Activation Laboratories Ltd. (Actlabs) has provided industry-leading analytical services to the exploration and mining industry for over 30 years. Services include geochemistry, mineralogy, metallurgy, on-site laboratories, environmental analysis, and more. The company is known for its focus on quality, customer service, innovation, and customized solutions to exploration challenges. Actlabs is a privately owned, Canadian company, based in Ancaster, ON, and operates 15 laboratories in 6 countries. They offer high quality analyses and are able to meet high volume requests while maintaining rapid turnaround times.

The Canadian Ocean Literacy Coalition (COLC) is an alliance of organizations, networks, institutions, and communities working together to better understand and advance ocean literacy in Canada. Through national multi-partner collaborations and joint action initiatives, such as Ocean Week Canada, their work focuses on three priority areas - outreach and education, research and impact, leadership and advocacy. To learn more, check out our recently published National Strategy Impact Report 2022 and accompanying Key Initiatives Report 2022.

CoreLift™ is a Canadian manufacturer of equipment for modern core logging facilities based in Northern Ontario. Their signature product is the fully adjustable core logging table which dramatically reduces health & safety risks while improving productivity in core logging operations. CoreLift™ also provides pallet lifters specifically built for ergonomic handling of core boxes. Their quality products are robust, durable, and built with safety in mind.

IAMGOLD is an intermediate gold producer and developer based in Canada with operating mines in North America and West Africa. The Company is building the large-scale, long life Côté Gold project in Canada in partnership with Sumitomo Metal Mining Co. Ltd., which is expected to commence production in early 2024.

IAMGOLD employs approximately 3,300 people and is committed to maintaining its culture of accountable mining through high standards of Environmental, Social and Governance ("ESG") practices, including its commitment to Zero Harm®, in every aspect of its business.

IAMGOLD is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: IAG) and the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: IMG) and is one of the companies on the Jantzi Social Index ("JSI"), a socially screened market capitalization-weighted consisting of companies which pass a set of broadly based environmental, social and governance rating criteria.

The Geological Association of Canada (GAC®) is a national multi-disciplinary geoscience organization with representatives in all Canadian Territories and Provinces as well as the United States, Europe, and other parts of the world. The GAC makes significant contributions to the promotion and development of the geological sciences in Canada through publications, awards, conferences, meetings, and exhibitions.

EN: The Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) is the national organization for geoscientific information and research. Our work supports exploration and decision-making in the mining and energy sectors as well as national sovereignty, hazards risk management and more.

FR: La Commission Géologique du Canada (CGC) est l’organisation nationale d’information et de recherche géoscientifiques. Notre travail est essentiel pour la prise de décisions et l’exploration dans les secteurs de l’exploitation minière et de l’énergie, ainsi que pour la souveraineté nationale, la gestion des risques d’aléas, et plus encore.

Glencore is one of the world’s largest global diversified natural resource companies and a major producer and marketer of more than 60 commodities that advance everyday life. Through a network of assets, customers and suppliers that spans the globe, they produce, process, recycle, source, market and distribute the commodities that support decarbonization while meeting the energy needs of today.

With around 140,000 employees and contractors and a strong footprint in over 35 countries in both established and emerging regions for natural resources, their marketing and industrial activities are supported by a global network of more than 40 offices.

Glencore's customers are industrial consumers, such as those in the automotive, steel, power generation, battery manufacturing and oil sectors. They also provide financing, logistics and other services to producers and consumers of commodities.

Glencore is proud to be a member of the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights and the International Council on Mining and Metals. They are an active participant in the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative.

Glencore's Sudbury Integrated Nickel Operations (Sudbury INO) activities in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, include exploration, Fraser Mine, Nickel Rim South Mine, Strathcona Mill, and the Sudbury Smelter. The company has been mining nickel copper ores in the Sudbury area of northern Ontario since 1928, and is currently developing the Onaping Depth Project, a deep mining project located below Craig Mine in the West end of Sudbury. They employ 1,200 permanent employees, and 1,200 contractors.

Focused on the development of world-class credentials in all disciplines of the mining cycle, the Goodman School of Mines supports ongoing development of future and current leaders in the mining industry and is at the forefront of conversations about mining education in the country and around the world.

