Investors interested in researching this sector should attend the PDAC Investors Exchange; the leading investment show dedicated solely to the mineral industry. The show, which runs concurrently with the Trade Show is made up of four parts:

• 600 exhibitors
• an Investors Forum featuring investment experts that gives delegates an overview of what’s happening in the mining industry
• the Exchange Forum where approximately 140 company promotional presentations are given
• the Prospectors Tent where Prospectors display their maps and samples

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Who exhibits

• Junior exploration companies
• Mid-size producers
• Major mining companies
• Stock exchange, brokers and financial institutions with mining interests
• Prospectors

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Virtual PDAC

• Research exhibitors using detailed company and management profiles
• Arrange meetings with exhibitors before the event
• Network with other participating delegates

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Who attends

• Retail and institutional investors
• Fund managers
• Banking executives
• Brokers and analysts
• Senior mining executives
• Government representatives
• Convention delegates
• Mining media
• Students

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Investors Forum (Letter writers & analysts)

Come and listen to your favorite newsletter writers and industry commentators including:
 
Rick Rule, Global Resource Investments

Rick has dedicated his entire life to all aspects of the natural resource industry. His contacts and knowledge of this market are unmatched. At Global he leads a team that features professionals trained in resource related disciplines, such as geology and engineering, who work together to evaluate investment opportunities.
 
Founder of Global Resource Investments, Ltd. Rick began his career in the securities business in 1974, and has been principally involved in natural resource security investments ever since. He is a leading American retail broker specializing in mining, energy, water utilities, forest products and agriculture. His research and brokerage capabilities are frequently recommended by distinguished financial newsletter writers such as Bob Bishop, Jim Blanchard, Doug Casey, Adrian Day, Richard Maybury, Paul van Eeden, Mark Skousen, Jack Pugsley and others.

John Doody, Gold Stock Analyst
 
John Doody brings a unique perspective to gold stock analysis. With a BA in Economics from Columbia, an MBA in Finance from Boston University, where he also did his PhD-Economics course work, Doody has no formal “rock” studies beyond "Introductory Geology" at Columbia, taught by the University's School of Mines.

An Economics Professor for almost two decades, Doody became interested in gold due to an innate distrust of politicians. In order to serve those that elected them, politicians always try to get nine slices out of an eight slice pizza. How do they do this? They debase the currency via inflationary economic policies.

As Doody initially studied gold stocks, he had a hard time deciding which to buy... their share prices, market capitalizations, production and reserve levels were all different, yet each made exactly the same product: Gold.

To solve the dilemma and determine which gold stocks represent the best value at a point in time, Doody popularized a metric called Market Cap per ounce; a company's stock market capitalization (number of shares times stock price) is divided by the ounces Produced per year, or its ounces of Proven and Probable Reserves. This puts all the miners on the same basis, so when buying you know how much you are paying for each ounce production and each ounce of reserves. The Market Cap/oz values are wide-ranging… sometimes justified and sometimes not, meaning Mr Market is inefficient and does not always price a stock correctly… and this creates many of the opportunities identified in Gold Stock Analyst.

Lawrence Roulston, Resource Opportunities
 
Lawrence Roulston, editor, is a geologist, with engineering and business training, and more than 20 years of hands-on experience in the resource industry. Lawrence is ideally suited to publish Resource Opportunities. After completing his studies at the University of British Columbia in 1975, Mr. Roulston worked as an analyst for Cominco Ltd. and for a mid-sized Calgary oil group for several years. In 1984 he became the CFO for a group of mineral exploration companies. He was also vice-president in an investment management firm focused on the resource industry. From 1994 to 1997, he was CEO and director of a mineral exploration company. Since then, he has been a resource industry consultant and independent mining analyst. Mr. Roulston's years of hands-on experience and extensive personal contacts in the industry provide unique insights that have generated an impressive track record for Resource Opportunities.

