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SME's Current Trends in Mining Finance Conference (CTMF 2025)
Navigating Risks of a New and Uncertain Reality  
Connecting Mining, Finance and Engineering Executives ^TM

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CTMF 2025 is about trends and non-technical and technical issues and fundamental and financial tools and methods used that impact raising capital in the global minerals exploration and mining industries. Hear leading experts discuss how management, advisors, analysts and investors evaluate and use best practices and technology to anticipate, manage and reduce risks and costs of mining projects worldwide. 

The agenda (is being posted here) will focus on identifying, analysis and evaluating risks of finding, funding and sourcing critical, strategic, industrial and precious minerals. Also discussed will be the impact of divergent trends impacting mineral exploration and miners' ability to raise capital and control costs, including shifting outlook(s), global minerals demand, near shoring of material(s), declining ore grades, regulatory policy, political winds impacting the green economy, etc. and their impact on mining and exploration, that have special, long term requirements. 

Read the abstracts and instructors' bios for the four informative and engaging workshops here that will be on Monday, May 19, 2025.

• Using Dynamic Discounted Cash Flow and Real Options to Assess the Value and Risk of Mining Investments: Michael Samis, Ph.D., P.Eng., Principal & Founder, SCM Decisions and Vikram Jayaraman, Senior Vice President - Advisory and Operations, DRA Global
  
  
• Reviews and Audits of Exploration and Mining Projects for Risk Assessments and Opportunities: Abani R. Samal, Ph.D. RM-SME, CPG, and Fellow of SEG, Principal, GeoGlobal LLC and Peter Christensen, PE, RM-SME, Principal Consultant, RESPEC 
  
  
• Proposed Changes to NI 43-101 and How That Will Affect Preparation and Disclosure of Mining Studies: Greg Gosson, Ph.D., P.Geo., Technical Director, Geology & Compliance, Minerals & Metals Consulting, Wood Canada Limited and Stella Searston, MSc, RM-SME, MAIG, FAusIMM, Principal Geologist, Mine Technical Services
  
  
• Life Cycle Risks & Opportunities in Mining Environmental Management: Keeping the End in Mind: Lisa Kirk, Ph.D., P.G., Principal BioGeochemist and President, Enviromin/RESPEC, Mario Bianchin, Ph.D, P.Geo., Director of Mine Water Management, Mining & Energy, RESPEC, and Jordan Anderson, Engineering Manager, RE-SME

Meet many industry leaders at the workshops. Get your questions answered. Learn more about who else will be at CTMF 2025 by scrolling down this page, to see a growing roster of people expected to attend. NY SME thanks:

• All of the speakers and attendees who make the sucess of CTMF possible, as well as the;
  
• Sponsors: A&O Shearman, host; and RPM Global; SLR International Corporation; SME Foundation; and: Government of Quebec; CohnReznick; Red Cloud Securities; Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP; SRK Consulting; ; RESPEC; WSP; Behre Dolbear; SGS: Societe Generale de Surveillance SA; McCarl's Technical Services; Relevant Gold; Reyna Silver; Big Rock Exploration; MRC Recruiting; Cygnus Metals; SWCA Environmental Consultants; Western Alaska Minerals; Pushtree Associates; and others, and;
  
• Media partners: Canadian Mining Journal, Ceo.Ca.com; E&MJ: Engineering & Mining Journal; Fastmarkets; GBR: Global Business Reports; Metal Tech News; Miners News; Mining.com; Mining Discovery; The Mining Journal; The Mining Record; National Investor; The Northern Miner; The Prospector News; Metal Tech News; North of 60 Mining News; Skillings Mining Review; SME's Mining Engineering Magazine; and Soar Financially.  

Join many senior lending and mining and engineering executives and officials from Canada, Quebec, U.S.A., Europe, state and provincial officers, etc. NY SME events focus on challenges and opportunities to secure, de-risk, fund and find minerals, precious and industrial, critical, energy and battery metals and related supply chains. 

• 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 and mitigation and valuation of and are advisors to many of the world's exploration, mining, minerals processing, energy, recycling industry companies and projects, and others in related supply chains. 
  

Join many leading engineering, finance, investment subject matter and policy experts and firms who work around the world.

