This week on Digging for Dollars, Cejay Kim goes solo with Frederick Bell, CEO of Elemental Altus Royalties, right after announcing a billion-dollar merger with EMX Royalty Corp and the surprise arrival of Tether Investments as a cornerstone shareholder.They unpack how a stablecoin giant ended up backing a gold-royalty company, why the merger creates one of the world’s top-five mid-tier royalty players, and how Frederick built the business from a private startup to a global cash-flowing platform.From early uranium lessons to today’s precious-metals focus, Bell explains what it takes to grow in cycles, attract capital, and scale without dilution. They finish on the sector’s biggest question — can crypto money revive mining? — and how Elemental Altus plans to lead that next phase.0:00 – Frederick Bell joins: EMX Royalty merger & Tether as cornerstone investor 5:25 – From history degree to mining CEO: lessons from uranium & gold 10:45 – Building Elemental Altus: royalties, capital access & risk control 12:30 – Inside Tether’s move into gold & why royalties appeal to crypto capital 19:40 – Growth, leverage & how a $1 B platform scales with deep pockets 26:00 – Gold at record highs & new investors entering mining Companies Mentioned: Elemental Altus - $ELETRIPLE FLAG PRECIOUS METALS CORP. - $TFPMOR ROYALTIES INC - $ORWest Point Gold Corp. - $WPGPasofino Gold Limited - $VEIN#investing #Stocks #ResourceInvesting #Mining #Gold #Silver #CriticalMinerals --------------------------------------This podcast does not provide any investment, financial, economic, legal, accounting, or tax related advice or recommendations. The content in this podcast is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. You must obtain more specific or professional advice before taking, or refraining from, any action or inaction on the basis of the contents of this podcast. The information contained in this podcast does not constitute an offer to buy or sell securities or any other product and should not be relied upon to evaluate any potential transaction. The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are not necessarily those of EarthLabs Inc. ("EarthLabs") and its respective directors, employees, officers, agents, shareholders, or affiliates. EarthLabs is not providing any investment, financial, economic, legal, accounting, or tax related advice or recommendations in this podcast. EarthLabs makes no representations, warranties, or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content in this podcast is accurate, complete, or up to date. Any and all liability is expressly disclaimed, and EarthLabs has no responsibility or liability whatsoever for the use of this podcast.   This podcast may include content provided by third parties. All statements and/or opinions expressed by third parties are solely the opinions and the responsibility of the person or entity providing those materials. Such materials do not necessarily reflect the opinion of EarthLabs. This podcast should not be copied, distributed, published, or reproduced, in whole or in part without the express written consent of EarthLabs.EarthLabs, its affiliates and/or their respective directors, officers, employees and agents may, from time to time, buy and sell or otherwise effect transactions involving the securities of issuers which are featured or referenced in this podcast. Accordingly, EarthLabs, its affiliates and/or their respective directors, officers, employees and agents may realize significant gains or losses as a result of any variation in the price of the securities of any such issuers. EarthLabs does not endorse or accept any liability for any investment in any issuer referenced in this podcast and expressly advises listeners to rely solely on their own counsel, accountants, and other similar expert advisors for legal, accounting, tax, investment and other similar advice.