Farming and uranium were two of the spotlights at a Southern California showcase for mining talent.
The Casey Research confab, which I did not attend, brought several dozen geologists, prospectors, miners and bankers to show-and-tell to about sold-out 350 attendees.
The San Diego-area gathering was meant to demonstrate what resources banker Rick Rule told the crowd, “Sector, people … then you get a warrant.”I am, by the way, reporting all of this via materials from the conference and from attendees.
Doug Casey, an author and the chief of subscriber service Casey Research, drove home his platform for his NexTen generation of sub-40-year-old resources wizards: “Four percent of the people generate 64 percent of the wins.”
In 1990s and into the present, the resources leaders were Lukas Lundin, Robert Friedland, Ross Beaty and a few others. The current crop still can be dug from from North American, largely Canadian, soil and some in South America. Before I list several of them, I will roll out some of the speakers and attendees at the three-day session.
These included Eric Sprott, whose Sprott Resource Corp. (TSX: T.SCP, Stock Forum) in Canada is pursuing a crop farming strategy with First Nations tribal properties via One Earth Farms Corp. Others at the early October session were money manager John Hathaway, newsletter writer Richard Russell, copper/silver/geothermal businessman Ross Beaty and 20 or more companies and their executives and geologists.
“People loved getting to meet Richard Russell and the fact that we invited Robert Prechter to give a contra-Casey view,” senior Casey analyst Louis James told me. “Being able to pick the minds of Rick Rule, Ross Beaty and many others was a great value to attendees.” Others speaking or in attendance included former newsletter writer and rare-earth elements believer Bob Bishop, master chartist Ian McAvity … and some of the folks who engineered the combination of Rick Rule’s brokerage operations in southern California with Sprott Asset Management’s Canada mother ship.
Here are a few of the NexTen folks that Casey Research hand-picked as leading the commodities wave in gold, uranium, silver, geothermal and agriculture:
- Rob McLeod, 39 and VP of exploration for Full Metal Minerals (TSX: V.FMM, Stock Forum).
- Amir Adnani, 32, of Uranium Energy Corp. (AMEX: UEC, Stock Forum)
- Jorge Ganoza Durant, 40, CEO of Fortuna Silver (TSX: T.FVI, Stock Forum)
- Brian Dalton, 36, of Altius Minerals (TSX: T.ALS, Stock Forum)
- Kevin Campbell, 34 and a banker at Haywood Securities
- Govind Friedland, 38, son of Robert Friedland and head of Govi High Power Exploration
- Kevin Bambrough, 39 and president of Sprott Inc., CEO of Sprott Resource Corp. (TSX: T.SCP, Stock Forum).
Sprott Resource has backed and owns a majority stake in the private One Earth Farms Corp. that is considered one of the largest corporate farms in the world. The Canadian company has almost 80,000 acres of crops in production and is the No. 1 farm machine consumer in Canada.
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