FEM 2025 programme
Presentation slides (PDF) are also published on this page
FEM Conference focuses on exploration and mining. Therefore FEM invites speakers from exploration and mining companies, research institutes, academia, authorities and geological surveys. All presentations are by invitation only (no open call for abstracts). Talks from service industry are not invited unless they are not mandated by an exploration and mining company.
There are several other events concentrating on mining technology and processing industry. The Fennoscandian Exploration and Mining (FEM), on the other hand, has from the very beginning focused mainly on exploration and mine development.
FEM 2025 Main topics
- How does the EU’s critical raw materials act respond to sustainability?
- Implementation of CRMA at national level.
- Beyond the surface: technological advances in exploration and mining.
Venue info
- Conference venue: Levi Summit Event Centre & Hotel Levi Panorama
- Technical sessions: Auditorium, Levi Summit (1st floor)
- Trade show area A: Levi Summit (1st floor)
- Trade show area B: Levi Summit (ground floor)
- Trade show area C: Hotel Panorama (1st floor)
- Lunches: Restaurant Panorama (1st & 2nd floor)
- Pre-conference short course venue: Hotel Hullu Poro, Levi
- Fennoscandian Mining Night venue: Restaurant World, Levi Hotel Spa
Programme schedule may be subject to change.
All times are in Eastern European Time EET (UTC +2).
Monday 27 October 2025 | |
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| 11:30-18:00 | Pre-conference short course – Introduction to IoGas and Applied geochemistry of ore deposits |
| 11:30-18:00 | Pre-conference short course – Geophysics applied to targeting |
Tuesday 28 October 2025 | |
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| 08:30-16:30 | Pre-conference short course – Introduction to IoGas and Applied geochemistry of ore deposits (cont.) |
| 08:30-16:30 | Pre-conference short course – Geophysics applied to targeting (cont.) |
| 09:00-16:00 | Pre-conference short course – Sustainability reporting – obligations and voluntary practices |
| 12:00-16:00 | Side event: The Age of Minerals – Celebrating UK-Finland Collaboration in Minerals and Mining |
| 12:00- | Conference registration Levi Summit Event Centre (1st floor) |
| 16:00-17:00 | Welcome coffee/tea, trade show areas A, B & C |
| 17:00-19:30 | Conference and trade show opening |
| Chair: Jani Lösönen, Managing Director, Agnico Eagle Finland Oy Co-chair: Hannu Takkula, Regional Governor, Regional Council of Lapland, Finland | |
| 17:00-17:20 | (PDF) Welcoming words Hannu Takkula, Regional Governor, Regional Council of Lapland |
| 17:20-18:00 | (PDF) Keynote: Selling planet earth: geology for sustainable development Iain Stewart, El Hassan Research Chair for Sustainability, UNESCO Chair in Geoscience and Society – Professor of Geoscience Communication, Sustainable Earth Institute, University of Plymouth, UK |
| 18:00-18:30 | (PDF) Keynote: Propelling Canadian mineral explorers – connecting strategies to real-world impacts Karen Rees, PDAC President, Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada |
| 18:30-19:00 | Mining the Truth: From dark, dirty and dangerous to significant, strategic, and sustainable – redefining the Nordic mining narrative Hanna Junttila, Chair of the Board, Women in Mining Finland Association Emma Härdmark, Director of Communications, Svemin / Women in Mining Sweden WiM Finland gives the equality prize called Louhi |
| 19:00-19:15 | Fennoscandian Mining Award and FEM Special Award |
