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SME's Current Trends in Mining Finance Conference (CTMF 2026)

Financing the Future:  Funding for Mine Development 2026

Tuesday, May 19 & Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Now Accepting Submissions for Panels and Topics for CTMF 2026

Please email:

Alan Oshiki: AlanOshiki@pushtree.com or

Darwin Werthessen: MassMineralAppraisal@gmail.com, or

the conference email address at CTMF2026@gmail.com

with your panel ideas and topics

Register HERE

CTMF 2025 was a wonderful success, following on the energy of fantastic conferences during 2022, 2023 and 2024. Conference attendance once again reached capacity as attendees listened to a keynote speech from Mr. Reggie Singh, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Competitiveness and Supply Chains at the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Energy Resources. We also heard from the Consulate General of Canada, New York's Mr. Christopher Wimmer, and Raed Kadri, Vice President of Strategic Initiatives & Head of Ontario Vehicle Innovation Network (OVIN). Attendees also heard from Kai Hoffman, CEO of SOAR Financially, Donald Marleau of S&P Global Ratings, Jeffrey Christian of CPM Group, Keith Spence and Greg McNab of Global Mining Capital and Dentons, respectively, as well as Andre Gauthier of Caur Technologies, Steve Enders of Brooks & Nelson, Jonathan Mark Wellum of ROCKLINC Investment Partners, and Kit Marrs and Peter Megaw from Alaska Silver, as well as several panelists and moderators. 

CTMF 2025 also offered four workshops on Monday as well as three receptions, one each evening on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Attendance at all three was excellent and reached capacity. A special thank you to our host sponsor and the entire team at A&O Shearman for their continued support for the conference and the New York Section of SME. We truly appreciate it. The conference organizers hope to make you all proud with another great offering of industry professionals, topics, questions, and speakers to give their observations and insights surrounding the metals and mining industry, and specifically the financing within this sector. Please help us make this conference a success!

As in prior years, attendees will have the opportunity to meet representatives, officers, and directors of engineering, law, government, consulting, and investment banking firms from around the world. Listen to insights and observations on policy, technology, and corporate finance from within the minerals industry.

  • Prior attending precious, base, industrial, critical, strategic, energy, and battery metals, rare earth, gems, uranium and junior mining, exploration, materials, processing and recycling firms: Abcourt Mines Inc.; Alaska Silver; Americas Tailings Inc.; Aminco Resources; Aston Bay Holdings Ltd; Atlantic Strategic Minerals; Azimut Exploration Inc.; Blastr Green Steel; Blue Moon Metals Inc.; Brimstone Energy; Celerity Mineral Corp.; Cerro de Pasco Resources Inc.; Colosseum Rare Metals Inc.; Commerce Resources Corporation; Cuprian & Co.; Cygnus Metals Ltd.; Dumont Nickel; Eagles Nest Mining LLC; ElementUS Rare Earths & Minerals; Endeavour Financial; Empress Royalty; Energy Fuels Resources (USA) Inc.; Enim Technologies Inc.; Equinox Gold Corp.; Eval Minerals; Excelsior Minerals LLC; Focus Graphite Advanced Materials; Frisco Metales; Great Southern Mining Ltd.; Honey Badger Silver Inc.; IG Global Group of Companies; Lomiko Metals Inc.; NanoXplore Inc.; NioCorp Developments Limited; Nion Nickel; Northern Graphite Corporation; North Peak Resources Ltd.; Nouveau Monde Graphite Inc.; Ontario Vehicle Network (OVIN); Pershing Resources Company; Pinnacle Iron and Steel Corp.; Power Metallic Mines Inc.; Relevant Gold Corp.; Revival Gold Inc.; Reyna Silver Corp.; Ridgestone Mining, Inc.; Sirios Resources Inc.; Strategic Resources Inc.; StrikePoint Gold Inc.; Torngat Metals Ltd.; Troilus Gold Corp; US Gold Corp.; US Strategic Metals; Viva Gold Corp.; Westwin Elements; and others

