West coast-based financier Peter Brown has won the Murray Pezim Award, presented by the British Columbia and Yukon Chamber of Mines at the 18th Annual Cordilleran Exploration Roundup, held recently in Vancouver.
Brown founded Canarim Investment and its successor, Canaccord Capital, of which he is chief executive officer. Both companies have raised hundreds of millions of dollars to support the Vancouver-based exploration industry.
Pezim (1920-1998), after whom the award is named, contributed to the discovery of the Hemlo gold camp in Ontario, as well as the Eskay Creek gold deposit in British Columbia.
Three other awards were presented by the Chamber of Mines.
– George Cross, publisher of his namesake newsletter for 47 years, won the Frank Woodside Past President’s Award.
– Lawrence “Joe” Adie, retired vice-president of exploration with Vancouver-based Placer Dome, took home the E.A. Scholz Award for excellence in mine development. Adie, who is a University of British Columbia (UBC) graduate in geological engineering, began his career in 1947 as a miner at Placer Development’s lead-zinc mine in Salmo, B.C. He spent most of the next 40 years with the company, which eventually became known as Placer Dome.
– The H.H. “Spud” Huestis Award for excellence in prospecting and mineral exploration was shared by Arthur John, Robert Etzel and John McDonald. Messrs. John and Etzel are prospectors from Ross River, Y.T., whereas McDonald is the founding director of the Mineral Deposits Research Unit at UBC and former vice-president of exploration of Winspear Resources.
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