World Resource Investment Conference

Recently, we attended the World Resource Investment Conference, sponsored by Cambridge House International Inc., Canada’s largest producer of Resource Investment Conferences.

As a worldwide conference, this show featured exploration and mining companies from USA, Europe, Australia, South America, Asia and Africa and from right here in British Columbia. Here though, the objective was to mine for new investment and we were interested in hearing how the companies working here in Northern BC were positioning themselves against the competition.

Northern BC is home to a number of small-cap high-gold concentrate exploration companies whose primary goal is to find the gold and, soon after, find someone else to step in and develop the mine. While there, we met up with Serengeti Resources (SIR:TSXV) whose work in the Quesnel trough extends from north of Fort St James to south of Quesnel and also Commander Resources (CMD:TSXV) who are known locally for their work north of Fort St James. We also stopped by to see: Decade Resources (DEC:TSXV) who are working in Kitimat and in Stewart; Solitaire Minerals (SLT:TSXV) who are working in Summit Lake, north of Prince George; and Habenero Resources (HAO:TSXV), who are working east of Quesnel near Barkerville BC and in Stewart BC.

Then there are the bigger exploration and development firms. In the Northern BC context, Silver Quest Resources (SQI:TSXV) was in attendance. Silver Quest is working a series of deposits in the Nechako Plateau southwest of Prince George. Copper Fox Metals (CUU:TSXV) was there as well, promoting their work on the Schaft Creek deposit near Stewart which the company says is one of Canada’s largest undeveloped copper-gold-molybdenum-silver deposits. Barkerville Gold Mines (BGM:TSXV) who’ve been aggressively working sites east of Quesnel. Of course Terrane Metals (TRX:TSXV) was there promoting their projects including the highly publicized Mount Milligan deposit north of Prince George. Silvercorp (SVM:TSX) was there too. In Northern BC, Silvercorp is busy with the Silvertip project near the BC-Yukon border.

Then there are the larger companies who are managing full production mining facilities. These include Taseko Mines (TKO:TSX), majority owner of the Gilbraltar copper-molybdenum mine between Prince George and Quesnel; Bravo Gold (BVG:TSXV) who is working the Homestake Ridge project near Stewart; Duncastle Gold (DUN:TSXV) known for it’s work on the Porphyry Creek project nearly Smithers.

Over 220 mining companies attended the conference which also featured presentations by experts from all corners of the mining industry including mining investment, stock market and investment analysis.

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