FEM 2015 technical programme
10th Fennoscandian Exploration and Mining was organized on 3 – 5 November 2015 in Levi, Lapland, Finland.
Tuesday 3 November | |
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| Chairs | Stuart McCracken, Regional Head for Africa Europe Australasia, Anglo American Ingmar Haga, Vice-President, Europe, Agnico Eagle Mines Limited |
| 17:00 – 17:15 | (PDF) Welcoming Words Mika Riipi, County Governor, Regional Council of Lapland |
| 17:15 – 17:45 | Main Sponsors’ Addresses (PDF) Stuart McCracken, Regional Head for Africa Europe Australasia, Anglo American (Kittilä Mine Video – The Legacy) Ingmar Haga, Vice-President, Europe, Agnico Eagle Mines Limited |
| 17:45 – 18:20 | (PDF) Earning a License to Operate – with Examples from Canada and Abroad Rod Thomas, President, Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) |
| 18:20 – 18:40 | (PDF) Finnish Network for Sustainable Mining Eero Yrjö-Koskinen, Secretary General |
| 18:40 – 19:00 | Signing of the Towards Sustainable Mining (TSM) license by the Finnish Mining Association (FinnMin) and the Mining Association of Canada (MAC) |
| 19:00 – 19:15 | Fennoscandian Mining Award |
| 19:15 – 19:30 | Agnico Eagle Award |
| 19:30 – 22:00 | Ice-breaker Party and Trade Show Opening Trade Show areas A, B & C |
Wednesday 4 November | |
| 07:45 – 08:50 | Mining & Financing -breakfast with FEM, Borenius Attorneys Ltd and Nasdaq Nordic (by invitation only), Restaurant Panorama, Hotel Levi Panorama |
| Chair Co-chair | Mika Nykänen, Director General, Geological Survey of Finland (GTK) Henrik Schiellerup, Team Leader – Mineral Resources, Geological Survey of Norway (NGU) |
| 09:00 – 09:20 | (PDF) EU Commission Address Mattia Pellegrini, Head of Unit, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials, DG – Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, European Commission |
| 09:20 – 09:50 | (no permission to publish the slides) Keynote: Agnico Eagle in the Canadian Artic Guy Gosselin, Vice-President, Exploration, Agnico Eagle Mines Limited |
| 09:50 – 10:10 | (PDF) Canada’s Arctic Council Chairmanship Achievements, and an Overview of How Innovation Merges with Investment in the Extractive Industries Andrée Noëlle Cooligan, Ambassador to Finland, Canadian Embassy |
| 10:10 – 10:40 | (PDF) Keynote: The Circum-Arctic Mineral Resource Project Ron Boyd, Senior Geologist, Geological Survey of Norway (NGU) |
| 10:40 – 11:10 | Coffee/Tea Trade Show areas A, B & C |
| Chair Co-chair | Ilkka Tuokko, Managing Director, Sotkamo Silver Oy Tiina Rajala, Development Director, Council of Oulu Region |
| 11:10 – 11:40 | (no permission to publish the slides) Keynote: Development of Permitting Process in Mining Industry Hannele Pokka, Permanent Secretary, Finnish Ministry of the Environment |
| 11:40 – 12:00 | (PDF) Boliden Exploration – Priority Projects Focus Finland Jonas Wiik, Exploration Director, Boliden Mines |
| 12:00 – 12:20 | (PDF) Gold Mining Operations at Björkdal – Plans for the Future Chris Gregory,Vice President, Operational Geology & Chief Shield Geologist, Mandalay Resources Corp |
| 12:20 – 12:40 | (PDF) Exploration in Fennoscandia; the Role of the Target Generator Dr. Eric Jensen, General Manager of Exploration, Eurasian Minerals Inc. |
| 12:40 – 14:00 | Lunch Restaurant Panorama, Hotel Levi Panorama |
| 12:40 – 14:00 | Student – Industry Networking Luncheon (by invitation only) Gold Digger Bar, Hotel Levi Panorama |
| Chair Co-chair | Henrik Grind, Manager International Exploration, Boliden Mines Dr. Kimmo Pietikäinen, Regional Director, Geological Survey of Finland (GTK) |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | (PDF) Keynote: Corporate Social Responsibility in Mining Industry Froydis Cameron-Johansson, Head Safety, Sustainability, Compliance and Corporate Affairs – Anglo American Exploration |
| 14:30 – 14:50 | (no permission to publish the slides) Responsible Mining in the Arctic – a UK Perspective Sarah Price, Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Finland, British Embassy Helsinki |
