, well, of course, I got really insecure. And I was like, "Well, I know a lot. But I can't know enough to teach a second best school in the country." So I went and I started researching even deeper and started studying even more and started like coming up with this framework of what health was about.   Molly Maloof: (03:28) And in my process of studying everything, I was creating electron relationships. And I started figuring, I saw a couple TED Talks, and I started looking into the research of these two psychologists and this researcher from Stanford. And basically, the conclusion was that long term health and happiness is literally dependent on your relationships, like the number one factor in whether you're going to live long and healthy or not is your relationships. And why do you think that is? Well, usually they're the biggest source of stress or stress relief. And we know that stress is a huge source of disease, and yet everybody talks about stress, but nobody talks about what to do about it. Even like some of the best most famous doctors in America.   Molly Maloof: (04:11) Well, even doctors are on stress, like sit around talking about how they don't know what to do with stress. So I was like, "I wonder if we could actually create medicine, that improved relationships." And so I started figuring out through the psychedelic movement, that a lot of what entactogens do is they fundamentally reproduce the neurobiology of love. And so I started digging into the neurobiology of love and I was like, oh, so dopamine, norepinephrine, oxytocin, and serotonin are essentially like some of the bigger molecules involved with love and connection as well as hormones. So to me, it was like kind of a lightbulb moment happened when I was like, "Whoa, what if we actually were to create medicine that can reproduce the love that you had early in your relationship when you first got married, when you first started dating?" What would happen if you could actually reintroduce that feeling again, in your relationship, when you've been together for 10 years, and you're already annoyed by each other constantly. And there's all this resentment built up?   Molly Maloof: (05:17) And what if you could work on that resentment, work on your attachment issues, work on your relationship and your bond and strengthen that bond, through drug assisted therapy? And so that's kind of what I came up with as an idea. And so I'm in this process of investigating the possible ways to do this. But really, it's like a complete paradigm shift in modern medicine because A, it's not about individuals taking drugs, it's about two people taking a drug together. And B, it's not about doctors just handing people drugs, but it's drugs plus therapy. Drugs plus a therapeutic journey that you take, in order to achieve a certain outcome. So not only does medicine have to change in a few different ways, like A, we have to like see if the FDA will even let us give two people drugs. But B like, the payment system of medicine is about you go to a therapist, you go to a doctor, you get a drug, and the doctor is paid for that visit. And that psychologist is just paid for that visit.   Molly Maloof: (06:14) So I have friends that are in payments systems, and they're developing like bundled payment programmes because essentially you need to like create an entire outcome based experience that is paid for in a lump sum. And so there's a lot of things that need to change about in medicine. But I think that fundamentally the human bonds that we create, like are the hugest source of survival that we have. And a lot of people have overlooked this in this pandemic. We know now from isolation, that there's nothing healthy about people being by themselves in their homes, especially the elderly. Come on, and young people and children with families in one house, like we're meant to be in community, we're meant to be touching other people, we're meant to be around other people. And I think it's really a shame that we have ignored this factor for so long, and we're continuing to ignore it while people are killing themselves with alcohol and drugs and other substances.   Molly Maloof: (07:07) And it's just like, and even food, right? Like kids are gaining weight at record rates, people are gaining weight at record rates. And it's all because we're not supposed to be alone. We're not supposed to be indoors by ourselves isolated, like it's not productive, and it's the antithesis of health. So that's my shtick in my soapbox description. And I'm just going to say this, this is a really ambitious endeavour, there is a very good chance that it will not work because the government will stop me. That doesn't mean that people shouldn't be doing stuff like this because we actually need to change the way that people think about medicine. We actually need to change how medicine is delivered.   Mason: (07:42) You know what, like what brings up, I've been reading a lot of like management books because I'm at that stage by my business where I was like Peter Pan and I'm back in the real world a little bit where am I growing up and becoming a little bit adulty.   Molly Maloof: (07:56) We're both becoming adults, dude.   Mason: (07:57) We're both adulting the shit out of life right now.   Molly Maloof: (08:01) We're adulting the shit out of life.   Mason: (08:04) The one Tani got like the whole management team to raid was like a Patrick Lencioni one. I don't think that's how you pronounce his name, but he's got business fables, and it's the Five Dysfunctions of a Team and one of the dysfunctions, I can't remember if it's an exact dysfunction or just something I took out of the fable, but it's like you get an executive team and you go through all the different departments like what's our goalposts? Like what are we all agreeing on that we're looking at as like what we're all trying to get? Is it like customer acquisition? Is it customer happiness ratings? Is it revenue? It doesn't matter what the hell it is, we just focus on that and we go for it and then that unifies you. I think most people and including people that get into health and are entrepreneurs in the health same doctors what the thing that happens is they still they can't get over the hangover of getting dumped.   Mason: (08:53) The goalposts been put on you by a pretty old medical system that just like, just keep people alive. Just improve the condition somewhat. And I think why when you speak and when people listening, I know people like loving my team like listening to your last podcast in the community really excited is because the boldness that you have and it's screaming me, you're like, "No, I'm creating my own goalpost, not taking on that one, and I can see the bridge, and I'm going..." Like you actually can bridge it. It's not just, I'm defying you. It's like, "No," I'm just like, I can work with in that and I can see what you're focused on. And I'm very clear about what I'm focusing on. It's like relationship and then measure the markers to see that your relationships have improved and we know it because we have these markers. And that focus is really inspiring. It's really intimidating for people that have just allowed themselves to be handed what the goalpost is. So cheers you, I raise my hot chocolate to you.   Molly Maloof: (10:00) It's like I ask myself, "Okay, I've got this personal brand. If I like go and be Dr. Molly brand, Dr. Molly, how is that going to like..." Okay. So let's say there's Andrew Weil, there's Dr. Oz, there's all these, like leaders in the space. I could do that. And I can always fall back on that if this thing doesn't work, like I'll only be 40 by the time I fail at this, right? So I think I'm going to give myself like solid three years before I give up. Look, it's really hard to do this thing, but I'm going to give myself some significant time and commitment, like five to 10 years, then we'll see what happens. If I can get through past three years, I'll be fucking stoked. So point is, is like I can always fall back on like the Dr. Molly brand because it's like, that's cool. But that's just an evolution, right? That's just like, me becoming branded doctor 2.0. But the thing about this other thing is like, if we actually were to accomplish this, this just fundamentally changes medicine, and also could transform human relationships, which are falling apart.   Molly Maloof: (11:02) People are getting divorced after eight years, and kids are getting damaged by these relationships. Kids are missing their relationships with their parents, parents are not bonding, kids are feeling neglected. We've got to save the family unit and I think it starts with the primary relationship. And to me, this is something that is interesting to me that, I just don't think a lot of people work on their relationships, like I don't think it's something that a lot of people consider to be a thing that they should be doing every day. But it's actually so fundamental to survival, right? And yet, it's like when things are getting really bad, that's when they get to work. So we are looking at different indications. But fundamentally, the big picture, what I'm trying to do, it's kind of like bring what people have been doing underground above ground.   Molly Maloof: (11:49) The history of MDMA was like couples therapy, right? And Shulgin was giving it to psychologists to improve couples relationships. And it turns out, like underneath a lot of dysfunction, a lot of sexual dysfunction in men and women is relationship problems. So if you just keep on getting to the root cause of anything, it's like, "Oh, why don't we just like deal with the root cause? And go with that?" So it's pretty-   Mason: (12:15) I've definitely experienced with underground MDMA.   Molly Maloof: (12:17) Yeah.   Mason: (12:19) Therapy?   Molly Maloof: (12:19) Sure. Exactly.   Mason: (12:22) Yeah. With my wife. Can you just enlighten people about how you'd use it in like a clinical setting and why in particular it has been used there?   Molly Maloof: (12:37) So MDMA, we're not technically using MDMA, unless we can't use the substance we're going to work on toward developing which there's a lot of reasons why, like drug developments hard, right? But MDMA would be a good backup solution because of its history. MDMA is essentially an entactogen. So what it does is it means to touch with that it means to generate, it's also known as enpathogen. So it creates a deep sense of empathy and human connection. And that empathy reminds you of like, "Oh, there's this person next to me." And I can actually feel how they feel right now.I can actually, more noticeably understand their emotional experience. And I can be a part of that experience, rather than feeling so separate from someone else. And fundamentally, it also works on the neurobiology of love. So it's a love drug. So it creates a similar experience to what I call post coital bliss, which is kind of like right after you had sex, and you're feeling like really comfortable and really blissed out, it's like, that's kind of the MDMA experience.   Molly Maloof: (13:42) And the interesting thing is that through different types of combinations of different chemicals, we're going to be able to modulate consciousness in ways that we never thought we could do and it's fascinating, just this whole field of psychedelic medicine because it's just beginning like this whole revolution is just beginning. And it's like happening from a place of like deep interested in science and understanding the brain, but also from like a deep reference to the past. So like MDMA, for example, in the past was used in couples therapy. So two couples would come in and take the medicine with the therapist. And the therapist will help them work through their issues whether it be like attachment trauma, or deep seated resentment that's been carried or anger or betrayal or just trust issues. And therapist would use this medicine to help people come together again.   Molly Maloof: (14:32) And one of the rules interestingly, for couples therapy with when Ann Shulgin was doing it and was giving it to other therapists was no sex. So it's funny because I actually think that psychedelics go great with sex. And I think that like, you have to know what you're doing, you have to know the dose, but I do think that there will be a role in the future for psychedelic assisted therapy, and there should also be a role for psychedelic aphrodisiacs.   Mason: (15:00) Speak more about that.   Molly Maloof: (15:02) Well, okay, so I'm giving a talk at delic on this is actually quite kind of interesting. I'll give you a little preview of my talk. So it turns out that psychedelic aphrodisiacs have probably been used since like the beginning of human history.   Mason: (15:17) Cool thing. The two best things.   Molly Maloof: (15:21) Right? So people are fascinating, right? So turns out that there's like a whole bunch of categories of psychedelic aphrodisiacs. And they're so interesting. So there's the Acacia DMT, harmelin combo, there's an Alaska DMT harmelin combo, there's also the combination, that combo the drug. There's also MDMA, and MDA, which is the entactogen class of synthetic love drugs. There's LSD and psilocybin, which are the tryptamines. There's actually like a salamander that in Romania, they put into a vodka, and they use it as aphrodisiacs. There's also toads that people use as aphrodisiacs. There's Morning Glory, which is an LSD derivative, there's Hawaiian woodrose, there's all sorts of cool plants and animals that have been used since primitive times that are psychedelic, and that can turn you on.   Molly Maloof: (16:25) And there's also dangerous ones things like scopolamine, which is not technically a psychedelic, but it's a deliriant. And you don't really want to take like the tour up. But people in Brazil apparently, occasionally accidentally get dosed by like prostitutes, who are trying to take advantage of them. So there's actually a pretty good Vice episode on that. But turns out that it's not exactly a psychedelic, but you can't have psychosis and hallucinations. So I was like, "Wow, these are really interesting. There's all sorts of different mushrooms and fungi that people use, there's also like, what is it called? There's a type of fungus. Actually, let me look it up. I've got my computer right here. So why don't I come out and give you a little bit more detail on this because it's kind of getting good.   Molly Maloof: (17:14) So there's like this substance, there's actually a fruit in Southeast Asia called my Marula bean. And it has all sorts of weird ingredients in it, that can make you trippy. And then interestingly, alcohol has the effect of creating beta-carboline in the body, which I didn't know. So it's actually technically slightly psychedelic, which I never knew this. And then absinthe has wormwood which has thujone in it, which is mildly psychedelic as well. So it's essentially there's different doses of different ingredients that are kind of used for different reasons, right? And so there's basically like the medicinal dose, they said, which is the lowest dose, like the sort of the micro dose of medicine. And that's kind of like people taking things just for overall improvement of their health, mental health. And then there's the sort of aphrodisiac dose, which is a little bit higher than that. So it's enough to get you to start noticing a shift in your perception, but not so much to make the trip really hard.   Molly Maloof: (18:12) And then there's the shamanic dose, which is like what's being used in a lot of clinical studies, which is like people try to get to the root of really deep trauma. And oftentimes, getting to the root of trauma is actually what a woman or man needs to do in order to actually heal their sexuality. So I got particularly interested in this space because MDMA kind of accidentally helped heal my sexual dysfunction that I had in my 20s because of some trauma that I had in college, that I didn't even realise was causing sexual dysfunction because I didn't know I had sexual dysfunction. I just knew that I wasn't aroused. I was in pain every time I had sex, and it wasn't orgasming. And then I met a guy, we were using MDMA together and all these problems went away. And I was like, "What just happened"? And I had my first orgasm with a guy. I had orgasmed on my own, but never with a man before because of unfortunately, my history of sex was not positive.   Molly Maloof: (19:07) So I basically been trying to figure this out, "Wow, it seems like there's an opportunity for healing sexual dysfunction." Because a lot of the root causes of sexual dysfunction are relationship problems and trauma. And so then I started uncovering the whole trauma, Pandora's box, and I started discovering natural numbers on sexual trauma. And it became this whole holy shit moment, like fuck the world is so fucked up when it comes to sex. Talk about like, this Me Too movements, just the tip of the iceberg. Underneath all of it is like, clearly dysfunctional sexual upbringing that most people have because of our completely outdated religious culture, right? Basically really religiosity in a lot of ways really ruins sexuality for people because it makes it into this forbidden fruit and then in that you start wanting all sorts of things that are wrong because you're like, "Oh, I can't have it. So I want all these things that I can't have."   Mason: (20:05) Forbidden fruit. And the guys our snake tells us you want the fruit.   Molly Maloof: (20:09) Oh yeah, and women want it too, by the way. I was like, when I discovered masturbation was a sin in like fifth grade. I was like, "Oh, dear god, I've been masturbating my entire life." So funny, right? And there was just this moment I had growing up being like, really feeling like I went from like a really good Christian girl to like, a very bad child because I masturbated. And that's just not okay. So then I get into the history of psychedelics. And this talk and essentially, before Christianity, psychedelics were being used by medicine women and priestesses, and medicine men, and they were given to people as a tool for enhancing their virility and their fertility and their sexual function. And it was like, part of nature, sex was something beautiful, it was something acceptable, it is something that was part of life, right? It was celebrated. And then Christianity basically turned polytheism into this monotheistic culture, and basically started burning witches, and saying that these love potions are evil, and that anything related to sex was wrong.   Molly Maloof: (21:09) And now sex is the thing that you have to have in the bounds of marriage, which the church of course has to govern. And if you do anything outside of that, or let alone, you're homosexual, you're now a deeply evil person, and you deserve to be harmed. And you really think about this history. It's kind of epically fucked how much, no offence to men, but like patriarchy, took over religion, and basically made it all about men being in charge of the religious experience. Even though women were actually very much part of like polytheistic religious culture, and sexuality was part of that culture. And so it's like all this stuff is really went downhill from there.   