Ian McAvity, Deliberations on charts of Gold & Related Markets
 
Mr. McAvity is a Director of Central Fund of Canada Limited since 1983. He is a Member of Executive Committee. Mr. McAvity has been involved in the world of finance for over 40 years, as a banker, broker, and since 1975 as an independent advisor and consultant, specializing in the technical analysis of international equity, foreign exchange and precious metals markets. His analysis and views have been published in “Ian McAvity’s Deliberations on World Markets Newsletter” continuously since 1972. Mr. McAvity is also a director of Duncan Park Holdings Corporation.

Adrian Day, Asset Management

Adrian Day is considered a pioneer in promoting the benefits of global investing in this country.  A native of London, after graduating with honors from the London School of Economics, Mr. Day spent many years as a financial investment writer, where he gained a large following for his expertise in searching out unusual investment opportunities around the world.  He has also authored two books on the subject of global investing: International Investment Opportunities: How and Where to Invest Overseas Successfully and Investing Without Borders.
Mr. Day is a recognized authority in both global and resource investing.  He is frequently interviewed by the press, domestically and abroad.  He is a popular speaker and frequently invited to lecture at financial conferences and seminars around the world.   His pleasures include fine dining, reading (especially history), and the opera.

Bob Moriarty, 321 Gold

Bob Moriarty was a Marine F-4B pilot at the age of twenty and a veteran of over 820 missions in Viet Nam. Becoming a Captain in the Marines at 22, he was one of the most highly decorated pilots in the war. He went on to ferry General Aviation aircraft all over the world for 15 years with over 240 over the water deliveries. He holds 14 International Aviation records including Lindbergh's record for time between New York to Paris in two different categories. In 1996 he began an online computer business on the internet with his wife Barbara becoming one of the early adopters of the internet. Convinced gold/silver were at a bottom in 2001, Bob and Barbara started one of the first websites devoted to teaching readers what they need to know about investing in resource stocks. Bob and Barb now operate two resource sites, 321Gold.com and 321Energy.com where up to 100,000 people a day visit. Bob travels to dozens of mining projects a year and then writes about them. He was one of the first analysts to write about NovaGold, Northern Dynasty, Silver Standard, Running Fox and YGC Resources among many, many others. He claims with some justification that all of his readers are financially better off since they have been coming to his site.

Brent Cook, Exploration Insights

Brent Cook is an independent exploration analyst and author of Exploration Insights (www.explorationinsights.com). His newsletter is devoted to the critical analysis of junior mining and exploration companies as it relates to investing.
Brent has over 25 years of on-the-ground experience evaluating mineral property economics and geology. He has been an advisor, and consultant to high net worth individuals and major mining companies on project scattered across nearly 60 countries.  

David Coffin, HRAAdvisory.com

David, the “geology side” of HRA, has been active in prospecting, resource calculation, and feasibility studies for resource companies for 29 years. He attended the Haileybury School of Mines, authored numerous qualifying reports for resource companies, and managed and designed field programs for over 15 years.

His experience is so vast that scores of companies try and lure him to look at their projects. Why? Because they know if their project has Dave’s seal of approval, a lot of serious market players and other analysts will take notice. Besides, with his background, getting Dave to visit a site is like hiring a top flight consultant – without the consulting fees.

Dave went against the crowd in the late 1990’s urging companies to return to high grade underground mining which turned out to be salvation for many of them during the bear market that followed.

David was one of the first (along with Eric) to call the current cycle as the secular trend others have only recently recognized. They made that call back in 2001. David is a regular speaker at Cambridge House, the PDAC, the New Orleans Gold Show as well as other resource and commodity investment shows in North America and Europe, and has been interviewed numerous times on radio and TV and in third party news articles for his opinions on the gold sector and resource stocks in general.

David logs literally hundreds of thousands of miles every year, visiting exploration sites on six continents in order to bring back the real goods for HRA subscribers. 

