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Mr. Boyd serves as the Chair of the Board of Agnico Eagle Mines Limited. Prior to this role, he was the Executive Chair of the Board from February 2022 until his retirement in December 2023, and Vice Chairman and Agnico Eagle's CEO from 1998 to 2022. Before his appointment as CEO, Mr. Boyd served as the Chief Financial Officer from 1990 to 1998 and Comptroller from 1985 to 1990.
During Mr. Boyd's tenure as CEO, Agnico Eagle grew from a small, single mine gold producer to a multi-mine international gold mining company. In December 2020, the Globe and Mail ROB Magazine recognized him as its Global Visionary of the Year CEO. He was recognized as The Northern Miner's Mining Person of the Year in 2007 and 2017, and appeared on the list of The Best-Performing CEOs in the World in the Harvard Business Review in 2010, 2016 and 2017. In 2019, Mr. Boyd was recognized by the Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario (CPA Ontario) as a Fellow, the highest honour bestowed upon a CPA within the accounting profession. In 2021, he received the degree Doctor of Laws honoris causa, from St. Francis Xavier University (Nova Scotia).
Mr. Boyd served on the Board of Directors of The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation (2013-2022). He has also served on the Boards of the World Gold Council and the St. Francis Xavier University Board of Governors.
Prior to joining Agnico Eagle in 1985, Mr. Boyd was an accountant with Clarkson Gordon (Ernst & Young). He is a Fellow Chartered Professional Accountant (FCPA, FCA) and a graduate of the University of Toronto (B.Comm.).
Paul Brink is President & Chief Executive Officer and a director of Franco-Nevada. Prior to his appointment as CEO, Mr. Brink served as President & Chief Operating Officer of Franco-Nevada from May 2018 to May 2020. He has been with Franco-Nevada since its initial public offering in 2007 and successfully led its business development activities as SVP, Business Development from 2008 until his promotion to President & Chief Operating Officer in 2018. Mr. Brink is active with a number of not-for-profit organizations. He previously had roles in corporate development at Newmont, investment banking at BMO Nesbitt Burns and project financing at UBS. Mr. Brink holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Witwatersrand and a Master’s degree in Management Studies from Oxford University.
Don Durrett received an MBA from California State University Bakersfield in 1990. He has worked in IT related positions for 20+ years. He has been a gold investor since 1991, with a focus on Junior Mining stocks since 2004. Realizing the value of investing in gold and silver, and noticing the lack of available material for first time investors, Don set out to provide information. First he wrote a book, How to Invest in Gold & Silver: A Complete Guide with a Focus on Mining Stocks. This was followed by a website (www.goldstockdata.com) to provide data, tools, and analysis for gold and silver stock investors. His gold and silver mining stock newsletter is regarded as one of the best. He is a frequent guest on financial podcasts and a contributor to SeekingAlpha.com.
Author of How to Invest in Gold & Silver: With a Focus on Mining Stocks. A textbook on how to analyze and understand gold and silver mining stocks.
Founder and owner of GoldStockdata.com.
Contributor to Seeking Alpha. He was ranked the #1 performing analyst in August 2025.
90,000 followers on X (@dondurrett).
Substantial following on his Substack and YouTube channels.
Frequent guest on numerous podcasts.
Co-host with John Feneck on the Feneck Commodity Report podcast.
Paul Ferneyhough was appointed Executive Vice President, Strategy and Chief Financial Officer in September 2026. Since joining the Company in May 2021, Mr. Ferneyhough has held a series of senior leadership roles, including Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy and Commercial Officer, Senior Vice President, Chief Strategy & Commercial Officer, and Senior Vice President, Chief Growth & Integration Officer.
Before joining Eldorado, Mr. Ferneyhough spent nearly two decades with Repsol SA (and Talisman Energy), most recently as Executive Director, leading Repsol’s North American upstream oil and gas division. He also held progressively senior leadership roles in corporate, line and functional areas including finance, investor relations, strategy, commercial, planning, and business performance management. Mr. Ferneyhough is a Qualified Chartered Accountant (ICAEW) and has a Bachelor of Science (Hons) in physics from Durham University, United Kingdom.