• Attend four informative, engaging workshops by leading expert instructors to learn about issues that impact mining project success.
• Establish long lasting relations with engineers, financiers, a variety of key executives who advise the world's miners, exploration investment firms and financiers.
• Ask questions of and network with all, enjoy excellent food, beverages at the breakfasts, lunches, breaks, workshops, receptions with guest speakers and conference.
  
  
• Learn about the emerging gulf of available supply of key minerals driven in part by conflict, under investment and declining ore grades, financing challenges, regulatory delays, as well as various environmental and sustainability policy and efforts, and other issues and changing directives, e.g. energy transition, electrification, decarbonization, relocalization and sustainability goals, societal expectations, etc. - in addition to growing demand for minerals as a result of economic and population growth, use of batteries, energy storage and shifting priorities, sustainability, new technology et al.  
• Understand why not every mineral resource is economic, nor commercial, and what technical and business challenges, risks and opportunities exist in the current economic climate as the global industry adopts to a new political, societal, et. al. reality. While there is some growing awareness and government(s) actions, policy officials at federal and state levels, mineral exploration and mining supply chains are complicated. Support of mineral exploration, development, mining regulatory reform is needed. Knowledge gaps, delays, etc. thwart the exploration and mining industry to do what miners do best to enable them to sustainably explore for, find and produce resources close to home, for example.  
• Hear discussions about the importance of social license and how to communicate with many, variable and indigenous communities and stakeholders to strengthen relations, success and 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 and 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 and 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.

Register to meet many leading experts. There will be many others. Below is not a complete roster who will join us:

• David L. Kanagy, Executive Director since 2004, Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration Inc. (SME);
  
  
• Mark Compton, Executive Director, American Exploration and Mining Association (AEMA) - will present an Update about Americas' Changing Mining and Exploration Regulatory Landscape;
  
  
• Cynthia Urda Kassis, Partner, A&O Shearman, Global Co-Head of Energy, Natural Resources and Infrastructure and Mining Sector Lead;
  
  
• Neal Rigby PhD., BSc., CEng., MIMMM, SME, AIME, Corporate Mining Consultant and Principal Mining Engineer, SRK Consulting (US) Inc. - tbc;
  
  
• Dr. Peter Megaw, Chief Technical Advisor, Reyna Silver Corporation; 
  
  
• Michael Meding, Vice President & General Manager, McEwen Copper and President & Board Member of Los Azules (Argentina);
  
  
• Greg Gosson, Ph.D., P.Geo., Technical Director, Geology & Compliance, Minerals & Metals Consulting, Wood Canada Limited and Stella Searston, RM SME, MAIG, FAusIMM, Principal Geologist, Mine Technical Services - discussing mining registrants' filings under new SEC SK 1300 rules (Instructor see workshops);
  
  
• Stephen Lerner, Partner, Global Chair of the Squire Patton Boggs Restructuring & Insolvency Practice Group, Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP;
  
  
• George Bee ICD.D, President and CEO, US Gold Corp.; 
  
  
• Dave Meadows, Chief Technology Officer, Bechtel Mining and Metals; 
  
  
• Daniel W. Kappes, President, CEO and Founder, Kappes Cassidy & Associates (KCA);
  
  
• Carolyn McIntosh, Senior Partner, Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP;
  
  
• Greg Sutton, General Manager of Mining Operations, US Strategic Metals;
  
  
• D’Arcy Hill, Senior Account Executive - Natural Resources, SGS Canada;
  
  
• Ana Rudawski, Partner, Cybersecurity and Privacy, A&O Shearman; 
  
  
• Grant A. Malensek, P.Eng., Technical Director: U.S. Mining Advisory, SLR International Corporation; 
  
  
• Jon Lamb, Managing Partner, Orion Resource Partners;
  
  
• Christopher Wimmer, Canadian Consul, Senior Trade Commissioner and Head of Investment in New York City, Consulate General of Canada, Government of Canada;
  
  
• Michael Fox, Publisher, Prospector News (moderator of a CTMF exclusive pre recorded fireside chat with Felix Zulauf and Dr. Marc Faber - see below for more details. You can only hear this conversation by attending CTMF 2025); 
  
  
• Peter Mah, President, CEO & Director, Spanish Mountain Gold Ltd.;
  
  
• Hugh Agro B.Sc., MBA, P.Eng. (non-practising), President and CEO, Revival Gold Inc.;
  
  
• James Dendle C.Geol., Chief Operating Officer, Triple Flag Precious Metals Corp.;
  
