Exclusive coverage: Inside Beaver Creek
Mining.com.au is partnering with Michael McCrae to deliver the latest updates from the invitation-only Precious Metals Summit Beaver Creek conference held from 9-12 September in Colorado.
Touted as the world’s premier independent investment conference, Beaver Creek focuses on explorers, developers, and emerging producers of gold, silver, and platinum group metals.
This exclusive event brings together institutional investors, sell-side/buy-side representatives, analysts, and executives from senior global precious metals companies.
With more than 20 years’ experience of uncovering emerging trends, McCrae will deliver in-depth insights and daily coverage from corporate executives with management teams of close to 200 carefully selected, highly prospective issuers.
There’s a broad range of interesting companies listed to attend this year including Altamira Gold (TSX-V:ALTA), Antipa Minerals (ASX:AZY), Arizona Metals (TSX-V:APC), Blue Lagoon Resources (CSE:BLLG), Borealis Mining (TSX-V:BOGO), Faraday Copper (TSX:FDY), Ivanhoe Electric (NYSE:A), Maritime Resources (TSX-V:MAE), Power Metallic (TSX-V:PNPN), Scottie Resources (TSX-V:SCOT), Vista Gold (TSX:VGZ), and Yukon Metals (CSE:YMC).
Last year’s edition topped 1,400 in total attendance including more than 400 buy-side delegates and 160-plus corporate development representatives, alongside 218 issuer companies.
In terms of deal flow, the Precious Metals Summit logged over 8,000 one-on-one meetings, underscoring Beaver Creek’s role as a matchmaking engine for exploration capital.
Canada on Australia’s radar
The summit’s timing is significant, as Australian investors increasingly look abroad for exposure to North American markets. Interactive Brokers now gives Australians access to trade across 160 markets globally, including Canada, with the ability to hold funds directly in Canadian dollars.
The growing cross-border flow was highlighted in late August when CNSX Markets shareholders approved the Canadian Securities Exchange (CSE) proposed an all-cash offer to acquire the National Stock Exchange of Australia (ASX:NSX).
The National Stock Exchange – Australia’s second largest exchange – is home to listed companies valued from $500,000 to several billion dollars. The average amount of capital raised on the NSX per offer is $8.6 million.
NSX offers investors a number of advantages, including some unique investment opportunities, while enabling investors to further diversify their investments.
Should the deal go ahead, the acquisition will enable the CSE to expand its geographic footprint by partnering with an exchange that has a similar focus and culture. Like the CSE, the NSX is primarily focused on early stage, entrepreneurial companies, with particular strength in the resource sector.
Canada’s mineral might
Canada produces 60 minerals and metals across nearly 200 mins and 6,500 sand, gravel, and stone quarries. In 2023, the nation’s mineral production reached $71.9 billion.
Gold was the top-ranked commodity by value of production in Canada, with a value of C$14.4 billion. In 2024, the country ranked fourth in the world for gold production, totalling 202.1 tonnes.
Gold is mined in 10 Canadian provinces and territories, mostly in Ontario and Québec, which accounts for 70% of the nation’s total gold output as of 2023.
In addition to gold, Canada is also a top producer of silver, growing the production by 33% in 2024 to 9.5 million ounces.
Silver is used across several industries with many designs, including jewellery and decorative use, the renewable energy sector, medicinal purposes, and within the electronics industry.
The commodity plays a crucial role to power electrical devices, able to host conductivity that can transmit and regulate electrical signals.
The demand for silver is likely to continue growing amid trade restrictions and the increasing output of electrical devices across the globe.
Canada’s status as a major producer of platinum group metals (PGMs) will also be in focus at Beaver Creek. The country ranks third in palladium production and fourth in platinum production. In 2023, the nation’s mine production of PGMs was 702,000 troy ounces.
Most of the PGM production came from Ontario, which accounted for 76% of the total, while remaining production occurred in Québec, Manitoba, and Newfoundland and Labrador.
Platinum group metals consist of six metallic elements that share similar physical and chemical properties. These metals include platinum, palladium, rhodium, ruthenium, osmium, and iridium.
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