Monday, November 30

SGS Mineral Services and Society of Economic Geologists Seminar:

GEOMETALURGY - APPLICATIONS TO EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION

Guillermo Turner-Saad, Global Vice President, Metallurgy, SGS Minerals Services
Jean M. Richardson, Global Director Marketing, SGS Minerals Services

Geometallurgy is a new approach to mineral exploration and production.  It integrates aspects of earth and materials sciences to study the relationship between and variability of the physical and chemical characteristics of ore deposits and the response of these factors to specific metallurgical processes.  

Internationally used to characterize ore variability, geometallurgy synthesizes aspects of geology, mineralogy, metallurgy, mining, environmental studies, mineral economics and product marketing to create an optimized robust project development solution.
 
This one day course will cover:
-    the interplay of geology, mineralogy, metallurgy and production
-    the link between mineralogy and texture and liberation and selectivity
-    the importance of High Definition Mineralogy in geometallurgy
-    characterization of ore variability in geomet modeling, mill design and planning
-    production forecasting, mine planning, cash flow and NPV optimisation

These concepts will be linked using the SGS Geometallurgical Framework
1.    Multivariate domain definition using field, geology, mineralogy & geochemical data
2.    Sample selection: logistics, requirements and other considerations
3.    Parameter determination and testing
4.    Geometallurgical model definition
5.    Multivariate spatial model generation – applying to the block model or mine plan
6.    Joint mining and mineral processing optimization  

This course is aimed at geological professionals working in exploration or mines, plant and corporate metallurgists, engineering consultants, financial analysts and students.  It will balance theoretical and practical information with case studies.  

Geometallurgy can help you:

• optimise project planning

• maximise project value

• minimise several of the sources of uncertainty.

Attendance is limited.

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Tuesday, December 1, 1.50pm

Room A, adjacent to the auditorium

TSX, Macleod Dixon and CIBC Seminar:

CANADIAN CAPITAL MARKETS UPDATE

• International — gives access to a deep pool of capital from around the world
• Large peer group – 55% of the world’s public mining companies are listed in Toronto
• Targeted research — large equity research community specializing in mining
• Diverse investor base — strong institutional and retail investor following
• Well governed — internationally recognized corporate governance model (globally accepted NI 43-101 resource reporting standards)

• Record capital raising by mining companies
• Strong investor demand, particularly in the precious metals sector
• Overview of the M&A activity in the sector

• Overview of the four listing methods
• Structuring and legal considerations
• Technical reporting requirements

• A leading TSX listed copper company, which has raised C$900m on the TSX since its IPO in 2004 to develop the Lumwana copper project in Zambia
• Experiences of dual listing and raising equity capital on the TSX

This seminar is free to attend.