Cambridge House International Inc. filled the halls at the 2008 Vancouver Resource Investment Conference today.  They advertise only 300 seats available, but I bet there were at least that many seated and that many more standing to hear the presentations and wondering around the halls of exploration companies. 

The demographics of those attending ranged from the grizzly, gray bearded prospector to the little old lady with white hair who asked tough questions of the pin-strip-suited geologists claiming to be able to make her money with their new mine.  I was intrigued by the sight of a young couple:  hand-in-hand and in-love, they wondered around picking up company brochures.   Now if only the mining industry could attract more young investors like that–imagine what could be done.

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