  • Prior attending investment banks, financing firms, private equity, and royalty and streaming companies: AON plc; Artemis Capital Advisors, LLC; Auramet International Inc.; Bank of America; Bannockburn Capital Markets; BNP Paribas; Canadian Securities Exchange (CSE); Capstone Partners; Caur Technologies; Cedrus Arbor LLC; Cohn Reznick; CSG Investments; Endeavour Financial; Empress Royalty; Engine No. 1; Evercore; Export Development Canada (EDC); Fortescue Capital; Four Points Capital Partners; Global Mining Capital; Goldman Sachs; Greyfriars, LLC; Headwall Partners LLC; IBK Capital Corp.; ING Bank; ING Capital; InnovAsian Tech; Keystone Valuations; KfW IPEX-Bank, GmbH; Kinterra Capital Corp.; Kroll, LLC; Macquarie Group; Maxim Group; Laura's Liasions / Mining Industry Advisor; Susan Mitchell Associates; Mundoro Capital Inc.; Murdock Capital Partners; Nataxis CIB Americas; Nebari Holdings; Nomadic Venture Partners; Ocean Partners; Orion Resource Partners; OTC Markets Group; PMV Research LLC; Primary Venture Partners; ProMarket Network; Government of Quebec; Red Cloud Mining Capital; Rock Elm Capital; Rocklinc Investment Partners; Sidoti & Company; Soar Financial Group; Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Banking; S&P Global Ratings; U.S. Defense Investor Network & AUKUS Defense Investor Network (DIN); U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC); VanEck Associates Corporation; VSA Capital Limited; WCPD Inc.; Woods Capital; World Bank, and others

  • Prior attending advisory (non technical and technical) companies, agencies, community relations, construction, engineering, equipment, governments, legal, technology, academic/ university, accounting, advisory, media, research, and others:  Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP; Alliance Advisors; Alvarez & Marsal; AMCAST, an F.A.R. Company; American Exploration and Mining Association (AEMA); Ammonite Resources; A&O Shearman LLP; Arthur D. Little; AtkinsRealis Group Inc.; Australian Trade and Investment Commission (Austrade); Barr Engineering & Co.; Bechtel Mining and Metals; Behre Dolbear; Benchmark Mineral Intelligence; Better In Our Back Yard; Big Rock Exploration; Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP (Blakes); Bloomberg Intelligence; Brooks & Nelson, LLC; Call & Nicholas, Inc.; Government of Canada; Caur Technologies Inc.; CEO.Ca; Cedrus Arbor LLC; Cohn Reznick; Control Risks; CPM Group; CYPFER; Dahrouge Geological Consulting Ltd; Davis Economics Group Inc.; Dentons; Durin; EARTHRES, a Division of RESPEC; Ellis Martin Report; ExploreTech; Fastmarkets; FLSmidth; 4-D Resources Advisory LLC; FTI Consulting; GeoGlobal LLC; Giffen Consulting Ltd.; Glencore Technology; Global External; Global Mining Capital; Global Resource Engineering; H/Advisors Abernathy; Hatch Advisory; Hazen Research; Holbrook & Associates; Holland & Hart; IMDEX Limited; Independent Mining Consultants, Inc. (IMC); Kappes Cassidy & Associates (KCA); KPMG Canada; Kroll, LLC; L3 Process Development; LucidCatalyst; Mayer Brown LLP; McCarl's Technical Services; McCarthy Tetrault; Mega-Drain, Inc.; Metso North America; Michigan Technological University; Mine Technical Services; Mining Industry Advisor; Mining Journal; Mining Minnesota; MRC Recruiting; New York University; NOVAMERA Inc.; Precision Mineral Accounting; Prospector News; Prospector Portal; Pushtree Associates; Government of Quebec; Refined Substance Inc.; Reseau ProMarket Inc.; RESPEC; SAFE: Center for Critical Minerals Strategy; SCM Decisions; SGS Canada Inc.; SGS: Societe Generale de Surveillance SA; SLR International Corporation; Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (SME); Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP; SRK Consulting; Stantec Consulting Services Inc.; SWCA Environmental Consultants; Torys LLP; Union Milling Contractors; United States Military Academy: West Point; U.S. State Department; University of Michigan; VectOres; Virginia Tech; Whittle Consulting; Withum; Women's Mining Coalition (WMC); Wood Canada Limited; Wood Plc; World Steel Dynamics; WSP USA; and others

Keynote Speakers will be announced as they become engaged.

