Douglas Silver, CEO of Flydentity LLC. Credit: PDAC. The first keynote address of this year’s Prospectors and Developers Association (PDAC) of Canada convention was particularly germane given that PDAC is the world’s largest mining conference, most publicly listed mineral companies are Canadian, and the majority of these have gold mining operations. The talk, entitled The fate of gold deposits, was delivered by Douglas Silver, CEO of Flydentity LLC. He explored global gold endowment over the past 30 years. Silver said the idea for the talk started when he asked the question “What happened to the gold deposits of 1989?” during a keynote speech in 2019 at the 30th anniversary of the Denver Gold Group, which he founded in 1989.