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It's time for feats of strength, an airing of grievances, and perhaps a Festivus miracle! As part of an annual tradition, Matt Gordon will be moderating a discussion between mining executives on the state of the industry. They'll gaze into a crystal ball and talk about future commodity prices and trends in mining - from inflation to new technology. Everyone will be available for a live Q&A following the conversation.
Founder at Crux Investor
Matthew Gordon is the founder of Crux Investor, a market insight channel for those interested in understanding the junior mining world and opportunities to invest. Its purpose is to cut through a lot of the jargon, bias, and bluster that is prevalent in this sector and hone in on the most important factors that can indicate whether a company has a strong footing for growth and success.
President at Minera Alamos
Doug Ramshaw is a senior executive and corporate director with more than 25 years of experience in the mineral resource sector. His work has focused on mineral project evaluation, M&A and business development strategies supporting corporate growth. Mr. Ramshaw previously worked as a mining analyst for an independent brokerage firm in London, UK and has served in various executive capacities for a number of publicly listed junior resource companies. He sat on the board of Great Bear Resources from 2016 until its $1.8 billion takeover by Kinross Gold in February 2022. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Mining Geology from the Royal School of Mines.
VP Corporate Communications at Barksdale Resources
Ms. Welyki has more than 15 years of experience working with public and private mining companies, including Calico Resources and EMC Green Group S.A. She has broad knowledge of the mining industry, including financing, permitting, and stakeholder management and has worked across the United States, Peru and Canada.
President, CEO, & Director at Contango ORE
Mr. Van Nieuwenhuyse was appointed to serve as President, Chief Executive Officer, and director of the Company effective January 6, 2020. He previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Trilogy Metals Inc. from January 2012 until December 2019. Between May 1999 and January of 2012, he served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of NOVAGOLD, Inc, a company that he founded. He served as the Vice President of Exploration for Placer Dome from 1990 to 1997. Mr. Van Nieuwenhuyse holds a Candidature degree in Science from Université de Louvain, Belgium and a Master of Science degree in Geology from the University of Arizona. Mr. Van Nieuwenhuyse currently serves on the board of directors of Alexco Resource Corp. He served on the board of directors of Sandfire Resources America, Inc. (formerly, Tintina Resources Inc.) from 2008 until 2016. Mr. Van Nieuwenhuyse has over forty years of experience in the minerals mining industry and brings significant industry and technical knowledge to the Company.
First of all, welcome everyone who's listening in or listening into this. And today we're going to, it's a tradition now, Best of Us with the Rest of Us, started by the guy with the silly hat on, Doug Ramshaw, a few years ago and it's been a big hit each summer, each Christmas. We are going to talk about the good, the bad and the ugly today. I think it's been a heck of a year for lots of different reasons. Perhaps we're gonna talk about some of those things and maybe how this panel feel about that 1. So, but before we do, I'm gonna get everyone to introduce themselves. Terri-Ann first, Rick, and then Doug in that order. Give us a little intro. Who are you? Great, I'm Terri-Ann Willey. I'm the VP of Corporate Communications for Barksdale Resources. We are a Copper Zinc company based in Arizona. We are adjacent to South32's flagship, Taylor Hermosa, and our flagship is Sunnyside, and it's the extension of that great asset next door. So we're currently drilling. Exciting time for the company. And Good morning and happy holidays to everybody. I'm Rick Van Uren, the President and CEO of Contango Ore. We're developing a high-grade Gold, open-pit Gold project in Alaska, fully financed, fully permitted. Our joint venture partner is Kinross and we're on the cusp of being producing here. Hopefully by the middle of the year, we'll be producing about 70,000oz of Gold a year at a cash cost of a little over $1,100. So exciting year coming up for us, but we're here to talk about 2023. So Doug. Doug. All right, well, the reason I wanted to speak after Rick was I had the very great pleasure of speaking directly after him at the Denver Gold Show this year. Rick's very understated with his bio there. It took about 90 seconds for the moderator to talk about all his accomplishments and w...