  
• Jeff Parshley PG, Corporate Consultant (Closure planning and Closure cost estimation), SRK Consulting;
  
  
• Mark Rice, Vice President, Advisory, Auramet International Inc.;
  
  
• Nick Michael, formerly VP Technical Services, Orion Resource Partners, RM-SME;
  
  
• Michael Woods, President, Woods Capital;
  
  
• Mark Smith P.E., Esq., Executive Chairman, President and CEO, NioCorp Developments Limited;
  
  
• Keith Spence ( 石凯 ), CEO & Partner, Global Mining Capital, talking about: Geopolitics & China and How it Affects the Mining Space;
  
  
• Philippe Baudry, Executive General Manager: Advisory Services, RPM Global;
  
  
• Terry Lynch, CEO, Power Metallic Mines Inc.; 
  
  
• Richard Carleton, CEO, Canadian Securities Exchange (CSE);
  
  
• Jason Cox, Technical Director, Canadian Mining Advisory, SLR International Corporation;
  
  
• Lyndsey Wright, Executive Director, Women's Mining Coalition (WMC); 
  
  
• Chad Williams, P. Eng., Chairman and Founder, Red Cloud Mining Capital;
  
  
• George Sturgis, Former VP of Projects for Hecla Mining, now Professor of Practice at Colorado School of Mines;
  
  
• Thomas Rauch, President, McCarl's Technical Services and FY2024-2025 President of the SME Foundation;
  
  
• John Marek, President of Independent Mining Consultants, Inc. (IMC); 
  
  
• Dr. Andrew J. Ramcharan, PhD., P.Eng., FAusIMM, RM-SME, Strategic Board Advisor, Ridgestone Mining, Inc. and Executive Vice President, Corporate Development, Roscan Gold; 
  
  
• Adam C. Simon, Arthur F. Thurnau, Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences at the University of Michigan, a Society of Economic Geologists (SEG) Fellow and author of the International Energy Forum (IEF) study: Copper Mining and Vehicle Electrification;
  
  
• Abani R. Samal, Ph.D. RM-SME, Principal, GeoGlobal LLC (Instructor see Workshops);
  
  
• Jonathan Wellum, CFA, CEO of Rocklinc Investment Partners, will speak about: Investment opportunities the digital world is missing! (Guest speaker - see receptions );
  
  
• Donald Marleau, CFA, Managing Director, Sector Lead, Metals and Capital Goods, S&P Global Ratings who will provide a view of the global demand for more metal (and more capital spending needed) by an industry that is protecting its returns after many years underperforming other sectors;
  
  
• David Rhodes, Managing Director, Endeavour Financial; 
  
  
• Kit Marrs, CEO, Director, Co-Founder, Western Alaska Minerals Corporation;  
  
  
• Andre Gauthier, P. Eng. , P. Geo. , M. Sc. A., Vice President, Business Development and Exploration, Caur Technologies, and President and CEO, Eval Minerals - Mineral Investments; 
  
  
• Adam P. Graf, CFA, Senior Mining Analyst, VanEck Associates Corporation;
  
  
• Tim Arnold, PE, Senior Mining Engineer, Barr Engineering; 
  
  
• Hugues Jacquemin, BSc., Hons. Dipl. Esp., CEO and Director, Northern Graphite Corporation - tbc; 
  
  
• Lauren Megaw, VP Corporate Development, Reyna Silver Corporation; 
  
  
• Paul House, CEO, IMDEX Limited;
  
  
• Martin Nevens, Sales Director, Metso North America;
  
  
• Larry Breckenridge, P.E., Principal Environmental Engineer, Global Resource Engineering; 
  
  
• Dr. Kwasi Ampofo, Head of Metals and Mining, BloombergNEF - tbc;
  
  
• Stuart Smith, President: Consulting and Advisory Americas, RPM Global; 
  
  
• Ernest Mast, President and Managing Director, Cygnus Metals Ltd., and Director, Scottie Resources Corp. and of Libero Copper & Gold Corporation;
  
  
• Grace Asenov, Base & Energy Metals Editor, the Americas, Fastmarkets;
  
  
  
• Laura K. Granier, Partner: Mining, Resources, Energy, Conventional Power, Renewable Energy & Storage, Holland & Hart; 
  
  
• Ian Weir, Technical Manager, Mining Advisory, SLR International Corporation;
  