Phillip Mackey grew up and studied in Australia but made his metallurgical mark in Canada. He was a major force behind the development of two new processes used in smelters today to treat copper concentrates and recycled materials. He earned his BSc (Hons) from the University of New South Wales in 1964 and completed his PhD at its School of Metallurgy in 1969. He then moved to Montreal to join the Noranda Research Centre. He played a major role in commercializing the Noranda Reactor Process, first implemented at the Horne smelter in Quebec in 1973 and then used elsewhere in the world. He later co-invented the Noranda Converting Process to improve the environmental performance of copper converters. The reactor process went on to treat so far an estimated 80 million tonnes of copper concentrate globally, while the converting process has produced more than five million tonnes of metallic copper since 2000. A Fellow of both CIM (Canada) and TMS (USA), Mackey received the Selwyn G. Blaylock Medal of CIM in 2010, The COM Silver Medal in 2006, and in 2012, he won the Airey Award, the most prestigious award for a metallurgist in Canada. Mackey is a co-founder of the Copper-Cobre conferences, which expanded from a joint Canadian-Chilean enterprise to embrace the entire global copper industry. Mackey is on the Board of Hazen Research of Denver, USA. The Phillip Mackey Symposium was held in his honour at the 2019 Copper Conference in Vancouver. He presented the TMS Extractive & Processing Division Distinguished Lecture in 2020 and received the John Elliott Lectureship Award of the Association for Iron and Steel Technology for 2021-2022. He was a Distinguished Lecturer for CIM in 2022-2023. He was inducted into the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame in 2022 for his work on copper and nickel.
He formed his own consulting company after leaving Xstrata and this has led to a wide range of projects worldwide, including work on the development of new nickel projects and nickel-copper projects. He sees Canada entering a new era for investment and development in mining and metallurgical projects; using his wide store of knowledge in mining and metallurgy, Mackey is helping to grow new projects in Canada.
John McCluskey is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Alamos Gold Inc. and has held this position since 2003, when he co-founded the Company with mining hall of famer Chester Millar. He is also a Director of the World Gold Council. In 2023, Mr. McCluskey received the Viola R. MacMillan Award, given by the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada for showing leadership and a willingness to take risks in the acquisition and development of the Island Gold mine in Northern Ontario. In 2018, he received the Murray Pezim Award for Perseverance and Success in Financing Mineral Exploration by the British Columbia Association for Mineral Exploration, in recognition of his role in the acquisition, financing, and encouragement of successive discoveries at Mulatos, as well as his ongoing success as CEO of Alamos. Mr. McCluskey was also named Ontario’s 2012 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of The Year, based on a judging panel’s assessment of financial performance, vision, leadership, innovation, personal integrity and influence, social responsibility, and entrepreneurial spirit.
Rob is the Chairman and Chief Owner of McEwen Mining, which has three producing mines in Nevada, Ontario, and Argentina and holds 48% interest in the large Los Azules copper project in Argentina. Rob has been associated with the gold industry all his career, his first 18 years in the investment industry and since 1990 as CEO of several gold mining companies.
Rob is the founder of Goldcorp, where he took the company from a market capitalization of $50 million to over $8 billion. With a cost of investment in McEwen Mining (NYSE, TSX: MUX) and McEwen Copper of US$225 million, he owns 16.1% of MUX, 13.2% of McEwen Copper and takes a salary of $1/ year.
Rob and his wife, Cheryl, have donated over $60 million to encourage excellence and innovation in healthcare and education.
Rob was awarded the Order of Canada in 2007, the Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee Award in 2013, was inducted into the Mining Hall of Fame in 2017 and has Honorary Doctor of Law Degrees from York University and Western University.
