SME's Current Trends in Mining Finance Conference (CTMF 2025)
Navigating Risks of an Uncertain and New Reality
Connecting Mining, Finance and Engineering Executives TM
Monday, May 19, 2025 - Wednesday, May 21, 2025
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Register now, space is limited*. Get your questions answered and meet with engineering, mining, exploration, lending, finance, and investment executives and policy experts who work around the world. Attendees advise, fund and support minerals and mining supply chains and author technical and economic assessments, pre-feasibility, feasibility, 43-101 and SK-1300 studies of many of the world's minerals projects.
View the agenda here, and a three page summary here. The speakers in a series of panels will discuss navigating the risks of identifying and evaluating, finding, funding and sourcing critical, strategic, industrial and precious minerals. They will focus on technical, financial and non-technical issues, fundamental trends and financial tools and methods used that impact raising capital in the global minerals exploration and mining industries.
- Meet many leading experts to hear how management, advisors, analysts, asset managers and investors evaluate, use best practices and technology to navigate the risks, raise capital, anticipate, manage and reduce risk and costs of mining and projects through their entire life cycle.
- Learn about market trends impacting the ability to raise capital, control costs, etc. as: demand shifts, materials are near shored, ore grade declines, regulations change, etc. by the mineral, mining and exploration sectors that supply the fundamental building blocks of our society.
Join us at the conference to hear many subject matter experts and thought leaders speak, including:
- In a Keynote talk: Mr. Reggie Singh, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Competitiveness and Supply Chains in the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Energy Resources will present an Overview of U.S. Government’s Critical Minerals Policy.
- Consulate General of Canada, New York's Christopher Wimmer, Consul & Head of Investment with Raed Kadri, Vice President, Strategic Initiatives & Head of Ontario Vehicle Innovation Network (OVIN) will discuss the entire lifecycle of developing a critical minerals supply chain in Ontario.
- Kai Hoffman, CEO of SOAR Financially, discuss: What have recent junior mining capital raises told us? What is likely ahead.
- Credit market analyst Donald Marleau, Managing Director, Sector Lead, Metals & Capital Goods, S&P Global Ratings discuss: 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.
- In an exclusive pre-recorded conversation Felix Zulauf and Dr. Marc Faber will provide their current views of the Global Macro-Economy and Financial, Gold and Commodity Markets.
Meet representatives, officers and directors of these firms we expect at CTMF 2025: (Sponsors are in bold. Thank you!)
- 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
- Banking, finance, investment, private equity, royalty and advisory service companies who fund, advise and support / finance precious, base, industrial, critical, strategic and battery metal, rare earth, aggregates, uranium and exploration, minerals processing and recycling projects worldwide: 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
- 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; Malk Partners: a unit of SLR International; 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
Do not miss hearing the guest speakers at three evening receptions:
- On Monday, May 19: Can We Avoid Deflation that Typically Follows Inflation? by Mike McGlone, Bloomberg Intelligence; and
What is the Price of Gold Telling Us? by Jeffrey Christian, CPM Group
- On Tuesday, May 20: Geopolitics and China; “the big elephants in the mining room” by Keith Spence, Global Mining Capital with Greg McNab, Dentons and Andre Gauthier, Caur Technologies; and
Mining Investments Succeed or Fail Because of People not Rocks – Best Practices in Management Due Diligence by Steve Enders, Brooks & Nelson
- On Wednesday, May 21: Why is it essential for investors to have a large exposure to precious metals and commodities? by Jonathan Mark Wellum, ROCKLINC Investment Partners; and
Exploration Realities - How we use your money to make a discovery: Case Studies: The Juanacipio Vein: Found sleeping beneath a Mexican bean field and Waterpump Creek: Forty years from stream sediment anomaly to resource: A Conversation with Kit Marrs and Peter Magew: Alaska Silver
- Using Dynamic Discounted Cash Flow and Real Options to Assess the Value and Risk of Mining Investments
- Reviews and Audits of Exploration and Mining Projects for Risk Assessments and Opportunities
- Proposed Changes to NI 43-101 and How That Will Affect Preparation and Disclosure of Mining Studies
- Life Cycle Risks & Opportunities in Mining Environmental Management: Keeping the End in Mind
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- 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 exploration, mining, minerals processing, energy, 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.
