TECHNICAL SESSION III

Join us for our 3rd Technical Session of the 2025-2026 Season!

Technical sessions are designed to provide opportunities for both professionals and students.

Enjoy an evening of dinner, drinks, and industry insights! Learn about the latest research in the field, participate in an exciting Q&A session, and connect with the most active professionals in Idaho!

PRESENTATION DETAILS

Mineral Resource Update for Liberty Gold’s Black Pine Oxide Gold Project

Owen Nicholls, MSc., RM-SME, Director of Technical Services, Liberty Gold

Liberty Gold’s Black Pine gold deposit is in southeastern Idaho, near the Utah border, within the northern Great Basin of the western United States. The project hosts a large, district-scale Carlin-style oxide gold system in a stable, mining-friendly U.S. jurisdiction. Pegasus Gold Corp operated at Black Pine from 1992 to 1997 and produced approximately 435,000 ounces of gold from shallow open pits at an average grade of 0.63 g/t Au. The historical operations demonstrate the amenability of the mineralization to open-pit, oxide mining, but steadily decreasing gold prices during the period of operations eventually led Pegasus to cease mining.

In 2017 Liberty Gold commenced exploration work in the district and has been steadily growing a resource on the Black Pine deposit. The latest resource, published in February 2026, consists of 4.9Moz of indicated and 1.1Moz of Inferred gold mineralization. The Mineral Resource estimate utilized data from over 460,000m of drilling in more than 3,000 holes to build geological, geometallurgical , and resource domain models to inform the gold interpolation approach. The mineralization at Black Pine is hosted within a thick sequence of faulted carbonate rocks of the Pennsylvanian Oquirrh Formation and exhibits extensive structural preparation, decalcification and clay alteration typical of Carlin-style systems. The system is strongly oxidized across the exposed footprint of the deposit, supporting the potential for efficient heap leach processing, and extensive metallurgical testing has demonstrated rapid gold recoveries with no crush size sensitivity, supporting a simple, scalable, and low-cost processing approach.

Liberty Gold will continue drilling to test the extents of the Black Pine deposit, and we are on track to produce an updated Feasibility level Technical Report in Q4, 2026.

EVENT DETAILS

Date: Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Location: The Riverside Hotel (North Star Room), 2900 West Chinden Boulevard, Garden City, ID 83714

Dinner: Seated service and hosted bar

EVENT SPONSORS

Session Sponsor: Big thank you to Weir Minerals for their sponsorship!

Weir Minerals provides the mining industry with engineered processing solutions. Working with customers worldwide, they use their technical expertise and extensive footprint to help solve problems and optimize the entire process. Whether it is slurry transportation equipment or a mine dewatering system, they have you covered. They supply classification and separation as well as crushing and grinding equipment for efficient processing. They protect valuable assets with their durable wear lining materials, and at the end of the process, can provide a sustainable tailings and pipeline solution.

Bar Sponsor: Thank you to Ames Construction for sponsoring the bar!

M3 is a privately held full service design firm. They are a merger of 3 disciplines; Architecture, Engineering and Construction Management, providing continuous design and construction services from project conception to final testing and integration. M3 has the experience and expertise to develop creative design solutions for a wide variety of project types ranging from complicated dynamic structures to state of the art research laboratories.

REGISTRATION

PLEASE REGISTER BY FRIDAY, MARCH 6TH to ensure a proper headcount can be provided to The Riverside.

Please note that to complete your registration, you must complete the Google form following payment. Your dietary restrictions and contact details will be collected via this form.

Professionals, if you would like to register for this event, please click the button below:

*Late registration (after March 6th) increases to $55/professional

Students, if you would like to register for this event, please click the button below:

RAFFLE DONATIONS

We are always looking for swag or other donation items to include in our raffle giveaways at the end of every Technical Session.

If you have any items you'd like to donate to the giveaway, please bring them with you to the event. If you cannot attend the event but would still like to donate items for the giveaway, please click here to contact us!

QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS?

Have additional questions regarding this event? Please click here and let us know!

2026 SPRING SCHOLARSHIP GOLF SCRAMBLE

Add it to your calendar, the 2026 Spring Golf Scramble is Friday, April 24th at Ridgecrest Golf Club in Nampa, Idaho!

This is your chance to renew rivalries, go for your personal/team-best, or just heckle those that deserve it! Proceeds go to help foster the next generation of SME professional members—STUDENTS!

