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Greetings BMA
Members,
Please make
note of the following events in April:
1. April
8-9: Kamloops Exploration Group Annual Conference & Trade Show at
the
Kamloops Convention Centre, followed by tours of the New Afton &
Highland
Valley Mines on April 10th. http://www.keg.bc.ca/conference.htm
2. April
15th RDKB-hosted review and open forum on matters pertaining
to the
Kettle River Water Management Plan, at the USCC Community Centre
in Grand
Forks. Please see the detailed invitation below.
3. April
16th BMA Meeting in Republic, WA at which Kinross’
Nadia St-Jean
will give us a presentation on the “Ring of Fire”.
(Detailed announcement
to follow.)
4. April
20th: Happy Easter –time to get out there you
Prospectors!
Sincerely,
John Jewitt, P. Eng., President
Boundary Mining Association
Grand Forks, BC V0H 1H0
(250) 447-2500
www.boundarymining.com
Boundary
Mining Association
Greetings
BMA Members,
Our
next meeting will be held at the New
Century Restaurant in Grand Forks on the evening of Wednesday, March 12th.
The
buffet dinner will commence at 6:00
p.m., and the cost is $14.65 per person (including GST, but excluding
beverages
and tips). Credit and
Debit cards are accepted.
Following
a brief business meeting
commencing at 7:00 p.m., Ms. Nadia St-Jean will give us a presentation on “The Ring of
Fire” in northern
Ontario. (Those not planning to join us for dinner, may
attend the
meeting at 7:00 p.m.)
Nadia
graduated from the University of
Ottawa, and is currently enrolled in Kinross Gold’s Exploration
Graduate
Program. While spending two summer field seasons with the
Ontario
Geological Survey in search of shale gas in the James Bay Lowlands,
Nadia ended
up logging core at the “Ring of Fire” camp (in her
spare time).
The
“Ring of Fire” is heating up and
receiving a lot of attention. Originally in search of diamonds,
the
explorers encountered major occurrences of chromite, nickel, platinum,
copper
and zinc.
Nadia
has provided an abstract from her
talk (below) and she promises to keep our feet to the fire.
·
Wednesday,
March 12,
·
Dinner
6:00 p.m.
·
Meeting
7:00 p.m.
·
New
Century Restaurant, 7451 5th
St. (west of the Overwaitea parking lot.)
All
are welcome, and bring a friend.
John
Jewitt, P. Eng., President
Boundary
Mining Association
Grand
Forks, BC V0H 1H0
(250)
447-2500
MINUTES
of Meeting – November 6, 2013
The Meeting was held at the RDKB
Conf. Room, Grand Forks, BC.
Members
and guests in attendance:
Klas
Bialon, George Braun, Steven Cannon, Linda
Caron, Ellen Clements, Boyd
Hardwicke, Christine Hellbusch, Leo Jacob,
Solange Jacob, Helen Jewitt,
John Jewitt, Barry Noll, Al
Wait, and Larry Wunder.
I.
Meeting
Called to Order at 7:10 pm by John Jewitt, President
II.
OLD
BUSINESS:
A.
Minutes-May
6
AGM were read by Helen Jewitt, Secretary
Helen
Jewitt
made a motion that these Minutes be approved as read, seconded by Barry
Noll,
and passed.
B.
Treasurer’s
Report given by Larry
Wunder, Treasurer
Larry
Wunder made
a motion that this report be approved as read, seconded by Linda Caron,
and
passed.
C.
Greenwood
Founders Day, July 13 & 14 –
A recap
of BMA’s
participation was given by John Jewitt, Barry Noll, and Larry Wunder. Thanks was given to Barry for his no-charge
housing
of Yukon Dan, who was sponsored by the BMA (with funds from AME). Barry was pleased that placer group
participation increased, and said Yukon
Dan continues to be the most popular event.
D.
CIM’s – M4S Program
at Kamloops - John Jewitt, Helen
Jewitt, and Barry Knoll
volunteered their time and effort to assist Yukon Dan with his
gold-panning
event for students. We worked 3 days and
processed approx. 1400 students from the area through this workshop.