David Morgan, Silver-Investor.com
 
David Morgan started investing in the stock market while still a teenager. A precious metals aficionado armed with degrees in finance and economics as well as engineering, he created the Silver-Investor.com website and originated The Morgan Report, a monthly that covers economic news, overall financial health of the global economy, currency problems ahead and reasons for investing in precious metals. 

David Skarica, Addicted to Profits

David Skarica is a Canadian economist. He was born in Toronto, Ontario on September 27, 1977. He grew up in Dundas, Ontario. His father Toni is a well-respected Crown Attorney in Hamilton, Ontario, along with a former member of parliament for the riding of Wentworth North.

At the age of 18 in 1996 he became the youngest person on record to pass the Canadian Securities Course.

In 1998, Dave began to write the investment newsletter Addicted to Profits, which specialized in technical analysis of the markets and stocks. In December 1998 his first book Stock Market Market Panic! How to Prosper in the Coming Bear Market was published. This book forsaw the stock market crash of the early 2000s along with the increasing gold, oil and resource prices of the time. However, it failed to predict the housing boom, actually predicted a housing bubble.

From 2001 to 2005, Dave appeared on many financial radio and television shows in Canada, which included The Michael Vaughn Show on ROBTV and The Vicki Gabereau Show. In 2004, he ended Addicted to Profits to start other ventures, which included the website stockchartoftheday.com. In 2005, he started another publication The Skarica Letter, which uses an unique star rating system to rank stocks. In January 2006, his second book The Contrarian Who Saved the World, a story which uses fiction to explain technical analysis of the stock market was due to be published.

Greg McCoach, The Mining Speculator

Greg McCoach is an entrepreneur, who has successfully started and run several businesses the past 22 years. For the last 7 of these years he has been involved with the precious metals industry as a bullion dealer, investor, and newsletter writer.
 
Mr. McCoach's years of business experience and extensive personal contacts in the mining industry provide unique insights that have generated an impressive track record for The Mining Speculator since its inception in 2001. He also spreads his vast knowledge of the precious metals markets in a weekly column for Gold World.
 
Greg is also the President of AmeriGold, a gold bullion dealer.

Ian Gordon, Longwave Analyst

The son of a British military officer, Ian followed in his Father’s footsteps and graduated from The Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst. He served as a Platoon Commander in the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). Four years later in 1967 Ian immigrated to Canada where he entered the History Department at the University of Manitoba—a decision that has had a profound impact on his career to this day. It was during this period that he began to study the historical trends that ultimately provided the foundation for his Long Wave theory.
 
It wasn’t until 1983 that Ian entered the financial realm. He worked as a stock broker in Ontario for eight years before working in Management for three more years in Toronto and Vancouver. It was 1998 when Ian determined that the Long Wave Theory was too compelling to ignore any longer. He began writing the Long Wave Analyst and re-entered the sales side of the business. He accurately predicted the end of the massive equity bull market and also accurately predicted the beginnings of the current gold bull market. By 2003, Ian was the #1 performer at Canaccord Capital (Canada’s largest independent brokerage firm)—a position he maintained until he left the firm in late 2005.
 
The need to access further institutional investment, vital to supporting Ian’s financings prompted him to move his team to Bolder Investment Partners in late 2005. The move to Bolder proved very successful for Ian and his team, accelerating the momentum that had been gained at Canaccord previously. Ian served as a Vice President of Bolder for three years.
 
The Long Wave Theory, in addition to a keen sense of what constitutes a winning deal, has enabled Ian and his team to enjoy meteoric growth over the last decade. This success has enabled Ian to chart the course for the next leg of his journey.
 
The same Long Wave principles that have guided Ian for the last decade are just as relevant today as they were a decade ago. These principles very accurately predicted the collapse of the financial markets—a prediction that factored heavily into Ian’s investment strategies over the last decade. His focus now is the next decade. Ian is focussing his attention on using the same Long Wave principles to help define next steps for both institutional and retail investors.
 
The Long Wave Group, a company dedicated to this pursuit has been formed, and Ian, the Long Wave Analyst himself, is assuming the reins as Chairman. Ian’s experience and expertise, in addition to his infectious passion and enthusiasm, will serve as a guiding beacon for employees and clients alike.

