These publication presentations are largely technical, aimed at the geoscientist or explorationist community members who are very savvy about that sort of documentation, looking for breakthroughs in knowledge and science and new models, so that they can look out for the haystacks that are out there in nature and find the needles in them.

We have an array of meetings that we attend every year. We restrain ourselves in terms of attendance so that it's within reason, but at the same time we go so that connections are made. For instance, one scientist might present for several others when we attend these meetings.

Canada is a vibrant place for mineral exploration, so we have yearly open houses, as they call them, in each of the provinces and territories of Canada. Usually they happen in the fall just after the field season, so we have the mineral industry and provincial organizations that do some work in this field. People get together and it's part of networking and knowledge transfer face to face. Generally there are technical presentations that are made. It could also be through a poster presentation, because some of these things are really crowded—if you think about PDAC, for example, which gets into the multi-thousands.

We look for the best opportunity to do this knowledge transfer. Sometimes it is through workshops also with universities that are operating in this field.

With regard to bridging this knowledge to communities, we have examples through geoscience for mapping in the north where we're really reaching over to the communities of the north and letting them know that the first element of development is sometimes a mineral exploration company arriving in their territory. We try to bridge the knowledge with them so that they can build capacity in their own community to interact with developers that are coming there and know what this is about. It could take five or 10 years sometimes before the actual development, and there is a lot of chance it will not go the way people hope. There's a lot of chance that they don't quite find what they are looking for in that industry. It is high risk.

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