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Future-proofing against climate change What does it take to develop a climate-resilient mine site? (Short answer: good climate data models and a willingness to accept them) By Cecilia Keating

project profile

technology

Sleeping giant

The drive to electric

Barrick recently spent two years and $20 million reclaiming the tailings storage facilities at Giant Nickel, a closed mine in B.C. it acquired, but never operated, as part of a lucrative merger almost 20 years ago

Experience, economics and incentives are sparking the shift to underground battery electric vehicles

By Kylie Williams

By Alexandra Lopez-Pacheco

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Editor’s letter

President’s notes

tools of the trade 12

The best in new technology Compiled by Tijana Mitrovic

developments 17

Teck Resources withdraws application for Frontier mine project By Tijana Mitrovic

Sustainability and community relations at the forefront of mining trends in 2020

mining lore

By Sara King-Abadi

Supreme Court rejects Nevsun’s appeal to hear forced labour case abroad

Mining’s aerial pioneers By Matthew Coyte

By Tijana Mitrovic

contenu francophone

mining mentors 33

Advice to young professionals from B.C. geoscientist Andy Randell By Michele Beacom

columns 37

The tangible benefits of striving for employee engagement By Nadine Trodel

Table des matières

Lettre de l’éditeur

Mot du président

article de fond 66

An old technology can bring new life to your sorting facility By Jane Danoczi

Contre le changement climatique, la pérennité Que faire pour développer un site minier résistant aux phénomènes climatiques ? (réponse : des modèles climatiques précis et la volonté de les accepter) Par Cecilia Keating

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profil de projet

Raise boring allowed Alamos Gold to sink a large-diameter production shaft at its Young-Davidson mine quicker, safer and cheaper than by conventional means

By Linda Stuart

Juniors are capitalizing on historic core assets in Northwest Territories By Herb Mathisen

Vern Evans on the evolution and future of shaft sinking

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CIM kicked off the year with the launch of a national student mentoring program. By Michele Beacom

By Tijana Mitrovic

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Un géant endormi Barrick a passé deux années et a investi 20 millions de dollars dans la remise en état des installations de stockage des résidus de Giant Nickel, une mine fermée de ColombieBritannique que la société a achetée dans le cadre d’une fusion lucrative il y a près de 20 ans sans jamais l’exploiter Par Kylie Williams

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editor’s letter

Into the archives

e had the issue ready for the press when the call was made to cancel the CIM Convention and Expo 2020. The decision, along with all of the developments that inspired it, has left us trying to grasp the business, societal and familial implications of this moment. Hopefully, by the time this reaches you, the efforts we have made in this country and beyond to slow the spread of this nasty virus will have begun to prove themselves effective and we will have a better idea of what our next steps should be. We also hope that, for the many of you who have been homebound in the interest of “social distancing” and civic responsibility, this issue will be received as a nice opportunity to push away from the screen of your work-from-home station for a slightly more tactile media experience, which happened to be the initial spark for this letter… Among the current clutter on my desk is the 1966-1967 Canadian Mines Handbook, an annual publication of The Northern Miner and provided “compliments of Doherty Roadhouse and McCuaig Bros.” The pages of the directory of mining companies are seeded with press clippings: “Baffin Iron Ore ‘Ready for Furnaces’; “Deux hauts fonctionnaires de Soquem sont congédiés” (Two senior Soquem officials are fired); handwritten notes on bank slips of ownership stakes in bygone mining companies; teletype updates of mine developments; and transit transfer tickets marking pages for some inscrutable reason. It is a collection of grab samples hinting at some larger, hidden story. I am not quite sure how it landed on my desk, but its charms have allowed it to survive a few rounds of my impulsive cleanings. Artefacts like these are waiting on the shelves of the CIM national office, where bound volumes dating back to the beginnings of the institute line the walls and reward the curious person who pulls one down to leaf through it. (Much of the useful content of these physical archives has been mined and is now

This issue’s cover Underground mines are deploying BEVs. Photo courtesy of Prairie Machine

available in our technical paper library and we continue to add the contents of those shelves to our digital collection.) The redesign project for the CIM Magazine website was an opportunity to do the same with the articles that predate my time as editor at CIM. The digital archives were not quite as evocative – or fragrant – as the old bound editions, but the traffic they generated did provide insight on what was drawing people to our site. In 2007 Vern Evans and Charles Graham wrote a multi-part series called “The Evolution of Shaft Sinking.” The project, Evans explains in our Q&A “A deep dive into the history of mine development,” page 51, was borne of frustration with the slow pace of advancement in that realm and drew a steady stream of readers to it – at least the parts of it they were able to access. We have reposted that 13-year-old series on the magazine site, including a retrospective on the developments in the intervening years courtesy of Mr. Evans and Mr. Graham, and we hope it will serve as a useful resource on its own as well as a point of departure to explore the subject more deeply through the additional resources available in the technical paper library. Dig deep.

Ryan Bergen, Editor-in-chief editor@cim.org @Ryan_CIM_Mag

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president’s notes

Strategies change, values don’t

e are dealing with some trying times. Some people are inconvenienced, some businesses are suffering. Some people are feeling ill, some are very sick. Some haven’t survived. Perhaps ironically, in this situation closing borders is actually a sign of the world working together to stem the tide of a global disease. In the computer scientist and educator Randy Pausch’s book, “The Last Lecture,” he tells the story of when he was complaining to his mother about how difficult his PhD tests were and she said, “We know how you feel. When your father was your age, he was fighting in World War II.” That put things into perspective for him. In the situation we are in today, we can complain about things but we should be aware that many people are far worse off than we are. I know as little as or less about COVID-19 than anyone reading this. I watch the news. I think it is very serious. I think we should be doing everything we can to stem the spread of the disease, but I also recognize that life goes on. Will things be different when this is over? Will things be better when this is over? I would like to think so. I remember hearing a saying many years ago that strategies change but values don’t. It has been good guidance for me, recognizing that different markets or conditions or situations may call for revised approaches, but if you aspire to live by a value system, those values shouldn’t waiver. Protecting our people. Supporting the communities that we live and work in. Being honest with ourselves and others. These are just some of the many values that form our ethics system. I do remember that it was John Maxwell who said, “There is no such thing as business ethics, there is only ethics.” Why would you live by one set of ethics with friends and family, and employ another at work? Our personal and corporate value systems should be universal. So how do we come out of this better than when we went in? Apart from the obvious experience in dealing with a pandemic of this nature, there are some other areas where we as an industry may ultimately benefit from this experience. We do a great deal of work to keep our people safe from traumatic injuries. In dealing with the current pandemic I see every 10 | CIM Magazine | Vol. 15, No. 2

company, community and country establishing strategies to deal with illness. This will better position us to deal with illness prevention now and in the future. In safety circles it is well recognized that mental health is a huge challenge for us, and one we have only just started to better understand. Work-life balance is a key part of our mental health. Or as I like to say, since work is just part of our life, it is really just life balance. Now we are faced with companies examining work-at-home options and other ways that employees can take care of loved ones and still contribute at work. If we can get this right, this has the potential of being a boon to mental health and may lead to other strategies that can deal with the stress all our people are exposed to today. Most mining and mineral processing operations do not have the luxury of a work-at-home option. Or do they? We have been considering and developing remote and autonomous equipment operation technology for years. Perhaps this will be an impetus to adopt and implement this technology? I always try to look for the positives in any situation. It is hard to find them right now, but I think one of our jobs as managers and leaders is to glean some useful lessons from our present situation and look ahead. One thing I do know, is that for every individual or company that is being opportunistic or is not working together with others, there are many others who are willing to do the right thing. That comes from having the right value system, and remembering that strategies change but values don’t.

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tools of the trade

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ExcelSense’s new ToughEye self-cleaning camera is designed for

Under-cover protection Karzelek’s K-911 is a new personal protective device

which allows underground miners to access breathable air in case of accidents. “It’s a last-defence tool for miners, after all procedures have been extinguished or tried,” Pascal Morin, commercial development at Karzelek, told CIM Magazine. “If they’re walking towards a refuge station underground and the smoke wall arrives... this tool can be deployed, and you can hook it up to the compressed air lines in an [underground mine].” The K-911 is an additional means to protect miners in case of fire and can be used for lumbar support and as a stretcher, survival tent and thermal blanket. According to Karzelek, the device maintains body temperature for injured workers and provides oxygen, keeping miners safe while they wait for mine rescue and evacuation.

