Tuesday, March 3
MAKING THE GRADE
9:00 am -12:00 noon
Chairs: Neil Gow, Castle Gold Corporation & Peter Legein, Quantec Geosciences
Discovery and delineation of La Preciosa: A major epithermal silver-gold deposit in Durango, Mexico, Ben Whiting, Orko Silver Corporation, Vancouver, Canada
The Long Canyon gold deposit: A new paradigm for gold mineralization in Nevada, Bob Felder, Fronteer Development Group, Reno, USA
El Valle gold deposit, Santiago Gonzalez Nistal, Kinbauri Gold Corp., Oviedo, Spain A genetic story for the Ernest Henry IOCG deposit, Stephen Twyerould, Phoenix, USA
Geology and discovery of the Cerro Jumil gold skarn, Mexico, Paul Bartos, Esperanza Silver Corporation, Denver, USA
The Nachingwea nickel-copper sulphide project, Tanzania: New discoveries in a new frontier, Patricia Tirschmann, Continental Nickel Limited, Toronto, Canada
Evolution of a successful porphyry-skarn exploration model, Cobre Grande, Oaxaca, Mexico, Robert Page, Linear Metals Corp., Toronto, Canada
MINING & SOCIETY
2:00 -5:00 pm
Chair: Dave Ross, Scott Wilson Roscoe Postle Associates Inc. & Barbara Hendrickson, McMillan LLC
Mining projects and potential public conflicts: Analysis of 11-year long conflict at the Ovacik gold mining site, Bergama, Turkey, Nural Kuyucak, Golder PasteTec, Kanata, Canada
Corporate social responsibility-what to do when it all goes wrong: Hard lessons learned at Esperance, John Yeates, Ivernia Inc., Toronto, Canada
Sustainability & corporate responsibility: A strategic mining opportunity, Valerie Chort, Deloitte & Touche LLP, Toronto, Canada
What is best practice? A mine developer’s perspective, Charles Taschereau, Orezone Resources Inc., Chambly, Canada
Strategies for effectively meeting the challenges of artisanal mining communities, Stephen Metcalf, MineResearch Consulting, Vancouver, Canada
Climate change regulation in North America: What lies ahead, Barbara Hendrickson, McMillan LLP, Toronto, Canada
Meaning of a current NI 43-101 technical report, Greg Gosson, AMEC Americas Limited, Vancouver, Canada
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4
NEW IDEAS
9:00 am -12:00 noon
Chairs: Eric Owens, Alexandria Minerals Inc. & Victoria Vargas, Iberian Minerals Corp.
Geo-mapping for energy and minerals: A new federal initiative in support of northern economic development, Alan Galley, Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Thought-provoking extrapolations of the platinum, palladium and rhodium markets of today and tomorrow, Stephen Forrest, SFA Oxford Ltd., Oxford, UK
You can’t drill everywhere: Ranking the uranium exploration potential of properties and drill targets in the Athabasca Basin, C. Jay Hodgson, Purepoint Uranium Group Inc., Toronto, Canada
Finding ore shoots in Au-Ag epithermal vein deposits, Gregg Morrison, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
A seachange in the setting of exploration expectations, Speaker to be announced, Nautilus Minerals Inc, Milton, Australia
A re-classification of Broken Hill type Pb-Zn-Ag deposits, Paul Spry, Iowa State University, Ames, USA
Resource estimation, risk analysis and sampling optimization: An integrated approach with a case study from the Guadalupe project, Chihuahua, Mexico, John Sims, Coeur d’Alene Mines, Coeur d’Alene, USA
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