A family affair
Wonderful to see Vanessa Poxleitner and my daughter Rebekah participating in the Women in Mining event at the 2023 CIM Convention. – Submitted by Gary Poxleitner
125 Years of Memories
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Winning at the Canadian Mining Games
Darshan (third from the left) and his fellow participants at the 2023 Canadian Mining Games, where he participated in the Health and Safety challenge and win third prize. He also participated in the Project Evaluation as well as in the Crisis Management events. | Courtesy of Darshan Shah As a Mechanical Engineering student participating in …
Playing hockey with the Coppertones
My father shared this photo with me. He said back in the mid 70s he played on a senior hockey team called the Coppertones whose benefactor was Herman “Spud” Huestis, member of the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame for his discovery of the Highland Valley copper deposit in south central B.C. The team was named …
Schoolmates reunited
Starting the 2023 CIM Conference with a get-together with my fellow Haileybury School of Mines alumni (Bayar Baatar, Donald Brough, Pierre Julien, FCIM, MBA, Eric Hinton and Curtis Clarke). – Submitted by Bayar Baatar
A double celebration
It was a wonderful evening at the CIM-Caterpillar Awards gala; a special night for my family as we celebrated my Bedford Award and my mom’s birthday. Thank you to Samantha Espley for the nomination and to those who wrote supporting letters. I’m humbled and grateful for the recognition. – Submitted by Trang Tran-Valade
A family heirloom
Photo of a 1971 John T. Ryan award, submitted by Dave Stove, given to him by his father Joe Stovel. The engraving says “John T. Ryan Regional Trophy 1971 Gaspé Copper Mines Ltd.”
Building a log house
Photograph from the Darling family photo album (from the Collection of the Timmins Museum: NEC) Prior to the discovery that led to the Porcupine Gold Rush, the Timmins-Porcupine region was already well-known to early Ojibway and Cree communities due to its natural resources. The Mattagami River, which flows through Timmins, is a tributary of the …
Remediating the Giant Mine
Betty Lin driving a concrete truck at the Giant Mine The Giant Mine was in operations from 1948-2004. During operations, the process of producing gold also produced high amounts of arsenic trioxide dust which is a highly toxic product. When the mine closed, 237,000 tonnes of arsenic trioxide dust was sent to underground caverns/chambers for containment. …
Meeting Shania Twain
Michael Winship (left) has his moment with Shania Twain, Timmins’ favourite daughter. Courtesy of Michael Winship “It was a wintery day, I don’t know if it was January or February but the snow was lightly falling and I get a call from the gate house up in the office and they said, ‘There’s a request …
Discovering a dinosaur
“One of the most memorable things that has occurred to me during my career in this industry is the discovery of a nodosaur—an armoured dinosaur in Northern Alberta at the Fort McMurray Oil Sands based plant site. “We helped the Royal Tyrrell Museum uncover and secure the dinosaur and it’s been described as a rosetta …