2004 Award Winners

The Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada is delighted to announce this year’s annual awards recipients. The awards, which are selected by the association’s board of directors, recognize excellence and achievement in the minerals industry. Winners will be honoured and presented with their awards at the association’s awards evening, held during the 2004 convention, on Monday, March 8 in the Fairmont Royal York Hotel, Toronto.

THAYER LINDSLEY INTERNATIONAL DISCOVERY AWARD

This new award recognizes an individual or a team of explorationists credited with a recent significant mineral discovery anywhere in the world. The first-time winner of the award, which honours the memory of one of the greatest mine finders of all time, is Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. for the discovery of the Hugo Dummett copper-gold discovery in Mongolia. Included in the award are Ivanhoe chairman Robert Friedland and geologists Douglas J. Kirwin, Charles N. Forster, and D. Garamjav.

BILL DENNIS PROSPECTOR OF THE YEAR AWARD

Winner of this year’s Prospector of the Year Award, which recognizes the discoverers of a significant Canadian discovery, is the exploration team of Wolfden Resources Inc. The team, which includes Ewan S. Downie, Iain F. Downie, and Ian Neill, is being recognized primarily for its important mineral discovery of the West Zone massive sulphide deposit at High Lake, Nunavut.

VIOLA R. MACMILLAN DEVELOPER’S AWARD

This award, which is named in honour of the PDAC’s longest serving president, is given to a person who has demonstrated leadership in management and financing for the exploration and development of mineral resources. This year’s recipient of the award is David Thompson, president and CEO of Teck Cominco Limited. Mr. Thompson is being recognized for his role in merging Teck Corporation and Cominco Ltd. into one of Canada’s major mining companies with a global reach and for his work in organizing the Elk Valley coal partnership.

DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD

This award recognizes contributions and service to the Canadian mineral industry and/or to the association. The 2004 recipients are Donald A. Cranstone and Donald Ross.

Donald Cranstone, recently retired from Natural Resources Canada, receives this award for his excellent and dedicated service in the collection, compilation, and cataloguing of statistics on Canada’s mineral industry.

Donald Ross, who is president of Jones Gable & Company Limited, is being honoured for his long-time commitment to financing companies in the junior mining sector.

ENVIRONMENTAL AWARD

Wallbridge Mining Company Limited will receive one of two Environmental Awards being presented this year. The award honours outstanding initiative, leadership and accomplishment in the protection and preservation of the natural environment during an exploration program or mine operation. Wallbridge is recognized for its exemplary care of and commitment to preserving the natural and local environment during its exploratory drilling on Windy Lake in northern Ontario.

The second Environmental Award recognizes the work and achievements of Christine Kaszycki, Assistant Deputy Minister in Manitoba’s Industry, Economic Development and Mines Ministry. As chair of the National Orphaned/Abandoned Mines Initiative (NOAMI), Ms. Kaszycki has worked tirelessly and wisely to spearhead, manage, and promote this important environmental program.

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

The PDAC’s board of directors has elected to present a Special Achievement Award this year to the firm of Roscoe Postle Associates Inc. The firm and its founding principals, John Postle and Bill Roscoe, have given stalwart service to the Canadian mineral industry in their long-term commitment to and involvement in processes leading to mineral resources and mineral reserves definitions and standards for mineral property valuation.