Metals Investor Forum Vancouver

Eric Coffin has been publishing HRA Advisories for 20 years; this has given him the experience to identify market trends early and to understand exactly what a company needs to be successful. Thirty years of mining sector experience, from joint ownership of an exploration consultancy to sector wide data analysis and company specific advising on M&A, project selection, financing and market awareness give Eric the background to know what works.

Rick began his career in 1974 in the securities business and has been involved in it ever since. He is known for his expertise in many resource sectors, including agriculture, alternative energy, forestry, oil and gas, mining and water. In 1990, Rick founded the business now known as Sprott US Holdings merging in into Sprott Inc. (SII) in 2011. He retired from Sprott Inc., in 2021, and resigned from the board of directors in 2023, but remains Sprott’s largest shareholder. Mr. Rule is a sought-after speaker at industry conferences, and a frequent contributor to numerous media outlets including CNBC, Fox Business News and BNN. Mr. Rule is actively engaged in private placement markets, through originating and participating in hundreds of debt and equity transactions.

An accomplished analyst, author, and speaker, Jeff Clark is a globally recognized authority on precious metals. The son of an award-winning gold panner, with family-owned mining claims in California, Arizona, and Nevada, Jeff has deep roots in the industry. An active investor, with a love of writing, Jeff eventually became a mining industry analyst, including 10 years as senior editor for the world-renowned publication BIG GOLD. Jeff has been a regular conference speaker, including at Cambridge House and Sprott Resources events, the Silver Summit, and many others. He currently serves on the board at Strategic Wealth Preservation, a bullion storage facility in Grand Cayman, and provides analysis and market commentary for GoldSilver.com.

Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, the Yukon, Quebec, Nicaragua, Mexico, and Colorado. World-famous gold analyst Garrett Goggin has traveled the world in search of gold and silver.
I worked with legendary John Doody of Gold Stock Analyst and investment research powerhouse Stansberry Research for nearly 15 years.
I’ve keynoted many of the world’s preeminent Gold Conferences including the Prospectors Developers Annual Convention (“PDAC”) in Toronto and the Denver Gold Show Europe In Zurich.
I’m sought after by many leading gold & silver developers because they respect my research and seek my coverage.
I’m a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Charterholder. The CFA charter is the gold standard in the investment business. With over four years of study, and an overall completion rate of about 10%, there are less than 200K total charterholders worldwide. I also hold the designation of Certified Market Technician (CMT).
I was educated in the Northeast, and hold MS and MBA business degrees from Babson College, the number one business school in the country.
This is to say that I know almost everything there is to know about investing in gold …
...And I’ve gone independent in order to share my secret gold portfolio with you.

Brien Lundin serves as publisher and editor of Gold Newsletter, the publication that has been the cornerstone of precious metals advisories since 1971, and as the host of the annualNew Orleans Investment Conference, the oldest and most respected investment event of its kind. As editor of Gold Newsletter, Mr. Lundin covers not only resource stocks, but also the entire world of investing, from small-caps of every type to macroeconomics and geopolitical issues that ultimately affect every investor.

Joe Mazumdar is the Editor / Analyst and Publisher at Exploration Insights. Prior to that he was a senior mining analyst at Haywood Securities, then Canaccord Genuity. His work experience includes Director of Strategic planning, Corporate development at Newmont and Senior market analyst/trader at Phelps Dodge. Mazumdar also worked in technical roles for IAMGOLD in Ecuador, North Minerals in Argentina/Chile and Peru, RTZ Mining and Exploration in Argentina, Chile, Peru and Ecuador and MIM Exploration and Mining in Queensland, Australia, among others. Mazumdar has a Bachelor of Science in geology from the University of Alberta, a Master of Science in Geology and Mining from James Cook University and a Master of Science in Mineral Economics from the Colorado School of Mines.

