CEO Breakfast

SOLD OUT
Date: Monday, January 24, 2011
Location: Marine Room
Time: 7:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.
Sponsored by: Miller Thomson LLP
(ticket required)

Keynote Speaker: Jim O’Rourke, Chief Executive Officer, Copper Mountain Mining Corporation

Jim graduated in 1964 with a B.A.Sc. degree in Mining Engineering from the University of British Columbia. He gained valuable mine development and operating experience while involved in the start-up phase of five major mines over 14 years with Placer Development Limited. Jim has more than 30 years of hands-on experience in mine evaluations, financing development, marketing and operations in Canada, the United States, South America and the Philippines. As President of Princeton Mining Corporation from 1987 to 1997, he was responsible for the acquisition of the Similco open pit copper mine; and the evaluation, financing and development of the Huckleberry open pit copper mine in northern BC. The Huckleberry project was completed on schedule at its budgeted cost of $140 million.

Currently, Jim is President of Orclann Investments Inc., a private investment company, Chairman of Compliance Energy Corporation, Former President of Huckleberry Mines Limited and a director of numerous public and private companies in mining and property development. Jim has served as a director of the Mining Association of Canada (1987-1990), the Vancouver Board of Trade (1990) and Chairman (1992) and Director (1987-present) of the Mining Association of British Columbia. Jim was the 2005 recipient of the Edgar A. Scholz Medal for Excellence in Mine Development in British Columbia and the Yukon.