Why attend Mining Forum Americas

Four days.Two hundred companies.No gatekeepers.

Mining Forum Americas is the oldest and largest event of its kind: four concentrated days with the management of more than 200 mining companies and the investors who finance them, run by an organiser that has supported the industry through every price and capital cycle since 1989.

Last year in Colorado Springs

Mining Forum Americas 2026 in numbers

203: Participating issuers193 presenting, 10 in 1x1 Meetings only
1,266: AttendeesFrom 39 countries, up 26% on 2025
328: Buy-side investorsUp 12% on 2025
5,401: 1x1 Meetings14,191 requests in total
US$1.2T: Combined market capitalisationOf participating issuers

95%Brought a C-suite executive
192 of the 203 issuers were represented by a chief executive, CFO, another chief officer or their chairman (177 by their chief executive); 353 of the 620 corporate delegates were C-suite: 212 chief executives, 66 CFOs, 53 other chief officers and 22 chairs.
24%Of event market cap in the room
Investors who attended hold US$276 billion of participating issuers’ shares, 24% of aggregate event market capitalisation, against 21% in 2025.
22.51x1 Meetings per issuer
5,401 1x1 Meetings between issuers and investors, from 14,191 requests: 22.5 for each of the 245 issuer calendars and 9.2 for each of the 569 investor calendars.

Who was in the room · 1,266 attendees

Corporate delegates49%
Buy-side26%
Investment bankers9%
Other participants9%
Sell-side6%

Buy-side by type · 328 buy-side investors

Hedge funds31%
Private equity20%
Open-end funds11%
Family offices9%
Qualified private investors9%
All other types20%

Average 1x1 Meetings by stage

Producers25.894 issuers
Developers, feasibility and build24.740 issuers
Royalty and streaming23.812 issuers
Developers, PEA and scoping22.120 issuers
Explorers, advanced19.327 issuers
Explorers, early stage12.78 issuers
Other7.72 issuers

Average 1x1 Meetings by primary metal

Palladium26.01 issuer
Gold23.9150 issuers
Copper23.722 issuers
Silver23.422 issuers
Titanium22.41 issuer
Zinc21.21 issuer
Aluminum / Bauxite16.51 issuer
Lithium15.31 issuer
Uranium14.54 issuers

Companies by stage. 94 producers, 60 developers, 35 explorers, 12 royalty and streaming, 2 other.

By primary metal. 150 gold, 22 copper, 22 silver, 4 uranium, 5 other.

Among those presenting. Newmont, Zijin Mining, Agnico Eagle Mines, Barrick, Wheaton Precious Metals, AngloGold Ashanti, Franco-Nevada, Gold Fields, Kinross Gold, Fresnillo.

Source: Denver Gold Group event analytics for Mining Forum Americas 2026. Attendance and company counts are as recorded for the event. Market capitalisation is the combined value of participating companies in US dollars as at 1 October 2026. Buy-side includes investors on site who were not badged, a Denver Gold Group estimate. Every 2026 presentation webcast now carries a readable transcript, captions, a summary and key moments.

Watch the 2026 webcasts See who presented

The sector in one place

Unmatched representation

The Mining Forums gather almost seven-eighths of the world's publicly traded gold and silver producers by production or reserves, alongside developers, explorers and royalty and streaming companies. No other event gives an investor as complete a view of the sector.

Invitation-only

Attendance is by invitation and qualification. Specialist mining investors, generalist institutions, private equity and hedge funds meet C-Suite representatives of the participating companies, so every conversation is with a decision-maker.

Global reach, local focus

Why Colorado Springs

Colorado Springs gathers the North American buy-side, the Toronto and New York sell-side, and investors from Europe and Australia in one resort, with Denver International offering nonstop flights from Frankfurt, Munich and London.

An international room

Each forum draws investors and companies from every major mining jurisdiction, who come for the efficiency of seeing the sector in days rather than months.

Independent by design

No conflicts. Just the meeting.

Denver Gold Group is a not-for-profit industry association. It does not underwrite, broker, trade or publish research. The only thing it sells is a seat in the room, and the only thing it optimises is the quality of the meetings and the overall experience with the highest production values in the industry.

Companies present on merit. Participation is open to qualifying mining companies, whatever they mine. There is no banking relationship to earn a slot.
Investors choose their meetings. Institutional investors request the companies they want to see. The schedule is built from their choices.
The organiser has no position. DGG holds no stock, takes no fees on transactions and owes nothing to any sponsor's deal flow.
The same rules on three continents. The format that has run since 1989 is identical at every Mining Forum.

