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Friday, 1st Oct, 2021
Online
11.00AM – Cam Knight – Stand-up Comic
11.10AM – Ben Murphy & Benjamin Cox – BRIMM Exploration Economics, with content from the BRIMM program at the University of British Columbia.
11.50PM – Happy Hour – Q&A + Networking
Ben Murphy
Ben, not to be mistaken for Benjamin, is a metallurgist / mineral processor. The first part of his career was spent working at different mine sites around the world. This was where he developed his love of bubbles. He then flipped to the ‘dark side’ of equipment sales and has worked for several OEMs both in his native Australia and in the Americas. It was during this time he started thinking about how equipment used in processing plants and how paradigms around the equipment often hold the industry back. He also started working with Benjamin and focusing on how to unlock value in mining operations. Currently he works for FLSmidth looking after a large copper miner and several gold miners along with shepherding FLSmidth’s efforts in the gold space. He lives in Denver Colorado with his Wife and three small, but particularly loud, children.
Benjamin, not Ben, the taller but skinnier non-beer drinking part of B^2, is a medieval historian who got lost while studying the economic causes of the black death and ended up dealing with the economics around mineral processing. On the way, he has detoured and put together Oreninc (which tracked all junior financing for five years), Aston Bay Holdings, which did a deal with BHP on its copper project. Plus, Benjamin has the dubious distinction of working for a hedge fund during the last financial crisis. He has five kids, one dog, one wife, and knows how to swing a hammer when he is broke (which due to the detour to the mining industry with a large family seems to happen way too frequently). He is also writing a Ph.D. on water economics in mining. He can be paid with dark chocolate if you need a favor.
Cam Knight
Cam has been an actor and stand up comedian for the past 16 years and was the co-host of a brand new show on Channel 9 called Unreal Estate alongside Kate Langbroek in 2016. He has regularly appeared on the Today show, co-hosted Studio 10 on Channel 10 and can be heard as a weekly co-host on Triple M’s Merrickville and The Weekenders with Dan Ginane in Sydney.
