SUNDAY, MARCH 2
COMMODITIES AND MARKET OUTLOOK
Sponsored by Macquarie Group Limited, BMO Capital Markets, Carlisle Goldfields Limited, GMP Securities L.P., National Bank Financial Inc., Raymond James Ltd., RBC Capital Markets, Scotia Capital, Southeast Asia Mining Corp.
1:00 – 5:00 pm
CHAIRS: Greg Barnes, TD Newcrest, Toronto, Canada & Victor Flores, HSBC Securities Inc., New York, USA
Overview, Victor Flores, HSBC Securities Inc., New York, USA
Gold, Jim Steel, HSBC Securities Inc., New York, USA
Silver, Jeffrey Christian, CPM Group, New York, USA
Platinum, speaker to be announced
Copper, Andy Roebuck, Teck Cominco Limited, Toronto, Canada
Molybdenum, Catherine Virga, CPM Group, New York, USA
Nickel, Greg Barnes, TD Newcrest, Toronto, Canada
Zinc, Steve Hayes, Breakwater Resources Ltd., Toronto, Canada
Uranium, Eric Webb, UX Consulting, Roswell, USA
MONDAY, MARCH 3
OPENING CEREMONIES
8:45 – 9:15 am
KEYNOTE SESSION: ADAPTING TO GROWTH – OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES IN THE MINERAL INDUSTRY
9:15 – 11:30 am
Chairs: Rodney Thomas, Mineral Industry Consultant & Joe Hinzer, Watts, Griffis & McOuat Limited, Toronto, Canada
Global mining: New actors! New script?, Magnus Ericsson, Raw Materials Group, Stockholm, Sweden
Mining industry trends, Paul Murphy, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Toronto, Canada
Metal prices, currencies and global growth: Outlook for 2008-2009 – Will the current supercycle be sustained?, Patricia Mohr, The Scotiabank Group, Toronto, Canada
Leveraging the strength of Canadian capital markets in adapting to growth opportunities and challenges, Richard Nesbitt, CIBC World Markets, Toronto, Canada
The social licence to operate: What is it and why it seems so difficult to obtain, Ian Thomson, On Common Ground Consultants Inc., Vancouver, Canada
CANADIAN CARATS HARVEST TO DATE
2:00 – 5:00 pm
Chairs: Patricia Sheahan, MDRU-UBC Consultant & Jonathan Fowler, De Beers Canada Inc., Toronto, Canada
Fishing for diamonds: Ontario’s first diamond mine, Martin Doyle, De Beers Canada Inc., Toronto, Canada
The Jericho diamond project: Challenges facing a junior diamond miner in Canada, Mike Johnson, Tahera Diamond Corporation, Vancouver, Canada
Meeting the Snap Lake challenge, Malcolm Thurston, De Beers Canada Inc., Toronto, Canada
Contrasting kimberlite types of the Churchill Diamond Project, Nunavut: Implications for exploration and evaluation, Pamela Strand, Shear Minerals Ltd., Edmonton & Mike Baumgartner, Mineral Services of Canada Inc., Vancouver, Canada
Update Diavik: The first five years, Tom Hoefer, Diavik Diamond Mines Inc., Yellowknife, Canada
The Renard kimberlites: Quebec’s first diamond mine?, Eira Thomas, Stornoway Diamond Corporation, Vancouver, Canada
FINANCE
2:00 – 5:00 pm
Chairs: Daryl Hodges, Jennings Capital Inc. & Bill Washington, Wellington West Capital Markets Inc., Toronto, Canada
The global situation in mining project financing, speaker to be announced, Metals Economics Group, Halifax, Canada
Considerations for bank and high yield debt financing, speaker to be announced, Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, Toronto, Canada
Bank debt & equity financing in Cerro de Maimn project, Dominican Republic, Bill Fisher, GlobeStar Mining Corporation, Toronto, Canada
High yield debt: Equity financing for the Mineral Park mine expansion, Arizona, Mike Surratt, Mercator Minerals Ltd., Vancouver, Canada
TUESDAY, MARCH 4
THE OPENING OF NEW EXPLORATION VENUES: INDIA & PAKISTAN
9:00 – 12 noon
Chairs: Andrew Nevin, Pebble Creek Resources & Diane Nicolson, Hunter Dickinson Inc., Vancouver, Canada
Reko Diq, Pakistan: Exploration update, Ricardo Muhr, Antofagasta Minerals, Santiago, Chile
India exploration: Past and future, Sandeep Lakhwara, Australian Indian Resources Group, Bangalore, India
The Bhukia gold deposit: Opening up of a new gold-copper province? A lesson in delayed exploration and development in India, Mike Higgins, Indo Gold Limited, Milton, Australia
Aussies exploring and mining for India, Michael Kiernan, India Resources Limited, Perth, Australia
Panel discussion: Overcoming obstacles to exploration in India and Pakistan
Panelists: Richardo Muhr, Sandeep Lakhwara, Michael Higgins, Michael Kiernan (affiliations listed above)
Moderators: Andrew Nevin & Diane Nicolson (affilliations listed above)
ABORIGINAL PARTICIPATION IN THE MINERAL INDUSTRY: CANADA AND INTERNATIONAL
9:00 am – 12 noon
Chairs: Don Bubar, Avalon Ventures Ltd. & Hans Matthews, Canadian Aboriginal Minerals Association, Toronto, Canada
Galore Creek copper gold project, British Columbia: The Talhltan, the company and the government, Rick van Nieuwenhuyse, NovaGold Resources Inc., Vancouver, Canada
Tres-Or & the Timiskaming First Nation: Building a history together, Laura Lee Duffett, Tres-Or Resources Inc., Vancouver, & Chief Conrad Polson, Timiskaming First Nation, Notre-Dame-du-Nord, Canada
Mineral exploration protocol in the Akaitcho Territory, Northwest Territories, Peter R. Liske, Former Head Chief, Yellowknives Dene First Nation, Yellowknife, Canada
Case history from Latin America, speaker to be announced
Nunavik land regime and mine exploration activities, Daniel Epoo, Nunavik Landholding Corporations Association, Kuujuak, Canada
