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Focus on miningPlacer miner Micky McIntosh shows some of the gold nuggets he has pulled out of his claim in the Yank’s Peak area near Barkerville/Wells. Read his story on Pages 3-4.

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Th e B.C. government is moving to restore confi dence in its mine inspection system with a $6 million budget increase and a new offi ce dedicated to overseeing major mines.

Premier Christy Clark announced the changes recently at the annual B.C. Association for Mineral Exploration conference in Vancouver. Th e money comes from contingency funds in the current budget, and will be added to the base budget of the Ministry of Energy and Mines for future years.

Mine inspections have been under scrutiny since the collapse of the tailings dam at Mount Polley copper-gold mine near Williams Lake last summer. Energy and Mines Minister Bill Bennett at fi rst insisted that geotechnical inspections of large B.C. mines were unaff ected by budget cuts that reduced inspections of gravel mining and other operations, but Monday’s announcement tells a diff erent story.

“Since 2011, we’ve made signifi cant improvements to increase geotechnical inspections, hire additional staff and reduce the turnaround time for notice of work permits,” Bennett said in a statement aft er the premier’s announcement.

NDP leader John Horgan said the premier’s announcement appears to be in preparation for what he expects will be “a very damning report” on the Mount Polley situation, which is subject to multiple investigations aft er the earth dam around its tailings pond abruptly breached and released millions of tonnes of water and mine tailings.

Horgan said it’s unusual for any government to fund essential work like mine inspections out of contingency funds, and he’s not convinced that it really has been happening. Th e gov-ernment refused opposition calls to release all provincial mine inspection records, instead appointing an independent expert panel to review the Mount Polley events.

Bennett visited Alaska in November to reassure state offi cials and fi shermen about B.C. mining oversight, aft er the province issued an environmental certifi cate to develop a major metal ore deposit near the Alaska border. Th e ministry expects to collect an extra $3 million a year from additional fees collected from working mines.

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Fortunately, miner Micky McIntosh does not suff er from claustrophobia.

Fortunes may play a big part in his future if a planned tunnel venture yields the amount of gold he’s expecting. McIntosh has been working at the base of Yank’s Peak near the Barkerville-Wells area for some years.

He believes the current economic climate is perfect for gold mining.

If all goes well, the northern B.C. placer and hard rock miner will break ground in July and possibly see the fruits of his labour as early as August. He plans to dig a tunnel using mostly hand tools – picture the Great Escape movie but with pesky mosquitoes, not prison guards, to impede his progress.

Indeed, McIntosh invites the reporter to come out and check on his progress in late September “when all the mos-quitoes are gone.”

Meanwhile he has a claim – and a plan.“My plan is to build a tunnel six or seven feet high, going

straight down to make a 50-foot shaft ,” he said. “Th e fi rst 25 to 30 feet or so will be done by excavator. Th e remaining 20 or so feet by hand, using a pick and shovel. I’m too close to the creek to do it any other way (he has to avoid silt going into the creek). Th e tunnel will be six to seven feet high, just high enough for me to stand up in. Th en I’ll use an electric drill to auger it loose – so it will look like Swiss cheese.”

Once the necessary permits are approved, his work is expected to start in July.

“I think I’ve got a pretty good plan. I’ll be cutting timber from the property to support the walls of the tunnel – it has to be done according to environment (friendly) standards and there’s not many precedents for that, so that part will take some time. But I’ll be using old growth, worm-killed spruce trees so there is no economic waste.”

Why start this project now?“Right now it is ideal conditions for mining. Th e price

of gold is up – today (April 15) it is worth about $1,195

U.S. – and the price of fuel is down,” says McIntosh, who is encouraged by the cyclic nature of the industry and by old drill results.

“Th e world revolves in cycles. Th e last gold rush was in the 1970s and there was a bigger one in the 1930s. So we’re overdue for one. At one time, the world’s money supply was based on gold – now they keep printing money, but that can’t last. In 2011, gold was worth $1,900.”

He’s expecting to learn from miners of yesteryear.“People mined this area a long time ago in the 30s. Th ey

tunnelled at Little Snowshoe Creek one kilometre north of me and produced seven ounces of gold per yard. It hasn’t been mined much since then, so I think I should be able to get out two yards per day – at $600 to $1,200 per yard.”

His tunnel plan is very labour intensive but McIntosh is sure it will be worth it. When he started out, McIntosh was mostly interested in recreational placer mining. He planned to buy and sell claims but then got “hooked” on doing work himself. It all started with world events.

