Forum Agenda – 1 July

Andrew is a qualified Professional Engineer with over 25 years’ experience in mining and minerals processing in Southern Africa, the Americas, Australia and Asia. His involvement has ranged as an engineer at operations, through to development and detailed design of process solutions in a range of commodities including nickel, copper, chrome, gold and platinum.

He has extensive experience in process and process equipment design, plant design, cost estimation and project economics as well as project, construction and operations management. Andrew has had extensive involvement in mining both at the consulting and R&D level, with specializations in the development and commercialization of innovative mining and process technologies.

He has worked as a Consulting Engineer on prefeasibility and feasibility studies across several commodities and has contributed as lead engineer or project manager in the completion of major capital projects in chrome, nickel, lead-zinc and platinum on time and under budget.

In 2009 he founded MineSense Technologies, a Vancouver-based mining technology company focused on the delivery of sensor-based grade control and bulk sorting solutions to the industry. Andrew joined join Bara Consulting as Principal, Americas in 2017, and the UK office as MD in 2018.

Graham is a senior exploration geoscientist with 14 years industry experience (gold, critical metals, cobalt, petroleum) and most recently 2 years research on critical metals project evaluation methods. A natural explorer with a business focus. Most of his experience has been in greenfield exploration from continent to deposit scales. He also generated prospects to drill-ready status and has worked at the rig during gold and petroleum exploration drilling. He is an entrepreneur, as all explorers should be, and raised EU funding to start an exploration consultancy company. He has worked in a mid-tier and in a junior exploration company, and 3 geological consultancies, thus his exploration work is always with a commercial focus.

Graham's expertise lies in exploration strategy and new ventures, systematically evaluating projects through nation to ore shoot scales. His geoscience approach is to determine a project's probability of success, uncertainty, risks and weakest links. He encourages team collaboration, listening and cohesion, because exploration value is not created by acquiring data, but when a diverse range of specialists work well and respectfully together. Clear communication of geoscience across Engineering, Commercial, Business Development, Socio-Environmental and Governance stakeholders is fundamental to success.

Pavel has a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Concordia University and is a certified professional engineer with the Quebec Order of Engineers.

Pavel has 21 years of experience and has been with Howden since 2000. In the past ten years, he has been at the forefront of the development of the Ventsim CONTROL software tool for mining applications as well as the SmartEXEC HVAC software tool for industrial applications. Recently Pavel has been actively involved in ventilation and pumping simulation consulting for underground mines.

Kirsty is Co-Founder of the Critical Minerals Association (CMA), which unites industry, academia and the UK government to address risks in critical mineral supply chains. The CMA enables industry to generate a collective voice when outlining concerns and future recommendations, providing a direct line of communication between industry and UK government. We aim to improve societal perceptions of the sector by showcasing the economic and social benefits of critical mineral, and ensuring our critical minerals extraction and processing adhere to internationally recognised standards and best practice.

Prior to forming the Critical Minerals Association, Kirsty worked as a consultant to The McCain Institute and The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and as a Communications Associate at Aspect Consulting. She holds a BA International Relations from King’s College London.

Chris has been an independent analyst since 2009 with a focus on Energy Metals supply chains including lithium, cobalt, graphite, vanadium, and rare earths.

His advisory work provides strategic insights to asset managers, banks, corporates and academia and has a specific focus on how disruptive trends in energy, strategic metals, and technology create opportunities. Before shifting focus to analysis of these trends, Chris gained twelve years of capital markets experience on both the buy side and sell side.

He has visited and performed economic analysis of metals deposits on six continents and has been featured in multiple media outlets including the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, the South China Morning Post and CNN International providing insights around raw material supply chain dynamics.

Chris holds a Master of Business Administration in finance with an international focus from Fordham University, and a Bachelor of Arts in international studies from The Virginia Military Institute.

He can be reached at cberry (at) house-mountain (dot) com or on Twitter @cberry1

Chris Bray BEng, MAusIMM(CP) has 23 years’ international experience, managing and contributing to a wide range of multidisciplinary technical mine studies, due diligence, operational support and international reporting projects. He has a strong operational background in underground and open pit mines and seeks to determine optimal and practical solutions for Clients based on their goals. In recent feasibility studies, Chris has worked with multidisciplinary teams to assess and understand the potential for battery-electric equipment on underground mining projects.