| 19:15-19:30 | Agnico Eagle Award |
| 19:30-22:00 | Ice-breaker Party, trade show areas A, B & C |
Wednesday 29 October 2025 | |
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| 07:45-08:50 | Funding our future: A Breakfast event with Borenius and FEM Restaurant Panorama (2nd floor), by invitation only |
| 09:00-18:00 | Conference and Trade show |
| Chair: Linda Smids, Advisor, Sustainability and Communications, Finnish Mining Association, FinnMin Co-chair: Elsi Malkki, Communications and Community Relations Manager, Agnico Eagle Finland Oy, FinnMin | |
| 09:00-09:20 | Main sponsor’s address Elsi Malkki, Communications and Community Relations Manager, Agnico Eagle Finland Oy, FinnMin |
| 09:20-09:50 | (PDF) Keynote: Challenges of till geochemistry in gold exploration Esa Sandberg, Geologist, retired |
| 09:50-10:10 | (PDF) LKAB mineral assets and strategic projects Ian Cope, Vice President Exploration, LKAB, Sweden |
| 10:10-10:40 | Coffee/tea, trade show areas A, B & C |
| Chair: Åsa Allan, Chief of Staff, Director, Boliden Mineral AB, Sweden Co-chair: Teemu Törmälehto, Head of section, Boliden Kevitsa, Finland, FinnMin | |
| 10:40-11:00 | (PDF) Ambassador’s address: Canadas role in the Critical Minerals supply chain Patrick Hébert, Ambassador to Finland, Embassy of Canada |
| 11:00-11:20 | Fäbodtjärn, Swedens newest mine – experiences from startup first year of production Fredrik Bergsten, CEO, Botnia Gold AB, Sweden |
| 11:20-11:40 | (PDF) Upside copper exploration in the context of the Viscaria mine development Marcello Imaña, Chief Geologist, Gruvaktiebolaget Viscaria, Sweden |
| 11:40-12:00 | (PDF) Anglo American’s Sakatti Project – A strategic project of EU supplying critical minerals through responsible operation Allan Rodel, SVP Project execution, Anglo American |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch, Restaurant Panorama (1st & 2nd floor) |
| 12:00-13:30 | Student – Industry Networking Luncheon Sky Bar (7th floor), by invitation only |
| Session host: Maria Sunér, CEO, SveMin | |
| 13:30-14:00 | Keynote: A banking perspective on exploration and mining projects focusing on E&S and other critical aspects Natasha Svaneby, Director Project Finance, Swedish Export Credit Corporation |
| 14:00-14:20 | (PDF) How royalties have improved the mining cluster in the region. A very biased view on the region. Johannes Holzäpfel, Exploration Manager – Europe, EMX Royalty Corp./EMX Scandinavia AB, Sweden |
| 14:20-15:10 | Panel: Sustainability and social discourse Host, Maria Sunér, CEO, SveMin Noora Ahola, President, CEO and Director, Mawson Finland Limited Natasha Svaneby, Director Project Finance, Swedish Export Credit Corporation Lia Heasman, Ph.D. (Law), ESG Counsel, Castrén & Snellman Attorneys Ltd. |
| 15:10-15:40 | Coffee/tea, trade show areas A, B & C |
| Chair: Joanna Kuntonen-van’t Riet, Corporate Affairs Finland, Anglo American Co-chair: Tero Niiranen, Research Professor, Geological Survey of Finland | |
| 15:40-16:10 | (PDF) Keynote: Sustainable Mining – opportunities and expectations for policies to implement the CRMA Dr. Florian Anderhuber, Deputy Director General, Energy, Climate, Sustainability, Euromines |
| 16:10-16:30 | Status update on the Nussir deposit Øystein Rushfeldt, Country Manager, Blue Moon Norway AS |
| 16:30-16:50 | (PDF) Bambra Oy – Prospech Limited: Finland’s newest REE Resource Estimate Jason Beckton, Managing Director, Prospech Limited, Australia |
| 16:50-17:10 | (PDF) FinEx Metals: Greenfield exploration towards discovery in Finnish Lapland Eetu Jokela, Project Manager, FinEx Metals Ltd. |