Emesent’s new mobile scanning unit, the Hovermap, is designed

to map light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data both above and below ground. The HF1 model suitable for mines includes quickrelease mounting hardware, so users can either do hand-held scanning or attach the device to a drone to survey unsafe or inaccessible areas. “Hovermap’s versatility allows users to switch easily from drone to hand-held use, backpack or vehiclemounted scanning,” Dini Malhi, marketing consultant at Emesent told CIM Magazine. “[This enables] the collection of critical data both from the air and on the ground.” The Hovermap uses collision avoidance to detect obstacles such as pillars, wires and people and performs localization, navigation and flight control without GPS.

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Trolley Haulers Caterpillar’s new trolley assist system for three of its large

electric-drive haul trucks provides external power on haul roads while helping reduce carbon emissions as well as fuel and engine costs. The system uses a fitted support structure with pantographs to connect trucks to overhead power lines, which receive power from local power grids. The system allows trucks to move faster and use less fuel while climbing hills. According to Caterpillar, the trolley assist can increase machine engine life by 25 per cent and reduce fuel and engine costs by 90 per cent. The trolley assist kit is available for the 795 AC truck, and is also compatible with the 794 AC, 796 AC and 798 AC Cat electric-drive trucks. The product launch followed a pilot project that tested four 795F AC trucks at Boliden’s Aitik mine in Sweden.

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Developments Teck Resources withdraws application for Frontier mine project Teck Resources walks away from $20.6 billion oil sands mine days before federal government announces its decision Teck Resources announced on Feb. 23 that it was withdrawing from the regulatory review process for its $20.6 billion Frontier oil sands project. The news came days before the federal government was expected to make a final decision on whether it would approve the project. Teck CEO and president Don Lindsay released a letter, addressed to the federal minister of the environment and climate change, Jonathan Wilkinson, explaining the decision. “We are disappointed to have arrived at this point,” Lindsay said in the statement. “Teck put forward a socially and environmentally responsible project that was industry leading and had the potential to create significant economic benefits for Canadians.” The northern Alberta project was projected to produce 260,000 barrels of oil per day, create 9,500 construction and operating jobs and result in a total of $70 billion in government revenue. Teck will now take a $1.13 billion writedown on the project as a result of its withdrawal. The Frontier mine project had been under consideration for the past decade. Teck first submitted applications for Frontier to the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) in November 2011. In May 2016, the AER and Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (CEAA) appointed a joint review panel to evaluate Teck’s submitted materials. The AER and CEAA submitted their decision in July 2019, after three years of reviews and consultations, and recommended that the project be approved. The last hurdle for Teck seemed to be the federal government’s final approval for the project to proceed. The project was the subject of heavy debate by those outside politics and reportedly within

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In a 2016 project review, Teck explained that the project would require a long-term oil price of $95 per barrel to be economical. the cabinet itself. Now, the federal government will no longer need to make that decision. Even if Ottawa had given Teck the goahead, there is no guarantee Frontier would have ever been built, as the economic viability of the project had been called into question. Oil prices have dropped significantly from 2008 – the year Teck first began the regulatory process for the would-be mine – and they have not yet recovered to a point where the mine would be economically feasible. In an April 2016 project review, Teck explained that for the Frontier project to be successful, it would require a longterm price of US$95 per barrel. At the time the company cited a forecast that expected oil prices to be US$80 to US$90 per barrel by 2020. While proponents of the project touted the economic benefits it could bring to Alberta and Canada, critics focused on how it would affect the environment. If built, the mine would have released over four million tonnes of greenhouse gases per year over a 40-year mine life. In his statement, Lindsay said

that increased scrutiny on climate change and emissions made the Frontier project unviable. “Global capital markets are changing rapidly and investors and customers are increasingly looking for jurisdictions to have a framework in place that reconciles resource development and climate change, in order to produce the cleanest possible products,” Lindsay said. “This does not yet exist here today and, unfortunately, the growing debate around this issue has placed Frontier and our company squarely at the nexus of much broader issues that need to be resolved. In that context, it is now evident that there is no constructive path forward for the project.” The decision came a few hours after Alberta’s provincial government finalized agreements about environmental concerns with the Athabasca Chipewyan and the Mikisew Cree First Nations. The agreement meant that all 14 First Nation and Métis groups in the project area had granted it support. Teck called Indigenous support for the Frontier project “unprecedented,” while Wilkinson and natural resources minister Seamus March/April 2020 • Mars/Avril 2020 | 17

action now and to reach a net zero economy by 2050.” Alberta premier Jason Kenney also issued a statement saying that Teck’s decision was “not surprising” given recent events, and criticized the federal government for stalling while making a decision about the project. “Weeks of federal indecision on the regulatory approval process and inaction in the face of illegal blockades have created more uncertainty for investors looking at Canada,” Kenney wrote. “Teck’s predicament shows that even when a company

spends more than $1 billion over a decade to satisfy every regulatory requirement, a regulatory process that values politics over evidence and the erosion of the rule of law will be fatal to investor confidence.” Teck’s decision comes a few days after it reported its annual 2019 and fourth quarter results. The company reported its EBITDA at $4.3 billion, as compared to $5.4 billion in 2018, and non-cash, aftertax impairments charges of $999 million in the fourth quarter. CIM

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O’Regan called its consultation work “leading class” and a “positive example for future proponents.” The two ministers released a joint statement following news of Teck’s withdrawal from the project. “As Teck has rightly pointed out, and as many in the industry know, global investors and consumers are increasingly looking for the cleanest products available and sustainable resource development,” read the statement. “We agree with Teck and leading industry groups that all orders of government need a real plan for climate

Quebec government and James Bay Cree promote mineral exploration with $4.7 billion development deal On Feb. 17 the Quebec government and James Bay Cree signed a $4.7 billion memorandum of understanding to facilitate transportation for resource extraction industries, as well as initiatives to improve standard of living and protection of the territory. The three-phase deal – part of a mandate known as “La Grande Alliance” – is the product of over a year of consultations within the Cree Nation Government and Cree community chiefs, and with the quebec government. Some of the benefits of the plan include the creation of new jobs, increasing the value of Quebec’s natural resources and “positioning Quebec at the centre of the global mining sector, especially [in] lithium.” “In Quebec, exploration companies have been working with Cree communities for decades,” Valérie Fillion, executive director at the Quebec Mineral Exploration Association, told CIM Magazine. “When we talk about access to the territory, [sharing] the maintenance of existing infrastructures [and constructing needed ones], in a thoughtful way, is important.” “At this point… this is good news as new territories that are not much, or not explored, will be accessible,” Fillion said. “Access costs for exploration companies will be lower and they will be able to carry out more knowledge-based work.” There is currently no lithium-producing mine in the James Bay region, though it is home to a number of lithium projects 18 | CIM Magazine | Vol. 15, No. 2

Nemaska Lithium’s Whabouchi project is one of many lithium projects located in the James Bay region. at advanced development stages. Among these are Critical Elements Lithium Corporation and its Rose Lithium-Tantalum project, Galaxy Resources’ James Bay project and Nemaska Lithium’s Whabouchi project. The railway extension promises to open up the area to increased exploration of resources, and includes 700 kilometres of new railway between Matagami and Whapmagoostui. According to Quebec premier François Legault, this will not only create more jobs in the Cree community, but will increase the extraction of minerals in the area and serve as an alternative to Chinese imports. Those operating in Quebec are eager to see more territory become accessible through new infrastructure, though some concerns remain over land protections. According to the CBC, in 2018 the Cree Nation Government identified 80,000 square kilometres, representing 30 per cent of its territory, that it wished to protect from development.

“We have a concern about protected areas with respect to their category and the addition of constraints,” Fillion explained. “There is currently more than 30 per cent of the [territory that is] subtracted or under constraints. It is important to be able to explore the territory, and acquire new geoscientific data in order to avoid subtracting promising future deposits of any kind of minerals.” The new mandate is an extension on previous treaties between the Cree Nation and Quebec governments, beginning with the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement in 1975. That was followed by the Peace of the Braves agreement, which the government and Cree Nation signed in 2002. The first of three phases is a multimillion feasibility study which will take place over the next few months. Once complete, the Grande Alliance will begin concrete actions on the mandate as early as 2021. – Tijana Mitrovic

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developments

Natural Resources Canada awards $1.5 million to natural heat exchange research project Natural Resources Canada awarded $1.5 million on Feb. 11 to the Natural Heat Exchange Engineering Technology (NHEET) research project, a project between the Mining Innovation, Rehabilitation and Applied Research Corporation (MIRARCO) and other organizations such as CanmetMINING and Teck, to examine the use of fractured rocks to improve cooling and air delivery in underground mining. The benefits of such a system were discovered over 50 years ago at Vale’s Creighton nickel mine near Sudbury, Ontario. In the 1960s, the miners realized that cool air was entering the underground mine through a large expanse of waste rock during the summer, while warm air was entering during the winter. They then began directing the air throughout the mine, allowing the miners to use both heated and cooled

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Robert Wares has been named

The original NHEET was discovered by accident at Vale’s Creighton nickel mine near Sudbury, Ontario. air, depending on the season, and carry out mining at Creighton to a depth of 2.5 kilometres without using artificial refrigeration. “The broken rock acts as storage for the heating or the cooling,” Lorrie Fava, director of decision support software at MIRARCO Mining Innovation, told CIM Magazine. “It saves the cost of the artificial refrigeration and heating that it’s displacing [and] it has several environmental benefits by not using refrigerants.” The broken rocks, cooled over the course of the winter, provide a feed of

CEO of Osisko Metals by the company’s board of directors, which also named Jeff Hussey as the company’s new COO. Wares and Hussey will continue to serve as chairman of the board and president of the company, respectively. Harte Gold has appointed Dan Gagnon as its new general manager of Sugar Zone mine. Gagnon previously worked as a chief geologist at the Musselwhite mine and as a general manager at the Hope Bay project. Christopher McCann was also appointed as director of technical services, a new position within the company. President and CEO of Nemaska Lithium, Guy Bourassa, has resigned from the company’s management and board of directors.