  
• Lisa B. Kirk, Ph.D., P.G., Enviromin / RESPEC (Instructor see workshops);
  
  
• Raziel Zisman, M.A., M.E.S., LL.M., Partner & Leader, Sustainable Governance Initiative, Whittle Consulting, Integrated Strategic Planning for the Mining Industry; 
  
  
• Ben Parsons MSc, MAusIMM, Principal Resource Geologist, SRK Consulting;
  
  
• Paolo Cattelan, ing., MBA, Vice President, Business Development, WCPD Inc. and Foundation WCPD;
  
  
• Erin Boeke Burke, Director & Lead Analyst, Sustainable Finance, S&P Global Ratings;
  
  
• Jeffrey M. Christian, Managing Partner, CPM Group (Guest speaker - see receptions);
  
  
• Rob Pratt, President, Call & Nicholas, Inc.;
  
  
• Andrew Monk, Chief Executive Officer, VSA Capital Limited;
  
  
• Dominique Doucet P.Eng., President & Founder, Sirios Resources Inc.;
  
  
• Brian Miller, Chief Executive Officer and Director, Astra Exploration Inc. - tbc
  
  
• Michael McGlone, CFA, FRM, Senior Commodity Analyst, Bloomberg Intelligence (Guest speaker - see receptions);
  
  
• John Baffes, Senior Economist, Macroeconomics, Trade & Investment, The World Bank;
  
  
• Christopher Langdon, Partner, Business Law Group and Co Lead of Projects Group, McCarthy Tetrault;
  
  
• Marco Roque, President, CEO & Director, Cassiar Gold Corporation - tbc; 
  
  
• Philipp Englin, Chief Executive Officer, World Steel Dynamics;
  
  
• Anne Williamson, Senior Vice President of Corporate Sustainability and ESG at WSP USA and Randy L. Huffsmith, P.E., BCEE, Senior Vice President, US Mining Sector Leader: WSP: speaking about Balancing the Scales: ESG and Profitability in Mining;
  
  
• Laura Konkel, Associate, Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP;
  
  
• Michael Samis, Ph.D., P.Eng., SCM Decisions (Instructor see workshops); 
  
  
• Aaron Noble, PE, PhD, Professor, Department Head - Mining and Minerals Engineering and Associate Director, Center for Advanced Separation Technologies, Virginia Tech;
  
  
• Adam Hawkins from Global External - Locally Connected. Globally Minded. Think Global who in a roundtable panel will discuss: Why we Lose; How we Can Win;
  
  
• John Davidson, VP Head of Capital Sales, North and Central America, FLSmidth; 
  
  
• Dr. Stephen Enders, Executive Chairman, Brooks & Nelson, LLC will discuss "Mining Investments Succeed or Fail Because of People not Rocks – Best Practices in Management Due Diligence" (Guest speaker - see receptions);
  
  
• Kai Hoffman, CEO of SOAR Financially - a leading authority of the capital raised by the world's junior mining sector and regular podcaster, interviewer of many world leading, influential mining, financial authorities;
  
  
• Andrew Harley, PhD, Client Services Director, Mining at SWCA Environmental Consultants;
  
  
• Dan Palo, PhD, P. Eng., PE, Vice President, Senior Process Engineer, Barr Engineering; 
  
  
• Paul Harris, Americas Editor, Mining Journal;
  
  
• Jeremy Weyland P.Eng., Senior Vice President, Projects and Development, Abra Silver Resource Corp.; 
  
  
• Sean Cleary, CEO & Director, Strategic Resources Inc.;
  
  
• Lindsey Schultz, CEO, MRC Recruiting; 
  
  
• Peter Christensen, PE, RM-SME, Principal Consultant, RESPEC (Instructor see workshops);
  
  
• Ryan Sistad, Executive Director, Better In Our Back Yard;
  
  
• Julie Lucas, Executive Director, MiningMinnesota (tbc); and
  
  
• Many other leading industry executives and influencers.  
  

Revisit this site for updates. Among the many others we expect, will be many of key people involved with authoring many of the world's economic assessments and pre feasibility, feasibility, 43-101 and SK-1300 et al studies of many of the world's projects. They are the subject matter experts who evaluate and finance mining, minerals projects. 

