Permitting Discussion With Dan Wilton & Steve Lines
Join First Mining Gold's VP Sustainability, Steve Lines, and CEO, Dan Wilton, for a discussion on the company's permitting process at First Mining Gold’s Springpole Project. Both are available for questions live from the audience following the brief Q&A.
Dan Wilton has more than 25 years of experience in M&A, corporate finance and principal investing in the mining sector, having executed as principal or advised on more than $10 billion of mergers, acquisitions and divestitures and more than $1 billion of financings. Dan was previously a Partner at Pacific Road Capital Management, a mining-focused private equity investment firm with approximately $800 million under management. Prior to joining Pacific Road, Dan's previous roles included Managing Director and Head of the Global Mining and Metals Group at National Bank Financial Inc., Managing Director in Business Development at General Electric based in London, England, and other corporate finance and M&A roles at global financial institutions based in Toronto and New York. Dan is a Director of Providence Living, a residential care and assisted living provider based in Vancouver, BC, and serves on the Audit and Finance and Quality Committees. Dan served on the Board of Providence Health Care for 11 years, including acting as Vice Chair for 6 years and Chair of the Audit and Finance Committee during the financing and approval process for the New St. Paul's development. Dan holds a B.Comm (First Class Honours) from Queen's University and an MBA (with Distinction) from INSEAD in France.
Steve has over 20 years of professional practice in environmental assessment, permitting, Indigenous and community affairs on major mining projects. Prior to joining First Mining Gold Steve led the Hardrock Gold Project Environment Assessment for Greenstone Gold Mines successfully obtaining approvals and permits from the federal and provincial governments and working in partnership with Indigenous communities to implement benefit agreements. Steve has also worked for De Beers where he held progressively responsible positions in developing and implementing strategies for the approval of the Gahcho Kué Diamond Mine. Steve has worked with Fortune Minerals Limited to obtain approvals for the NICO Project, as well as on behalf of Lupin Mines Incorporated to obtain key permits for its assets in Nunavut, Canada. Steve has a strong understanding of permitting processes and consultation requirements for mining projects having held positions as a regulator for environmental assessments and water management licensing. Steve completed both an undergraduate degree in Ecology and post-graduate diploma in Environmental Impact Assessment at Concordia University, and completed an M.Sc. in Environmental Impact Assessment at the University of Calgary.
Replay transcript excerpt
So good morning, good afternoon, good evening, depending on where in the world you're signing in from. There does seem to be an international audience today, so I appreciate everybody making time. I'm thrilled to be joined by Dan Wheldon and Steve Lines of FirstMiningGold. How are you both doing today? Doing well. Good to see you, Romeo. Good to see you again, Dan. Hey, Romeo. Nice to see you. Hey, Steve. So before we get into the discussion, there's a couple of housekeeping items I just wanted to quickly run through. Today's discussion is interactive. You are encouraged to ask questions throughout the event. There's a button on the bottom right corner of your screen that opens up the chat tab. Feel free to ask questions at your leisure. If they're right on topic, I might sneak them in. Otherwise, we'll try to address them all at the end. I want to let you know today's event is also being recorded and the replay will be available hopefully by day's end, so look out for that in your inbox. But enough out of me, I want to jump right into the chat today. So Steve is kind of the star of this event. I'd love if you started us off by just telling us about yourself, your title role, when you first joined First Mining, et cetera. Okay, it's always a little bit bizarre to talk about myself, but I'll give my best shot. Yeah, so I joined First Mining in, I think it was early December of 2020. And my role is the Vice President of Sustainability, which essentially means I oversee the majority of what we're doing on the Springpole environmental assessment, to the environment side of things, the regulatory side of things, and importantly, the community and indigenous relations side as well. I really got into this line of work, which is a big, you know, passion of mine in a bit of a...