Molly Maloof: (21:50) And now we live in this modern time where like, the Catholic Church has unending problems with brutalising children sexually. And we have not woken up to this reality that sex is not evil. It's part of life. It's a beautiful part of life. It's a part of life that is one of those magical mystical, if not psychedelic experiences. And it shouldn't be demonised, but I do think we need to return it back into a place of wholesomeness and respect and love and really treating people the way we would want to be treated and I don't think any woman or man wants to be raped.   Molly Maloof: (22:29) I don't think any woman or man wants to be assaulted, and I don't think if any child grows up thinking that, that's normal. And I don't know what changes in culture that makes it okay for kids and adults to like mistreat each other, but I really think that like part of my mission in life is actually to create a better culture around sex and love and really this company that I started called the Adamo Bioscience is basically a company that's dedicated to studying the science of love because I think that if we understood it better, we might be able to create more of it, and through multiple pathways and products and services. And yes, I have a commercial interest, but mostly because like it seems totally a better thing to be spending my life making money off of than anything else right now, which is like why not try to create more love in the world? I think there should be like 15 to 20 companies trying to do this.   Mason: (23:22) I think there will be once you show them the way. That's the that's the beautiful thing about being someone who's charging and leading the way. Something as a couple, I was just like thank you, epic download by the way and I saw... And I think it's nice openly talking about religion this way, we can see that it's gone far away from the natural and the original intentions. And I saw you like, I can just see you reshare the meme the other day. It tickled me the most of it was just like white Jesus cuddling someone going, "I'm sorry I made you a drug addict. Let me a book before I send you to hell." It just popped me in school I was like doing things that potentially was going down the way of being like condemned and told by teachers, "Well, your stepfather is going to go to hell because he believes in evolution."   Molly Maloof: (24:16) Oh my god, I remember being in sixth grade being like, "I think evolution is real and my school thinks I'm..." But they don't believe in it. Like, holy shit, that was our lives.   Mason: (24:28) Oh man, I got a few pop moments. I was like, "Hang on. So I'm going down this route. Where I'm sinning because I'm trying to think critically here and so now I'm going to go to hell, but you created me in your image and I'm doing? You set me off. You know all, you know I'm going to end up here. And then you're going to send me to hell?" I'm like, "You asshole. You sadist." Anyway, that was my pop.   Molly Maloof: (24:54) What got me to like what really challenged my beliefs when I was 18 was talking to a guy who went to Harvard and messenger, you're in messageboard you're talking to people smarter and older than you. And I remember talking to this guy and he asked me this question. He's like, "How can God be omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent and how can there be a hell? If he's everywhere all the time all at once? How can it be ever a separation from God because hell is a separation from God?" And I was like, brain explode like oh that's impossible logical, total it felt like this doesn't work, right? Like does that work does not compute. And my brain just exploded I went into the bathroom and cried and cried in front of the mirror. I was like, "Oh my god, it means I'm all alone." I actually still believe in God now, but like my belief in God is much different than the patriarchal God that I grew up.   Molly Maloof: (25:50) I still pray to Jesus because I'm used to it's like a pattern, but I don't think Jesus is the only God. I think there's plenty of Gods you can pray to. But realistically I think that God is like infinite intelligence and beauty underneath everything that whether, and it's totally no gender or God can't have a gender.   Mason: (26:09) I'm going to send you my podcast with George Kavassilas. It's another mind blowing one. It's talking about the God matrix and the universe, the natural, the synthetic it's like really, really clear.   Molly Maloof: (26:25) Oh, cool.   Mason: (26:25) I'll send you because it's a very good one. And you know what, you were saying things that don't work and you know what I like that does work is aphrodisiac. So this is like telling before we move on from that point it's something that really jumped out at me that I really love and I might go a little bit of a tangent because I just wrote about it this kind of topic, this nuance. Yesterday we sent out a newsletter around lion's mane and I'm like I really love Lion's Mane because it's a bridge herb and for so often people are looking at, "I want a nootropic and so they go into a narrow," which is nice sometimes. It's nice to go reductionist. And you go, "I want something that's going to increase output and give me something now and I'm going to use this nootropic in order to get something. And then they eventually fall to Lion's Mane as like a nootropic and the word sits there very medical and very [inaudible 00:27:20], which is nice as well I use it.   Mason: (27:24) But then Lion's Mane is one if you get like a complete non grown on grain, you get one grown on wood, it's got elements of wild to it, all of a sudden you look past the textbook written black and white, in the tropic and you got the same intention here and then you look up at nature and you see, "Wow, my brain is so much more than what I thought it was and the output of my brain and the way the way that it operates in conjunction with my organs in my blood and my outlook in my life, it's connected to where I'm going to be. What I do now is connected to how I'm going to be when I'm 90 years old."   Molly Maloof: (27:59) Totally.   Mason: (28:00) it's not just take something get some output, it's like this pattern you can see the brain function connecting to the constant pattern of like, like the waves in never ending. Internally there are things that are like constantly happening that I can cultivate and work with and look at and ease into that are going to have my brain on the sea of marrow is the Daoists.   Molly Maloof: (28:21) I love that. The sea of marrow.   Mason: (28:26) And the aphrodisiacs are the same like that. And it's a fun one because people go, "Oh, aphrodisiacs great, it'll get your horny." And what you're talking about it's like a carrot that leads like you go and that's what I see. Like how I see Daoist aphrodisiacs as well, like deer antler in your pants.   Molly Maloof: (28:46) Yeah.   Mason: (28:48) Horny goat weed, like epimedium. These herbs cordycep, Eucommia, schisandra. People say the word aphrodisiac, and you go, "Great, okay, cool. I'm going to engage because I want to be horny." And you think there's more substance too, behind it. And then you get onto these aphrodisiacs and you start engaging with your sexuality, and all of a sudden it's an opportunity to connect to yourself and the word aphrodisiac falls away, and you start connecting to the sexuality. And I just heard it, then you're saying we're using aphrodisiacs to go and connect to the sexual trauma so we can connect to ourselves and our partner. And I think it's beautiful. I love it.   Molly Maloof: (29:32) Well, it's actually that the sexual trauma can damage your relationship to sex. So because it actually programmes your brain. There's this thing called the Garcia effect, and it's like when you eat something that makes you sick, you don't want it anymore because your brain associates that with feeling sick. Now not all women or men who have trauma end up with having sexual dysfunction, but a large percentage of women do that. In fact, like somewhere between 60 to 80% of women who had sexual trauma have some form of sexual dysfunction. And like in America, the numbers, which I think are underreported, are like one in five women are raped, one in four women are abused as children, one and three are assaulted in her lifetime. And so there's quite a lot of women who have sexual dysfunction because of the fact that their sexual experience was not pleasant. And it was, in fact, potentially scary and dangerous.   Molly Maloof: (30:26) So now their brain says, "Oh, that experience that's not good. I don't like that. And that's scary." And so it's kind of programmed as a traumatic memory. Now, only 30% of women with sexual trauma end up with PTSD, which is interesting. So there's actually more women with sexual dysfunction, than PTSD from sexual trauma, which is fascinating. So the theory is, is that with MDMA assisted therapy, that the medicine can actually help you revisit the trauma from a place of feeling safe and feeling okay and loved with a partner, preferably with a partner, if you're with someone that you feel safe with. And you can revisit that trauma, and then it gets reprogrammed in your brain, reconsolidated as, "Oh, this is not the worst thing in the world anymore." This is not something I need to like, fear or be afraid of anymore. That was just an event that happened. And in fact I think the real magic will come from when women can experience pleasure, again, through psychedelic medicine. As I did.   Mason: (31:32) How ironic that there's an aphrodisiac involved in that process.   Molly Maloof: (31:36) Well, you think, right? You think that like, that would make sense. It's just funny. I think we're just beginning to understand space. But I don't know if people even though this, but there's actually like three phases of neurobiology of love. The first is like the intense sex drive, which is like, our body is designed to get us to fuck a lot of people when you're young. Actually, the sex drive is like oestrogen and testosterone. And then like, you're horny, and you're young, and you want to have sex, and not everybody does. A lot of young people aren't these days, but the point is, is that it's designed to get you to be turned on and attracted to a lot of people. And then when you meet someone and you have sex with them, what happens is, is that you start activating other hormones. So dopamine starts getting released, oxytocin gets released after orgasm, and that can actually increase the attachment to this person.   Molly Maloof: (32:29) So especially in women particular. So then we start moving on to romantic love, which is actually an attachment device that's designed like we really evolved it in order to basically bond ourselves to someone, become obsessed and addicted to someone, so that we're more likely to have a baby with that person. And then keep that baby alive long enough that they will not die, right? And so the romantic love starts to switch over to pair bonding. And pair bonding is actually designed to keep that baby alive and family unit strong. Because pair bonding hormones are very similar to familial bonds. Like they think it's all mostly oxytocin vasopressin. So like, you actually look at the neurobiology of all this. It's highly adaptive, and it's a huge survival advantage to have love in your life, huge survival advantage to find someone to care about them. You're more likely to reproduce, you're more likely to make a child and a family and you're more likely to have a healthy family if there's healthy bonds.   Molly Maloof: (33:26) And so I think that we should be really looking at these things from the lens of science because a lot of what's happening in society today because I think technology is seeing these bonds decay, we're seeing people give up their marriages. We're seeing people walk away from long term relationships, and we're seeing families affected and children affected. And one of the main adverse childhood experiences a kid will have is divorce. So I'm just like, "Fuck, why are we not looking at these fundamental facets of society and saying, gosh, why can't we do better?" And maybe there's a way we can do better that's ethical, and that's honourable and that's scientifically sound and that will actually leave people better off and we found them. But again, this is like very much new territory. I don't think anybody has tried to do this or thought about doing this. And I'm actually giving you a lot of information that I like is going to keep kind of quiet but whatever you like might as well announce it to like your community first.   Mason: (34:20) Yeah. I think we're worth the drop. It's interesting, it's such a return to the natural. And I've been using that a lot because I feel like I'm saying for the matrix. I'm like nailing all over the bloody place at the moment like people.   Molly Maloof: (34:36) All the time.   Mason: (34:39) And it's so confronting for people which and I agree, as a system we haven't... What you're doing is going like, "Screw it, go to the core and think, multiple generations around leading to the core. Like, let's look at the divorce rates, let's look at the unhappiness and the lack of love in relationships and how that impacts ourselves and children." And I think about it a lot. And it gives me that raw, even talking about it now, there is tingling and there's a rawness and a raw excitement, when you know you're actually in the right place. But it's very confronting, looking at just how much healing there is to be done.   Molly Maloof: (35:18) Yeah. Well, someone told me when I was like, everyone was like, "No one's going to invest in this, and no one's going to do this. And this is crazy." I know, actually, I have a lead investor. So if investors are listening, I'm about to fundraise. So you should probably email me because it's going to be really good. It's going to be a really exciting time in the next few months because I'm actually going to be-   Mason: (35:37) I think I have like, probably $400 liquid at the moment.   Molly Maloof: (35:45) I'm not going to take your last $400. But maybe we could do something with-   Mason: (35:47) But that's not the last 400. We're being responsible in other areas.   Molly Maloof: (35:50) ... Lion's Mane. Yeah. No, but it's interesting. So like, I have a lot of people from biotech say, "This is absolutely never going to happen. It's impossible. Don't even try." And then I had a lot of people who are starting biotech companies say, "Fuck, if this problem is as big as you describe it is, then I'm pretty sure we should be throwing like a billion dollars at this." And I was like, "Fuck. Yeah, dude. Totally."   Mason: (36:16) Absolutely. Is there a market for this? If the people who would poohing it are probably the ones that just can't look in the mirror and be like, "I am the market." It's like, it's in your backyard. It's everywhere. Every time you go to a family reunion, every time you go to bed.   Molly Maloof: (36:40) I shouldn't say this out loud, but family members of mine-   Mason: (36:43) Just say it in a monologue.   Molly Maloof: (36:44) Yeah. I know my family story pretty well. I like deconstructed all of our problems at this point. I've plugged my computer in. And having deconstructed a lot of these problems, and really examined the people in my family who struggle with different problems. In my extended family, in particular, like my aunt and my grandmother, and just people I know. There's a lot to be said about early relationships, and about how important families are to the long term health of children. And when things go wrong in families, it can really, really hurt people long term. And I just looked at like, my great, great grandparents and their relationship with my grandmother. And I looked at my grandmother's relationship with her daughters, and I just looked at all this, and I was like, "Wow there's so many things that we don't realise that if we just fix that one thing, right, then it would have transformed the entire rest of a person's life."   Molly Maloof: (37:59) But there's a lot of things, we don't have solutions for. A lot of things we don't have pathways for, and a big one of those is healing trauma. And I recently did about 21 hours of deep, deep neuro somatic trauma healing from a friend of mine who's like a super gifted healer. And I can't explain in scientific terms what he did with me, but I do know one thing, and that's that we do not do a good job in our society, helping people who have trauma, heal, and express it immediately right over this happened. In fact, the medical system typically, when a girl has raped, she'll basically get a rape kit, and maybe sent to a psychologist. And if she's lucky, she'll get in, in a few months. And it's like, we don't actually have pathways for healing and caring for kids who've had major... I saw this, by the way, in health care system. I saw kids who were abused by their parents. And they go to social workers, and they kind of handed around the foster care system.   Molly Maloof: (39:00) And it's really crazy how much people experienced trauma in society. And there's really not a lot of good solutions besides talk therapy. And if talk therapy worked so well, we probably not be seeing so many problems. Like if talk therapy was like a really effective solution for all of our problems, we'd probably be seeing a lot of problems solved. Now I'm not saying talk therapy doesn't work.   Mason: (39:23) It doesn't pop the champagne. I think that's where I'm with you on that. I'm at the point in my journey where I'm like talk therapy with someone who's got a Jungian background is like perfect for me because I went so hard on psychedelics. And so I'm loving just the groundedness of it. But to get it going-   Molly Maloof: (39:36) Totally. I'm not saying it doesn't work. I think talk therapy is very much like working on your consciousness, right? Your conscious brain. Everyone actually need to talk therapy in order to fundamentally create sense, sense making around their life experience. Like that's the best thing it does. Is it creates a framework of understanding of like, "This happened to me, this happened to me, this happened to me and I understand why, and I understand how I dealt with it." And I'm trying to do a better job at it, right? But I think what's really more interesting about like, what's happening in psychedelic medicine is what's on a subconscious and the unconscious level, right? Like hypnotherapy does a pretty decent job at getting into the subconscious level.   Molly Maloof: (40:27) But what's fascinating is like all this stuff that's buried in the unconscious, right? That comes out in your dreams, that comes out in your... A lot of people have nightterors. That is most definitely a bunch of unconscious process trauma, like unprocessed trauma that needs to be like addressed. And I don't think people see it that way. They're just like, "Oh, it's a nightmare disorder." It's like, "No, you probably have like a major unresolved trauma from your childhood that you really should look at." And oftentimes, I know, multiple people who've taken psychedelics, and it just comes up to them. They're like, "Oh, my God, I was raped in high school by a few guys." And it just like comes up. Or they're like, "Oh, my God, I was sexually assaulted as a child." And this stuff comes up underneath because it's lifted out of the subconscious and unconscious.   