David is the “rocks side” of HRA, and has been active in mining exploration for over 30 years in roles spanning prospecting through feasibility studies, and now markets commentary.

David Coffin founded, with his brother Eric, the HRA newsletter service that deals with the mining and metals sectors in 1995. David, the “rocks side” of HRA, has been active in mining exploration for over 30 years in roles spanning prospecting through feasibility studies, and now markets commentary.

David logs literally hundreds of thousands of miles every year, visiting exploration and development sites on six continents in order to bring back the real goods for HRA subscribers. They benefit not just from Dave’s seal of approval, but his outline of what he is seeing and where that might lead so that subscribers can fine-tune their own sector gauges. And a lot of serious market players take notice.

David is a regular speaker at Cambridge House, the PDAC, the New Orleans Gold Show as well as other resource and commodity investment forums in North America and Europe, and has been interviewed numerous times on radio and TV and in third party news articles for his opinions on the sector and markets. HRA was one of the first, back in 2001, to call the current cycle as the secular trend others have only recently recognized.

Since then fifteen HRA “picks” have been taken over in the ensuing boom market, half a dozen have successfully completed the shift from exploration to production and an equal number are closing on the that threshold. But HRA is not a cheerleader - numerous others have garnered gains for subscribers on profits taking calls, and despite a continued believe in the long term growth of the mining sector it has made several calls for general profits taking ahead of market corrections. HRA is opinion about developments and developers in the mining sector, on a considered, factual, and timely basis.

Responsible for the “financial analysis” side of HRA, Eric has a degree in Corporate and Investment Finance. He has extensive experience in merger and acquisitions and small company financing and promotion. For many years he tracked the financial performance and funding of all exchange listed Canadian mining companies and has helped with the formation of several successful exploration ventures.

Eric has been interviewed on CBC Television’s Business News and national and local radio in Canada and the US for his opinions on resource trends and is a frequent contributor to several third party publications and a number of resource, gold, metals and market related Internet sites.

He regularly speaks at a number of North American gold and resource conferences. He was one of the first analysts (along with David) to point out the disastrous effects of gold hedging and gold loan capital financing (1997) and to predict the start of the current secular bull market in commodities based on the movement of the US Dollar (2001) and the acceleration of growth in Asia and India.

Eric reviews data from hundreds of companies seeking strong management and finance teams in undiscovered companies for HRA's readers.  Combined with good share structures and projects that David like, these companies have the potential to make the HRA list and generate gains for their readers.