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April 30 - May 1, 2014 | Sheraton Cavalier Saskatoon Hotel
4th annual
SASKATCHEWAN
MINING
Financing Opportunities and Challenges
Honorable Rob Norris
Minister of Advanced Education
His Worship
Donald J. Atchison
Saskatoon Mayor
Dr. Gordon Barnhart
Chair of the International Minerals
Innovation Institute
Former Lieutenant Governor
of Saskatchewan
Ned Goodman
President and
Chief Executive Officer
Dundee Corporation
Tom MacNeill
Founder, President and
Chief Executive Officer
49 North Resources Inc.
Chief Reginald Bellerose
Chief Executive Officer
Muskowekwan
Resources Limited
Sheldon Wuttunee
President and
Chief Executive Officer
Saskatchewan First Nations
Natural Resources Centre
of Excellence
4th Annual SASKATCHEWAN MINING
Dear Colleague:
For many years Saskatchewan has been sitting atop a wealth of resources. The historical lack of development can be
attributed to many factors including capital availability and capital flow, technical challenges for resource recovery, and
government policies. These broad structural elements created a unique Saskatchewan “Opportunity Gap”, whereby
resources remained in the ground for lack of proper technology, access to capital, favourable government and tax incentives,
and an entrepreneurial culture.
More recently, Saskatchewan has seen the benefit of exponential growth in its resource sector as government, established
industry participants and entrepreneurs worked together to remove some of the impediments that created the Opportunity
Gap.
For the 4th SASKATCHEWAN MINING FORUM, Insight Information has assembled a select group of government and
industry leaders and experts to help conference participants understand the elements of the Opportunity Gap and provide
information and guidance on how to successfully engage in Saskatchewan’s resource industry.
All the presenters are well known in the Saskatchewan resource scene, and will be sharing their insights into what it is that
defines the Saskatchewan resource sector and more importantly, how one can participate in developing the province’s
latent resource endowment. Participants will hear from companies presently involved with the exploration and development
of those resources and also the general economic, regulatory, and financing environment related to resource projects
in Saskatchewan.
Conference attendees will be able to address their questions and comments to presenters during sessions and informally
during breaks, lunches as well as “one-on-one”. Attendees will also be provided with information binders to assist their
assessment of opportunities and to build their network of Saskatchewan contacts.
We invite you to join us at this defining Saskatchewan resource event.
Co-Chairs of the program:
Stephen P. Halabura
Chairman
HCF Mercantile Inc.
William Nickel
Partner
McDougall Gauley LLP
CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS:
•The province’s mineral sector outlook
- key opportunities
•Investment opportunities in Saskatchewan
- a long overdue renaissance
•The global resource market, its current state and
outlook scenarios for the industry
•Investment bankers and mining executives’ criteria
for success for mining companies
•Determining feasibility of projects - strategies in the
current mining climate
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•Managing risks, unlocking value
•Raising $$$ for SK projects – successes and
lessons learned
•Implementing the Canadian Environmental
Assessment Act
•Environmental and social acceptability of mining
projects on Aboriginal land
•Powering the mining development in SK - natural gas
production vs. demand from future mining projects
Conference Co-Chair
Stephen P. Halabura
Chairman
HCF Mercantile Inc.
Conference Co-Chair
William Nickel
Partner
McDougall Gauley LLP
Dinner Speaker
Ned Goodman
President and
Chief Executive Officer
Dundee Corporation
Luncheon Speaker
Dr. Gordon Barnhart
Chair of the International Minerals
Innovation Institute
Former Lieutenant Governor
of Saskatchewan
Luncheon Speaker
Honorable Rob Norris
Minister of Advanced Education
Welcoming Address
His Worship
Donald J. Atchison
Jean-Pierre Colin
Capital Markets Strategies
Jim Engdahl
President
Star Minerals Group Ltd.
Leah Nelson Guay
Acting Executive Director
First Nations Power Authority
of Saskatchewan
Derek D. Hoffman
Associate
McDougall Gauley LLP
Mai-Linh Huynh
Project Manager
Prairie and Northern Region
Canadian Environmental
Assessment Agency
Chief Executive Officer
Muskowekwan
Resources Limited
William Irwin
Integer Research, UK
Edward C. Kozowy
President
PNG Consultants Ltd.
Dr. Gary Delaney
Chief Geologist
Saskatchewan Geological Survey
Minerals, Lands, and Resource
Policy Division
Ministry of the Economy
Government of Saskatchewan
Founder, President and
Chief Executive Officer
49 North Resources Inc.
Ross McElroy
President, COO, and
Chief Geologist
Fission Uranium Corp.
Jason Moser
Senior Investment Manager
SaskWorks Venture Fund Inc.
