BHP CEO Mike Henry provided the Commodity Outlook Keynote at PDAC 2025 on March 2, 2025 in Toronto. CREDIT: PDAC.
Time is of the essence if miners are to deliver the minerals that are needed to power the energy transition.
That sense of urgency was front and centre this week as Toronto hosted the world’s biggest mining convention while Canada-U.S. relations erupted into a trade war. More than 27,000 people attended the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada’s annual conference from March 2-5. Some 1,100 exhibitors, including government officials, company executives and technical specialists from around the world also took part.
While government officials acknowledged more must be done to speed up permitting and close the extraction and processing gap with China, company executives said they’re looking for ways to enhance efficiencies via automation and artificial intelligence. Both sides…
