GOLD DAY 09-04-10
Date: Friday 9th April 2010
Gold has always been set apart from other commodities and, amidst the ongoing turmoil in the global financial markets the metal is performing its historic role as a store of wealth. Still wary of the current environment, investors (professional and retail alike) want to focus on an asset that will at least hold its value. As a result, the gold price is poised to break back through the US$1,000/oz level.
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Gold Day Agenda April 9 2010
08:40 Registration
09:15 Context Speaker - Paul Burton GFMS World Gold
09:30 Petropavlovsk Plc - Peter Hambro, Chairman
09:50 DRD Gold - Daniel Pretorius, CEO
10:15 Pan African Resources - Jan Nelson, CEO
10:40 Coffee Break
11:00 Focus Ventures - Ralph Rushton, Director & VP Corporate Development
11:25 Ovoca Gold Plc - Tim McCutcheon, CEO
11:50 Lydian International - Timophy Coughlin, President & CEO
12:15 Radius Gold - Ralph Rushton, Director & VP Corporate Development
12:40 Company to be announced
13:05 Networking Lunch
Presenting Companies
Metals Exploration is a natural resources exploration and development company operating in the Pacific Rim, with particular focus on the Philippines. The Company’s principle asset is the Runruno gold-molybdenum project on the island of Luzon in the northern Philippines. The Company acquired the project in February 2005 and holds an 85% interest with an exclusive option over the remaining 15%.
A new company run by an experienced team, Focus is dedicated to discovering gold in Peru. Focus is identifying and acquiring quality gold projects, generally with a production history, aiming to move rapidly to drill testing.
Lydian International is a mineral exploration and development company with expertise and a proven track record in discovering and developing new gold projects in unfamiliar and frontier settings.
Radius Gold is a project generator. Led by Simon Ridgway, Radius aims to build shareholder value by focusing resources on areas where its team has most experience and expertise.
Pan African Resources Plc is an African focused precious metals mining group that produces approximately 100,000oz of gold per year from its Barberton Mines in South Africa, with production of platinum group metals from its Chrome Tailings Retreatment Plant in the Bushveld Complex, also in South Africa, forecast to begin by September 2011.Its focus is on low cost, high margin production and acquiring near production projects.
Ovoca Gold Plc is a gold exploration and mine development company with a strong balance sheet and an exciting portfolio of gold properties in the Magadan region, Russia
Petropavlovsk plc is a London-listed mining and exploration company with its assets located in Russia, where it has operated since 1994.
GFMS is the world's foremost precious metals consultancy, specialising in research into the global gold, silver, platinum and palladium markets. Moreover, GFMS Metals Consultancy offers monthly and quartely reports on all the base metals and steel.
Speakers
Niël Pretorius, CEO, DRD Gold
Niël Pretorius was appointed Chief Executive Officer Designate of DRDGOLD on 21 August 2008 and Chief Executive Officer on 1 January 2009. After joining the company on 1 May 2003 as Legal Adviser, he was promoted to the position of Group Legal Counsel on 1 September 2004 and General Manager: Corporate Services on 1 April 2005. Niël was appointed Chief Executive Officer of DRDGOLD SA on 1 July 2006, becoming Managing Director on 1 April 2008. A director of Rand Refinery Limited, he has 16 years of experience in the mining industry.
Dr. Timothy Coughlin, President and CEO, Lydian International Limited
Dr. Coughlin has 18 years of wide-ranging experience as an exploration and mining industry consultant and has held senior positions with major mining companies. Dr. Coughlin is a specialist in frontier mineral exploration and on mining investment in emerging and transitional environments. He has provided advice on country entry programs in the Caucasus, the Balkans, Colombia and Russia and has been integral in new and now operating grass-roots gold discoveries in South America and Australasia.
Radius Gold & Focus Ventures: Ralph Rushton, Director & VP Corporate Development
Mr. Rushton holds a B.Sc. in geology from Portsmouth University in the UK, a Master’s degree in economic geology from the University of Alberta, and a Certificate in Business Communications from Simon Fraser University. Much of his 19 years’ experience in mining and exploration was gained working as a geologist for the Anglo American group in Southern Africa, the Middle East and Eastern Europe. Mr. Rushton has worked for The Gold Group for over 6 years in corporate communications and development for companies such as Northland Resources, Fortuna Silver Mines, Radius Gold, and Focus Ventures.
Ovoca Gold : Tim McCutcheon, Chief Executive Officer
Mr. McCutcheon joined the Board of Ovoca as a Non-Executive Director in January 2009 and moved into the CEO position in December 2009. Prior to Ovoca Mr. McCutcheon was a partner at DBM Capital Partners, an investment manager and corporate finance boutique specializing in the mining sector of Russia and the former Soviet Union. He also worked at several investment banks such as Bear Stearns, Aton Capital and Pioneer Investments as an award-winning metals and mining sector analyst and as an investment banker. He was one of the first analysts in Russia to write about its gold mining sector and he has advised numerous international gold mining companies on M&A, business development, and Russian business practices.
BA, cum laude, Columbia College, New York, NY. MBA, Finance, Columbia Business School. Moscow resident. Fluent in English and Russian.
Pan African Resources : Jan Nelson, Chief Executive Officer
After obtaining his honours degree in Geology, Jan Nelson embarked on a career in gold exploration and mining in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Tanzania. He has over 15 years’ experience and, within this period, held positions in mine management and operations with Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited, Hunter Dickenson and Gold Fields Limited. He has been instrumental in transforming Pan African Resources from junior gold exploration company with limited cash flow to a low cost gold mining producer with a robust cash flow. Most recently the Company, under Jan’s guidance, has ventured into the platinum arena with the acquisition of Phoenix Platinum Mining (Pty) Ltd.
GFMS World Gold: Paul Burton, Managing Director
Paul Burton graduated as a mining engineer from the Camborne School of Mines in 1975 and spent almost twenty years working in the South African gold mining industry. He has been editor of World Gold Analyst since early in 1996. He is an established speaker on the international conference scene and is Chairman of the FTSE Gold Mines Index Committee.
He holds an MSc in Mineral Economics and an MBA from the University of the Witwatersrand. Recently Paul
Burton took the position of Managing Director of newly established GFMS sister company - GFMS World Gold.
Petropavlovsk Plc: Peter Hambro, Chairman
Mr. Hambro is one of the co-founders of the Company and has been Chairman of the Group since its formation in 1994. In addition to this executive role, Mr. Hambro is a director of many of the subsidiaries of the Group.
He is also co-founder and non-executive director of Russian Timber Group Limited and Non-Executive Chairman of Sundeala Limited and of several family companies. He started his banking career with his family bank and became Joint Managing Director of Smith St. Aubyn Holdings Ltd. before joining the Mocatta Group, the world's largest bullion traders, as Deputy Managing Director of Mocatta & Goldsmid Limited and Group Marketing Director.
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