GROWTH IN ATTENDANCE SIGNALS GROWING CONFIDENCE IN GLOBAL MINERALS SECTOR

AN INCREASE in numbers of people attending this year’s annual Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) international convention has signalled a return of confidence to the global mineral exploration and mining industry. After three consecutive years of steadily declining attendance, PDAC organisers were pleased to announce that more than 24,000 people from over 120 countries took part in this year’s edition, which ran from March 5-8 in downtown Toronto. The attendance figure is still down from the peak years of 2012 and 2013, when over ...


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