Molly Maloof: (41:21) And that's what we don't talk enough about in like modern medicine. And even like psychology, I think, is this like, "Oh, wow," like everybody has deep trauma. But if you do have deep trauma, and it's like running in the background, it's like malware, it's just draining your energy. It's draining CPUs, it's actually playing a huge role in your behaviours and your triggers and how you interact with people. And if it's not looked at or addressed, and especially if they're things like internal family systems, like there's a lot of good forms of talk therapy that can really do a good job of bringing you back to your childhood or bringing you back these moments. And I don't even think drugs are completely necessary to get to these places. Meditation is also a phenomenal tool that a lot of people don't take advantage of. And there's a bunch of different types of meditation that are fairly obscure that can do a great job at helping people get underneath the surface of their pain.   Molly Maloof: (42:11) But a lot of this stuff is isn't mainstream. And it's a shame because a lot of people are still just like, "Where do I go to deal with all this stuff?" Most of the stuff that's worked really well for me has been very obscure stuff that I have had to find through word of mouth. And it's like not highly advertised experiences and therapies and meditation schools and it's like a lot more on the realm of like woo, but it works these things have worked. And it's like strange to me that they're not more well studied and in the mainstream.   Mason: (42:46) Yeah. We've got such a wide array of people with such a wide array of histories at different stages in their processes. And there's naturally going to be different therapies and different angles that are going to pierce the veil to whatever is sitting there behind the curtain in the subconscious and I definitely, like for me it was like personal development back in the day going like you know landmark forum was like one of the things to kind of like a bang. And I could see behind it and then okay that lost its relevance at some point. And then psychedelics became very relevant, got me probably went a little bit too hard into identifying with that community and the mannerisms around taking medicine and like that feeling like I finally belonged rather than doing the work. And then getting beautiful lessons and now it's like getting to the point where talk therapy for me 10 years ago just would have been like I think just sort of lapping up against a great wall.   Mason: (43:48) Whereas now I know how to scale that concrete wall, and I know what it looks like when I do connect to the subconscious. And I understand my processing bringing it out and what my process is, thanks to the work I did with psychedelics. I know how I'm going to bring that into awareness in my everyday and that's when personal practise comes in. That's where I know to the extent of like, with my exercise regime, I know keeping me strong enough and healthy enough to be able to handle staying in that space, where I can constantly acknowledge that part of me that wants to hide behind that veil and run everything. And I know someone like Tani she's like, there was a point where psychedelics were like, incredible. She goes, "I know I need that." And then she's like, "I don't need that anymore." And my meditation practise is exactly where I need to be and that's where I'm going to get the biggest bang.   Mason: (44:39) Not that it's about a bang, but she's going to get the rubber hitting the road. So I think that's like that integration because you see a lot of people in the psychedelic world, kind of pooh poohing therapy going like modern therapies like this domesticated little dog and psychedelics are this big dog in terms of what it can do. And it's like, true in one context, and in another context, if it's just integrated, you have an array of ways of approaching as you're talking about them. Then all of a sudden, the approach becomes multicoloured and multifaceted. And hopefully, it becomes more effective.   Molly Maloof: (45:16) I really think that we just maybe just need to marry them more. Even like MDMA assisted therapy today, is largely like, hands off. It's largely don't talk to the patient, let them do, they have their own experience, and let them do whatever they need to do to heal, it's not really guided at all. It's mostly kind of like, it's guided, but it's not really like lead. It's like, you're there. You're like going through this process, and you're having these experiences, but they're not actually trying to get you to go anywhere on your trip, they're trying to let you have your experience. Whereas like, I think that, in particular, it may be possible that like, we can give people medicine that gives them have the... I think that the idea is that you have the preparation. And then you have the creating the right set and setting. And then you take the medicine, and then you have this like deep integration experience. And that's typically what the experiences for psychedelic assisted therapy today. The question is, will the FDA let us give people drugs that turn them on unsupervised?   Molly Maloof: (46:26) Because you kind of need to be a little bit... You don't really want anyone watching you while you are with your partner. So I got a lot of questions, I need to figure out to make this thing, an actual proper model. But I think that it'll be really interesting to see how this thing evolves because I'm at the very beginning of this journey. I have an idea of what I think that this business model could look like. I have no idea what I think this therapy could be. But a lot of it is I'm like figuring it out, right? I'm like in this total creative mode of what will the future of medicine look like, if you could create it from scratch? And I've already done this once, and it turned out really great for me. And I could easily have just gone and scaled personalised medicine clinics for wealthy people. But now I'm like, "Let's see if we can create a democratised version of this medicine that actually is like it's going to start out expensive, but let's figure out how we can make this something that's eventually affordable for people." That's the goal.   Mason: (47:28) I think the other thing, that's why it feels like a safe bets. And interesting way to put it, but it makes sense, and has substance is because I think a lot of people approach this, and what we've always been taught how to do, lecture people on how they should be, and I'm going to create a product based on how I think you should act. Whereas what you're talking about, is going there's, let's say we're looking at, like morality around let's stay in our marriage, so that we don't destroy this family unit. There's a way that, that's been happened, we've been told what to do by the media. And therefore the part of us goes, if someone goes you have to stay on your marriage because it's the morally right thing to do. You're bad if you do that, there's no attraction there because it's an external like judgement , and we want to revolt against being told what to do, especially by society.   Mason: (48:31) It's why we get your rage against the machine, etc. And then, if you just understand the patterns that emerge when people do connect back to themselves, and do deal with their trauma within a relationship, what's natural for people and seems to be the pattern is people do naturally resonate with maintaining the relationship that they've chosen or maybe in some instance. Like a very conscientious uncoupling in a way that you're very connected and aware to the way that children are going to be affected by it and minimising that impact. Either way, there's an emergence of morality an emergence of ethics, rather than being told what to do.   Molly Maloof: (49:19) Yeah. There's emergence of just like, knowing what's right and wrong. Like, "Oh, yeah. We're not meant to be together. But we're also not meant to destroy each other's lives as we get divorced." I think if we were to be able to help people stay together, that would be ideal. But if we're also able to help people consciously uncouple in a way that doesn't destroy their lives. And I've heard this from multiple people, like one of my friends did MDMA with his ex wife when they were getting divorced and it completely transformed the divorce process because they were actually able to love each other through the process, and they're now really good friends. They're like super good friends. They just didn't want to be married. And it's like, that's appropriate, right? Like, it's also appropriate not to hate people for years. Just the number of people I know that have deep seated resentment for their exes. And it's like, that's not healthy for your nervous system, that's not healthy for your long term health. That's not going to keep you well.   Mason: (50:20) So we've both dived into exploring what health is, especially in the context of, and in this what we're talking about in this context of like synthetic morality, versus what emerges as right. I've just started in the last few months really feeling icky about the way I've used the word health and the way it's been used because it's natural, if you talk about healthy, then naturally, there's an opposition of unhealthy there. And so much of what's implied is basing yourself on, "I'm healthy because I'm not that." And so there's this intrinsic opposition, that... An opposition and kicking back against something in order to form identity around health. And we need the word because healthy, it's just a fun word that everyone knows. But kind of similar and synonymous with what we're talking about, and the emergence of morality and the emergence of ethics coming just through whether it's psychedelic therapy or whatever, how are you relating to health now?   Mason: (51:28) Because I definitely am finding, the more I move away from being wrapped in and around that world of being healthy versus unhealthy, and the more I kind of sit in that middle and see. What's emerging through the patterns of myself doing, I don't know, finding harmony for myself, delving into my shit, coming out the other side. Doing things that are maybe I've seen is unhealthy in one way, in one ideological circle. So I want to talk about dropping that coming back to what emerges within me. It makes the space, I don't know, I feel very roared and identified in terms of, even though we're leaders in the health space, I feel very, unidentified with anything that revolves around that word healthy. I'm curious as to where you're at, in your relationship to what is healthy.   Molly Maloof: (52:25) I used to think it was what the WHO said, which was like the complete absence of disease or infirmary. And then I was like, "No, it's not realistic." Health is actually a dynamic function of life. And to me, I have a very unique perspective on how I think, and it all stemmed from this other definition, that was the ability to adapt and self managed in the face of adversity. But I started digging under the surface, and I really started understanding things like biology, and fundamental human anatomy, and microbiology and physiology and molecular and cellular biology. And I was really thinking about it from like a mechanistic perspective as well. And I think that if you actually just look at any system, you can ask how healthy a system is based on its capacity. And whether it's able to perform its functions properly, basically, whether it's able to maintain its integrity of its structure. And that's usually a function of how much energy and how much work capacity is available.   Molly Maloof: (53:31) So, for example, the healthcare system, deeply unhealthy in America. Demands outspent capacity and it just completely started crumbling, right? Like just did not work, was not resilient, was not flexible, it was actually really struggling and breaking a lot and a lot of people have been broken through the experience of going to the healthcare system. So capacity and demands, if there's more capacity than demands, you're usually in a really good healthy state because you have enough energy to maintain the structure to do work. Now, when your demands are really high, and your capacity is really low, shit starts to break down. And so this is like the mitochondrial theory of ageing, which is fundamentally that when we lose about 50% of our functional capacity of organs, they start to malfunction, they actually start producing the ability to do the work functions that they had. And then we start to break down.   Molly Maloof: (54:27) And largely this is driven by metabolic dysfunction and stress. And like lack of exercise is really a big huge driver of disease because it's the number one signal for making more energy. So basically, I look at how we... If you actually think about like the biology of like metabolism, when we breathe air, we drink water, we eat food, it goes into our cells, it gets turned into substrates, those get put into the mitochondria, which are like little engines that could of our cells, and they have this called the electron transport chain which pulls off electrons kind of like power line. Like electrons are running through this electron transport chain. And they're powering this hydrogen turbine that creates an electrochemical gradient. And that gradient creates a battery and a capacitor. So a battery is like a differential charge between two, it's like a charge polarity. And then the capacitor is like a differential charge between two late membranes.   Molly Maloof: (55:22) And then so capacitors can deploy energy quickly. Batteries store energy as potential energy. So when you really look at it, like most people have broken their metabolisms in modern society, there's so many people with diabetes, so many people with heart disease, somebody with cancer, so many people with dementia. And those are really symptoms of broken metabolism, broken mitochondrial function. And it's funny because like, we look at all these things as separate diseases, but actually, they have the same root causes and like half of cancers are made up of metabolic in nature. So everyone's been kind of obsessed with this like, DNA and genetics theory of ageing. I'm just so unconvinced because it's kind of like, okay, that's like the architectural plans of the body. But in order to actually express those plans, you need energy. You actually need to make energy to take the plants and turn into a structure, which is proteins, right?   Molly Maloof: (56:15) So my perspective is that, like life is this interplay between energy matter and information. And essentially, like life itself, is negative entropy. So we're just constantly trying to fight against entropy, and the best way we know how to do that is like, maintain our functional capacity and be able to repair ourselves. And so this lack of being able to repair ourselves is often a function of the fact that a lot of people are just like, the biggest complaint in medicine is, "I'm tired," right? Being tired all the time is actually a reflection of energetic inefficient, insufficient energy production.   Mason: (56:56) Is that in particular with like the battery storage as you work-   Molly Maloof: (56:59) Yeah, exactly.   Mason: (57:00) Which is funnily used when you talk about, like his Yin and Yang.   Molly Maloof: (57:05) Yes. There you go. Right? We need time off to store energy. The most interesting thing about the Yin and Yang, is that there's this clear relationship between this toggling of switching between different states in biology to flourish. So you actually have to go from intense work to relaxation or rest. You have to go for ideally if you actually just look at all the best [inaudible 00:57:30] stressors, it's like, hyperoxia hypoxia breathwork. What is that? It's breathwork. Right? If you look at cold and heat, that's sauna and coal plant right? What are these things work so damn well, for making us feel healthy and feel good? Well, they're literally boosting mitochondrial biogenesis. And in some cases, like eating fasting is my toffee G, right? It's throwing-   Mason: (57:53) Being awake, being asleep.   Molly Maloof: (57:56) Being outside being indoors, like we actually need to spend way more time outdoors than we're doing. And like being in buildings and having your feet grounded into the earth, like being alone being with people, like life is this constant interplay, right? Yeah, there you go.   Mason: (58:14) That was earthing that I just mumbled.   Molly Maloof: (58:16) Yeah. So like today I've been experimenting with like different ways of movement throughout my day because I'm kind of sick of being in front of the computer constantly. And it makes me feel really unhappy. And there's this great meme you posted, feel dead inside, go outside. Fucking love that meme. And it's like, everybody loved that meme. I got it posted so many times. And it was like, actually, I spent two hours today on phone calls outside. And like, people get annoyed when you're not on a Zoom call. But I'm like, "Look, if I can walk, I will walk." And I got two separate workouts and that were like about 10 minutes each in the gym that were like broken up throughout the day. And it's like, holy shit, did I feel better today than I did for like many other previous days where I was just in front of a computer the whole time? Like, we're not meant to be in front of screens all day long. It's not healthy.   Molly Maloof: (59:06) It's not a healthy period. So the more that we can try to align our lives as much as possible with something with how we're actually like primitively programmed because our genes have not evolved since primitive times. We're the same genetically, there's been a few changes, but fundamentally, we're basically the same people as we were in hunting and gathering times. So it's no question that we've lost a lot of our health in the process of becoming more modern because we basically hijacked all of these different pathways that are actually ancient pathways of survival that are now being used to take advantage of people. Like the salt, sugar and fat in foods, the convenience of cars, right? Like humans are designed to conserve energy and to find food.   Molly Maloof: (59:53) So the society is now designed to like make everything ultra convenient, and eat too much. And it's like, okay. We don't move our bodies enough, we drive everywhere, we know what that's done to society. And so it's kind of like the real process of becoming a truly modern human is to actually try to like life according to your genetics, while also existing in a modern culture. It's a huge challenge.   Mason: (01:00:19) Can be a great thing. This is like the Daoist and the Yogi's would need to go outside of society to go and live in a cave so their life could revolve a