McIntosh has a background in farming, growing specialty grains. One day in 1999, sitting on his grain tractor, he was musing about the near collapse of the Russian economy and he took a long, hard look at the value of gold versus print-able money.

“Gold seemed to be the answer to the world’s problems then. And I think the economic climate right now is good

for gold mining, with the Canadian dollar where it is and the price of fuel down. Th ese are ideal conditions for min-ing. In the 1930s, costs got cut in half for things like labour and steel – and the price of gold went up 50 per cent.”

In 2002, McIntosh got his fi rst mining claim. He had no diffi culty persuading his wife, Valerie Jean, to

try her hand at mining, too. “My wife is a big city girl. She’d never even been in the

country but she came out and decided we should spend our summers placer mining, using a sluice box to do a little prospecting near the creeks (in the Barkerville area). Every-one thinks this is a get rich quick scheme but it isn’t.”

Th e couple eventually bought a claim which had been an old mining camp and had a 1,300 square foot cabin on it. Th e building was collapsing but they did the repairs and restored it. Th ey enjoyed the outdoors, the peace and the tranquility – then the visitors started arriving and they got company, lots of it.

“All of a sudden people started showing up in cars and motor homes. Some had maps with them that still showed the old camp, others were looking for roads that didn’t ex-ist any more. Th ey thought they could just drive over the mountain to visit Barkerville. We ended up inviting them in for coff ee and we made a lot of friends that way. With

Timing good for gold miningPlacer operation set to begin work in the summerTeresa MallamNorthern Report

Google Earth image of Micky McIntosh’s placer site near Yank’s Peak in the Barkerville-Wells area. He plans to start mining this summer.

The first phase of the operation involves using an excavator to start digging a tunnel for his placer operation. CONTINUED ON PAGE 4


Barkerville on the other side of us, we soon became the unoffi cial tourism bureau in the area.”

In 2010 McIntosh got into mining a little more seriously.

“I got my mining permit and bought some equipment, a wash plant, an excavator, an older gravel truck and a small trommel and went to work on an old glacial deposit.

“I did that for two years – it didn’t go very well. Th e nature of my claim is such that I can’t be like the Yukon miners you see on TV shows with all their equipment.”

In time, McIntosh mused about doing something more adventurous.

While ground sluice boxing in his fi rst year, he’d discovered some sizeable gold nuggets but now he wanted to try his hand – literally – at digging a big tunnel to reach the motherlode.

Now he is waiting for permit approval before moving on with his project but he remains hopeful there’s ‘gold in them thar hills’ (no mining story is complete without that time-worn phrase).

“I should have some answers in August as to what deposits are there. Th e plan I have to ‘get rich’ will still happen when the American dollar gives out. Th en gold will be the answer. It’s a unique situation in history where governments can just keep printing money. Th at can’t last forever.”

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The Red Chris mine north of Ter-race up Highway 37 North is making the most of a temporary environmental permit and has begun both processing and shipping copper concentrate out the Port of Stewart.

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The pro-vincial envi-ronment ministry had granted Imperial an efflu-ent discharge permit in early February, a three-month permit expiring in May that allows the mine to operate its ore-grinding mill while testing the tailings facility.

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Th ompson Creek Metals Company Inc. last week an-nounced its fi rst quarter production and sales results.

Total concentrate production for Mount Milligan for the quarter ended March 31, 2015 was 30.3 thousand dry tonnes, with 15.4 million pounds of payable copper and 46.1 thousand ounces of payable gold, which represented increases of approximately eight per cent and 18 per cent, respectively, from payable copper and gold production dur-ing the fi rst quarter of 2014.

For the quarter ended March 31, 2015, molybdenum sales from inventory at the company’s Th ompson Creek Mine and its 75 per cent-owned Endako Mine, together with third-party sourced material that was converted at the com-pany’s Langeloth Metallurgical Facility (Langeloth), totaled 4.3 million pounds.

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areas of the grinding and fl otation circuits. Action plans to address these issues are being implemented. Average mill throughput for the fi rst quarter of 2015 was 39,569 tonnes per day (“tpd”) compared to 33,278 tpd for the fi rst quar-ter of 2014. Th roughput improved during the last half of March, achieving 50,000 to 54,000 tpd for a majority of the days during that period.

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Th ompson Creek Metals Company Inc. is a North Ameri-can mining company. Th e company’s principal operating property is its 100 per cent-owned Mount Milligan mine, an open-pit copper and gold mine and concentrator in British Columbia.

