Chad Markowitz

Chad Markowitz works as an interviewer in mining investment media, where the job is to put resource company management on the spot. His most clearly documented appearance is an in-depth interview with Luca Mining (TSX-V: LUCA), a polymetallic producer — a company that mines ore yielding several metals — which operates the Campo Morado and Tahuehueto mines in Mexico's Sierra Madre belt, one of the country's most productive gold-silver regions. The conversation centered on two recently announced acquisitions that would expand Luca well beyond its two producing mines.

The story behind that interview explains why it matters to resource investors. Luca agreed to acquire the Cozamin copper-silver mine in Zacatecas from Capstone Copper and the El Barqueño gold-silver project in Jalisco — a large property not yet in production — from Agnico Eagle. According to company disclosures discussed in the interview, the transactions would more than double Luca's 2027 production, lift projected net revenue to roughly $598 million from about $177 million in 2025, and add meaningful copper exposure alongside existing gold, silver, zinc, and lead output. Reports valued the Cozamin deal at about US$385 million. An interview that gets management to walk through deal rationale, financing plans, and integration risks on the record is exactly the primary-source material investors need to pressure-test a growth story.

That said, Markowitz's broader public record in commodities is limited. No role at a resource company, fund, or research organization could be verified, and his documented commodity work currently rests on this company interview. What an interviewer contributes is access rather than analysis: the value lies in whether the questions push management past prepared talking points and into specifics on costs, permitting, dilution, and timelines.

For investors, his interviews are best used as raw material — a way to hear how executives defend their own numbers — rather than as a buy signal. The measure of this work is the quality of the follow-up questions, and whether a consistent body of resource coverage builds over time. On the evidence available, his output is worth checking when a company he covers announces material news, with the caveat that his track record is still being established.