A 17-year-old secondary school student from Niger's 2nd largest city Zinder Faiza Habou and her mother earn a living out of cracking nuts and pounding wild fruits on contract under the Sahara Sahel foods. "These fruits were a delicacy back in the village while growing up. My mother worked as a house help to feed and educate our family of 12 children until the packaging of the wild fruits started in 2014," Habou told the Africa Climate Conversations. "Cracking the wild fruits has enabled us to go to school, afford daily bread. Someday, I dream of becoming a judge" Habou is among 1500 rural smallholders farmers — 80% women and youths from 70 villages from the south-central and southern-eastern Niger. They harvest or crack wild fruits contracted by the Sahara Sahel Foods. Josef Garvi, the executive director at Sahara Sahel Foods, told the Africa Climate Conversations Podcast that Sahara Sahel Foods had produced 60 food products based on 19 different native tree species. The fruit's trees include tamarind, hamza, Marula, jujube, desert dates, baobab, Sahel raisin, Christ thorn, Doum palm fruits, and the Black prune. The processed edible fruits and powder are sold in supermarkets in Niger; some are exported to neighboring countries like Nigeria, Benin, or Burkina Faso, while the desert date oil is shipped to the United Kingdom. Listen to other podcast episodes here. The Sahara Sahel Foods works together with Rewild. Earth a research institution to train fruit collectors on tree propagation techniques. Garvi says the revision of forestry and agroforestry policies recognizing Farmer-Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) has allowed farmers to own trees on farms encouraging them to incorporate trees alongside millet, sorghum ad groundnuts. In the past 25 years, the international food policy research institute notes that the Niger republic has rehabilitated over 10 million hectares of bare land. Mieke Bourne, the Regreening Africa Programme Manager at the World Agroforestry, told the Africa Climate Conversations Podcast that creating value for the food products improves the value of the wild fruits, a catalyst for protecting these indigenous people landscapes.