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Th e Mount Polley mine dam failed because of an over-looked glacial material layer in the foundation and a series of steep additions that eventually overcame it, an indepen-dent engineering review has concluded.

“Basically the weight of the dam was too much for the weak materials in the foundation to bear,” said U.S. consult-ing engineer Steven Vick, one of three experts called in to examine the failure that caused the dam to breach and fail in August 2014.

Th e report concludes that the concrete-like glacial till ma-terial in the base of the dam wasn’t understood in enough detail when the dam was designed and built in 1997. Later raising of the dam to hold more water and tailings weak-ened the base layer and led to the failure.

Vick said the additions to the dam were built at a steeper slope than the original dam, and plans to buttress the area were delayed until it was too late.

Energy and Mines Minister Bill Bennett said the report shows there were no warning signs, and no surface inspec-tions could have detected the problem that was overlooked in the design and original construction.

Two more investigations of the mine failure are pending. Bennett said the Chief Inspector of Mines is likely to release his report by this summer, and the Conservation Offi cers’ Service will also report when its investigation is complete.

Bennett said the government is willing to see the Mount Polley mine reopen, but the other investigations must be complete fi rst. Th e parent company Imperial Metals has applied to use an existing pit to store tailings and resume operations without using the original tailings pond again.

“Th is was a horrible accident,” Bennett said. “We now know how it happened.”

Mount Polley design and steep addition led to tailings pond failureTom FletcherBlack Press

Photo illustration courtesy of the Ministry of EnvironmentTailings dam at Mount Polley mine has been modified since the Aug. 4 breach to contain further flow of tail-ings into Quesnel Lake.

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Th e Association of Professional Engineers and Geosci-entists of B.C. (APEGBC) says work is progressing on a signifi cant element of its action plan to help improve dam safety in B.C.

Following the release of the Report on Mount Polley Tailings Storage Facility Breach on January 30, APEGBC initiated work on a key recommendation in the report to develop professional practice guidelines for dam site characterization assessments. Th e guidelines will outline the standard of care and professional obligations professional engineers and geoscientists must uphold when conducting these assessments, and will defi ne the roles and responsibili-ties of the various participants and stakeholders involved in this process.

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Th e four senior technical experts leading this work in-clude Dirk van Zyl, P.Eng., who participated on the inde-pendent expert engineering investigation and review panel that authored the Mount Polley report. Th e guidelines will undergo review by a group comprising expert engineers and geoscientists, staff from the Ministries of Energy and Mines and Forests, Lands, and Natural Resource Operations, and representatives from the Canadian Dam Association.

“Our government is committed to ensuring that all of the independent panel’s recommendations are implemented and we support the action that APEGBC is taking,” said Minister of Energy and Mines Bill Bennett. “Developing new guidelines for professional engineers and geoscientists to follow when conducting dam site characterizations is an important part of learning from this serious incident and making sure it never happens again.”

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Th e guidelines are scheduled to be released in March 2016.

Founded in 1920, APEGBC is the regulatory and licensing body for the professions of engineering and geoscience and is charged with protecting the public interest. With over 32,000 members, APEGBC is one of the largest professional associations in B.C. and main-tains high academic, experience and professional practice standards.

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DAWSON CREEK – Multi-national oil and gas company Royal Dutch Shell an-nounced on April 8 that it would take over the struggling BG Group for USD $70 bil-lion, the largest energy industry merger in over 15 years.

Th e acquisition will likely mean one less LNG project for northeastern B.C., as both Shell and BG had projects planned for the region.

Shell’s LNG Canada project and BG’s Prince Rupert LNG project are now both on the chopping block, it seems, as analysts say it is unlikely that aft er the merger Shell will go forward with both projects.

“Th ere is clearly scope for review for those two projects in Canada,” Shell chief executive Ben van Beurden was quoted as saying in a conference call on April 9.

Shell was expected to make a decision on its Shell LNG Canada project in 2016, but has not confi rmed if that timeline remains.

“Our understanding is that both of the projects, the one from Shell, the one from BG, would have used at least some of the gas sourced from Dawson Creek,” said Jim Chute, City of Dawson Creek Chief Admin-

istrative Offi cer.Analysts are speculating that the purchase

could signal an increased interest in LNG and a move away from oil, and could mean more mergers to come as weaker companies are bought up.