He is also a member of the Dean’s Advisory Board, Schulich School of Business; X Prize Foundation: Vision Circle and Board of Trustees; a member of CEO (Chief Executive Organization) and of WPO (World Presidents’ Organization) and serves on the Advisory Board of the McEwen School of Architecture.
Andrew Snowden was appointed as President and CEO of Torex in June 2026, having previously served as CFO since January 2021. He is a senior mining executive with 25 years of international corporate experience. Before joining Torex, Mr. Snowden served as Senior Vice President and CFO at Sherritt International Corporation, a multinational mining company with its primary operations in North America, Africa and the Caribbean. There he provided leadership in all areas of business and financial management including strategic planning, performance measurement, debt and equity financing and corporate development.
Prior to joining Sherritt in 2012, Mr. Snowden gained 12 years of experience at Ernst & Young in the UK, Australia, and Canada. He is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CA) and has a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Durham in England. Mr. Snowden is also a Certified Director from the ICD-Rotman Directors Education Program and serves as a Director of Torex.
I have worked in the asset manager business for more than 30 years. In 2019 I founded AuAg Funds, with the launch of our flag ship fund AuAg Silver Bullet. AuAg Funds is a true boutique asset manager, now with four funds, all within the mining & metals sector.
The funds have over 130 000 investors through banks and other investment platforms and in the beginning of 2026 the firm reached an AUM of 1.2B USD. Thanks to strong returns and inflows AuAg has today become a substantial owner in many mining companies.
My background as a national team fencer during the 80s and 90s, with World Cup competitions, the European Championships, the World Championships, and the Olympics have characterized me with qualities such as discipline, focus, and determination.
My favorite academic subject has always been mathematics, especially discrete mathematics. As a counterweight to the impulses from Wall Street, I find a diametrical force in my passion for yoga. Tough physical yoga – a meditation in motion.
Patrick Elliott brings 26+ years of experience in mineral exploration, resource sector finance, and project evaluation. He is an economic geologist with a BSc in Geology from the University of Western Ontario, an MSc in Mineral Economics, and an MBA in Finance from Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Australia.
Mr. Elliott currently also serves as:
His international experience spans North and South America and the Former Soviet Union, where he has contributed to multiple exploration and development initiatives. Notable past roles include project geologist positions on feasibility-stage assets, including Perpetua’s Stibnite Gold Project in Idaho, USA, and Teck Resources’ Zafranal Cu-Au porphyry project in Peru.
Since entering Peru in 2005, Mr. Elliott and his core team at Globetrotters have generated a portfolio of copper and gold assets with potential tier-1 and tier-2 characteristics.
Mr. Elliott specializes in economic project evaluation, financial modeling, CAPEX estimation, and mining finance as applied to mineral exploration and resource development. His broad network spans retail and institutional investors, corporate finance professionals, research analysts, and venture capital groups, making him a key connector in the junior mining ecosystem.
Jessie Liu-Ernsting is Chief Corporate Development Officer at FireFly Metals (ASX, TSX: FFM), leading strategy, corporate development, and investor relations. A professional engineer with 20 years’ experience across engineering, finance, and capital markets, she has held senior roles spanning technical, financial, and strategic capacities in the global mining industry. Previously, Jessie was VP Investor Relations at G Mining Ventures, where she was a part of the team that grew the company from a $200M developer into a C$4.7B producer, establishing its inaugural IR program, securing US$481M in project financing, and supporting its C$875M merger with Reunion Gold. Earlier, as inaugural VP of Corporate Development & IR at a junior explorer, she helped delivering 14x share price growth in its first year. Jessie also worked with Resource Capital Funds, CIBC Corporate Banking, structuring over $4B of financings across 23 commodities and six continents. She serves on the boards of Andean Silver Ltd (ASX:ASL), Aston Bay Holdings (TSXV:BAY) and the PDAC.
