Tuesday, March 3, 2026 83 View all Fort Lewis College news Fort Lewis College alum Dave Cole rings Nasdaq opening bell for Elemental Royalty Cole (Geology ’84), founder and president of Elemental Royalty Corporation, celebrated the company’s recent listing on the Nasdaq Stock Market by ringing the Opening Bell. Dave Cole (Geology ’84), founder and president of Elemental Royalty Corporation, celebrated the company’s recent listing on the Nasdaq Stock Market by ringing the Opening Bell at MarketSite in Times Square, marking a milestone for the gold-focused streaming and royalty firm with a globally diversified portfolio. Fort Lewis College alumnus Dave Cole, (Geology, '84), rang the Opening Bell at the Nasdaq Stock Market in celebration of his company’s recent public listing. Cole is the founder and president of Elemental Royalty Corporation, a gold-focused royalty and streaming company with a globally diversified portfolio of 16 producing assets and more than 200 royalties. He joined Executive Chairman Juan Sartori and COO Frederic Bell at the Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square to mark the milestone. In a previous story, Cole said Fort Lewis College produces exceptional geology graduates. ""Outdoor sensibility combined with scientific capability makes for a good field geologist. That’s an FLC Geology grad in a nutshell," he said.