Also join us at CTMF 2025 to hear Dr. Marc Faber and Felix Zulauf in an exclusive, first time-ever conversation, fire side chat that will be moderated by Michael Fox, Publisher of the Prospector News They will discuss their view of the global macroeconomy, financial, metals and commodities markets during these uncertain, risky times.

NY SME is proud to offer this exclusive, pre recorded lengthy fire side chat between these two legendary investing authorities, Dr. Marc Faber and Felix Zulauf, UBS's former Global Markets Strategist. Do not miss  this. They will discuss today's complex, uncertain, changing macroeconomic and financial landscape. 

Both Marc and Felix possess many years experience, interest in and are very well known for their views of the global financial and capital markets and precious metals and commodities markets. NY SME is very appreciative of being able to share this unique opportunity with all CTMF 2025 attendees. This will be an exciting and timely exchange, with the uncertainty in today's markets. You can only hear this by attending CTMF 2025. Join us!

Felix Zulauf is the Founder and CEO of Zulauf Consulting, a boutique research and consulting firm that offers investment advisory services to institutional investors and family offices. Felix has over 40 years of experience in financial markets and asset management and has served as a member of the Barron’s Roundtable for 30 years. He started as a trader with Swiss Bank Corporation in the early 1970’s and received training in research and portfolio management thereafter with several investment banks in New York, Zurich, and Paris. Mr. Zulauf joined UBS in 1977 as a Portfolio Manager of global mutual funds and became Global Strategist of UBS in 1982 and the head of the institutional portfolio management group in 1986. Felix served as a member of the Executive Board of Clariden Bank from 1988-1990 and founded Zulauf Asset Management AG in 1990, a Swiss-based asset management company. Mr. Zulauf sold the majority of the firm and spun off a Family Office in 2009.

A speaker at various investment seminars worldwide, Dr. Marc Faber is well known for his “contrarian” investment approach.  Dr. Faber is also a regular contributor to several leading financial publications around the world. Dr. Faber was born in Zurich, Switzerland.  He went to school in Geneva and Zurich and finished high school with the Matura.  He studied Economics at the University of Zurich and, at the age of 24, obtained a PhD in Economics magna cum laude. Between 1970 and 1978, Dr Faber worked for White Weld & Company Limited in New York, Zurich and Hong Kong. Since 1973, he has lived in Hong Kong.  From 1978 to February 1990, he was the Managing Director of Drexel Burnham Lambert (HK) Ltd.  In June 1990, he set up his own business, publishing a widely read monthly investment newsletter “THE GLOOM BOOM & DOOM” report which highlights unusual investment opportunities.  He is also the author of several books including “TOMORROW’S GOLD – Asia’s Age of Discovery” which was first published in 2002 and highlights future investment opportunities around the world. “TOMORROW’S GOLD” was for several weeks on Amazon’s best seller list and has been translated into Japanese, Korean, Thai and German.   A book on Dr Faber, “RIDING THE MILLENNIAL STORM”, by Nury Vittachi, was published in 1998.  

Revisit this website to learn who else will be speaking, attending and the topics to be discussed, including:  

Mr. Jonathan Mark Wellum (Guest speaker - see receptions ) discussing: Why is it essential for investors to have a large exposure to precious metals and commodities? The mining industry is the cornerstone of the global economy providing the raw materials necessary for technological innovation, including digitization and artificial intelligence (AI), economic growth, infrastructure development, and energy production. Why are many of these businesses trading at depressed valuations, ignored and even vilified? What are investors in the digital world missing?

Jonathan Mark Wellum, CFA is the founder and CEO of ROCKLINC Investment Partners. The company is an independent research-driven investment management firm focusing solely on creating portfolios of high quality assets.  Prior to founding ROCKLINC in 2009, Jonathan began his investment career with Portland Investment Counsel (formerly AIC Investment Services) in 1990 and served as the firm’s Chief Executive Officer. In September 2009, AIC’s retail mutual fund business was sold to Manulife Financial. AIC’s assets under management grew from $10 million to a peak of $15 billion. In 1995, Jonathan was named Fund Manager of the Year by the Investment Executive Magazine and in 1997 awarded Fund Manager of the Year at the Canadian Mutual Fund Awards Gala. In addition, Jonathan was a recipient of Canada’s Top 40 under 40. Jonathan holds a Bachelor of Commerce and a Master of Business Administration degree from McMaster University, and Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Waterloo. He also completed a Master of Arts degree from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (Chicago). He holds the designation of Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).

