PDAC 2020 is nearly here!
Get ready for over 1,100 exhibitors, 2,500 investors and 25,800 attendees from 132 countries…all descending upon Toronto for four days of speakers, short courses, technical sessions, investment opportunities, and unparalleled networking events to packed audiences at the
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, March 1 - 4, 2020.
And,
Stockhouse Media will be reporting LIVE from the convention floor with interviews, live reports, and news updates from all of the industry’s major movers and shakers.
Since 1932, the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) has hosted the world’s premier mineral exploration & mining convention annually in Toronto, Canada. And over the many decades it has grown in size, stature, and influence. Today, it is
the event of choice for the world’s metals & mining industry.
In 2019, Stockhouse Media videotaped over 90 interviews from the floor at PDAC.
Expect even more from PDAC 2020! And this year, Stockhouse Media’s Cindy Broad will be vodcasting live again with some of the biggest and brightest names in the metals and mining space!
Stockhouse Presenting Companies and Personalities (Tuesday, March 3, 2020)
Arno Brand, Co-CEO Gratomic Inc.
Gratomic Inc. (
TSX-V.GRAT,
OTC:CBULF,
Forum) is an advanced materials, junior exploration company focused on mine to market commercialization of graphite products most notably high value graphene based components for a range of mass market products. We are collaborating with a leading European manufacturer of graphenes to use Aukam graphite to manufacture graphene products for commercialization on an industrial scale. The Company is primarily engaged in the acquisition and exploration of exploration and evaluation assets located primarily in Canada and Namibia. The company's projects include Aukam-Namibia, and Buckingham-Canada. Company Co-CEO Arno Brand is a Namibian entrepreneur with 12 years of experience working on major construction and mining projects in Africa. He has been involved in numerous public transactions and financings he is an experienced commodity Trader/Broker.
Cal Everett, CEO & Director Liberty Gold
Liberty Gold Corp. (
TSX.LGD) is a gold discovery company. It is principally engaged in the acquisition and exploration of mineral properties located primarily in the United States and Turkey. It is focused on to deliver maximum value for its shareholders, with the lowest investment of time and capital. The company operates in the business segment of exploration for gold, copper and other precious and base metals. It has operations in the geographic locations of Canada, USA and Turkey. Liberty Gold Corp. recently discovered a Tier 1 oxide gold system in the Great Basin at its Black Pine Property in Idaho.
CEO & Director Cal Everett is a geologist with more than 14 years of surface and underground exploration experience with senior mining companies. He moved to the financial sector in 1990, and spent 12 years with BMO Nesbitt Burns focused on resource equities, and seven years with PI Financial Corp. in senior resource institutional sales and capital markets. From 2008 to 2015, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of Axemen Resource Capital. Mr. Everett holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Economic Geology from the University New Brunswick.
Brady Fletcher, Managing Director TSX.V
Brady Fletcher is the Managing Director of
TSX Venture Exchange – the world’s premier public venture market. Every year, hundreds of early and growth-stage companies raise billions of dollars via the TSX Venture Exchange. Based in Vancouver, Mr. Fletcher has spent his career in Canada’s venture market, with specialized experience working with growth stage issuers to develop financing, M&A and business development strategies.
With a background in computer engineering, Mr. Fletcher spent almost a decade in investment banking, primarily focused on financing and advising technology and diversified issuers through strategic transactions. Throughout his career, he has advised hundreds of companies on business strategy, capital raising, public and private markets, and exit strategies. He has successfully executed more than $500 million in growth equity financings, secondary transactions, and sell side advisory mandates.
Kim Tyler, President, CEO, and Director Stratabound Minerals Corp.
Stratabound Minerals Corp. (
TSX-V.SB) is an exploration and development company focussed on taking advantage of exceptional opportunities to acquire overlooked, high potential gold and copper projects in premium North American mineral districts. The Company has an option on the Golden Culvert and Little Hyland properties which cover approximately 83.8 square kilometers in the southeast Yukon Territory, and 100% ownership of base metal properties in New Brunswick including the CNE Mining Lease, the Captain and Taylor Brook Deposits. The Company also has interest in Zonia Copper Mine.
President, CEO, and Director Kim Tyler is a mining and exploration professional with over 40 years of progressive management and executive experience in gold, base metals and industrial minerals with companies including Vale, Rio Tinto, Royal Oak Mines and Cominco Ltd. Mr. Tyler brings strong technical expertise that, besides mineral exploration, includes mine operations management experience in both open pit and underground mining operations. Since 2007 Mr. Tyler has served as President and Director of Canadian Arrow Mines Limited, a junior exploration and development company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange. Mr. Tyler has also held positions as Manager of Projects Evaluation North America for a TSX listed mid-tier gold producer as well as Operations Manager for two other TSX-listed junior gold development companies.
Mr. Tyler is a Professional Geoscientist registered in both British Columbia and Ontario. He has worked within both junior and major mining and exploration environments. As such he has had exposure to innovation and best industry practices from a number of corporate cultures.
Donald Baxter, Director Ceylon Graphite
Ceylon Graphite Corp. (
TSX-V: CYL,
OTC: CYLYF,
Forum) an explorer and developer of graphite mines in Sri Lanka through its wholly-owned privately-owned subsidiary, Sarcon Development Ltd. The Company is currently exploring and developing graphite mines in historic resource jurisdictions in Sri Lanka. It holds a land package constituting 121 km² grids containing historic vein graphite deposits. These unique and comparatively higher margin vein (lump) deposits currently make up less than 1% of the world graphite production. These exploration grids represent the majority of known historic graphite resources in Sri Lanka. The relevant areas in which these grids reside have previously had historical production dating back to the 1920s and 1930s.
Company Director Don Baxter is one of the premier graphite experts outside of China, having built one of only two producing graphite mines in North America. Don is presently Chief Executive Officer and Director of Applied Graphite Technologies. Prior to this, Don served as President, CEO and Executive Director of Alabama Graphite Corp, successfully completing the company’s disruptive Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA) and introducing a new, battery-focused strategy. As President and Chief Operating Officer of Focus Graphite Inc., Don led Focus Graphite to wide recognition in the graphite industry, updated the company’s PEA and advanced the company to a completed Feasibility Study. He was also responsible for rapidly advancing the development of value-added graphite products, namely coated spherical purified graphite for the lithium-ion battery sector. Don served as President of Northern Graphite Corporation and was responsible for all technical aspects relating to the Bissett Creek graphite project, including the company’s Feasibility Study, metallurgical test work, environmental and mine permitting, as well as developing battery-related graphite products. Don also served as Mine Superintendent at the Kearney Graphite Mine and was Director of Mining at Ontario Graphite Ltd.
Don holds a degree in Mining Engineering from Queen’s University, is a past member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Advanced Technology Batteries International (NAATBatt International) — a US-based not-for-profit trade association commercializing advanced electrochemical energy-storage technology for emerging, high-tech applications — and is a ‘Qualified Person’ as defined by National Instrument 43-101 (NI 43-101) guidelines.
Stay tuned to Stockhouse for upcoming news and highlights LIVE from the floor of PDAC 2020! And don’t forget to visit us on Level 700, Stage 5 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre – March 1st to March 4th.
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FULL DISCLOSURE:Gratomic Inc. and Ceylon Graphite Corp. are clients of Stockhouse Publishing.