It’s 1972, the US is withdrawing from Vietnam and the Godfather has just been released. A Reed College dropout is on his way to meet a new student at his dorm-room to sell him a typewriter. After knocking on the buyer’s door, eager to get the deal done, he tries the handle and steps inside… Read More
News and Articles from Jamie Keech
Greg Smith: Entrepreneurship in the Mining Industry
“We had some extraordinarily stressful periods of time that required a tremendous amount of work. What got us through that was the bullheaded tenacity to keep pushing no matter what happened and trying to manage stress in a way that was productive, and not falling apart or giving up…” Greg Smith is the President of… Read More
RJ Lyons: Everything you Need to Know about Shipping
“This past year has been fairly weak until the last 2 or 3 weeks…. VLCCs, which are 2 million-barrel ships, went from making, in the spot market, $30,000/day to $325,000/day in 14 days.” RJ Lyons is the President & CEO of Mjolner Shipping, focusing their operations on crude oil and refined products. RJ started working… Read More
The Evolution of Mining Finance As Told By Doug Silver
“You never learn when you’re successful, you only learn when you do things wrong…so I’m extremely well educated.” Doug Silver, PM at Orion Resource Partners & Jamie Keech at the Beaver Creek Previous Metals Summit The Man In The Mining Hall Of Fame Doug Silver is a portfolio manager at Orion Resource Partners, an alternative… Read More
Mickey Fulp: the Mercenary Geologist
“I know the CEO of every company I own…… Looking people in the eyes is very important. I have a few trick questions up my sleeve that will separate the pretenders from contenders.” Mickey Fulp runs a newsletter called the Mercenary Geologist, it is a large well-established newsletter in the mining industry, funded primarily by… Read More
Finding the Best People & Betting the Jockey
The overarching set of skills that makes someone great, that lets them outperform their peers, perhaps exponentially, are: Do they have a track record? Have they spent time in the trenches? And, do they have emotional intelligence, are they self-aware? There is a prevailing ethos in the mining sector of “bet the jockey”. The idea… Read More
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