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Archive for January, 2010

Responsibility for Our Actions

Rhona Macintosh – The Core “You can’t just walk in and take over the place!” We live in a world with constant and increasing concerns over the environmental impact of human activity on the planet. We have blue bins, green bins, composts and hybrid cars! Individual people are busy as bees doing their part for [...]

Profile: The Right Honourable Jean Chrétien

The Right Honourable Jean Chrétien, P.C., C.C., O.M., Q.C., B.A., LL.L., former Prime Minister of Canada and now currently counsel for Heenan Blaikie, left the Office of Prime Minister of Canada on December 12, 2003.  Mr. Chrétien primarily works out of the Heenan Blaikie Ottawa office, but is also active in the Montreal and other [...]

AME BC Health & Safety Awards Breakfast

Lena Brommeland, Chair, AME BC; David Barr Award Recipient Doug Flynn; and Gavin C. Dirom, President & CEO, AME BC. Photo: Brian Dennehy. 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 [...]

Roundup 2010: B.C. Poised for Exploration Comeback

Canadian Mining Journal VANCOUVER — Exploration spending in British Columbia may have been down by 58% in 2009 compared to 2008, but the tempo was upbeat at this week’s Roundup 2010 organized by the Association for Mineral Exploration British Columbia (AME BC). Spending on the hunt for mineral deposits was only $154 million in 2009, [...]

Official Conference Opening – Hon. Randy Hawes Presentation

INTRODUCTIONS Good morning and thank you for the kind introduction and warm welcome. Thank you also to the Coast Salish peoples whose traditional territory we are on today. It’s a pleasure to be here at Mineral Exploration Round Up 2010. This is my first time at Round Up as Minister of State for Mining, and [...]

Profile: Honourable Randy Hawes, Minister of State for Mining

Randy Hawes was re-elected as MLA to represent the new riding of Abbotsford-Mission on May 12, 2009. Hawes was first elected as MLA for Maple Ridge-Mission in 2001 and was re-elected in the May 2005 provincial general election. He has served as chief government whip, chair of the Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government [...]

Sugar and Spice and Everything Nissonite

Rhona Macintosh – The Core The mineral exploration and mining industry has traditionally been male dominated. More and more women are entering into careers in this field and organizations like Women in Mining are here to help. Women in Mining offers women support and help on their path to success. The organization has groups all [...]

Land of the Midnight Sun at Roundup

Rhona Macintosh – The Core If you see a moose casually walking by the Rio Tinto Cafe at Mineral Exploration Roundup  it’s only because it’s Alaska Night here at Mineral Exploration Roundup! Tonight at 7:00, in the Marine Room, get exposed to the north and celebrate the many exciting projects on the go in this [...]

Peter Barnes, Chief Executive Officer, Silver Wheaton Speaking at the AME BC Finance Luncheon – 12:30

Peter Barnes, Chief Executive Officer, Silver Wheaton will be speaking at the AME BC Finance Luncheon today at Roundup. The luncheon will be taking place in the Stanley Park Ballroom of the Westin Bayshore, Vancouver, at 12:30. Peter Barnes, a Chartered Accountant with over twenty years of senior management experience, was one of Silver Wheaton’s founders [...]

White Gold findings create buzz at mining Roundup

CBC News Industry delegates at this week’s Mining Exploration Roundup are talking about Underworld Resources Ltd.’s White Gold property south of Dawson City, after the company issued initial estimates about the amount of gold there. In a release Tuesday, the Vancouver-based company estimated that the property’s Golden Saddle deposit has just over one million ounces [...]