The Harquail School of Earth Sciences at Laurentian University offers some of the most comprehensive field- and laboratory-based Earth Science research, undergraduate and graduate programs in North America. Located in the world's largest geology and mining cluster in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, on the rim of one of the world's oldest, largest, and best-exposed asteroid impact sites, they have a setting for field-based teaching and research that cannot be duplicated elsewhere.

IMDEX is a leading global Mining-Tech company, which enables successful and cost-effective operations from exploration to production. The company’s unique end-to-end solutions for the mining value chain integrate its leading AMC™ and REFLEX™ brands. Together they enable clients to drill faster and smarter, obtain accurate subsurface data and receive critical information in real-time.

Isomass Scientific Inc. is an independent, full service company that has served Canadian and American scientists since 1981. Their business revolves around supplying well proven, world class scientific instruments and providing the support required by their customer to obtain the very best of analytical results.

The Mineralogical Association of Canada (MAC) is a non-profit scientific organization that promotes and advances the knowledge of mineralogy and the allied disciplines of crystallography, petrology, geochemistry, and mineral deposits. It publishes The Canadian Journal of Mineralogy and Petrology.

MERC is a semi-autonomous research centre at Laurentian University (LU) that was established by the LU Senate in 1997. It is affiliated with the Harquail School of Earth Sciences at Laurentian University and is one of seven mining-related research centres and departments at Laurentian that form an integral part of the Goodman School of Mines. Their mission is to conduct and promote cutting-edge, field-based, collaborative research on mineral deposits and their environments, and to educate and train highly qualified personnel (HQP) for careers in the minerals industry, academia or government.

The Ontario Geological Survey collects, distributes and applies geoscience data and information to attract and guide mineral investment and to help inform broad provincial land-use planning decisions related to the environment, ecology, climate change and public health and safety.

Our CRMs are developed exclusively for the mining, exploration and analytical industries and are distributed worldwide in over 135 countries. Our products cover a wide range of commodities, concentrations and mineralisation styles and are well characterised in rigorous inter-laboratory testing programs and certified in accordance with International Standards Organisation (ISO) recommendations. The OREAS® range of certified reference materials (CRMs) are prepared entirely from natural ore materials sourced from deposits throughout Australia, Southeast Asia, North and South America and Africa. This includes refractory gold, gold occluded in silicates and other metals hosted in refractory minerals. Being sourced naturally from real ore deposits, guarantees our CRMs will behave the same as your field samples during sample fusion and digestion. This upholds the integrity of the analytical process providing absolute confidence in your assay data.

ODM was founded by entrepreneurial geologist Stuart Averill in 1974 when heavy mineral geochemistry was emerging as the key investigative tool for finding mineral deposits buried under thick overburden. Based at their laboratory in Ottawa, Canada, their highly experienced staff of exploration geologists hold all key management positions. ODM holds a Certificate of Authorization from the Professional Geoscientists of Ontario. They work as a partner with their clients on exploration and research challenges. Not only do they provide solid expertise in recovery and identification of heavy mineral grains, they offer significant insight into geological and geochemical processes written onto those grains. ODM has been a key contributor to numerous discoveries including New Gold's Rainy River gold mine in Ontario, the Golden Pond East and West deposits at Casa Beradi, Quebec, the Eagle Point and Collins Bay B-zone uranium deposits in the Athabasca Basin, the Voisey's Bay Ni-Cu-Co deposit in Labrador, and several kimberlites across Canada.

Since its founding in 1967, Proto Mfg. has been developing cutting-edge instrumentation for the characterization of materials. Their product line includes various x-ray diffraction (XRD) instruments: residual stress and retained austenite measurement systems, powder diffractometers, Laue single-crystal orientation systems, and high-resolution diffractometers. In addition, they supply x-ray tubes and custom equipment to meet customers’ unique needs. For over 30 years, they have been providing effective measurement systems for laboratory, factory, and field environments. Their trained specialists also offer measurement services in our American and Canadian laboratory locations, which are ISO/IEC 17025:2017 accredited.

The Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits (SGA) is an international scientific society that promotes the science of mineral deposits geology. It publishes Mineralium Deposita.

Vale’s Energy Transition Metals business is one of the world's largest producers of high-quality nickel and an important producer of copper and responsibly sourced cobalt. With headquarters in Toronto, Canada, and operations in Newfoundland & Labrador, Ontario, Manitoba, UK, Indonesia and Brazil, the business delivers critical building blocks for a cleaner, greener future.