Delegates and ICCC team along with political leaders at ICCC's business reception for Indian delegation to PDAC

Indo-Canada Chamber of Commerce (ICCC) organized a business reception for the Indian mining delegation visiting the annual Prospectors and Developers Association Convention (PDAC) in Toronto on 7th March, 2016.

PDAC International Convention, Trade Show & Investors Exchange is the world’s leading convention for people, companies and organizations in, or connected with, mineral exploration. This is the biggest convention in Canada where, 1100 exhibitors and 25,000 attendees come from over 100 countries participate.

Nikunja B. Dhal, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Mines, Government of India, led the Indian delegation comprising over 26 representatives from the government and the private sector, including Managing Director of Nalco and VALCO India.

The ICCC hosted the delegation for dinner and an attendance was over 70 came to listen to the mining opportunities in India. In his welcome remarks, Sanjay Makkar, President, ICCC, emphasized the significance of the PDAC convention and the role chamber has played in promoting bilateral trade and investment between Canada and India in the mining sector.

ICCC’s Mining Committee under the leadership of Mr. Pappur Shankar is working hard to promote the Canada India relations in mining sector. The Chamber wanted to share Canadian mining experience of over a century and especially the state of the art technology that Canada has to offer to tap the unlocked potential in the mining sector of India, said Makkar.

R K Perindia, Acting Consul General of India in Toronto, lauded the remarkable work of ICCC in promoting bilateral trade between Canada and India, and its focused initiatives in the mining sector. The delegation is looking for Canadian companies to invest in India. The delegation leaders gave information about the following areas of interests and seeking Canadian companies to participate.

• Investment opportunities in Mining, Metal & Energy sectors
• Mineral assets of interest: Bauxite, Thermal Coal, Copper etc
• Greenfield Aluminium Smelter with Captive Power Plant (Investment opportunity of 3 Billion USD)
• Technology support, R&D
• Extraction of Alumina from low grade ore/ fly ash
• Aluminium Smelter – Reduction of Energy consumption
• Iron concentrate from red mud.
• Development of new applications and alloys of Aluminium
• Extraction of Gallium, Rare Earth elements from Bayer Liquor/Red mud

Dipika Damrela, MPP, and Norm Miller MPP, were also present. Mr. Pappur Shankar moderated the discussion, and Mr. Jagdish Bajaj offered the vote of thanks.