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PDAC 2011 – this March
Posted by David
Hello and happy New Year!
Sorry for the delay in posts.
This year’s Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada’s (PDAC) main convention is March 6th to 9th. It is at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre’s south building. Delegates can register HERE for the conference. For the non-student or non-senior, the convention can be a little pricey, but day passes can be had for ~$81 and the Investor’s Exchange portion is free.
For those of you who purchase full access to the convention be sure to check out the Technical Sessions. They are often quite good and have excellent speakers on relevant topics. A list of the sessions is HERE. Other sessions include the CSR Event Series, the Aboriginal Program, an Open Session, and an Innovation Forum. Ten short courses/workshops also occur just before and after the convention itself.
Sessions mentioning diamond exploration/mining are:
- 21 years of Canadian diamonds: Coming of age? – room 716, Monday March 7th, 2-4 pm
- New geoscience in support of exploration in the Canadian Shield North of 60⁰ – room 716, Tuesday March 8th, 9 am-noon
- Africa – room 713, Tuesday March 8th, 10 am
Major and minor diamond producers/explorers typically have booths at the PDAC. Some of the usual suspects from past years include Rio Tinto, Harry Winston, Stornoway, Shear, Shore Gold, Peregrine, and BHP Billiton. For those unfamiliar with this convention, it is the premier mining and exploration convention in North America and is not to be missed for those working in or investing in the industry.
Make sure to sign up by this Friday (February 4th) as the prices for most admission types go up after that. Happy investing.
Disclaimer: Relevant comments are welcome and encouraged. Spam comments will be deleted. This article is based on the opinions and experience of the author. Please conduct due diligence when investing. ©KIM Report 2011 www.kimreport.com
2010 Toronto Resource Investment Conference
Posted by David
Sorry, for the lack of recent posts, it’s paper-writing season again.
Mining and exploration investors may be interested in attending this year’s Toronto Resource Investment Conference at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre this weekend (Sept. 25-26). Register now with Cambridge House International Inc., the organizers, to get in for free and avoid paying about $20 at the door.
Publicly-traded mining and exploration companies will have booths on the floor. Commodities present at the show are varied and range from silver (e.g. Great Panther, Soltoro), to diamonds (e.g. Stornoway, Shear), to REEs (Avalon, Quest). There are also fairly well-known speakers in the sector that are giving talks: Kevin O’Leary, John Kaiser, the Coffins, Mickey Fulp, etc.
While not as grand as the PDAC and with less plentiful freebies, the Toronto Resource Investment Conference is a nice way to spend the weekend for the individual investor.
GeoCanada 2010
Posted by David
Hi all,
Sorry for the lack of a recent post. I’ve been at GeoCanada 2010 in Calgary, Alberta until this week. Although dominated -unsurprisingly, by the petroleum industry, the talks, posters, and courses on hard-rock geology at the conference were well-attended. The kimberlites, cratons, and diamonds session was standing room only for the entire day. Other factors of economic geology that were visbile included uranium and hydrothermal ore deposits.
Both industry and academia were well-represented. Although nowhere near the scale of the PDAC conference, GeoCanada had a more technical, and less economic bent, with individuals from universities, mining corporations, and service providers rubbing shoulders.
A new posting on diamonds relating to the conference is on its way. Being that the conference was in Alberta, the kimberlite clusters of Fort a la Corne and the Buffalo Head Hills were much discussed and will be mentioned in the upcoming post.
Improved Outlook to be Seen at PDAC 2010
Posted by David
This Sunday March 7th to Wednesday March 10th will see the Metro Toronto Convention Centre and its environs overrun with geologists, students, executives, reporters, salesmen, and the much-maligned investor relations personnel at this year’s PDAC International Convention.
While the trade show section is prohibitively expensive for most ($210-$710, seniors and students get in cheap), the other half of the show, the Investor’s Exchange is free. This sections is where all of the publicly traded mining companies have their booths. They range in size from independent prospectors, exploration-juniors (PC Gold, Diamonds North Resources, Terrane Metals), near-production juniors (Stornoway Diamond Corporation, Shore Gold), producing intermediates (Yamana Gold, New Gold, Harry Winston, Thompson Creek Metals), and large-caps (Rio Tinto, Goldcorp, Vale). For an idea of participating companies and the show layout, check out their Virtual PDAC Interactive Floorplan and Event Planner. Booth space in both sections of the event are completely sold out. I suppose the minerals industry hasn’t imploded after all.
As an independent investor, this is your chance to speak with company management face-to-face, handle the rocks (see the Core Shack exhibit), and meet other investor’s and geologists. Whether you are happy or displeased with a company’s performance, this is the event in the mining and minerals exploration industry. Though, from a student’s point of view, I routinely recommend not eating at the convention as the food is typically awful and overpriced in my experience. Check out the Royal York Hotel in the evenings for any after-hours festivities.
For diamond bugs, drop in on the Monday afternoon series of talks 2-4pm in room 716. Some true gems (pardon the pun) are there to spread their wisdom. Kimberlite petrologists, gemologists, and CEOs make an appearance.
Let me know how you did at the PDAC…
2009 Toronto Resource Investment Conference
Posted by David
2009 PDAC Convention
Posted by David
Sorry for the hiatus, it is once again paper-writing time.
I would like to draw your attention to this year’s Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) International Convention, Trade Show, and Investors Exchange in Toronto this March 1-4. Detailed information on the event can be found HERE on their webpage. Needless to say this is probably the penultimate annual event in the resource industry. All kinds of companies from juniors to seniors to mining equipment suppliers have a presence. Attendance is expected to be well over 10,000. The admission fee to the whole show may be a little steep if you are not a student or senior citizen at $710 for non-members even if you do get a nice satchel to put all of your conference swag in. A solution to this is to attend only the Investors Exchange portion of the show to which admission is free. This is where the bulk of the publicly traded companies have their booths. Business attire is recommended though. This is a good opportunity for the individual investor to speak directly to company management to publicly harangue them for poor stock performance and the like. A second recommendation I would like to make is to pack a lunch as the food is typically very expensive and of poor quality.
Not to be missed are the hospitality suites usually held Monday and Tuesday nights, most of which are at the Royal York Hotel across the street from the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. This is often a good opportunity to get back some of your investment in the form of food and beverage (alcoholic and otherwise), although the spread will probably be more meagre than last year considering the financial environment.