Eira Thomas is a Canadian geologist with over 25 years of experience in the Canadian mining business. She is the President and CEO of Lucara Diamond Corp as well as an original founder of the company. Eira’s previous roles include CEO of Kaminak Gold Corporation, Vice President, Aber Resources, now Dominion Diamond Corp., and founder and CEO of Stornoway Diamond Corp. She was elected to Suncor’s Board of Directors in April 2006 and is the chair of the Environmental, Health, Safety & Sustainable Development (EHS&SD) Committee and a member of the Human Resources and Compensation Committee. In 2004, Ms. Thomas was honoured as one of "Canada's Top 40 under 40" by the Caldwell Partners and Report on Business magazine. In 2007, she was named to Canada's Most Powerful Women: Top 100 list by the Women's Executive Network. Ms. Thomas graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Science degree.

When investors think of Endomines, most people, think of Finland. So what's behind the surprising move to Idaho? We met up with Saila Miettinen-Lähde in advance of his presentation at Mines and Money London to learn more.

Oliver has seven years’ experience as an equity research analyst, having worked at VTB Capital where he covered global natural resources companies and the commodity markets. He is also a member of Young Mining Professionals. We caught up with him ahead of Mines and Money London.

Andes Resources is a public company with 80kHa of licenses in the pro-mining district of Antioquia- Colombia highly prospective for epithermal gold and copper/gold porphyries. After 4 years in acquisition mode they are now primed to methodically drill test their numerous priority targets and contribute to the 65Moz gold equivalent already discovered within 30km of their holdings. We caught up with the MD Jason Stirbinskis in advance of Mines and Money London​​

What is it that keeps driving Alex to success? Alex Black is the rare example of an Australian who has succeeded in Latin America. Firstly RioAlto, then RioAlto 2, Alex Black is a mining entrepreneur who has succeeded where others have failed. We caught up ahead of him before Mines and Money London

At Mines and Money London, Andrew Thake caught up with John Lamb, who shares with us the vision of ASX to be a leading regional base and precious metals producer and how the Bawdwin deposit will help ASX set itself apart from others in this space.

From humble beginnings in 2009, Things That Make You Go Hmmm... has grown to become one of the most popular and widely-read financial publications in the world.

A frequent speaker at Mines and Money, we caught up with Bert ahead of this year’s show.