Peter Tertzakian, energy economist and veteran industry analyst based in Calgary, told the Financial Post that what he called “structural” changes in the Canadian fossil fuel industry could result in more mergers and acquisitions.

Th e eff ects this may have on the Peace is unclear.

“When it comes to what that means for our region or for British Columbia, to the best of my knowledge there hasn’t been any discussion around how that is going to be positive or negative for us,” said Peace River South MLA Mike Bernier.

“From what I see there’s still a lot of in-vestment, there’s still a lot of involvement in British Columbia, so obviously we hope that continues.”

Th ere are some clues as to which LNG project will be discontinued.

Noel Tomnay, head of global energy, min-ing and metals research and consultancy group Wood Mackenzie’s LNG research team, predicts that the Shell LNG Canada project near Kitimat will go forward.

“Th e Shell project has got buyers in the partnership, it’s developing the pipeline, it’s well ahead with the engineering – so the Shell project is well advanced,” he was quoted in the Financial Post.

Meanwhile, all of the senior personnel in the Canadian branch of BG have left the organization in the last six months, Tomnay said.

Karl Johannson, president of natural gas pipelines of TransCanada Corp. which is contracted to build the pipeline connect-ing the Northeast natural gas fi elds with the Shell LNG Canada project, also has confi -dence in the Kitimat project.

“We see no signs of Shell putting down the tools at all on that project,” he said at a

Toronto energy conference.“As a matter of fact, Shell has come out

publicly and said North American LNG projects are some of their priorities glob-ally.”

Increased international interest in LNG would only mean good things for Northeast B.C., says Bernier.

“It’s really important for our region, for the jobs and the economic growth, to have LNG go forward, so that’s something we want to keep working towards, for sure,” said Bernier.

“If an LNG plant goes through, it doesn’t matter which one goes through, that will be good news for the industry in our area.”

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On March 24 more than 65 represen-tatives from the B.C. mining industry, including representatives from the Mining Association of British Columbia (MABC), the Mining Suppliers Association of B.C. and the Association of Mineral Exploration of B.C., coalesced in Victoria to meet with government offi cials as part of Mining Day at the Legislature 2015.

Organized by MABC, Mining Day at the Legislature is an opportunity for industry and government representatives to come together to discuss the challenges facing the sector and identify responsible opportuni-ties for growth.

“Th is is an important opportunity to bring together operators, industry partners and legislators to discuss a path towards prosperity for all British Columbians”, com-mented Karina Briño, President and CEO of the Mining Association of B.C. “Th e B.C. mining industry is comprised of global leaders in responsible resource develop-ment. We are here to share our story and

our commitment to safety, sustainability and continuous improvement”.

Minister Bill Bennett stated, “a thriving mining sector is essential for building a strong and diverse economy in our prov-ince and a successful mining sector relies on successful partnerships – partnerships between industry, government, communi-ties and First Nations. It is through these partnerships that we will continue to make B.C. a mining success story and I’m happy that today our government is celebrating and supporting our partnership with this important industry.”

Th e MABC delegation is comprised of senior executives from B.C.’s mining and supplier operations, representing most of B.C.’s operating mines and an industry worth more than $8.5 billion in gross rev-enue and approximately 10,000 jobs, across every region of the province.

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• Exploration and development expenditures by survey participants was $476 million in 2013 compared with $680 million in 2012.

• Lead revenue totalled $189 million in 2013 compared to $194 million in 2012.• Shipments of metallurgical coal rose to 28.1 million tonnes in 2013, compared to

24.2 million tonnes in 2012.• Coal accounted for 41 per cent of the total volume handled at the Port of Vancou-

ver in 2013, which moves shipments to China, Japan and other Asian markets.• Metallurgical coal continued to dominate B.C.’s mining sector in 2013, represent-

ing 43 per cent of revenues, followed by copper concentrates at 23 per cent, silver at nine per cent, zinc and zinc concentrates at nine per cent, gold at four per cent, lead at three per cent and molybdenum at two per cent.

• Copper revenue increased to $1.7 billion in 2013 and copper shipments rose to 884,000 tonnes.

• Gold: net mining revenues increased in 2013 to $304 million, up from $275 million in 2012.

• Molybdenum: net mining revenues in 2013 were $150 million compared to $248 million in 2012.

• Zinc and zinc concentrates revenue in 2013 fell slightly to $628 million from $685 million in 2012.

• Silver: net mining revenue for 2013 was $626 million compared to $760 million in 2012.