Victor Mine: Company & community perspectives, Joe Gaboury, Attawapiskat First Nation, Attawapiskat & Albalina Metatawabin, De Beers Canada Inc., Timmins, Canada
NEW IDEAS FROM THE PROTEROZOIC (PART 1 OF 2)
9:00 AM – 12 noon
Chairs: Neil Gow, Castle Gold Corporation, Toronto, Canada & David Mason, Geological Survey of Queensland, Indooroopilly, Australia
New insights into the geodynamic and metallogenic evolution of the Mt. Isa region, George Gibson, Geoscience Australia, Canberra, Australia
Intracratonic hydrothermal flow systems and the genesis of sediment-hosted Zn-Pb ore deposits, Jamie Wilkinson, Imperial College London, London, England
Correlation of Archean and Paleoproterozoic units between Canada and Greenland: Placing the economic potential of Baffin Island (Nunavut) into sharper focus, Marc St-Onge, Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
The Aggeneys-Gamsberg ore district, South Africa: A world class base metal sulphide resource?, Abraham Rozendaal, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Paleoproterozoic metallogeny of Brazil and the Guianas Shielf, Lydia M. Lobato, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Paleoenvironmental and tectonic controls on formation of giant early Paleoproterozoic BIF and associated iron and manganese deposits in southern Africa, Nicolas J. Beukes, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa
CENTRAL ASIA
2:00 – 5:00 pm
Chairs: Robert Schafer, Hunter Dickinson Inc., Salt Lake City, USA
Geology, tectonics and mineral deposits of Afghanistan, Antony Benham, British Geological Survey, Nottingham, England
Gold deposits and the geologic settings in Kyrgyzstan, Alex Gostevskikh, Centerra Gold Inc., Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Gold mineralization in the Bulakashu mining district, Kyrgyzstan, William Tafuri, Centrasia Mining Corp., Salt Lake City, USA
The Neo-Tethyan Metallogenic Belt of Turkey-Iran-Pakistan, Jeremy Richards, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Mineralization styles in the Urumieh-Dokhtar Arc & Zagros Fold Belts, Iran, Alireza Zarasv
andi, Shahid Chamran University, Ahvaz, Iran & Marcos Zentilli, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
GEOPHYSICS
2:00 – 5:00 pm
Chairs: Peter Walker, Geophysical Algorithms, Mississauga & Richard Smith, Fugro Airborne Surveys, Ottawa, Canada
The application of airborne natural field electromagnetics (ZTEM): Some examples from the southwest United States, Michael Zang, Exploration Syndicate Inc., Summerland, Canada
The effect of removing surface and regional geology from airborne gravity data, Kevin Crain, Areva Resources Canada Inc., Saskatoon, Canada
Inversion of large magnetic datasets, John Paine, Scientific & Computing Applications, Adelaide, Australia
Using potential field data and stochastic exploration to refine 3D, Richard Lane, Geoscience Australia, Canberra, Australia
Geophysical prospecting for deep-ocean sulphides, Peter Kowalczyk, Ocean Floor Geophysics & Mira Geoscience, Surrey, Canada
Geophysical characterization of kimberlites in the Fort a la Corne kimberlite field, Saskatchewan, Don White, Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
PROTEROZOIC CONTINENTAL MOVEMENTS & METALLOGENY (PART 2 OF 2)
2:00 – 5:00 PM
Chairs: Eric Owens, Alexandria Minerals Corporation & Robert Valliant, Tri Origin Resources Inc., Toronto, Canada
Proterozoic paleogeography: Cratonic connections and tectonic interpretations of the rock and mineral record, David Evans, Yale University, New Haven, USA
Influence of Earth’s first supercontinent on global metallotects: Nuna and the formation and preservation of Paleoproterozoic mineral deposits, Sally Pehrsson, Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
The Grenville province and its context in southeast Laurentia, Toby Rivers, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Canada
The geodynamics and metallogeny of the Australian Proterozoic, David Huston, Geoscience Australia, Canberra, Australia
Update on the Proterozoic Australia – Laurentia stratigraphic and metallogenic connection, Charles Jefferson, Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
An overview of the Neoproterozoic of Brazil with emphasis on the amalgamation of west-Gondwana, Claudio Valeriano, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Metallogeny and tectonic setting of the Trans-Hudson orogen, David Corrigan, Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5
NEW DISCOVERIES AND DEVELOPMENTS
9:00 am – 12 noon
Chairs: Bill Mercer, Avalon Ventures Ltd. & David Christie, TD Newcrest, Toronto, Canada
Dapingzhang copper, zinc, lead, gold, silver mine, China, Dave Comba, Regent Pacific Group Limited, Burlington, Canada & Jamie Gibson, Regent Pacific Group Limited, Hong Kong, China
Westwood gold project, Quebec, Mike Donnelly, IAMGOLD Corporation, Toronto, Canada
Pinos Altos gold project, Mexico, Roger Doucet, Agnico Eagle Mines Limited, Toronto, Canada
Galore Creek copper-gold project, British Columbia, Rick van Nieuwenhuyse, NovaGold Resources Inc., Vancouver, Canada
Canadian Malarctic gold project, Quebec, Sean Roosen, Osisko Exploration Ltd., Montreal, Canada
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