Come with me to New Orleans Oct 22-25, 2014 for some fun and an important investment conference… This year the Annual New Orleans Investment Conference marks its 40th anniversary, and organizer Brien Lundin has pulled out all the stops to celebrate the milestone. I spoke to him on the phone the other day, and he… Continue Reading
Hey, Toronto, and anyone who will be in the GTA next week. For 20 years, Cambridge House International has hosted Canada’s finest investment conferences. Next week, CEOs, financiers and investors will gather for two days of networking and idea sharing. Details: Canadian Investor Conference Toronto 2014 Thursday – Friday, September 25-26, 2014 Sheraton Centre Hotel… Continue Reading
BEAVER CREEK, Colorado — The stream from Colorado’s metals summit is flowing. Oh, and the snow just starting to sprinkle the peaks here at 8,000 feet to 11,000 feet. There are many asset managers in the crowd, some with hedge funds and others like Robert Cohen of Dynamic Funds in charge of hundreds of… Continue Reading
The fall financial conference season is kicking off today at the Vail Precious Metals Summit (more information, webcasts). The junior gold mining event has a classy group of companies exhibiting, not to mention tremendous investor spillover from the big show that follows in Denver a few days later. The Denver Gold Forum hosts the world’s… Continue Reading
Good morning, My life has been full of some strange and amazing mentors. Keith Schaefer of the Oil and Gas Investments Bulletin would cringe at the suggestion but is one of them. Schaefer was involved with mining and energy stock promotions for 20 years before he had an epiphany during the financial crisis of 2008-2009… Continue Reading
Entrepreneur Frank Giustra has helped raise over $3 billion for early stage mining and energy companies, and also founded Lionsgate Films, the world’s leading independent film studio. Today Giustra provided some exceptional entrepreneurial advice in a MinesandMoney.com interview. When asked his investment regrets, Giustra said basically all of the companies he created sucked at the… Continue Reading
Recently CEO analyst Travis McPherson and I had the opportunity to attend the Sprott Natural Resource Symposium at the historic Fairmont Hotel Vancouver. The conference gave us the opportunity to hear from and rub shoulders with some of the best names in mining. From Robert Friedland’s keynote address, to Ross Beaty’s keen insights and Rick… Continue Reading
The last word at Brent Cook’s exploration panel at the Sprott conference last week belonged to geologist Miles Thompson, currently chairman of Resevoir Minerals, developing one of the world’s richest undeveloped copper deposits in Serbia, and is CEO of Lara Exploration, which explores for minerals in Brazil and Peru. Mr. Thompson is someone highly respected by Mr. Cook,… Continue Reading
In Part II of Brent Cook’s Exploration Panel at the recent Sprott Conference in Vancouver, geologist Dr. Tim Coughlin says investors are getting ripped off by companies who delay metallurgical tests. Metallurgy is key. I’m not referring to Amulsar, because the metallurgy there is fantastic. With another discovery I was involved with while I was with… Continue Reading
Well respected economic geologist and newsletter writer Brent Cook, held an awesome panel at the Sprott Vancouver Natural Resources Symposium last week, which was the best conference we’ve been to so far this year. Cook’s panel guests were Tim Coughlin, President of Tigris, who previously discovered the Amulsar gold deposit in Armenia for Lydian, and is… Continue Reading
Rick Rule’s conference in Vancouver this past week was just what the junior mining sector needed. Independent individual investors from nearly every corner of the globe met face to face with and heard from an extremely high quality group of executives from companies that have survived and thrived despite the past three year’s resource bear market.… Continue Reading
With our apologies for the light postings this week, we are at the Sprott Natural Resources Symposium at the Hotel Vancouver, where a terrific event is underway (Schedule, Registration). The quality of companies exhibiting is higher than any other retail junior mining conference we have attended, and the same can be said for attendees. The event,… Continue Reading
Quick Links: Sprott Natural Resource Symposium Schedule, Registration. For the past 19 years, Agora Financial, the world’s largest financial publisher, has organized an impressive natural resource investment conference in Vancouver each summer. We learned from Sprott USA Chairman Rick Rule that Agora wanted to take a step back from hosting the annual event, and since Rule considered… Continue Reading
Investors seeking a passive way to play the out of favour junior resource sector ought to take a look at Kobex Minerals (TSXV:KXM), a firm with some impressive backers which trades for less than its current cash breakup value. On Friday, Kobex announced intentions for a Change of Business, evolving from a mineral exploration play… Continue Reading
Resource sector stalwart John Kaiser, editor of Kaiser Research, a subscriber supported publication which analyzes nearly 2000 junior resource companies worldwide, joined Vanessa Collette of Cambridge House Live in Vancouver Monday to discuss his take on the junior markets. Kaiser thinks this summer may be a good time for investors to start bottom fishing out… Continue Reading