Ranked with the bulge bracket

The only non-bank event on Nasdaq's conference quality chart.

Nasdaq profiles the investors who attend every major basic materials conference by the assets they manage and the length of their investment horizon. Every other event on the chart is run by an investment bank. Mining Forum Americas is the exception, and it sits where issuers want to be: larger, longer-horizon capital.

Redrawn from Nasdaq, Basic Materials – Conference Quality Analysis, 2025. Bubble positions reflect the median profile of the investors attending each event, as measured by Nasdaq; Denver Gold Group events highlighted.

Driven by 1x1 Meetings

Presentations open the door. 1x1 Meetings close the distance.

Every DGG forum runs on private meetings between C-Suite representatives from leading mining companies and qualified institutional investors complemented by family offices and high net worth individuals. Unlike nearly every other investment conference, those meetings are multilateral, unlimited and unmediated. That is how the leading mining investment forums in the world are built, and Colorado Springs is no exception.

Multilateral

Any participant can request any other. Investors meet companies, companies meet investors, and both meet the sell-side. Nobody is confined to one bank's client list.

Unlimited

There is no cap on requests and no cap on meetings. The schedule fills as far as diaries allow, across every session, meal and break.

Unmediated

No banker in the room and no organiser choosing who meets whom. Requests go straight from one side to the other, and the answer comes straight back.

1989Independent sinceNot-for-profit industry association

206Companies at Mining Forum Americas 2026, the world's leading mining investment forumProducers, developers, royalty and streaming

14,1911x1 Meeting transactions at Mining Forum Americas 20265,401 1x1 Meetings held

3Continents, one proven mining investment platformAmericas · Europe · Australia

Investors request

Qualified institutional investors browse participating companies and request the meetings they want, ranked by priority.

Companies accept

Management teams review requests and accept. Both sides see who they are meeting before they board a plane.

The system schedules

DGG's own event management system resolves every request into a conflict-free timetable around presentations, meals and travel.

Meet, then follow up

Presentations are webcast and archived. Contact details, attendance and meeting records are in every delegate's hands when they leave.

Proprietary to Denver Gold Group

The only mining event that measures what it returned to you.

Every other conference sends an invoice and a thank-you note. Denver Gold Group sends a score. The Relative Return on Event Investment tells each member company how efficiently its participation converted into meeting engagement, investor demand, shareholder representation, digital reach and market response.

RME
Relative Meeting Engagement
Size-adjusted 1x1 Meeting demand and conversion
RID
Relative Investor Demand
Meeting requests investors sent the company, adjusted for size, membership age and presentation slot
RSR
Relative Shareholder Representation
Share of the register held by attending investors
RWE
Relative Webcast Engagement
Size-adjusted webcast viewing minutes
RMP
Relative Market Performance
Event-week return in excess of the sector benchmark

Standardise. Each of the five indices is measured against the cohort of member companies at the same forum, with the cohort mean set at 100 and one standard deviation equal to 25 points. Meeting, investor demand and webcast inputs are adjusted for company size first, so a major producer and a single-asset explorer are each judged on what they achieved at their scale.

Blend. The five indices combine into a weighted core score.

Adjust, within bounds. Four factors shift the core score by at most a bounded number of points to give the final RREI:

Travel distance
Home-currency movement
Event expenditure
Executive attendance

Member companies receive their RREI after every Mining Forum, on the same basis in the Americas, Europe and Australia. Every score is relative to the event cohort, transparent to the company it describes, and confidential to it.

Relative Return on Event Investment (RREI), its indices and its methodology are proprietary to Denver Gold Group, Inc. © 2026 Denver Gold Group, Inc. All rights reserved. The model may not be reproduced, adapted or applied without Denver Gold Group's written permission.

Insight you can act on

Keynotes and panels

Market strategists, fund managers and industry leaders speak on metals prices, capital markets, geopolitics and the technical and regulatory shifts changing how mines are financed and built.

Where the market is heading

Management presentations and panel discussions look past the current quarter, helping investors position for the next phase of the cycle before it is consensus.

A record built since 1989

The oldest and largest

Denver Gold Group is the world's oldest and largest organiser of mining investment events, trusted by companies and investors alike.

Through every cycle

The forums have run through bull markets and deep downturns without interruption, and they measure what each member company gets back through Denver Gold Group's proprietary Relative Return on Event Investment.

Sunday 19 – Wednesday 22 September 2027 · The Broadmoor