Rob Theoret
Principal, President and
Chief Executive Officer
HCF Mercantile Inc.
Dr. Matthew Wood
Project Manager, Kronau Project
Vale Potash Canada Limited
Sheldon Wuttunee
Saskatoon Mayor
Chief Reginald Bellerose
Tom MacNeill
Rick Mazur
President and
Chief Executive Officer
Forum Uranium Corp.
President and
Chief Executive Officer
Saskatchewan First Nations
Natural Resources Centre
of Excellence
Gala Dinner – April 30 , 2014
GALA DINNER SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
Book your Table now!
Invite your clients and colleagues to attend the premier networking event for the Saskatchewan resource sector on the evening
of April 30, 2014!
You and your clients will have the opportunity to gain insights from the presentation of our distinguished dinner speaker,
Ned Goodman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Dundee Corporation.
Please contact Amy Leung at 416-642-6128 or [email protected] to book your table or conference sponsorship packages now!
Table assignments and availability accurate at time of printing. Please see website for updates.
Table Sponsors
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Head Table
April 30, 2014
8:00 – 8:55
9:05 | Opening Remarks from the Co-Chairs
Registration and Continental Breakfast
Stephen P. Halabura
9:00 | Welcoming Remarks from Insight Information
Chairman
HCF Mercantile Inc.
Dr. Victor Pogostin
William Nickel
Insight Information
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Partner
McDougall Gauley LLP
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9:20 | Welcome Address
2:00 | Managing Risks, Unlocking Value
His Worship Donald J. Atchison
*Networking Coffee Break will be announced
Saskatoon Mayor
Rick Mazur
President and Chief Executive Officer
Forum Uranium Corp.
9:45 | The Province’s Mineral Sector Outlook
- Cumulative Opportunities
Dr. Gary Delaney
Chief Geologist
Saskatchewan Geological Survey
Minerals, Lands, and Resource Policy Division
Ministry of the Economy
Government of Saskatchewan
The presentations will highlight the status of mining and mineral exploration
in Saskatchewan with the focus on the key opportunities and challenges in
the next two decades.
10:30 | Networking Coffee Break
10:45 | SK as a Player in the Global Resource Market
• Glass half empty or glass half full?
• A junior company’s perspective on exploration in good times and bad
Ross McElroy
President, Chief Operating Officer, and Chief Geologist
Fission Uranium Corp.
Exploring the Western Athabasca Basin
• The benefits of a multi-discipline technical team
• Innovative use of radon gas surveys in winter conditions
• The impact of the PLS discovery on the Western Athabasca Basin region
Dr. Matthew Wood
Project Manager, Kronau Project
Vale Potash Canada Limited
Vale’s Strategy in the Current Mining Climate
William Irwin
• Value creation philosophy
Integer Research, UK
• Our five strategic pillars
The presentation will focus on the latest analysis of the global potash
market, its current state and discuss outlook scenarios for the industry.
Jean-Pierre Colin
Capital Markets Strategies
“If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.”
• The presentation will outline an investment banker’s and mining
executive’s criteria for success for mining companies
• How junior mining company executives in Saskatchewan must
“think differently” because:
- seemingly small decisions by management can affect corporate
survival in these times of crisis in the financial markets
- the new sources of capital that have emerged in the last decade
impose important changes in corporate strategy
• The mining industry in Saskatchewan as a group must promote
innovative initiatives to enhance its continued importance in the
provincial economy
12:00 | Networking Luncheon
1:15 – 1:45
Keynote Lunch Speaker
Dr. Gordon Barnhart
Chair of the International Minerals Innovation Institute
Former Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan
• International Minerals Innovation Institute – it’s composition and
governance structure and financial plan
• Broad goals of IMII in Education and Training as well as Research
and Development fields to meet the current and future needs of the
minerals sector in Saskatchewan
• IMII is unique in Canada as an industry led partnership with
government and post secondary educational institutions
• What this means for the Kronau Project
Jim Engdahl
President
Star Minerals Group Ltd.
• Finding the right partner to build an integrated operation to help de
risk the project
• Managing a junior company’s in tough market conditions from financial
to industrial minerals
• Selection of assets that will be quickest to production
4:00 | Competition and Corruption – Risk Identification
and Management
Derek D. Hoffman
Associate, McDougall Gauley LLP
• A brief overview of competition and corruption risks – the current
status and upcoming regulatory changes
• Managing competition and corruption risks
4:30 | Conference Adjourns for the Day Followed by Cocktail
Reception and Gala Dinner
Keynote Dinner Speaker
Ned Goodman
President and Chief Executive Officer
Dundee Corporation
Ned Goodman is President and CEO of Dundee Capital Markets,
President and CEO of Dundee Corporation. Mr. Goodman is also
Chancellor of Brock University, Chairman Emeritus of the Canadian
Centre for Diversity, a Governor of Junior Achievement of Canada,
a Director of Dundee Corporation, Corona Gold Corporation, 360 VOX
Corporation (formerly Leisure Canada Inc.), Dundee Energy Limited,
Dundee Real Estate Investment Trust, Dundee International Real Estate
Investment Trust, Dundee Precious Metals Inc., Eurogas International Inc.,
Ryan Gold Corp. and Member of the board of directors of Barrick Gold
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Corporation (“Barrick”).
