Have a drink and finger food while you re-connect with friends and colleagues from the club. Relax and unwind before sitting down to hear our speakers.

Julian welcomes the members to the event, gives us a run-down on any mining and resources news since the last event and introduces the speakers.

NSW hosts Australia’s biggest mine, Newcrest’s Cadia-Ridgeway at Orange. A stampede of explorers are now testing the trend for similar riches nearby at Wellington. Magmatic Resources (ASX:MAG) MD Peter Duerden continues with the drilling and the results coming. He’s hit the same grade as Cadia East is mining, has mirror geology, and is now hunting for the tonnes as the district continues to excite the NSW copper-gold explorers and investors.

With copper in hot demand and gold cruising strong, Grant Craighead’s Canterbury Resources (ASX:CBY) has expert explorers back in PNG jungles in the hot pursuit of copper-gold porphyry elephants. Two are on mainland PNG on-trend with the billion tonne Wafi-Golpu deposit, the Hidden Valley gold mine and the mighty Wau-Bulolo goldfield. Near Gladstone Qld Canterbury (with Rio) is chasing the Briggs porphyry target estimated at 45 to 165Mt at 0.4% to 0.8% copper, and just a stone’s throw from the Bruce Highway.