Jeffrey M. Christian is Managing Partner at CPM Group, a precious metals and commodities research and consulting company he founded in 1986 in a buyout of the Goldman Sachs Commodities Research Group he managed at that time. He has a commanding understanding of the mechanics of precious metals and commodities trading and investing, as well as derivatives markets, commodities in general, and broad economic and financial trends. CPM advises major producers, users, governments, central banks, and institutional investors on how best to manage their financial exposure to precious metals and commodities. He advises on overall market trends, as well as on hedging, materials management, and investing strategies. In 2006 he published Commodities Rising, a book on commodities markets. In 1980 he published a book on electric vehicles. More can be learned about Mr. Christian and CPM Group at www.cpmgroup.com.

Michael Di Giovinazzo is a Mining Geomechanics Engineer with over 18 years’ experience in hard rock underground and open pit mining operations and projects. After graduating with BSc in Applied Geology from Curtin University, the initial 2 years was with near-mine exploration for gold companies in Western Australia and West Africa. Michael transitioned to mining geomechanics attaining postgraduate qualification from the West Australia School of Mines (WASM). For over 10 years’ he held various geomechanics engineering roles for operating mining companies in Australia across underground and surface mining operations, operational geotechnical team leading, and feasibility studies. This experience incorporated various underground and surface mining methods including SLC, open stoping, deep open pits, managing cave-pit interaction, as well as providing geotechnical planning and guidance of numerous brownfields underground and open pit projects. Consulting experience with SRK’s Nordic offices in the last 8 years’ has been across various commodities, project stages and study levels mainly in the Nordic region, Europe, and Africa. Michael specialises in operations support, geotechnical risk management, geotechnical data collection programs, rock mass characterisation, underground mine design, open pit slope design, ground control monitoring and hazard management. Additional to risk management, developing the role of geotechnics to add value to projects and operations is a core focus of his work.

Christopher is a principal, mining analyst and commodity strategist at Hallgarten & Company and is based in London. He has been the CEO and director of four listed companies on the TSX and TSX-V. Prior to founding Hallgarten & Company in 2003, he was the head of research at an economic think tank in New Jersey which he had joined in 2001. Before moving to the U.S., he was the founder and head of research at the Argentine equity research firm, Buenos Aires Trust Company, from 1991 until 2001. Prior to his arrival in Argentina, he worked in London beginning in 1985 as a corporate finance and equities analyst and as a freelance consultant on the restructuring of the securities industry. He is a native of Melbourne, Australia. He graduated in 1981 from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.

Mr Garcia received his first M. Sc. (Geology) from University of Oviedo. A second M. Sc. was received from University of Turku (Ore Geology). He has started his career in 2010 working in different exploration projects at INMET Mining, First Quantum Minerals and University of Turku. From 2015 onward has worked in mining industry at Sudvaranger Gruve As and Terrafame Oy. In 2018 he has been appointed Head of Mine Geology at Terrafame Oy. Mr Garcia is specialized in mineral resource and geometallurgical modelling, mine-to-mill feed control and brownfield exploration.

Stephen Gifford joined the Faraday Institution in March 2019. His focus is on making the organisation the go-to place for insights into the technological, economic and social benefits of batteries and electrical energy storage. He is developing techno-economic models of supply, demand and cost, covering both global and the UK markets.

Stephen has over 25 years of economics experience, including as the Chief Economist at Grant Thornton, the Director of Economics at the CBI and as a senior economist at KPMG, Oxford Economics and the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit. Prior to joining the Faraday Institution, Stephen was Head of Economic Regulation at the Civil Aviation Authority, where he focused on the regulation of Heathrow and Gatwick airports, and the development of the new runway at Heathrow. Stephen is currently a Commissioner in the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales.

Stephen brings particular skills and expertise in economic policy, transport economics, infrastructure, market assessment and the role of the public sector. He has a first-class degree in Economics from the University of Liverpool and a MSc in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics from the London School of Economics.

James has over 20 years of experience in target generation, exploration discovery, design, management and supervision and Mineral Resource estimation of various commodities globally. James joined SRK in 2005 as a resource and exploration geologist. Between 2014 and 2016 James operated across South America and established and managed the Geology/Mining Department within SRK Consulting (Peru).
During this time he has become a Chartered Geologist and Competent Person (CP) with the Geological Society London.

