The Core Shack Opportunity

PDAC’s Core Shack provides a unique venue at the world’s premier mining convention to display core from new or ongoing projects that are generating exciting drill results. The latest discoveries from around the world will be featured along with maps, charts and technical information. If you have a project you’d like to promote and discuss with banking and senior mining executives, exploration executives and geologists, institutional and retail investors, brokers and analysts, government representatives and mining media, PDAC welcomes your submission! There is no fee to participate.

The 2025 Core Shack will take place in Toronto from March 2-5.

Application and Selection Process

The Core Shack Selection Committee will give preference to core from new discoveries or mature projects that have had recent significant drilling results for which the core has not been previously displayed. Applicants interested in exhibiting projects that were displayed at PDAC in the recent past must demonstrate in the online submission form how the project has advanced since it was last displayed. Applicants are limited to one application per deposit but are welcome to submit more than one deposit for consideration. Please provide as much information as possible on your drill results and the drill core that you wish to display.

This application has three sections:

  1. Applicant Contact Information
  2. Deposit Information
  3. Project Description

The deadline to apply is Friday, November 22, 2024 at 5 p.m. ET. Applicants will be notified regarding the status of their submissions in early December, 2024. If you should have any material change in a project after the application deadline, please email [email protected] with any additional information or updates.

Booth assignment for Successful Applicants

Core Shack is divided into two 2-day sessions. Each successful applicant will be assigned a spot in either Session A or Session B.

Session A – Sunday, March 2 and Monday, March 3, 2025
Session B – Tuesday, March 4 and Wednesday March 5, 2025

Applicant Contact Information

Deposit Information

If your project is selected, the information provided below will be used in Convention publications and marketing material.

All submissions should be noted as deposit, project, property or discovery. (e.g. Snow Lake Gold Project or Elvis Silver-Gold Property). Please submit only one application per deposit.
Style of mineralization. (e.g. epithermal gold, mesothermal gold, skarn, volcanic-hosted sulphide)
Closest city or town.
If this is not applicable to your country, enter N/A.
Please ensure that links for Core Shack Photos are live until mid-December.

Project Description

As the Core Shack is designed as a show case for drill core, the committee is looking for recent and interesting drill core that has not been previously displayed.

Please include information on the following:
• Description of drill core to be displayed including geology and assays
• Brief description of the mineralization style
• Mineral resource/reserve statements, if any
• Current stage of the deposit/project (exploration, development, operation)
• Recent significant drill hole intersections
• Nearby significant deposits or any other notable information that will assist the Core Shack Selection Committee

All relevant supporting documents (including PDFs and extra photos) should be added as a web link into the body of your project description. No more than 3,500 characters including spaces (approximately 500 words).

Did you display your project at Core Shack 2023 or 2024?*

Exhibit date preference* (Preference is not guaranteed should your company be selected)