AME Roundup 2026 is heading to Vancouver, Canada from 26-29 January – bringing in delegates, exhibitors, sponsors, students, government, and indigenous leaders to connect and grow viable exploration projects.
The event explores the theme ‘minerals for a changing world’, which represents searching, discovering, and developing mineral deposits to ensure the world has minerals that it needs.
Hundreds of mineral exploration stories and discoveries will showcase how every mine begins with prospectors and junior mining companies.
As Mining.com.au reported, Canada was one of many countries to send delegates to this year’s Future Minerals Forum (FMF) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Speaking to this news service on the sidelines of the event, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Claude Guay MP says FMF comes at a time when Canada has a renewed focus on mining “and the whole world has a renewed focus on critical minerals”.
Canada holds vast mineral reserves. The mining sector directly or indirectly provides about 711,000 jobs and represents 5.9% of the Canadian economy.
Since late 2024, more than 500 major projects have been under construction or planned over the next decade in the energy, forest, and mining sectors, which have a combined potential capital value of C$632.6 billion ($707.4 billion). This is an increase from 2023 when 493 projects and capital value C$570.5 billion was recorded.
In the 2024 inventory, there were about 140 mining projects with a combined value of C$117 billion, as previously reported by this news service.
The Government of Canada reports around 70 mining projects in 2025 would process or extract some form of critical minerals, worth C$72.4 billion in potential investment.
Of these projects, 36 were valued at C$41.7 billion and were to extract or process copper, nickel or lithium, three key components of EV batteries.
Australia and Canada also have a partnership to collaborate on critical minerals, following both nations signing a Joint Declaration of Intent on Critical Minerals Collaboration in November 2025.
The agreement, between the Department of Industry, Science and Resources and Department of Natural Resources of Canada, will promote and strengthen cooperation and trade in critical minerals value chains.
Other objectives include advancing projects of mutual interest, encouraging commercial partnerships and research collaborations and addressing policy challenges faced by producer nations.
Both countries will work to ensure that emerging standards-based markets capture the challenges that producers of high standards critical minerals like Australia and Canada face.
Established in 1912, AME represents, advocates, and promotes the interests of more than 6,000 members who are engaged in exploration and development in British Columbia and internationally.
Write to Aaliyah Rogan at Mining.com.au
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