Melissa Mackie is Vice President, Investor Relations & Communications at Gunnison Copper (TSX: GCU | OTCQB: GCUMF | FSE: 3XS0), leading the Company's investor relations, corporate communications, marketing, and stakeholder engagement strategy. With 15 years of experience across investor relations, corporate communications, and capital markets, she has held leadership roles spanning communications, corporate strategy, and investor engagement within the global mining industry. Previously, Melissa was Director, Investor Relations & Communications at Denarius Metals, where she led the Company's investor relations and communications strategy during a period of project advancement and capital markets growth. Earlier, she spent more than a decade with an executive team leading a mid-tier gold producer, as well as an oil and gas producer, supporting across investor relations, corporate communications, ESG reporting, digital strategy, and corporate branding. Throughout her career, Melissa has built award-winning communications programs, strengthened engagement with institutional and retail investors, and helped mining companies enhance their visibility and credibility within the global investment community.
Corporate Profile
Gunnison Copper Corp. (TSX: GCU | OTCQB: GCUMF | FSE: 3XS0) is a U.S.-focused copper producer and developer advancing one of North America's most compelling copper growth stories. The Company is currently producing copper cathode at its Johnson Camp Mine in Arizona, one of America's newest copper producers, while advancing its flagship Gunnison Project - a large-scale, low-cost, open-pit heap leach development with the potential to become a meaningful long-term source of domestically produced copper in the United States.
Located in Arizona's Cochise Mining District, Gunnison controls a district-scale land package with 12 known deposits and significant exploration upside. The Company is advancing its flagship Gunnison Project through an extensive drilling, metallurgical, and permitting program designed to further de-risk the project and support future development.
As demand for copper continues to accelerate, driven by electrification, artificial intelligence, data centres, grid modernization, infrastructure investment, national security, and advanced manufacturing, Gunnison is well positioned to play an important role in strengthening North America's domestic copper supply. Backed by an experienced leadership team, strategic partnerships, and a strong technical foundation, the Company is executing a disciplined growth strategy focused on unlocking the full potential of one of Arizona's most prospective copper districts while creating long-term value for shareholders.
Jean-Félix is a mining engineer with over 15 years of experience in operations and project development. He is the former CEO of OVI Mining and VP of Projects at O3 Mining, where he advanced the Marban Project. He previously occupied multiple metallurgy and operation roles at Newmont where he led underground operations at the Éléonore Mine.
Keith was appointed Chief Executive Officer of New Found Gold in January 2025, bringing with him 40 years of experience in the mining industry, including the last 19 years as a C-Suite executive within precious and base metals companies. His work has encompassed both open-pit and underground mines across North America and internationally, with assignments across Australia and Africa. Previously, Mr. Boyle served as Chief Operating Officer at Reunion Gold Corporation, where he fast-tracked the development of the high-grade gold Oko West Project in Guyana, leading to its acquisition by G Mining Ventures Corporation for $870 million. Throughout his career, Keith has demonstrated expertise in project development, technical studies, stakeholder relations, operational optimization, cost control, and budget management to drive and improve financial performance. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Mining Engineering and an MBA from the University of Alberta. Mr. Boyle is also a member of the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario and the Professional Engineers & Geoscientists of Newfoundland & Labrador.
Christopher H. Hopkins is a Canadian natural resources professional with over 40 years of management experience building and leading companies in upstream oil and gas, non-conventional oil extraction, and critical minerals. A pioneer in unconventional resource development, his work has evolved from traditional fossil fuels to the emerging critical metals driving the global energy transition.
His career experience brings a unique combination of environmental stewardship and strategic business acumen. Hopkins is the current President and Chief Executive O icer of Canadian Energy Metals Corp., a private company with an unencumbered 100% interest in the Thor Project, advancing the development of its alumina resource and associated metals.
Mr. Foulkes has over 25 years of experience as both a successful explorer and manager of corporate development and investor relations programs for Canadian and US public companies. During this time he has helped raise over $150M for mineral exploration and development projects around the world.
