PDAC 2023
Last Updated: 8th Mar 2023By Jolyon Ralph
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I'm in Toronto this week for the PDAC mining conference, where I hope to get more information and contacts and hopefully some sponsorship for mindat. If you're at PDAC please let me know!
MineAfrica brings various African mining ministries to Toronto, let's see if we can get more information on African minerals and mining.
National Mining Corporation of Cameroon have promised to send information for us.
Cassiterite from Cameroon
Chad and Mali.
Ontario booth.
Display of minerals from the Royal Ontario Museum
Gold from the Preston Mine
Fluorapatite
Silver.
Celestine
List of active mining projects
McLean Pipe diamonds
Johnson Tract deposit, Alaska.
3Metals are exploring in Jamaica
Tetrahedrite/tennantite from Jamaica
Getchell mine core with orpiment.
Realgar breccia
Poutine time
Starting day 2 at a breakfast event sponsored by the UK
British Minister Nusrat Ghani addressing the group.
With the Brits. Ed Loye and others!
Ed has a piece of Monazite in his pocket, of course. From Namibia. This is very low in thorium compared to many monazites hence it being an ore mineral of interest for Neodymium.
I've stopped by at the University of Waterloo booth to learn about their Earth Sciences Museum, meeting curator Corina McDonald.
GeologicAI have built a core scanner and server array into a trailer for portable AI-driven core log analysis.
Map of certain critical mineral occurrences in the EU (and Ukraine for some reason, but excluding the UK of course)
And a robot dog for some reason.
Mineral Map of India
Spectral Evolution are offering a portable Near IR spectrometer for mineral identification in the field, partially useful for the alteration phases in deposits.
Phosphonics a British company, have developed a product that can recover PGMs from mine waste solutions in very high efficiency.
Lithodat are showing their spatial data system which uses information from mindat (with permission!)
Big chunk of fluorite from the St. Lawrence mine, Newfoundland
Phosphonics a British company, have developed a product that can recover PGMs from mine waste solutions in very high efficiency.
Tonight I'm at the ROM for an event sponsored by Big Rock Exploration. I'll be back here on Thursday to do a fully detailed report on the Royal Ontario Museum mineral gallery!
This morning's free breakfast is sponsored by the European Union. A networking and business breakfast dedicated to securing raw materials for the green and digital transition.
Sara Modig, State Secretary, Ministry of Climate and Enterprise, Sweden is talking about Mineral Potential and exploration opportunities in Sweden.
Kimmo Tillikainen, Director General of the Geological Survey of Finland
Andrzej Gluszynsli, Deputy Director Polish Geological Institute.
Jean-François Gaillaud, Head of Mineral Resources Department French Ministry of the Ecological Transition discussing amongst other things the possibility of re-opening mining at the classic Cheesy deposit.
Ana Catarina Soares Gonçalves from Directorate General for Energy and Geology talking about secondary mining of mine waste at Panasqueira.
Iván Martin Méndez from the Spanish Geological Service.
One mineral dealer here, Grenville Minerals from Kingston, Ontario.
At the Student Minerals Colloquium poster session
Majuba Hill
Cr-Ni mineralisation in Quebec
The Gum Occurrence in the Yukon. Lots of weird mineralogy.
Isla Isla project, Bolivia
Tellurides and trace elements in pyrite from Abitibi VMS deposits.
The Cornubian batholith
A big drill. Hardrock Diamond Drilling
Relevant Gold has a new gold deposit in Wyoming. Rob Bergmann, a name familiar to many of you, has put on a display of the best gold here.
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