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"4000% Silver Rally! Every Silver & Gold Stacker Needs To Watch This": Don Durrett

Channel: The Silver Market Published: 2026-05-07 13:58
The Silver Market

Don Durrett argues that gold and silver miners are speculative, high-upside vehicles for a coming breakdown in the global debt bubble, and he walks through Honey Badger Silver as a candidate example. His emphasis is on disciplined sizing, jurisdiction, and optionality: Prairie Creek is permitted, large, and in Canada, but still carries real infrastructure, winter logistics, and execution risk.

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Don Durrett frames the whole discussion around position sizing and the idea that gold/silver mining is speculation, not traditional investing. He says he typically buys around 0.5% of his allocation per stock, with higher weights only for higher quality names, and stresses that miners are volatile enough that investors should only commit money they can afford to lose. His broader thesis is that the debt bubble is eventually going to “pop,” and that roughly $250 trillion of global stocks and bonds could need a safe haven; in that scenario he believes gold would attract capital and silver would follow, lifting miners dramatically. He says the current gold/silver bull market began around August and is not over yet. That matters because he wants exposure while the cycle is still developing, but only with a good entry. …

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Main takeaways

  1. He views gold and silver miners as speculative bets on a future debt-bubble break, not as normal investments.
  2. Position sizing is central to his approach; he prefers small allocations and only adds size where quality is higher.
  3. Honey Badger Silver’s Prairie Creek acquisition is the core case study: permitted, large, in Canada, and newly capitalized.
  4. He thinks the asset has major upside if silver stays strong and production is achieved, but it is still a high-risk, infrastructure-heavy mine.
  5. His framework prioritizes grade, recovery, mine life, economics, jurisdiction, management, permits, and insider ownership.
  6. He sees meaningful risk from logistics, winter access, and the fact that zinc/lead may not rally with silver.
  7. He is bullish on the broader silver bull market but treats the timeline and final valuation as scenario-dependent rather than certain.

Market read by horizon

Short term

Tactically, the stock looks like a leveraged silver-beta story: it can move hard if silver stays bid and the market keeps rewarding permitted development names, but it is vulnerable to disappointment on execution or dilution.

  • Near term, the setup is about whether Honey Badger can keep momentum from the Prairie Creek deal and financing.
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  • The immediate catalyst is continued market digestion of the acquisition, the freshly raised capital, and the company’s permitting/production plan.
  • Watch the stock’s reaction to valuation updates and any new commentary on the road, access, or development timeline.
Mid term

Over the next few months, the market will likely decide whether Prairie Creek is a credible path-to-production asset or just a promising optionality story; confirmation would come from clearer development milestones and stable financing.

  • Over the next several weeks to months, the base case is that the market re-rates the name if Prairie Creek is shown to be a credible path-to-production story.
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  • Confirmation would come from clearer engineering, resource expansion, and evidence the company can advance development without excessive dilution.
  • If silver continues trending higher, he expects optionality names like this to benefit disproportionately, especially in a bull cycle.
Long term

The structural bet is that debt stress eventually drives capital into precious metals, and that scarce, permitted silver projects in stable jurisdictions become much more valuable in that regime.

  • Structurally, he is betting on a regime where debt stress and financial fragility push capital toward precious metals.
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  • In that regime, high-quality or strategically located silver projects in stable jurisdictions could earn much higher multiples than they historically do in riskier regions.
  • The lasting implication is that silver miners are levered not just to metal prices, but to scarcity of permitted, large-scale assets in North America.
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Key claims (11)

BULLISH debt bubble / safe haven flows

The debt bubble is going to pop, causing a flight of capital from $250 trillion in stocks and bonds into gold, which will lift silver as well.

Speaker argues that a collapsing debt bubble will drive capital from stocks and bonds into precious metals as a safe haven.

BULLISH Honey Badger (TUF-CA)

Prairie Creek is already permitted, giving it a near-term path to production that many comparable projects lack.

The speaker states that unlike many smaller exploration projects, Prairie Creek has already secured necessary permits.

BULLISH Honeybadger Silver

Honeybadger Silver has a strong path to production and could get Prairie Creek into production within one year.

Speaker references a video from Chad Williams stating the goal to bring Prairie Creek into production within a year, and notes the project is fully permitted.

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Assets discussed (13)

Honey Badger Silver
BULLISH stock

He owns it and repeatedly frames it as a strong, high-upside developer with a transformative acquisition.

Prairie Creek project
BULLISH other

Presented as the core asset: large, permitted, control secured, and potentially worth more than the market cap.

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Interview (1 Q&A)

production timeline

When can Honeybadger Silver fully get up to production?

The speaker believes there's a possibility it takes a while to get there, but thinks 4 million ounces is definitely doable considering the 1,200 tons per day mine size. The key factor is the silver price.

Where this transcript pushes against consensus

  • The thesis assumes a major debt-bubble event; that macro trigger is asserted, not demonstrated.
  • He gives very bullish upside numbers from a forecast tool, but those outputs depend heavily on aggressive assumptions about silver price, dilution, and output.
  • The view that Prairie Creek deserves a high multiple because it is in Canada may understate the impact of remote logistics and winter access.
  • He treats the project as strong despite admitting he wants a more experienced CEO, which leaves some execution risk unresolved.
  • His assumption that base metals will be a secondary issue may prove wrong if the commodity mix drives returns more than he expects.

Topics

debt bubblegold and silver bull marketposition sizingHoney Badger SilverPrairie Creek projectCanadian mining jurisdictionvaluation scenariosinsider ownershipmining checklistproduction risk

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