Prior to joining SRK, James worked in the junior sector across West and Central Africa culminating in the discovery of the Passendro gold project.

During his professional career he has gained experienced in a range of exploration/mining disciplines including mineral exploration practices, planning and management, GIS, resource and grade control drilling and sampling, quality assurance and control protocols, mine infrastructure optimisation, geotechnical logging and slope and ground stability issues.

His responsibilities at SRK ES include exploration programme designs and reviews, Mineral Resource development programmes and exploration risk mitigation and associated project valuation, ranking and optimisation programmes.

He also specialises in governmental/ministerial level advice and liaison and has recently managing mining industry strategy development, technical support, training and advisory services to the Government of Afghanistan and Sultanate of Oman.

Brett is a graduate geologist from the Royal School of Mines. Brett has over 20 years of experience gained working on mining and exploration projects in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East in base metals and gold. His involvement has covered projects from grassroots exploration through to development. Brett is from south-west England, and joined Cornwall Resources in January 2017, since when, as Exploration Manager, he has led the ongoing successful exploration campaign on the Redmoor tin-tungsten-copper project.

William has almost 30 years of experience in hydrogeology. His particular strengths are in packer test and pumping test design and supervision, well test analysis, groundwater modelling and quantitative risk analysis. He has carried out well in excess of 100 projects for clients in the mining, water and waste management industries to support operations, technical studies for greenfield sites and closure. In recent years, he has been closely involved with and managed a number of open pit and underground mine hydrogeological studies in Europe, India, Africa and the Middle East. He has just completed a hydrogeological and geochemical modelling study for an underground gold mine in the Central Lapland Gold Belt (CLGB) and is currently managing a technical study to support a large open pit operation in Central Finland.

Philip has over 35 years of experience in stockbroking and commodities with a number of well-known stockbroking firms. He spent eight years as Head of Corporate Broking at WH Ireland Limited in London, where he was responsible for originating and managing equity transactions, including IPOs and secondary placings for corporate clients on AIM and other international exchanges including the Australian and Canadian stock exchanges largely in the natural resources sector. Mr Haydn-Slater has also worked in London and Sydney for various financial institutions including ABN Amro, Bankers Trust, James Capel & Co, and Bain Securities (Deutsche Bank) Sydney. More recently, given his wealth of experience, he has acted as an independent director on the boards of a number of public and private companies.

Charlie is a University of Southampton MSci graduate, with her masters year research focussed on the geochemical behaviour of gold in the western Anatolian volcanic province. Charlie has been with Scotgold for just over two years, initially involved with the Grampian Project exploration, but her role has evolved to a sharper focus on the mine geology of the Cononish Gold Mine, especially as the mine is being brought into production.

Akseli Koskela is the Head of EU Policy at Technology Industries of Finland, which is one of the biggest trade organisations in Finland that covers 50 % of Finnish export and 70% of Finnish private RDI.

Akseli has a 12-year history working in the Finnish government and also background in mining as is born in a mining town to a family of mine workers and obviously he has also worked in the mine.

• Jim has 40 years of experience in researching the international metals and mining industries
• Jim Lennon worked at Macquarie from 1994 to 2013. He left Macquarie in June 2013 and set up his own consulting company, Red Door Research Ltd. The consulting company specialises in the economic analysis of hard commodity markets. Jim remains a part-time consultant to Macquarie.
• Until June 2013, he was Chairman of Commodities at Macquarie, having worked for Macquarie for 19 years. He founded and headed up a 10 person research team in London, Singapore and Shanghai which serviced the equity, LME trading and corporate advisory divisions of the bank with steel, coal, metals and minerals research and market intelligence.
• Jim and his team at Macquarie were regularly ranked number one in various surveys of commodities research among equity investors for over a decade.
• Prior to Macquarie, Jim worked for 10 years at CRU International, where he headed up a team specialising in Special steels (including stainless steel) and steelmaking alloys (mainly manganese, silicon, chrome, nickel and molybdenum). While at CRU, Jim also undertook major studies on metallurgical coal and iron ore.
• Jim’s current major specialisations are the main base metals and steel industries and their raw materials including nickel, chrome, molybdenum, iron ore and coking coal.
• Before joining CRU, Jim worked as a marketing analyst at New Zealand Steel. He has also worked as an Associate Director of Metals and Mining Research at Shearson Lehman Hutton Securities.
• Jim has a Masters degree in Economics from the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Paul Marsden - BSc, CEng, CSci, IOM3

Twenty seven years with Corus Consulting (formerly British Steel Consultants Ltd) working in global mining, iron ore and steel industry developments.

