MONDAY

OCTOBER 16th

TUESDAY

OCTOBER 17th

WEDNESDAY

OCTOBER 18th

THURSDAY

OCTOBER 19th

MORNING

8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Workshop – SEG McGill

High-tech metals

Anthony E. Williams-Jones

Robert Linnen

8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Workshop – UQAC

Recognize and quantify

hydrothermal alteration

Lucie Mathieu

9:00 a.m. – 11:40 a.m.

Conferences

Strategies and future of

exploration

9:00 a.m. – 11:50 a.m.

Conferences

Contribution of the GSC,

projects in Quebec

8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Workshop – Ulaval INRS

Practical structural geology

applied to exploration

Jean-François Ravenelle

8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Workshop – Bourse TSX

TSXV filing fundamentals

Sylvain Martel

Michel Landripet

Valérie Douville

9:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Conferences

Markets and perspectives

9:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Conferences

Franco-Mine

AFTER

NOON

1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Workshop – Géologie Québec

New geological report formats

at Géologie Québec

François Leclerc

Marie-Andrée Vézina

8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Workshop

Best practices in mineral

exploration projects

Charles Beaudry

Elzéar Belzile

Luc Arsenault

André Laferrière

1:30 p.m. – 3:50 p.m.

Conferences

Technology and research in

exploration

1:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Conferences

Active projects in Quebec

1:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Conferences

Financing of junior companies

in Quebec

1:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.

Conferences

Dialogue: the key to

cohabitation

EVEN

ING

4:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Annual General Meeting

9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m

Trade show

9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m

Trade show

5:00 p.m.

Opening cocktail

Pub Explo

6:00 p.m.

Cocktail &

Awards Gala

Hôtel Bonaventure

PROGRAM

MONDAY, OCTOBER 16th 2017

T R A I N I N G W O R K S H O P S Presented by Mines Richmont

8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Sylvain Martel – Michel Landripet (Bourse TSX)

Part 1 – TSXV filing fundamentals (workshop in French)

Valérie Douville – Sylvain Martel (Bourse TSX)

Part 2 – Timely disclosure fundamentals (workshop in French)

Duration: 1 day, lunch included

Location: Hôtel Bonaventure

REGISTRATION Regular rate: $325 | Student rate : $100

8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Anthony E. Williams-Jones (AW) – Robert Linnen (RL)

(McGill)

High-tech metals

- Introduction to high-technology metals (RL)

- General geochemical characteristics of the high-

tech metals (AW)

- Magmatic Behavior and Processes (RL)

- Hydrothermal Behavior and Processes (AW)

- Deposits Associated with Alkaline Rocks (AW)

Deposits Associated with Peraluminous Rocks (RL)

Duration: 1 day, lunch included

Location: Hôtel Bonaventure

REGISTRATION Regular rate: $325 | Student rate : $100 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

François Leclerc – Marie-Andrée Vézina

(Ministère de l'Énergie et des Ressources naturelles)

New geological report formats at Géologie Québec

Duration: ½ day

Location: Hôtel Bonaventure

REGISTRATION Rate (AEMQ members only): $150

PROGRAM

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17th 2017

T R A I N I N G W O R K S H O P S Presented by Mines Richmont

8:00 – 4:00 p.m.

Lucie Mathieu (UQAC)

Recognize and quantify hydrothermal alteration

Duration: 1 day, lunch included

Location: Hôtel Bonaventure

REGISTRATION Regular rate: $325 | Student rate : $100

8:00 – 4:00 p.m.

Jean-François Ravenelle (Université Laval – INRS)

Practical structural geology applied to exploration

Duration: 1 day, lunch included

Location: Hôtel Bonaventure

REGISTRATION Regular rate: $325 | Student rate : $100

1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Charles Beaudry – Elzéar Belzile

Part 1 – NI 43-101 and best practices in mineral exploration

projects

Luc Arsenault – André Laferrière

Part 2 – MP: Regulation 43-101 respecting Standards of

Disclosure for Mineral Projects: industry best practices and

presenting information to the public

Duration: 1 day, lunch included

Location: Hôtel Bonaventure

REGISTRATION Regular rate: $325 | Student rate : $100

4:15 – 5:00 p.m.

Annual General Meeting

5:00 – 7:00 p.m.

Opening cocktail presented by

PROGRAM

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18th 2017

C O N F E R E N C E S ’ S E S S I O N S

Conferences’ room

Investment / Finance

Presented by Red Cloud

Klondike Strike Inc.

Conferences’ room

Geosciences

Presented by Forage G4

MARKETS AND PERSPECTIVES STRATEGIES AND FUTURE OF EXPLORATION

Session co-chairs:

Isabelle Cadieux and Julien Davy

Session co-chairs:

Réal Daigneault and François Robert

9:00 to 9:30 a.m.

9:00 to 9:45 a.m.