E.
Silver
Summit – Spokane -- John Jewitt talked about the programs he
participated in at this event.
III.
NEW BUSINESS:
A.
A Minerals
Education Workshop - The Exec
Committee gave the go-ahead to plan
and hold this event with monetary help from AME.
B.
A Mineral
Titles Online Workshop was discussed. We decided not to do this project.
C.
While
opening the floor for Other New Business, a
suggestion was made that we should have
some meetings in Republic, WA, since our Kinross Members from there
have always
traveled to Grand Forks for meetings. This
had also been discussed at the Executive
Committee Meeting, and was decided
to bring to a vote with members. A
motion was made by John Jewitt to hold the next meeting in February
2014 in
Republic; was seconded by Larry Wunder, and passed.
D.
Next
meeting – February 2014. Date TBA.
Location – Republic, WA. Carpooling
would be a good option for members.
E.
Members were
invited to break for coffee and carrot cake, provided by Solange Jacob. Membership thanked Solange and business
portion of meeting was adjourned at 7:40 pm.
Ellen
Clements and John Jewitt gave a talk on the Silver Queen – New
Nadina project in northern BC. Ellen
talked about the porphry system and John discussed the vein system
there. Their talks included many
interesting slides
for our enjoyment!
Boundary Mining
Association
MINUTES of AGM - May 9, 2013
The
Dinner & AGM Meeting was held at The New Century Restaurant in
Grand Forks,
B.C. Members
and guests in
attendance:
George Braun, Steven
Cannon, Linda Caron, Jack Carson, Ellen Clements, Ross
Glanville, Christine Hellbusch and Guest, Leo
Jacob, Solange Jacob, Helen Jewitt, John
Jewitt, Bill & Jing Ping Meyer, Barry
Noll, Wolf & Bev Noll, George
Sanders (Speaker), Al Wait & Claudette Crowley, Dan
Wolkowsky, and Margie & Larry Wunder.
I. Meeting
Called to Order at 7:15 pm by John Jewitt, President
11. OLD
BUSINESS:
A. Minutes
of April 4th Meeting were
read by Helen Jewitt, Secretary
Barry Noll made
a motion that the April Minutes be
approved as read, seconded by Ross Glanville, and passed.
B. Treasurer’s
Report given by Larry Wunder, Treasurer
Linda Caron made a motion
that the Treasurer’s
Report be approved as read, seconded by Ellen Clements, and passed.
C. President’s
Annual Recap was given by John
Jewitt
III. New
Business
A. Greenwood’s
Founders Day is July 13
& 14. The BMA is sponsoring Yukon
Dan on the 13th, who has a gold panning exhibition.
We
plan on asking AME for financial help. Volunteers
will be needed to help the day of the
event, and Helen will
call for help from members. Barry Noll
told us of growing support for this fun event, with new exhibitors.
B. A Minerals
Education Workshop is tentatively planned for the Fall; we plan to
participate.
. A Mineral
Titles Online Workshop is tentatively planned for the Fall, or
perhaps sometime
in 2014.
Election
of officers &
directors for the upcoming year. Barry Noll has
been added to the list of Directors, as we need 5.
Otherwise, everyone from the prior
year have agreed to continue. A
request to the floor was made for Other
Nominations, and none were offered. Bill
Meyer made a motion that the Updated List of Officers & Directors
be approved,
was 2nded by Solange Jacob and passed
A. The next
meeting is not yet scheduled, but will be in September at the RDKB
Building. A notice will be going out in
August.
A motion was made by
Steven Cannon to adjourn the Business portion of
the meeting, seconded by Larry Wunder, and passed.
Meeting was adjourned at 7:35 pm, followed
by a short coffee break.
Our speaker, George
Sanders, President & Director of Goldcliff
Resource Corporation, gave a talk on the history and reawakening of
“sleeping
giants” his company is involved in ---the Panorama Ridge Gold
Project, the
Tulameen Copper Project, and the Ainsworth Silver Project.
