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PDAC e-News and Activities, February 20, No. 32
Page Index
Convention 2006
– two weeks to show time!
Tony Barresi wins second Mary-Claire Ward Geoscience Award
PDAC reminds Tories of their pre-election promise to re-instate ‘super’
flow-through
New NRCan
minister will open PDAC Convention 2006
Members
encouraged to come and meet students
Want to learn more about uranium? Take your pick of courses
East vs.
West hockey game is a go again this year
Greenpeace
co-founder on the new face of mining
A field guide for
identifying pebbles
Convention 2006 –
two weeks to show time!
In a recent interview with Vancouver-based GoldRadio.FM, Rod Thomas,
chairman of this year’s convention planning committee, talks about his
expectations for this year’s convention, which promises to be very
exciting indeed. A record 430 companies have signed up for the Investors
Exchange, the mining investment part of the convention which focuses on
exploration companies and their projects. In the Trade Show, there are
280 exhibiting companies. Admission to Trade Show is included with
delegate registration. Admission to the Investors Exchange is free but
registration is a must. To save time, you should pre-register
here.
New information about the convention is going online every day. Check it
out at www.pdac.ca. By the way, Rod’s
interview can be heard
here.
Tony Barresi wins second Mary-Claire Ward Geoscience Award
Tony Barresi, a doctoral student at Dalhousie University who is
specializing in earth sciences, has won this year’s Mary-Claire Ward
Geoscience Award. His award-winning thesis is entitled Tectonic and
petrogenetic evolution of Early to Middle Jurassic Hazelton Group
volcanic rocks, northwestern British Columbia: Physical and geochemical
anatomy of an arc to rift transition. Tony will be presented with
his prize, $3,000 and a certificate, at the PDAC’s awards evening on
Monday, March 6 at the Fairmount Royal York Hotel, Toronto. Full details
here.
PDAC reminds Tories of their pre-election promise to re-instate ‘super’
flow-through
In a congratulatory letter to Canada’s new finance minister, Jim
Flaherty, PDAC president Peter Dimmell urges him to resurrect the super
flow-through program in the upcoming parliamentary session. “We were
pleased by your government’s 2006 election platform,” Dimmell says,
which would “retain tax incentives such as the super flow-through share
program. These measures are critical to Canada’s vibrant and effective
financial market for mining.” The association has developed a
communications strategy to convey industry messages – re-instatement of
‘super’ flow-through; federal funding for the Cooperative Geological
Mapping Strategy; and inclusion of community consultation costs and
baseline environmental studies in Canadian Exploration Expense - to the
new government and MPs.
Click here for a
full copy of the letter.
New NRCan
minister will open PDAC Convention 2006
Gary Lunn, Canada’s new minister of natural resources, will be
opening this year’s convention and will also be a head table guest at
the Mineral Outlook luncheon later that day. The ceremonies to mark the
official opening of this, the 74th annual convention, will begin at 8.45
a.m. at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. Mr. Lunn represents Saanich–Gulf
Islands (British Columbia) and is a lawyer. He has worked as a
construction superintendent in mines in British Columbia and the
Northwest Territories and as a safety officer in the forestry industry.
Full details.
Members
encouraged to come and meet students
Students are receiving special attention at this year’s convention
and are being encouraged to make the most of the opportunities that the
meeting can offer. On Tuesday, March 7, a Student-Industry Networking
Luncheon will allow them to meet industry members and to talk to them
about the industry and its prospects. We’ve got many students; now we
need industry people to meet them. If you’re available, why not come to
this luncheon? It’s free but we are asking you to register by calling
Teresa at 416 362 1969, ext. 221, or emailing her at
tbarrett@pdac.ca.
Interested students should also contact Teresa. Deadline for sign-up is
February 24. Here’s hoping for a great networking lunch!
Want to learn more about uranium? Take your pick of courses
Giant uranium deposits: Exploration guidelines, models, and
discovery techniques, March 4 and 5, Toronto. This is a
one-and-a-half-day course offered by the PDAC and the Society of
Economic Geologists immediately preceding PDAC Convention 2006. Course
fee includes notes, lunch and refreshments: $525 [Can.]
Program.
Uranium exploration and development, April 27 and
28, Denver. This two-day program is being organized by the Rocky
Mountain Mineral Law Foundation. Fee is $695 [US] for registrations
submitted before March 29 and an additional $100 for registrations sent
in after that date.
Program.
Plans are also underway for a conference in
Saskatoon in September. Uranium: Athabasca deposits and analogues will
be held from September 10-12. This is a two-day conference being
organized by the CIM Geological Society, Saskatoon Section. The
conference will consist of two days of technical presentations and three
to four days of post-conference field trips. Preliminary details are
here and
here.
East vs.
West hockey game is a go again this year
Jim Priest, organizer of the annual PDAC hockey game, is out of
commission at the moment due to surgery. However, he’s handed the
organizing reins over to Bruce Reid who informs us that the Fugro
Challenge Cup game will be played on Tuesday, March 7 at George Bell
Arena from 2 p.m. until 4 p.m. The arena is on Ryder Avenue near St.
Clair West and Keele. Members interested in playing are asked to contact
Bruce at
bruce.reid@researchcapital.com. Our best to Jim for a speedy
recovery.
Greenpeace
co-founder on the new face of mining
Longtime members of the PDAC will remember the address that Patrick
Moore made during the PDAC annual convention some ? years ago. His
comments at that time created quite a stir, and the PDAC received many
requests for a copy of his paper. Moore, a co-founder of Greenpeace, is
chairman and chief scientist of
Greenspirit Strategies Ltd., his consulting group in Vancouver.
Recently he visited Newmont’s operations in the U.S., Peru and Ghana at
the invitation of the company and had this to say, “Since my entry into
the global environmental movement in 1971 – and especially in the last
decade – mining has contributed significantly to a more sustainable
world economy, and key beneficiaries of this progress are mining
workers, families and communities. How unfortunate the media is missing
such an important part of the sustainability discussion.”
Click
here for full article.
A field guide for
identifying pebbles
Eileen Van der Flier-Keller, a geologist in the School of Earth and
Ocean Sciences at the University of Victoria, has developed this
field guide on
how to identify pebbles. The guide is in full colour, is laminated, and
contains over 80 photographs of pebbles from beaches and rivers. The
photographs can be used to identify 28 different types of rocks and
minerals. This is a great resource for children or teachers in your
lives or for visits to schools. The text deals with how rocks form and
how to tell if a rock is igneous, sedimentary or metamorphic. It also
provides some fun facts about minerals in our daily lives. Prices vary
from $10 for one copy to $750 for 100 copies. To order or for more
information, contact Eileen Van der Flier-Keller,
fkeller@uvic.ca.
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