Published: 09 February 2024
AMC at PDAC 2025
AMC Consultants will be attending and exhibiting at Booth 124 at the PDAC Convention 2025 from Sunday March 2 to Wednesday March 5, 2025, in Toronto, Canada.
The World’s Premier Mineral Exploration & Mining Convention is the leading event for people, companies and organizations connected to mineral exploration.
The annual award winning PDAC Convention in Toronto, Canada brings together up to 30,000 attendees from over 135 countries for its educational programming, networking events, and business opportunities.
Since it began in 1932, the convention has grown in size, stature and influence. Today, it is the event of choice for the world’s mineral industry hosting more than 1,100 exhibitors and 700 presenters.
Meet Our Team
Gene Tucker
Director, Regional Manager - Canada
Gene is a principal open pit mining engineer with 25+ years' experience. He has extensive operational and corporate experience in coal, copper, gold, and molybdenum throughout North and South America and Greenland with mines moving up to 200 Mtpa. Gene has held senior technical and operations positions with multiple companies including Vice President, Technical Services with Conuma Coal Resources, Mine Planning Superintendent for Detour Gold and Taseko’s Gibraltar mines, some of Canada’s largest open pit mines. He was part of the team that brought the Sierra Gorda copper-molybdenum deposit in Chile from PEA to construction and the Mine Manager at KGHM’s Franke Mine through construction into operation. Gene has been responsible for mine planning and operational improvements resulting in significant operating cost reductions at numerous mines. Gene is also proficient with the use of Minesight’s suite of software.
James Kenan
Underground Manager, Principal Mining Engineer
James is a principal underground mining engineer with 20+ years of experience in diamond, gold, copper and nickel mining operations. James’ experience includes stabilizing underground operations, improving annual cost budget accuracy, ore reserve designs, mine design layouts, blasthole drilling, loading and timing layouts, mine services designs, life-of-mine planning, reporting, and identifying risks and opportunities. James is an active user of Deswik, EPS, and Datamine.
Wayne Rogers
Open Pit Manager, Principal Mining Engineer
Wayne Rogers is a principal open pit mining engineer with 20 years of experience in both operations and consulting in iron ore, copper, and gold. Wayne's expertise includes mine design and optimization, strategic & tactical scheduling, drill and blast, technical reviews, and feasibility studies. He has strong site-based experience in mine planning, drill-and-blast optimization, and mine-to-mill process optimization. Wayne is an expert user of Deswik, Minemax, Whittle, Surpac, and MineSched.
Mining4Beer @ PDAC 2025 - an AMC Consultants sponsored event
Welcome to Mining 4 Beer, a non-sanctioned, informal social event for those in the mining industry who want to unwind, connect, and share stories over a drink. No agendas, just good company and a cold one.
Join our team!
Host: Mining4Beer
Date: Sunday March 2, 2025
Time: 5.30 PM - 11.55 PM EST
Where: Scotland Yard Pub, 56 The Esplanade, Toronto, Canada