Prospecting Purpose

Liz Freele, Sympact Advisory

MINING'S BRIGHTER FUTURE PODCAST. Join Liz Freele of Sympact Advisory to explore mining's role in shaping a more sustainable, socially just and brighter future!

11 Episodes

Mining and the Circular Economy (Alan Young)
10/26/2021
1:04:04
CREDITS: Host - Elizabeth Freele, Sympact (https://www.linkedin.com/in/efreele/) Audio Editor - Geoff Bremner (https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffreybremner/)Producer & Editor - Tommy Lee (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomelee/) Assistant Editor - Emielia Dahl-Sam (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emielia-d...) Sponsor - Sympact (https://www.sympact.ca/) CONNECT LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/symp... Website: https://www.sympact.ca/ Email: [email protected] SELECT EPISODE LINKS: Alan Young: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alan-youn... International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD): https://www.iisd.org/ Circular Economy Leadership Coalition: https://circulareconomyleaders.ca/ Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA): https://responsiblemining.net/ Materials Efficiency Research Group (MERG): https://merg.ca/ Cameco: https://www.cameco.com/ Repurposing mineral/metal waste into high-value commodities: Thallium (Mined in Trail, BC), Germanium Sudbury, carbon capture technology: https://www.sudburyminingsolutions.co... ELYSIS (ELYSIS is a Canadian company delivering a disruptive technology for the aluminium smelting industry generating oxygen as a by-product): https://www.elysis.com/en/what-is-elysisRobert Friedland: https://www.ivanhoemines.com/about/bo... World Circular Economy Forum, Mining for Circularity, 2020: https://circulareconomyleaders.ca/min... Mark Cutifani, CEO of Anglo-American spoke to the imperative of a circular economy & the mining companies’ transition to “materials solutions companies”: https://circulareconomyleaders.ca/min... International Resource Panel, “materials leasing”: https://www.resourcepanel.org/ Industry leaders in integrating circular principles into mining operations: Anglo American (https://www.angloamerican.com/about-u... Rio Tinto: https://www.riotinto.com/en/sustainab... BHP: https://www.bhp.com/media-and-insight... Teck Resources: https://www.teck.com/news/stories/202... ArcelorMittal: https://corporate.arcelormittal.com/s... Agnico Eagle: https://www.agnicoeagle.com/English/t... Prof. Daniel Franks: https://researchers.uq.edu.au/researc...
Tech Entrants - Miners of the Future? (Kurt House, PhD)
10/19/2021
59:20
CREDITS: Host - Elizabeth Freele, Sympact (https://www.linkedin.com/in/efreele/) Audio Editor - Geoff Bremner (https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffreybremner/)Producer & Editor - Tommy Lee (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomelee/) Assistant Editor - Emielia Dahl-Sam (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emielia-d...) Sponsor - Sympact (https://www.sympact.ca/) CONNECT LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/symp... Website: https://www.sympact.ca/ Email: [email protected] SELECT EPISODE LINKS: Kurt House: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kurtzenzh... KoBold Metals: https://www.koboldmetals.com/ Machine Prospecting & TerraShed (Two core technologies of Kobold Metals): https://www.koboldmetals.com/about-us/ Machine Prospecting is the “Google Maps of the Earth's crust” - Connie Chan, general partner at Andreessen Horowitz: https://www.linkedin.com/in/conniechan/ Andreessen Horowitz: https://a16z.com/ Breakthrough Energy Ventures: https://www.breakthroughenergy.org/ Peter Lightfoot (MAGMATIC SYSTEMS LEAD, KoBold Metals) - a geologist on the KoBold team whose expertise is critical to the development of their technology: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterclig... Peter Lightfoot was the chief geologist at Vale: http://www.lightfootgeoscience.ca/abo... Voisey’s Bay, Labrador (Vale’s open-pit mine): http://www.vale.com/canada/EN/aboutva... Thompson, Manitoba (Vale): http://www.vale.com/canada/en/busines... Sudbury (Vale): http://www.vale.com/canada/en/aboutva... David Broughton (HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEMS LEAD, KoBold Metals) - a geologist on the KoBold team whose expertise is critical to the development of their technology: https://www.koboldmetals.com/team/ David Broughton Kamoa KaKula when he was head of exploration, Ivanhoe (https://www.ivanhoemines.com/projects...) Nickel, cobalt, lithium, copper are critical EV metals for the green energy transition: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science... Tesla Gigafactory Register (EV manufacturers vertically integrating): https://www.tesla.com/careers/gigafac...