| 17:10-18:00 | Trade show areas A, B & C |
| 19:00- | Fennoscandian Mining Night Restaurant World, Levi Hotel Spa (1st floor) |
Thursday 30 October 2025 | |
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| 09:30-16:20 | Conference and Trade show |
| Chair: Miia Mikkonen, Project Development Manager, Sokli Oy Co-chair: Tobias Bauer, PhD, Professor, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden | |
| 09:30-09:50 | Engebøfjellet – Norway’s first new mine in nearly 40 years Andreas Davidsen, Chief Commercial Officer, Nordic Mining ASA |
| 09:50-10:10 | (PDF) Not in my neighbourhood: How Norwegian NIMBYism threatens European Sovereignty and Norwegian Democracy Elisabeth Gammelsæter, Senior Advisor, Sweco Norway, former Secretary General of Norsk Bergindustri/Norwegian Mineral Industry |
| 10:10-10:30 | (PDF) Advancing high-grade gold and copper projects in Finland and Norway Eric Roth, PhD, President & CEO, Capella Minerals Ltd |
| 10:30-10:50 | (PDF) Building a graphite anode supply chain in Europe Tom Kearney, Manager Studies, Talga Group |
| 10:50-12:20 | Lunch, Restaurant Panorama (1st & 2nd floor) |
| Chair: Laura Lauri, Section Manager Field Exploration, LKAB Co-chair: Iain Henderson, Senior Structural Geologist, Geological Survey of Norway | |
| 12:20-12:50 | (PDF) Keynote: Tracking magmatic fractionation in Ni-Cu-PGE-Au bearing mafic and ultramafic rocks using immobile trace elements Scott Halley, Consultant, Mineral Mapping Pty Ltd, CODES, University of Tasmania, Australia |
| 12:50-13:10 | (PDF) How are surveys responding to CRMA? Hannu Lahtinen, Director of Availability of Raw Materials, Geological Survey of Finland Kaj Lax, PhD, Head of Department, Mineral Resources, Geological Survey of Sweden Henrik Schiellerup, PhD, Director, Resources and Environment, Geological Survey of Norway |
| 13:10-13:30 | (PDF) Mineral exploration in indigenous areas – acting as a guest and gaining social acceptance Kjell Magne Gronnli, Country Manager, Kingsrose Mining Ltd |
| 13:30-13:50 | (PDF) Prospectivity of magmatic Ni-Cu-PGE deposits in Norway Eduardo Mansur, Researcher, Geological Survey of Norway |
| 13:50-14:10 | (PDF) Creating the Leading Nordic Gold Developer: First Nordic Metals + Mawson Merger Russell Bradford, CEO, First Nordic Metals |
| 14:10-14:40 | Coffee/tea, trade show areas A, B & C |
| Chair: Elina Friman, Process Engineer, Hannukainen Mining Oy Co-chair: Juhani Ojala, PhD, Chief Geoscientist, GeoPool and Aurion Resources Ltd. | |
| 14:40-15:10 | (PDF) Keynote: Valuing time and how some of the latest technologies are compressing timelines to fast track and de-risk new discoveries and mines – case studies in Finland with Oulu Mining School Simon Bolster, Managing Director, Portable PPB Pty Ltd, Australia |
| 15:10-15:30 | Sokli – The next leap: Pilot operations and revealing untapped REEsources Pasi Heino, Project Director, Sokli Oy |
| 15:30-15:50 | (PDF) Karelian Gold Line: insights from Endomines recent discoveries Loïc Salesses, Exploration manager, Endomines Oy |
| 15:50-16:10 | (PDF) Structurally enhanced, team-driven prospectivity analysis reveals gold targets in Central Lapland Nick Oliver, Consultant, HCOVGlobal, James Cook University |
| 16:10-16:20 | Closing remarks Iain Henderson, Senior Structural Geologist, Geological Survey of Norway |
Friday 31 October 2025 | |
| 07:45-15:30 | Post-conference excursion – Agnico Eagle Finland Oy’s Kittilä Mine |
| 07:45-20:30 | Post-conference excursion – Boliden Kevitsa mine and Rupert Resources Ltd. & Ikkari Rupert Lapland Project Finland |