Page 6 Contd on pg 5 Long bull run in commodities pr edicted by Rob McEwen Everyone in mining knows the indus try goes through cycles Unfortunately cycles in Commodi ties are of durations that are hard to predict Unless of course you have one by a man who has experienced both ups and downs several times Mining Life and Exploratio n News is happy in this edition to ofer its readers a prediction from Rob McE wen a living mining legend He says we are entering the early stages of a commodities cyclical bull market that could last another 1012 years This mining is an oversold sector it s very depressed and were coming into a cyclica l upturn in commodi ties He also believes the junior and intermediate will beneft the most as many seniors face problems replacing existing ore bodies near depletion Rob is the chairman and chief own er of McEwen Mining Inc He is the founder and former chairm an and CEO of Goldcorp Inc which is one of the lar gest gold producers in the world In 1990 Rob jumped from the in vestment industry into the mining industry By 1993 he had begun a consolidation of fve compan ies that would take eight years to complete The resultant company was Goldcorp Inc which has become a gold mining powerhouse During the last thirteen years of Rob being Goldcorp s CEO the compa ny s market capitalization grew from 50 million to over 8 billion and its share price grew at a compound an nual rate of 31 Rob was awarded the Order of Cana da in 2007 and the Queen Elizabeth s Diamond Jubilee A ward in 2013 He holds an Honorary Doctor of Laws and an MBA from Y ork Univer sity and a BA from the University of Glenn Dredhart PublisherPresident Publisher s V iew SPEED AIR DUCT Optimize auxiliar y mine v entilation with the G SPEED AIR DUCT Supply mor e air ov er a gr eat er distance using less fan pow er and sav e on ener gy costs thanks t o G Plastics gr oundbr eaking duct t echnology E XPER TISE RELIABILIT Y SA TISF A CTION R ely on our t eam for guidance in y our v entilation pr ojects fr om the design stages t o the installation 18667979436 t oll fr ee info plasticminer com PL ASTICMINERC OM HIGHEFFICIENCY VENTIL A TION DUCT G SPEED AIR DUCT in Goldcorp Bor den Gold Pr o ject Page 4 Contd on pg 5