Mining Week 2016

Kamloops This Week proudly acknowledges the mining industry and its business partners in our area and throughout BC.

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New Gold’s New Afton Mine would like to thank its employees, the community of Kamloops and our First Nations partners for the support we received during 2015. The mine completed its third year of commercial production and completed a mill expansion to increase the original 11,000 tonnes per day design capacity to 14,000 tonnes per day. Due to the mill expansion, New Afton saw increases to gold and copper production in 2015.

At New Afton we understand that responsible mining starts with keeping our people safe and healthy. A key success to our year in 2015 can be attributed to our employees doing the right thing and holding true to our values: Integrity, Commitment, Creativity, Employee Development and Teamwork. During 2015 we were awarded the Annual Mine Safety Award for Large Underground Mines and the John T. Ryan Award for having the lowest lost-time accident frequency rate and the lowest accident frequency rate.

In 2015, New Afton sponsored/or donated over $170,000 directly to local Kamloops’ charities and events. We are proud to support local initiatives.

Thank you to everyone in the community who has helped to make New Afton a success.

New Afton welcomes your feedback. Call us at 250.377.2100 or email us at [email protected] us on Twitter @NewAfton

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Tomorrow is Mining DayM

ay 8 to May 14 is B.C. Mining Week. According to Venture Kamloops, mining is

a $6-billion industry in B.C. and has been a regional economic strength in Kamloops for decades.

Mining is one of B.C.’s largest and oldest industries and B.C. Mining Week is an opportunity to recognize and celebrate the importance of the modern industry to British Columbians.

First celebrated 25 years ago in Vancouver, Mining Week has spread to the many communities that want to recognize the contributions of the mining sector.

The B.C. Mining Week committee is chaired by the

Mining Association of B.C. and composed of volunteers from a variety of companies, associations and institutions associated with the province’s mining sector.

In the Tournament Capital, celebration of the industry culminates with Mining Day in Kamloops on Saturday, May 7, at the Big Little Science Centre, 655 Holt Street from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The free annual event is an opportunity for the community to learn more about the mining industry through interactive displays and from the companies and community groups that support the industry.

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The Kamloops Exploration Group (KEG) has had a

busy year. As a group of

exploration, mining and mining-related people, we thrive on getting the positive word out on the mining industry.

Our KEG Outreach program has grown over the years and is well known in the community.

Ask-A-Geologist at the Kamloops Museum, school

visits and the Junior Delegates program at the annual KEG Conference are just a few highlights of our Outreach program and all were well received by attendees.

The popular KEG-hosted lecture series just finished up its 14th year of interesting and informative talks; KEG has brought in speakers from across Canada to present talks that promote earth sciences, mining and mineral exploration.

This year, the talks ranged from the use of drones in the exploration of minerals to the ever-popular discussions on dinosaurs and fossils to a presentation by a group of Albert McGowan students on how their experiment was selected to go to space on a shuttle mission.

These talks will start up again in January 2017, so please visit our website closer to that date to see the schedule.

The 29th Annual KEG Conference was held on April 12 and April 13 at the Coast Kamloops Hotel and Conference Centre.

The event was well attended with over 420 delegates and as always, the public was welcome to walk through the trade show.

This year, the conference theme was ‘Mining Potential Unearthed’ and the overall feeling was positive.

Every year, the KEG is honoured to award scholarships

to deserving students: the David Miller Scholarship (Thompson Rivers University), Ken Daughtry Geoscience Award (UBC Okanagan) and Ronald C. Wells Geological Education Fund (which is open to all geoscience students across Canada).

We are proud to be able to contribute to the winners’ studies and would like to once again congratulate the recipients.

Mining Day is taking place

tomorrow (May 7) at the BIG Little Science Centre in Kamloops and we encourage people to attend.

Bring your rocks in for the Ask-A-Geo event and even learn to pan for gold with Yukon Dan!

The Kamloops Exploration Group will be just one of the booths involved and we look forward to it every year.

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This year marks the 30th anniversary

of Teck’s Highland Valley Copper Operations (HVC) one of the world’s most productive open pit copper mines. Teck Resources Limited is Canada’s largest diversified resource company.

