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Sponsored by:
Peter Bojtos

Letter Writer Presentations for Investors

Sunday, March 4

9:00 am – 5:00 pm

Top newsletter writers will be presenting their charts, thoughts and ideas on how to select good investments in the resource sector. Presentations run throughout the day. Come and listen to your favorite industry commentators including:

9:00-9:10	Introduction by Peter Bojtos
	Co-chair: Gary Baschuk, Raymond James Ltd.
9:10-9:35	Ian McAvity, Deliberations on World Markets
9:35-10:00	Mickey Fulp, The Mercenary Geologist
10:00-10:25	Jeb Handwerger, Gold Stock Trades
10:25-10:50	TBC
10:50-11:15	Brent Cook, Exploration Insights
11:15-11:40	Jay Taylor, Gold, Energy & Tech Stocks
11:40-12:05	Lawrence Roulston, Resource Opportunities

	Co-chair: Leonie Soltay, Sentry Investments
12:05-12:30	Greg McCoach, The Mining Speculator
12:30-12:55	Frank Holmes, US Global Investors
12:55-1:20	Dominic Frisby, Moneyweek Magazine and Frisby's Bulls And Bears
1:20-1:45	Adrian Day, Adrian Day Asset Management
1:45-2:10	Jeff Berwick, The Dollar Vigilante

	Co-chair: Matthew O`Keefe, Mackie Research Capital Corporation
2:10-2:35	Marino G. Pieterse, Goldletter International
2:35-3:00	Leonard Melman, The Melman Report
3:00-3:25	Vin Maru, TDV Golden Trader
3:25-3:50	Paul Burton, World Gold Analyst
3:50-4:15	TBC
4:15-4:40	Rick Rule, Global Resource Investments Ltd.

Gain insight from these mineral investment experts:

Jeff Berwick, The Dollar Vigilante
Jeff Berwick is an anarcho-capitalist freedom fighter and Chief Editor of the libertarian, Austrian economics grounded newsletter, The Dollar Vigilante. The Dollar Vigilante focuses on strategies, investments and expatriation opportunities to survive and prosper during and after the US dollar collapse.

Paul Burton, World Gold Analyst
Paul Burton is Senior Equities Analyst at GFMS, which, following an August 2011 takeover, is now a division of Thomson Reuters.

Paul has over thirty years experience in various positions within the mining industry. After initially working as a mining engineer he spent much of his career in mineral economics and minerals marketing, in South Africa, before joining the Mining Journal in 1996, where he became Editor of World Gold Analyst.

Brent Cook, Exploration Insights
Brent Cook is a geologist and junior mining analyst with over 30 years of mining industry experience. For 20 years he worked as a consultant to most of the major and many junior mining companies evaluating mineral projects. He was also involved in target generation, grass-roots exploration, drill campaigns, feasibility studies and bank audits involving a variety of metals scattered across five continents and about 50 countries. In 1997 he became the mining analyst for Rick Rule’s Global Resource Investments, advising two funds in which they turned ~$14 million into well over $200 million in a five year period. In 2008 he started the junior resource investment letter Exploration Insights. Brent’s letter discusses the mining sector and focuses on what Brent is buying, selling and avoiding with his own money.

Adrian Day, Adrian Day Asset Management
Adrian Day is a British-born writer and money manager who has made a name for himself searching out unusual opportunities around the world. He has two books on the subject, including the groundbreaking Investing Without Borders. A graduate of the London School of Economics, he is president of his own money management firm, Adrian Day Asset Management, where he specializes in global diversification and resource equities for individual and institutional clients. He has been a frequent guest on CNBC, and Wall Street Journal radio, and has been interviewed in Barron’s, The Cape Town Argus, La Vie Francais, and many other leading publications. His latest book, just published, is the acclaimed Investing in Resources: How to Profit from the Outsized Potential and Avoid the Risks.

Dominic Frisby, Moneyweek Magazine and Frisby's Bulls And Bears
Dominic is MoneyWeek Magazine’s expert on gold and commodities. He also presents and produces the podcast Frisby's Bulls & Bears. He is an active private investor in junior mining and energy companies. Aside from his involvement in the investment sector, Dominic is one of the UK’s leading voiceover artists, a TV presenter and stand-up comedian.

Mickey Fulp, The Mercenary Geologist
Mickey Fulp is a Certified Professional Geologist with a B.Sc. Earth Sciences and M.Sc. Geology. Mickey has over 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 24 years, specializing in geological mapping, property evaluation, and business development. From 2003 to 2006, Mickey made four outcrop ore discoveries in Peru, Nevada, Chile, and British Columbia.

Jeb Handwerger, Gold Stock Trades
Gold Stock Trades Editor Jeb Handwerger is a highly sought-after stock analyst and best selling writer, known throughout the financial industry for his accurate, in depth and timely analysis of the general markets, particularly as they relate to the precious metals, nuclear and rare earth sector. Jeb utilizes both fundamental and technical analysis, especially the study of price volume action to understand the long term macroeconomic trends in the natural resource market. A true renaissance man Jeb has a strong background in stock market history, investment psychology, geopolitics, mining engineering and economics.

