Schedule

Friday May 21
8:30 am – 10:00 am (doors open at 7:30 am)
 Diamond Tooth Gerties Opening Ceremony & Breakfast (must be a registered delegate to attend) Opening remarks from –Martin Gehrig – President/Dawson City Chamber of Commerce, Mike McDougall – President/KMPA, Dennis Fentie – Premier of the Yukon, Peter Jenkins – MLA Klondike, Archie Lang – Minister of Energy, Mines & Resources, Larry Bagnell – MP Yukon
10:00 am – 6:00 pm Dawson City Recreation Center Trade Show/ Craft Fair (open to the public)
 
Preliminary Speaker Schedule (Note times, speakers and order subject to change)
10:00 – 3:30 pm Speaker Sessions (Must be a registered delegate to attend) Location: St Mary’s Church(north side of Rec Center)
10:00am – 10:30am St Mary’s Church Bill LeBarge, Yukon Geological Survey Diamond placers in Russia and possible Yukon equivalents
10:30am – 10:45am St Mary’s Church Angela Johnson, Yukon Geological Survey Release of Yukon Placer Database 2004
10:45am – 11:30am St Mary’s Church Tom Bundtzen, Pacific Rim Geological Consultants Platinum placer deposits in Russia
11:30am – 12:00pm St Mary’s Church To be announced YESSA and implications for placer mining
LUNCH BREAK
1:00pm – 1:30pm St Mary’s Church Don Toews, Yukon Government, Department of Environment Examination of placer mined streams with preliminary findings of stream restoration rates
1:30pm – 2:00pm St Mary’s Church De Anne Stevens, State of Alaska Department of Natural Resources Geomorphology and gold characteristics of Livengood placers, Alaska
COFFEE
2:15pm – 2:45pm St Mary’s Church De Anne Stevens, State of Alaska Department of Natural ResourcesApplication of Remote Sensing Imagery and 3-D Visualization in the Council Mining District, Seward Peninsula, Alaska
2:45pm – 3:30pm St Mary’s Church Dan Walsh, University of Alaska, Fairbanks Coarse Placer Gold Recovery from Screen Oversize Material Using Eddy-Current Separation Technology
5:00pm Odd Hall 2nd Avenue & Queen Street KPMA is hosting “Mining & Dining Benefit Auction”
 
Saturday May 22
10:00 am – 6:00 pm Dawson City Recreation Center Trade Show/ Craft Fair (open to the public)
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Diamond Tooth Gerties Closing Reception (must be a registered delegate)