Viola R. MacMillan Award For Company Or Mine Development

This award is named in honour of the PDAC’s longest serving president and is given to a person who has demonstrated leadership in management and financing for the exploration and development of mineral resources.

Winner of this award is Ross J. Beaty, a geologist and resource company entrepreneur with more than 37 years of experience in the international minerals industry. He founded and currently serves as chairman of Pan American Silver Corp., one of the world’s leading silver producers. The company has eight operating mines in Mexico, Peru, Argentina, and Bolivia. Beaty also founded Magma Energy Corp. to focus on international geothermal energy development. Since its start in 2008, the company has built a world-class team, acquired a Nevada operating plant with expansion potential and an extensive portfolio of early and advanced stage exploration properties in North and South America. Ross Beaty established the Beaty Biodiversity Centre and Beaty Biodiversity Museum at the University of British Columbia and spearheaded a campaign to raise $56 million to fund a new geology building at UBC.