Since 2007 held various executive positions at Northland Resources SA before joining Nordic Iron Ore AB as Technical Sales and Marketing Director in November 2011 and becoming Managing Director in September 2015. Stepped down from this position in September 2018 to take up a Technical and Marketing advisory role. Member of Smart Exploration Executive Board since 2017 a EU sponsored project looking for exploration solutions that are environmentally friendly, cost-effective and technically sensitive for deep exploration.

Specialist expertise is in iron ore beneficiation, iron ore product development, alternative iron-making processes and global iron ore markets. Qualified Person, in accordance with the Institute of Metals, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) and its regulatory framework.

Tanya started career as a keen young geologist, roaming the mosquito-infested forests on Kola peninsula in Russia exploring for nickel, and snow-covered steppes of Northern Kazakhstan, in search for gold. The first 5 years were spent with BHP Exploration, based out of Moscow, working in Russia, Kazakhstan and Australia. 11 years in Canada were spent working on diamond and gold exploration in Nunavut, base metals in British Columbia, and uranium, coal and shale gas in Alberta.

Seeking new adventures, Tanya moved to the Netherlands, and started working in Africa, evaluating opportunities for rutile in Cameron, tin in Rwanda, bauxite in Guinea and iron ore in Tasmania. Most recently, Tanya worked for Behre Dolbear Minerals Industry Advisors based in UK. Tanya started working as an independent consultant in 2019, focussing on exploring opportunities to introduce blockchain technology into mining.

Tim is a mining engineer with 30 years’ experience in the mining industry. At SRK, he manages feasibility studies, and reviews projects and operations for due diligence studies and Competent Persons reports. Tim has worked in a number of engineering and management roles in gold, diamonds, and base metal operations in South Africa, Australia, and in Europe. He serves as a director of SRK UK, is managing director of the company's Nordic practices and has worked with clients in this region for many years.

Patrick is an expert for the sustainable discovery and supply of strategic minerals and metals. He has over 15 years of experience working at the interface between the mining industry, government and academia. In his current position as senior advisor for exploration and resource assessment at EIT RawMaterials, he focusses on innovative initiatives that strengthen exploration and mining activities in Europe.

ARTEL.PRO / GESCHÄFTSFÜHRER
September 2019 bis dato
Vertriebsexperte und Unternehmensberater mit Fokus Russland

HEAD OF SALES EUROPE
CONTITECH TRANSPORTBANDSYSTEME GMBH
Oktober 2017 bis August 2019

EXPAT IN RUSSLAND
CONTINENTAL AG
März 2014 bis September 2017
Merger and Acquisition Prozess und Aufbau eines Projekt - und Engineering - Office

VERTRIEBSLEITER MINING EAST EUROPE
CONTITECH TRANSPORTBANDSYSTEME GMBH
November 2012 bis Februar 2014

REGIONAL SALES MANAGER
EMG AUTOMATION GMBH
Juli 1994 bis Oktober 2012

Ausbildung:

DIPLOMINGENIEUR FÜR ELEKTRISCHE ANTRIEBSTECHNIK
Kiewer Polytechnisches Institut / Sowjetunion - jetzt Ukraine
1986

FACHARBEITER ELEKTROMASCHINENBAUER
VEM Elektromotorenwerk Oschersleben / Deutschland
1980

Arthur serves as the Managing Director of Advantix Ltd and Executive Chairman, MINEX Forum.

Arthur has over 20 years’ experience in business communications and organisation of international events in Russia, Kazakhstan, China, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, UK, and Continental Europe.

Educated in Ukraine as a Russian & English Teacher and Educational Psychologist, in 1992 Arthur moved to the UK where he has found his new home and turned his passion for Public Relations into a lifetime career.

After gaining management experiences at various international media, training, and events companies, in 2003 Arthur established Advantix Limited – an international firm specialising in organising events and managing communication projects for Natural Resources and Capital Markets. Headquartered in the UK, Advantix Ltd has subsidiaries in Russia and Kazakhstan. In 2004 Advantix established MINEX Forum – a trademark registered events and networking platform aimed at promoting mining development across the Eurasian continent. Presently MINEX Forum network connects over 50,000 people whose professional interests are aligned with mining and exploration in Russia, Central Asia, and Europe.

