Presentations from the 2011 Nunavut Mining Symposium are now available online. Please note that not all presentations were made available for upload. Those that were are uploaded here. If there is anything in particular you are looking for, please contact info@nunavutminingsymposium.ca for further information.
The 2011 Nunavut Mining Symposium was held from April 5-7, 2011 in Iqaluit, Nunavut. Record number of delegates attended the 14th annual event with just under 450 delegates. A complete listing of attendees is available HERE.
Demystifying the Regulatory Process
Session Chairs: Amanda Hanson, Technical Advisor, NIRB; Lea-Marie Bowes-Lyon, Permitting Coordinator, Newmont Mining Corporation; and Rosanne D’Orazio, EA Coordinator, INAC
DFO’s Role in the Review of Mineral Exploration Projects in Nunavut
Lyndon Kivi, Fish Habitat Biologist, Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Primer on Environment Canada Legislation Relevant to the Mining Industry
Allison Dunn, Senior Environmental Assessment Coordinator, Environment Canada
Establishing Transportation Corridors within Nunavut
Matthew Pickard, Director, EHS & Sustainability, Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation
Financing Major Infrastructure in Nunavut Territory
Land Use Planning in Nunavut
Adrian Boyd, Director, Policy, Nunavut Planning Commission
Managing Complex Projects and Their Regulatory Requirements
Chris Hanks, Director Environment and Social Responsibility, Hope Bay Mining Ltd.
Operational Monitoring and Reporting Requirements at Meadowbank
Stéphane Robert, Environment Superintendent, Meadowbank Division, Agnico-Eagle Mines
Nunavut General Monitoring Plan
Seth Reinhart, Manager, Nunavut General Monitoring Plan, NGMP Secretariat
Business Development: Building opportunities
Session Chairs: Robert Connelly, GN-EDT and Linda Ham, Resource Development Officer, CanNor
The ‘Inuit Business Opportunities Initiative’
Graeme Dargo, Advisor and Alain Hamel, Superintendant, General Services, Meadowbank Agnico-Eagle Mines
Business opportunities in mining: A community perspective
Damian MacInnis, CEDO and Pujjuut Kusugak, Mayor, Hamlet of Rankin Inlet
Challenges of establishing and maintaining a mining and exploration-related business in Nunavut
Patrick Tagoona, President & CEO, Sakku Investments Corporation
Creating a positive investment environment in the North
François Picotte, Senior Economist, GN-EDT
Investing in Nunavut: a private equity perspective
Russ Cranswick, Partner, Resource Capital Funds
Opportunities for the resource, SME, and R&D sectors.
Exploration Projects 1: Return to grassroots
Session Chairs: Matt Senkow, District Geologist, INACNRO and Paul Budkewitsch, Acting Chief Geologist, CNGO
Nunavut Exploration Overview
Karen Costello, Manager, Mineral Resources, INAC-NRO
Northeast Thelon Region: Geomapping for Uranium in Nunavut
Charlie Jefferson, GEM Uranium Project Leader, Geological Survey of Canada
Lac Cinquante Resource Estimate and Exploration Update
Jeff Ward, President, Kivalliq Energy Corporation
David and the Goliaths: Forum Uranium’s North Thelon Project
Ken Wheatley, Vice-President Exploration and Rick Mazur, President, Forum Uranium Corporation
From Armchair Geology to a New Uranium District: Finding the Kiggavik Deposits
Peter Wollenberg, Director Exploration and Acquisition, AREVA Resources Canada Inc.
Industrial Limestone (Carbonate) Resources, Southampton Island: An Assessment
Shunxin Zhang, Research Scientist, Canada-Nunavut Geoscience Office
Exploration Projects 2: Return to grassroots
Session Chairs: Karen Costello, Manager Minerals, and Matt Senkow, District Geologist, INAC-NRO
Timing of metamorphism and mineralization in a link between Hope Bay and Elu greenstone belts from microstructures and U-Pb dates
Hubert Mvondo, Research Associate, University of New Brunswick
Transforming a Diamond Mine: the Jericho Diamond Mine Update
Pamela Strand, President & CEO, Shear Diamonds Ltd.
