World Gold 2011 - 3rd International Conference
Chair(s):
Guy Deschenes
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Gold Plenary- Panel Discussion on Monday, October 3
Panel discussion of top leaders in the Gold industry.
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Panellists include:
- Peter Kinver, EVP and COO, Barrick Gold Corporation
- David Harquail, President and CEO of Franco-Nevada
- Gordon Stothart, EVP and COO, IamGold Corporation
- Sean Roosen, President and CEO, Osisko Mining Corporation.

Plenary Guest moderator Amanda Lang, Senior Business Correspondent, CBC News
Celebrated Canadian business journalist Amanda Lang is CBC's senior business correspondent for The National, and is also the co-host of the Lang & O'Leary Exchange. She became part of the team that launched BNN in 1999 and before long moved to CNN as reporter and anchor. She returned to Canada in 2002 to re-join BNN and CTV and now resides at CBC. Lang's engaging and witty style compliments her ability to comment on current business news and trends, and North America's political scene.
Background
The Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM), the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM) and the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (SAIMM) have agreed to jointly convene a World Gold Conference every two years on a rotational basis. The conference series completed its first loop with the 2009 World Gold Conference hold in Johannesburg last October. Now, after 3 successful events, the World Gold Conference is back to Canada for the 50th Anniversary of MetSoc.
The mining environment was hit by the financial crisis. However the record gold price helped the gold mining industry to continue growing. Exploration, investments and profits are related to: gold metal prices, exploration success, opportunities for by- and co-products; potential of marginal deposits; decreasing precious metal content and increasing refractoriness and finally more efficient, more environmentally friendly mining and processing technologies. The continuing pressures on the world financial markets are causing significant changes in the roles of the world’s major economies. This is resulting in fast-moving developments in both the supply and demand for gold.
Main Themes
Geology
- Worldwide Gold Exploration Trends
- Gold Deposit Models- New Discoveries and Updates on Existing Deposits
- Innovations in Technology, Techniques, and Advancements in Gold Exploration and Deposit Development (Geology, Geophysics, Geochemistry, Resources/Reserves)
- High temperature geomechanics
- In-situ stress measurement
- Prediction and modeling
- Lab and in-situ rock characterization and modelling
- Rock mechanics risk assessment
- Remote sensing and seismicity
- Stability and excavation support
- Rock breaking systems and fragmentation
- Best Practices and an Energy Management session
- Hoisting
- Modeling and planning: state of-the-art
- Uncertainty, recoverable reserves and sustainable utilization of mineral resources
- Mining optimization and case studies
- Stochastic mine planning
- Large scale integrated applications
- Strategic innovation in an uncertain and changing world
- Optimization of reserve extraction: application of integrated mining, process and environmental technical teams
- Operations best practice
- Short-term production planning, grade control, equipment productivity and monitoring
- Developments in implementing mining equipment automation
- Applications of new technologies to improve safety and workplace environmental conditions
- Stability and excavation support
- Rock breaking systems and fragmentation
- Reaction of suppliers to external factors such as currency movements, financial markets, demographic change
- Requirement for sustainable development and its influence on demand.
- Environmental opportunities and issues
- Social and political challenges
- Cleaner wastes & storage
- Alternative waste storage and management systems
- Community opportunities
- Effluent treatment
- Cyanide management
- Backfill with CN leaching tails
- Applied mineralogy and surface analysis to assist processing
- Sampling techniques and accounting
- Communition and classification
- Recovery of gold by gravity
- Alternative lixiviants
- Ion exchange resins
- New operations and new applications in the treatments of refractory gold ores
- Improvements of cyanidation (recovery, reagents, effluents, agitation)
- Automation, control strategies and modelling
- Activated carbon/zinc.

