The industrial minerals supply chain from mine to market examined:

• Insight and discussion on where industrial minerals markets and innovations are heading

• Spotlight on primary and growth market sectors

• Understanding industry fundamentals: resource, processing, logistics, and markets

MONDAY 12 APRIL

17.00 Registration
18.00 Welcome Reception

TUESDAY 13 APRIL 

08.00 Registration

KEYNOTES 1: CRITICAL MINERALS | LOGISTICS
09.00 Introduction & Overview
Ismene Clarke, Director, & Mike O’Driscoll, Director, IMFORMED, UK
09.30 The security of critical mineral supply chains: the US Federal Government policy perspective
Dr Steven Fortier, Senior Policy Advisor, Executive Office of the President, Office of Science and Technology Policy, USA
10.00 Future trends & developments in port logistics for industrial minerals
Pim Steenhuis, Commercial Manager Dry Bulk, Port of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

10.30 COFFEE

PRICING: STRATEGY | LITHIUM
11.30 Transforming strategy into cash in the industrial mineral sector
Miguel Galindo, Managing Director, Strateg-On, Spain
12.00 Creating reference & benchmark pricing for lithium in the 21st Century electric vehicle supply chain
Simon Moores, Managing Director, Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, UK

12.30 LUNCH

RARE EARTHS | TI-MINERALS | BAUXITE
14.00 Rare earths & other critical minerals: what’s the score?
Alison Saxby, Director-Operations, Roskill, UK
14.30 Titanium minerals supply & demand
Gerry Colamarino, Managing Director, TiPMC Consulting, USA
15.00 First Bauxite: new source from Guyana in a class of its own
John Karson, VP Sales and Marketing, First Bauxite LLC, USA

15.30 COFFEE

RESOURCES | AFRICA | GRAPHITE
16.00 Reporting resources & reserves for industrial minerals projects: trends & challenges
Mike Armitage, Corporate Consultant (Resource Geology), SRK Consulting, UK
16.30 Industrial minerals in Sudan: an example of Africa’s untapped potential
André Tahon, Exploration Manager, DAL Mining, & Mohammed Osman, CEO, Alara Mining, Sudan
17.00 The graphite potential of Scandinavia
Håvard Gautneb, Industrial Minerals Specialist, Geological Survey of Norway, Norway

17.30 CLOSE OF DAY 1 & DRINKS RECEPTION

“A great event especially as it covered the industrial minerals world all the way from exploration and reporting mineral resources through production, logistics and markets, with a timely emphasis on mineral recycling and last but not least, innovation.”
Andrew Scogings, Executive Consultant, Snowden, Australia