Frank E. Holmes, U.S. Global Investors
Frank Holmes is CEO and Chief Investment Officer of U.S. Global Investors, Inc., which manages a diversified family of mutual funds and hedge funds specializing in natural resources, emerging markets and infrastructure. The company’s funds have earned many awards and honors during Mr. Holmes’ tenure, including more than two dozen Lipper Fund Awards and certificates.

Mr. Holmes was 2006 mining fund manager of the year for Mining Journal, and he is co-author of The Goldwatcher: Demystifying Gold Investing. He is also a regular commentator on the financial television networks, and has been profiled by Fortune, Barron’s, and The Financial Times.

Vin Maru, TDV Golden Trader
With a particular interest in the business and financial world, Vin Maru graduated from Brock University in 1995 with an Honours Business Administration Degree in Finance. As a self taught private investor and analyst with over 15 years of experience, he first focused on technology but in 2004 he started investigating the investment case for gold and the causes for its sudden rise in price over the prior few years.

He now wants to bring his wealth of knowledge and experience to TDV Golden Trader subscribers which include 15 years as a private investor and market analysis including stocks, forex, ETFs, futures, options, private placements and warrants; precious metals analysis with seven years experience analyzing mining companies and commodities using fundamental and technical analysis; daily research and constant communication with industry experts & representatives of mining companies, continuously attending industry conferences, mines and trade shows.

Ian McAvity, Deliberations on World Markets
Mr. McAvity has been a Director of Central Fund of Canada Limited since 1983, Trustee of Central Gold Trust, and Silver Bullion Trust which collectively hold in excess of $3.6 billion in physical gold and silver in Canadian bank vaults. Mr. McAvity has been involved in the world of finance for over 45 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 an Acting CEO and a director of Duncan Park Holdings Corporation.

Greg McCoach, The Mining Speculator
Greg McCoach is a student of history and entrepreneur who has successfully mananged multiple businesses over the past 32 years. For the last 14 years, he has been involved with the precious metals industry as a bullion dealer, investor, and newsletter writer. He is considered an expert on issues relating to the gold market and appears regularly on national radio and television talk shows in both the U.S. and Canada, including CNBC, FOX, BLOOMBERG, and BNN.

Leonard Melman, The Melman Report
Leonard has been writing regarding precious and base metals for more than a quarter century as a monthly columnist for "ICMJ's Prospecting and MINING Journal" and "Resource World Magazine", focusing on how political and financial considerations impact the world of mining and the prices of the metals.

Leonard has also contributed commentary and corporate studies to other publications including the Aspermont group in Australia and the DEL Communications group in Winnipeg. Most recently (2007), he has added his own website and newsletter, "The Melman Report" to his roster of writings. He has been a speaker at Cambridge House Conferences across North America, at previous PDAC conventions here in Toronto and also at ICMJ conventions in the USA.

Leonard has gained 'real world' financial experience through careers as manager of multi-million dollar credit and mortgage lending operations and as a securities and commodity broker.

Marino G. Pieterse, Goldletter International
After a period of seven years as a Senior Investment Officer, including four years as Vice-President, for a Dutch Investment House, Marino has been an independent strategic and gold analyst for over 30 years.

He is the editor of Goldletter International, a premier information source on investing in the worldwide gold industry, which is particularly focusing on emerging gold regions in the world and is also publishing Special Region Reports including overviews of exploration and development companies active in these regions, as well as of Uraniumletter International.

Lawrence Roulston, Resource Opportunities
Frequently interviewed and quoted by the media, Lawrence Roulston is an internationally acclaimed mining industry authority. His expertise is relied on during investment litigation, and his extensive background in geology helps him identify winning companies ahead of the pack.
Lawrence's unique expertise stems from his hands-on approach to the mining resource industry. After graduating from the University of British Columbia in 1975, he worked as an analyst for industry giant Cominco Ltd. Lawrence went on to manage a mid-sized Calgary oil company and later became CEO for a group mineral exploration companies.

More than 20 years later, Lawrence works as an independent mining industry consultant and analyst, but his fundamentals have not changed. He personally tours hundreds of mining and exploration projects around the world each year, seeking out only the best companies to present to his subscribers.

Rick Rule, Sprott Global Resource Investments Inc.
Rick Rule has been active in natural resource investing for thirty-five years. He is well-recognized for his knowledge of the mining, energy, water, forest products, infrastructure, and agriculture sectors. He founded Global Resource Investments which provides investment advice and brokerage services to high net worth individuals, institutional investors and corporate entities worldwide. A popular public speaker, Mr. Rule is a featured presenter at investment and industry forums and conferences around the world.

Jay Taylor, J. Taylor's Gold, Energy & Tech Stocks.
Mr. Taylor is editor of J Taylor's Gold, Energy & Tech Stocks newsletter. 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 1997, Jay made the decision to devote himself full time to researching mining and technology stocks, writing his newsletter and assisting companies in raising venture capital. In March of 2009, Jay began hosting the popular web radio show titled” Turning Hard Times into Good Times”, which features high profile guests who discuss leading economic issues of our day. The show also discusses investment opportunities primarily in the precious metals mining sector. Jay's show is now the most popular show on the Voice America Business network with just under 100,000 monthly listeners.

For more information contact Sandra Francescon at sfrancescon@pdac.ca or 416 362 1969, ext. 240

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