First Majestic Not Here?The Silver Summit 2005 to Present a Galaxy of Silver Stars
The world's leading lights in primary silver production, exploration, investment and silver's myriad uses will gather by the river near northern Idaho's fabled silver fields for three days of conferencing and festivity Sept. 22, 23 and 24 -- Silver Summit 2005. Theme for this year's Summit is "Silver Rocks."
This third-annual Silver Summit will feature presentations by CEOs and IR representatives of the Americas' top silver producers and explorers, including Hecla Mining Co. CEO Phil Baker, Pan American Silver CEO Ross Beaty, Coeur d'Alene Mines CEO Dennis Wheeler, Silver Standard IR Vice-President Paul Lafontaine. All told, nearly 40 primary silver companies will be represented as presenters, exhibitors or sponsors, at Silver Summit 2005.
As in previous years' Silver Summits, conference attendees have the option to tour the underground workings of one of several of the nation's deepest-shaft operating silver mines on Sept. 22; and a Sept. 24 surface tour of the Coeur d'Alene Mining District culminating in a re-dedication of the Center of the Universe in downtown historic Wallace that evening replete with live music by "Mogambo Guru" Richard Daughty and "Boogie-Woogie Man" Steve Dore, who will perform Dore's original tunes advocating a return to silver and gold as money.
Presentations by Daughty -- the self-described "angriest guy in economics," ScotiaBank commodity analyst Patricia Mohr, University of Idaho Dean of Mines Emeritus and geologist Earl Bennett, Silver-Investor newsletter-writer David Morgan, Silver Is Money writer Jason Hommel, Liberty Coin program author Bernard von Nothaus, newly-published The Silver Pennies book author David Bond, and renown silver-in-health expert Dr. Eric Rentz will round out the three-day event.
"There's something for everyone with an interest in silver at this year's Silver Summit," said director Shauna Hillman, of Wallace. "Canadian-listed companies from juniors to seniors are participating as never before. All major U.S. silver producers are coming. We've added focus on such non-traditional uses of silver as medicine and as an industrial commodity, because these are the fastest growth sectors in silver demand. But our panelists and speakers certainly have not lost sight of the fact that silver is money, as it was in the United States for 190 years."
"This is a different sort of investment conference, because participants have the chance to lay their hands on real, working silver mines, meet the people who dig up the rock from a mile underground, and walk through the living history of one of North America's longest-lived silver districts," Hillman continued. "Plus, we intend to have fun."
Silver Summit 2005 agenda and registration details and transportation information may be found on the Web at www.thesilversummit.com, or by contacting the Silver Valley Mining Association in Wallace at 208-556-1621.
Sponsors, presenters and exhibitors this year include, in alphabetical order:
Alice Consolidated Mines; Coeur d'Alene Mines; Dave Smith Motors; Endeavour Silver; Esperanza Silver; Fortuna Silver Mines, Inc.; Free-Market News Network; Genco Resources; Great Panther; Hecla Mining Co.; Highland Surprise; Idaho General Mines Inc.; Kimber Resources; Kimberly Gold; MAG Silver; Mascot Silver; Metropolitan Mines; Minera Andes; Mines Management; National Silver-Lead Mining Co.; New Bunker Hill Mining Co.; New Jersey Mining Co.; Northwest Mine Supply; Pan American Silver; Pennaluna & Co.; Placer Creek Mining Co.; Revett Minerals Inc.; Shoshone Silver; Silver Buckle Mines Inc.; Silver Crest; Silver Standard Resources, Inc; Silver Verde May Mining Co.; Silver Wheaton; Silvercorp Metals, Inc.; St. Elmo Silver Mines, Inc.; Sterling Mining Co.; Timberline Resources; Tomlinson-Black Realty; Tumi Resources; Vindicator Silver-Lead Mines, and; Waters Jewelry.
Last year's Silver Summit drew some 500 silver enthusiasts, prompting a switch this year to a larger, more user-friendly conference facility, the Red Lion Templin's Resort in Post Falls, approximately 35 miles due east of the Spokane, Wash., airport on Interstate 90. Saturday's accommodations in the Silver Valley will remain as in years past.
Source: Business Wire