The Northern Miner Podcast

This episode features a critical look at innovation and the mining industry from Nathan Stubina, Sherritt International vice-president of technologies and operations. Nathan delivered a presentation titled, “Some Inconvenient Facts, Some Inconvenient Perceptions. Staying Still Is Moving Backwards” at the 2019 Progressive Mine Forum in Toronto, where he argued that technology alone is not enough to change the mindsets of the mining industry. Nathan asks, "Are we working on the right things and are we asking the right questions?"  All this and more with online editor and host Adrian Pocobelli. Music Credits: “Rattlesnake Railroad”, “Big Western Sky”, “Western Adventure” and “Battle on the Western Frontier” by Brett Van Donsel (www.incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Photo credit: George Matthew Photography.

This holiday episode features a special Innovation Presentation by Peak Power COO Matt Sachs at the 2019 Progressive Mine Forum in Toronto. Matt discusses how advanced software can help industrial users, including mining companies, save on costs relating to energy usage. Topics include: making energy production a two-way street by adding electric vehicle batteries to the power grid; how 75% of annual energy costs can come from a very small proportion of usage at peak times; and creating a virtual stock market of energy pricing. This episode is sponsored by Nevada Copper. Check them out online: www.nevadacopper.com All this and more with online editor and host Adrian Pocobelli. Music Credits: “Rattlesnake Railroad”, “Big Western Sky”, “Western Adventure” and “Battle on the Western Frontier” by Brett Van Donsel (www.incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Credit: George Matthew Photography.

This week’s episode features the return of Scotiabank’s Rory Johnston, who speaks with The Northern Miner’s Trish Saywell about his outlook for 2020. Topics include commodity prices, the Canada-U.S. Dollar relationship, electric vehicles (EVs) and battery metals, and the Canadian economy. Johnston is a commodity economist covering energy and metal markets for Scotiabank’s Economics department. His research includes the Scotiabank Commodity Price Index (a monthly assessment of developments affecting the prices of major Canadian export commodities), contributions to Scotiabank’s Global Outlook (the department’s flagship quarterly forecast), as well as notes on various topics of interest to the Canadian commodity sector. This episode is sponsored by Nevada Copper. Check them out online: nevadacopper.com/ All this and more with online editor and host Adrian Pocobelli. Music Credits: “Rattlesnake Railroad”, “Big Western Sky”, “Western Adventure” and “Battle on the Western Frontier” by Brett Van Donsel (www.incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

This episode features the Big Data and Automation panel at The Northern Miner’s 2019 Progressive Mine Forum in Toronto. The event took place on Oct. 16 at the MaRS Discovery District and featured industry experts that discussed trends in technology and mining. The panel featured Louis-Pierre Campeau, team lead for artificial intelligence, Newtrax Technologies; Steve de Jong, CEO, Vrify; Nadine Miller, independent director, Wedsome; Pavel Abdur-Rahman, partner and data scientist, IBM; Eddie Bilborough, business manager for automation and digitalisation, Sandvik; and Walter Siggelkow, president, Hard-Line. Moderation was provided by Alisha Hiyate, editor of the Canadian Mining Journal. This episode is sponsored by Nevada Copper. Check them out online: https://nevadacopper.com/ All this and more with online editor and host Adrian Pocobelli. Music Credits: “Rattlesnake Railroad”, “Big Western Sky”, “Western Adventure” and “Battle on the Western Frontier” by Brett Van Donsel (www.incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Photo credit: George Matthew Photography.

