Agenda

CONFERENCE DAY ONE
Tuesday 21 August 2012

Day One | Day Two

9.00 Opening remarks from the Chair

9.10 New State Government Approval Policy Overview
The Hon. Chris Hartcher, MP, Minister for Mines and Energy (TBC)

9.40 KEYNOTE:
Developments and Challenges for the NSW Minerals Industry
> Challenges not challenged
Sue-Ern Tan, Deputy CEO, Minerals Council of NSW

10.20 Morning Tea

10.40 Deep Material Deposit Analysis
> Looking at developments and innovation in safer and more environmentally - friendly ways to target, drill and analyse deep mineral deposits
Professor David Giles, DET CRC

Exploration

11.20 Regional mapping
David Robson, A/Manager, Regional Mapping Exploration and Geoscience, Geological Survey of NSW, Division of Resources & Energy

11.50 Uranium - The New Frontier

• Uranium in nature-how it occurs in relation to other metals and deposit styles
• Uranium exploration potential in far western NSW - Including exploration methods
• Learning from the exploration experience of other states - both technical, commercial and legislative aspects

Michael Raetz, Director, Callabonna Uranium limited

12.20 Lunch

1.20 Australian Bauxite in Eastern Australia: An Emerging New Industry
Ian Levy, Managing Director, Australian Bauxite

1.40 Thackaringa

• Introduction to Broken Hill Prospecting
• Description of the cobalt deposits
• Summary of work completed
• Fundamentals of cobalt supply and demand Cobalt uses and market outlook Summary and future potential of the project

Dr. Ian Pringle, Broken Hill Prospecting

2.00 Thomson Resources

• Progress; four mineralised systems discovered under cover in 2011
• Shallow targets within these systems and other similar anomalies to be drilled with RC
• Thomson Fold Belt likely to be a concealed Cobar Basin equivalent
• Possibilities for Intrusion Related Gold deposits
• Thomson has extended its reach into outcropping parts of the Cobar Basin

Eoin Rothery, CEO, Thomson Resources

2.20 Silver exploration update
Chris Torrey, Silver City Minerals

2.40 Cortona Resources
Greg Cozens, Project Manager, Cortona Resources

3.00 Afternoon Tea

3.30 Cargo Gold and Copper Hill

• Production strategy of 2 million tonnes of ore per year
• Scoping Study completed - Mill & Plant costed at $92 million
• DFS planned for mid-2012
• New exploration targets defined
• Resource estimate completed
• Drilling program extended
• Preliminary mining studies

Kim Stanton-Cook, Managing Director, Golden Cross Resources

3.50 Exploration Update - Gold and Copper

• Gold and Copper are completing a large-scale gradient array IP survey on a district scale - the largest IP survey currently in Australia
• Deep seeking porphyry exploration, seeing under cover
• Aim is to produce a district scale sulphide map, similar to magnetic maps used throughout the exploration industry
• Over 400km2 of area so far surveyed (as of start 2012)
• Producing numerous anomalies currently being followed up, including discussion of results

Rosie da Costa, Geologist, Gold and Copper Resources

4.20 Kempfield Silver/Lead/Zinc Project

• Definitive Feasibility Study
• EIS & Development Approval

David Busch, Managing Director, Argent Minerals

4.40 Copper Exploration
Greg Cunrow, Managing Director, Paradigm Metals

5.10 Closing remarks from the Chair and Networking Drinks

7.00 Gala Dinner
Please join us for dinner and experience the wonderful local produce that Orange has to offer!

CONFERENCE DAY TWO
Wednesday 22 August 2012

Day One | Day Two

9.00 Opening remarks from the Chair

Operation

9.10 Community Relations and Corporate Social Responsibility

• An analysis of Cowal's extensive CSR program, with a particular focus on environmental compliance and performance, water management and community relations

Peter Geleta, General Manager, Cowal Gold Mine

9.50 Northparkes - Step Change

• Analysing the current undertaking of a Pre-Feasibility Study to evaluate the potential for further underground mining and processing operations based on a series of large tonnage, low-grade areas of mineralisation within the existing mine leases
• Given the step change project would be a significant expansion of operations, there are key areas of assessment that need to be addressed as part of the major project application. This includes: ore processing, additional power, additional water and tailings

Andrew Lye, General Manager, Projects, Northparkes

10.30 Morning Tea

11.00 Energy in Mining - An Increasing iIssue in Day to Day Operations

• Carbon tax and future energy price increases put significant pressure on bottom lines
• Energy costs - major cost component in mining
• Kaizen in mining - optimise your processes and become more efficient
• Simple steps to reduce your energy costs

Bernhard Voll, Managing Director, Energy Cost Reduction Specialist, Blue Diamond Energy Solutions

11.40 Taronga Mines

• Project history
• Company IPO
• Exploration activities post IPO
• Future plans
• Community consultation

Peter Williams, CEO, Taronga Mines

12.10 Redevelopment of the Mt. Boppy Gold Mine

• Polymetals re-opened the Mt. Boppy Mine in 2002, establishing open cut operations over the historic underground mine
• There are plans to add to the mining inventory of 560,000 t at 5.14 g/t gold by delineating additional high-grade ore sources prior to re-commencing mining

Fulton Smith, CEO, Polymetals

12.40 Mt. Carrington

White Rock's flagship project is at Mt Carrington, 100km west of Lismore. Mt. Carrington has an existing shallow gold and silver Inferred Mineral Resource base of 284,000 ounces of gold and 23.3M ounces of silver, reported in accordance with the JORC code. The project displays excellent potential for further shallow Resource extensions as well as new discoveries in a mineral field which hasn't seen systematic exploration for over 16 years.

Geoff Lowe, Managing Director, White Rock Minerals

1.00 Lunch

2.00 Project Update - Endeavour Mine

• Geology setting
• Reserves and life of mine
• Production rate
• Metallurgy flowsheet
• Personnel
• Environmental

Denver D'Angelo, General Manager, Endeavor Operations Pty Ltd

2.40 Accommodation Issues

• Increasingly, community relations and liaison is becoming an integral part of project development as accommodation gets increasingly tight in rural centres
• What lessons can be learnt from increased community involvement and consideration in these projects?

James Spence, Community Relations Manager, The MAC Group

3.20 Water Planning and Usage Issues

4.00 Conference Close

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