Organizer: Society of Economic Geologists
Presented by: Western Mining Services (WMS) - Jon Hronsky, Steven Bussey, and Jeff Welborn
Date: Tuesday, October 29 - Friday, November 1, 2024
Time: 8:00am - 5:00pm MDT (UTC-6)
Location: SEG Headquarters in Littleton, Colorado, United States
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Overview
This 3.5-day in-person course, Senior Exploration Management, will cover the key principles and practices that are vital for success within the modern mineral exploration industry. Presented by the experienced team at Western Mining Services, the curriculum will focus on a broad spectrum of technical and business issues that senior exploration managers typically encounter during their tenure, including how to best work with and manage the concepts and drivers that underlie the various components of mineral exploration projects.
Topics to be covered include the following:
- Developing and implementing an effective exploration strategy
- Managing the strategic issues and mineral exploration parameters that are unique to junior explorers
- The critical role of targeting in the mineral exploration business and the most relevant modern methodologies
- Informed, disciplined decision-making, program design, and portfolio management
- Attracting and maintaining high-quality, engaged exploration personnel
- Identifying program showstoppers and integrating non-technical risk management into exploration programs and projects at the strategic scale
- Acquiring and maintaining the essential license to operate
- Minerals access - negotiating the transactions and deals that are necessary to support an effective exploration strategy
Format
The course format utilizes both dynamic lectures and group-based activities, emphasizing interactive thinking and problem solving throughout. It will develop critical thinking around concepts and approaches that will enable participants to become more successful project managers and explorers. Participants work in teams to grapple with exploration challenges and then present their solutions to the larger group. Participants should attend the course prepared to be involved.
Who Should Attend
WMS is committed to making certain that the SEM course continues to be relevant and yields value to the course participants. This course is ideal for regional and country exploration managers, for project managers who are on track to move into positions of senior responsibility, and for geoscientists who aspire to senior exploration management roles. The course is also recommended for commercial managers who participate in mineral exploration programs, government and academic professionals who interact with the mineral exploration industry and mining-industry focused investment professionals who seek a deeper understanding of the dynamics of mineral exploration.
Presenters
Jon Hronsky
Jon has more than forty years of experience in the global mineral exploration industry, primarily focused on project generation, technical innovation and exploration strategy development. He has worked across a diverse range of commodities and geographies, and has particular expertise in targeting for nickel sulfide and gold deposits. His targeting work led to the discovery of the West Musgrave nickel sulfide province in Western Australia, and he also worked closely with the teams that discovered the world-class Gruyere gold and Venus nickel deposits. His experience includes leadership roles in both major mining and junior mining companies, and he has consulted globally for the last 17 years. He was the 2009 Society of Economic Geology Distinguished Lecturer. In January 2019 he was awarded the Order of Australia Medal for services to the mining industry. In 2023, he received the Society of Economic Geology’s Silver Medal, which is awarded for "excellence in original work in the geology of mineral deposits."
Jon was a founder and previous Chairman of the Board of the Center for Exploration Targeting in Western Australia, former Chairman of the Australian Geoscience Council (the peak body for geoscience organisations in Australia) and is currently an Adjunct Professor at the University of WA. Jon joined WMS in 2007. Prior to that, he was Manager-Strategy & Generative Services for BHP Billiton Mineral Exploration and Global Geoscience Leader for WMC Resources Ltd.
Steven Bussey
Steve has more than forty years of experience in mineral exploration, including seventeen years as a partner in WMS. He is a distinguished field geologist and is an expert in the application of GIS to mineral exploration. His experience includes building structured GIS datasets for project evaluation, spatial data modeling for new target definition, and management of exploration programs and projects.
Prior to joining WMS in 2007, Steve worked in a number of senior exploration roles, including Principal Geoscientist, for WMC Resources Ltd. At WMS, Steve's focus has been on framework studies, mineral exploration targeting and project due diligence. Steve has developed expertise in exploration for skarn-hosted deposits, and he had a key role on the team that discovered the world-class Media Luna skarn-hosted gold-silver-copper deposit in Mexico in 2012.
Jeff Welborn
Jeff has over fifty years' experience in the mineral exploration industry – twenty-five years as a mining, oil & gas and natural resources lawyer in private practice; nine years in corporate senior management roles in WMC Resources Ltd; and nineteen years as a co-founder/partner at WMS. He assists WMS clients with commercial strategy development, program design and planning, deal analysis and negotiation and with management of issues that involve minerals and land access.
Jeff's experience covers a broad range of commercial, legal and risk management matters that comprise the non-technical side of mineral exploration and mining. His focus is on commercial, legal, and business risk management at the senior management level. Jeff works with mining and exploration companies on program design, non-technical due diligence and business risk management in the pursuit of growth opportunities globally.
Venue and Accommodation
This event will be held in the Course Center at SEG Headquarters. A block of rooms has been reserved at a discount for course participants at the nearby Hampton Inn & Suites, which is approximately 0.4 miles from venue, and an 8-10 minute walk.
Course Center at SEG Headquarters
7811 Shaffer Pkwy
Littleton, CO 80127
United States
Course Center Details
Registration
Early deadline: October 11, 2024
Regular deadline: October 25, 2024
Maximum participants: 30
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Early |
Regular |
SEG Member |
US$2,995 |
US$3,095 |
Non-member |
US$3,295 |
US$3,395 |
All prices are in United States dollars (USD). SEG reserves the right to cancel this event should minimum attendance numbers not be met by September 27, 2024. All registrants will be given a full refund should SEG cancel the course. Cancellation policy, event photography, dietary restrictions, and more are detailed in the SEG Terms and Conditions.
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