7^th Mining & Exploration Forum and Expo

MASTER CLASS 1

“Environmental Management – the Real Costs and Savings”
Organiser: Wardell Armstrong International

• Background to the topic; why mining need not cost the earth; who pays; benefits that can be gained by companies.
  Nick Coppin, Managing Director, Wardell Armstrong International
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• Principles of Environmental and Community Management Systems
  Main requirements and elements of a management system; interaction between environmental protection, environmental management and community relations; how these should be built in to the whole management of a mine project and the governance of the mining company itself.
  Jan Lewis, Director, Wardell Armstrong International
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• Costing for Environmental and Community Management
  Effective due diligence and methods of costing the various elements of the management system, cover ing planned activities, risks and potential liabilities; how a company can optimise provisioning against future actions and exposures such as through opex, capex and insurances or bonds.
  James McNally, Associate Director, Wardell Armstrong International
• Financial and cost models
  A typical financial model for a mining project and how to integrate environmental and community management.
  Veronika Luneva, Business Administrator, Wardell Armstrong International
• Q&A

MASTER CLASS 2

“Planning data collection for a joint Russian-International study”
Organiser: SRK Consulting

• Data Collection for Resource Estimation.
  Alexander Polonyankin, Principal Resource Geologist, Head of Geology,
  SRK Consulting (Russia)
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• Features of QA/QC in the collection of geotechnical data.
  Ivan Livinsky, Geotechnical Engineer, SRK Consulting (Russia) Ltd.
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• Environmental and social baseline studies for ESIA and OVOS.
  Ekaterina Vershinina, Head of Environmental Department, Principal Environmental Consultant, SRK Consulting (Russia) Ltd.
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• Integrating Russian and international resource estimation.
  Vladimir Zelichenko, Chief Geologist, OJSC Infoprof
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MASTER CLASS 3

“Managing mining IPOs”
Organiser: KPMG

Speakers:
Svetlana Marriott, Partner, Capital Markets Group, Transactions and Restructuring.
Olga Plevako, Director, Capital Markets Group, Transactions and Restructuring.
Sean Tiernan, Partner, Transactions and Restructuring, KPMG.

• Financing of mining projects: why IPO?
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• Mining financing strategy. When an IPO is the right solution.
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• Q&As

MASTER CLASS 4

“Resource and Reserve Reporting using CRIRSCO codes such as JORC and NI43-101″
Organiser: Snowden

Ivor Jones, Group General manager Applied Geosciences.
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• The CRIRSCO Code and its relationship to JORC, SAMREC, CIM and NI43-101F1?
• Differences between a GKZ style code and a CRIRSCO style code (such as the JORC Code)
• What is required of a “Competent Person”?
• The condition of “reasonable expectation of economic extraction” explained.
• Advantages of using a CRIRSCO style reporting Code.
• Q&As