Mr. Foulkes’ former corporate activities included managing the corporate development and investor relations programs of Candente Copper, Platinum Group Metals, and MAG Silver. He also served as the Manager of Corporate Development, and was actively involved in the investor relations programs for West Timmins Mining prior to their 2009 acquisition by Lakeshore Gold.
Before his corporate roles, Mr. Foulkes had a notable seven year career in mineral exploration, including leading the teams that discovered the Jericho and Gahcho Kué diamond mines in the Canadian Arctic. He holds Bachelor degrees in Geology and Education from the University of British Columbia.
Spencer Cole is a mining executive and engineer with more than 25 years’ experience across the global resources sector, spanning project development, operational leadership, finance and corporate transactions. Most recently, he served as Chief Development Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Xanadu Mines Ltd (ASX: XAM), playing a key role in advancing the Kharmagtai copper-gold project in Mongolia prior to its acquisition by Boroo Mining in 2025.I have worked in the asset manager business for more than 30 years. In 2019 I founded AuAg Funds, with the launch of our flag ship fund AuAg Silver Bullet. AuAg Funds is a true boutique asset manager, now with four funds, all within the mining & metals sector.
The funds have over 130 000 investors through banks and other investment platforms and in the beginning of 2026 the firm reached an AUM of 1.2B USD. Thanks to strong returns and inflows AuAg has today become a substantial owner in many mining companies.
My background as a national team fencer during the 80s and 90s, with World Cup competitions, the European Championships, the World Championships, and the Olympics have characterized me with qualities such as discipline, focus, and determination.
My favorite academic subject has always been mathematics, especially discrete mathematics. As a counterweight to the impulses from Wall Street, I find a diametrical force in my passion for yoga. Tough physical yoga – a meditation in motion.
As President of The Northern Miner Group, Anthony has overall responsibility for some of the mining industry’s most distinguished media brands including: The Northern Miner, Canadian Mining Journal and MINING.com. Anthony holds the CFA designation, has an MBA in Investment Management and serves on the board of The Canadian Mining Hall of Fame.
Colin McClelland is Editor-in-Chief of The Northern Miner after starting there in 2022. He’s covered the Angolan civil war for Reuters; African oil, mining, hedge funds, private equity and banks for Bloomberg News; and run Associated Press coverage in Canada. Along the way there have been stints at the CBC and The Financial Post. He’s from Toronto.
While minerals and metals represent the cornerstone of the energy transition, the sector must embrace and embed responsible mining, environmental stewardship, innovation and business model transformation. Theo leads the EY organization’s Metals & Mining practice across the Americas to enable that kind of compelling transformation industrywide.
Theo brings more than two decades of experience fostering business transformation and technology innovation across the industry to support core business excellence and enterprise growth. Before joining EY for the second time, he was Vice President of Digital Innovation at a major mining player, where he enabled the company’s digital transformation. Bilingual in English and French, Theo has gained invaluable mining experience in Canada and abroad, applying his engineering and business skills.
A professional mining engineer in Ontario, Theo also holds a PhD in Rock Mechanics from École Polytechnique de Montréal, and a Master of Business Administration with Distinction from the University of Oxford.
How Theo is building a better working world
“I’m proud to support industry executives who are looking to lead the energy transition by optimizing and decarbonizing the metals and minerals value chain. This approach helps them not only thrive, but also anticipate and navigate — with agility — the evolving market signals for supply and demand.
Working through the EY Americas Metals & Mining Centre of Excellence, I lead innovation and co-creation to help our clients unlock opportunities. This enables them to meet and exceed stakeholders’ and shareholders’ expectations and ambitions. By driving these initiatives, I’m building a better working world, fostering sustainable growth, and advancing the global shift to cleaner energy solutions.”
