Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM)
Management Team
2020-2021 CIM Council Members
Samantha Espley
PRESIDENT
Samantha Espley has worked in Sudbury for most of her career and spent 30 years at Vale, most recently as the company’s director of mining technology and innovation, before retiring in October 2019. Over the course of her career, Espley has worked her way up the ladder, taking on management roles in engineering, mine technical services, mining and milling operations and technology. She’s also a staple of the Sudbury mining community, and a strong advocate for Canadian mining.
She has been a member of CIM since she was an engineering student at the University of Toronto in the 1990s and a dedicated Branch member in Toronto and Sudbury, serving on the Sudbury Branch executive for several years as well as a board member of CIM’s Global Mining Guidelines group.
Espley is very active in the mining community as a board member of MIRARCO and the Canada Mining Innovation Council and a past member of the executive board of Engineers Canada, Science North and the Sudbury branches of Women in Science and Engineering and Professional Engineers Ontario. She is the Vale industry representative with CEMI and UDMN with a strong focus on research and development projects to enable safe deep mining. Espley also gives back to her alma mater by acting as chair of the Bharti School of Engineering at Laurentian University.
Espley’s mission as CIM President is two-fold. First, to focus on how to expand the knowledge and value of mining to society. One of the ways to accomplish this is by gathering support to build a travelling science exhibit to tell the story of mining. Using a modular design, the exhibit will travel from city to city across North America to educate and engage members of the public. Second, the continued building of best practices and guidance documents. Espley’s goal is to tackle the emerging domain of “Mining 4.0” with topics such as innovative design, green energy, zero carbon emissions, risk elimination, tailings management, license to operate and more. In addition, she values health and safety and the development of best practices for new technologies, mental health and to deal with a pandemic.
Pierre Julien
PRESIDENT-ELECT
Pierre Julien is an Executive Vice President with DRA Global and President of DRA Americas. He is a seasoned executive with over 30 years of experience in the global mining industry.
He is the founder of Lincoln Strategic and ORE+PROS, two mining industry service providers. Prior to forming Lincoln Strategic, he was the President and CEO of Norcast Castings Inc., and was also the President of Outotec North America.
Julien graduated from the Haileybury School of Mines in 1984 and holds an MBA from the Queen’s School of Business (1999).
He is the Past Chairman of the Canadian Mineral Processors Society (CMP), a former CIM Council member and was awarded the CIM Fellowship award in 2017.
Anne Marie Toutant
INCOMING PRESIDENT-ELECT
Anne Marie Toutant is a mining executive with more than 30 years of experience in the Canadian extractive industries with extensive operations and technical experience. She is recently retired from Suncor Energy, where she has held executive roles since 2004 and her work focused on leading priorities such as:
- accelerating Suncor’s autonomous haulage system and the digital transformation of mining
- the safe commissioning, world-class start-up and operations of the $17B Fort Hills project
- the final reclamation of the Wapisiw Lookout (the first reclaimed oil sands tailings pond)
- the consolidation of mining activities at the Millennium Mine, one of the world’s largest open-pit mines
Her work helped secure the John T. Ryan Western Regional Award for Select Mines for 2011 safety performance at the Millennium Mine. Before 2004, Toutant held numerous operations and engineering roles in metallurgical and thermal coal mines in western Canada for Cardinal River Coals Ltd. and Luscar Ltd., becoming one of Canada’s early female mine managers in 1998.
She is passionate about workplace safety, social responsibility and mentoring future leaders. She has served as a Board Member of the Suncor Energy Foundation for seven years. Toutant is a graduate of the University of Alberta Mining School (1987) where she has been a member of the Mining School Advisory Committee (MIAC) and a visiting industry lecturer in Mining Engineering and the School of Business.
Toutant is the Past Chair of the Mining Association of Canada (MAC) and a Director from 2007-2019. She has been a Mining for Society (M4S) volunteer and was awarded the CIM Past Presidents’ Memorial Medal and the CIM Fellowship Award.
Roy Slack
POST PRESIDENT
Roy Slack is a professional engineer with more than 35 years’ experience in mine construction, design, and development, on projects throughout Canada and around the world.
He has worked with JS Redpath Limited, BLM Mining Services and operated his own consultancy firm, Mine Project Services. In 1998, he started Cementation’s operations in North America as the company’s president. Cementation is a mine contracting and engineering firm that provides design-build and construction management services to the mining sector. Today, Cementation is one of the largest mine contractors in North America and part of one of the largest mine contracting organizations in the world, the Cementation Group. Cementation Canada has been recognized numerous times as one of “Canada’s Top 100 Employers”. In 2016, the company was recognized as a Safest Employer in Canada Gold Winner in the natural resources sector.
Roy is a graduate of Queen’s University in Kingston with a degree in Mining Engineering.
A long-time member of CIM, Roy was the chair and a member of the team that revived the CIM Northern Gateway Branch which was recognized in 2008 with the Mel W. Bartley Outstanding Branch Award. In that same year he was awarded the Engineer’s Medal for Entrepreneurship by the Professional Engineers of Ontario. In 2009, he was given the Metal Mining Society Award by CIM. In 2012, he was named a Paul Harris Fellow by Rotary International.
Roy has been active in numerous safety initiatives and in 2013 was appointed to the Province of Ontario’s first Prevention Council to advise the government on workplace safety. He currently serves on the CIM Safety Task Force.
Source: https://www.cim.org/about-us/governance/cim-council/