This will be SME's tenth in-person event. View the 2024 agenda here and the Agenda, Abstracts & Speakers' Bios here. During the pandemic, we hosted virtual three well content-rich events. You may view those on-demand here.

Below is Rob McEwen, Chairman of McEwen Mining and McEwen Copper, speaking at CTMF 2024 about: How to Make Mining RELEVANT to Investors 

Shown below are companies that attended, were represented at CTMF 2024 grouped in three categories:

(1) Exploration and mining,
(2) Finance, banking, royalty, streaming and investment, and 
(3) Engineering, construction, equipment, technology, legal, support services et al. 

We hope you join us in 2025! Register today here.

(1) At CTMF 2024 were CEO's, CFO's, Directors, senior executive officers from these precious, base, industrial, critical, strategic, energy and battery metal, rare earths, uranium and other mining, 'junior miner', exploration, minerals processing and recycling companies:

Abcourt Mines Inc.; Abitibi Metals Corp.; Advanced Energy Minerals; Advanced Gold Exploration; Anglo American Steelmaking Coal; Ammonite Resources; Appia Rare Earths & Uranium Corp.; Arianne Phosphate Inc.; Aston Bay Holdings Ltd.; Astra Exploration Inc.; Atlantic Strategic Minerals; Azimut Exploration Inc.; BacTech Environmental Corp.; Barksdale Resources Corp.; Big Rock Exploration; Blackwolf Copper & Gold Ltd.; Celerity Mineral Corp; Cerro De Pasco Resources Inc.; Contango ORE Inc.; Dolly Varden Silver Corp.; Doré Copper Mining Corp.; Elevation Gold Mining Corp; Empress Royalty Corp.; Energy Fuels Inc.; ExploreTech Exploration Technologies Inc.; Exsolve, Inc.; Exterra Carbon Solutions Inc.; Fathom Nickel Inc.; First Phosphate Corp.; Gaucho Minerals Corp.; Geomega Resources Inc.; Glencore International; Glencore Technology; Gopher Resource; Green Graphite Technologies; Guanajuato Silver Company Ltd.; Gull Sil; Hammond Group Inc.; Hecla Mining Company; HighGold Mining Inc.; Hindustan Zinc; Honey Badger Silver Inc.; HudBay Minerals Inc.; InSkill Inc.; Lithium Universe Ltd.; Kiewit Corporation; Lithium Royalty Corp.; Lithium Universe Ltd.; Lomiko Metals Inc.; MAG Silver Corp.; Mazini Energy & Power Inc.; McEwen Copper Inc.; McEwen Mining Inc.; NioBay Metals Inc.; Northern Graphite Corp.; North Peak Resources Ltd.; Nouveau Monde Graphite Inc.; NQ Investissement Miniers (NQIM); Nuvau Minerals Corp.; Power Nickel Inc.; Relevant Gold Corp.; Reyna Silver Corp.; Ressources Sirios Inc.; Rio Tinto; Rio Tinto / Diavik Diamond Mines; SB Quantum; Skyharbour Resources Ltd.; Société du Plan Nord; St-Georges Eco-Mining; StrikePoint Gold Inc.; Structurally Fine Concepts; Stuhini Exploration Ltd.; Surge Battery Metals Inc.; Sweetwater Royalties; Torngat Metals Ltd; Trident Royalties plc; TRU Precious Metals Corp.; US Gold Corp.; Viva Gold Corp.; Wallbridge Mining Ltd.; Western Alaska Minerals Corp.; Westwater Resources, Inc.; and others.

(2) Also at CTMF 2024 were officers, directors and representatives of these finance, bank, private equity, investment management, royalty firms and other advisory service firms and entities: supporting, funding, advising precious, base and industrial, critical, strategic and battery metal, rare earth, uranium and related exploration, mining, minerals processing and recycling companies and projects: 

