Business Design Centre
London
Conference Day 2
Mines & Money London 2012 Conference Programme Day 2
Wednesday 5 December
| 08:15 | Morning coffee and networking |
| 08:45 | Chairman’s opening remarks Dr Mike Armitage, Chairman SRK Global |
| Commodities focus – Precious metals | |
| 09:00 | Gold mining keynote: Building a world-class gold mining business: Challenges and opportunities in today’s market environment • Market outlook: Where next for gold mining stocks? • Costs and market economics: Strategies for keeping costs under control • Growth strategies: Exploration vs acquisition Mark Bristow |
| 09:25 |
Finance innovation Keynote: Creating growth opportunities with streaming finance models • Guide to the streaming finance model Nolan Watson |
| 09:50 | Mining industry consolidation: M&A and capital raising trends • M&A trends in the sector and what this means going forward • Buy vs build: Exploring growth strategies for today’s market conditions • Capital allocation: How to get it right and the opportunity cost of poor decisions Lee Downham, Global Lead Partner, Mining and Metals Advisory, Ernst and Young |
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Company Spotlight Presentations 10:10 Bradford A Mills, CEO and Director, Mandalay Resources |
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| Capital raising – Strategies and pools of liquidity | |
| 11:30 |
Private equity: Leveraging the advantages of PE for funding the next-generation of projects • Examining the state of funding markets for entrepreneurial mining ventures Bert Koth |
| 11:50 |
Panel discussion: Attracting capital to a mining project: Finding funding in a tightening market • How can junior mining companies make themselves more attractive to the institutional investor? Panelists include: John Harrison Mark Reineking John Carlesso Jamie Strauss |
| 12:20 | Raising capital in Toronto – Exploring the opportunities • Unique opportunities and vehicles in Toronto for junior exploration companies looking to raise capital and gain visibility • How a dual listing on TSX/TSXV can result in increased liquidity, access to capital and exposure • What a mining company should take into account when preparing to go public Orlee Wertheim, Head, Business Development – Global Mining, Toronto Stock Exchange |
| Company spotlight presentations 12:30 Craig Mackay Director, Golden Rim Resources 12:40 Courtney Chamberlain, Executive Chairman, Minera 12:50 Professor Ian Plimer, Non-Executive Deputy Chairman, Kefi Minerals 13:00 Hamish Halliday, Managing Director, Venture Minerals 13:10 Terry Tew, COO, Black Mountain Black Mountain Resources 13:20 David Richards, Managing Director, Liontown Resources 13:30 John McConnell, President and CEO, Victoria Gold |
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M&A Focus |
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| Standardising global infrastructure in the mining space | |
| 13:40 | Cameron Kirkwood, Director, Development & Market, Global Mining, Parsons Brinckerhoff |
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Company Spotlight Presentations 14:00 Ian Finch, Managing Director, IronClad Mining |
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| Commodities focus | |
| 15:10 |
Copper market analysis and investment climate: Where are we in the cycle? • Examining the forces driving the copper price Li Yusheng |
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Company Spotlight Presentations 15:30 Cesar Lopez, CEO & President, Seafield Resources |
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| Emerging market mining opportunities – Risk and reward | |
| 16:30 | Political risks to mining investments – a legal view • Resource nationalisation or expropriation? The new wave • Future risk areas • Preventative measures – Contractual terms • Role of ECA’s and political risk insurance • Bilateral Investment Treaties – Direct and indirect expropriation – Enforcement difficulties • The commercial/legal challenge: Fighting to stay in a country (in a regime) that doesn’t want you Christopher Gooding Partner Fasken Martineau |
| 16:50 |
Managing Fraud Risk in Mining |
| 17:10 |
Mining and development in Africa: Strategies to create a win-win for the investor and the local community • Examining the mining opportunities and challenges in some of Africa’s less developed countries Stephan Vermaak |
| 17:30 | Close |
| 18:45 | Mines and Money London 2012 Gala Dinner and Outstanding Achievement Awards 2012 |
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