AME Podcast: Exploration Matters Episode 9
Episode 9 of the AME Podcast: Exploration Matters is sponsored by: Show Notes Oct 17, 2022 Episode nine was produced on October 17, 2022, on the traditional, unceded territories o… Read More
Episode 9 of the AME Podcast: Exploration Matters is sponsored by: Show Notes Oct 17, 2022 Episode nine was produced on October 17, 2022, on the traditional, unceded territories o… Read More
Episode 6 of the AME Podcast: Exploration Matters is sponsored by: Show Notes Aug 24, 2022 Thanks for listening to #ExplorationMatters, the podcast for people interested in matt… Read More
Episode 5 of the AME Podcast: Exploration Matters is sponsored by: Show Notes Aug 10, 2022 Thanks for listening to #ExplorationMatters, the podcast for people interested in matt… Read More
Episode 4 of the AME Podcast: Exploration Matters is sponsored by: Show Notes July 29, 2022 Thanks for listening to #ExplorationMatters, the podcast for people interested in mat… Read More
Show Notes July 14, 2022 Thanks for listening to #ExplorationMatters, the podcast for people interested in matters related to mineral exploration and why exploration matters.… Read More
Episode 2 of the AME Podcast: Exploration Matters is sponsored by: Show Notes June 29, 2022 Thanks for listening to #ExplorationMatters, the podcast for people interested in mat… Read More
Episode 1 of the AME Podcast: Exploration Matters is sponsored by: Show Notes June 21, 2022 Thanks for listening to #ExplorationMatters, the podcast for people interested in mat… Read More
By Gordon Clarke, Bruce Northcote, Nate L. Corcoran, Kirk Hancock, Neil Wildgust, and Yao Cui | British Columbia Geological Survey, Ministry Of Energy, Mines And Low Carbon Inno… Read More
November 2, 2021 – November 4, 2021 PDT The Minerals South conference is organized by the East Kootenay Chamber of Mines (EKCM), a non-profit organization actively promot… Read More
Exploration geologist Donald Kennedy Mustard P.Eng. landed in Vancouver on June 6, 1965, with his wife, three young children and “the clothes we stood up in.” But he had a job, and w… Read More
Yes, some, but not as quickly as you may think Change is hard. Think back to the time, decades ago, when safety was not a top priority for mineral explorers. How did we move forward to t… Read More
MAIN MAP: B.C. MINISTRY OF ENERGY, MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES / CARTOGRAPHY: HOLLY ARNOLD The year 2020 will be remembered for the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the pandemic, ex… Read More
Remote Roundup 2021 is the virtual debut of the annual AME Roundup conference. Leading through the change caused by the global pandemic, we are going virtual to safely facilitate… Read More
Many multinationals are looking at B.C. as a place to invest,” says AME chair McLeod Mineral exploration and development in B.C. is starting to show a definite spring in its step, w… Read More
MAIN MAP: B.C. MINISTRY OF ENERGY, MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES / CARTOGRAPHY: HOLLY ARNOLD Petroleum Resources Mineral Development Office (British]() Preliminary reports… Read More
Jim Gray From 2004 through 2019, the mineral exploration industry saw what seemed like constant change – as mergers changed the corporate world and commodity price volatility wa… Read More
Few people outside the mining and mineral exploration industry know the processes, the people, the history or the complexity of finding and extracting the minerals and metals th… Read More
With a thrilling sound and light show launching this summer, and additional exhibits in development, the Britannia Mine Museum is hoping to entice 110,000 annual visitors by 202… Read More
When explorer Craig Hart saw the Mineral Deposit Research Unit (MDRU) director position advertised over a decade ago, he realised that he “couldn’t design a better situation.” A… Read More
Preliminary reports from the Ministry of Energy, Mines]() and Petroleum Resources Mineral Development Office (British Columbia Geological Survey) and regional geologists i… Read More
A boom is coming on four wheels for B.C.’s mining and mineral exploration industry. AME members throughout the province are actively engaged in exploring, discovering and devel… Read More
Golden years: Consolidated Cinola Mines Ltd.’s Specogna gold deposit on Haida Gwaii graces the]() cover of the 16th annual directory. The Association for Mineral Exploration (… Read More
