SEG 45 Final_qx4 - Society of Economic Geologists

DAY 1 – Saturday, May 13, 2006
SEG Student Chapter
Conference
All day program
Welcoming Cocktails and Exhibits Open
Student Mentoring Event
DAY 2 – Sunday, May 14, 2006
Wealth Creation – The
Business of Exploration
Pierre Lassonde, President, Newmont
Mining Corporation
"Exploration – The Life Blood of the Mining
Industry"
Charles “Chip” Goodyear, Chief Executive,
BHP Billiton
“The Role of Exploration in the Suite of Value-
Enhancing Options”
Geoff Stanley, Senior Analyst, BMO
Nesbitt Burns
"Exploration – The Perspective of Wall Street"
Phillip Crowson, Hon. Prof., Centre for Energy,
Mineral & Petroleum Law & Policy, University
of Dundee
“Metals and Minerals: The Past 25 Years”
Richard Schodde, Mineral Economist
Jon Hronsky, Manager-Strategy &
Generative Services, both with Mineral
Exploration Team, BHP Billiton Ltd.
(both formerly from WMC Resources)
"The Role of World-Class Deposits in Wealth
Creation"
Tom Albanese, Chief Executive, Copper and
Exploration, Rio Tinto
“The Exploration Philosophy of Rio Tinto –
A Longer Term View of Value Creation”
Ian Thompson and Susan Joyce, Principals,
On Common Ground Consultants
“Changing Industry Approaches to
Sustainability”
Jeremy Richards, Professor of Economic
Geology, University of Alberta
“Sustainable Mining Development in Action:
Rosia Montana, Romania and Nui Phao,
Vietnam”
Leigh Freeman, Downing Teal
Paul Bartos, Colorado School of Mines
Maeve Boland, Colorado School of Mines
“Human Resource Strategies for the Minerals
Industry – Careers, Competencies and
Compensation”
Richard Sillitoe, Consulting Economic
Geologist
John Thompson, Chief Geoscientist, Teck
Cominco
“Changes in Exploration Methods and
Discovery Strategies”
Michael Doggett, Professor, Queen’s Univ.
Richard Leveille, President, Phelps Dodge
Exploration Corporation
“Measuring Costs, Risks and Returns from
Exploration – Improving the Success Rate”
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Mike Etheridge, Managing Director, Tectonex
Geoconsultants Pty Ltd.
“Management and Evaluation of Risk in
Exploration Programs: Adding Value”
Harry Parker, AMEC
“Reserves, Resources and Reconciliation”
DINNER PRESENTATION
Guest Speaker: Randall Oliphant
Chief Executive, Silver Bear Resources
“Exploration: Is the Discovery Really Worth
the Finding?”
DAY 3 – Monday, May 15, 2006
Wealth Creation –
Generating and Delivering
Wealth
Norm Keevil, Chairman, Teck Cominco
“Wealth Creation through Joint Ventures”
William Mercer, Falconbridge
Robert Schafer, Hunter Dickenson
“Exploration Business Strategies and
Relationships within the Major Mining
Company and Junior Exploration Sectors”
Rob McEwen, Chairman, Goldcorp, Inc.
“Challenge and Prosper: The What, Why and
How the Goldcorp Challenge Worked”
Karin Hoal, Colorado School of Mines
Terry McNulty, T.P. McNulty & Associates
Roland Schmidt, Hazen Research
“New Initiatives in GeoMetallurgy”
Mark Johnson, Senior Vice President and
COO, Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, Inc.
“Grasberg: Process Metallurgical Feedback
into Exploration and Mining”
Andre Douchane, President and CEO, North
American Palladium
“Timing is Everything – Almost: The
Optimization of Lac des Iles”
Leroy Schutz, Director, Minesite Exploration,
Newmont Mining Corporation
“Value Creation in Near-Mine Development
Programs at Newmont’s Nevada Gold
Operations”
Michael Orobona, Senior Geologist, Hibbing
Taconite Company
“Exploring the Data – Adding Value with Non-
Traditional Geologic Initiatives on Minnesota’s
Mesabi Range”
Scott Long, Chief Geochemist, AMEC
“Bones of Contention – Current Controversies
in Assay Quality Control Practices”
Geoff Handley, Executive VP, Strategic
Development, Placer Dome
“Turquoise Ridge and Cortez Hills –
A Contrast in Economic Outcomes”
G. Neil Phillips, Former Head of CSIRO
Exploration and Mining
“Discovery of the Yandal Gold Province:
Integration of Empirical and Predictive
Geoscience with Intense Exploration Activity”
Paul Bartos, Colorado School of Mines
“Creating Wealth by Innovation: SX-EW and the
Technology Cycle”
Roger Scoon, Former Director, Exploration
Manager, Platexco, Inc.
“The Merensky and UG2 Reefs at
Winaarshoek: Geologic Overview and Review
of the Exploration and Feasibility Programs
of Platexco”
SEG AWARDS DINNNER
Guest Speaker: Donald Coxe
Global Portfolio Strategist, BMO Financial Group
“Hard Rock Rocks”
DAY 4 – Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Wealth Creation –
Case Histories
Barton J. Suchomel, Principal, Western
Mining Services LLC
“Wealth Creation through Sustained,
Successful Mineral Exploration: The WMC
Experience”
Stephen P. Quin, Executive VP, Miramar Mining
“The Vagaries of Wealth Creation through
Acquisition & Exploration: Hope Bay”
Francisco Camus & Sergio L. Rivera, Codelco
“Wealth Creation through Exploration:
The Codelco Experience 1990-2005”
Colin Macdonald, VP Exploration, Cameco
“Uranium Market Fundamentals and
Exploration Success: Cameco’s Strategy”
Robert A. Gannicott, Chairman and CEO,
Aber Diamond Corporation
“Aber Diamond Corporation: Exploration
Success to Holistic Diamond Company”
Guido del Castillo, Chief Executive, Aruntani
SAC
“History of Exploration and Development of the
Aruntani District”
Steve Aaker, Group Executive, Newmont
Capital
“Creating Value with Royalties”
Ross Beaty, CEO, Lumina Copper
“A Classic Case History of Wealth Creation by
a Junior Resource Company, Measured by the
Metric of Share Price Growth”
Oliver Warin, VP Exploration, BHP Billiton
(retired)
“The Discovery of the Ekati Diamond Deposit”
Doug Kirwin, Executive VP Exploration,
Ivanhoe Mines Ltd.
“The Discovery of Oyu Tolgoi Cu-Au Deposit”
R. Edward Flood, Deputy Chairman and
Director, Ivanhoe Mines Ltd.
“A Case History: Value Creation at the Oyu
Tolgoi Porphyry Copper-Gold Deposits, South
Gobi, Mongolia”
Stephen Enders, Newmont Mining Corporation
Stephen Kesler, University of Michigan
John Thompson, Teck Cominco
“Conference Wrap-up”