Host countries, investors and the shifting frontier

Christopher Goss – Head Business Development Oil, Gas, Mining & Chemicals International Finance Corporation

The City's role in the global sourcing of metals and minerals

Richard Chase – Head of Mining, Ambrian Partners

Mining and E&D: the new paradigm.

David Hall – Chairman, Horizonte Minerals, Stratex International

Current vectors for mineral exploration funding

Phil Halliday – Editor, Mining Journal

A brave new world: navigating political risk

Corene Crossin – Senior Consultant, Control Risks

TThe role of the investor in financing exploration

Paul Burton – MD, GFMS World Gold Ltd

PLUS Markets helping growth companies to achieve their ambitions

Paul Haddock Head – Capital Markets,PLUS Markets

Listing on PLUS and AIM – a walk on the dark side or progressive enlightenment?

Mark Parker – MD, African Eagle Plc
& Asa Bridle -Seymour Pierce

Exploration & Development companies on AIM – out-performing or over-rated?

John Meyer – Senior Analyst, Fairfax I.S. Plc

Financing exploration out of Ireland - a business model for other regions?

Christian Schaffalitzky – CEO, Eurasia Mining Plc
Job Langbroek – Davy Stockbrokers, Dublin

ARKeX gradiometry system – a key to future exploration success

Kitty Hall – CEO, ARKeX Ltd

Fortune favours the bold - creating a mining company using proprietary mineral processing technology

Martin Rosser – CEO, Alexander Mining Plc

Advances in processing lateritic nickel material

Simon Purkiss – CEO, European Nickel Plc

Environment and exploration - new codes and new attitudes

Fergus Anckorn - Technical Director AMEC plc

Mineral resources, mineral reserves and mining companies

Wynand Kleingeld – Chair, PERC

Porphyry and epithermal systems – science-driven exploration successes: the Sir Julius Wernher Memorial Lecture

Richard Sillitoe – consultant

Miocene magmatism and gold exploration in Turkey

Bob Foster – Stratex International plc

Building a gold-focused mining company on porphyry- and epithermal assetst

Patrick Forward – European Goldfields

Challenges and rewards in gold exploration in Sub-Saharan Africa

Jon Forster – Axmin Inc

Zinc exploration in North Africa Gordon Riddler

Gordon Riddler - Maghreb Minerals

Gold, diamonds, and iron ore exploration successes in West Africa

Luis da Silva - Mano River Resources

Exploration and risk management in Africa

Warren Jonstone - MSA Group (UK)

Geotraverse studies and terrane reconstructions leading to new target regions in central Eurasia

Prof. Reimar Seltmann - Head CERCAMS, Natural History Museum

Where are all the Platinum-Group Elements in the Platreef? The use of Laser Ablation ICP-MS in revealing trace element mineralogy

David Holwell – SRK Exploration Services Ltd
& Iain McDonald, Cardiff University

New insights into the origin of Cu-Co deposits in the Zambian Copperbelt

Steven Roberts – University of Southampton,
& R.McGowan, M. Richards, R. Bernau, and A Boyce

The emerging skills shortage in the minerals industry - potential constraints on future sustainable development

John Thompson - Teck Cominco Ltd

Panel discussion

Gordon Riddler (chair), Bob Pine, Bill Birch, Liv Carroll

Close: closing words by Chair

Graham Smith