Artemis Capital Advisors LLC; Bank of America; Bannockburn Capital Markets; Beal Bank; Bleakly Financial Group; Bloomberg Intelligence; Bloomberg NEF; Burford Capital; Canadian Securities Exchange (CSE); Capstone Partners; Cerberus Capital; Chen Lin; Citi: Banking, Capital Markets, and Advisory, Global Metals & Mining Group; CohnReznick LLP; CPM Group; CSG Investments, Inc.; DFC (U.S. International Development Finance Corp.); Cree Nation; Diligent Market Intelligence; EAS Advisors; Empress Royalty; Endeavour Financial; Evocati Capital Resources; Freight Investor Services; FTI Consulting, Inc.; Global Climate Finance Accelerator; Government of Canada; Government of Quebec; Québec Government Office in New York; Greyfriars, LLC; Greystone Asset Management, LLC; Hartree Partners; Idaho Mining Association; ING Bank; International Finance Corporation (IFC); Investissement Québec; Kroll Canada Ltd.; Laura Stein; Lithium Royalty Corp.; Maxim Group LLC; Mazini Energy & Power Inc.; Susan Mitchell & Associates; Monetary Metals & Co.; Murdoch Capital Partners; Nomadic Venture Partners; Northwestern Mutual; NQ Investissement Miniers; Orion Resource Partners; OTC Markets Group International Ltd.; OTC Markets Group, Inc.; Perth Advisors; Quebec Ministry of Natural Resources and Forests (MRNF); Red Cloud Mining Capital; Red Cloud Securities Inc.; Resource Capital Funds (RCF); Resurgent Capital Corp.; Rothschild & Co.; SOQUEM Inc.; S&P Global Ratings; Secretariat International; Soar Financial Partners; Société du Plan Nord; Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Banking; Sweetwater Royalties; The World Bank Group; T-Macro Capital, LLC; Traxys Group; Trident Royalty; U.S. Department of Defense; U.S. Department of Energy; U.S. Department of Energy/ NETL; U.S. Department of State; U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC); Valency Ventures LLC; Van Eck Associates; Wells Fargo Advisors; Woods Capital LLC; and others. 

(3) Attending CTMF 2024 were senior officers, directors, executives, representatives of these engineering, construction, equipment, technology, legal, accounting/ auditing, academia/university, advisory, media companies, and institutions:

AKQA, Inc.; Alaska State Trust Land Office; A&O Shearman; Allen & Overy; American Exploration & Mining Association (AEMA); Ammonite Resources; AtkinsRéalis; Australian Trade & Investment Commission (Austrade); Behre Dolbear; Better in Our Backyard; Blake, Cassels & Graydon; Bleakley Financial Group; Bloomberg; BloombergNEF; Bloomberg News; Bowman Consulting; Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP; Burns & McDonnell; Canadian Consulate, New York; Chilean Chamber of Commerce; ClearCreek Digital; CohnReznick LLP; Colorado School of Mines; Cornell University; Costmine Intelligence; Critical Minerals Institute; Crow Industries; Dentons; Diligent Market Intelligence; DRA Americas; EY Mining & Metals Centre of Excellence; Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP; Fastmarkets; Freight Investor Services; FTI Consulting, Inc.; Future Facing Metals;  Global Climate Finance Accelerator; Global External; Government of Quebec; Greyfriars, LLC; HATCH; Hazen Research, Inc.; Holland & Hart; IBM; Idaho Mining Association; IMDEX Limited; Independent Mining Consultants, Inc.; Kiewit Corporation; Kroll Canada Ltd.; Krux Analytics; Laval University; Lulea University of Technology; Marc Faber Ltd.; Marsh McLennan; McCarl’s Technical Services; MEM Strategies LLC; Metso Corporation; Mining Discovery; Mining Minnesota; Morais Leitão, Law Office; MRC Consulting; Murdoch Capital Partners; National Investor Publishing; News Direct; Nomadic Venture Partners; Norton Rose Fulbright; Orbital Sidekick, Inc; PDAC; PMV Research, LLC; Prospector Portal; Pushtree Partners; Quebec Mining Association; Quebec Ministry of Natural Resources and Forests (MRNF); Radiant Value Management; Ramboll America's Engineering Services Inc.; Red Cloud TV; Refined Substance Inc.; RESPEC; RPMGlobal; SAFE (Securing America's Future Energy) Center for Critical Minerals Strategy; S&P Global Commodity Insights: Energy Transition Metals; SCM Decisions; SGS Societe Generale de Surveillance SA; Shearman & Sterling LLP; Skarn Associates; SLR International Corporation; SOAR Financial; Social Suite; Société du Plan Nord; Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (SME); SOQUEM; Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP; SRK Consulting; Stantec; Strategic Media & Public Relations; Structurally Fine Concepts; Struhsacker Consulting; SWCA Environmental Consultants; The Mining Journal; The Prospector News; Torys; Traxys Group; United States Department of Defense; United States Department of Energy; United States Department of State; University of Nevada-Reno; Utah Trust Lands Administration; Valency Ventures LLC; Virginia Tech; Vorticom, Inc.; Wesben Global Ltd.; White & Case LLP; Whittle Consulting; and others. 

