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THE CONFERENCE CALLER: Next week The Roadhouse will be one of many delegates attending the annual RIU Explorers Conference.
As always the two-day conference is being held at the Esplanade Hotel in the portside city of Fremantle kicking off on Wednesday February 19.
The RIU Explorers Conference has grown from strength to strength to become one of Australia’s most popular investment forums with a reputation as being the principal Australian forum for the junior resources sector.
“The conference provides a venue to garner investment and to meet with other resources industry professionals to discuss new options and progress their business”, Vertical Events managing director and organiser of the event Stewart McDonald said.
“The two day event features CEO’s, operations and exploration managers of the best mining and exploration companies as well as new emerging explorers.”
Delegates attending the conference will be treated to presentations from some of the industry’s leading analysts, including Simon Tonkin, Senior Resources Analyst at Patersons Securities and Justin Smirk, Senior Economist at Westpac Institutional Bank as well as more than 30 company specific presentations.
Key presenters at this year’s conference include:
Blackham Resources managing director Bryan Dixon;
PLD Corporation managing director Matthew Gauci;
Segue Resources technical director Dr Howard Carr;
Sirius Resources managing director and CEO Mark Bennett;
Centrex Minerals chief executive officer Ben Hammond;
Venturex Resources managing director Michael Mulroney;
Rox Resources managing director Ian Mullholland; and
Sundance Resources managing director and CEO Giulio Casello.
A highlight of the conference will be the announcement of the winner of the 2014 Craig Oliver Award.
The award is presented at the RIU Explorers Conference annually to a small to mid-cap Australian mining company, which has excelled in several areas of performance, including exploration, mining, community and environment.
A selection of nine small to mid-cap miners have been announced as nominees, including: Beadell Resources, BC Iron, Doray Minerals, Gindalbie Metals, Northern Star Resources, Phoenix Gold, Regis Resources, Sandfire Resources and Toro Energy
On the day before the Explorers Conference kicks off in Fremantle, the Centre for Exploration Targeting (CET) is conducting a one-day seminar, which will provide participants with real-world case studies of world class discoveries within Australia and internationally.
The CET is a research institution which focuses on a wide range of Economic Geology-related studies by combining pure science and applied research from an industry point of view.
Speakers selected for Discovery Day were key players in the discoveries made by the teams they worked with.
They will endeavour to give seminar participants a clear picture of the corporate and technical landscape before discovery, take them through the roller-coaster ride of the discovery process, and elaborate on how this experience changed their views on how successful exploration should be undertaken.