  • On Tuesday, May 19: To Be Announced
  • On Wednesday, May 20: To Be Announced

Thank you to all of our prior sponsors and media partners.

  • Speakers are industry leaders, subject matter and policy experts, mining and exploration executives, and provincial, state, and federal officials designing and enacting various policy impacting the global mining sector and mineral supply chains. 
  • Attendees support financing, evaluation, risk definition exercises on mineral projects worldwide. Speakers are leaders in the exploration, mining, minerals processing, energy, and recycling industry companies and projects, and related supply chains. They are experts who author and advise on technical and economic assessments, pre-feasibility, feasibility, 43-101 and SK-1300 studies of many of the world's minerals projects and evaluate challenges and opportunities to secure, de-risk, fund and find minerals, precious and industrial, critical, energy and battery metals and related supply chains. 
  • Establish long lasting relations with engineers, financiers, a variety of key executives who advise the world's exploration companies and managements of the developers and operators, investment firms and financiers.
  • Ask questions of and network with attendees in a close, secured environment. Enjoy excellent food and beverages at the breakfasts, lunches, breaks, and receptions with guest speakers and conference attendees.
  • Learn about the emerging gulf of available supply of key minerals driven in part by: conflict, under investment, declining ore grades, financing challenges, regulatory delays, environmental and sustainability policy, other issues and changing directives, e.g. related to energy transition, electrification, decarbonization, re-localization, circularity, sustainability, and societal expectations, etc. - as demand for minerals grow as a result of economic and population growth, use of batteries, energy storage and shifting priorities, sustainability, new technology et al.   
  • Hear discussions about social license and how to communicate with many, variable and indigenous communities and stakeholders to strengthen relations, opportunities for success, adopt responsible mineral development, new technology and methods to institute sustainable practices, life-cycle analysis and manage cost, and earn profits.
  • Learn how non-technical e.g. business, capital markets, legal matters, other issues, and technical and business and financial issues and economic and societal trends impact mine and exploration finance and project success.
  • Hear discussion of the precious and industrial, bulk and energy mineral and metals markets, and how to best navigate the risks of managing and operating in a decoupling and inflationary environment.
  • Meet with many experts, get your questions answered by decision makers, influencers, leading, qualified technical, financial and non-technical subject matter experts who evaluate, de-risk, value, find and fund mining projects daily.

This will be NY SME's eleventh in-person annual event. During the pandemic, NY SME held three virtual content-rich events. View those on-demand here. 

NY SME proudly reports, as a result of the successful attendance, support of sponsors and media partners of CTMF NY SME has made donations to the SME Foundation in 2023, 2024, and 2025 to help support SMEF's work of assisting students, teachers and professionals in the geosciences, a goal since the first CTMF in 2013. Read about the SME Foundation (SMEF) here. Thank you all who joined us, participated and supported our efforts along the way! 

Please join us at CTMF 2026! We hope to see you there! The format will follow a two day conference with two evening networking receptions with guest speakers, breakfast, refresh breaks, and lunch allowing all to get questions answered by leaders from the mining, finance and engineering industry, active world wide, as well as from  principals of professional advisory, support firms e.g. attorneys, accountants, ESG, CSR, societal, policy, environmental, and community relation firms. The venue allows all to meet one-on-one and in groups.

