Workshops and Interactive Sessions
Québec Exploration 2010’s Monday November 22 workshop day provides a great opportunity to update your knowledge and gain new proficiency in a number of important areas of mining exploration. These workshops will be led by recognized professionals and highly competent researchers in their respective fields.
Don’t put off registering, as space is limited!
How to Communicate with Medias
Speakers: Bernard Motulsky and René Vézina
Salon Montcalm: 9 a.m.-Noon or 1-4 p.m.
Duration: Half day
The media is omnipresent in our world. We are continuously bombarded by information that can have a determinant effect on our lives. The delivery pipeline may change, but the influence of the media remains a constant. How can we get the upper hand instead of simply feeling squeezed out by the massive information flow?
The “How to Approach the Media” workshop will help demystify how this complex information galaxy works, and provide easy-to-use media success landmarks. More specifically, the workshop will:
- enable you to comprehend how the media functions and how journalists do their job;
- help you to learn how to approach the media and get their attention;
- teach you how to answer questions when the media knocks on your door.
At the end of the workshop, a practice session will demonstrate how to use the workshop lessons in a real-life context.
Listing on the Exchange and Key Success Factors
Speaker: Louis Doyle, TSX
Salon Québec: 9 a.m.-Noon (French) or 1-4 p.m. (English)
Duration: Half day
If you are an entrepreneur looking at ways to develop your mining projects, or are a part of a privately held corporation seeking to expand, the TXS Venture Index is a natural partner for you. This workshop will help you to understand the listing process and provide answers to many of your questions. Here are just a few of the subjects that will be discussed:
- market listing eligibility conditions;
- various listing options;
- minimum standards;
- corporate spin-off;
- obligations of a listed corporation;
- success factors.
High-Tech Minerals (Li, Be, Zr, Y, Sc, Rare Earths)
Workshop leaders: Iain Samson, University of Windsor,
Robert Linnen, University of Western Ontario and
Marc Constantin, Université Laval
Salon Laval: 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
Duration: Full day
This intensive 1-day course offers an overview of the geological features and origins of rare metal deposits, including rare earths, Li, Be, Zr, Nb and Ta. The demand for these high-tech metals stems from new applications and has brought about a growing interest in the discovery of new resources.
Operating in Treaty/Non Treaty Aboriginal Lands (French Only)
Speakers: Andrée-Anne Déry and Pierre Marcoux (MRNF)
Salon Saint-Louis: 9 a.m.-Noon or 1-4 p.m.
Duration: Half day
This workshop will enable you to better understand the past, current and future relations between Aboriginals and the rest of Québec society. It also includes an overview of what elements of Aboriginal society need to be taken into account in the framework of natural resource development in areas subject to the Northern agreements, as well as in other parts of Québec. The roles played by the Government of Québec, promoters and Aboriginal communities in relation to development projects, as well as the contextual relationships between the various actors will be specifically discussed during the workshop.
Notice to attendees who registered by mail Since the registration form was mailed in May 2010, the duration of the Operating in Treaty/Non Treaty Aboriginal Lands workshops has been updated. The workshop will in fact be half-day, not full day, and be offered both in the morning and the afternoon. Caroline Nadeau, who is in charge of registration, will contact you to see which of the two times suits you best. |
CONSOREM Tools and Applications (French only)
Speakers: Stéphane Faure, Sylvain Trépanier, Hugues Longuépée, Benoit Lafrance, Silvain Rafini
and Réal Daigneault
Suite des Gouverneurs: 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
Duration: Full day
This full-day workshop provides all the time needed to present the tools that have been developed or improved on by CONSOREM in recent years. The first half of the workshop covers various modeling tools such as:
- the use of seismic tomography for diamond and Cu-Ni exploration and for greenstone belt metallogenesis;
- the use of paleo-pressure modeling for orogenic gold in Abitibi; and
- the use of neural networks to predict mineral potential.
The second half of the workshop will be devoted to various geochemical tools like:
- analyzing predicted mass modeling changes (new CONSOREM method);
- a new carbonate discrimination diagram; and
- a Ni-Cu mineralization fertility diagram.
A new vision of Grenville Ni-Cu potential will be presented at the end of the workshop.
Interactive sessions
Our interactive sessions are designed to allow an exchange of ideas on topical mining industry subjects.
This year, the important changes brought in by the draft bill amending the Mining Act will be on the agenda, to clarify the ways, means and challenges of the new rules.
Support for mining companies and mine site recovery activity will also be featured in the interactive sessions, with other topics of interest to be confirmed in the near future.