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chilled air during the warmer months. The rocks slowly come up in temperature over the summer and lose that heat during the winter to the mine below. At Creighton the air is drawn down by the mine’s existing ventilation fans, which is a key benefit of the system. “It’s the [intake and ventilation] fans that the mine would have anyway. You need those fans, so it’s a matter of keeping the resistance of that broken rock mass low so that you don’t [need to add] any infrastructure,” Fava said. “In the scenario, where they already have a pit and will now be mining underground beneath that pit, it makes the case that there will be no significant extra infrastructure needed to tie your natural heat

exchange system with the ventilation system of the mine.” MIRARCO hopes to engineer the NHEET into a method that can be applied in mine sites in Canada and abroad. “[The goal is] to actually have one of these systems at a mine other than Creighton: a fully engineered system, rather than the opportunistic one,” Dr. Fava said. “The ultimate goal would be that at the end of this current project we identify the methodology, the benefits and the scenarios that are applicable, and then have a follow-up where a mining company has it implemented at one of their sites.” According to MIRARCO, the Ontario Centres of Excellence has already granted $45,000 for the project. NRCan’s

$1.5 million award will fund the NHEET project’s research on heat exchange modelling, geomechanics and energy. The project timeline is short. MIRARCO plans to finalize a comprehensive report and draft publication by March 2021. Until then, they will be conducting case studies, operation of scale models and energy assessments. Fava believes that recent funding is why development of the concept is only starting now. “There’s always been the thought that this may apply to other mines,” She said. “With the opportunity for funding that’s there for clean growth, we are able to study it and come up with the methodology to apply it elsewhere.” – Tijana Mitrovic

Sustainability and community relations at the forefront of mining trends in 2020 As investors emphasize sustainability and generating value in communities, mining companies are evolving with them Investors are paying more attention to the social and environmental impacts of their investments and mining companies are taking notice. According to “Tracking the Trends 2020” – the annual in-depth report by professional services network Deloitte on the top 10 mining trends of the year ahead – investors are becoming more socially conscious with their investments and mining firms should look to decarbonizing their productions and creating shared value in communities. “There’s a general mood swing,” said Andrew Swart, global mining and metals leader for Deloitte, and one of the authors of the report. Swart has noticed first-hand the focus mining companies have on changing their role from a climate change perspective and focus on communities. “I think mining companies are feeling that pressure, because it’s coming from investors, it’s coming from community.” In February, for example, both Teck Resources and Rio Tinto announced their intentions of being carbon neutral in 30 years. Every year, the firm canvasses their partners and gathers information from most major mining companies, as well as 20 | CIM Magazine | Vol. 15, No. 2

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BHP will invest US$400 million to develop new technologies to reduce emissions at its operations. intermediate and some junior miners, to look at the emerging trends of the past year. In 2019, Deloitte’s report spoke about “value beyond compliance”: the pressure mining companies are facing to go beyond complying to standards, norms and practices to gain the trust of environ-

mentally minded investors. The report recommends that companies make social issues a greater part of their decisionmaking process, outperform environmental regulations and be more open in disclosing their policies and practices. This concept is embedded into the number one trend of the 2020 report: the

developments socially conscious investor. Beyond exceeding their requirements, the report suggests mining companies work on their image, as well as brand and reputation management. “Mining needs to do a better job of telling its story,” said Swart, pointing to a fundamental lack of awareness on the consumer end of how mining plays a role in day-to-day life. “Within that context [of the socially conscious investor], telling the story and talking about how you actually make value and how you create that value with communities is going to become critical.” Over the last two years, Swart has seen a shift towards responsible investing and the importance of ESG principles. He estimates that 25 per cent of investor capital base is now attached to ESG principles. “It’s no longer okay to [just] put out the glossy sustainability report,” he emphasized. “You actually really have to prove those underlying processes.” As a benefit of committing to strong environmental and community-minded practices, such as investing in local infrastructure, mining companies will be able to avoid roadblocks (sometimes literally)

down the line, with less labour unrest and more capital investment. This goes hand in hand with decarbonization, where mining companies stand to save dollars and meet emissions targets down the line by transitioning to renewable energy. “The evidence is abundant: global warming is indisputable. The planet will survive. Many species may not,” said Andrew Mackenzie, BHP Billiton’s former CEO, in the report. “Use of emissions intensive products from the resources industry has contributed significantly to global warming.” BHP now takes the climate into consideration in their decision making, and has announced a US$400 million investment program to develop new technologies to reduce emissions from its operations. Switching to renewable energy can also strengthen relations with local communities. Energy that powers a mine can help drive economic development within that community and be handed over when the life of the mine comes to an end, Swart explained. However, “if you’re handing over a power station, [or] a

Graham du Preez has joined Harte

Gold as its new CFO and executive vice president. Du Preez has over 20 years of experience in finance and financial services, having held senior positions in treasury and asset management for several mining companies. Chris Paul has joined Gold Lion as its

exploration manager. Paul has been field exploration conducting programs on precious and base metal projects in Canada and abroad since 2008. He has served as a principal of Ridgeline Exploration Services. Gordana Slepcev has stepped down

as COO at Anaconda Mining following the company’s restructuring activities to develop its Goldboro Gold project. President and CEO Kevin Bullock thanked Slepcev for “her commitment and contributions to Anaconda Mining over the past six plus years.”

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diesel [generator set]…those are costly items for a community to maintain,” he said. “If you’re handing over renewables, it’s a lot cheaper.” After returning from the investment event Mining Indaba in South Africa, Swart noted that mining from a climate change perspective was a dominant theme throughout the week. On one of the event’s panels a CEO was asked what’s changed in the last year. “‘Well, two words: Greta Thunberg,’” Swart said, quoting the CEO. The pressures on the industry from investors, communities and end consumers are not abating. Instead, Deloitte predicts that those demands will only increase. CIM

University of British Columbia students organize first Canadian student-run mine rescue competition Mining engineering students from the University of British Columbia’s (UBC) class of 2020 made a little bit of history in February. The school’s mine rescue club hosted a student-led competition that was the first of its kind in Canada. The Canadian Inaugural Mine Rescue Competition took place Feb. 21 to 22 at UBC and challenged student teams from four universities to work together in five mine rescue tasks. According to Jill Newell, the project lead for the competition, the UBC mine rescue team had been discussing the idea of this competition for years. “It’s hard when you’re a full-time engineering student to actually take the leap of faith and go,” Newell told CIM Magazine in an interview. “This year I thought ‘it’s my final year at UBC, why not do it?’ It’s the offyear for the Colorado International one so I thought this was the best time to do it.” UBC Mine Rescue hopes that its competition will inspire students at other universities to organize their own mine rescue teams or competitions. The team formed in 2011 and is currently one of only three competitive student mine rescue teams in Canada. After competing in the U.S., where mine rescue is more common to a mining engineering curriculum, the team was inspired to organize their own competition modelled after the biannual Intercollegiate Mine Emer22 | CIM Magazine | Vol. 15, No. 2

