Resourcing Tomorrow announced on Wednesday the categories and nominees for its Outstanding Achievement awards.
The program is designed to recognize the individuals, companies and initiatives setting the “benchmark for excellence” across the mining industry.
New this year is the Operational Transformation of the Year award, which recognizes companies delivering significant operational improvements and new approaches to enhance mining efficiency.
Winners will be announced on Dec. 3 at the awards ceremony and gala dinner taking place at Lindley Hall in London, England.
The categories and nominees are:
The Best Sustainability Initiative by a Mining Company:
Sponsored by McCarthy Tétrault
- AGM/Zijin Mining (SHA: 601899), for the Aurora Renewable Energy and Climate Resilience Initiative in Guyana
- Boliden (STO: BOL) and Anglo American (LON: AAL), for their deployment of electric haul trucks
- Fortescue (ASX: FMG), for its Pilbara green energy hub in Western Australia
- Hudbay Minerals (TSX: HBM), for deployment of its community-embedded operating model at Snow Lake in Manitoba, Canada
- Rio Tinto (ASX: RIO), for advancing its diesel transition program in the USA and Australia
- Zijin Mining (SHA: 601899), for its global leadership in new energy mining truck applications
The Best Sustainability Initiative award:
- The Consolidated Mining Standard Initiative (CMSI), incorporating four recognised industry standards into a single, inclusive governance and consultation framework
- The Global Battery Alliance, for establishing a global framework for transparent and resilient battery value chains
- Global Tailings Management Institute, for its five-year strategy to become a fully operational institution overseeing Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management (GISTM) independent auditing and certification
- Hexagon R-evolution, for its Green Cubes technology-driven environmental program that creates advanced digital twins of natural ecosystems to measure, sponsor and protect biodiversity on a cubic-meter basis
- Mining Association of Canada, for its Towards Sustainable Mining framework and specifically its Indigenous and Community Relations Protocol
Operational Transformation of the Year award:
Sponsored by Granger Reis
- Agnico Eagle (TSX: AEM), for its comprehensive, site-wide operational transformation at the Kittilӓ gold mine in Finland
- EQR (ASX:EQR), for building a global, integrated tungsten business platform
- Gunnison Copper (TSX: GCU), for strengthening its US copper production base through balance sheet, operational and marketing improvements
- NTWIST, for its application of probabilistic modelling and AI to transform stockpile and mill-feed planning at Gold Fields’ Cerro Corona gold and copper mine in Peru
- Sindh Engro Coal Mining Company (SECMC), for a major digital and operational transformation supporting production growth in Pakistan
Exploration Discovery of the Year award:
Sponsored by TM Partners
- Empire Metals (LON: EEE), for the Pitfield titanium project in Western Australia
- NGEx Minerals (TSX: NGEX), for the Lunahuasi copper-gold-silver discovery in Argentina
- Rupert Resources (TSX: RUP), for the Ikkari gold deposit in Finland
- Snowline Gold (TSX: SGD), for the Valley gold deposit in Canada
- Southern Cross Gold (TSX: SXGC), for the Sunday Creek gold-antimony discovery in Australia
Mining Deal of the Year award:
Sponsored by Pinsent Masons
- Agnico Eagle’s acquisition of Aurion Resources to expand its exploration profile in the Central Lapland Greenstone Belt in Finland
- Alcoa (NYSE: AA) and South32’s (ASX: S32) cross-border bauxite-alumina-aluminium portfolio consolidation
- Anglo American and Codelco’s Los Bronces-Andina Coordination Agreement to optimise their respective copper operations
- Anglo American and Teck Resources’ (TSX: TECK.B) proposed merger, creating Anglo Teck
- Equinox Gold (TSX: EQX) and Orla Mining’s (TSX: ORLA) combination, creating a leading producer in North and Central America
- Wheaton Precious Metals (TSX: WPM) for the BHP (NYSE: BH) Antamina silver stream
Mining Leader of the Year award:
Sponsored by Stratum International
- Amanda Lacaze, former CEO and managing director of Lynas Rare Earths (ASX: LYC)
- Ammar Al-Joundi, CEO of Agnico Eagle Mines
- Kathleen Quirk, president and CEO of Freeport-McMoRan (NYSE: FCX)
- Michael Steinmann, president and CEO of Pan American Silver (TSX: PAAS)
- Natascha Viljoen, CEO of Newmont (NYSE: NEM)
- Stuart McDonald, president and CEO of Trekor Metals (TSX: TKO)
Women in Mining award:
Sponsored by PKF and Women in Mining UK
- Alexander Zolata Juarez, Founder and Host, Trailheads & Titans
- Gracelin Baskeran, Director, Critical Minerals Security Program at CSIS
- Marley Palin, Acting Vice President, Innovation at BHP
- Nahomie Tshikadi, Senior Geologist and Mining Inclusion Leader, Tenke Fungurume Mining
- Scott Berdhal, Co-founder and CEO, Snowline Gold
- Ashley Kirwan, President and CEO, Orix Geoscience
The final category to be announced at the awards ceremony is the Lifetime Achievement award, sponsored by SLR. This award has no shortlist of nominees.
To learn more, visit: Resourcingtomorrow.com/awards
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