Glenn Mullan

PDAC

Daniel Wood (guest speaker)

Signs of life? The state of

exploration in Canada

WH Bryan Mining & Geology

Research Centre, The University

of Queensland, Australia

Future exploration – How we will

need to explore

9:30 to 9:50 a.m.

Guy Le Bel

Golden Queen Mining LTd

Optimist trumps pessimism

9:50 to 10:10 a.m.

9:45 to 10:30 a.m.

Oliver Heathman François Robert

Metals Focus Barrick Gold Corporation

How long can we sustain

peak gold?

Exploration success: strategic

elements and the role of

innovation

10:10 to 10:30 a.m.

Shane Nagle

National Bank Financial

What analysts and investors

are looking for in an

exploration company

10:30 to 10:50 a.m.

10:30 to 11:00 a.m.

Richard Sylvain John McGaughy

Raymond Chabot Grant

Thornton

Mira Géosciences

Tax credit relating to

resources – An update

Application and challenges of

artificial intelligence in

exploration

10:50 to 11:10 a.m.

11:00 to 11:20 a.m.

Chris Berry Jean-Philippe Paiement

House Mountain Waterton Global Resources

Management

Challenges for exploration

companies facing the

Fourth Industrial Revolution

Using machine learning to

leverage the most out of

exploration data to enhance

geological knowledge

11:10 to 11:30 a.m. 11:20 to 11:40 a.m.

Chad Williams Réjean Girard

Red Cloud

Klondike Strike

IOS Services Géoscientifiques

Inc

Current trends in mining

finance and the next

generation investor

Predictive modelling using

HyperCube™: From regional

endowment to mill operation

11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Luncheon

Agnico Eagle – Celebrating 60 years

Proud of our past, focused on the future

Ammar Al-Joundi

President, Agnico Eagle

Honorary President, Xplor 2017

Hôtel Bonaventure

Ticket cost: $100

Presented by:

Conferences’ room

Investissement / Finances

Presented by Red Cloud

Klondike Strike Inc.

Conferences’ room

Geosciences

Presented by Forage G4

FINANCING OF JUNIOR COMPANIES IN QUEBEC TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH IN EXPLORATION

Session co-chairs:

Elif Levesque and Ingrid Martin

Session co-chairs:

Isabelle D’Amours and Steven Lauzier

1:30 to 1:50 p.m.

1:30 to 2:15 p.m.

John Burzynski Richard Hillis (guest speaker)

Osisko Mining DET CRC

Re-creating Osisko Mining

after the 2014 take-over

battle

“Prospecting drilling”: A

technology-enabled revolution

in mineral exploration

1:50 to 2:10 p.m.

Stephen Poitras

Pierre Lambert

Caisse de dépôt et de

placement du Québec

Mining investments at the

Caisse

2:10 to 2:30 p.m.

2:15 to 2:40 p.m.

Glenn Mullan Ross Sherlock

Golden Valley

Mines Ltd

Harquail School of Earth

Sciences, Laurentian University

Financing of junior

companies in Quebec

Metal Earth

2:30 to 2:45 p.m.

François Goulet

Harfang Exploration Inc.

The history of Harfang and

its financing

2:45 to 3:00 p.m.

2:40 to 3:00 p.m.

Kiril Mugerman Réal Daigneault

Kintavar Exploration CONSOREM-UQAC

A hybrid transaction,

financing and a listing in just

over three months

The mineral exploration

research partnership: examples

and lessons from CONSOREM

and vision for the future

3:00 to 3:15 p.m.

3:00 to 3:20 p.m.

Julien Davy Joannie Caron

Tarku Resources Université du Québec en

Abitibi-Témiscamingue

A “win-win” agreement

between Tarku Resources

and Eureka Exploration

Towards sustainable

development certification for

the mineral exploration industry

3:15 to 3:30 p.m.

3:20 to 3:45 p.m.

Sylvain Martel Michel Jébrak

Groupe TMX UQAM

Overview of the TSX and

TSXV mining sector

Mining innovations:

temporalities, transversalities

and impacts

Cocktail & Awards Gala

Presented by

Starting at 6:00 p.m. Hôtel Bonaventure

Ticket cost: $150

PROGRAM

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19th 2017

7:30 – 9:00 a.m.

Breakfast-conference Young Mining Professionals

André Gaumond, Patrick Godin and Robert Sauvé

Hôtel Bonaventure

Ticket cost: $70

C O N F E R E N C E S ’ S E S S I O N S

Conferences’ room

Investment / Finance

Presented by Red Cloud

Klondike Strike Inc.

Conferences’ room

Geosciences

Presented by Hecla Mining

FRANCO-MINE

Presented by McCarthy Tetrault

CONTRIBUTION OF THE GSC, PROJECTS IN QUEBEC

Presented by IAMGOLD

Session chair:

Pierre Boivin

Session co-chairs:

Sylvain Lépine and Benoît Dubé

9:30 to 10:00 a.m. 9:00 to 9:45 a.m.

