(Kitco News) - Higher gold prices and improving investor sentiment wasn’t enough to counter fears of the spreading coronavirus as attendance at the world’s biggest mining conference dropped from the previous year.
Wednesday, the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) said attendance at its 2020 mining conference totaled 23,144, down 10% from the previous year and the lowest attendance since 2016.
Kitco News reported on some of the empty booths noting that some companies were staying away from the conference because of the spreading coronavirus.