Walking home along an Edinburgh street one dark, snowy November evening in 2006, geologist Andy Randell received a life-altering phone call. A colleague at a Vancouver-based ex… Read More
Preliminary reports from Ministry of Energy and Mines and Petroleum Resources regional geologists and the Mineral Development Office indicate exploration activity in 2017 ha… Read More
Junior mineral exploration companies exist to responsibly create value for their shareholders – this was the consensus following a lively panel discussion at the AME Speaker Se… Read More
Necessity is making strange bedfellows: organizations that champion sustainability and a greener future are supporting mining as a key factor in that new, low-carbon economy.… Read More
In recent years, I have had multiple conversations with my peers regarding challenges associated with working in the minerals industry, and in particular the importance of ment… Read More
Preliminary reports from regional geologists with the B.C. Ministry of Energy and Mines indicate exploration activity in 2016 steadied or recovered slightly, stabilizing a do… Read More
Site view of Pretium Resources Inc.’s Brucejack project The British Columbia mineral exploration and development industry appears to be emerging from its long, silent h… Read More
History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme” – or so said Mark Twain (perhaps). Those in the mining markets are all too familiar with this concept. Mining’s cyclicality is ver… Read More
To catch a wave, timing is everything. Paddle too early or too late and you’ll miss it. You can get lucky occasionally but not consistently. Geophysicist and geologist Garth Kirkh… Read More
A small valley in the northern B.C. Coast Mountains may be a world away from Egypt’s Valley of the Kings. But take away the snow and add a treasure trove of riches, and it’s easy to see w… Read More
Regions monitored by regional geologists from the Ministry of Energy and Mines. Preliminary reports from regional geologists deployed across British Columbia by the Ministry… Read More
The mineral exploration industry is expecting a shortage of workers as the current generation of workers enters retirement. Because the industry is changing so quickly, anyone… Read More
A decade ago, the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) collaborated with the Association for Mineral Exploration British Columbia (AME BC) to conduct its… Read More
AME BC’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Guiding Principles were introduced at Roundup 2014. Since then, the Association’s CSR Committee, chaired by Silvana Costa, has… Read More
Courtesy Lana Eagle Rarely does a person effortlessly straddle the divide between First Nations and industry like Lana Eagle – especially when it comes to mineral exploration an… Read More
Preliminary reports from regional geologists deployed across the province by the British Columbia Ministry of Energy and Mines indicate that exploration slowed in 2014, conti… Read More
Community field trip to Pan American Silver Corp.’s Navidad project Collecting and analyzing environmental baseline data takes a significant investment of time and resources… Read More
Vancouver-based IDM Mining Ltd. recently announced surface sampling results from its Red Mountain underground gold project in northwestern British Columbia. IDM began surfa… Read More
Skiing at Silver Star – a resort that comes by its name honestly. My first job as a geologist straight out of university in 1993 was near my hometown of Stewart, B.C., at an adva… Read More
Diversity in action: The UBC Geology team at the university’s inaugural alumni longboat race The second annual BC Mining HR Diversity Award will launch during the BC Mineral Expl… Read More
Gold panning on Rock Creek, home to a gold rush in 1860 The first gold discovery in British Columbia was made in 1854 along the Pend d’Oreille River and its tributaries in an area sout… Read More
Environmental best practices and exploration hand-in-hand: Kaminak Gold Corporation’s Adam Fage and Craig Finnigan exploring at the Kona zone at the Coffee project. Mineral p… Read More
Operating Mines and Selected Major Exploration projects in British Columbia 2013 Exploration activity in British Columbia was predictably off the peak seen in 2012, when junio… Read More