Three Bluffs Gold Deposit: The Next Multi Million Ounce Gold Deposit in Nunavut
Jo Price, Project Manager, North Country Gold Corp.
Geology and metallogeny of Melville Peninsula: an update on recent activities of the GEM Multi Metals Project
Tommy Tremblay, Research Scientist, Canada-Nunavut Geoscience Office and David Corrigan, GEM Project Leader, Geological Survey of Canada
Chidliak Diamond Project, Nunavut, Exploration Update
Peter Holmes, Vice-President Exploration, Peregrine Diamonds Ltd.
Airborne hyperspectral remote sensing for northern
mineral exploration: preliminary results
Jan Peter, Research Scientist, Geological Survey of Canada
Going Global: Nunavut on the World Stage
Part -1 AngloGold Ashanti and Commander Resources: Jointly Exploring the Baffin Gold Project
Part-2 AngloGold Ashanti and Commander Resources: Jointly Exploring the Baffin Gold Project
Nathan Monash, Manager, Sustainability, AngloGold Ashanti Americas
Gordon Davidson, General Manager, Projects, Commander Resources
Roche Bay: Local Focus, Global Perspective
John Gingerich, President & CEO, Advanced Explorations Inc.
Advancing the Mary River Project and an Introduction to ArcelorMittal
Ron Hampton, Project Director, ArcelorMittal
Nunavut in a Competitive World
Eberhard Scherkus, President & COO, Agnico-Eagle Mines
Metal prices, currencies and global growth outlook for 2011-12
Patricia Mohr, Vice-President, Economic and Commodity Marketing Specialist, The Scotiabank Group
Mines and major projects: Nunavut’s second decade
Session Chairs: Karen Costello, Manager, Mineral Resources, INAC-NRO and Gord Davidson, General Manager, Commander Resources Ltd.
Meadowbank First Year of Production
Dominique Girard, General Manager, Meadowbank Division, Agnico-Eagle Mines
Staged Development at Hope Bay
Chris Hanks, Director Environment and Social Responsibility, Hope Bay Mining Ltd.
Update on Exploration Activities at Sabina’s Back River and Hackett River Projects
Peter Manojlovic, Vice President Exploration, Sabina Gold & Silver Corp.
AREVA’s Kiggavik Project
Frédéric Guérin, General Manager, Kiggavik, AREVA Resources Canada
Meliadine Plans
Denis Vaillancourt, Exploration Manager, Eastern Canada and Eric Lamontagne, Project Manager Meliadine, Agnico-Eagle Mines
Education and Training: Laying the Foundation
Session Chairs: Mike Shouldice, Dean, Nunavut Arctic College, Kivalliq Campus and Kevin Bussey, Executive Director, Kivalliq Mine Training Society
How the MTS has Impacted Aboriginal Workforce Content
Laurie Sterritt, Executive Director, BC Mine Training Society
Community Based Training Programs
John Main, EDO, Hamlet of Arviat
Agnico-Eagle Community level efforts
Moving Towards a Workforce Development Strategy – Nunavut Arctic College
Michael Shouldice, Dean, Nunavut Arctic College, Kivalliq Campus
Mine Training: Where Are We? Where Are We Going?
Kevin Bussey, Executive Director, Kivalliq Mine Training Society
Community Engagement
Session Chairs: Ronald Suluk, Community Mining Advisor, GN-EDT and Seth Reinhart, Socio-Economic Analyst, INAC-NRO
Best Practices in Community Engagement in Nunavut, Canada and Worldwide
Richard Cook, Senior Environmental Scientist, Knight Piesold Ltd.
Inspiring a Northern Workforce
Leslie Cuthbertson, Director of Partnerships and Communications, ACTUA
Ensuring Success in Northern Research Through Community Engagement: GEM Cumberland Project
Mary Sanborn-Barrie, Research Scientist, Geological Survey of Canada
Hope Bay Community Relations
Alex Buchan, Manager of Community and External Relations, Hope Bay Mining (Newmont)
ArcticNet Projects in Nunavut
Trevor Bell, Professor, Department of Geography, Memorial University