Join us! Register today!. Get your questions answered. We hope to hear from you and see you in May!

Thank you Sponsors: A&O Shearman (the host); RPM Global, SLR International Corporation and SME Foundation and others: the Government of Quebec; CohnReznick; Red Cloud Securities; Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP; SRK Consulting; SGS: Societe Generale de Surveillance SA; RESPEC; WSP; Relevant Gold; Behre Dolbear; McCarl's Technical Services; Reyna Silver; Big Rock Exploration; MRC Recruiting; Cygnus Metals;  SWCA Environmental Consultants; Western Alaska Minerals; Pushtree Associates; and others. 

NY SME also thanks the media partners including: Mining.com, Canadian Mining Journal, Miners News, Mining Discovery, The Mining Journal, The Mining Record, Global Business Reports, National Investor; Northern Miner, The Prospector News, Metal Tech News, North of 60 Mining News, Skilling's Mining Review, and SME's Mining Engineering Magazine

NY SME is proud to report as a result of the attendance, support of its sponsors and media partners and success of CTMF 2023 and CTMF 2024, we were able to make donations to the SME Foundation in both years to help support SMEF efforts of assisting students, teachers and professionals in the geosciences - a goal of ours from our first year of CTMF in 2013. Thank you all who have joined us, participated and supported our efforts along the way! Please join us again at CTMF 2025! We hope to see you there! To learn more about the SME Foundation (SMEF) here. 

At CTMF hear discussion of, learn about, meet with many subject matter experts of the many challenges, risks and opportunities to secure, de-risk, fund and explore for and find all minerals society consumes, including industrial, critical, strategic, battery, energy and precious metals, rare earths as well as related global mineral energy supply chains, and recycling. CTMF features leaders, industry mining, finance and engineering executives and subject matter experts, policy advisors as well as provincial, state, and federal officials and experts who develop, enact, and interpret policies that impact mineral production, use and global mineral supply chains. Register here. 

The format includes four workshops, a two day conference and three evening networking receptions with Guest Speakers, breakfasts, refreshment breaks, and lunches allowing delegates to get questions answered by leaders active in the mining and finance industry and in the world's leading mining sector engineering firms. Also present are many principals from professional advisory, support firms e.g. attorneys, accountants, ESG, CSR, societal, policy, environmental, and community relations experts. The venue allows all to meet one-on-one and in groups.

Read about the three evening networking receptions and Guest Speakers here. On Monday May 19, 2025, meet, network with members of New York's business and finance community after the workshops described here, as well as after the Conference proceedings on Tuesday, May 20 and Wednesday, May 21, 2025. Revisit this site for updates and to learn about the CTMF 2025 Guest Speakers and agenda.  

In addition to the Government of Quebec's delegation, attending CTMF are regional, state, provincial, Federal officials from USA, Canada, multiple USA states and Australia and Europe.

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

CTMF Conferences are for and attended by senior executives and mining industry specialists including engineers, bankers, financial analysts, investors, portfolio managers, service providers, government officials, policy officers. 

CTMF conferences, workshops, and receptions bring many experts, interested parties, including 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. 

Titles of attendees are: CEO, President, Partner, Executive Director, Project Manager, Banker, VP, Engineering & Development, Corporate Finance Specialist, CFO, Treasurer, Consultant, Managing Director, Geologist, Project Geologist, Corporate Strategist, Investor, Chiefs, Environmental Specialist, Engineer, Mining Engineer, Lawyer, Financial and Equity Analyst, Accountant, Portfolio Manager, Controller, CTO - Chief Technology Officer, Digital Communications Officer, Global Leaders of Mining and Natural Resources, Founder and Community Engagement, Investor Relations Officer, Auditor, VP of Underwriting, Credit Research, Environmental Services Practice Leader and Appraiser.

The 2024 event was our 9th in-person CTMF Conference. Both CTMF 2024 and CTMF 2023 Conference attendance were at record levels. Attendance in 2024 was in excess of 330 leading experts and influencers. Join us at CTMF 2025!. Register now. Space is limited.