mining/natural resources PE?
Hi Everyone,
I'm a recent grad with around a year of commercial real estate finance experience. For a long time I have been considering some form of involvement in mining and minerals for a range of personal/lifestyle reasons. Eventually, I'd like to work on the finance or investing side of the industry; I have some frontier markets experience and would like to leverage that.
I have two ways to proceed right now, and I am curious if you can offer any input?
1) Take a job in commercial real estate brokerage/investment banking, think Eastdil/HFF/CBRE. It isn't bulge bracket ibanking but I can imagine some skill set overlap, especially 4+ years out and after an MBA/other degree
2) Get a geology second bachelor's at a top rated school for which I am already accepted, alongside a "Master of Real Estate Development". This would take me 3.5 years in total. I am under no delusions that the MRED is worth more than it is, but I have a 100% funding offer that is reliant on me doing a graduate degree, and the program dovetails with my interests well. If I were going to do an MBA it would be later in my life and at a good school.
I am just not sure what the career path for this really is. Exploration geo technical role > mineral analyst at a Canadian bank > mining private equity? It seems specialized enough that the typical career path doesn't really apply. If I do the degrees, I'd rather not start at entry level but I realize that might be the case. If it would be easier to stay in RE right now and then make this move down the road, I'd love to take advantage of that.
Thanks a lot for any input on this vague question. if there are other forums or resources (besides Infomine) that you can recommend, that would be super cool! Thanks!