Brian Leni is the Founder and Editor of Junior Stock Review. He’s an Engineer (P.Eng) by trade and has worked in heavy industry for 10 years, predominantly in the steel industry. He got started in the stock market when he began working full-time. He was immediately drawn to the junior sector for a variety of reasons, but mostly because of the incredible gains that could be made from these tiny resource stocks. In 2013, as the resource market continued to decay from its highs in 2011, he made the bold decision to sell his family’s home and use 2/3 of the equity to invest, in what he believed, were the best junior companies in the sector. Over the next 2 years he deployed that cash and in 2016 he was rewarded for the extensive due diligence and courage he had in the heart of the bear market, and his portfolio rose a spectacular 300%, which allowed him to leave his career and pursue investing full time. Over the last 3 years he has perfected his craft as a successful junior resource sector investor and has been supporting his family, almost exclusively, from the profits that he makes through his investments.

John Kaiser is the founder of Kaiser Research Online, an information portal covering the Canadian publicly listed resource sector, and the publisher of his Spec Value Hunter and Bottom-Fish recommendations. His analysis focuses on the four key narratives that drive the resource sector. John Kaiser is an independent analyst based in the San Francisco area who has covered the junior resource sector since 1983. After a decade working as a research director in Vancouver he left the brokerage industry in 1994 to launch Kaiser Research Online and create the "rational speculation model" as a tool to evaluate the speculative value of exploration projects. Kaiser Research Online is a subscription service that publishes his analysis, provides searchable information on over 1500 Canadian listed mining and exploration companies, and tracks trends within the junior sector and their relationship to macro trends.

KRO Conference Focus: Metals Investor Forum - Vancouver - September 28-29, 2018:
https://secure.kaiserresearch.com/s/Education.asp?ReportID=836040

John Kaiser's blog from the MIF September 2018:
https://secure.kaiserresearch.com/s/KaiserBlog.asp?ReportID=840488

John Kaiser's blog for MIF the November 2018:
https://secure.kaiserresearch.com/s/KaiserBlog.asp?ReportID=840533

Mr. Chen Lin is a full time fund manager of his extended family assets. He started to write the stock newsletter “What is Chen buying? What is Chen selling?” In 2009 he successfully navigated his family portfolio during the 2008 financial crisis. Chen covers mining, energy and technology, especially biotech in his letters with great track records. Most stocks Chen likes are small caps. Some are very liquid, for example Sarepta which is his biggest winner for 2016, easily has over 100 million dollar worth of shares changing hands in a day. Same for IMMU in 2020, which was taken over for 22 billion. However some juniors are not and hard to accumulate. Chen occasionally did offer good opportunities in private placement that he or his family participated in.
Chen has a passion for mining, he personally visited many mining projects around the world. 

Greg McCoach is an ardent student of history and entrepreneur who has successfully started and run multiple businesses over the past 37 years. During the last 18 of those years, he has written his widely-followed newsletter, The Mining Speculator in search of exponential gains within the junior mining sector.

Mr. McCoach is also founder and CEO of AmeriGold.com, a bullion dealer in its 19th year. He has appeared on national news channels and is a popular speaker at both private and public conferences.

Peter Krauth is a former portfolio adviser and a 20-year veteran of the resource market, with special expertise in precious metals, mining and energy stocks. He is editor of two newsletters to help investors profit from metal market opportunities: Silver Stock Investor, www.silverstockinvestor.com and Gold Resource Investor, www.goldresourceinvestor.com.  In those letters Peter writes about what he is buying and selling; he takes no pay from companies for coverage. Peter has contributed numerous articles to Kitco.com, BNN Bloomberg, the Financial Post, Seeking Alpha, Streetwise Reports, Investing.com, TalkMarkets and Barchart, and he holds a Master of Business Administration from McGill University.

Robert is a veteran market analyst and portfolio manager who focuses on precious metals and junior mining. Robert is a regular contributor to ceo.ca, Goldfinger Capital, Mining Stock Daily, the KE Report, 321gold, and other popular sites.