| 14:50 – 15:10 | (PDF) A Decade of Nordic Gold Production Brett Smith, Executive Director, Dragon Mining Ltd |
| 15:10 – 15:30 | (PDF) Ore Potential of the Kola Peninsula: State of Today and Prospects Prof. Dr. Yury L. Voytekhovsky, Director, Geological Institute of the Kola Science Centre RAS |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee/Tea Trade Show areas A, B & C |
| Chair Co-chair | Olle Sjövall, Sales Director, North East Europe, Nordkalk Oy Ab Prof. Pekka Nurmi,Research Director, Geological Survey of Finland (GTK) |
| 16:00 – 16:20 | (PDF) Keeping Communities on Top: Corporate Social Responsibility Down Under – Licenced to Drill Gerald Thomson, Australian Ambassador to Sweden, Finland, Estonia and Latvia |
| 16:20 – 16:40 | (PDF) Crowdsourcing in Exploration: Karelian Gold Rush 2015 – Endomines Exploration Challenge Jyrki Bergström, Exploration Manager, Endomines Oy Markus Ekberg, CEO, Endomines AB |
| 16:40 – 17:00 | (PDF) Bunge – a Permit Process from History to Future Håkan Pihl, Chief Geologist, Nordkalk Group |
| 17:00 – 17:20 | (PDF) Development in Geometallurgy of Sotkamo Silver Mine Ilkka Tuokko, Managing Director, Sotkamo Silver Oy |
| 17:20 – 18:00 | Trade Show areas A, B & C |
| 19:00 – | Fennoscandian Mining Night Restaurant World, Spa Hotel Levitunturi |
Thursday 5 November | |
| Chair Co-chair | Michael Hudson, President & CEO, Mawson Resources Ltd Dr. Juhani Ojala, Division Manager, Geological Survey of Finland (GTK) |
| 09:30 – 10:00 | (PDF) Keynote: Hyperspectral Drill Core Imaging: an Emerging Technology for the Digital Era Dr. Phil Harris, Technical Director, TerraCore |
| 10:00 – 10:20 | Mineral Potential of Greenland Jonas Petersen, Geologist, Ministry of Mineral Resources |
| 10:20 – 10:40 | (PDF) Nussir ASA – The Next New Metal Mine in the North Øystein Rushfeldt, CEO, Nussir ASA |
| 10:40 – 11:00 | (PDF) Exploration as a Business in 10 Years. A New Reality! Dr Nick Cook, Vice-President Exploration, Mawson Resources Ltd |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | Lunch Restaurant Panorama, Hotel Levi Panorama |
| Chair Co-chair | Teija Kankaanpää, Head of Siilinjärvi Mine, Yara Suomi Oy Jukka Jokela, Project Manager, Anglo American |
| 12:30 – 13:00 | (PDF) Keynote: Deep Exploration Vesa Nykänen, Research Professor, Geological Survey of Finland (GTK) |
| 13:00 – 13:20 | (PDF) The Importance of Grassroots Exploration Delivering the Next Generation Mines in Fennoscandia Graham Brown, Director, Sakumpu Exploration Oy |
| 13:20 – 13:40 | (PDF) Nordic Mining – Minerals for a Sustainable Future Ivar S. Fossum, CEO, Nordic Mining ASA Norway |
| 13:40 – 14:00 | (PDF) A Modern Concept of Small Scale Mining Bengt Ljung, Managing Director, Botnia Exploration AB |
| 14:00 – 14:20 | (PDF) Criteria for Generating Exploration Projects in Greenland Dr. Stefan Bernstein, Exploration Director, Avannaa Resources Ltd |
| 14:20 – 14:50 | Coffee/Tea Trade Show areas A, B & C |
| Chair Co-chair | Bengt Ljung, Managing Director, Botnia Exploration AB Dr. Kaj Lax, Head of Department, Mineral Resources, Geological Survey of Sweden (SGU) |
| 14:50 – 15:10 | (PDF) How can Mining and Exploration Companies Benefit from KIC? Maria Magdalena Holmgren, Co-location Centre Manager, Baltic Sea CLC, EIT RawMaterials Dr. Olli Salmi, Interim Co-location Centre Manager, Northern CLC, EIT RawMaterials |
| 15:10 – 15:30 | (PDF) The Oulu Mining School: A New Approach to Educating the Next Generation of Geoscientists for the Mining Industry Prof. Holger Paulick, Economic Geology, Oulu Mining School, University of Oulu, Finland |
| 15:30 – 15:50 | (PDF) STRIM – The Swedish Research and Innovation Programme for Mining Industry Prof. Pär Weihed, Director CAMM, Vice Rector Mining, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden |
| 15:50 – 16:10 | (PDF) Tekes Green Mining Programme – Achievements of the Programme Kari Keskinen, Programme Manager, Tekes |
| 16:10 | Conference Closing |
Friday 6 November | |
| Post-Conference Excursions | |
| 07:45 – 16:15 | Kittilä Mine Agnico Eagle Finland Oy |
| 07:45 – 17:15 | Kevitsa Mine First Quantum Minerals Ltd |