The University of British Columbia’s mine rescue club. gency Response Development held by Colorado School of Mines. When the team first began organizing the competition, Newell reached out to the industry’s safety and rescue companies for support such as Dräger Canada, Ontario Mine Rescue and Dynamic Rescue Systems. “Then I started reaching out to schools to make sure we actually had people to compete, and after that it was then reaching out to the industry to get financial backing,” Newell explained. “Once we had all that in place, it’s just been getting everything lined up, getting everybody communicating with each other and getting everything sorted: equipment to forms, to insurance, to everything.” Mine rescue teams from UBC, the University of Alberta, Laurentian University and the Colorado School of Mines competed over the weekend in several challenges, which included an underground obstacle and recovery task, triage first aid, firefighting skills, a BG 4 – a Dräger closed circuit breathing apparatus – technician task and a written exam. The task-based challenges focused on the four main priorities of mine rescue: safety, rescue of trapped workers, putting out any kind of fires and rehabilitation of mines. “It’s teaching you how to face problems that you’ve probably never faced, work together and have leadership,” Newell explained. Each challenge was hosted and judged by an industry partner on a merit-based

approach. “We want to congratulate the teams on how they’re approaching [the tasks],” Newell said. “We’re really gonna be sure they’re judged based on what they do versus what they might not do, to stay positive.” Newell knows first-hand that teams had to train hard and work together to take on the competition’s practical challenges. “One of the biggest things is teamwork and communication… That’s what will win you the competition – being able to work together and keep communication open so everyone knows what to do” Newell explained. “We’re hoping that more students and more universities will take on the initiative and be a part of [mine rescue events].” The UBC team came in first overall in the competition, placing first in the written exam, BG4 Bench technician, fire and first aid challenges. Colorado School of Mines came in second overall. – Tijana Mitrovic

New Gold updates mining plans for Rainy River and New Afton New Gold reported the results of its updated life of mine plans on Feb. 13 for two of its Canadian operations – the Rainy River gold-silver mine northwest of Fort Frances, Ontario, and the New Afton gold-silver-copper mine west of Kamloops, British Columbia – and

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developments vide value even with reduced gold reserves, according to the company. Underground mining at Rainy River is expected to begin in 2022 and will produce until the end of the mine’s expected life in 2028, three years earlier than before. The new plan has removed all underground gold ounces that did not meet the company’s profitability threshold from the plan. There is potential to support the extension of underground mining past that, according to the report, if the gold price supports additional mining or if the company is successful in its exploration campaigns. The smaller open pit and underground mine has resulted in a significant decrease in the mine’s gold and silver reserves and resources. According to the new plan, proven and probable gold reserves for the mine are counted at 2,636,000 ounces and measured and indicated resources are listed at 1,914,000 ounces. The reserves and resources in 2018 were listed at 4,186,000 ounces and 2,139,000, respectively. The plan is expected to increase cash flow starting in the fourth quarter

New Gold believes its new plan for Rainy River will save over US$1 billion over the life of mine. announced upcoming changes to the mines’ development. In Ontario, New Gold has released a mine plan that it says, “optimizes return on investment, while achieving profitability at an early stage of the plan.” According to the new plan, open-pit min-

ing at Rainy River will operate at a lower strip ratio from 2020 to 2024, with openpit mining ceasing completely in 2025. The mine’s technical report from July 2018 had open-pit mining scheduled to cease by 2026. The smaller size of the open pit will reduce spending and pro-

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of 2020, according to the company, saving US$1.026 billion over the life of mine. Over its history, Rainy River has had difficulty meeting expectations. In the company’s 2016 operating results, the expected initial operating expense and all-in sustaining costs for the end of 2017 were US$905 to US$945 and US$1,200 to US$1,240, respectively. The actual operating expenses ended up being US$1,432 per ounce and all-in sustaining costs clocked in at US$1,549 per ounce. In 2018, the mine’s first full year of operations, it had difficulty reaching full processing capacity. In New Gold’s firstquarter 2018 results, the company cited several “operation and mechanical challenges that impacted availability,” such as plugged apron feeders, premature motor failure on the cyclone feed pump and additional time needed to replace SAG mill liners. The company released an upgraded mine plan in July 2018, which

lowered the mine’s outlook for 2018 and eventually resulted in an after-tax impairment loss of US$735 million related to the mine over the year. At the end of 2018, New Gold reorganized its management team, eliminating five vicepresident positions from its senior management team. New Gold spent the past year de-risking the development plan for the highergrade C-zone at its New Afton mine, which the company says will extend its mine life to 2030. Production of this zone will be developed from 2020 to 2024, achieving full production in 2025. The company says the development will be self-funded from the gold and copper already being produced at the mine. Like Rainy River, New Gold expects New Afton to generate significant free cash flow of US$1.029 billion over the life of mine. The complete technical report will be available by the beginning of April.

Osisko Gold Royalties board of directors has appointed Frédéric Ruel as its new CFO and vicepresident of finance. The board of directors also appointed Iain Farmer as vice president of corporate development and Benoit Brunet as vice president of business strategy. Teck Resources’ Board of Directors has appointed Sheila Murray as its new board chair. Murray was formerly president of CI Financial Corp and acted as an advisor to mining companies during her corporate and securities law career. Chris Griffith announced he will be

stepping down as CEO and chief executive director of Anglo Platinum. Griffith has held the position for seven years and started his career at Anglo Platinum 30 years ago.

– Matthew Parizot

Supreme Court rejects Nevsun’s appeal to hear forced labour case abroad Supreme Court rules that forced labour case against Nevsun by Eritrean plaintiffs will take place in Canada On Feb. 28, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) ruled in favour of hearing a case against Nevsun Resources by former workers at its Bisha mine in a British Columbia court, and not in Eritrea where the mine is located. The lawsuit against Nevsun, which was acquired by Chinese company Zijin Mining in December 2018, was first filed by three Eritrean men in November 2014. The plaintiffs accused Nevsun of partnering with the Eritrean military and state-run contractors who deployed forced labour to build the mine. They allege that as military conscripts of the Eritrean government, they were forced to work for a military contractor at the mine and that Nevsun was complicit in their treatment. Nevsun’s latest appeal to the SCC is its third unsuccessful bid to avoid holding trial in Canada. In 2017, the British Columbia Court of Appeal rejected Nevsun’s claim that as the alleged abuses were carried out by the Eritrean govern24 | CIM Magazine | Vol. 15, No. 2

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Nevsun Resources is accused of knowingly using forced labour at its Bisha mine in Eritrea. ment, it is an internal matter which should be heard in Eritrean courts, rather than in Canada. At the SCC, Nevsun similarly argued that having the trial in Canada would

intrude on Eritrean sovereignty, which was rejected. The court also allowed charges of slavery, forced labour and crimes against humanity to proceed in the case.

developments The decision represents an increasing move towards holding mining companies accountable in Canada for their actions abroad. In 2017, the British Columbia Court of Appeals overturned a 2015 British Columbia Supreme Court (BCSC) decision to allow a case against Pan American Silver to be tried in Canada. Brought forth by Guatemalan protesters and victims who were injured after a shooting outside the company’s Escobal mine, the case was resolved in the BCSC in July 2019 and the company issued a formal apology. The suit against Nevsun is the first time a mass tort claim for modern slavery will proceed to trial in Canada and that a Canadian company could be held responsible for violations of international human rights laws. The trial is expected to take place at the BCSC in fall 2021. The SCC’s decision has led some to worry about the effect on Canadian companies working abroad. The Mining Association of Canada (MAC) submitted an intervention on the case to the SCC, asking it to accept Nevsun’s

appeal and noting the case could undermine Canada’s place as a major international hub of exploration and mining companies. “MAC’s members and the Canadian mining industry may face the spectre of uncertain and undefined civil liability,” the intervention read. “This would negatively affect the industry and the Canadian economy as a whole.” After Eritrea gained independence in 1991, President Isaias Afwerki established a compulsory national service program for all Eritreans, including military conscription for an indefinite amount of time. In a 2013 report, Human Rights Watch alleged human rights abuses at the Bisha mine and that Nevsun failed to ensure that forced labour would not be used at the mine. Nevsun had a 60 per cent stake in the Bisha mine, while the Eritrean National Mining Corporation, a government organization, owned the other 40 per cent. According to the CBC, the Bisha mine was the only major source of income for the Eritrean regime for a number of years. CIM

Joseph Ovsenek has stepped down

as president and CEO of Pretium. Ovsenek has served as president and CEO since 2017. Vice president of geology and chief geologist Warwick Board has also resigned from his position after seven years. Kalidas Madhavpeddi has joined

Glencore’s board of directors as an independent non-executive director. Madhavpeddi has over 30 years of experience in international mining, having served as president of Phelps Dodge Wire & Cable and as CEO of China Molybdenum International. David Splett has been appointed as

CFO and corporate secretary of Northern Vertex Mining, succeeding Christopher Park. Splett has over 25 years of experience in the resource industry, having held senior roles while working in Canada, Mexico and Latin America. Prior to joining Northern Vertex, he was CFO of Goldcorp’s Latin America division.

