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PDAC e-News and Activities, March 27, No. 33
Page Index
Convention 2006
broke all previous records
Health and safety in
mineral exploration
BC’s ranking for
policy attractiveness jumps
BC
organizes mining investment mission in Toronto
Enter the e3 photo contest!
Survey on
professional registration and mobility
Convention 2006
broke all previous records
The 2006 International Convention, Trade Show and Investors Exchange of
the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada broke all previous
records at its 74th meeting earlier this month and lived up to its
reputation as the leading venue for people involved in global mineral
exploration. A record 14,500 people from across the world packed the
Metro Toronto Convention Centre for this annual event which has become a
high point in the mineral industry’s calendar.
Click here for a summary.
Health and safety
in mineral exploration
A survey on health and safety in mineral exploration in Canada is
currently being conducted by the PDAC and the Association for Mineral
Exploration British Columbia and has been emailed and mailed to
companies with exploration projects in Canada. We encourage all those
who received the survey to complete and send it in as soon as possible.
Even if you did not receive the notice, we would welcome your response.
The survey is online at
www.amebc-pdac-healthandsafety.ca and should take no more than ten
minutes to complete. Submission deadline is April 28, 2006. All
responses received by that date will be put into a draw for a grand
prize: one free booth at PDAC Convention 2007 [value $3,000].
Click here for more details. All
information collected will be kept confidential. For more information,
contact Saley Lawton,
slawton@pdac.ca.
BC’s ranking
for policy attractiveness jumps
The Fraser Institute’s ninth annual Survey of Mining, released on March
22, reports that, “for the first time in the survey’s history, British
Columbia ranks in the top half of policy attractiveness. Until last
year, British Columbia had languished in the bottom 10 spots on the
ranking and was typically in the bottom five.” The PDAC contributes
$20,000 to the production of the survey, which ranks jurisdictions in
and outside Canada using the following indexes: policy potential;
current mineral potential; and best practices mineral potential. The
survey also calculates which jurisdictions have room to improve their
regulatory environments.
Full survey and accompanying
media release.
BC
organizes mining investment mission in Toronto
A mining investment mission, headed by Richard Neufeld, British Columbia
Minister of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources, is being organized in
Toronto on Wednesday, April 19. Representatives from a number of BC
exploration and mining companies and First Nations will accompany the
minister. A luncheon forum on that day will present mineral exploration
and mining investment opportunities. The forum will be of interest to
mining company CEOs, senior exploration and corporate development
managers, mining consultants, and members of the investment community.
Full details and registration information.
Enter the e3 photo contest!
We need your photos! Help us to demonstrate the good practices being
developed and followed by the mineral industry. Prizes (gold Maple Leaf)
will be awarded for photographs related to environmental and community
engagement aspects of mineral exploration worldwide. The deadline for
submission is end of day, Friday, April 28, 2006. Full contest
details are here.
For more information, contact Philip Bousquet,
pbousquet@pdac.ca.
Survey on
professional registration and mobility
The PDAC has contracted the Institute On Governance [IOG] to
research the issue of professional registration and mobility. At this
year’s convention, IOG conducted a brief survey to determine
geoscientists’ awareness of the registration issue. The online version
of the survey, available in English and French at
www.iog.ca, will remain
open until March 31, 2006. This will allow us to reach more
geoscientists and obtain data from a wider range of professionals,
including those who work outside the mineral exploration industry. The
results of this study will be made available to all of the professional
and technical geoscience organizations in Canada. Please take a few
moments to have your say on this important issue and help us to inform
others in the geoscience community.
Click here for
more details. For more information, contact Philip Bousquet,
pbousquet@pdac.ca. |
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