Ivanhoe Electric ($IE) is a young, tech-first mining outfit founded by industry veteran Robert Friedland that blends traditional exploration with proprietary geophysics and AI. In this episode we unpack its focus on U.S. critical-metal projects—notably the private‑land Santa Cruz copper site—and its Typhoon surveying system plus a machine‑learning arm that creates 3D subsurface images, alongside a big joint venture in the Arabian Shield. Those assets could speed discovery and de‑risk exploration, positioning Ivanhoe to tap rising copper demand for the energy transition. But the company is still pre‑production, its tech is unproven at scale, and it faces permitting, geopolitical, environmental, capital‑raising and competitive risks. Is Ivanhoe a disruptive pioneer that will change how mines are found, or a high‑tech gamble that may never reach commercial scale?

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