With over 1,300 employees, HVC Operations is proud to be a strong contributor to the local economy, working

collaboratively with local stakeholders.

Employees reside primarily in Kamloops, Logan Lake, Merritt, Lower Nicola, Ashcroft and Cache Creek.

HVC has extensive safeguards in place to minimize health and safety risks as the operation works to achieve their vision of everyone going home safe and healthy every day. Ore is currently mined from the Valley, Lornex and Highmont pits.

A crusher relocation in the Valley pit was completed in 2015, providing access to

over 30-million tonnes of reserves as part of their current life of mine plan.

The Valley pit was the main feed source to the mill in 2015 and provides HVC with their highest grade material. Reserves and resources at HVC are projected to support mining at current planned production rates until 2026.

In 2015, additional drilling and engineering studies were conducted to define resources in the Bethlehem area, and to examine other options to optimize

and extend production past the current mine life. Further work is planned this year.

Teck and its operations, including HVC, have developed a comprehensive sustainability strategy that sets out long-term goals that stretch through to 2030 and short-term 2020 goals to guide sustainability efforts.

This commitment to sustainability is evident in many environmental and social initiatives at HVC. For example, the operations’ comprehensive Environmental

Management System has been certified to ISO 14000 Standard, a leading industry standard.

In the coming years, HVC plans to continue to enhance its reclamation activities and biodiversity management efforts.

An example of this work to date is a reclaimed tailings pond that is now a world-class fly fishing habitat, while HVC also partners with the Freshwater Fisheries on research and is sponsoring Learn to Fish programs for 2016 in the Interior.

In 2015, HVC supported various charitable organizations with financial and in-kind support including Community Partnership Initiatives in excess of $450,000, including employee-based campaigns to benefit Thompson Nicola Cariboo United Way, BC Children’s Hospital Foundation and Royal Inland Hospital Foundation.

With a focus on sustainable operation, HVC will continue to be a major part of the region’s social and economic fabric for years to come.

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As the Ajax Project has

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those who want jobs.

A diverse cross-section of the community — including retirees, doctors, students, tradespeople, educators and business professionals — are anxious to see the work of building the $1.3-billion project get underway.

The display of support

can be seen in bumper stickers on cars and trucks, in posts on Facebook and other online media, as well as in letters from Kamloops business leaders sent to government.

Grassroots supporters sporting home-made buttons have come to pro-Ajax rallies and filled meeting rooms to show

government bureaucrats they care.

“My phone is always ringing,” said external-affairs manager Yves Lacasse.

“Even when the news is filled with complaints from the small vocal minority who are opposed to Ajax, people are calling me to tell me how much they want us to keep working at this,

to keep moving it forward.

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The steady

growth of Support Ajax, a Facebook group that started in the mind of a Kamloops wife

and mother, is another example of how deeply people want to see the mine get started.

Those who subscribe to the page are passionate, engaged and determined to not let a small number of opponents dominate the public debate.

“It’s been amazing,” said Caroline King, the woman behind Support Ajax.

“At first there were just a few of us, a small group who were frustrated about the negative impact that a few

people who are clearly opposed to everything were starting to have.

“We have more than 6,800 people on our Facebook page now and it keeps growing.

“Every post we write gets 50 comments or more from all kinds of people, and the message is always the same – let’s get this mine open!”

There is strong support for Ajax from across B.C. as well, as shown by comments filed in the recent 75-day public-comment period.

More than 65 per cent of

the comments filed to the BC Environmental Assessment Office were in support of Ajax, with many comments coming from people who live in places other than Kamloops.

Lacasse said the strong show of support also reflects the fact that many in Kamloops appreciate KGHM’s commitment to listening to community concerns.

“We care about health and the community and we will do this right,” he said.

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New Gold is committed to contributing

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At New Afton, we continue to grow our relationships with the local community of Kamloops and our First Nations partners — Tk’emlups te Secwepemc and Skeetchestn Indian Band — and

look to improve both our safety and environmental performance.

