Our 17th Annual African Mining Breakfast with Premier Sponsor SGS takes place during the PDAC in conjunction with MineAfrica’s 14th Annual Investing in African Mining seminar and has become the biggest African mining event in North America.
Our 2016 opening breakfast speakers are Mosebenzi Joseph Zwane, Minister of Mineral Resources, Republic of South Africa (invited) and Fatima Haram Acyl, Commissioner, Department of Trade and Industry, African Union Commission and our keynote speaker is Sipho Pityana, Chairman of AngloGold Ashanti.
In 2015 the event drew 350 participants and featured 20 presenters including project updates by public and private mining companies, country overviews by African mining ministers and technical presentations on doing business in Africa's mining industry by expert advisors.
Our 2016 Premier Sponsor for the seventh consecutive year is SGS. Webber Wentzel is a Corporate Sponsor, DRA, Falcon Drilling, Hatch and Toronto Stock Exchange are Sponsors and The Mineral Resource Analyst Group (MRAG) is a partner.
Current seminar presenters include: African Union, Burkina Faso Ministry of Energy, Mines & Quarries, De Beers Group of Companies / DebTech, DRA, iNHEMACO, Mintek, Roxgold Inc., SENET Engineering, SGS, Sudan Ministry of Minerals and Webber Wentzel.