His lasting sentiment (paraphrased) is to
never give up on a project because you think someone else has already
taken all
the ore!
Upcoming Events:
BOUNDARY MINING ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT’S
REPORT – 2012-2013
Meetings:
The last Annual General Meeting was held at
the New Century Restaurant in Grand Forks on May 17, 2012, with 23
Members and
guests in attendance. Jeff Austin of
International Metallurgical gave an interesting talk on Western Copper
and Gold
Corporation’s Casino porphyry
project in
the Yukon, and on his own Western Canada Limestone operation at West
Bank.
The BMA sponsored Yukon Dan at Greenwood
Founders Day on July 14th & 15th. Dan setup an impressive display of gold
mineral specimens from various locations around the globe.
He demonstrated his gold panning techniques
and taught many folks the fine art of gold panning.
He was ably assisted by students Ian and
Conner Jewitt from Dallas, Texas. Equipment
used in placer gold mining and processing
was also on display
as were metal detectors, all presented under the watchful eye of Barry
Noll.
At our October 18th Meeting in
Grand Forks, Kathleen Autenreith, exploration geologist with Kinross,
gave an
interesting presentation on the Rattlesnake Hills epithermal gold
deposit in
Wyoming.
At our meeting on November 15th
meeting, John Jewitt gave a Powerpoint review of the papers that were
presented
at the Minerals South Conference in Nelson. It
was decided to forego a Christmas Party in favour
of holding more
special events and/or field trips during the year.
An outstanding meeting was attended by 21
people on April 4th, at which Tom Johnson from
Kinross’ Buckhorn
Operation gave an excellent talk on placer mining techniques, and cited
several
examples of placer deposits at various locations. It
was clear that this activity is of interest
to several members and friends in the Boundary area, and more emphasis
will be
given to this type of program in the future, starting with an expanded
program
in support of Greenwood Founders Day on July 13th, 2013.
At an Executive Committee meeting held in
April, it was decided that in view of declining participation at
regular
monthly meetings, more special events and/or activities would be
undertaken;
such as sponsoring MineralsEd workshop for teachers in the Primary
grades. Other workshops such as Minerals
Titles
Online and MapPlace were also discussed. Speaker
engagements would continue on an ad hoc
basis, when topics of
interest such as that which Mr. George Sanders of Goldcliff Resources
will
present at the 2013 AGM.
Conferences:
Several members attended the various exploration
and mining conferences held during the period including Minerals South
in
Nelson; the Silver Summit and Northwest Mining Conferences in Spokane;
AME BC’s
“Roundup” in Vancouver; the PDAC in Toronto; and the KEG
Conference in
Kamloops.
Government and Land Use Issues:
Mr. Bill Meyer is our BMA representative on
the Land Use Committee of the Association for Mineral Exploration of BC
(AME
BC). This committee monitors a broad
range of land use issues including legislation impacting ownership,
access and
environmental legislation; for example, The Mines Act and the
Environmental
Assessment Act.
Locally, BMA Members continue to participate
on the Stakeholders Advisory Committee of the Kettle River Water
Management
Plan – a two year study sponsored by the Regional District of
Kootenay
Boundary. We also are monitoring the
Midway Community Forest Agreement Proposal, and the Wildlife Area
Proposal
safeguarding the habitat occasionally visited by the Williamson
Sapsucker
Woodpecker.
Exploration & Mine Development
Golden Dawn continues exploration work on the
Wild-Rose and Tam O’Shanter properties as well a development of
the May Mac
vein deposit near Greenwood.
Gold Crown is in the process of completing
purchase of the Lexington-Grenoble copper-gold operation near Phoenix
from
Huakan, and Gold Crown plans to re-open this mine.
Kettle River Resources completed a 43-101
Report on the Phoenix tailings deposits, and studies for re-processing
these tailings
for gold recovery are continuing.
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