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Barrick increases gold resources following year of expansion Barrick Gold released its 2019 fourth quarter report on Feb. 12, announcing an increase in its annual reserve and resource declaration following a year of expansion in which Barrick made several mergers and acquisitions concerning its gold portfolio. Total attributable gold reserves are now at 1.3 billion tonnes grading at 1.68 g/t for 71 million ounces of gold, representing a 14.5 per cent increase of the total reserves and a 7.7 per cent increase in ore grade for the company. Measured and indicated resources stand at 3.4 billion tonnes grading at 1.55 grams per tonne for 170 million ounces, with an additional inferred resources of 940 million tonnes grading at 1.3 grams for 39 million ounces. Following its 2018 merger with Randgold Resources, Barrick announced a joint venture with Newmont Mining over their Nevada operations in March 2019. The deal included their existing joint venture, Turquoise Ridge, as well as Barrick’s Cortez and Newmont’s Carlin mines. In July, Barrick bought out Acacia Mining in a US$1.19 billion deal, acquiring three mines in Tanzania. A few months later, in October, the company finalized an agreement with the Tanzanian government to lift its March 2017 export ban on the Bulyanhulu, North Mara and Buzwagi mines. The following month, Barrick sold its 50 per cent interest in the Kalgoorlie Consolidated gold mine to Saracen Mineral Holdings. “We started the year with five tier one gold mines and ended it with six, thanks to the Nevada deal,” Barrick CEO Mark Bristow said in the report. “We’ve also succeeded in replenishing our reserves and resources, net of depletion, at a higher grade.” According to the report, this was accomplished through “reserve additions greater than mining depletion at a number of [its] principal assets,” cost cutting measures taken at the company’s Nevada joint venture with Newmont and “the focus of geology as a core discipline” of the company. In the fourth quarter report, Barrick recorded adjusted net earnings of US$902 million, an increase of 46 per 26 | CIM Magazine | Vol. 15, No. 2

Barrick finalized a deal with the Tanzanian government to lift the export ban on its Bulyanhulu, North Mara and Buzwagi mines. cent over the previous year. Gold production in the fourth quarter reached 1,439,000 gold ounces at an all sustaining cost of US$923 per ounce, with overall gold production in 2019 reaching 5,465,000 ounces, at the top of its guidance range. – Tijana Mitrovic

directions, though it is still in its preliminary stages. Federal, provincial and territorial environment ministers intend to further develop the plan during their upcoming energy and mines ministers’ conference in July and then issue an updated version. The action plan proposes strategizing approaches, programs and initiatives to Action Plan 2020 unveiled enhance the Canadian mining industry’s economic development and competitiveat PDAC ness, advance the participation of One after another, a parade of politiIndigenous Peoples in the mining induscal dignitaries and mining industry protry, protect the environment, encourage fessionals took to the stage at the Canada scientific and technological innovation, Pavilion on one of the PDAC 2020 trade deliver benefits for communities located show floors all to show their support of near mining activities and strengthen the next phase of the Canadian Minerals Canada’s position as a world leader in and Metals Plan (CMMP). the industry. Known as Action Plan 2020: IntroducIntroducing the Minister of Natural ing the Pan-Canadian Initiatives, it outResources Seamus O’Regan at PDAC, lines a vision with six strategic Paul Lefebvre, MPP for Sudbury and parliamentary secretary to the minister, said that “Canada is a mining nation. [Mining] built our middle class. As we move into this new century of clean growth, we are laying the foundations for it to continue to do so.” O’Regan lauded the CMMP, which was launched at last year’s PDAC conference, and proudly Felix Lee, Pierre Gratton, Ranj Pillai, Jerry Asp, Katrina Nokleby, Natural stated that the plan Resources Minister Seamus O’Regan, Ammar Al-Joundi and Paul Lefebvre at PDAC 2020’s opening ceremonies. had been down-

developments loaded in 96 countries. “That proves to me, once again, that when the world wants to learn about the best in mining, it looks to Canada.” He also emphatically stated “there is no road to net zero without mining,” and said the industry needs “to play a central role in tackling climate change” – one of the action plan’s goals. O’Regan explained that for each of the six strategic directions, there are targets and paths laid out that will lead to their achievement. “These will help us capitalize on what I believe is a once-in-a-generation opportunity.” According to the minister, the intention isn’t just to have one action plan, but a series of evolving plans addressing different issues and situations. This way technological advances or innovations can be incorporated and initiatives can be measured, tracked and evaluated for effectiveness. Follow-up action plans will be released in 2021, 2022 and every three years after that. Another key factor is the pan-Canadian perspective: one that involves not just all levels of government jurisdictions

but members of the mining industry and even those who aren’t directly involved in mining. As part of the competitiveness strategic direction, the action plan calls for the creation of a pan-Canadian geosciences strategy to investigate what geoscience innovations are needed to support the industry. It is also intended to look at the geoscience needed for better land-use planning and community understanding. New tools, such as artificial intelligence also fall under this strategy. For the Indigenous participation focus, workshops are to be held across the country for the sharing of ideas about how to increase Indigenous and local procurement, how to develop Indigenous companies and service providers and how to benefit from best practices developed by other Indigenous businesses. The environmental strategic direction covers developing new mandates for orphaned and abandoned mines and tailings as well as examining the latest technologies that will ensure reclamation is being done correctly and set high standards.

Generation Mining’s board of directors has appointed Brian Jennings as the company’s CFO. Cashel Meagher, senior vicepresident and COO of Hudbay Minerals, has joined the company’s board as an independent director in Jennings’ stead. First Majestic Silver has appointed Steve Holmes as its new COO. Holmes has over 35 years of experience as a mining engineer and will oversee the operations of the company’s Mexican silver mines and projects. Long-time director of Canterra Minerals Corporation, Jim Eccott, has passed away. Eccott worked in the diamond exploration business since Canada’s first diamond mine, Ekati, was discovered and constructed. “Jim will be greatly missed and on behalf of the Board of Directors the company sends [its] deepest condolences to the family,” Randy Turner, Canterra president and CEO, stated.

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For the science and technology innovation aspect, the goal is to examine the Canadian innovation ecosystem and work with industry to make it better and stronger, while bringing partners together to tackle some of the big challenges the industry faces such as tailings or water usage. It is expected that NRCan’s Crush It! Challenge will serve as a model for other innovation challenges. Under the community banner, the goal is to figure out how to communicate to Canadians that mining is a modern industry – that offers all kinds of employment opportunities, not just hard labour underground – to attract new people. Promoting mineral literacy is another goal of this strategic direction. From an international trade and political perspective, perhaps the key goal is to develop a Canadian brand that Canadian companies and individuals can use as their calling card at trade shows and conferences – one that communicates to the world that Canada is a leader in mining practices, services and technologies, and that the country is the preferred source for responsibly mined minerals. “It’s an excellent plan,” said Ammar Al-Joundi, president of Agnico Eagle, as he addressed the gathered crowd. “It’s well thought out. It’s responsible. It’s balanced.” He added that while people at PDAC are talking about the opportunities in mining, it is an industry with responsibilities. “This is an industry that has to be done right. It has environmental consequences, it has social consequences, but it is also an industry that can change people’s lives for the better.” – Carolyn Gruske

Ontario and Matawa region First Nations sign agreement for Ring of Fire road Ontario premier Doug Ford announced on Mar. 2 at the PDAC 2020 convention that the province, Marten Falls First Nation and Webequie First Nation have entered into an agreement to proceed with the construction of an access road to the Ring of Fire region in the James Bay lowlands. Ford made the announcement during a press conference at the Ontario booth on the convention’s trade floor, and was joined by Greg Rickford, minister of 28 | CIM Magazine | Vol. 15, No. 2

energy, northern development and mines and minister of Indigenous affairs, as well as Chief Bruce Achneepineskum of the Marten Falls First Nation and Chief Cornelius Wabasse of Webequie First Nation for the signing of the agreement. The Ring of Fire region has been highly sought-after by mineral prospectors for the potential of its chromite, nickel, copper and platinum deposits, which have an estimated value of $60 billion, according to the province. The government, under former premier Kathleen Wynne, had previously announced an agreement to build an access road to the Ring of Fire in August 2017. However, the remoteness of the region, lack of infrastructure and numerous issues with the provinces’ consultation process with the local First Nations had all but halted development in the region. “Today, we’re taking a crucial step forward in unlocking the multi-billiondollar opportunity that is in northern Ontario’s Ring of Fire,” Ford said during the press conference. “We’re signing a historic agreement with the Webequie and Marten Falls First Nations to bring jobs, growth [and] long-term prosperity to their communities and all Northerners, the likes of which this province has never seen before.” According to Ford, the road will provide all-season access to the region and its communities, bring jobs to the communities and lead to better health care and social services. Ford also specified that the Ontario government will be investing in broadband infrastructure to bring cellular service and high-speed Internet to the region. When Achneepineskum took the podium, he spoke on the affected First Nations’ priorities, and how the consultation process leading to this agreement was more effective than in the past. “We need to have meaningful dialogue [and] meaningful participation when it comes to any development that happens in our territories,” Achneepineskum told the attendees. “We’re active participants in resource development. We want to be active participants in resource development opportunities in our lands, our ancestral lands. For us to be true partners, we need the doors open for us. We need a seat at the table to discuss our real concerns, our issues and our plans to move forward in the future.” “We’ve been talking to these folks for quite a long time, talking about the real

concerns in their plans and they’ve been upfront with us from day one,” he added. “It hasn’t been the case in the past… when the industry has come knocking at our doors.” – Matthew Parizot