Jay Taylor, J Taylor’s Gold, Energy, & Tech Stocks

Mr. Taylor is editor of J Taylor's Gold, Energy & Tech Stocks newsletter. A native of Ohio, he has resided in New York since 1973 when he began working there for Barlcay's Bank International. His interest in the role gold has played in U.S. monetary history led him to research gold and into analyzing and investing in junior gold shares.
 
In 1981 he began publishing North American Gold Mining Stocks, which preceded his current newsletter. His continuing interest in gold mining prompted him to study geology at Hunter College in New York City, supplementing his MBA in Finance & Investments. Throughout his career Mr. Taylor worked as a commercial, then as an investment banker. Most recently, he worked in the mining and metals group of ING Barings in New York. Prior to that he was involved in the first gold loan made in modern times in the U.S. to Amax Minerals, a 250,000 oz. loan facility led by Citicorp.
 
In 1997 he resigned from ING Barings to devote himself full time to researching mining & technology stocks, writing his newsletter and assisting companies in raising venture capital.

John Kaiser, Kaiser Bottom-Fish Online

John Kaiser is editor of Kaiser Bottom-Fish Online, a San Francisco based information portal for junior resource companies that monitors sector trends and evaluates companies in the context of the "rational speculation model" John developed during his 25 year career as an analyst and independent newsletter writer.

Leonard Melman, The Melman Report

Leonard has been writing regarding precious and base metals for more than two decades as monthly columnist for California-based "ICMJ's Prospecting and MINING Journal" and Vancouver's "Resource World Magazine", focusing on how political and financial considerations impact the world of mining and the prices of the metals.

Mr. Melman has also contributed commentary and corporate studies to other publications including the Aspermont group of publications in Australia and DEL Communications in Winnipeg. Leonard is also a speaker at the prestigious Cambridge House Conferences across Canada and has recently been invited to speak at the PDAC Financial Conference, part of the world's largest annual mining convention, in Toronto on March 7, 2010. He has visited and reported on mining operations on four continents and his articles appear on numerous mining company websites. During his past, Mr. Melman has gained valuable knowledge and experience in previous careers as manager of multi-million dollar consumer lending operations and as a securities and commodity broker. Leonard is presently working on his first book with the working title of "Reversing the Way In" due to be released in the first quarter of 2010.He lives in the beautiful Vancouver Island community of Nanoose Bay with his wife, Thama.

Mickey Fulp, The Mercenary Geologist

The Mercenary Geologist Michael S. “Mickey” Fulp is a Certified Professional Geologist with a B.Sc. Earth Sciences with honor from the University of Tulsa, and M.Sc. Geology from the University of New Mexico. Mickey has 30 years experience as an exploration geologist searching for economic deposits of base and precious metals, industrial minerals, coal, uranium, oil and gas, and water in North and South America, Europe, and Asia.
Mickey has worked for junior explorers, major mining companies, private companies, and investors as a consulting economic geologist for the past 22 years, specializing in geological mapping and property evaluation. In addition to Mickey’s professional credentials and experience, he is high-altitude proficient and is bilingual in English and Spanish. From 2003 to 2006, Mickey made four outcrop ore discoveries in Peru, Nevada, Chile, and British Columbia.
Mickey is respected throughout the mining and exploration community for his ongoing work as an analyst for public and private companies, investment funds, newsletter and website writers, private investors, and brokers.

James West, The Midas Letter

James West is the publisher of the Midas Letter, a financial advisory service that identifies opportunities and risks to investors active in the small cap resource sector.

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Exchange Forum

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Prospectors Tent

The PDAC offers a unique opportunity for self-employed/independent Prospectors to display their results and samples.

PDAC 2010 Prospector Tent exhibitors include:

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Conveniently located in the main foyer outside the exhibit halls on Level 800, this E-Centre will provide attendees with free internet access during the convention.