Watch my first conversation with Mr. Martin Walter, CEO of Nubian Resources (TSXV:NBR) and read the transcript below.

Martin Walter: We have a brand new gold project here at Nubian located down in Victoria, Australia. With Ballarat, Bendigo and Fosterville, you might call it the gold belt of Victoria. Gold was discovered down in the 1850s and it's very high-grade, very nuggety type gold in this goldfield. It's always been overlooked by by the large open pit mines out of Western Australia. Victoria has been seen a big surge of exploration or development over the last period 20-plus years, but the successes of what Kirkland Lake has done at Fosterville is changing that as has become one of the best gold mines in the region, if not in Australia. And if not in the world. It's created something of a modern-day Gold Rush in Victoria, and certainly focusing on the Ballarat-Bendigo-Fosterville-Daylesford type corridors in that area. We've picked up a piece of property there. A nice project with high-grade that is very similar geology to what you see in a lot of the deposit in the area with reef gold. There is a mineralized corridor of five kilometres long and a number of old workings scattered along the five kilometres, with some recent new developments and new mining installations. There is a new head frame there and a couple of underground drives. It hasn't seen much exploration until now -- that's the opportunity. There's plenty of plenty of smoke for want of a better word. Lots of mineralization at surface. The job of Nubian is to get involved, get in there, and start drilling.

Peter Bell: Wonderful! Great to hear drill ready targets and other things about the project in the news release announcing it. I love to see names like Nuggety Gully. That's just amazing. And to see mention of extensive deep radar geophysics that is being completed?

Martin Walter: The project is quite advanced, which we were lucky to get hold of in the first place. There's some minimal mining going on, exploratory mining, which will keep advancing on the project. The drilling will focus underneath that, intersecting some of the reefs that have been seen in some of the exploratory drives at depth. We'll drill underneath that and on top of that we're completing the radar to pick up some of the structure at depth. There's never been any sort of modern-day exploration, geophysical survey over the property. That's another opportunity for us to cover it property-wide and to map-out the structure and map-out some of these gold-bearing quartz veins and reefs.

Peter Bell: Well done! Well done. You mentioned that mining is ongoing. Does that have any relation to Nubian?

Martin Walter: It is part of the package. It's minor stuff right now. It needs a capital injection, which is why we're getting involved with the project. Hopefully we can bring that. In Victoria, these saddle reefs or quartz reefs woul be explored back in the back by sinking a shaft, cross-cut out to the reef, find the reef, and either drive or stope on the quartz reef. That's what's been happening in recent years here again. We're taking over the project now and we'll add some more money to see if we can fast-track a lot of that. It's just another exploration tool in the toolkit.

Peter Bell: Wonderful. I am a big fan of alluvial mining and an actual gold production here. The history at the Fosterville and the future there, too? A random thing that I will mention is a quote from Eric Sprott in 2017 talking about Quinton Hennigh telling him that at a certain depth the gold grade just explodes to the upside. I wonder if if there's been much deep work at your mine?

Martin Walter: There's been very little deep work done on this one. In terms of nuggets, the area is quite famous for them. Certainly in the Ballarat-Bendigo area, the biggest-ever gold nugget was found there. The Welcome Nugget. I think the third biggest ever nugget in the world was also found there. The biggest and third-biggest -- the WELCOME STRANGER and the WELCOME nugget were both found within the area. It does yield a lot of a lot of gold nuggets. In the history of the Yandiot property that we have, there are plenty of nuggets found -- up to 20 grams. We're quite excited about that. Recently, a couple of prospectors found a nugget there at 20 grams within close vicinity of where we're going to be drilling and working. Where the headframe is at the moment.

Peter Bell: And with high-grade gold like this, there are unique challenges from an exploration perspective. Just to ask about that -- you have some experience I guess with coarse gold and how to tackle this thing?

Martin Walter: I've always been a fan of the plan to move less for more. I like nuggety situations like this because I tend to find with coarse gold that when you get into the mining phase you probably recover more gold rather than less. It's what we call the nugget effect. I'm a fan of gold nuggets. They tend to be easily extracted, as well, through gravity circuits and gravity systems at the front of most extraction gold plants. They are loose and the are big -- with a light crush, they can be liberated. I'm a fan of having have been having the nugget effect on the property. It gives you a little bit of a upfront cash flow when you get going, as well.

Peter Bell: Nice to have that potential for a positive surprise or a beat on the production numbers, right? The more material you sample, the grade keeps going up -- then you start getting into production and you really beat! What a good position to be in.

Martin Walter: Where there is smoke, there is fire. There's certainly a lot of nuggets been found in the area and they are still a lot of nuggets to be found going on. We like that. I think it's reflective of some of the quartz reefs and minerallogy of what is below the surface.

Peter Bell: Thank you in the news release for including acquisition terms. They look to be reasonable here.

Martin Walter: I think so. We're paying a total of $5.5 million Australian dollars for the entire project over a period of three years. We pay a little bit upfront while we get stuck into it with drilling and all the rest of it. While we like it and continue to like it, we pay more until we've paid off the whole $5.5 million. We have we have a three year period in order to do that.

Peter Bell: Wonderful. Glad to see you in Toronto with a Canadian junior mining company making some waves down there.

Martin Walter: It's great. It really is a modern-day gold rush into the area.

Peter Bell: What fun! Mr. Martin Walter, thank you very much.

Martin Walter: Thanks, Peter.

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