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Shawn Khunkhun

Type: Miner Tracked appearances: 36
Validated speaker Dolly Varden Silver

Khunkhun’s recurring worldview is strongly bullish on precious metals, especially silver, and centered on scarcity, industrial demand, and leverage to re-rating.

Analyzed appearances 36
Latest appearance 2026-07-19 12:35
Most seen on David Lin

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Research profile

Shawn Khunkhun is a mining executive with roughly two decades in the resource sector, with an early background in investor relations and capital raising. Across the supplied interviews he presents as a deal-and-development oriented operator: someone who likes to raise capital, support distressed or undervalued assets, and help turn them into producing businesses. He repeatedly references prior success building a gold miner, facilitating large capital inflows, and working alongside experienced mining entrepreneurs. He is now associated with Contango Silver & Gold and speaks as a senior leader focused on scaling a North American precious-metals company.

Economic vision

Khunkhun’s recurring worldview is strongly bullish on precious metals, especially silver, and centered on scarcity, industrial demand, and leverage to re-rating. He argues silver is unusual because it has both monetary and industrial demand, with industrial use increasingly dominant due to EVs, solar, and other technologies. He sees supply deficits and constrained mine output as structurally supportive of higher prices over time, even if he expects sharp volatility and periodic pullbacks. He often frames silver as a way to acquire more gold, and he favors accumulating physical metal during consolidations. On the company side, he advocates a capital-efficient model: use existing cash flow from a producing asset to fund exploration and development of high-grade projects, avoid building expensive processing infrastructure where possible, and use direct-shipping ore and permitted or near-permitted assets to accelerate production. He also tends to think in terms of valuation gaps and eventual multiple expansion, especially for companies that can become mid-tier North American producers.

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  • Admin-validated speaker with linked X / Twitter profile.
  • Preview built from 36 analyzed appearances.
  • Latest tracked appearance: 2026-07-19 12:35.
  • Most often seen on David Lin.
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Mining company record (163)

163 transcript-backed statements from 7 appearances, covering resource size, region, country and other company claims. These reflect management's own framing and have not been independently verified.

7 appearances · 163 statements · 10 themes · latest 09 Jul 2026 · Contango Silver & Gold, Contango Silver, Dolly Varden Silver
What management keeps saying the 5 most-stated themes
resource size
65 million ounces of silver, 90 ounces of gold
Repeated across 7 interviews Most repeated
milestone
40,000 m of drilling planned20,000 m drilled
Repeated across 6 interviews
capital needed
$60 million into the projects, 67 and a half million
Repeated across 5 interviews
cash position
$100 million in the bank
Repeated across 4 interviews
first production
about 3 years out
Repeated across 4 interviews
Key questions that remain
  • Is the resource figure supported by a current NI 43-101 / JORC technical report — and is it measured, indicated or inferred?
  • Is the stated grade a reserve grade, a resource grade, or a single drill intercept?
  • Which study do these economics come from — PEA, pre-feasibility or feasibility?
  • What metal price and discount rate underpin the NPV and IRR?
Explore the underlying statements
resource size 9 statements
65 million ounces of silver, 90 ounces of goldContango Silver & Gold
We assembled the land position, five past producing silver mines. We did a lot of drilling. We built up a large resource, 65 million ounces of silver, 90 ounces of gold.
09 Jul 2026 ·
100,000 oz a year for at least a decadeContango Silver
it'll go on to produce about 100,000 oz a year for at least a decade.
20 May 2026 ·
200,000 oz annually of goldContango Silver
Contango silver and gold will be a 5 million oz a year silver producer which also produces 200,000 oz annually of gold.
20 May 2026 ·
100,000 oz a yearContango Silver
That too will be generating $100 million free cash flow, taking our production profile from the current 60,000 oz to 100,000 oz.
20 May 2026 ·
5 million oz a year of silverContango Silver
This is an asset that'll contribute to the production profile about 5 million oz a year of silver.
20 May 2026 ·
60,000 oz a yearContango Silver
It's producing, on average, life of mine, 60,000 oz a year.
20 May 2026 ·
1.1 million ounces of goldContango Silver
Johnson Track project was which is the third project in Alaska, another high-grade gold project which is about 1.1 million ounces of gold at roughly 10 g per ton.
20 May 2026 ·
about 1.1 million ounces of goldContango Silver & Gold
Johnson Tract project was which is the third project in Alaska, another high-grade gold project which is about 1.1 million ounces of gold at roughly 10 g per ton.
20 May 2026 ·
1.1 million ounces of goldContango Silver & Gold
Johnson track project was which is the third project in Alaska, another high-grade gold project which is about 1.1 million ounces of gold at roughly 10 g per ton.
20 May 2026 ·
exploration upside 3 statements
KM discovery at Lucky Shot; new discovery success continuingContango Silver & Gold
That yielded a new discovery. I I took a quick look at your screen. So, that that yielded a new discovery. So, we got the KM discovery.
09 Jul 2026 ·
incorporate 200,000 m of drillingContango Silver & Gold
Um there is a new mineral resource estimate that's scheduled to come out in June. Um so, we're looking to incorporate 200,000 m of drilling.
20 May 2026 ·
200,000 m of drillingContango Silver & Gold
we're looking to incorporate 200,000 m of drilling.
20 May 2026 ·
grade 2 statements
roughly 10 g per tonContango Silver
Johnson Track project was which is the third project in Alaska, another high-grade gold project which is about 1.1 million ounces of gold at roughly 10 g per ton.
20 May 2026 ·
roughly 10 g per tonContango Silver & Gold
Johnson track project was which is the third project in Alaska, another high-grade gold project which is about 1.1 million ounces of gold at roughly 10 g per ton.
20 May 2026 ·

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Themes and assets

Dolly Varden Silver 4 Contango Silver and Gold merger 3 gold-silver ratio 3 gold bull market 2 industrial demand 2 precious metals bull market 2 silver breakout 2 silver bull market 2

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