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8:30am – 9:00am | 30 min | Registration & Breakfast | Anthony Vaccaro |
9:00am – 9:10am | 10 min | Welcome Remarks | |
9:10am – 9:15am | 5 min | Breakfast Sponsor Remarks | |
9:15am – 9:55am | 40 min | Breakfast with Don -Keynote Fireside Chat - Don Durrett | |
10:00am – 10:15am | 15 min | Investor Presentation - First Mining Gold | |
10:20am – 11:05am | 45 min | Atlantic Canada Panel Discussion (time subject to change) | |
11:10am – 11:30am | 20 min | Fireside Chat with Paul Brink | |
11:35am – 11:50am | 15 min | Investor Presentation - Amex Gold Mining Inc. | |
11:55am – 12:20pm | 25 min | LUNCH BREAK | |
12:25pm – 12:50pm | 25 min | Champion Sponsor Fireside Chat - Alamos Gold | |
12:50pm – 1:05pm | 15 min | Investor Presentation - TDG Gold | |
1:10pm – 1:30pm | 20 min | Presentation Phillip Mackey | |
1:35pm – 1:50pm | 15 min | Investor Presentation - FireFly Metals | |
1:55pm – 2:10pm | 15 min | Investor Presentation - Perseverance Metals | |
2:15 PM – 2:25pm | 10 min | TNM Person of the Year: Award presentation and remarks | |
2:30pm – 3:15pm | 45 min | Award Winners Panel discussion | |
3:20pm – 3:35pm | 15 min | Investor Presentation - Coyote Copper Mines Inc. | |
3:40pm – 3:55pm | 15 min | Investor Presentation - Sirios Resources | |
4:00pm – 4:15pm | 15 min | Investor Presentation - US Antimony | |
4:20pm – 4:40pm | 20 min | Champion Sponsor Fireside Chat - New Found Gold | |
4:45pm – 5:10pm | 25 min | Lifetime Achievement Award - Sean Boyd | |
5:15pm - 5:20pm | 5 min | Closing Remarks | |
5:25pm - 6:25pm | 1 Hour | Cocktail Reception |
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8:30am -9:00am | 30 min | Registration & Breakfast | |
9:00am – 9:05am | 5 min | Welcome Remarks - Anthony | |
9:05am – 9:20am | 15 min | Investor Presentation - Bold Ventures | |
9:25am – 9:35am | 15 min | Investor Presentation - Bravo Mining Corp. | |
9:40am – 10:20am | 35 min | Province of Ontario Panel Discussion (time subject to change) | |
10:20am – 10:35am | 15 min | Investor Presentation - Canadian Energy Metals | |
10:40am – 11:00am | 20 min | Champion Fireside Chat - Dundee Sustainable Technologies | |
11:05am – 11:20am | 15 min | Investor Presentation - Alvear Tungsten | |
11:25am – 11:35am | 15 min | Investor Presentation - First Phosphate | |
11:40am – 12:25pm | 40 min | Champion Fireside Chat - Pursuit Minerals | |
12:25pm – 12:40pm | 15 min | Investor Presentation - Midnight Sun | |
12:40pm – 1:00pm | 20 min | LUNCH BREAK | |
1:05pm – 1:25pm | 20 min | Champion Fireside Chat - Lahontan Gold Corp | |
1:30pm – 1:50pm | 15 min | Investor Presentation - Forte Minerals | |
1:50pm – 2:05pm | 15 min | Investor Presentation - Renforth Resources | |
2:10pm – 2:30pm | 20 min | Champion Fireside Chat - Spanish Mountain | |
2:35pm – 2:50pm | 15 min | BREAK | |
2:55pm – 3:10pm | 15 min | Investor Presentation - Gunnison Copper | |
3:15pm – 3:35pm | 20 min | Champion Fireside Chat - Li-Ft Power | |
3:40pm – 3:55pm | 15 min | Investor Presentation - Scottie Resources | |
4:00pm – 4:40pm | 40 min | Executive Panel Discussion | |
4:45pm – 4:55pm | 10 min | Closing Remarks | |
5:00pm - 6:00pm | 1 Hour | Cocktail Reception |
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