A gold discovery 40 years in the making is now weeks away from finding out whether it can go ahead.

Damian Spring, CEO of Santana Minerals, joins Joseph Shuker on the Opening Bell podcast for an update on the company's Central Otago gold project as it reaches the end of the fast track process.

Damian talks us through where things sit and the dates to watch, what the project would mean for jobs in the region and for Kiwis currently working fly in fly out in Australian mines, how the company is approaching water and the environmental side of the application, and what has to happen between a decision and the first gold pour.

Recorded Monday 22 September 2026.

One in three New Zealanders will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime, and within twenty years that's forecast to be one in two. Which means most workplaces will have someone come to them with a diagnosis at some point.

Andrew Young, CEO of the Cancer Society Auckland Northland, joins Joseph Shuker on the Opening Bell podcast to talk about what happens next. What to say when a colleague tells you they have cancer, the assumptions employers tend to get wrong, why taking work off someone isn't always the kind thing to do, and how to give a person back some control when they've lost it.

Andrew also shares what Daffodil Day means to him, where the money raised goes, and some promising news on a potential new treatment coming out of a research lab here in New Zealand.

The Cancer Society receives no direct government funding. To support their work, donate at daffodilday.org.nz

Most people think of AI as an LLM like ChatGPT or Claude. Not a robot refuelling a haul truck in the middle of a mine site, or a fleet of driverless vehicles moving stock around a warehouse floor.

Scott Technology is a New Zealand automation and robotics company working across mining, meat processing, materials handling and appliances, counting Boeing, Microsoft and Coca-Cola among its customers.

CEO Mike Christman joins Joseph Shuker on the Opening Bell podcast to talk about the plan to roughly double revenue to $530 million by 2030, why he wants the company forging the market rather than following it, where AI is already doing real work on a factory floor, and the biggest misconception about what Scott Technology actually is.