Episodes

Meet the hosts of Forward Looking Statements. In this short introduction to the podcast, recorded in Beaver Creek, Colorado, Jim Paterson and Brien Lundin explain why they started the show and what listeners can expect over the coming year. Between them, Brien and Jim have spent decades in metals and mining and built overlapping but distinct networks across the industry. Brien, publisher of Gold Newsletter, brings the view of an analyst who has followed a wide range of projects, people and ideas over multiple market cycles. Jim brings the perspective of a company builder who has focused on growing one company at a time. Together, they’ll sit down with the smart, reputable people they know in the sector to explore how they read the market, where they’re putting their time and money, and how they’re positioning themselves. Both hosts believe this is the biggest and potentially most rewarding bull market of their careers, with important differences from cycles past. Forw…

In the inaugural episode of Forward Looking Statements, recorded on location at the conference in Beaver Creek, Colorado, Jim Paterson and Brien Lundin sit down with Fred Bell, CEO of Elemental Royalty, the day after the company announced the largest single transaction in its history. Jim first met Fred in Zurich in 2017, when Elemental was a private royalty company targeting half a million dollars in annual revenue and struggling to fund a $2 million royalty on its own. Today the company is on...