Attendees are advisors and experts of precious, base, energy, battery metals and rare earth, strategic and critical minerals projects, also involved with the exploration for and operation of mines as well as stakeholders and policy makers who anticipate, manage and reduce risks of funding mineral projects worldwide. Learn about technical, economic, policy and business issues from leading mining and related sector subject matter experts and executives who evaluate, de-risk, find, value and finance mineral resources and mining projects worldwide. 
Since 2013, CTMF events have been honored to feature many leading industry, official and subject matter experts as keynote speakers including:  

  • Mandy Gull-Masty, Grand Chief of Cree Nation of Eeyou Istchee, Waswanipi, Quebec, Canada
  • Zack Valdez; Advisor, Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains, US Department of Energy
  • S&P Global Ratings: Donald Marleau, CFA, Senior Director, Sector Lead, Metals and Capital Goods 
  • Nathalie Camden, Associate Deputy Minister of Mines, Ministry of Natural Resources and Forests (MRNF), Government of Quebec
  • Rob McEwen, President and Chairman, McEwen Mining, Inc. and Mc Ewen Copper
  • Government of Quebec's Mr. Pierre Fitzgibbon, Minister of Economy and Innovation and Minister Responsible for the Lanaudière Region
  • Anthony O'Neill, Group Director, Technical & Sustainability, Anglo American Plc
  • Casey Hammond, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Land & Minerals Management, U.S. Department of the Interior
  • Phillips S. Baker, Jr., President and CEO, Hecla Mining Company
  • Ross Bhappu, Partner, Head of Private Equity Funds at Resource Capital Funds
  • Mario Alfonso Cantu Suarez, Under Secretary of Mining, Ministry of Economy, Mexico
  • Dr. Israel Gutierrez Guerrero, Chief Executive Officer, Mining Development Bank of Mexico
  • Simon Moores, CEO & Founder, Benchmark Mineral Intelligence
  • Dr. Peter Megaw, Co-Founder and Chief Exploration Officer (“CXO”) of MAG Silver Corp.
  • Paul Brink, Senior Vice President, Franco Nevada Corporation
  • Dr. Marc Faber, Founder & Publisher of Gloom Boom & Doom Report, and Director of Marc Faber Ltd.
  • Peter Boockvar, Bleakly Financial Group's Chief Investment Strategist
  • There are many others, too many to show here. Thank you.

At each of three evening receptions there will be guest speakers, passed hors d'oeuvres and beverages. 

CTMF conferences are for and attended by senior mining industry executives and specialists including engineers, bankers, financial analysts, investors, portfolio managers, service providers, government officials, policy officers. The workshops, and receptions bring many experts, interested parties, and investors together to discuss trends, issues and a range of key topics, solutions and risks and opportunities. Attendees and speakers are qualified experts, executives managing and or advising the industry about rapid, pivotal changes impacting projects and opportunities. Many are managers and executives of private and public mining and exploration companies and bankers, financiers, advisers and investors in mining, exploration and related infrastructure worldwide. 

Thank you Quebec for your support and participation at CTMF for six years! 

Above are some of the Government of Quebec's delegation of officials and executives attending CTMF 2019. Thank you Quebec for your continuing support of CTMF! 

Throughout the event there is space to meet one-on-one with many influential banking, finance and industry executives and advisers working around the world. We encourage you to revisit this site for updates, as times and order may change. 

* Space is limited. The organizers monitor registrations and may need to close registration early. Registration closed early for CTMF in past years. Also note due to capacity limitations we may require some registered delegates to be present in a second and or third board conference rooms are fully integrated with flat screens and live video and audio feeds to the main conference and or other board conference rooms where live presentations are being made. Thus, some registered conference attendees may be in other board rooms to watch and hear via live audio/video feed. More rooms and space adjacent to the main and other conference rooms are also places to relax, network, meet one on one, and or for quiet phone conversations, or work. We ask attendees to consider and be respectful of use of these rooms, in particular the smaller one on one meeting rooms for all to be able to use as needed.

NY SME is organizer of the annual CTMF conferences. It is a section of Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration, an association of 14,000+ geo-scientists and mining, mineral professionals in 100+ countries. SME members include mining executives, engineers, geologists, metallurgists, educators, students and researchers. SME advances the worldwide mining and underground construction community through information exchange and professional development. SME is a member society of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers. The New York Section of SME encompasses the Tri-State area. Its members are given the opportunity to network with peers and hear valuable presentations through its activities. NY SME dates back to 1871 when a handful of mining engineers in New York City founded the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers (AIME).

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