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SUSTAINABILITY: Agnico Eagle, Cameco win MAC awards
OTTAWA – Miners Agnico Eagle Mines and Cameco are this year’s recipients of the Mining Association of Canada’s (MAC) Towards Sustainable Mining (TSM) Excellence Awards, which recognize innovative sustainability projects focused on community engagement and the environment. The TSM encourages…
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Kirkland Lake Gold’s Tony Makuch TNM’s Mining Person of the Year for 2019
Tony Makuch, president and CEO of Kirkland Lake Gold, is The Northern Miner’s Mining Person of the Year for 2019. Under his leadership, Kirkland Lake Gold has outperformed its peers in the last 24 months. The company’s shares rose by…
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Young Mining Professional of the Year awards go to Ashley Kirwan and David Cataford
The winners of the Young Mining Professionals (YMP) awards this year are Ashley Kirwan of Orix Geoscience and David Cataford of Champion Iron. The YMP awards, presented in association with The Northern Miner, recognize two mining professionals under the age of forty…
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Mining Hall of Fame awards gala welcomes four inductees
The Canadian Mining Hall of Fame welcomed four extraordinary individuals during the thirty-second annual induction ceremony in January at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. Industry giants Jerry Asp, Alex Balogh, Hans Lundberg and Eberhard Scherkus were celebrated for their exemplary…
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AWARD: Lundin Gold wins second UN sustainability honour
TORONTO – Vancouver’s Lundin Gold has won a second award from the United Nations Global Compact Canada and was recognized at the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals leadership awards held on Nov. 14. The award recognizes Lundin Gold’s and the Lundin…
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AWARD: Nouveau Monde graphite wins award for sustainable development
MONTREAL – Nouveau Monde Graphite of Saint-Michel-des-Saints, Que., has won an Award of Excellence in Sustainable Development. The award highlights the company practices as part of its Matawinie graphite project 130 km north of Montreal. The award was presented at…
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AWARD: Colibri director given Nicholas Denys medal
MONTREAL – Roger Doucet, a director of Colibri Resource Corp. of Dieppe, N.B., is this year’s winner of the Nicholas Denys medal for his prospecting career and the contribution he has made to mineral exploration and development in Quebec. He…
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AWARD: AEMQ gives nod to Iamgold’s Nelligan discovery
QUEBEC – Iamgold Corp. of Toronto has won the award for Discovery of the Year by the Association de l’Exploration Miniere du Quebec for its Nelligan gold project. The presentation was made at AMEC’s meeting on Oct. 23, 2019, in…
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AWARD: Cementation wins safety gold
TORONTO – Cementation Canada of North Bay, Ont. has been recognized as one of Canada’s safest employers for 2019. The gold award in the Mining and Natural Resources category was presented to Cementation during the Canada’s Safest Employers Awards gala…
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AWARD: De Beers Canada receives CPRS gold medal
EDMONTON – The Canadian Public Relations Society has released a list of its 2019 Award of Excellence winners – chief among them De Beers Canada. De Beers won a gold medal for the Canadian Issues/Crisis Management Campaign of the Year.…
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AWARD: PDAC to host 2021 Frank Arnott prize
TORONTO – The Frank Arnott Award Committee is delighted to announce that the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) will proudly host the inaugural Frank Arnott – Next Generation Explorers Award focused exclusively on bringing together the education and…
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SAFETY: Monarch’s Beaufor mine wins F.J. O’Connell trophy
QUEBEC – Montreal-based Monarch Gold Corp., owner and operator of the Beaufor gold mine 20 km northeast of Val d’Or, says the mine is the 2018 winner of the F.J. O’Connell trophy awarded by the Quebec Mining Association. The F.J.…
