James (Jim) Walker completed BSc and PhD degrees at the University of New Brunswick. His career with the New Brunswick Geological Survey (NBGS) began with regional bedrock mapping and mineral deposit studies in northern NB; he now serves as the manager of NBGS North in Bathurst. 

He is a member of the Association Professional Engineers and Geoscientists New Brunswick; a fellow of both Geoscientists Canada and the Society of Economic Geologists; he is a councillor and former president of the Atlantic Geoscience Society (AGS), and he served 17 years on the executive of the Mineral Deposits Division, Geological Association of Canada (GAC). He served on the organizing committees of numerous events including the LOCs for two GAC/MAC annual meetings, several AGS colloquia, and the International Applied Geochemistry Symposium (IAGS). He has authored or contributed to several field trip guidebooks for GAC, IAGS, New Brunswick Prospectors and Developers Association and Northeast Intercollegiate Geological Conference field meetings. 

Walker is an associate editor (geology) with the CIM Journal. He was on the local organizing committee and a guidebook author for the CIM Field conference (Bathurst’93). He has authored several papers in a special issue devoted to the Bathurst Mining Camp in CIM’s Exploration and Mining Geology journal (2006). He chaired the CIM Mineral Exploration Session held in conjunction with the annual NB Exploration Mining and Petroleum Conference (2009 through 2023).  He presented at several CIM Bathurst mini-conventions, and more recently contributed as an organizer-guidebook author and field trip leader (2015 through 2019) and was an organizer and presenter in the NB Branch-CIM Virtual conference in 2022.

Theresa Nyabeze is a professional mining engineer with over twenty years of experience in the mining industry in engineering and in operations. Over the years, she has gained the diverse experience necessary to fully support the governance of mineral resources and reserves.  Starting out as a short-range underground mine planner responsible for producing day to day drilling and blasting layouts, development prints and operations scheduling, she then transitioned to creating mine design packages, life of mine plans inclusive of infrastructure considerations and writing of supporting reports while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams. Adding to her engineering experience, she worked underground as a front-line supervisor, providing leadership to crews to better understand the impact of mine engineering plans on the execution of work.   

Her diverse hands-on experience is instrumental in her ability to contribute effectively to issues pertaining to the estimation of mineral reserves and resources along with their related governance in various regulatory environments for public disclosure, process standardization and risk management.  She interacts with various technical groups and promotes dialogue on topics pertaining to mining resources and mineral reserves.  

Theresa’s personal motto is “Take care of people and the rest will follow” with the strong belief that technical excellence is enabled by inclusive work environments. She has received many accolades for her contributions to both her community of Sudbury and to Canada. Most notable among these awards are the Canadian “40 Under Forty” award from Northern Ontario Business and inclusion among the 100 Accomplished Black Canadian Women. She is also a proud alumnus of the Governor General’s Canadian Leadership Conference.