121 Mining Forum in Cape Town – Looking forward to the event

   121 Mining Form – Cape Town.

As a regular attendee at mining conferences around the world, I am looking forward to attending one where the weather is bright and sunny.

The 121 Mining Forum roadshow comes to Cape Town on Monday, and it’s set a record in terms of delegates and corporates presenting. This has quickly become the number one mining conference in Cape Town.

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121 Mining Form – Cape Town.

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As a regular attendee at mining conferences around the world, I am looking forward to attending one where the weather is bright and sunny.  I have just arrived in Cape Town after a delightful 30 hour train ride from Johannesburg, and the weather is truly glorious, a comfortable 25 degrees, sunshine, and a cooling breeze.

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After years of enduring Antarctic conditions of up to 33 degrees below zero, and wading through blizzards in Toronto for PDAC, this comes as a very welcome change I can assure you!

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The 121 Mining Forum roadshow comes to Cape Town on Monday, and it’s set a record in terms of delegates and corporates presenting.

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This has quickly become the number one mining conference in Cape Town, putting into the shade the stale and investor unfriendly Indaba Mining Conference down the road, where they expect investors to pay for the privilege of coming in to meet companies they may invest in!

 

Think paying an admission fee every time you entered your local Branch of Tesco !

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121 are bright and fresh, fully inclusive, all investors are welcome here, and it’s showing in the increasing number of delegates attending, and corporates wanting to meet them.

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The fact that some companies are covering both events reflects on the importance being given to the 121 Group event. Maybe they have been made aware of  investors being asked to pay high prices to attend Indaba, and realising that unless they cover both, they will be missing some potential active investors who, like myself, will only be attending the 121 conference?

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Having reviewed the attending companies for both events, the 121 Group have a good number of presenting companies that would fall into my personal preferred investment focus, whereas Indaba has only a few. I would speculate that many others focus on the same areas as myself, and this must surely reflect on why 121 is becoming so successful?

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The 121 event is being held slightly inland from the Waterfront area, presumably they get good value there, and it’s only a couple of pounds in an uber taxi to the hospitality areas in the evening.

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It was interesting that Indaba recently felt it necessary to send out an email boasting about how many meetings were arranged for their event,  I don’t recall them doing that in the past.  Feeling the heat by any chance guys?

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I will cover the 121 event in more detail from Monday to Wednesday next week.