PDAC 2018 – Final day

PDAC 2018 – Final day.  Wednesday is a rather strange day at the PDAC, as it starts an hour earlier than the other days, at 9 am, and closes three hours later at 12 pm.

Arriving early this morning the aisles were quiet and there were great swathes of booths unattended, a suggestion that the previous night’s festivities had taken their toll perhaps?

 

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PDAC 2018 – Final day.  Wednesday is a rather strange day at the PDAC, as it starts an hour earlier than the other days, at 9 am, and closes three hours later at 12 pm.

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Arriving early this morning there were great swathes of booths unattended, a suggestion that the previous night’s festivities had taken their toll perhaps? There’s always a feeling of the party the night before on the last morning of PDAC, and there’s a reason for that!  Around 10am people poured in and the booths were manned, and it as busy for the last couple of hours, which it normally isn’t.

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My final evening of the show was spent as the guest of a Canadian mining services firm in the Ritz Carlton Hotel, where they served up the most wonderful food and provided some excellent wines to wash it all down with, from 5 pm until 11 pm. Fortunately  this was only a short walk from my accommodation!

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In conclusion, it was an uneventful PDAC in my experience, nothing to get too excited about, and I wish I had a pound for every time I heard the word “undervalued”!

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My memories are of:

  • Battery and base metals being more popular then the precious metals
  • The show looked visibly busier than last year on all the days
  • Meeting a few good companies that I hope to tempt to present in London this year
  • Enviroleach coming so close to winning the $1 million Disruptive Mining Award
  • The weather being much milder than usual and no snow
  • The show catering reaching a new low