This was a girl power episode! On this episode of the VIB3Z Podcast we have the owner of Marula Locs. She details her journey from being an every day worker and a mom to finding her passion and being a Boss! Her story is sure to surprise you.

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Heute ein besonderes Künstlerportrait mit Marula Eugster, mit der ich zusammen die Tanzausbildung in der Schweiz gemacht habe .Heute ist Marula in ihrem Familien Unternehmen, gegründet von ihrem Vater Mädir Eugster und Mutter Lena Roth 1978 in Paris, sehr erfolgreich mit eigenen Produktionen. Der Weg dahin von wie es war in einer Künstlerfamilie aufzuwachsen bis sie ihre Rolle und ihren Stil entdeckt hat, das erzählt sie uns in dieser Folge. Natürlich auch was denn Nuveau Cirque bedeutet und wie der weltweit berühmte Act : "die Sanddorn Balance" entstand. Ob Marula lieber auf der großen Bühnen von Cirque du Soleil steht oder in eigenen Shows ? Um das zu erfahren müsst ihr die Folge hören. Hier findet ihr Rigolo: https://rigolo.ch Hier findest du Marula auf instagram: @marulaeugster Rigolo auf instagram: @rigolonouveaucirque

* Bloomberg says the lawsuit could hamper attempts to bring new generation capacity on line and could exacerbate the country's electricity crisis. * Meanwhile, South African state utility Eskom will start a fresh round of wage negotiations with trade unions next week, it said on Friday, warning any disputes could impact its ability to supply electricity. * Impala Platinum said on Friday third quarter group output at managed operations rose by 4% to 5.59 million tonnes, with higher volumes reported at Impala Rustenburg, Impala Canada and Marula, reports Reuters. * There is a lot of greed in the cryptocurrency markets with many first-time investors who do not understand the technology behind it, says Luno Africa’s general manager Marius Reitz. * BizNews Premium Partner the Wall Street Journal says, in an exclusive story, that China’s central bank and four other regulatory agencies have told some of the country’s biggest financial technology firms—including Naspers-owned Tencent, ride-hailing company Didi Chuxing Technology Co. and e-commerce firm JD.com Inc. —that their apps should no longer provide financial services beyond payments. Experts say the unbundling of the various financial services will almost certainly deal a blow to the companies’ future profitability and valuation.

* Bloomberg says the lawsuit could hamper attempts to bring new generation capacity on line and could exacerbate the country's electricity crisis. * Meanwhile, South African state utility Eskom will start a fresh round of wage negotiations with trade unions next week, it said on Friday, warning any disputes could impact its ability to supply electricity. * Impala Platinum said on Friday third quarter group output at managed operations rose by 4% to 5.59 million tonnes, with higher volumes reported at Impala Rustenburg, Impala Canada and Marula, reports Reuters. * There is a lot of greed in the cryptocurrency markets with many first-time investors who do not understand the technology behind it, says Luno Africa’s general manager Marius Reitz. * BizNews Premium Partner the Wall Street Journal says, in an exclusive story, that China’s central bank and four other regulatory agencies have told some of the country’s biggest financial technology firms—including Naspers-owned Tencent, ride-hailing company Didi Chuxing Technology Co. and e-commerce firm JD.com Inc. —that their apps should no longer provide financial services beyond payments. Experts say the unbundling of the various financial services will almost certainly deal a blow to the companies’ future profitability and valuation.

Boyd Varty generously brings ancient wisdom from the South African wilderness to my Austin, Texas studio in an episode that connects the human heart to the wild and tunes us into the animal kingdom's divine messages. As a child, Boyd Varty was raised amongst animals. Lions, leopards, snakes, and elephants co-existed with his family on the Londolozi Game Reserve, who resurrected the arid, unfertile lands into a sanctuary for wild animals to live in peace without fear of being human prey.  As Boyd went through his spiritual metamorphoses, he gained a unique appreciation for nature's majestic intelligence and teachings. Even in life-threatening encounters, he returned to the power of presence, whether that was keeping his cool during a crocodile attack, while the world's deadliest snake, the sacred black mamba, slithered along his body for three minutes, or alone in a treehouse for 40 days in deep contemplation.  He wasn't the only one who could feel the energetic current sweep through the reserve. After 27 years in prison, Nelson Mandela visited to recover and re-connect to his surroundings. People worldwide make the pilgrimage every year to track wild animals, attend his retreats, and move through their personal blockages on his reserve.  Boyd graciously shares his animal stories, spiritual gifts, and experience as a lion tracker with us today in an adventurous conversation about land connection, conservation, and the collective awakening that transpires through intentional encounters with Mother Earth and her wondrous creatures.  The Ceremonial Offering This ceremonial offering will take you on a sacred voyage to the wild terrains of Africa. Where you'll visualize a Marula fruit tree, absorb the energy from her trunk and share a moment with a wild elephant who has traveled to your consciousness to share a special message with you.  Resources: Alyson on IG: https://www.instagram.com/iamalysoncharles/ (@iamalysoncharles) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/boyd_varty/?hl=en (@boyd_varty) & https://www.instagram.com/londolozi/?hl=en (@londolozi) Website: https://boydvarty.com/ (Boydvarty.com) & https://www.londolozi.com/ (Londolozi.com) Thanks to https://www.lotuswei.com/ (Lotus Wei) for sponsoring this episode. This beautiful brand works with the healing power of plants, flower essences, and elixirs to transform our bodies and mindset. I've experienced tremendous emotional support when I've used their infusions daily and am honored to share them with this community. Head to https://www.lotuswei.com/ (lotuswei.com) and use the code “MYSTIC” at checkout for 15% off your purchase.  Ceremony Circle is a production of http://crate.media (Crate Media)