- Attend four informative, engaging workshops by expert instructors to learn about issues impacting mining project success.
- 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 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, 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.
- 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 growing awareness and government(s) action by policy officials at federal and state levels there lacks coordination - global mineral exploration and mining et al supply chains are opaque. Support of mineral exploration and other portions of the supply chain and mining regulatory reform are needed. Knowledge gaps, delays, mother nature, etc. thwart the exploration and mining industry to do what miners do best to enable them to sustainably explore for, find and produce usable resources closer to home, for example.
- 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.
Hear Dr. Marc Faber and Felix Zulauf in a first time-ever conversation between two world leading authorities about the Global Macro-Economy and Financial, Gold and Commodity Markets. This fire side chat will be moderated by Michael Fox, Publisher of the Prospector News. Do not miss hearing their views during these risky, uncertain times. NY SME proudly offers this exclusive, pre recorded fire side chat between Dr. Marc Faber and Felix Zulauf, the Founder and CEO of Zulauf Consulting. Both have many years experience and are well known for their informed views of the global financial, capital and commodities markets. NY SME extends our thanks to Dr. Faber and Mr. Zulauf to share this unique opportunity. This will be an exciting, timely exchange. You can only hear this at CTMF.
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.
Read the agenda featuring many engaging roundtables. See who will be speaking, including these guest speakers:
Jeffrey Christian, Founder and Managing Partner of the CPM Group, during the Monday May 19 welcome reception, will discuss: What the Price of Gold is Telling Us Mr. Christian will speak about the short and long term outlook for gold prices, including discussions of the fundamentals including central bank official transactions – buying and selling – and investment demand trends. He will tie his near term and long term expectations in with the history of free gold markets since the 1960s. In November 2000 CPM and Christian projected that the investment demand curve was going to shift upward sharply in a secular or semi-permanent fashion, followed by a return to net buying by monetary authorities, with investor demand rising sharply not for one or two years, but for several decades. The investment demand would be fed by economic, political, financial, and social dislocations far worse that those experienced in 1978 – 1982, pushing gold prices ‘far beyond $850’ not for years but for decades. The presentation will update that prediction of a Golden Renaissance of investment demand a quarter century ago.
Also on Monday May 19, during the evening reception, Michael McGlone, CFA, FRM, Senior Commodity Analyst, Bloomberg Intelligence will talk about: Can We Avoid Deflation that Typically Follows Inflation? Plunging government bond yields in China and speculative excesses in crypto assets may provide guidance for what's typical in commodity and risk asset cycles, on the back of price pumps akin to the 2022 highs - they get relatively cheap. Natural gas and corn bottomed from around breakeven levels in 2024. Crude oil and copper could be heading that way, leading one top beneficiary - gold. Increasing dependency on some combination of a raising US stock market, weak dollar, OPEC supply cuts and more stimulus in China for broad commodity price buoyancy might suggest a downward tilt. What to expect in commodities with volatility and geopolitics on the rise.
Mike McGlone is senior commodity strategist for Bloomberg Intelligence, a unique research platform that provides context on industries, companies, and government policy, available on the Bloomberg Professional service at BI <GO>. Mr. McGlone specializes in the broad investible commodity markets, authoring the monthly Bloomberg Commodity Outlook. Mike joined Bloomberg in 2016 with over 25 years of futures and commodity trading and investing experience, beginning at the Chicago Board of Trade. Prior to joining Bloomberg, he was a head of U.S. research at ETF Securities. Prior to ETF Securities, Mr. McGlone headed the commodity business at S&P Indices. His previous roles included head of futures research at ABN Amro and VP research, analyst, trader, sales at Aubrey G. Lanston IBJ Futures. Mr. McGlone has an MBA from DePaul University in Chicago and bachelor’s of science and arts degrees from Illinois State University. He is a CFA Charter holder and has earned a Financial Risk Manager (FRM) designation.
During the Tuesday, May 20 evening reception hear guest speaker, Keith Spence ( 石凯 ), CEO & Partner, Global Mining Capital with Greg McNab, Partner, Dentons and Andre Gauthier, Caur Technologies discuss: Geopolitics and China; “the big elephants in the mining room”.