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Shifting from Closure to Transition (Peter Whitbread-Abrutat, PhD)
10/12/2021
40:00
CREDITS: Host - Elizabeth Freele, Sympact (https://www.linkedin.com/in/efreele/) Audio Editor - Geoff Bremner (https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffreybremner/)Producer & Editor - Tommy Lee (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomelee/) Assistant Editor - Emielia Dahl-Sam (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emielia-d...) Sponsor - Sympact (https://www.sympact.ca/) CONNECT LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/symp... Website: https://www.sympact.ca/ Email: [email protected] SELECT EPISODE LINKS: Peter Whitbread-Abrutat: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-whi... Future Terrains: https://futureterrains.org/ David Attenborough's programs (A key turning point for Peter in getting him involved in environmental issues): https://www.ourplanet.com/en/video/da... 101 Things to Do with a Hole in the Ground: https://futureterrains.org/project/10.... The Eden Project, Cornwall: https://www.edenproject.com/ Restoration of the landscape of the old lignite mining fields of Eastern Germany: https://nationalpost.com/pmn/travel-p... National Orphaned/Abandoned Mines Initiative (Canada): https://www.abandoned-mines.org/en/ ICMM's Integrated Mine Closure: Good practice guide (2nd edition, 2019): https://www.icmm.com/en-gb/guidance/e....
Low-Carbon Mining for a Low-Carbon Future (Chih-Ting Lo)
10/5/2021
50:06
CREDITS: Host - Elizabeth Freele, Sympact (https://www.linkedin.com/in/efreele/) Audio Editor - Geoff Bremner (https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffreybremner/)Producer & Editor - Tommy Lee (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomelee/) Assistant Editor - Emielia Dahl-Sam (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emielia-d...) Sponsor - Sympact (https://www.sympact.ca/) CONNECT LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/symp... Website: https://www.sympact.ca/ Email: [email protected] SELECT EPISODE LINKS: Chih-Ting Lo: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chihtinglo/ EELO Solutions: http://www.eelo.ca/ Organizations which have developed due to increasing pressure to disclose carbon emissions: Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures: https://www.fsb-tcfd.org/ COMET, the Coalition on Materials Emissions Transparency: https://ccsi.columbia.edu/content/coa... Industry examples of electrification: Rail-Veyer: https://www.railveyor.com/ RopeCon: https://www.doppelmayr.com/products/r... Newmont's Borden Gold Mine: https://miningglobal.com/smart-mining... Glencore’s Sudbury Integrated Nickel Operations (INO) in Canada are looking to develop one of the world’s first mines wholly operated by battery electric-powered vehicles (EVs): https://www.glencore.com/media-and-in... OZ Minerals electrifying Carrapateena Mine: https://im-mining.com/2020/12/22/oz-m... South32’s electrification of mine in Arizona: https://www.south32.net/our-business/... CarbonCure - recycles CO2 into fresh concrete: https://www.carboncure.com/ Carbon Cure has been invested in by Amazon and Breakthrough Energy Ventures: https://www.carboncure.com/news/amazo... Scope 1, 2, 3 emissions: https://www.carbontrust.com/resources....
Alternative Capital & Financing Innovation (Peter Bryant)
9/28/2021
32:36
CREDITS: Host - Elizabeth Freele, Sympact (https://www.linkedin.com/in/efreele/)Audio Editor - Geoff Bremner (https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffreybremner/) Producer & Editor - Tommy Lee (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomelee/) Assistant Editor - Emielia Dahl-Sam (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emielia-d...) Sponsor - Sympact (https://www.sympact.ca/) CONNECT LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/symp... Website: https://www.sympact.ca/ Email: [email protected] SELECT EPISODE LINKS: Peter Bryant: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-bry... Chrysalix: https://chrysalix.com/ Foundamental: https://foundamental.com/ Clareo: https://clareo.com/ Clareo Report by Peter Bryant, "Innovation: Turning Aspiration into Action & Impact": https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/409152... Development Partner Institute: https://www.dpimining.org/ SafeAI: https://safeai.ai/ Lilac Solutions (http://www.lilacsolutions.com/), invested in by Breakthrough Energy Ventures (http://www.lilacsolutions.com/news/ta...) Anglo-American, FutureSmart Mining: https://www.angloamerican.com/futures... Teck Resources RACE21: https://www.teck.com/news/connect/iss... Anaconda Mining (junior gold producer, northern Canada): https://www.anacondamining.com/ Hydrogen Forward: https://www.hydrogenfwd.org/ Private Equity for mining: Appian private equity: https://appiancapitaladvisory.com/ Resource Capital Funds: https://resourcecapitalfunds.com/ Project finance: Equilibrium Capital: https://eq-cap.com/ BP Ventures Mining presence in Silicon Valley: Sumitomo Corporation (https://www.sumitomocorp.com/en/jp), Caterpillar Ventures (https://www.caterpillar.com/en/compan...), BHP Ventures (https://www.afr.com/companies/mining/...) National Collaboration Strategy for the Mining Industry, Natural Resources Canada (2017): https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/sites/www.nrc... Insitigator Cleantech startups Innovation article by Vinod Khosla: https://www.khoslaventures.com/a-few-...