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Impala Platinum (Implats) started its new financial year off strongly, with gross tonnes milled at managed operations having improving by 18% year-on-year to over 6.1-million tonnes for the first quarter, ended September 30. The increase in milled tonnes was primarily owing to the maiden inclusion of Impala Canada, but production at Marula also aided this performance and helped to offset slightly lower milled volumes from Impala Rustenburg and Zimplats. The resolution of milling challenges experienced at Implats’ joint ventures (JVs) also resulted in higher volumes from both Two Rivers and Mimosa during the period. As a result, six-element (6E) in concentrate production of 623 000 oz at managed operations was 11% higher year-on-year, while JV production from Mimosa and Two Rivers increased by 23% and helped offset the impact of lower third-party receipts. Total 6E concentrate volumes rose by 82 000 oz, or 11%, to 859 000 oz. Refined 6E production in the prior comparable period was significantly impacted by planned maintenance at the Zimplats furnace and Impala Rustenburg’s smelting complex, which constrained processing capacity. During the period under review, gross refined volumes benefitted from the accelerated processing maintenance across the group and the inclusion of saleable production from Impala Canada. In total, gross refined 6E production increased by 58% to 870 000 oz. These results were achieved despite the continuing challenges presented by the Covid-19 pandemic, CEO Nico Muller said in a statement on October 30, adding that, production losses attributable to the pandemic in the quarter had been “minimal” and the miner’s health, safety and operating protocols “proved effective in mitigating the impact of the virus”. Platinum group metals (PGMs) pricing, which remains robust as Implats continues to experience strong demand for its primary products, has benefited the company. “We are well positioned to continue delivering exceptional value to all our stakeholders in the year ahead,” he commented. OPERATIONAL UPDATE Milled production at Impala Rustenburg decreased by 2% to 2.9-million tonnes negatively impacted by the residual effect of Covid-19 on labour availability, declining reserves at the short-life shafts (6 and 9 Shafts) and increased power interruptions by State-owned power utility Eskom. Impala Rustenburg delivered a higher grade of 3.93 g/t and improved recoveries and yield gains resulted in stable 6E in concentrate production of 346 000 oz. Refined 6E production increased significantly to 372 000 oz and benefitted from greater availability of processing capacity owing to the timing of scheduled maintenance in the previous comparable period. Meanwhile, Marula continues to deliver improvements in operational momentum, as tonnes milled increased by 8% to 525 000 t, benefitting from a quick ramp-up following Covid-related interruptions, a step change in safety performance, the notable absence of community disruptions and improved mining performance. Mill grade decreased by 2% to 4.33 g/t but 6E in concentrate production improved in line with higher milled tonnage to 68 000 oz during the period. Zimplats continues to benefit from uninterrupted operation and remained relatively unaffected by the Covid-19 pandemic. Mined tonnage increased by 2% owing to improved fleet productivity and increased production from the new Mupani mine, which is still in development. Mill throughput of 1.6-million tonnes declined marginally owing to planned maintenance at the Ngezi concentrator during the quarter, while grade and recoveries were stable, resulting in a 2% decline in 6E concentrate produced of 148 000 oz. Routine smelter maintenance in the first quarter of the year resulted in elevated matte volumes relative to concentrate production during that quarter, which normalised in the current period. As a consequence, 6E volume in matte was 6% lower at 142 000 oz. Operational delivery ...

Platinum group metals miner Impala Platinum (Implats) made significant progress on its environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals during this year, as highlighted in its ESG report released on October 26. Referring to the miner’s workforce specifically, a statement by social, transformation and remuneration committee chairperson Mpho Nkeli notes that the group “maintained strong and collaborative relations” with employees and union representatives during the year, which contributed to the signing of new wage agreements with recognised unions for the Impala Rustenburg and Marula operations in November 2019. As a result of robust operational performance improvements and higher commodity prices, Impala Rustenburg significantly revised its restructuring plans, avoiding the proposed closure of Shaft 1 and securing the jobs of about 2 800 own and contractor employees. Nkeli says the company remains committed to minimising the number of forced retrenchments through employee reskilling and retraining initiatives and redeployment to other shafts. Additionally, with gender imbalances having long been a feature of the mining industry, Implats’ report indicates that the company is making progress on promoting greater female representation across the business, including through recruitment and talent development. The group’s commitment to gender diversity is reflected in Implats’ inclusion in the Bloomberg 2020 Gender-Equality Index, which recognises companies committed to transparency in gender reporting and advancing women’s equality in the workplace At year-end, Implats had 197 females in management positions (22%) across the group. At Implats’ South African operations, women made up 12% of the total workforce, with 9% in the core disciplines of mining, engineering, projects and metallurgy remaining unchanged from 2019. However, female representation at board level improved from 38% in 2019 to 46% this year. “Our focus in 2021 and beyond is to improve female representation at junior management level at the South African operations, as we strive to meet challenging Mining Charter III targets in this category,” Nkeli comments, lamenting that addressing income and wealth inequality remains one of South Africa’s greatest challenges. The Gini coefficient, which measures the income distribution of a nation’s residents, ranges from zero to one, with zero representing a completely egalitarian income distribution and one representing extreme inequality. This year, Implats’ internal Gini coefficient at its South African operations was 0.266, versus 0.252 in 2019; which compares favourably with the national coefficient of 0.436 and the mining industry coefficient of 0.416. COVID-19 To make a positive social contribution through addressing a deficit in host community medical response measures, Implats donated 1 700 Covid-19 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests to the Department of Health and conducted a further 1 259 PCR tests on community members. After an initial emphasis on distributing Covid-19 education materials, food parcels and basic goods, Implats donated over R20-million to various community-related Covid-19 efforts in South Africa, C$80 000 in Canada and a further $172 000 in Zimbabwe. “While this support has strengthened Implats’ relations with communities and other stakeholders, we are nonetheless mindful that the pandemic’s long-term implications for livelihoods, could stoke tensions,” Nkeli says, reporting, however, that there have been no operational disruptions owing to mine-related community unrest at any of the company’s operations since March 2019. In the coming year, Implats intends to conclude the restructuring and re-establishment of the Mine Community Leadership Engagement Forum at Impala Rustenburg to ensure that information about social investments, procurement and employment opportunities “flows unabated to our communities”. In Zimbabwe, host communities continue to be negativel...

En este nuevo episodio seguiremos desarrollando el ciclo de Artes, Mujeres y Disidencias. En esta oportunidad conoceremos las trayectorias, recorridos y obras de mujeres y disidencias en torno a las artes musicales. Además conversamos con Marula, Luna y Sabri, integrantes de la banda “Bambú en Tokio”. Ellas nos comparten sus recorridos y encuentro, la forma en que la emoción las lleva a crear en forma colectiva. Nos cuentan su experiencia sobre los escenarios y sobre la publicación de su EP.

En Música de Contrabando, revista diaria de música en Onda Regional de Murcia (orm.es, 00,00h) Se cumplen 50 años del fallecimiento de Janis Joplin, que alcanzó la gloria pero también descendió a los infiernos. Ruto Neón se proclamaron ganadores de la 28ª edición del CreaMurcia Pop- Rock envueltos en neopsicodelia y hedonismo. El guitarrista Mario del Olmo, miembro fundador de la banda Asfalto en 1972, ha fallecido este domingo por causas que no han sido reveladas. Neil Young anuncia la publicación de un nuevo disco, “Return To Greendale”, el 6 de noviembre. El disco fue grabado completamente en directo durante su histórica gira del 2003, cuando presentó su vigesimoquinto álbum, “Greendale”. YES versionan 'Imagine' de John Lennon en su nuevo disco 'The Royal Affair Tour: Live in Las Vegas'. Primavera Sound y la Fundación Lucha contra el Sida y las Enfermedades Infecciosas presentan un proyecto conjunto con el objetivo de probar diferentes fórmulas que puedan garantizar la creación de un ambiente seguro para la realización de acontecimientos relacionados con el ocio en espacios cerrados en tiempos de COVID-19 (Breis). Se cumplen 20 años de "Kid A", el inmaculado y rupturista cuarto álbum de Radiohead. Su segundo álbum recibirá el nombre de ‘Parques nacionales españoles’, pero antes Alexanderplatz han sacadoun EP de cuatro canciones, ‘Murcia Delenda Est’."Lifemates" es el título del nuevo disco de Angel José Angelpop NavarroAngelpop, un mini álbum de seis canciones en Cd y Digital, grabado por Angelpop y mezclado y masterizado por Juan Sueiro (Spam) y Guille Mostaza (Ellos). Alejandro Cerón (Pichón ._.) trabaja en Eindhoven , y desde allí lanza su contribucion al centenario de Pérez Galdós. Sidoniepublica, "El regreso de Abba", su mejor álbum, donde recuperan la esencia psicodélica de sus inicios, mezclada con la sabiduría pop de los grandes estribillos. Llega la IV edición del IV SAYZA JAZZSayZa Jazz Festival y hablamos con Javier González Soler# de la programación de la temporada (Marula, Santiago Campillo de Juan y Miguel Bañón). Toni Peña nos presenta la XI edición del Cartagena Folk, que ha modificado las fechas a causa de la pandemia, y también su emplazamiento . Habrá dos escenarios y un 'silente concert'(La Banda Morisca, Young Forest).

En Música de Contrabando, revista diaria de música en Onda Regional de Murcia (orm.es, 00,00h) Se cumplen 50 años del fallecimiento de Janis Joplin, que alcanzó la gloria pero también descendió a los infiernos. Ruto Neón se proclamaron ganadores de la 28ª edición del CreaMurcia Pop- Rock envueltos en neopsicodelia y hedonismo. El guitarrista Mario del Olmo, miembro fundador de la banda Asfalto en 1972, ha fallecido este domingo por causas que no han sido reveladas. Neil Young anuncia la publicación de un nuevo disco, “Return To Greendale”, el 6 de noviembre. El disco fue grabado completamente en directo durante su histórica gira del 2003, cuando presentó su vigesimoquinto álbum, “Greendale”. YES versionan 'Imagine' de John Lennon en su nuevo disco 'The Royal Affair Tour: Live in Las Vegas'. Primavera Sound y la Fundación Lucha contra el Sida y las Enfermedades Infecciosas presentan un proyecto conjunto con el objetivo de probar diferentes fórmulas que puedan garantizar la creación de un ambiente seguro para la realización de acontecimientos relacionados con el ocio en espacios cerrados en tiempos de COVID-19 (Breis). Se cumplen 20 años de "Kid A", el inmaculado y rupturista cuarto álbum de Radiohead. Su segundo álbum recibirá el nombre de ‘Parques nacionales españoles’, pero antes Alexanderplatz han sacadoun EP de cuatro canciones, ‘Murcia Delenda Est’."Lifemates" es el título del nuevo disco de Angel José Angelpop NavarroAngelpop, un mini álbum de seis canciones en Cd y Digital, grabado por Angelpop y mezclado y masterizado por Juan Sueiro (Spam) y Guille Mostaza (Ellos). Alejandro Cerón (Pichón ._.) trabaja en Eindhoven , y desde allí lanza su contribucion al centenario de Pérez Galdós. Sidoniepublica, "El regreso de Abba", su mejor álbum, donde recuperan la esencia psicodélica de sus inicios, mezclada con la sabiduría pop de los grandes estribillos. Llega la IV edición del IV SAYZA JAZZSayZa Jazz Festival y hablamos con Javier González Soler# de la programación de la temporada (Marula, Santiago Campillo de Juan y Miguel Bañón). Toni Peña nos presenta la XI edición del Cartagena Folk, que ha modificado las fechas a causa de la pandemia, y también su emplazamiento . Habrá dos escenarios y un 'silente concert'(La Banda Morisca, Young Forest).