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8:15 | Continental Breakfast
Rob Theoret
9:00 | Opening Remarks from the Co-Chairs
Principal
President and Chief Executive Officer
HCF Mercantile Inc.
Stephen P. Halabura
Chairman
HCF Mercantile Inc.
William Nickel
Partner
McDougall Gauley LLP
9:15 | Raising $$$ for SK Projects – Successes and Lessons
Learned (Case Studies)
Tom MacNeill
Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer
49 North Resources Inc.
• Saskatchewan’s capital market landscape - how investment flows
into the province and why change is necessary
• The resource investment cycle – where are we now?
• Investment opportunities in Saskatchewan – a long
overdue renaissance
Jason Moser
Senior Investment Manager
SaskWorks Venture Fund Inc.
• Determining feasibility of project, i.e. does it warrant investment and
can we execute
- access to labour
- size of resource to be exploited
- sufficient level of de-risking/delineation
- risk adjusted return
- regulatory/environmental approvals
- in-house expertise
• Determining size and timing of capital requirements
- metrics from predecessor projects
- third party estimates
• Determining optimal capital structure
- ability to use debt and types of debt/rates
- equity mix
- cash flow attributes
• Fundraising
- use of agent, screening etc.
- determining ideal mix between retail and institutional
- identifying prospective leads/investors
-timing
-pricing
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The presentation will review the key drivers of the Saskatchewan economy
within a global context and the opportunities that continue to unfold/develop
for Saskatchewan mining industry.
11:00 | Networking Coffee Break
11:15 | Implementing the Canadian Environmental
Assessment Act
Mai-Linh Huynh
Project Manager
Prairie and Northern Region
Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency
The Government of Canada updated its federal environmental assessment
legislation as part of its Responsible Resource Development plan to
modernize the regulatory system.
This presentation looks at highlights of the Canadian Environmental
Assessment Act, 2012 and role of the Canadian Environmental Assessment
Agency in the overall administration of the federal environmental
assessment process.
12:00 | Networking Luncheon
1:00 | Keynote Luncheon Speaker
Honorable Rob Norris
Minister of Advanced Education
1:30 | Environmental and Social Acceptability of Mining
Projects on Aboriginal Land
Chief Reginald Bellerose
Chief Executive Officer
Muskowekwan Resources Limited
Sheldon Wuttunee
President and Chief Executive Officer
Saskatchewan First Nations Natural Resources Centre of Excellence
The presentations will focus on the challenges in dealing with First Nation
lands in Saskatchewan and their impacts on decision making when
corporations are seeking lands to purchase for exploration.
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2:30 | Powering the Mining Development in SK
Leah Nelson Guay
Acting Executive Director
First Nations Power Authority of Saskatchewan
First Nations Power Authority of Saskatchewan - a model for the
mining sector?
• Barriers to entry in big business
• Business model solutions that dig deep
• Partnerships and processes to maximize value proposition to both
industry and First Nations
Edward C. Kozowy
President
PNG Consultants Ltd.
• Natural gas - production by region vs. demand from future
mining projects
• Full cycle finding and development and operating costs
• Natural gas pricing history, forecasts and LNG project implications
• Challenges and opportunities in the natural gas sector
4:00 | Closing Remarks by the Co-Chairs
4:15 | Conference Ends
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
The program will have most direct appeal to:
•Strategic Planning
•Mining Investors
•Production
•Federal and Provincial Government Energy Officials
and Regulators
•Operations
•Environmental Officials and Consultants
•Energy Lawyers and In-house Counsel
•Exploration Geologists and Geophysicists
•Geophysical Contractors
•Officials from Aboriginal Groups and Businesses
•Aboriginal Land Administrators and Area Regulators
•Community Relations Coordinators
The program will have most direct appeal to:
•Investor Relations
•Exploration
•Financial Experts
•Legal Experts
•Geology
•Engineering
•Regulatory Affairs
•Corporate Affairs
•Environmental Affairs
•Community Relations
•Government Relations
•Resource Management
•Project Management
•Business Development
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April 30 - May 1, 2014 | Sheraton Cavalier Saskatoon Hotel
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