Benoît La Salle Michel Gauthier

Windiga Energie Gardin

Doing business in Africa The structural contribution of

a more than century-old

geological agency: the

Geological Survey of

Canada

10:00 to 10:30 a.m. 9:45 to 10:10 a.m.

Léonie Perron Yan Ducharme

Conseil canadien pour l'Afrique (CCA)

Élise Roy

Partenariat Canadian

Malartic

Export Québec

Getting to know the stakeholders in Africa

Odyssey project: a journey

toward the mine

10:30 to 11:00 a.m. 10:10 to 10:35 a.m.

Marc-Antoine Audet Louis Grenier

Sama Resources

Daniel Gagnon

Met-Chem

Windfall Lake gold deposit

and Lynx high-grade corridor

discovery

Industry stories

11:00 to 11:30 a.m. 10:35 to 11:00 a.m.

Question/networking period Tony Brisson

Goldcorp, Mine Éléonore Goldcorp exploration work in

the Éléonore area, Eeyou

Istchee Baie-James

11:00 to 11:25 a.m.

Luc Théberge

Eldorado Gold - Lamaque

The structural and

lithogeochemical context of

the Triangle and #4 Plug gold

deposits (Val-d’Or, QC):

Local implication on gold

metallogeny

11:25 to 11:50 a.m.

Sébastien Castonguay Commission Géologique du

canada (Ressources

naturelles Canada) Geology and lithotectonic

setting of the Detour Lake

gold mine and Lower Detour

zones 58N and 75, Abitibi

Subprovince, Ontario:

Implications for regional

exploration

Conferences’ room

Investment / Finance

Presented by Red Cloud

Klondike Strike Inc.

Conferences’ room

Geosciences

Presented by Hecla Mining

DIALOGUE: THE KEY TO COHABITATION

Presented by Canadian Malartic

ACTIVE PROJECTS IN QUEBEC

Presented by Eldorado Gold - Lamaque

Session co-chairs:

Jean-François Doyon and Cédric Bourgeois

Session co-chairs:

François Bouchard and Jacques Simoneau

1:30 to 1:40 p.m. 1:30 to 1:55 p.m.

Philippe Cloutier Isabelle Lépine

Ressources Cartier Stornoway Diamond

Dialogue at the

exploration stage

Update on exploration work

on the Adamantin property,

Otish Mountains, Quebec

1:40 to 2:00 p.m. 1:55 to 2:20 p.m.

François Chabot Damien Gaboury

Integra Gold Université du Québec à

Chicoutimi

Complete an honest and

transparent information-

consultation process to

develop a better project,

the example of the

Lamaque project, Eldorado

Gold

What's new in the

Chibougamau–Chapais

district?

2:00 to 2:20 p.m.

Jean-François Doyon

Mines Agnico Eagle

The necessity of engaging

with stakeholders from the

outset in the development

of a mining project

2:20 to 2:40 p.m.

2:20 to 2:45 p.m.

Patrick Brunelle Denis Vaillancourt

Secrétariat aux Affaires

autochtones

Mines Agnico Eagle

Consulting Aboriginal

communities:

an essential step

Amaruq: From a grassroot

project to a producing mine

– The important steps

2:40 to 3:00 p.m 2:45 to 3:10 p.m.

Youcef Larbi Claude Pilote

Cree Mineral Exploration

Board

Ressources Falco

Conseil cri sur l’exploration

minérale (CCEM), territoire

cri : exploration minérale

et accessibilité

The Noranda mining camp,

close to 100 years after the

first discovery

3:00 to 3:40 p.m. 3:10 to 3:35 p.m.

Cédric Bourgeois Michel Allard

Transfert Environnement Inter Géophysique

Pascal Lessard

Cree Mineral Exploration

Board, Cree land: Mineral

exploration and access

Robert Namour

Glencore Zinc Canada

Daniel-25 deposit

3:35 to 4:00 p.m.

Michel Houlé

Centre géoscientifique de

Québec State of knowledge on the

Ni-Cu-Cr-(PGE)

mineralization in the Cape

Smith belt after 20 years of

production: Perspectives and

future of this world-class

nickel district

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Elif Lévesque, RAO Réal Daigneault, CONSOREM - UQAC

Isabelle Cadieux, SIDEX François Robert, Barrick Gold Corporation

Ingrid Martin Benoît Dubé, Centre géoscientifique de Québec

Julien Davy, Tarku Ressources Sylvain Lépine, Ressources Yorbeau

GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA

To celebrate its 175th anniversary, the geological survey of

Canada will participate to the XPLOR convention.

VISIT THE DIFFERENT ZONES OF

THE EXHIBITION FLOOR!

• Business Café des Affaires and Meeting Zone

presented by

• Pub Explo

presented by

• Coffee break Wednesday and Thursday

presented by

Pavilion in partnership with