Trudeau wants to partner with mining sector in the move to a low-carbon economy On Mar. 2, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took to the podium at PDAC 2020 to discuss the relationship of the federal government and mining industry and announced several government plans. The Prime Minister assured his commitment to keeping the sector strong and competitive as the country transitions to a low-carbon economy. “[Our] government wants to keep our mining sector strong and growing,” Trudeau said. “We want to attract new investments. We want to keep good jobs here, create new opportunities for workers and business owners alike, and main-

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks at PDAC's 2020 convention.

developments tain Canada’s stellar reputation in this field.” Prime Minister Trudeau announced that the federal government would be extending an incentive to promote the adoption of on-road electric vehicles to off-road ones as well, including vehicles used in mining applications. Originally introduced in the 2019 federal budget, the incentive will provide a 100 per cent write-off of the purchase cost of eligible zero-emission vehicles and automotive equipment in the year they are put in use. The Prime Minister also pledged that Canada will meet its 2030 Paris targets and will begin work on a plan to achieve net zero by 2050 starting this year. Trudeau stated that the government will be looking for assistance in creating the plan, including help and input from the mining industry. Trudeau acknowledged that climate change, net zero plans and carbon reduction can be contentious issues in the mining industry and in general. “Around the world and right here in Canada, the debate between environ-

ment and economy is becoming increasingly contentious and polarized,” he said. “I think we can all agree it is unhelpful for polarized views to define the battleground of a debate. To adapt to major disruptions like climate change and seize new opportunities in emerging new markets like clean tech, what we need to do is build common ground instead.” The Prime Minister said Canadians know that we need to protect the environment at the same time as creating good jobs. “It won’t be easy, but we all know – you all know – that’s where we need to go.” Prime Minister Trudeau spoke about how clean technology products like electric-vehicle batteries don’t run without products of the mining industry. He also put forth solar panels as an example, saying they require 19 metals and minerals and that Canada is home to 14 of them. “Leading the clean energy transition means rethinking about how we harness Canada’s resources, not whether or not we harness them at all… Canada is

uniquely positioned to be the cleanest supplier of metals and minerals and you all have an integral role to play to making this a reality.” Afterwards, people in the crowd said they were generally pleased by what the Prime Minister had to say. Simon Thibault, director of national capital region of Propulsion Québec told CIM Magazine that the announcement of “extending the zero emission policy to heavy industry vehicles like mining vehicles is extremely interesting for us, especially in the view of having fully electric mines – open pit mines and underground mines. This is really interesting.” In a statement issued after the Prime Minister’s presentation, Pierre Gratton, Mining Association of Canada president and CEO said, “This announcement is welcome news for Canada’s mining sector… [Electric] equipment has a significant cost premium, so today’s announcement will help de-risk such purchases and accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles at more mines. This news, coupled with recent announcements on critical minerals and the Cana-

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– Carolyn Gruske

Unearthed and South Australia launch exploration challenge for Gawler region On Mar. 2, the government of South Australia, alongside Unearthed Solutions – a community of startups, developers and data scientists focused on the energy and resources industries – launched the Gawler Challenge at the PDAC convention in Toronto. The challenge asks participants to take advantage of an open data set provided by the South Australia government for the Gawler Craton region. The Gawler Challenge follows a similar 2019 contest OZ Minerals held with Unearthed called the “Explorer Challenge,” which used the company’s private data to help discover new mineral deposits. According to Unearthed crowdsourcing lead Holly Bridgwater, the lessons learned from the Explorer Challenge inspired the South Australia government to host the new Gawler Challenge with a public data set this time around. 30 | CIM Magazine | Vol. 15, No. 2

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dian Minerals and Metals Plan, shows the government is committed to enhancing our sector’s competitiveness.” However, Rob Stevens, vice-president of regulatory and technical policy for the Association for Mineral Exploration, said he had hoped for more from the Prime Minister. “There was some mild recognition of some of the challenges we are having in moving projects forward and I think that’s something the federal government will have to work heavily on, and making sure Canadians support resource development because of how important it is to our country. I heard some of that, but I think to hear that message even stronger would be really nice.” In his speech, Trudeau acknowledged the role mining has played in shaping the economy of the country as a whole, and of every province and territory, and how mining jobs support families and communities. The mining industry can’t be expected to stand on its own, the Prime Minister continued, and stated that the sector needs a partner to help it grow and adapt to the changing market conditions – especially as the world moves towards a low-carbon economy. “Our government is that partner,” he said.

The Gawler Challenge encourages geologists and data scientists to find new mineral deposits. “I think the South Australia government realized that there is great potential in incentivizing people to use our data in different ways, to come up with new exploration targets or novel ways of using the data,” Bridgwater told CIM Magazine. “I think that the Explorer Challenge put forward awareness of what can be achieved by the government with this kind of approach in terms of incentivizing exploration and helping build businesses in the local jurisdiction as well.” The Gawler region is home to some large mines, OZ Mineral’s Prominent Hill gold and copper mine as well as BHP’s Olympic Dam copper-uranium-gold-silver mine among them. According to Bridgwater, however, the region is underexplored and the well-known mines in the area have similar mineralization styles. Beyond promoting exploration in the region, the challenge’s focus on data science and analytics allows for companies to think outside the box in terms of the kinds of mineralization they’re targeting. “People have been focusing on exploring for that kind of mineralization, but there’s also opportunities to find different styles of mineralization in the region that people are not really exploring for,” Bridgwater said. “That’s where the push towards data science analytics comes in, because you’re eliminating that bias and you’re allowing the data to speak for itself and help uncover different types of mineral styles.” The challenge is open to all participants, and the results of all the competi-

tor’s work will be published online free for exploration companies to use to help them find new targets. “We’ll see students, service companies, consultancies and data scientists and geologists from around the world in different jurisdictions. So you see a really big range of companies and individuals who want to team up,” Bridgwater said. “We really are encouraging geologists and data scientists to get together if they don’t already have a team or company they’re with. That kind of multidisciplinary approach seems to work really well in this kind of competition.” According to Bridgwater, the real goal of the challenge is to evolve the methods used by the exploration industry in the region using data science and machine learning. “The overall aim is to produce new targets, which will be open to the public over the whole region,” Bridgwater said. “There’s the targets themselves, but also the rationale behind them and how they generated them and why. Because this is a very open data set, it’s going to help upscale the industry fairly broadly, particularly in the data science aspect. You’re not just going to get targets, but you’re also going to understand what additional data you would collect to better define an area or what particular data sets work well for predicting different types of mineral styles.” There is A$250,000 worth of prizes up for grabs when the competition ends at 11:59 p.m. on July 31. A panel of judges will determine the winners and runnersup of the challenge. – Matthew Parizot

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Just say “Yes!” By leaping into an adventure, Andy Randell, then an educated bartender, launched his career in geoscience By Michele Beacom

ndy Randell, a professional geologist living in Vancouver, is tailoring his career to bring change to the minerals exploration industry. In 2014, he established his consulting business, SGDS Hive, which takes on graduate geoscientists and mentors them through a variety of exploration projects to help engage and educate the next generation of geologists. He also started a non-profit society, Below BC, to provide outreach to the public about earth science topics, which now serves several thousand people in British Columbia each year. Randell was given the CIM-Bedford Young Mining Leaders Award in 2016 for his ongoing contributions to the industry. He earned his bachelor’s degree in environmental geoscience from the Cardiff University in Wales. Outside of his own businesses, Randell also sits on the mentoring committee for Engineers and Geoscientists British Columbia and is a director for CIM’s Geological Society and has several other community volunteer roles beyond the exploration industry.

CIM: What is the most useful thing you did during your undergraduate degree to find a job? Randell: For me that was a tough one. I was at a British university and was focusing on my dream to become a paleontologist. There were not really any career fairs or industry events where I could network either, so it was more about getting the degree and then seeing what happened next. The most useful thing really was just having the bravery to take opportunities when they arose. For example, I found my way into a conference that was happening in a hotel I was staying in while on holiday in Canada. I made some contacts there and really only then started to think about the minerals industry. Two years later, I got a call from someone I had met there who was looking for someone to head to South America as a geotechnician. The job started three days later – so I just said “Yes!” I quit my bar job, went to the doctor the next day and had all my injections, and then suddenly I was on a Virgin Atlantic plane to Barbados before transiting to March/April 2020 • Mars/Avril 2020 | 33

mining mentors Guyana. It was amazing! That one contract led to a three-year employment placement, which then led to me moving to Canada, which then led to me becoming a citizen last year. All because I said yes to that opportunity!