EVENT DETAILS

Date: Friday, April 24th, 2026

Time: 8:00 AM, shotgun start (please be there by 7:30 AM)

Location: Ridgecrest Golf Club, 3730 Ridgecrest Drive, Nampa, Idaho 83687

Format: 4-person team scramble

Equipment: No golf clubs? That's okay! You can rent all necessary equipment at Ridgecrest Golf Club before the start of the event.

Lunch: Casual buffet service

REGISTRATION

The deadline to register is Thursday, April 16th, 2026.

Each registration will include access to the golf course + golf cart + one 6-pack per cart (golfer's choice) + lunch.

Professionals, if you would like to register for this event, please click one of the buttons below:

Students, if you would like to register for this event, please click one of the buttons below:

SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

Hole sponsorship includes a provided company sponsor sign with the option of setting up a booth at the hole. Sponsors are also encouraged to provide SWAG items for the raffle giveaway.

Proceeds from sponsorships go directly into the SME Boise Section Scholarship Fund. Applications for the scholarship will open this spring and recipients will be awarded at the “Students and Professionals Discussion Panel” this Fall.

SWAG DONATIONS

We are always looking for SWAG items to include in our raffle giveaways during the awards ceremony. So if you or your company has SWAG items you'd like to donate, please bring them with you to the event!

ABOUT THE PEORIA SYSTEM

The Peoria System allows beginners, hackers, and those with less experience playing golf to have a chance to win a prize. The Peoria System is a sort of 1-day handicapping system for tournaments, and while based in certain parts on luck, the system allows a "handicap allowance" to be determined and then applied to each team's score (and don't worry, we will explain this all again before the start of the scramble).

NOTE: Winners of the scratch category cannot also win the handicapped category.

And it's not about winning (except that is kind of fun)—it's about having fun, networking, and supporting the future generation of mining professionals. So just remember, you don't have to be a good golfer (or even have played before) to have fun—just do it!

QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS?

Have additional questions regarding this event? Please click here and let us know!

TECHNICAL SESSION IV

Join us for our final Technical Session of the 2025-2026 Season!

Technical sessions are designed to provide opportunities for both professionals and students. Officer elections will also take place during this meeting.

Enjoy an evening of dinner, drinks, and industry insights! Learn about the latest research in the field, participate in an exciting Q&A session, and connect with the most active professionals in Idaho!

PRESENTATION DETAILS

TPD

TBD

More details coming soon!

If you are interested in presenting your research at future Technical Sessions, please fill out the form linked here.

ELECTIONS

Please visit our VOTING page for more details on the board positions and to access the nomination form! Nominate yourself or a friend/colleague to join the 2026-2027 SME-Boise Officer team!

EVENT DETAILS

Date: Wednesday, May 6th, 2026

Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Location: The Riverside Hotel (North Star Room), 2900 West Chinden Boulevard, Garden City, ID 83714

Dinner: Seated service and hosted bar

EVENT SPONSORS

Session & Bar Sponsor: HUGE thank you to Sundt for their sponsorship of this event!

Sundt Construction, Inc. is one of the country’s most respected general contractors, currently ranked in the top 100 largest construction companies in the United States by ENR, the industry’s principal trade magazine. They're consistently ranked a Best Place to Work by their own employees and known nationally for their innovative approach to construction services. Sundt is a full-service building contractor with expertise that spans the entire lifecycle of construction. They offer Construction Management at Risk, Design-Build and Build to Suit Contracting and provide a host of services as Construction Managers and Program Managers, serving as your agent for managing the entire project development process for you, whether you have a single- or multiple-project program.

REGISTRATION

PLEASE REGISTER BY FRIDAY, MAY 1ST to ensure a proper headcount can be provided to The Riverside.

Please note that to complete your registration, you must complete the Google form following payment. Your dietary restrictions and contact details will be collected via this form.

Professionals, if you would like to register for this event, please click the button below:

*Late registration (after May 1st) increases to $55/professional

Students, if you would like to register for this event, please click the button below:

RAFFLE DONATIONS

We are always looking for swag or other donation items to include in our raffle giveaways at the end of every Technical Session.

If you have any items you'd like to donate to the giveaway, please bring them with you to the event. If you cannot attend the event but would still like to donate items for the giveaway, please click here to contact us!

QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS?

Have additional questions regarding this event? Please click here and let us know!