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Mineral exploration is down in B.C. and it’s

not getting any easier to raise money to find the next gold mine.

Those factors are evident in the decline in the number of geologists and prospectors attending the annual Kamloops Exploration Group conference.

“It’s been really tough,” Gavin Dirom, executive director of the Association for Mineral Exploration in B.C. (AME), told attendees at the Kamloops Coast Hotel & Conference Centre on April 12.

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spent $272 million in 2015.

That’s down $66 million from 2014 less than half of the $680 million spent in 2012.

Similarly, in 2011, production from B.C. mines reached $9 billion. It declined last year to $6.9 billion.

Inside the conference, Kieran Downes was pitching one of the grassroots exploration projects the industry wants to see.

Troymet Exploration Corp. is exploring a base metals and gold target near Cache Creek. It spent only $20,000 last year.

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company does not yet have a 2016 budget for the Redhill project, but is

planning a geophysical survey to better identify future drilling

targets — an expensive prospect.

“Money is very tight,”

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Downes said. “We’re being judicious with what we have.”

Dirom said the majority of spending on exploration is being done on brownfield sites — targets beside existing mines. Successful examples of brownfield locations include New Gold Inc.’s New Afton underground mine on the city’s western boundary.

Yet the industry was built by optimists and several representatives said there may be evidence a bottom has been reached.

Dirom produced a graph showing a current 50-day uptrend in the TSX-V, the exchange dominated by small B.C. mining companies. There are 100 active exploration

projects underway.Two projects in B.C.’s north

— Brucejack and Silvertip — have received environmental permits and plan to start construction by 2017.

Kamloops is home to workers from two of the province’s current seven operating metal mines, through Highland Valley Copper and the only underground mine at New Afton.

While the price of oil has rebounded sharply this month, it has not taken coal or copper, two of the most important commodities exported by B.C., along for the ride. Copper was trading at $2.22 per pound mid-week this week on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

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“Your mind doesn’t really scratch the surface of how much equipment is up there.”

For the eighth year, the Tk’emlups Indian Band gravel pit was turned over to the Kamloops-Thompson school district earlier last month for the annual project, in

which students in grades 11 and 12 spend three days at the pit getting hands-on experience as heavy-equipment operators in the construction industry.

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helping him secure a job at Pav’s Contracting after he chose to graduate early.

“I really got hooked on it. I’ve been around equipment most of my life and the program really just said, yup, you want to be working around equipment,” he said.

During Heavy Metal Rocks, teens rotate through different stations, getting experience on more than a dozen pieces of equipment under the watchful eye of experienced operators who serve as mentors.

And it was this year that Oullette returned as a mentor.

He taught Grade 11 and 12 students from around School District 73 how to construct retaining walls — the kind of work he now does at his day job.

Oullette said he wanted to give back to a program that was able to help him learn the skills to get

hired, from tips for working with an excavator to how to behave safely when working around heavy machinery.

“The program definitely kickstarted my career here,” he said.

• More on the program: Before climbing into the

operator’s chair, students receive Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS) training and their Level 1 Occupation First Aid certificate. In addition, WorkSafeBC prevention officers guide students on a complete site-safety orientation and give them their own personal safety equipment.

More than 50 companies and sponsors, along with a large number of individuals volunteer hours, equipment, and supplies, combine to make the program the ongoing success it is — and their involvement results in no cost to the students.

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The Komatsu D475A-5 has a

net horsepower of 664 KW

890HP @ 2000 RPM and an

operating weight of 108,390

kg (238,960 lbs.).

Other features include:

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reducing operator

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cooling fan – controlled

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The Komatsu D475A-5 has a

net horsepower of 664 KW

890HP @ 2000 RPM and an

operating weight of 108,390

kg (238,960 lbs.).

Other features include:

• Dual tilt – increases

productivity while

reducing operator

effort

• Hydraulic driven engine

cooling fan – controlled

automatically, reduces

fuel consumption and

operating noise levels

• Extra-low machine

profile – provides

excellent machine

balance and low center

of gravity

Super Dozer

D475A-5

Kamloops: 1 250-374-6961smsequip.com

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