This presentation will provide an overview of C2M2A’s mission, history, growth, and significant achievements since its inception a decade ago. It will also describe the what’s and why 31 minerals are critical for Canada and its allies’ economic and sustainability success. Critical materials are much more than a traditional ‘mining story’, but rather an industrialization imperative and transition of clean technologies and the supply chains that will contribute to our climate future. C2M2A has built significant domestic and international bridges that are contributing to this transition.

The presentation will be made by: Mr. Ian M London, P.Eng., MBA, Executive Director, Canadian Critical Minerals & Materials Alliance (C2M2A), and Mr. Don Bubar, P.Geo, President & CEO, Avalon Advanced Materials Inc.

Date and time: 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM, December 6th, 2021

The Zoom meeting link will be sent to the registrants two days before the event.

Registration Link: https://criticalminerals2021.eventbrite.ca

Contact: Pappur Shankar, Pappur.shankar@peo-mc.ca

Biography of the speakers:

Donald S. Bubar, M.Sc., P.Geo, President and CEO

Don Bubar is a geologist with 45 years of experience in mineral exploration and development in Canada. Mr. Bubar is a graduate of McGill University (B.Sc., 1977) and Queen’s University (M.Sc., 1981). From 1984 to 1994, he worked for Aur Resources Inc. as Exploration Manager and later VP, Exploration. Mr. Bubar has been President and CEO of Avalon since 1995 and now serves on the Boards of three other junior companies.

Mr. Bubar also served as a Director of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) for nine years and Chair of its Aboriginal Affairs Committee from its creation in December, 2004 until retiring from the PDAC Board in March, 2013. Throughout his career, Mr. Bubar has been an advocate for increased Indigenous participation in the mineral industry, first through the PDAC and later through the NWT and Nunavut Chamber of Mines. Mr. Bubar serves on the Advisory Board to the Faculty of Science of McGill University, the Board of Directors of PDAC’s Mining Matters earth science education program and sits on the Canadian Museum of Nature Foundation Board.

https://foundation.nature.ca/leadership/don-bubar

Ian M. London, P.Eng, MBA

Executive Director

Canadian Critical Minerals & Materials Alliance (C2M2A)

Over the past fifteen years, Ian has been actively engaged in the emerging advanced materials sector. Currently in semi-retirement, he serves as Executive Director of C2M2A, an industry-led multi-stakeholder network that seeks and provides collaborative solutions to advance Canada’s significant potential in the global critical material supply market. He also chairs Canada’s seat on the International Standards Organization’s Rare Earth Technical Committee (ISO/TC298), serves as a committee member of ISO/TC 333- Lithium, co-chaired Canada’s Rare Earth R&D Initiative (2015 – 2021) and serves on the Advisory Board of the Rare Earth Industry Association. In 2012, Ian launched the now-biennial Critical Material Symposium series under the aegis of the Metallurgical Society of Canada. He has appeared before Canada’s Natural Resource and Finance Parliamentary Committees on several occasions.

Over his career, Ian has held executive position in the power sector and with engineered component supply chain organizations and served on the Boards of several clean technology companies.

Ian holds a BEng (Metallurgy) from McGill and an MBA – Schulich School of Business.