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Workshops:
7 April 2008 9.30am - 4.30pm
Summit A: Capital Raising Summit & Investor Forum
Masterclass B: Bulk material handling
11 April 2008 9am - 5pm
Masterclass C:
Part 1: Negotiating mining and exploration concessions and licenses
Part 2: Mining project finance
Conference:
Day 1
8 April 2008 8am - 6pm
Day 2
9 April 2008 8am - 6pm
Day 3
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2008 will see a bigger showcase of products and services
Asia Mining Congress has really grown from strength to strength over the years and has established the support of the international mining industry. It has also proven itself to be Asia's leading mining event that truly delivers vast business opportunities to companies who are keen to do business with the mining community.
Meet our sponsors to date...
Gold and lanyard sponsor:
Sandvik Mining and Construction ("Sandvik") is a leading global supplier of equipment, cemented-carbide tools, service and technical solutions for excavation of rock and minerals in the Mining and Construction industries.
Sandvik also provides systems for mineral exploration, crushing & screening and material handling of bulk material like coal and ironore. Annual sales 2006 amounted to about SEK 25,000M, with approximately 12,200 employees.
Some of the internationally best known brands within the Sandvik group are: Tamrock, Toro, EJC, Voest-Alpine, Eimco, Driltech, BPI, Rammer, Mission and Roxon. These brands are now be marketed under one common single brand – Sandvik. Sandvik Mining And Construction is a business area within the Sandvik Group, which has about 42,000 employees at the end of 2006 and representation in 130 countries, with annual sales of more than SEK 72,000 M.
Gold sponsor:
Australian and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (“ANZ”) is the leading provider of project and structured finance solutions for mining projects in the Australian and Asian markets. ANZ takes a holistic approach, working as a partner in the process and managing every aspect of a debt financing through to financial close. Critical to ANZ’s ability to deliver is its strength in the market and its ability to back financing outcomes through provision of significant underwritings and debt holds.
Silver sponsors:
Allens Arthur Robinson is an international law firm with offices in Australia, South East Asia and China. We offer comprehensive and seamless on the ground coverage across the region, with
approximately 900 lawyers based in 14 cities (namely Bangkok, Beijing, Brisbane, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Melbourne, Perth, Port Moresby, Phnom Penh, Shanghai, Singapore and Sydney).
Our clients include many of the world’s largest resources groups, placing us at the cutting edge of developments in the sector. We advise on strategic and operational issues – from sales, acquisitions and joint ventures, to construction, operation and maintenance contracts – and our project financing practice has been at the forefront of financing mining and infrastructure deals throughout Asia.
Our lawyers have the strategic knowledge, technical and negotiation skills to assist our clients in achieving their commercial objectives – whatever the project or transaction
– and whatever the obstacles.
Caterpillar Inc. is the world’s leading supplier of construction and mining products, as well as a major player in the diesel engine sector and the financial services business. The company employs nearly 95,000 people in manufacturing, marketing and distribution facilities in 30 countries.
Caterpillar has been the market leader in construction equipment for more than 75 years. In the 1980s, Cat made a strategic decision to pursue leadership of the worldwide mining sector. Four years after introducing its first mining production machine, the 785 truck, Cat achieved its goal.
Today the company offers the industry’s broadest line of mining equipment and technology. Cat serves the worldwide mining community through a single division called Caterpillar Global Mining, headquartered in Peoria, Illinois, with additional offices in each major mining region.
Olympus Pacific Minerals is engaged in the business of exploring and developing mineral properties. The Company holds an 80% interest in the Bong Mieu open pit gold mine in central Vietnam, and an 85% interest in the Phuoc Son gold exploration project in central Vietnam. On November 23, 2006, Olympus entered into an agreement, subject to completion of due diligence, whereby the Company and Philippine interests associated with the Company can earn a 60% interest in the Capcapo Gold property located in the Northern Philippines.
Oxiana Limited is an international mining company with a focus on Asia and Australia and has operating mines, new projects under development and a prospective portfolio of exploration projects. Oxiana has a firm goal of growing
a major mining company and aims to do this through operating and expanding its existing assets, discovering new resources and though business development opportunities.
Oxiana owns and operates the Sepon copper and gold operation in Laos which is the most modern and technologically advanced facility of its kind in Asia. Oxiana also has the Golden Grove zinc mine in West Australia, is advancing the Martabe gold project in Indonesia where it aims to be in production in late 2009 while construction of the Prominent Hill copper/gold mine in South Australia is underway. The company is also exploring for further mineral deposits in the under explored Asia region with projects in Laos, Indonesia, China, Cambodia and Thailand. These projects currently see Oxiana with the largest Asian presence of any mining company globally.
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