En Música de Contrabando, revista diaria de música en Onda Regional de Murcia (orm.es, 00,00h) Se cumplen 50 años del fallecimiento de Janis Joplin, que alcanzó la gloria pero también descendió a los infiernos. Ruto Neón se proclamaron ganadores de la 28ª edición del CreaMurcia Pop- Rock envueltos en neopsicodelia y hedonismo. El guitarrista Mario del Olmo, miembro fundador de la banda Asfalto en 1972, ha fallecido este domingo por causas que no han sido reveladas. Neil Young anuncia la publicación de un nuevo disco, “Return To Greendale”, el 6 de noviembre. El disco fue grabado completamente en directo durante su histórica gira del 2003, cuando presentó su vigesimoquinto álbum, “Greendale”. YES versionan 'Imagine' de John Lennon en su nuevo disco 'The Royal Affair Tour: Live in Las Vegas'. Primavera Sound y la Fundación Lucha contra el Sida y las Enfermedades Infecciosas presentan un proyecto conjunto con el objetivo de probar diferentes fórmulas que puedan garantizar la creación de un ambiente seguro para la realización de acontecimientos relacionados con el ocio en espacios cerrados en tiempos de COVID-19 (Breis). Se cumplen 20 años de "Kid A", el inmaculado y rupturista cuarto álbum de Radiohead. Su segundo álbum recibirá el nombre de ‘Parques nacionales españoles’, pero antes Alexanderplatz han sacadoun EP de cuatro canciones, ‘Murcia Delenda Est’."Lifemates" es el título del nuevo disco de Angel José Angelpop NavarroAngelpop, un mini álbum de seis canciones en Cd y Digital, grabado por Angelpop y mezclado y masterizado por Juan Sueiro (Spam) y Guille Mostaza (Ellos). Alejandro Cerón (Pichón ._.) trabaja en Eindhoven , y desde allí lanza su contribucion al centenario de Pérez Galdós. Sidoniepublica, "El regreso de Abba", su mejor álbum, donde recuperan la esencia psicodélica de sus inicios, mezclada con la sabiduría pop de los grandes estribillos. Llega la IV edición del IV SAYZA JAZZSayZa Jazz Festival y hablamos con Javier González Soler# de la programación de la temporada (Marula, Santiago Campillo de Juan y Miguel Bañón). Toni Peña nos presenta la XI edición del Cartagena Folk, que ha modificado las fechas a causa de la pandemia, y también su emplazamiento . Habrá dos escenarios y un 'silente concert'(La Banda Morisca, Young Forest).

Si quieres que alguien te escuche, tienes que hablar. Y eso es precisamente lo que han hecho José Gallardo (Tomavistas), Carolina Rodríguez (Low Festival / Warm Up), Gabi Ruiz (Primavera Sound), Alfonso Santiago (BBK Live / Azkena / BIME) y Carmen Zapata (Associació de Sales de Concerts de Catalunya) en la inauguración oficial de la tercera temporada de Radio Primavera Sound. New Day Rising, el programa de las mañanas en la emisora oficial de Primavera Sound, ha hecho de marco para esta puesta en común protagonizada por representantes de algunos de los agentes más importantes del sector de la música en directo en España, renqueante después de vivir su verano más difícil y abocado a una larga temporada otoño-invierno si no se actúa con rapidez. En ese sentido, Zapata ha advertido de que “las salas no van a llegar a final de año (...) Marula ya ha cerrado en Madrid y el goteo de cierres será una constante en otoño”. “Estamos perdiendo empresas que nos daban servicio y que ya no estarán aquí. Hay grandes profesionales que ahora están sin trabajo y no podrán aguantar. Me recuerda a cuando empezamos, que había que pedir cosas de fuera”, ha añadido Ruiz. El problema, a fin de cuentas, quizá sea de base. ¿En qué consideración se tiene a la cultura por parte de las autoridades? “Las instituciones han actuado como en todas las crisis, nunca hemos sido un sector prioritario. A mí eso no me ha sorprendido”, ha lamentado Santiago. “No se tiene claro que la cultura es un bien esencial. Tenemos que luchar porque la cultura sea un bien esencial porque realmente lo es: la gente tiene necesidades culturales. Es imposible que paremos nuestra actividad (...) No se puede discutir que somos un sector esencial; las salas, los cines, los teatros son nuestro patrimonio”, ha señalado Ruiz. En palabras de Rodríguez, “el desconocimiento del Ministerio de Cultura es profundo”. Mientras un escenario incierto aparece ya en el horizonte, queda atrás un verano atípico en el que la posibilidad de realizar algunos eventos puntuales al aire libre ha maquillado a duras penas la situación. “Decidimos adaptarnos al formato grande, sacar un escenario al aire libre para rescatar la programación de las salas y recaudar dinero para las salas de pequeño aforo porque están en peligro”, ha comentado Carmen Zapata, directora del ciclo Sala BCN que durante el verano ha llevado música en directo a diferentes espacios de Barcelona. Respecto a una iniciativa similar como las Nits del Primavera, Gabi Ruiz ha subrayado que “no hemos tenido ningún caso. La organización ha estado bien, el público se ha comportado”. “Los que hemos ejercido la práctica musical en este período hemos demostrado que somos capaces de adaptarnos y seguir las normas”, ha reivindicado Rodríguez. Gallardo, por su parte, ha recordado “la incertidumbre hasta el último minuto” con la que el festival que dirige, Tomavistas, ha tenido que trabajar durante estas últimas semanas. “Llevamos una frustración tras otra”. De cara al futuro, en opinión de Alfonso Santiago, urge la creación de “un lobby más fuerte (...) somos 700.000 familias, deberíamos de tener una manera de llegar a las instituciones”. Gallardo coincide en que la unión, una vez más, puede volver a hacer la fuerza: “Necesitamos que las instituciones validen nuestras decisiones y para eso hace falta poder grupal”. Además de abrir la puerta a un protocolo en el que “los tests rápidos permitirán hacer PCRs con resultados al minuto”, Gabi Ruiz ha querido concluir con un mensaje optimista. “Nos han criminalizado, pero la música en directo va a seguir y la vuelta va a ser muy fuerte. La gente tiene muchas ganas de música en directo y vendrán años buenos haciendo nuestro trabajo”.

JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Platinum group metals mining and marketing company Implats, which generated free cash flow of R14.4-billion in the 12 months to June 30, is forecasting capital expenditure (capex) of between R6-billion and R6.8-billion in the new 2021 financial year. This is well up on the capex of R4.5-billion in the 2020 financial year just past. Prioritised is the ramp up of the 16 Shaft and 20 Shaft at Impala Rustenburg, where operational flexibility has been achieved through the increase in mining face length, positioning the two shafts to drive up volumes. In addition, production will continue to be accelerated at the Mupani mine and Zimplats, in Zimababwe, to increase production by 40 000 t/m, or 14%, from the 2022 financial year onwards. Mining Weekly can report that processing capacity expansion has also been initiated at Marula in Mpumalanga, and it is a key priority of the JSE-listed Implats, headed by CEO Nico Muller, to develop value from its new acquisition, Impala Canada. This is being done in the strong belief that the current buoyant market position will continue for the medium term, driven by sustained deficits for palladium and rhodium and an improved outlook for platinum. Production volumes will be supported through the planned release of accumulated inventory and group refined production forecast at between 2.8-million ounces and 3.4-million ounces of six element (6E) metals – platinum, palladium, rhodium, gold, iridium and ruthenium – for financial year 2021. As at June 30, 65% of the company’s reserve was favourable to mechanised mining and an additional 5% towards hybrid mining at the Marula platinum mine, in Mpumalanga. This is up on the financial year just past, largely as a consequence of 2020 being hit by Covid-19, the inclusion of the first full year of Impala Canada and the ability to support group refined production with the processing of 100 000 oz of excess inventory. Group operating costs are expected to be between R14500/6Eoz and R15500/6Eoz refined on a stock-adjusted basis. Full year 6E in concentrate production estimates for the operational entities are: Impala Rustenburg 1.10-milion to 1.25-million ounces; Zimplats 570 000 oz to 600 000 oz; Two Rivers 260 000 oz to 300 000 oz; Impala Canada 250 000 oz to 280 000 oz; Mimosa 230 000 oz to 260 000 oz.

Junto com a "Prisão de Stanford", o "Parque dos Ratos" faz parte dos experimentos mais famosos sobre comportamento animal.E ele acaba sendo usado de forma indiscriminada em palestras e artigos leigos.Mas ele é válido ou o tempo mostrou o contrário?Confira no papo entre o leigo curioso, Ken Fujioka, e o cientista PhD, Altay de Souza.OUÇA (49min 29s)*Naruhodo! é o podcast pra quem tem fome de aprender. Ciência, senso comum, curiosidades, desafios e muito mais. Com o leigo curioso, Ken Fujioka, e o cientista PhD, Altay de Souza.Edição: Reginaldo Cursino.http://naruhodo.b9.com.br*PARCERIA: ALURAA Alura tem mais de 1.000 cursos de diversas áreas e é a maior plataforma de cursos online do Brasil -- e você tem acesso a todos com uma única assinatura.Aproveite o desconto de R$100 para ouvintes Naruhodo no link:https://www.alura.com.br/promocao/naruhodo*REFERÊNCIASAfrican animals drunk on Marula fruithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru-dssakX8IMyth, Marula, and Elephant: An Assessment of Voluntary Ethanol Intoxication of the African Elephant (Loxodonta africana) Following Feeding on the Fruit of the Marula Treehttps://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/acb1/518eafc552f90de76d3ac861fb575d444839.pdfEffect of Early and Later Colony Housing on Oral Ingestion of Morphine in Rats https://www.brucekalexander.com/pdf/Rat%20Park%201981%20PB&B.pdfOpiate Addiction: The Case For an Adaptive Orientationhttps://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/1983-01243-001.pdf?auth_token=a85860e251d7aea197fe88e89dcb780a0832b578A review of opioid addiction geneticshttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X1830112X“Why did I get that part of you?” Understanding addiction genetics through family historyhttps://journals.sagepub.com.sci-hub.tw/doi/abs/10.1177/0963662518785350Systems genetics of sensation seekinghttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gbb.12519Rat animal models for screening medications to treat alcohol use disordershttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S002839081730045XReduced cocaine-seeking behavior in heterozygous BDNF knockout ratshttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0304394013002930Current approaches and issues in non-clinical evaluation of abuse and dependencehttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1056871910001504Regulation of BAZ1A and nucleosome positioning in the nucleus accumbens in response to cocainehttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0306452217302464Addiction: The Urgent Need for a Paradigm Shift.https://www.tandfonline.com.sci-hub.tw/doi/abs/10.3109/10826084.2012.705681UBC scientists create addiction-resistant mousehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYbC8bhDZdwCocaine-evoked synaptic plasticity: a key to addiction?https://www.nature.com.sci-hub.tw/articles/nn0708-737Rat Park: How a rat paradise changed the narrative of addiction. Addiction. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.sci-hub.tw/doi/abs/10.1111/add.14481UBC scientists create mouse that resists cocaine's lurehttps://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-02/uobc-usc020717.phpCadherin 13: Human cis-Regulation and Selectively Altered Addiction Phenotypes and Cerebral Cortical Dopamine in Knockout Micehttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5082297/Naruhodo #49 - O que é vício?https://www.b9.com.br/shows/naruhodo/naruhodo-49-o-que-causa-o-vicio/Naruhodo #139 - Por que crianças ricas vão melhor no teste do marshmallow?https://www.b9.com.br/shows/naruhodo/naruhodo-139-por-que-criancas-ricas-vao-melhor-no-teste-do-marshmallow/Naruhodo #137 - O experimento da prisão de Stanford é uma fraude?https://www.b9.com.br/shows/naruhodo/naruhodo-137-o-experimento-da-prisao-de-stanford-e-uma-fraude/Naruhodo #220- Existe causa para a depressão? - Parte 1 de 2https://www.b9.com.br/shows/naruhodo/naruhodo-220-existe-causa-para-a-depressao-parte-1-de-2/Naruhodo #221- Existe causa para a depressão? - Parte 2 de 2https://www.b9.com.br/shows/naruhodo/naruhodo-221-existe-causa-para-a-depressao-parte-2-de-2/Podcasts das #Minas: PONTO G#MulheresPodcastershttps://preciosamadalena.com.br/category/podcast/ponto-g/*APOIE O NARUHODO!Você sabia que pode ajudar a manter o Naruhodo no ar?Ao contribuir, você pode ter acesso ao grupo fechado no Telegram, receber conteúdos exclusivos e ter vantagens especiais.Assine o apoio mensal pelo PicPay: https://picpay.me/naruhodopodcast

