Archive for January, 2010
Check out yesterday’s editorial in the Vancouver Sun: “Lift the regulatory burden on B.C.’s mining industry”.
The Sun editorial is perhaps a little milder in tone than Michael Smyth of the Province reviewing B.C.’s “Byzantine” system (see http://www.canada.com/news/green+assessments+aren+better+than/2471772/story.html) or the Black Press’s Tom Fletcher’s evaluation of “job-killing nonsense” (see http://www.bclocalnews.com/opinion/82685917.html). So…what is getting B.C.’s media fired up? After all, B.C. is a leader in accoutrements for the mineral exploration sector [...]
Flow-through shares have been extended until 2013, and here at AME BC, we’re ecstatic!
The buzz hit the floor around Roundup 2010 as the Premier made the announcement about the extension of the provincial flow-through shares program, which caused us all to applaud, literally. In the words of our President and CEO, Gavin C. Dirom, flow-through share funding has been critical to the success of mineral exploration in B.C. [...]
Curtain Call: Mineral Exploration Roundup 2010 takes a bow
Rhona Macintosh – The Core Left: The Rt. Hon. Jean Chretien and Premier Gordon Campbell congratulate Doug Flynn on winning the David Barr Award. The inflatable kangaroo at the CODES booth looks a little downcast today. Yes, Mineral Exploration Roundup 2010 has drawn to a close. Delegates are slowly trickling out of the Westin Bayshore [...]
Green Light for Red Chris
Rhona Macintosh – The Core The Red Chris project in northern B.C. has received a green light from the Supreme Court of Canada to go ahead with permitting and construction. This is a good thing for both the mining industry as well as the communities in an area that badly needs economic stimulus. Gavin Dirom, President [...]
Pennies from Heaven: Copper from Mongolia
Rhona Macintosh – The Core Mongolia; it’s the Canada of Asia. So says luncheon keynote speaker Robert Friedland. It’s big; it’s cold, and it exports resources. Just like us! It has a pushy neighbour. Just like us! In a rousing presentation on the healthy future of the copper industry Mr. Friedland showed off the remarkable [...]
AME BC Congratulates Health and Safety Award Winners
Vancouver, B.C. – January 20, 2010 – The Association for Mineral Exploration British Columbia (AME BC) in keeping with its strong commitment to health and safety today congratulated the recipients of the David Barr Award, Safe Day Everyday Gold Award, and Safe Day Everyday Award at the Health & Safety Awards Breakfast at Mineral Exploration [...]
Awards Dinner 2010/Soirée de gala 2010
Rhona Macintosh – The Core The dimmed lights, high in the vaulted ceiling, softly illuminated the growing crowd of delegates waiting in the hall for the most anticipated event of Mineral Exploration Roundup 2010; the Awards Dinner. People gathered in little groups, drinks in hand, and a roar of excited chatter took over the entire [...]
Robert Friedland, Executive Chairman of Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. to Speak Today at AME BC-CIM-MEG Luncheon – 12:30
Robert Friedland, Executive Chairman of Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. will be speaking today at the AME BC-CIM-MEG Luncheon, taking place in the Stanley Park Ballroom of the Westin Bayshore at 12:30. Well known international financier Robert Friedland is still wearing the smile he caught in 2009 after his Ivanhoe Mines finally walked the Mongolian Government to the altar and [...]
Supreme Court of Canada releases judgment regarding Red Chris project on January 21, 2010
NEWS RELEASE Vancouver, B.C. – January 21, 2010 – The Association for Mineral Exploration of British Columbia (AME BC) and the Mining Association of British Columbia (MABC) welcomed the decision by the Supreme Court of Canada that allows the Red Chris project in northern British Columbia to proceed to permitting and construction. The associations also [...]
Brought to you by the letters M O H S and the number 10
Rhona Macintosh – The Core Events like Mineral Exploration Roundup wouldn’t be possible without the sponsorship of the generous companies found conveniently listed in the back of your Day Timer. While there are far too many to speak with individually, a few of these sponsors were on hand to explain why sponsorship of events like [...]
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