Program for Nordic Mining Day 2025
DATE: Monday 3 March, 2025
TIME: 8:30 am ‒ 1:30 pm EST, registration starts at 8:00 am
VENUE: Kensington Ball Room, Delta Hotels by Marriott Toronto – 75 Lower Simcoe St. Toronto, Canada
Time (EST) |
Session & Presenter |
Title of Talk |
| 8:00 | Registration and coffee | |
| Moderator: Kari Aslaksen Aasly, Senior Advisor Mineral Resources, Geological Survey of Norway | ||
| 8:30 | Trygve Bendiksby, Ambassador of Norway to Canada | Welcome to Nordic Mining Day 2025 |
| 8:35 | Frank Nikolic, Vice President, CRU Group | Keynote: Recalibrating the Future: How are the geopolitical shifts impacting critical metals commodity value chains? |
Session I – Mineral Policies, Strategies and Opportunities in the Nordics |
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| Moderator: Mari Prestvik, Head of Communications, Geological Survey of Norway | ||
| 8:55 | Kerstin Jorna, Director General, DG Grow | CRMA and the strategic projects perspective |
| 9:05 | Sara Modig, State Secretary, Ministry of Climate and Enterprise | Sweden |
| 9:13 | Tomas Norvoll, State secretary, Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries | Norway |
| 9:21 | Kimmo Tiilikainen, Director General, Geological Survey of Finland | Finland |
| 9:30 | Panel discussion: Sara Modig, Tomas Norvoll and Hanna-Leena Korteniemi, Ambassador of Finland to Canada | Are Nordic strategies aligned or competing? How do the Nordics align with EU, Canada and other allied nations? |
| 9:50 | Helena Kjellson, Chief Mining Inspector, Mining Inspectorate of Sweden | Regulatory updates from Sweden |
| 9:55 | Bjarte Rambjør Heide, Director, The Directorate of Mining | Regulatory updates from Norway |
| 10:00 | Coffee and networking | |
Session II – Investing in Critical Raw Material in the Nordic Countries |
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| Moderator: Hannu Lahtinen, Director, Availability of Raw Materials, Geological Survey of Finland | ||
| 10:30 | Peter Munch-Madsen, Nordic Innovation | Why invest in the Nordic countries? |
| 10:35 | Jan Klawitter, Anglo American | TBC |
| 10:40 | Eric Jensen, EMX | Exploration Trends in the Nordic Countries |
| 10:45 | Sari Muinonen, Glencore | Glencore’s Connected Operations of the North: The enduring Partnership between Canada and the Nordics |
| 10:50 | Peter Svensson, Boliden | Boliden – Sustainable metal production |
| 10:55 | Panel discussion | Why is the Nordic region a good place to invest in the mineral sector? |
| 11:15 | Graham Dallas, TSX | How Nordic projects can raise capital via the TSX and TSXV |
| 11:25 | Sophie Proud, BHP Xplor | The Hitchhikers guide to the BHP Xplor Galaxy |
| 11:35 | Christian Kargl-Simard, Blue Moon Metals | Blue Moon Metals – Building Copper Mines in the Nordics |
| 11:40 | Break | |
Session III – Nordic Critical Raw Materials Showcases |
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| Moderator: Therese Bejgarn, Head of Division, Geological Survey of Sweden | ||
| 11:50 | Ilari Kinnunen, FinnCobalt | FinnCobalt – Responsible and Traceable Critical Minerals for the Green Transition from Finland |
| 11:55 | TBC | TBC |
| 12:00 | Alf Reistad, Rare Earths Norway | Rare Earths Norway’s Fen REE project |
Session IV – Nordic Prospectivity Update |
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| Moderator: Henrik Schiellerup, Director, Resources and Environment, Geological Survey of Norway | ||
| 12:07 | Kari Aslaksen Aasly, Geological Survey of Norway | Current mineral activities in the Nordic Countries |
| 12:14 | Tero Niiranen, Geological Survey of Finland | Nickel and PGE in the Nordics |
| 12:21 | Martiya Sadeghi, Geological Survey of Sweden | Copper in the Nordics |
| 12:28 | Eduardo Mansur, Geological Survey of Norway | Phosphate and REE in the Nordics |
| 12:35 | Signe Burgstaller, Ambassador of Sweden to Canada | Closing remarks |
| 12:40 | Apéritifs and networking | |
| 12:50 | Fennoscandian luncheon | |
