[caption id="attachment_556" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Dave Hodge and Joe Martin"][/caption] Hamburg, Zurich, Geneva, Munich, Vienna - A blur of meeting financial people, listening to presentations by Canadian junior exploration companies building relationships,  enjoying lunches...

Activity at Day 2 of the Munich Precious Metals and Commodities Investment Conference is again busy. The show has about 130 exhibitors and show organizer Jan Kneist says they have about 6000 attending the two day event. [caption id="attachment_534" align="alignright" width="150" caption="100...

1. You should have it so good (Sports Illustrated) In 1991 SI came to Vancouver to profile the BC Lions football team. After meeting the team's owner, fabled mining promoter Murray Pezim, the focus of the piece changed to Howe Street's most colourful player. SI wrote, "Murray Pezim lives somewhere...

Today is Friday, Nov. 4, 2011 so we must be at the Munich Edemetall & Rohstoff Messe.. – Precious Metals and Commodity show. Walking around the floor one sees the presence of Canadian junior mineral exploration companies that are responsible for about 60% of the worldwide search for mineable...

Thursday, November 3 and we are in Munich. The Zimtu Road Show takes us to the offices of CM-Equity, a brokerage firm that specializes in resource stocks and, in particular, TSX listed companies that also trade on the Frankfurt Exchange. Germans have a liking for Canadian juniors and a key person...

Mettant en vedette des conférenciers de renommée mondiale qui vont faire le point sur tous les types de placements directs dans les sociétés publiques, l’investissement spéculatif, l’exploration de ressources, le pétrole et gaz, la technologie verte, les perspectives et tendances...

Renowned investor David Tice, founder of the PrudentBear Fund and CNBC frequent, caught up with Daniela Cambone of Kitco News at the 2011 New Orleans Investment Conference to discuss his projections for gold and why he's bullish-- despite being the classic bear.

Brent's web site: https://www.explorationinsights.com/ Mickey's site: http://www.goldgeologist.com/ 

[caption id="attachment_502" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Day 4 and the team is all smiles!"][/caption] There is something magical happening on the 2011 Zimtu Road Trip through several European cities. The trip started in Hamburg with ten companies presenting to investment bankers....

The legendary Peter Brown, chairman and founder of Canaccord, sent the following book recommendation yesterday: I would like to recommend Michael Lewis's new book "Boomerang - Travels in the New Third World" also author of ("Big Short","Liars Poker" and "Blind Side").  This is a 150...

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="117" caption="by Joe Martin, Chairman"][/caption] Lunch number one on the Zimtu Road Trip attracted about 30 serious investor types in Hamburg. Eight stories, all held to ten minutes each, caught the attention of the invitees. Thee is no doubt that money...

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="117" caption="by Joe Martin, Chairman"][/caption] The Zimtu Road Trip 2011 kicks off in Hamburg, Germany this morning. The Road trip is the brain child of David Hodge, president of Vancouver based Zimtu Capital Corp. Hodge, a veteran of many fund raising...

   Eric Sprott It's Shocking How Undervalued Junior Miners Are Hedge fund manager Eric Sprott’s speech at last week’s Silver Summit turned a room full of nervous precious metals owners into pumped-up silver buyers. Highlights are posted below. Ten times more silver than gold is...

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Robert Sinn, The Stock Sage"][/caption] A Story of Fear, Hope, Panic, and Euphoria By Robert Sinn, a professional trader and market analyst from Delray Beach, FLA. Formerly a US junior national chess champion, Robert is a regular...