How to Attend: The seminar is complimentary. Please register for it by Tuesday, November 3, 2026, to secure your place. RSVP via Eventbrite (click HERE) if you are interested in attending it.
For its Wednesday, November 4, 2026, Discussion Group seminar, CIM’s Management and Economics Society (MES), as part of its quarterly Perspectives & Insights on Metals and Mines series, is pleased to welcome:
Kerry Knoll
Chairman, Generation Mining
who will deliver an online presentation on:
Financing a Billion Dollar Mine With a $200 Million Market Cap
Abstract: The trials and tribulations a junior mining company getting the Marathon Copper-Palladium Mine in Ontario into construction.
Generation Mining repatriated the Marathon copper and palladium deposit from the South African-based Sibanye Stillwater Ltd. in 2019. Through three feasibility studies, a streaming deal with Wheaton Precious Metals and an onerous permitting process, construction has finally started more than 60 years after the deposit was discovered by Anaconda.
Marathon is the only mine in Ontario history to suffer through the Joint Review Panel Environmental Assessment process, which not only cost tens of millions of dollars but took a total of six years to accomplish, including four years by a previous operator. Through this process, Generation Mining has raised $1.3 billion to cover capital costs, a cost-overrun facility, and various other expenses.
About our presenter:
Kerry Knoll was a co-founder of Generation Mining and started several mining companies over the past four decades, including successful heap leach miner Wheaton River (which was also the parent of Wheaton Precious Metals), Thompson Creek, which became one of the world’s largest primary molybdenum miners, and Glencairn Gold, which had three operating mines in Central America.
Moderator: Terence Ortslan, Director at TSO Research (Resource Strategies and Policies)
Please join us!
Wednesday, November 4, 2026, at 3:30pm – 4:45pm ET (12:30pm – 1:45pm PT)
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Sponsored by:
About our CIM MES sponsor: IAMGOLD is an intermediate gold producer and developer based in Canada with operating mines in North America and West Africa.
About CIM MES’ Mineral Economics Discussion Group:
Since the mid-1980s, meetings of the Mineral Economics Discussion Group have taken place approximately once per month in Toronto between September and April. A regular program of meetings has taken place in Vancouver since 2015 and in Montreal since 2017. Speakers have addressed almost every aspect of the minerals industry except for strictly technical topics in geology, mining, and metallurgical engineering. A collegial, seminar-style atmosphere is fostered in order to allow lively discussion and exchange of ideas, with opportunities to network and socialize at live events. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, a full program has been maintained in a webinar format that better serves all our CIM and CIM MES members and guests throughout Canada and internationally.
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