Marula oil is another African-sourced oil with a long history of use as a beauty oil. It’s a lot like argan oil’s older sibling—they have similar benefits, but enough of their own unique abilities to make them different. Listen in and find out the differences.

Kosmos 94.1 — Die Benchmark Foundation in Suid-Afrika sê indien mynbase werkers dwing om te vinnig terug te keer werk toe, is daar ‘n risiko dat gemeenskappe regoor die land met Covid-19 besmet kan word. Mynmaatskappye werk tans onder vlak vier-afsluiting teen 50 persent kapasiteit. Impala Platinum het verlede week onthul dat 19 gevalle van die virus by die Marula-myn in Limpopo bevestig is. Die stigting se Hassen Lorgat sê sonder sinvolle raadpleging kan duisende mense sterf.

Why has the mystic and the natural world been intertwined with symbolic meaning and the path of awakening to a different way of perceiving life since the beginning of human experience? From the 1st of April 2020, Boyd Varty from Londolozi Game Reserve in South Africa realizes a life long dream as he goes into the wilderness alone for 40 days and 40 nights to try and answer that question from inside that experience. - Episode 40: Day 38 "Push" If you think 6 weeks is long you should try two days. The moon rises here have been truly epic. Last night as it rose a small pearl spotted owl was perched on a Marula tree silhouetted for a moment. An astounding truth that the moon controls the tides and fertility in its cycle. The night was so bright I didn't even need a torch. You know you are so hungry when everything looks like food. A huge pancake, a wheel of French cheese and a ripe peach. It's not that I'm tired but rather how you would feel at the end of a long experience. It's a head space. I really want to shower, I really want to talk to my friends. Drink pints at the taps and get cut mercilessly before they turn on each other. It's the things that play on your mind like warm anticipation. You can't do that early on as it would just derail your whole sense of presence. It makes me think of Renias and how any tracker worth his salt is just wired this way. On a prior retreat the tracks had been tricky but were fresh. Part of the art of guiding is being able to read where people are and know where to push and when to let them go. Renias, however couldn't leave the tracks. It offended something in his nature to let the lion tracks go. A few days ago I left the trail of the lion when the sun climbed high in the sky and the light grew flat and white. I needed to go back on the track and be certain the trail was lost over the border which it was. Courage is knowing when the hold on and knowing when to let go. I need to be here all the way until the end.

If you think 6 weeks is long you should try two days. The moon rises here have been truly epic. Last night as it rose a small pearl spotted owl was perched on a Marula tree silhouetted for a moment. An astounding truth that the moon controls the tides and fertility in its cycle. The night was so bright I didn’t even need a torch. You know you are so hungry when everything looks like food. A huge pancake, a wheel of French cheese and a ripe peach. It’s not that I’m tired but rather how you would feel at the end of a long experience. It’s a head space. I really want to shower, I really want to talk to my friends. Drink pints at the taps and get cut mercilessly before they turn on each other. It’s the things that play on your mind like warm anticipation. You can’t do that early on as it would just derail your whole sense of presence. It makes me think of Renias and how any tracker worth his salt is just wired this way. On a prior retreat the tracks had been tricky but were fresh. Part of the art of guiding is being able to read where people are and know where to push and when to let them go. Renias, however couldn’t leave the tracks. It offended something in his nature to let the lion tracks go. A few days ago I left the trail of the lion when the sun climbed high in the sky and the light grew flat and white. I needed to go back on the track and be certain the trail was lost over the border which it was. Courage is knowing when the hold on and knowing when to let go. I need to be here all the way until the end. Connect with Boyd Varty: Website | https://boydvarty.com/ Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/boyd_varty/ Twitter | https://twitter.com/BoydVarty Find out more about Londolozi Website | https://www.londolozi.com/en/ Impact | https://londolozi.africa Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/londolozi/ Twitter | https://twitter.com/londolozi Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/londolozigamereserve/

Ja podeu escoltar l'entrevista que li vam fer David Jacome, que al desembre va presentar el seu disc "Más lejos". Va passar per la ràdio i ara, després de presentar el seu disc a la seva Colòmbia natal, ha tornat a la ràdio per parlar del concert del pròxim dissabte (22?h) a la Sala Marula de Barcelona.

Welcome to the Fertility Foundations podcast with nutritional therapist, functional medicine practitioner and coach Sandra Greenbank. This week on the podcast, I talk to Dietitian and Functional medicine practitioner Lara Rickard who specialises in PCOS. Lara's personal struggles with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome from a young age has inspired her to study this area in-depth and choose to specialise in this subject. Join us, as we discuss natural, evidenced-based strategies to healing PCOS and how this relates to Fertility. Lara's website: www.marulawellness.com Sandra's website: www.sandragreenbank.co.uk Sandra's Fertility Foundations Online course: www.bit.ly/fertilityfoundations

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Vincent Sulfite et Billy le Bordelais reçoivent cette semaine l'acteur Marc Andreoni, l'ancien directeur artistique chez PolyGramMusic (devenu Universal)Manu Gauguin, et Manu Saunier, bassiste solidaire. Voici le palmarès des bouteilles de la soirée : N°1 : le Roussillon nature de chez Rivaton N°2 : le Saumur chancelle nature N°3 : le Marsannay N°4 : le Gérard Marula en Loire nature Hors concours : le Saint-Emilion de Billy le Bordelais

The Takeaways: Luxe Botanics is an innovative green skin care company created by Jene Roestorf, and was inspired by nature’s visibly proven botanical ingredients. The focus on the intersection between scientific evidence and nature is what sets Luxe Botanics apart from other skin care lines.  Jene created Luxe because of her love and connection to the planet and nature. She sources only the highest grade, organic, and wild harvested botanicals through fair-trade alliances to support local communities. Marula, Camu Camu, and Kigelia are the three core botanics used in Luxe’s product line because of their  scientific evidence in skin care effectiveness. Each individual Luxe product is formulated to precision with high concentrations of unique core botanicals. Collaboration with others, learning to be vulnerable, and continuing to reconnect with her “why” are three components of Jene’s success. Jene Roestorf, founder of Luxe Botanics, grew up in South Africa where she spent the majority of her childhood surrounded by the natural world. Developing such a close connection with nature at a young age left a deep imprint on her, and she carried this love and connectedness with her after leaving South Africa. After moving to Australia to work in the world of research and science, her main focus on clinical trial studies, Jene realized that her life lacked consistent connection to the Earth and she decided to shift her life path to realign with her deepest passion. Nature. This is how Luxe Botanics was born. With her passion for science and love of nature, Jene created Luxe, a green skincare company that is backed by scientific research, utilizes the incredible healing properties nature provides, and a strong mission to give back to communities involved in the process - the buy one give one charity is an integral part of her company. Luxe only uses botanics that have been scientifically tested to improve the health of the skin. Jene started with three core botanics, Marula, Camu Camu, and Kigelia. These core three were chosen because they have the strongest scientific evidence in skin care, and Jene’s connection and drive to help improve the communities they’re grown in. Jene was exposed to both Marula on a regular basis throughout her childhood in South Africa, and Luxe sources this botanic from Kenya. Marula oil was often used by women during pregnancy to reduce stretch marks, and the winter months to reduce chapped skin, or applied to burns. Kigelia, sourced from Malawi, a large fruit shaped similar to a cucumber (but much bigger, sometimes 2-3 meters long!). It is often used to treat a large range of skin conditions including eczema, acne, psoriasis, skin injuries, sunburn. Kigelia is a natural antifungal, antiviral, and antibiotic, and because of its DNA repairing abilities and scientific literature, Kigelia is in the top four ingredients in all of Luxe’s products. The final of the core three, Camu Camu berry extract, is sourced from Brazil where Jene visited during her clinical career. There are many plants in Africa that contain vitamin C, but none that compare to the Camu Camu berry, which is about 30x that of an orange. Jene has certainly created a beautiful company in less than two years, and during our interview she shared her thoughts about the obstacles she’s encountered, her inspiration and drive, her strategic plan for creating this amazing company, and the advice she’s taken to heart on her way to success. Be open, be vulnerable, find your why, and start a conversation with others in the industry, even if it’s scary or intimidating. But with all of the advice she’s picked up along the way, she shared with us some advice of her own, advice that really sits close to my own heart: “If you’ve got an idea just go for it, put all your energy into it. Get some grit and drive in those feelings, you can do it. We’re all rooting for each other, and if we just help each other we can really improve the world around us.” It was an inspiration discussing Luxe Botanics with Jene. Take some time to listen (or watch) the entire podcast episode to hear more about her journey. Visit Luxe Botanics website, or shop here. Follow Luxe Botanics on instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A single marula tree can provide up to 1.5 tons of fruit each season--as much as 90,000 fruits. That works well for the average elephant who needs to consume 6% of its own body weight each day and... The latest in science, culture, and history from Smithsonian Channel.

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