The Rise of Impact Investing (Andrew Cheatle)
9/21/2021
44:26
CREDITS: Host - Elizabeth Freele, Sympact (https://www.linkedin.com/in/efreele/) Audio Editor - Geoff Bremner (https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffreybremner/)Producer & Editor - Tommy Lee (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomelee/) Assistant Editor - Emielia Dahl-Sam (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emielia-d...) Sponsor - Sympact (https://www.sympact.ca/) CONNECT LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/symp... Website: https://www.sympact.ca/ Email: [email protected] SELECT EPISODE LINKS: Andrew Cheatle: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-ch... Director of Tanzanian Gold Corporation (https://www.reuters.com/companies/TRX), the Non-Executive Director of Condor Gold (http://ca.condorgold.com/), and as the Director of Troilus Gold (https://www.troilusgold.com/) Anglo-American - Impact Catalyst, Limpopo: https://southafrica.angloamerican.com... IAMGOLD - solar panel fields in Burkina Faso: https://www.bba.ca/project/integratin... World Gold Council - Gold mining’s contribution to the UN SDGs: https://www.gold.org/about-gold/gold-... On the investor side: Value Balancing Alliance: https://www.value-balancing.com/ Harvard’s Impact Weighted Accounts: https://www.hbs.edu/impact-weighted-a... IFC (https://www.ifc.org/wps/wcm/connect/c...) NetZero Metals: https://www.spglobal.com/platts/en/ma... Nouveau Monde: https://nouveaumonde.group/ Placer Dome, the development of Wasaya airways: https://www.wasaya.com/destinations/c...
Inclusive Mining (Jamile Cruz)
9/15/2021
1:02:59
CREDITS: Host - Elizabeth Freele, Sympact (https://www.linkedin.com/in/efreele/) Audio Editor - Geoff Bremner (https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffreybremner/)Producer & Editor - Tommy Lee (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomelee/) Assistant Editor - Emielia Dahl-Sam (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emielia-d...) Sponsor - Sympact (https://www.sympact.ca/) CONNECT LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/symp... Website: https://www.sympact.ca/ Email: [email protected] SELECT EPISODE LINKS: Jamile Cruz: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamilegcr... I&D 101: https://ind101.com/ The 360° Corporation: From Stakeholder Trade-offs to Transformation by Sarah Kaplan, Professor of Gender & the Economy and Professor of Strategic Management at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto (https://sarahkaplan.info/the360corpor...) BHP Gender Equation: https://www.bhp.com/media-and-insight... (Canada) women represent just 16% of the mining workforce and we have the lowest representation of women on boards of any other sector, that includes oil and gas, tech, manufacturing (https://civmin.utoronto.ca/from-betwe...) The Mining Association of Canada’s (MAC) commitment to strengthen equity, diversity and inclusion in workplace culture, policies, procedures and practices (https://www.mining-journal.com/leader...) Artemis Project: https://www.linkedin.com/company/arte... The Intelligent Miner: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-... Responsible Mining Foundation: https://www.linkedin.com/company/resp... Mining Industry Human Resources Council (MiHR): https://www.linkedin.com/company/mini... Women in Mining Brazil (https://www.wimbrasil.org/?lang=en) Women In Mining UK (WIM UK): https://www.linkedin.com/company/wome... Women in Mining Canada: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wome... Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC): https://www.linkedin.com/company/thep... Women in Male-Dominated Industries (WIMDI): https://www.linkedin.com/company/wome... Women Who Rock: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wome... Technologies: TalVista: https://www.linkedin.com/company/talv... Pymetrics: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pyme... Equal Reality: https://www.linkedin.com/company/equa... Praxis Labs: https://www.linkedin.com/company/prax...
Community-Driven Mining (Andy Reynolds)
9/7/2021
38:10
