Friday, February 27, 2026
Lisa McDonald, Executive Director, Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (鈥淧DAC鈥), and her team joined Dean McPherson, Head, Business Development, Global Mining, 兔子先生 (鈥淭SX鈥), to close the market to celebrate the opening of PDAC 2026. The Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) is the leading voice of the mineral exploration and development community, an industry that employs more than 724,000, and contributed $156 billion to Canada's GDP in 2024 (Natural Resources Canada, February 2025). Currently representing over 8,200 members around the world, PDAC's work centres on supporting a competitive, responsible, and sustainable mineral sector. PDAC 2026: The World鈥檚 Premier Mineral Exploration & Mining Convention will take place from March 1-4 in Toronto, Canada. The convention brings together an ever-growing audience of more than 27,000 attendees from over 125 countries for its educational programming, networking events, business opportunities and fun.