Join us at AME Roundup 2024: Exploring for Value

In January 2024, thousands of attendees will come together to celebrate the 40^th anniversary of the premier annual mineral exploration conference hosted by the Association for Mineral Exploration. AME Roundup returns to the Vancouver Convention Centre East on January 22-25, 2024, and the theme in 2024 is Exploring for Value.

We each define value differently and, at AME Roundup 2024, we will come together to examine all aspects of mineral exploration and development through technical, financial, and social lenses. AME Roundup is our industry’s premier opportunity to connect, exchange knowledge, and seek inspiration for exploration projects that will supply the minerals and metals required for our high-tech, low-carbon future. Over four days, we will showcase how AME and its member companies continue exploring for value in British Columbia and around the world.

As explorers and developers, value is discovered at the drill bit and grown through geoscience. Through our mineral exploration and development work, we create shared, lasting prosperity at the intersection of technical expertise, economic analysis, and social behaviour to realize British Columbia as a global centre of excellence in mining.

Producing the minerals and metals the world needs starts with discovering valuable deposits in the earth. Driven by our advanced geoscience capabilities, we assess and reassess the location, composition, and value of the rocks below the ground and test the viability of projects that could become mines of the future.

At AME Roundup 2024, leaders in economic geology, commodities, ESG and finance come together to share the latest trends, tools, and knowledge. Each carefully moderated technical session features speakers who are leaders, geologists, researchers, and innovators at the forefront of mineral exploration and discovery.

At the Government-Industry Forum, provincial, federal, and Indigenous governments and industry leaders will discuss the increased demand for the minerals and metals produced in British Columbia, how we regulate and manage the impacts, and how we balance these demands with social, regulatory, biodiversity, and reconciliation goals. Our industry has a generational opportunity transform how we operate and help ourselves and future generations transition to a low carbon future.

The Exhibit Hall at AME Roundup 2024 will showcase the suppliers and operators at every stage of the mineral exploration and development supply chain, featuring grassroots prospectors, junior exploration companies, and project generators on the cusp of something big, to major international mining companies. The Exhibit Hall also features the service and supply companies essential to supporting a thriving mining economy and the Indigenous, government, and academic groups critical to our future.

At AME Roundup, particularly at the 12^th annual Reconciliation Breakfast and The Gathering Place, we explore the social and human values weaved through the mineral discovery and development journey. AME Roundup provides spaces to connect and share stories and struggles, seeking common ground to advance reconciliation through shared social and economic benefits.

We are honoured to have Dr. Amy Parent, Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Governance and Education (Tier 2), Inaugural Associate Director, Cassidy Centre for Educational Justice, Tri-Agency Co-Chair Indigenous Leadership Circle in Research, Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University, join us as the Reconciliation Breakfast Keynote. Dr. Parent received the BC Historical Federation Certificate of Merit for the Ni’isjoohl rematriation research project with members of her House for their exemplary efforts to bring the Ni’isjoohl memorial pole back to the Nisga’a Nation from Scotland. The research project set an international precedent for the first totem pole to be rightfully returned from the United Kingdom on September 29, 2023, after being stolen for over 94 years.

Another exciting feature of AME Roundup 2024 is the return of the AME Roundup Indigenous Marketplace, which is supported by Teck Resources. Indigenous vendors from around the province are invited to display and sell their creations and share their stories with delegates.

Also marking its return during AME Roundup 2024 is Discovery Day, AME’s free, family-focused exhibition hosted on Sunday, January 21, 2024, at the Vancouver Convention Centre East. AME invites all members of the public to experience earth science, mineral exploration and mining with displays, exhibitors and experiences in a fun, hands-on, interactive environment. Our aim is to showcase the minerals and metals that make life possible to the next generation.