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2007-03- 9, 1:56 PM

Out of a hole

這期的經濟學人有一篇關於加拿大礦業的文章，正巧是以前幾天的PDAC為開場白。一點都沒錯，叢林野地裡的地質學家現在都穿著深色西裝有質感的領帶在大會上露臉，經常會訝異這些人穿起西裝也是人模人樣，黑莓機是所有人的必備品，所有人都有參加不完的會議和派對。多倫多市區所有的高級飯店裡都住滿了同行，所有飛往美國或卡加立或溫哥華的班機都擠滿了同行，雖然是極冷的冬季，整個氣氛卻是一場狂歡節。極累人的冗長狂歡節

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THERE was a time when the annual convention of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada drew a crowd of rough characters from Canada's northern bush intent on whooping it up in the big city and telling tall tales to financiers about their mining claims. The event in Toronto this week was not a frontiersman's gathering, however, but the world's biggest mining gabfest. A few old-timers remain, but most of the 15,000 delegates at this year's event were more adept at wielding a BlackBerry than a pickaxe, and were more likely to have come from Mongolia, Peru or South Africa than Balmertown, northern Ontario. Yet the conversation was reassuringly familiar. Will today's seam of luck (good or bad) continue? And how can the industry cope with changing times?

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