DAY ONE
Wednesday November 3, 2010
8.30 Registration and coffee
9.00 Opening remarks from the Chair
9.10 KEYNOTE MINISTERIAL ADDRESS
The increasing interest in Africa and South Africa as a favourable mining investment destination
Minister Susan Shabangu, Minister for Mineral Resources, Government of South Africa
There is every expectation that Africa's current pace of growth will remain at a high level, at around 6% per year.
The average growth last year for the advanced economies was about minus 2.5%, while that of Africa was 2%, and low income countries in Africa grew at over 3%.
Jacob Zuma, President, South Africa June 24, 2010 G20 Summit
9.50 Outlook for the African continent/Economy – Prospects for growth
- Growth within the 53 states – Averages and projections
- United Nations Millenium Development Goals
- Developing and Maintaining stable political environments to attract & retain foreign investment
- Addressing structural bottlenecks and business environment
Professor Mthuli Ncube, Vice President and Chief Economist, African Development Bank
The harmonisation of many of the mining codes of West African states and subsequent spirit cross-border infrastructural cooperation is boosting the region as a mining investment
destination.
Mining Weekly Online May 24, 2010
10.30 Morning tea
11.00 West Africa - Challenges and opportunities
Rob Edwards, Managing Director, Renaissance Capital
11.30 The impact of Chinese investment in African mining assets
Matt Pieterse, Director, The Beijing Axis & Chief Executive, China Capital Advisors
12.00 Review of the mineral regimes of Africa
Magnus Ericsson, Chairman, Raw Materials Group
Over the course of the past few months, we have been asking ourselves, as a management team, whether we are sufficiently invested in Africa, and I do believe that we are under invested, in the context of the size, the breadth and the scale of a company like Rio Tinto.
Tom Albanese, CEO, Rio Tinto
12.30 Reaping higher rewards from mineral resources - Recent and proposed changes to mining lease arrangements, royalties and taxation
Michael Lynch-Bell, Global Transactions Leaders, Mining & Metals, Ernst & Young
1.00 Lunch
2.00 Mining rare and specialty metals in the African continent - A Perspective from Kinshasa to Kanyika
- Niobium - Commentary on Brazilian dominance
- Tantalum - Commentary on the US "Conflict Minerals" legislation
- Rare earths - Commentary on Chinese dominance
- Globe's Kanyika Niobium Project and Machinga Rare Earth Project (both Malawi)
Mark Sumich, Executive Director, Globe Mining & Metals
2.30 Investment in African Mining - Coming of age
- Cluff Gold active and greenfields projects
Pete Gardner, Financial Director, Cluff Gold
3.00 Auryx Gold – Growing Gold Resources in Namibia
- Emerging gold belt, stable country, great location
- Very large and prospective land holding in north central Namibia
- Project development has commenced, scoping study completed, economic base case for open pit mining operation established
- 2m ounce 43.101 compliant open pit gold resource in Namibia
- Drilling is commencing and resource is growing
- Very exciting new prospect
Heye Daun, Africa President & Operations Director, Auryx Gold
Zimbabwe has the second largest platinum reserves after South Africa but foreign investors have been deterred by a law that forces foreign owned companies, including banks and mines, to sell majority shares to local people.
Mining Weekly Online June 28, 2010
3.30 Afternoon tea
4.00 The Mayoko – Moussendji Project in the Republic of Congo
- The Central and West African Iron Story: the next generation Iron Ore province
- Equatorial Resources’ Mayoko-Moussondji Iron Project: A world class exploration target with unparalleled access to infrastructure
- Equatorial Resources’ Badondo Iron Project: Significant scale potential
- The path to development: Equatorial’s exploration program and investment proposition
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John Welborn, Managing Director and CEO, Equatorial Resources Ltd
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4.30 Accessing Guinea's resources - Providing clarity to transport machinations
Damien Hackett , Managing Director, Canaccord Genuity
5.00 The Sissingue deposit on the Ivory Coast
- Feasibility completed - Extremely robust project
- Strong cash balance and production from Ghana in 2011
- Large exploration programs still underway to grow resources
- Target production at Sissingue late 2012
Mark Calderwood, Managing Director, Perseus Mining
5.30 Networking drinks
DAY TWO
Thursday November 4, 2010
8.30 Morning coffee
9.00 Opening remarks from the chair
9.05 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Developing synergies and allegiances to bring iron ore to market in shorter timeframes
Phil du Toit, Executive Vice President Mining, ArcelorMittal
West African iron ore is "suddenly in vogue again", Macquarie says, adding that it expects certain "project clusters" to come to market, aided by Chinese infrastructure build-outs.
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9.45 Iron Ore from a Project Perspective
- Challenges, risks and opportunities in developing iron ore projects
- Addressing the challenges, selecting technologies
- Alternative contracting strategies
- Cost control and iterative process in project development
- Examples of successful project
Luc Bélanger, Vice-President Mining and Metallurgy, SNC-Lavalin
10.20 Morning tea
10.50 Price index developments in the iron ore market
- Iron ore market developments - What's changed?
- New pricing tools: indices and financial contracts
- Managing price volatility using index-linked pricing and swaps
- Implications for iron ore and steel markets: evolution or revolution?
Steve Randall, Managing Director, The Steel Index
11.20 Australian mining investment and industry activity in (sub Saharan) Africa
Greg Hull, Senior Trade Commissioner, Sub-Saharan Africa, Australian Trade Commission
12.00 Tonkilili iron ore project in Sierra Leone
- Tonkolili - One of the largest reported magnetite Iron Ore projects in the world
- Identified high magnetite concentrate grades
- Considerable potential for hematite mineralisation overlying the primary magnetite Banded Iron Formation ("BIF") ore bodies
Frank Timis, Executive Chairman, African Minerals
12.30 Lunch
1.30 Sovereign risk considerations for mining in African nations
- The roots of contract instability: What has catalysed licence review processes in the past and where are those preconditions replicated now?
- Spotting new political risks: where will key government shifts and new pressures on mining licences surface, and what form will they take?
- Regulatory burden: where are legal codes governing the ownership, taxation and execution of mining projects set to change for the worse?
- Avoiding getting burned: what are the proactive steps mining companies can take to avoid falling victim to political risks in Africa?
Hannah Koep, Head of Analysis for Sub-Saharan Africa, Control Risks
West African enthusiasts say China is determined to put its foot on ore outisde the tentacles of the Big Three (Rio Tinto, BHP and Vale), no matter how remote or expensive the deposit.
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2.00 Mitigation of risk in the African resources sector
Colin Roberts, Managing Director, Natural Resource Geostrategy
2.30 Zambezi Resources - Advancing copper and uranium exploration in Zambia
David Russell, CEO, Zambezi Resources (subject to confirmation)
3.00 Update on the Marampa mine in Sierra Leone
David Keili, Chairman, London Mining
3.30 Afternoon tea
4.00 Exploring the largest land holding in Ghana
Mike Ivey, Chairman & Managing Director, Castle Minerals
4.30 Overview of the mineral resources, projects, and opportunities available in Mozambique
- The mineral resources of Mozambique
- Current projects
- Opportunities
- The legal and policy environment for mining
Max Keenoy, Managing Partner, Baetica
5.00 Close of conference
