Sue Craig and Heather Burrell, C0-Chairs
53rd Annual Yukon Geoscience Forum & Trade Show

On behalf of the 53rd Annual Yukon Geoscience Forum & Trade Show planning committee, we are truly excited to welcome you to this year’s event and extend our sincere appreciation for your interest in, and commitment to, our industry.

We feel extremely privileged to serve as this year’s event Co-Chairs, working alongside the exceptional staff at the Yukon Chamber of Mines, as well as past and present Yukon Government employees and other industry professionals. It takes a village.

Thank you to everyone who shared their time and their talents since last Spring to help organize what we are sure will be a meaningful event; from the vendors’ wares and services on the trade show floor to presentations about our territory’s world-class geology, nation-leading sustainability innovations and intergovernmental partnerships. We believe there is something for everyone to learn and find inspiration from.

This year’s event theme; Resourcing Today, Tomorrow, Together was carefully and collaboratively chosen as we work to support and communicate our responsible exploration and mining industries and the thriving local business community that serves it. Our collective efforts today are for generations to follow.

To this end, we are looking forward to hosting our second Public Open House (on Tuesday afternoon) to share our industry’s contributions to the territory’s socio-economic reality, and to bring our lived experiences to non-industry folks.

Finally, to our sponsors, our members and you – our event delegates – we wish you a very successful event and look forward to connecting with you over the coming days.

Sincerely,
Sue Craig and Heather Burrell Co-Chairs
53rd Annual Yukon Geoscience Forum & Trade Show

Jonas Smith, Executive Director, Yukon Chamber of Mines

On behalf of the Yukon Chamber of Mines, it is my pleasure to welcome you all to the 53rd Annual Yukon Geoscience Forum & Trade Show.

Whether a local, or attending from outside the territory, the Yukon is literally and figuratively enriched by your respective contributions to responsible exploration, mining and business and we greatly appreciate you joining us for this year’s event; Resourcing Today, Tomorrow, Together.

The past year has certainly presented challenges for our industry; however, it is the myriad of opportunities you continue to create and seize as true innovators and eternal optimists that drives what continues to be the Yukon’s largest private sector employer and contributor. Thank you for your vision, your perseverance and your ongoing commitment.

The Yukon Chamber of Mines continues to work to help Yukoners better understand how responsible exploration and mining here in the territory benefits their lives and their livelihoods to support you in your good work and help pave the way for enhanced public perception and increased investor confidence. As this welcome message is written and goes to print (in October), the Yukon will have held a territorial election. Together, and now more than ever, building meaningful relationships and strengthening partnerships is integral for our industry to survive and thrive today – and into the future.

Throughout the next days, we are proud to highlight and reflect upon some of last season’s work as we look forward to the year ahead and we encourage you to take in as much of the program as your busy schedules allow. From connections forged on the Trade Show floor and during the many social events on offer to updates spanning all aspects of our industry, we appreciate you all coming together to share your successes.

The Yukon Chamber of Mines extends a sincere thank you to everyone involved in making this event possible. I look forward to connecting with you over the coming days and wish you all a very successful show.

Sincerely,

Jonas Smith
Executive Director
Yukon Chamber of Mines

Michael McClelland, CEO, BMC Minerals

BMC is a proud member of the Yukon Chamber of Mines, and we are very pleased to once again be the Patron Sponsor for the annual Yukon Geoscience Forum. The work the Chamber does to represent our industry is invaluable and as we navigate an increasingly uncertain world, and the Chamber’s efforts will continue to be critical to our overall success.

In the year since we last gathered for Geoscience there have continued to be successes in prospecting, exploration, mining, and investment throughout the Yukon. These are successes we should celebrate together over the coming days as we gather with old friends (and new) and these are the successes we need to tell the world about. At the same time, there remain expectations, and I would suggest, obligations on our industry to continue to improve on our environmental, social, and economic performance and Geoscience provides the perfect forum to learn from each other to continue to advance our industry.

These are challenging times; internationally, domestically, environmentally, and economically. Yukoners, and the rest of the world, need Yukon minerals and our expertise in finding, developing, and extracting those minerals, if we are going to, collectively, successfully transition to a green economy. Industry has a duty to do that in a responsible, respectful, and sustainable manner for the benefit of everyone, locally and globally.

As we celebrate the 53rd annual Yukon Geoscience Forum it’s safe to say the industry of today is not the same as the industry of 50 years ago and we will not be the same 50 years hence. Now more than ever, Industry needs to continue to evolve and innovate to solve the immediate challenges before us and the ones to come, working closely with First Nations, communities, stakeholders, and governments to do so.

BMC looks forward to being a positive part of the Yukon’s future over the next 50 years and beyond. We wish all delegates a very successful Geoscience and we look forward to seeing everyone over the course of the next few days.