• Cash fl ow from B.C. operations in 2013 was $2.6 billion, an increase of 15% over 2012.

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Th e year 2014 and the early part of 2015 have been chal-lenging for the mining industry.

Commodity prices are down, some like oil, silver, nickel and molybdenum are down signifi cantly. Copper too is down; declining since 2011, copper hit a fi ve-year low this past year.

If these low levels persist for a prolonged period it will add further economic uncertainty to the mining industry, not just here in B.C. but around the world.

While Taseko, and the Gibraltar Mine we operate, are not immune to these market challenges, we have been preparing for the possibility of lower prices for some time.

Gibraltar was restarted in 2004 and beginning in 2006 Taseko invested $700 million in a multi-phase moderniza-tion project. Th e main goal was to lower costs, increase production and be in the best possible position to ensure the company could weather the storm associated with cop-per price declines. By increasing production and lowering costs-per-pound produced, the operation becomes more effi cient, more resilient, and possesses greater potential to remain profi table, and thus remains operating while other higher cost mines around the world will have to either cur-tail production or cease operations altogether.

Th e success at Gibraltar is in large measure a refl ection of the skill and dedication of our employees to not only operational excellence but also to the well-being of their fellow workers.

Safety remains the top priority and great care is taken to ensure safety is the fi rst consideration in all decisions and actions taken.

At midnight on Dec. 31, 2014 a signifi cant safety mile-stone was reached when employees and contractors com-pleted the entire 2014 calendar year without a single loss time incident.

A total of 1,711,467 person hours worked without an ac-cident.

Th e Taseko-Gibraltar operation remains a vital contribu-

tor to local communities and the people living in the region.With approximately 650 working at Gibraltar, we have a

total payroll of $70.1 million per annum, with 94 per cent of employees concentrated in Williams Lake, Quesnel and 100 Mile House. And although spending is down in comparison to recent years, we remain committed to our local purchas-ing policy.

Gibraltar spent more than $76 million buying goods and services locally in 2014, which continues to help local busi-nesses and generate additional employment opportunities in local communities.

Additionally, in 2014 Taseko-Gibraltar employees raised a total of $108,295 for the United Way in the Cariboo, dem-onstrating our employees’ personal generosity and determi-nation to give back to the community. Over the past seven

years, Taseko-Gibraltar employees are responsible for hav-ing donated approximately $630,000 to the United Way as a means to contribute to the local well-being of the Cariboo communities. Th is fundraising initiative, which is driven by employees, provides meaningful support for local charities and a chance for all of us to say thanks for the work they do and the contribution they make to the quality of life here in the Cariboo.

Th rough the challenging year, we remain proud of our workforce’s many accomplishments; it is their hard-work and unwavering commitment to the region that sets and inspiring example as we work our way through these times of economic uncertainty.

- Dave Rouleau is the vice-president of mining operations with Taseko Mines Ltd.

Taseko-Gibraltar present the Thompson Nicola Cariboo United Way with a cheque for $108,295 at the Annual United Way Touchdown closing celebration. Pictured are, from left, Dr. Todd Ring, 2014 Campaign Cabinet Chair, and Geralyn Alain, Community Campaign Manager for United Way Thompson Nicola Cariboo; Chad Beadman, Liz Crosina, Zack Nerbas, and Krista Murray from Taseko-Gibraltar.

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Th e awards were presented to mines and quarries operating in British Columbia that had the lowest injury-frequency-rate during the previous calendar year. Th e companies acknowledged are leaders in workplace safety in an industry that is critical to B.C.’s diverse, strong and growing economy.

“Th ese awards underscore the progress made in health and safety prac-tices in B.C.’s mining sector, while recog-nizing those companies that are setting an example of how to be successful while upholding health and safe-ty standards,” said Bill Ben-nett, minister of energy and mines. “I want to thank these companies for the important work they do and for their commitment to keeping our workers safe.”

New Gold Inc.’s New Aft on mine and Copper Mountain Mining Corporations’ Copper Mountain mine, two of the fi ve new mines that have opened in B.C. in the last few years, both received awards for the low-est injury-frequency-rate.

Th is past year saw a decrease in the total estimated injury rate at mines in B.C. as well as a decrease in the number of days lost to injury.

“Worker safety is always top of our minds and the ministry health and safety team strives for high safety standards at all B.C. mines,” said Al Hoff man, B.C.’s chief inspec-tor of mines. “I’d like to thank all of the inspectors, mine management workers and

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