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MINERALS,
METALS AND INDUSTRIAL MATERIALS MINING INDUSTRY
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COMPANY
NAME
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Received the
1994 Environmental Award from the Prospectors and Developers Association
of Canada for its innovative design of the Louvicourt, Quebec mine
operations.
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Aur
Resources Inc. |
| Prospectors
and Developers Association of Canada Newsletter "In Brief": The…conceptual
design of the Louvicourt Mine…shows serious consideration of the
long term potential impact of the mine's activities on the environment
and reveals careful planning to minimize any potentially negative
results". |
Aur
Resources Inc. |
| The
Lupin, N.W.T. operations were awarded the 1996 Environmental Excellence
Award, presented by the Association of Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists.
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Echo
Bay Mines Ltd. |
| Progressive
Rehabilitation Award (1996) from the Aggregate Producers' Association
of Ontario (APAO), recognizing the ongoing rehabilitation of the
Garson Flux Pit that included hydroseeding to establish ground cover
to support tree planting. |
Inco
Limited |
| Received
the "Progressive Reclamation Award" from the Aggregate Producers Association
of Ontario (APAO) in 1996. |
Inco
Limited |
| Sustainable
Development Award of Excellence (1995: Large Business Category) awarded
by the Manitoba Government. |
Inco
Limited |
| Certificate
of Recognition (1994) from the Ontario Government regarding fisheries
management on the Upper Spanish River Watershed. |
Inco
Limited |
| Great
Blue Heron Award (1993) from the North American Waterfowl Management
Plan for assistance in the Lynch Point Conservation Project northwest
of Winnipeg along the shores of Manitoba. |
Inco
Limited |
| Inco
was a major participant in the community 'greening' program that won
the Local Government Honors Award (1992). This was awarded to the
Regional Municipality of Sudbury by the U.N. at the Earth Summit of
1992 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. |
Inco
Limited |
| For
the Luscar, Alberta Mine: Order of the Bighorn (1990), and Ammonite
Reclamation Award (1989). |
Luscar
Ltd. |
| Coal
Valley Mine: First mine in Alberta to receive government certification
for having achieved successful reforestation to commercial forestry
standards. |
Luscar
Ltd. |
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Premiere Coal company to receive release from further reclamation
and decommissioning for mined lands and abandoned mine lands, for
both agricultural and wildlife end land uses. |
Manalta
Coal Ltd. |
| The
Line Creek, B.C. Mine was awarded the Annual Provincial Mine Reclamation
Award by the B.C. Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks. |
Manalta
Coal Ltd. |
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| Received
the Fraser River Estuary Management Program's Development Award in
1997 for the high quality of the restoration work related to contaminated
sediments, undertaken near former copper tube fabricating facility
near Vancouver, B.C. |
Noranda
Inc. |
| Two
outstanding reclamation awards: one for its exploration staff in British
Columbia, and another for site rehabilitation at Equity Silver Mines.
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Placer
Dome Canada Limited |
| Reclamation
research programs have been recognized with several awards. |
Smoky
River Coal Limited |
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In 1994 Syncrude received the Environmental Management Award at the
Financial Post Environment Awards. |
Syncrude
Canada Ltd. |
| Elkview
(as Westar Mining) received the B.C. Mine Reclamation Award in 1978
and 1989. |
Teck
Corporation |
| Quintette
Coal Limited received the B.C. Mine Reclamation Award in 1989 and
1993 for the Quintette Coal Mine in B.C. |
Teck
Corporation |
| Bullmoose
received a Citation from the B.C. Technical and Research Committee
on Reclamation in 1985 for its Burnt River Coal Property. |
Teck
Corporation |
| Quintette
Coal Limited received a Citation from the B.C. Technical and Research
Committee on Reclamation in 1989 for their Transfer, Grizzly, Mesa
and Wolverine Properties. |
Teck
Corporation |
| Quintette
Coal Limited received a Citation from the B.C. Technical and Research
committee on Reclamation in 1989 for the Quintette Coal Mine. |
Teck
Corporation |
| Quintette
Coal Limited won the B.C. Mine Reclamation Photography Competition
for Land Reclamation in 1991. |
Teck
Corporation |
| The
Powderhorn Complex received the Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Board
Award in 1992. |
Teck
Corporation |
| The
David Bell, Ontario Mine received a Certificate of Pollution Prevention
and Achievement in 1994 for its greater than 50% reduction of cyanide
in final treated effluent since 1990. |
Teck
Corporation |
AGGREGATE
INDUSTRY
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| The
Aggregate Producers' Association of Ontario (APAO) Progressive Rehabilitation
Award for the Aberfoyle Pit, the Mosport Pit, and the Miltan Quarry.
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ESSROC
Canada Inc. |
| Has
been recognized by the Aggregate Producers' Association of Ontario
(APAO) for property enhancement and environmental efforts. |
St.
Marys Cement Corporation |
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