This episode features the Battery Metals panel at The Northern Miner's 2019 Progressive Mine Forum in Toronto. The event took place on Oct. 16 at the MaRS Discovery District and featured industry experts to discuss trends in battery metals markets amid the growing demand for electric vehicle (EV) technology. Topics included China's dominance of the lithium market supply chain, and the lack of preparation by Canada and its allies to meet growing market demand. The panel featured Ryan Castilloux, managing director, Adamas Intelligence; Guy Bourassa, president and CEO, Nemaska Lithium; Andrew Miller, head of price assessments, Benchmark Mineral Intelligence; and Trent Mell, president and CEO, First Cobalt. Moderation was provided by Frik Els, executive editor of MINING.com. All this and more with online editor and host Adrian Pocobelli. Music Credits: “Rattlesnake Railroad”, “Big Western Sky”, “Western Adventure” and “Battle on the Western Frontier” by Brett Van Donsel (www.incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Photo credit: George Matthew Photography.

This episode features a fireside chat between Kirkland Lake Gold president and CEO Tony Makuch and Northern Miner group publisher Anthony Vaccaro at the Progressive Mine Forum in Toronto on Oct. 16. Makuch discusses the use of electric vehicles and battery technology at the company's Macassa mine in northern Ontario, the importance of profits over scale, and how to relate to millennials in the workplace. All this and more with online editor and host Adrian Pocobelli. Music Credits: “Rattlesnake Railroad”, “Big Western Sky”, “Western Adventure” and “Battle on the Western Frontier” by Brett Van Donsel (www.incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Photo by George Matthew Photography.

This episode Tocqueville’s John Hathaway joins Northern Miner Group publisher Anthony Vaccaro at the 2019 Precious Metals Summit in Zurich. Hathaway discusses the current state of gold equities and how the bigger opportunities might lie with stocks that are underrepresented by gold ETFs such as GDX and GDXJ. Hathaway and Vaccaro are introduced by Jessica Levental, Precious Metals Summit CEO. All this and more with online editor and host Adrian Pocobelli. Music Credits: “Rattlesnake Railroad”, “Big Western Sky”, “Western Adventure” and “Battle on the Western Frontier” by Brett Van Donsel (www.incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

This episode features an interview with Nadine Miller, an Independent Non-Executive Director for Wesdome Gold Mines and a Strategic Advisor at Awz Ventures Inc. Awz is a Canadian hub for investments in cybersecurity, intelligence and physical security AI-based technologies from Israel, a global leader in these sectors. Awz manages US$100 million between its first two venture capital funds. The interview is conducted by The Northern Miner's acting editor-in-chief Trish Saywell. Nadine warns of the perils of loose cybersecurity and the ability of hackers to infect processing plants with malware. She also emphasizes the need for more collaboration between startups and mining companies, describing it as an 'opportune time' to foster new relationships. All this and more with online editor and host Adrian Pocobelli. Music Credits: “Rattlesnake Railroad”, “Big Western Sky”, “Western Adventure” and “Battle on the Western Frontier” by Brett Van Donsel (www.incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

This episode features an interview with Trish Saywell, acting editor-in-chief and senior reporter for The Northern Miner, on John Felderhof and his life after Bre-X. Trish discusses what it was like to spend three days with Felderhof in the Philippines and what it was like for him to be at the heart of one of Canada's biggest financial scandals. All this and more with online editor and host, Adrian Pocobelli. Music Credits: “Rattlesnake Railroad”, “Big Western Sky”, “Western Adventure” and “Battle on the Western Frontier” by Brett Van Donsel (www.incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

This episode feature’s the ESG panel from The Northern Miner’s third annual Progressive Mine Forum in October, featuring Kulvir Singh Gill, DPI Mining associate director; Claudia Mueller, Global Mining Management associate director at the Schulich School of Business; Sam Pazuki, OceanaGold vice-president of Investor Relations; Miranda Werstiuk, Optimize Group vice-president of corporate advisory services; and Raziel Zisman, Whittle Consulting cofounder and partner. The panel was moderated by Trish Saywell, The Northern Miner’s acting editor-in-chief and senior reporter. All this and more with online editor and host, Adrian Pocobelli. Music Credits: “Rattlesnake Railroad”, “Big Western Sky”, “Western Adventure” and “Battle on the Western Frontier” by Brett Van Donsel (www.incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Photo by George Matthew Photography.