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It has been referred to as the Oscars or the Super Bowl of the mineral exploration and mining and exploration sector – the annual Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada’s (PDAC) Convention, the mineral industry’s most popular networking and educational event.
Now in its eighty-second year, the convention attracts investors, analysts, mining executives, geologists, prospectors and international government delegations from all over the globe.
In 2013, 25% of convention delegates were international – reflecting the evolution of the convention from a national event into an international one. Outside of Canada, the largest number of attendees in 2013 came from the US, Australia, Peru, Mexico and England.
“The PDAC Convention has really hit its stride in terms of its place in the global mineral industry,” says PDAC president Glenn Nolan. “In the early 1990s, the PDAC began to build up an international reputation. Since then, the PDAC Convention has come to be known as the global networking opportunity for the mineral exploration and development industry.”
The PDAC Convention is actually a convention, trade show and investors exchange in one. It includes a technical programme, a variety of short courses and workshops, a corporate social responsibility (CSR) event series, an Aboriginal programme, student programme, along with numerous networking events.
The technical programme features talks by industry experts that reflect the PDAC’s year-round advocacy work as the leading voice of Canada’s mineral exploration and development sector. The programme opens on Sunday, March 2, with the ‘Commodities and Market Outlook’ session, and includes other sessions such as ‘Maximising Company Profits and Growth by Acquisition’, the keynote session on ‘Sharing Mineral Wealth’, ‘Geometallurgy’, ‘Working with BRIC Countries’, ‘Geophysics’, and ‘Alternative Financing Sources for Junior Resource Companies’.
The CSR event series, which is open to the public and free to attend, provides a forum for learning and discussion and covers a range of issues related to corporate social responsibility in the mineral exploration and mining industry.
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