CIM: What’s one thing no one tells you before you enter the industry but becomes extremely obvious once you are in it? Randell: Most things field related. I know it sounds weird, but I never realized that diamond drills were used to retrieve core that would then be logged, and your ore body defined. It sounds so, so stupid now, but given the degree I was doing maybe it never came up, or I missed that class. Things are very different now though and students know better than I did.

CIM: What is the best piece of professional advice you’ve been given up to this point in your career? Randell: You really don’t have to know everything. We have reference guides, Wikipedia, MinDat.org, etc., now that we can use to look up things. When we enter the industry, we are all in awe of our superiors, thinking we can never remember all that information, but now I realize they probably had Internet too! You can work on a gold deposit one season, a copper-porphyry the next and you must change your thinking and understanding, so the endless research available is so valuable.

CIM: What class did you take in school that has turned out to be surprisingly useful in your career so far? Randell: I don’t think I can comment so much on my degree (which I got in 1998) – I remember the day we first got a computer that was attached to the Internet, and GIS software was rudimentary then. But now I teach a couple of courses at BCIT (British Columbia Institute of Technology), notably First Nations Relations, Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility. Most people think this is so very peripheral to their future geology/engineering jobs, but quickly realize that this course is so central to what we do and how we push the industry forward in the 21st century.

CIM: What qualifications or experience do you have that allows you to teach this course? Randell: I think it was my industry experience, my work with Engineers & Geoscientists BC, that gave me an understanding of Law & Ethics, plus all the work I do with students and outreach. Having worked with Indigenous populations in Guyana and Canada, I have found their input valuable in the field. Guyanese rainforests were alien places to me, but the locals have lived and worked there all their lives. They know the dangers, the pitfalls, the places to go. Eventually I learned to live off the jungle resources and did not have to haul as much food and water with me!

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CIM: What’s one thing older generations of miners don’t understand about the “millennial” generation? Randell: I straddle these groups as a proud Gen-Xer! I love technology, but see its limitations. New geos are all about iPads and phone apps, which are great and have their place, but these tools remove them from the ability to connect with the data, like plotting information on a physical map and discussing it with your field team. For the older generations, I battle constantly with aspects of the industry that belong in the past: women not being in the workforce, sexual orientation issues, some disregard for First Nations, even more disregard for sustainability and social licensing, drilling for the sake of drilling (i.e., instead of embracing new technology that can be used to assess a site). I honestly feel lucky – like some kind of human “Rosetta Stone” to help transfer knowledge between generations.

CIM: What kind of positive change do you think you/your generation are bringing to the mining industry? Randell: I really am seeing an upswing in human rights with the introduction of UNDRIP and other First Nations/community considerations. Also, the new minerals for the green economy – the days of solely looking for gold, silver and copper seem to be done, and now we are looking at our assay certificates for vanadium, indium etc. I also think the next gen will make some discoveries around old waste piles, where one commodity was mined and recovered, but something that is relevant to modern society was left behind.

CIM: Can you suggest a must-read book or paper that you have found helpful in your career so far? Randell: There are so many! Mineral Exploration and Mining Essentials, by Rob Stevens, is a great reference text for different styles of mining and ore bodies, and I pull it off my shelf from time to time to have a read.

CIM: What has been your most rewarding professional experience so far? Randell: Bringing my crews home safe every day. This is the kind of stuff that keeps me awake at night. There is no room for giving someone some slack when it comes to safety! I was also so happy and grateful when I was awarded the CIM-Bedford Young Mining Leaders Award for my work in 2016. CIM

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Is employee engagement sustainable? A case study By Nadine Trodel

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t is going to be beautiful!” and with this statement, the manager sent his crew to work with smiles on their faces, happily discussing how they were going to unplug a water line in -40° Celsius to get a mine pit dewatered so that operations could restart. This was not a fun task, yet these employees displayed a positive attitude towards the task. Why? The operations manager had a way of engaging employees and allowing them to feel they were contributing value to something greater than the task. His style was really a simple formula: He believed in his employees and they knew it. They worked for him because he always explained the big picture (goal), and how they impacted that goal (value). In addition, he let them design the solution (empowerment). He supported them by providing resources and advice if asked, and even on occasion rolled up his sleeves to assist. He never took credit, but mentored in private and praised in public. He was calm, consistent and fair. He was the quintessential “leader” that we read about. The result was an engaged and empowered workforce. Three years earlier, this organization had been on the brink of closing this division, with an aging equipment fleet, production obstacles, permitting delays and a poor safety record. The workforce was miserable, scared of losing their jobs and with no faith in the leadership. The incident frequency was high, and despondency and apathy had set in. The general manager’s response was to do something different: he brought in a culture transformer under the guise of a health and safety manager. Together, he and the management team designed a strategy of how they would address the existing negative situation and branded the whole strategy as “Strive for Success.” In addition, the management team brought the union leadership into the boardroom and made them part of the decisionmaking process. The vision of the Strive for Success strategy was to ensure that all employees had the opportunity to keep working and providing for their families, and the community. The goals were to reduce incident rates and provide quality product to the clients. After three years of the strategy, the organization had brought its incident frequency down from seven per year to below one per year. It has maintained this level in an extremely high-risk industry. The division moved from being the worst performing group in the company to top performer in both profits and low incident frequency. In its third year, the annual financial report mentioned the organization as the top performer out of 17 organizations. Seven years later only one of those managers remains. The workforce continues to be engaged and focused on solutions

rather than problems. This is the true test of engagement – it is sustainable. This is one example of the type of culture transformation that has been replicated in other organizations to a greater or lesser degree. What is consistent in all the success stories is that the leadership is actively involved and empowers their workforce. The managers and leader allow for ideas and mistakes to happen. The leadership team displays both courage and vulnerability while struggling with the stress and demands of such a fundamental change. They invest in their employees through mentoring, and by being visible with fair and consistent behaviors. Tears are shed, and angry words said (behind closed doors) as any organization changes culture. CIM Nadine Trodel, health and safety specialist at Workplace Safety North, is former Canadian manager of Health, Safety, Environment and Improvement at DMC Mining Company. She worked on a master’s in Public Health and is continuing her studies in Occupational Health and Safety at the University of Alberta.

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Magnetic separation – an attractive sorting option By Jane Danoczi

magnetic field. A negative magnetic susceptibility implies the mineral is repelled by a magnetic force. Minerals have a range of magnetic properties, and are categorized from high to low as: • Ferromagnetism (cobalt, nickel and iron) • Ferrimagnetism (ilmenite and magnetite) • Paramagnetism (chrome diopside and garnet) • Diamagnetism (quartz, diamond and zircon) Both ferro- and ferrimagnetic minerals have high magnetic susceptibilities, greater than 1,000 x 10-8 m3/kg. These minerals can be sorted with weak barium ferrite magnets. Paramagnetic minerals have lower magnetic susceptibility, in the region of 50 x 10-8 m3/kg, and can be sorted using strong neodymium magnets. Diamagnetic minerals have negative magnetic susceptibility values, in the order of -5 x 10-8 m3/kg, and are repelled by a magnetic force. Diamagnetic minerals report to the non-magnetic fraction of a dry magnetic separator. Knowing what magnetic properties your minerals contain allows you to more effectively design processes and set up equipment to further concentrate the ore and to discard waste. Courtesy of Multotec

agnetic separation is underutilized in many mineral processing plants. Is this because it is an old technology and lacks the appeal of new technologies? You may be surprised to know this “old” technology is robust, has high throughputs, is relatively low cost and does not contaminate the environment. Processing plants could capitalize on magnetic separation technologies to reduce their environmental footprint while more efficiently recovering a range of valuable minerals. Although the technology has fallen out of favour with some people, there have been advancements in the field of magnetic sorting in the last decade. Rare earth elements have improved the strength of magnetic separators, enabling processing plants to sort minerals with weak magnetic properties. Kappabridge magnetic susceptibility meters accurately measure the magnetic properties of minerals down to the 0.1 grams necessary for quantifying magnetic differences. Magnetic tracers have been developed and are used to set up magnetic equipment, to make comparisons between magnetic equipment and processes and for spiking samples for audits. These advances have significantly improved the magnetic separation process and have created new opportunities for where a separator can be applied in a plant to improve processes and reduce costs. When implemented correctly, magnetic separation offers an opportunity to recover a variety of valuable minerals residing in host ore.

