Greetings from the Sunshine Coast!

[View this email in your browser]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Forward]( [Kitco Metals]( Editor's Picks [@DanielaCambone]( G’day folks, we have just finished wrapping our coverage here in beautiful Noosa, Australia - I am now on vacation, enjoying this extraordinary country, but thought I would check in with all of our Kitco News readers and viewers. This conference marked my first time in Australia and I have just been blown away by the beauty of this country and the extraordinarily kindhearted people, who almost make Canadians look less polite (I can say this, I’m Canadian). However, I have not yet tried Australian Vegemite - apparently a very popular spread here down under. That said, my greatest takeaway from the Noosa Mining and Exploration Conference - which I highly encourage Investors to attend to discover some great ASX listed gems and vacation in such an incredible surfing town, full of world-class restaurants, shops, Koalas and natural rainforests (jealous yet?) - is that despite these summer doldrums, the attendance set a record. We were shoulder to shoulder in a room of more than 1,000 people. This seems to be in sharp contrast to conferences back home, which resemble ghost towns following any drop in metal prices. The focus here is definitely longer-term investing and not just, “let me join the bandwagon of the moment.” I respect it greatly. So a special thank you to Phil Dickenson and the fine folks of the conference and to their sponsor, Morgans - which provided me with an A-class film crew. Some video highlights (there are many) include [Mike Young of Vimy Resources]( being very straightforward about the uranium price being manipulated. [Frazer Tabeart of PolarX]( noted that Alaska is experiencing a boom, quite like its Yukon neighbor. And two brothers, two commodity markets battling it out - [Ian Prentice of Technology Metals]( and [David Prentice of Brookside Energy]( - they were even competing about who would get the most views! That’s it for me - on the gold front, not much has changed since I left. BUT whoa that Goldcorp (NYSE: [GG]( news - [the Canadian miner missing expectations as output slips](. The company - the world’s fifth largest gold miner by market value - posted a net loss of $131 million compared to a net profit of $135 million in the year-ago period. Need to get CEO David Garofolo on the show ASAP! That’s all the space they are allotting me this week - and I will now enjoy a few extra hours of vacation! See you next week - I'm back in studio! Daniela [Ignore The Noise, Metals Will Rally]( [Ignore The Noise, Metals Will Rally]( prospect of a trade war may create some short-term “noise” in the markets, but investors should not lose sight of the longer-term growth of base metals, this according to Peter Harold, managing partner of Panoramic Resources. [The Uranium Price is Not Real - CEO]( [The Uranium Price is Not Real - CEO]( uranium spot price is thinly traded and probably manipulated and does not reflect the true intrinsic value of uranium, said Mike Young CEO of Vimy Resources (ASX: VMY). “[Uranium prices] are not the real reflection of the sales going on around the world. Most uranium is sold between the producer and the utility in a private contract, and that’s never reported,” Young told Kitco News. [This Metal Is Outpacing Cobalt And Lithium]( [This Metal Is Outpacing Cobalt And Lithium]( is outpacing other base metals in relevance in the development of clean energy, said Ian Prentice, managing director of Technology Metals Australia Ltd. Prentice told Kitco News that China’s environmental restrictions have limited supply while their consumption of vanadium has steadily increased. [Electric Cars Are Driving More Than Just Passengers]( [Electric Cars Are Driving More Than Just Passengers]( prices are going to rise in the near future, and the Yukon’s assets are well positioned to benefit from a rally, this according to Michael S. “Mickey” Fulp, editor of the Mercenary Geologist. [This Will Revolutionize Mining, And Our Lives]( [This Will Revolutionize Mining, And Our Lives]( Promnitz, managing director of Lake Resources, a lithium producer, said that electric vehicles will create a revolution in the way we live, and how miners prioritize the minerals to produce. [For Metals Investors, Time Horizon Matters]( [For Metals Investors, Time Horizon Matters]( in Australia have experienced valuation appreciation despite recent lackluster growth in metals prices, and this is because Australian investors have taken a longer-term time horizon for investing, said Ian Macfarlane, CEO of the Queensland Resources Council. [The U.S. Will Become World’s Largest Energy Producer, Here’s Why]( [The U.S. Will Become World’s Largest Energy Producer, Here’s Why]( U.S. is forecasted to overtake Saudi Arabia and Russia as the world’s number one oil producer and David Prentice, Managing Director of Brookside Energy, said this is due to radically evolving technologies in the energy space. “Fundamentally, it’s a story about technology and technological improvements in drilling techniques,” Prentice. [Noosa Mining Investor Conference]( [Sales]( [Silver Ace]( This message was intended for {EMAIL} , as a subscriber and/or customer of Kitco. 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