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PDAC e-News and Activities, February 11, 2004, No. 14
Mapstaking recommendations approved by PDAC board
Members will recall that the board of directors, at its March 2003
meeting, decided that the PDAC should advocate map staking as a
strategy for acquiring mineral rights in Canada. The board
emphasized strongly that this decision did not mean that the PDAC
was opposed to ground staking and subsequently established an ad hoc
committee to study land acquisition across Canada and to recommend a
position for the association. Among the committee’s recommendations,
which were approved by the board last month, are that in
jurisdictions where it is not already established, mapstaking should
be adopted in surveyed areas and in areas remote from infrastructure
and communities.
Click here for the full report and other
recommendations.
Protected areas database is online
The PDAC has compiled a database on the current
status of protected area strategies in Canada. The database, which
is the only single source of information on protected areas in
Canada, consists of text descriptions of protected areas processes
and strategies for all jurisdictions in Canada.
Click here to access
the database.
PDAC Convention 2004 is going to be big!
All indications are that our upcoming convention –
March 7 to 9 – will be busy, exciting, and rewarding. There are 330
companies registered in the Investors Exchange and 280 companies and
organizations in the Trade Show. The core shack is full; the
technical program contains a broad spectrum of sessions to suit all
interests; and we are expecting an unprecedented level of
international interest. Argentina, India and Peru have booked
country rooms to demonstrate their geological and political
advantages, and delegations are expected from many parts of the
world. For more information about the activities during the
convention, please go to
http://www.pdac.ca/pdac/conv/index.aspx.
Annual awards winners are announced
Among this year’s awards winners are the first recipients of the new
Thayer Lindsley International Discovery Award, Douglas J. Kirwin,
Charles N. Forster, and Garamjav Dondog. These Ivanhoe Mines Ltd.
geologists are being recognized for the discovery of the Hugo
Dummett copper-gold discovery in Mongolia. The awards presentation
will take place on Monday, March 8, during the association’s annual
convention. Click here for a complete list of awards winners.
Access to E3 will be free as of March
E3 Environmental Excellence in Exploration is one of the
association’s most important initiatives. This compilation of
practical methods and best practices offers guidance to exploration
personnel and industry stakeholders on how best to conserve and
protect the environment during an exploration project. Thanks to the
generosity of E3 sponsors, paid subscriptions to E3 will be
eliminated as of March 2004, and access will become free of charge.
Users will simply be asked to register their names, organizations
and email addresses before they are given access to its contents.
Awareness and use of E3 have been growing
rapidly since the launch in March 2003. Currently, E3 has users in
24 countries. A significant increase in users is anticipated when E3
becomes freely available.
If your company is a service
provider in the environmental and/or social area, you will now be able
to list your company in the E3 service directory.
Industry-DFO workshop to be held in February
The Coalition of Resource Industries for Stewardship steering
committee is planning a workshop to develop recommendations for more
efficient and effective implementation of the federal Fisheries Act.
The workshop, which will include members of the coalition and
representatives of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, will be
held in Calgary in late February. Its objective will be to identify
solutions by activity type, e.g. water crossings common to many
industrial sectors. There will be four PDAC representatives at the
workshop.
NI 43-101 workshops held in January
The PDAC, in cooperation with director Deborah McCombe of the
Ontario Securities Commission, conducted two very successful
information workshops on NI 43-101 in January. Attendance at the
workshops was 80 and 85 respectively. The association is attempting
to obtain copies of the handout material and will notify members
when this material is available.
Modernization of CEE
definitions requested
On January 23rd, the PDAC and the Mining Association of Canada
issued a letter to the Hon. Ralph Goodale, Minister of Finance,
requesting the modernization of Canadian Exploration Expense
definitions in the Income Tax Act. The two associations are
planning to engage the support of provincial mining associations and
provincial/territorial governments to raise the importance of this
issue with the Federal Minister of Finance. For more information,
contact David Comba.
Workshop on
developing an effective government relations strategy
The Mining
Association of Canada is organizing a half day workshop, How to
influence government: Develop an effective government relations
strategy, on Sunday, March 7, from 8 a.m. to 1.30 p.m. at the
Metro Toronto Convention Centre. The course is based on MAC’s new
publication, Building effective relationships with governments.
The fee, $150.00, covers course material, continental breakfast and
lunch). Click here for more details.
15th Annual N.B.
Keevil Memorial Hockey Game
This annual hockey game, sponsored by Fugro Airborne Surveys, will
be held on Monday, March 8, from 2.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m. at the
Lakeshore Lions Arena, 300 Birmingham Street, Etobicoke. Members
wishing to participate should contact Bruce Reid,
breid@bellnet.ca, or Jim
Priest,
rredflash@sympatico.ca. Full gear is required. Free admission.
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