Open Session Covers a Wide Range of Topics

TUESDAY, MARCH 7 * AM

Exciting deposits

The Vent gold zone, northwestern Ontario: An Archean epithermal gold-silver system, Christoper Marmont, Kodiak Exploration, Vancouver, Canada

Meadowbank: From discovery to development – Canada’s next generation gold mine, Gordon Davidson, Cumberland Resources, Vancouver, Canada

The Flying Fox nickel mine, Western Australia, Julian Hanna, Western Areas, Perth, Australia

Geology, ideas on origin and potential of Saddle Hills uranium district, eastern Mongolia, Gerald Harper, Gamah International, Toronto, Canada & Bat-Erdene Baatar, Western Prospector Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Geology and mineralization of the San Sebastian Francine and Don Sergio-Andrea veins, Saladillo mining district, Durango, Mexico: Examples of intermediate-sulphidation and low-sulphidation epithermal environments, Kurt Allen, Minera Hecla, Durango, Mexico

The Luxi gold belt of southwest China’s Yunnan province: A true analogue for “Nevada-style” mineralization, Lee Barker, Sparton Resources, Toronto, Canada

The sediment-hosted Aynak copper deposit, Afghanistan, Stan Coats, British Geological Survey, Keyworth, U.K.

TUESDAY, MARCH 7 * PM

Where and why?

Nova Scotia: World leader in exploring bulk mineral products, Mike MacDonald, Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources, Halifax, Canada

Resolution of two potential “show stoppers”: Successful community relocation & sourcing of water – Frontera Copper’s experience at the Piedras Verdes copper project, Sonora, Mexico, Matthew D. Gray, Resource Geosciences de Mexico, Hermositto, Mexico

Conversion of historic uranium resources in Wyoming to NI-43-101 compliant resources, Bill Boberg, UR-Energy, Littleton, U.S.

Vietnam: Capitalizing on its mineral wealth, Mario Caron, Tiberon Minerals, Toronto, Canada

Federal environmental regulations and the mining industry: The western Canadian experience, Michael McPhie, B.C. Mining Association, Vancouver, Canada

The Philippine mining industry: Leading Asia-Pacific in its re-emergence as a resource block, Benjamin Romualdez, Philippine Chamber of Mines, Pasig City, Philippines

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8 * AM

Ideas and Advances

Deep uranium exploration with transient AMT: Mapping basement conductors and sandstone alteration in the Virgin River Area, Athabasca basin, David Goldak, EMpulse Geophysics, Dalmeny, Canada

Real-time geochemical answers in the field using portable XRF instruments: Back to the future, Graham Closs, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, U.S.

An integrated process of treat laterite ores from the Weda Bay deposit in east Indonesia, Malcolm Baillie, Weda Bay Minerals, Toronto, Canada

A quantitative global mineral resource assessment, Bruce Lipin, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, U.S.

Case study: Application of borehole radar surveying in De Beers diamond mines in South Africa and Canada, Iain Mason, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Molybdenum in British Columbia: So much potential, Tom Schroeter, British Columbia Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources, Vancouver, Canada

Integrating porphyry copper geology and mining economics in Toromocho, David Lowell, Peru Copper, Vancouver, Canada