PDAC 2025 Exploration Insights Application Form

The Exploration Insights Selection Committee is soliciting presentations on technical, policy or academic abstracts.

Presentations of a promotional nature are not appropriate for this forum.

To be considered for an Exploration Insights opportunity, you must submit an online application form. All applications will be reviewed by the Selection Committee and opportunities will be assigned based on the material content presented in the application alone.

Exploration Insight presentations are typically 20 minutes long.

The PDAC welcomes applications from a diverse range of speakers. Please review our Equity, Diversity & Inclusion policy for more information.

Please note that there are a limited number of presentation slots available.

Application deadline is Friday, September 6, 2024 at 5:00 PM ET.

Those short listed by the Selection Committee will be asked to submit a 3 – 5 minute video summary presentation.

Please complete the fields below. * Indicates required field.

Select the category that your presentation best fits into*:

New concepts and technical developments in exploration including AI studies.
New uses and technical advancements for individual commodities, particular recently designated critical minerals such as REE, lithium, cobalt, graphite, etc.
Exploration properties of merit (their recent exploration and development history).
Mineral deposit case histories (mineralization, alteration and deposit formation).
Ideas for achieving diversity in the mining sector.
Case histories dealing with permitting successes inside and outside of Canada.
Case histories dealing with exploration health and safety.
Other

List abstract author(s) by first name, last name and company/affiliation:*

I have proper authority to use, reproduce and present and represent the proposed material in my application including but not limited to pictures, representations, video, photographs, graphics, text, whether copyright is written or not and that these rights to such do not conflict with or infringe on the intellectual property or other rights of any other person or entity.

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