CREDITS: Host - Elizabeth Freele, Sympact (https://www.linkedin.com/in/efreele/) Producer & Editor - Tommy Lee (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomelee/) Audio Editor - Geoff Bremner (https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffreybremner/)Assistant Editor - Emielia Dahl-Sam (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emielia-d...) Sponsor - Sympact (https://www.sympact.ca/) CONNECT LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/symp... Website: https://www.sympact.ca/ Email: [email protected] SELECT EPISODE LINKS: Andy Reynolds (https://www.linkedin.com/in/reynoldsa...) Inspire Resources (https://www.inspire-resources.ca/) Energy, Mining and Environment, National Research Council of Canada (https://nrc.canada.ca/en/research-dev...) Paul Polman (Unilever): opportunities for changing investors/shareholders; responsibility of a company is to multiple stakeholders (https://www.forbes.com/sites/andyboyn...) Emerging technologies in mining: Blockchain & smart contracts (https://www.whitecase.com/publication...) Interval Control - e.g., Global Mining Guidelines Group (https://gmggroup.org/projects/short-i...) AI - e.g., Microsoft’s SA Mining Core (https://www.miningreview.com/gold/mic...) Natural resource ownership shifting to communities (over 4,000 community-owned renewable energy projects, globally), IRENA (https://www.irena.org/-/media/Files/I...) Platform business model: Oren Marketplace, Shell & IBM (https://content.orenmarketplace.com/p...) Sustainable Development Goals, UN (https://sdgs.un.org/goals) Mineral Impulse, Inspire Resources (https://www.inspire-resources.ca/abou...) What is the democratization of AI? (https://www.bmc.com/blogs/democratiza...)
Indigenizing Mining (Allen Edzerza)
9/1/2021
59:27
CREDITS: Host - Elizabeth Freele, Sympact (https://www.linkedin.com/in/efreele/) Producer & Editor - Tommy Lee (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomelee/) Audio Editor - Geoff Bremner (https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffreybremner/) Assistant Editor - Emielia Dahl-Sam (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emielia-d...) Sponsor - Sympact (https://www.sympact.ca/) CONNECT LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/symp... Website: https://www.sympact.ca/ Email: [email protected] SELECT EPISODE LINKS: Tahltan Nation: https://tahltan.org/ Cheona Metals: https://cheonametals.com/ The BC Mineral Tenure Act: Salmon Gold Project with RESOLVE: https://www.resolve.ngo/salmon_gold.htm (Gold produced under the Salmon Gold project is purchased by Apple and Tiffany) Deer Horn Capital: https://deerhorncapital.ca/ The BC Mineral Tenure Act: https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/do... Integrating the UNDRIP articles into mining policy: https://indigenousfoundations.arts.ub... IRMA: https://responsiblemining.net/ Impact and Benefit Agreements (IBA): https://lop.parl.ca/sites/PublicWebsi.... Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC): https://www.kairoscanada.org/what-we-...
Collaborative Development in the Digital Age (Tracey Cooper)
8/25/2021
1:06:48
CREDITS: Host - Elizabeth Freele, Sympact (https://www.linkedin.com/in/efreele/) Producer & Editor - Tommy Lee (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomelee/) Audio Editor - Geoff Bremner (https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffreybremner/) Assistant Editor - Emielia Dahl-Sam (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emielia-d...) Sponsor - Sympact (https://www.sympact.ca/) CONNECT LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/symp... Website: https://www.sympact.ca/ Email: [email protected] SELECT EPISODE LINKS: Tracey Cooper, Mining Dialogues 360°: http://www.miningdialogues360.co.za/ Information currently sitting in silos: Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiat... World Mining Fund: https://www.blackrock.com/hk/en/produ... International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM): https://www.icmm.com/ Glencore Mt Isa Air Quality Smartphone Monitoring app (AQMI): https://im-mining.com/2018/04/06/glen... Socio-Economic Technology Initiative (SETI): https://saiia.org.za/research/mining-... Wits Mining Institute Digimine: https://www.wits.ac.za/wmi/digimine/

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Prospecting Purpose

Liz Freele, Sympact Advisory

11 Episodes

Mining and the Circular Economy (Alan Young)

Tech Entrants - Miners of the Future? (Kurt House, PhD)

Shifting from Closure to Transition (Peter Whitbread-Abrutat, PhD)

Low-Carbon Mining for a Low-Carbon Future (Chih-Ting Lo)

Alternative Capital & Financing Innovation (Peter Bryant)

The Rise of Impact Investing (Andrew Cheatle)

Inclusive Mining (Jamile Cruz)

Community-Driven Mining (Andy Reynolds)

Indigenizing Mining (Allen Edzerza)

Collaborative Development in the Digital Age (Tracey Cooper)