Keith Spence is CEO and Partner of Global Mining Capital. The company is engaged in Private Equity Investments and M&A globally. The company has extensive funding relationships with its partners in Asia. A field geologist; he held positions in Capital Markets and Investment Banking at RBC Capital Markets, Scotia Bank and BMO Capital Markets. He has been CEO of Alliance Pacific Resources, which explored for gold and base metals in western China. He has conducted business in China for over two decades, and has written and spoken extensively on China’s international mining investments. Keith is a member of the Board of PDAC and has been a member of the Board of the Canadian Institute of Mining & Metallurgy (CIM). Mr. Spence is Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the “world recognized” Canadian Mining Valuation Standards and Guidelines for mining projects; which is referenced by the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX-V) and the Hong Kong Stock Exchanges. He received the CIM Distinguished Lecturer Award, the SME Mineral Economics Award (USA), the PDAC Distinguished Award, the Robert Elver Mineral Economics Award for outstanding contributions to Canadian mineral economics and received the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Medal Award, for contributions to Canada. A Commonwealth Scholar; he is a graduate of the Global Management program at Harvard University, has an Honors B.Sc. in Geology and an MBA both from Western University.
Greg McNab is a partner in Denton's Corporate group and Canada Co-chair for Dentons' Mining group. His main areas of practice include financings of public and private securities issuers (including private equity and hedge funds), investment management products, capital markets transactions, mergers and acquisitions and resources and energy matters, both domestically and internationally. Greg also advises on corporate governance, regulatory compliance, continuous disclosure and stock exchange matters for public issuers. As a former mechanical engineer, Greg has extensive experience in both the energy and mining sectors. He regularly speaks at conferences, writes articles and appears in the media with respect to a variety of securities, mining and energy matters. He is a director and Canadian Chair of the Canadian Australian Chamber of Commerce. Greg focuses his practice on public and private financing matters and services and cross-border joint ventures involving jurisdictions that include Asia, Australia, Africa and Canada, among others. His practice includes the negotiation and drafting of prospectuses, circulars, shareholder agreements, opinion letters, applications for regulatory relief, share purchase agreements and related transaction documents. He has been involved in a range of energy and resource industry transactions and financings. He also provides related regulatory advice with respect to climate change issues and has worked on a variety of renewable and clean tech matters, including wind, solar and hydro projects.
Andre Gauthier holds a B.Sc. in Geological Engineering and a M. Sc. in Mineral Exploration both obtained from the UQAC - Chicoutimi, (Québec) and is an active member and leader of many mining and professional organizations (Canada, Peru, UAE, and China). Mr. Gauthier's career has spanned 50 years and projects in over 35 countries. He has held senior positions, including officer and directors' appointments in SOQUEM, Falconbridge, Noramco Mining, Cambior Inc., Maxy Gold Corp (China), Inca Pacific Resources, Lara Exploration Ltd., Vena Resources Inc., and Western Union Peru. Additionally, Mr. Gauthier has been involved in many Gold and Copper discoveries and acquisitions, including Lac Shortt (Canada), La Arena (Peru), Anabi Minaspata (Peru), Luchun (China), Metates (Mexico), La Granja and La Virgen (Peru) and Pachon (Argentina). Since 2020, Andre has been leading Eval Minerals, his private company involved in mineral investment and advisory. He is on the board of various companies involved in the exploration industry, both privately owned or listed on the Canadian Stock exchange. Since April 2024 Andre is also vice president of CAUR Technologies, a revolutionary Seismic technology which is part of Geophysics GPR International.
Jonathan Mark Wellum, a guest speaker during the Wednesday May 21 evening reception, will discuss: 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 NY SME's tenth 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 in 2023 and 2024 to the SME Foundation 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 2025! We hope to see you there! The format includes four workshops, a two day conference and three 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.
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.
CTMF 2024 was our 9th in-person event. Attendance at CTMF 2024 and 2023 were at record levels. Registration may close early. All must register in advance. At CTMF 2024 were more than 330 officers from 60+ mining and exploration companies and bankers, investors, private equity, analysts, advisers, engineers, and government officials from Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, England, Germany, Ghana, Guyana, India, Japan, Kosovo, Mexico, Peru, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Turkey, Uruguay. Contact us at info@smeny.org