Arthur believes that many of today’s issues are the result of misunderstanding and lack of leadership which can be resolved by targeted communications, education, and thinking outside the box. These principles have been successfully implemented at various events and projects undertaken by Advantix Ltd in the past 17 years.

Darryn is the British Government's Mining Engineer and a Business Specialist within the Department for International Trade. He is primarily charged with securing the supply chains of critical metals and minerals needed for the Clean Growth and Future of Mobility Grand Challenges set out in the UK's Industrial Strategy.

David has been at MICROMINE since 2011, having originally started as Business Development Manager for our Micromine and Geobank products. Since then he's looked after Pitram throughout EMEA and more recently been charged with managing the region.

Away from MICROMINE David's a keen sportsman having played international under-19 cricket amongst other sports. Most of all he's a family man, married to his wife Samantha and dad to his two beautiful children.

Keith Rowe-Wilson joined the team at Euro Lithium in December 2019 to direct the company's corporate development strategy for the development of their Valjevo Lithium and Boron Project in Serbia.

Keith has over 15 years of experience in the metals & mining sector having worked across the banks, trading houses, and mining houses in marketing, trading, and structured financing.

Keith bring's an array of commercial skills to the table such as strategic and corporate development, market analysis, stakeholder management, deal origination and structuring, and contract & termsheet negotiation and finalisation. Keith holds a BSc (Honours) from the University of Greenwich and an MBA (Finance) from the University of Cape Town's Graduate School of Business.

Mining engineer with 32 years of experience from various positions in Norwegian and international mining companies. Employed as technical director and Sauda Plant manager of Eramet Norway AS during 2008-09. During 2004 – 08 managing director of Titania AS a major manufacturer of titanium feedstock. Before that he worked for 8 years at Hustadmarmor AS (now owned by Omea AG) as production engineer, production manager and operations manager, and for 8 years as process engineer at AS Sydvaranger, Norway’s then largest iron ore company.

Rushfeldt is a graduate of the Norwegian Polytechnical University, Trondheim (now NTNU)

Rushfeldt has served as president and chairman of the Norwegian Mining Association.

Jon has been with SRK Exploration Services Ltd. for 12 years and in that time has worked on a wide variety of early-stage exploration projects around the world. He takes a particular interest in high-latitude exploration, and in the exploration for critical raw materials and minor metals. He is currently leading SRK's involvement in the EU H2020-funded INFACT research project which aims to develop innovative and more acceptable approaches to exploration in Europe. Jon is also active in the implementation of ESG assessments and risk analysis at the earliest stages of exploration.

Graduated from RUDN University, Moscow; Engineering Faculty, Geological survey, prospecting and exploration of deposits of solid minerals specialization. Prior MICROMINE worked as geologist in LC NNK.

Joined MICROMINE in 2012 as Micromine technical specialist and took part in Micromine implementation projects on various mines in Russia - Norilskiy Nickel, Alrosa, AGD Diamonds, Stoylenskiy GOK. Recently is member of Micromine development group and responsible for realization requests from Russian clients.

Richard is the Technical Director at Addison Mining Services and possesses over 12 years’ experience in the minerals industry covering exploration, resource estimation, project management, data management, quality assurance and quality control and reporting for a variety of commodities and mineralization styles.

Richard's main role within the company is directing and completing resource estimation studies and as such he understands the importance of good quality data as the foundations to successful projects and the power of technology in maximizing potential.

Jeff has nearly 20 years of experience working in the political sphere of Westminster, Capitol Hill and the Southern African Development Community.

His expertise in foreign affairs and international development has led him to advise, senior Ministers, ambassadors and national leaders. Jeff is an expert at political strategy, campaigning and communications and has transferred these skills into the private sector providing political advice to FTSE100 and S&P500 companies. Jeff was born on a mine in Carltonville, South Africa and grew up in mining communities around the world following his father who worked in the sector. In 2011 he began the UK's All Party Parliamentary Group on International Mining and more recently founded the Critical Minerals Association and its political platform in Westminster.

Roman graduated from Ural State Mining University, Ekaterinburg. Prior MICROMINE Roman worked in the IT sector of a Geology Exploration company.

Roman joined MICROMINE in 2011 and responsible for the technical part of implementation of several Pitram projects across the CIS region.