The Precious Metals panel at 121 Mining & Energy Singapore brought together an industry investor, analyst, and mining corporate to discuss what’s happening in the precious metals space. The panel begins with a discussion on how the U.S. Fed’s recent announcement on inflation is impacting the gold industry and what it means. They look at the pricing for gold and how to analyze where its heading. The panel also examines the silver price and how it’s typically been more volatile than gold.
Silver’s industrial usage is discussed and its growing role as an industrial metal.
The panel also looks at the lack of new discoveries in both gold and silver and where the next new deposit will come from. ESG as a core value for companies is examined as well and its impact on investment. And finally, there is a great debate on cryptocurrencies vs gold and what sort of impacts it has on the industry and why.
Panellists:
Kelvin Wong, Independent Analyst
David Williams, Executive Chairman, Thomson Resources
Wayne Gordon, Senior Multi-Asset Investment Manager, CIO, Global Wealth Management, UBS
Sean Thompson, VP, Corporate Development & IR, Westhaven Gold Corp.