Excellence in mineral processing was celebrated at the 52nd Annual Canadian Mineral Processors Conference awards ceremony

Tom Shouldice (left) with Alex Doll Craig Hudson (right) with Rebecca Payant

Mark Adams (left) with Scott Martin Chuck Edwards (right) with Stuart McTavish

And the CMP winners are…

Excellence in mineral processing was celebrated at the annual CMP Conference

By Michele Beacom

The Canadian Mineral Processors Society of CIM kicked off this year’s awards ceremonies on Jan. 22. Here is the roster of winners:

Tom Shouldice, CEO at Base Metallurgical Laboratories Ltd., won the Mineral Processor of the Year Award. Over his 25-plus year career, Shouldice has made significant technical contributions to process development for many significant projects and mines currently in production.

The Bill Moore Special Achievement Award for early-career members of CIM/CMP went to Craig Hudson, principal metallurgist at Atlantic Gold Corp.

Mark Adams, a director at Outotec, won the Ray MacDonald Volunteer Award in recognition of his 15 years of committed volunteering in both the mining industry and in the community.

At the SAG 2019 conference in Vancouver in September, Greg Lane was presented the Art MacPherson Comminution Award for his work in comminution circuit design with a focus on energy and cost efficiency.

Chuck Edwards, in recognition of his extended career in mineral processing, was awarded the CMP Lifetime Achievement Award CIM-Science North initiative receives a big donation Don MacLean, founder of MacLean Engineering, wrote a big cheque in support of the CIM-Science North mineral literacy program Our Earth’s Riches. MacLean’s $100,000 donation moves the project that much closer to CIM’s $1 million goal.

Jean-François Dupont took this year’s CMP Best Presentation Award.

The following student awards for were handed out: • Andre Laplante Memorial Scholarship: Kyle Owen-Springer • Byron Knelson Memorial Scholarship: Kyle Lamont • 1st Lucky Amaratunga Technical Report Competition:

Luke Visconti • 2nd Lucky Amaratunga Technical Report Competition:

Laurence Boisvert • 3rd Lucky Amaratunga Technical Report Competition:

Matthew Goldblaum

Nikki van Noord

Kyle Owen-Springer