Magnetic susceptibility Magnetic susceptibility is a measure of how susceptible a mineral is to a magnetic field. The higher the magnetic susceptibility, the stronger the force of attraction to a

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Before you use a magnetic sorter, you need to measure the magnetic susceptibility of your minerals of interest. A kappabridge magnetic susceptibility meter tells you how susceptible a particle is to magnetization. It measures negative and weak positive magnetic forces (i.e., diamagnetism and paramagnetism), as well as strong positive magnetic forces (i.e., ferro- and ferrimagnetism). This information helps determine the magnetic differences for sorting and the magnetic cutpoints in order to optimize the magnetic separation process.

Magnetic sorters and applications Once you know the magnetic susceptibilities of your minerals, you can start determining what magnetic sorting equipment is required for your plant. There are a variety of magnetic sorters with a wide range of magnetic field strengths for numerous applications in a processing plant. In a flow sheet, the ferro- and ferrimagnetic particles are recovered first, followed by the strongly paramagnetic particles, then the weakly paramagnetic particles and finally the diamagnetic particles. The ideal sorting setup has three stages: Stage 1: A weak magnet and a high belt speed to recover ferro- and ferrimagnetic material Stage 2: A medium-strength magnet and/or a slower belt speed to recover strongly paramagnetic minerals Stage 3: A strong magnet with a slow belt speed to recover the weakly paramagnetic and diamagnetic minerals On the other hand, if your ore contains mainly ferro- and ferrimagnetic minerals for recovery, then a one-stage magnetic separation process with a weak magnet is adequate.

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Magnetic tracers are simulants of varying magnetic susceptibilities from weakly paramagnetic to ferromagnetic and assist in calibrating magnetic separators and identifying operational parameters. Once you know the magnetic characteristics of the minerals, you can use magnetic tracers to identify the required belt speed and splitter plate position for processing each size fraction. It’s then possible to identify the optimum magnetic processing parameters. Properly configured magnetic sorters placed in key locations in the processing plant can be used to recover a variety of valuable minerals in ore, which can increase a plant’s revenue and decrease waste. Not bad for an “old” but tried-and-true technology. CIM

Jane Danoczi, Pr.Sci.Nat, B.Sc. (Physics & Applied Mathematics), M.Sc. (Metallurgy) is part of the Saskatchewan Research Council’s Process Development team. She has 28 years of experience in the research and development of technologies used in mines.

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Raising productivity Raise boring allowed Alamos Gold to sink a large-diameter production shaft at its YoungDavidson mine quicker, safer and cheaper than by conventional means By Linda Stuart

ater this year when Alamos Gold’s Young-Davidson mine in Matachewan, Ont., achieves its long-term ore production goal of 8,000 tonnes per day, one of the people celebrating will be the mine’s general manager Luc Guimond. With 30 years’ experience in the mining industry, Guimond has been with the Young-Davidson mining operation since 2006. The mine itself had produced gold from the mid1930s to mid-1950s. After gold production ceased for 50 years, the mine was acquired in 2005 by Northgate Minerals with a plan to excavate the mine further. (AuRico Gold, a predecessor to Alamos, acquired Northgate in 2011.) An exploration ramp was excavated over the next four years and, after a positive feasibility study in 2009 backed up the plan to develop the underground mine, the project was given the green light in February 2010. Management knew the mine needed a new large-diameter production shaft, Guimond explained. The existing MCM shaft, named after former owner Matachewan Consolidated Mines,

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was too narrow for high-volume hoisting of ore. Primarily used for transporting personnel and material, the rectangular MCM shaft has ore skipping capabilities of about 1,000 tonnes per day, Guimond said. With Northgate’s long-term goal of producing 8,000 tonnes of ore per day, a wider second shaft needed to be engineered and constructed, along with a hoisting system for high-volume production. The company turned to North Baybased engineering and construction firm Cementation Canada Inc. for assistance.

Brainstorming a methodology During brainstorming sessions with Cementation engineers, the idea that developed was to raise bore the new shaft, with a proposed circular diameter of 5.5 metres and a depth of 1,500 metres, instead of using conventional shaft-sinking methods, Guimond said. Then a high-speed borehole hoisting system would be constructed to achieve Northgate’s daily ore production goal. Cementation already had expertise with large-diameter

engineering exchange raise-boring technology, having completed a 5.52-metre raisebored shaft at Goldcorp’s Red Lake gold mine in 2006. “The standard method of access for that sort of [ore] deposit with the infrastructure would have been conventional shaft sinking. Basically, starting from surface and advancing at a certain rate to a full depth of 1,500 metres,” Guimond explained. “You’re on a bench, and you’re drilling and blasting a couple metres a day and advancing it to the very bottom.” Cementation suggested using the access provided by the mine’s exploration ramp, excavated to about 600 metres below surface by that time, and raise bore the new shaft in multiple legs from bottom to surface. Also, with the MCM shaft already excavated to a depth of 800 metres, it made sense to locate the new shaft in proximity to it because of the infrastructure access the MCM shaft could provide while developing the second shaft, Guimond added.

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Raise boring the shaft To raise bore a shaft, a rotary vertical drilling system is set up at the top of the shaft to be developed, and a pilot hole (typically 280-380 millimetres in diameter) is drilled from top down. Once the drill breaks through at the bottom, in this case at the Young-Davidson mine’s exploration ramp, the pilot-hole drill bit is replaced with a much wider reamer head (in this case 5.5 metres in diameter). To excavate the shaft, the drill pulls the rotating reamer back up to the top. Young-Davidson’s Northgate shaft was excavated in three legs: the first leg (about 450 metres deep) was completed in mid-2011; the second leg (reaching 900 metres below surface) was finished in mid-2013; and reaming of the third leg (reaching the final depth of 1,500 metres) was completed by the end of 2017. At the same time, the rectangular MCM shaft was being sunk further to a depth of 1,500 metres by conventional shaftsinking methods and was completed by August of 2015. The work still needing to be completed includes blasting out an eight-metre pentice that was left in place just below the second leg of the Northgate shaft. The pentice provided protection for the engineers and drill operator working below it on the third leg of the shaft. It now needs to be removed so the upper portion of the shaft can be tied into the lower portion to create one continuous shaft. In addition, the existing 900-metre-long guide ropes for the borehole hoisting system have already been removed; however, new 1,500-metre guide ropes will need to be reinstalled by Cementation after the changeover in the shaft has been completed. While the shaft was being worked on, the mine’s ramp was excavated continuously downwards to provide access below each leg of shaft development. For the Northgate shaft to be used for a high-speed hoisting system, the accuracy of the shaft’s vertical alignment was absolutely key, said Cementation’s general manager of contracting, Dennis Martin. To achieve pilot-hole drilling accuracy, Cementation used Germany-based MICON’s rotary vertical drilling system (RVDS), which is designed to help limit directional deviation in the pilot hole. The tool is attached to the end of the drill string behind the pilot-hole drill bit and transmits steering signal data back to the drill operator on the surface, who can then adjust the drill as necessary. “Like any tooling,” Martin said, “it’s the knowing how to use the tooling to get the desired result. When we designed the

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With the decision made to raise bore the Northgate shaft in several legs, construction of the borehole hoisting system was the next consideration. Fairly early in the process, Cementation was asked to redesign the original concept: a loading pocket at the bottom of the 1,500-metre shaft once it was completed. From the mid-shaft loading pocket, ore was to be transported in 18-tonne skips to the mine’s surface via a rope-guided borehole hoisting system. Although the design for the hoisting system was not to change, Young-Davidson’s management wanted a loading pocket built at a mid-shaft location, near the 900-metre depth of the mine. That required Cementation to incorporate not only the new loading pocket into the overall design of the underground mine, but to also design and construct ore-handling infrastructure, such as a rock-crushing station, to feed the mid-shaft loading pocket. The main reason for adding a mid-shaft loading pocket to the original design was to speed up ore production, Guimond explained. “That allowed us to get ore up the main shaft sooner, while we continued to build the infrastructure for the lower mine for the long term. It just helped generate revenue sooner in the project. The design stage was pretty quick to turn around actually, and basically what we’re doing in the lower mine is a carbon copy of what we did in the upper mine, with regards to the crushing station and loading pocket.” With the second leg of the raise-bored shaft completed by mid-2013 and the loading pocket and required ground support in place at the 900-metre mark, the Young-Davidson mine was able to have the borehole hoisting system operational in October 2013. The hoisting plant includes an 80-metre concrete headframe (completed in Q1 2013) topped with a friction hoist that currently has a maximum hoisting speed of 15 metres per second. The rope-guided hoisting system uses four wire guide ropes for each of the two ore skips that are rated at 18 tonnes each. Since the borehole hoisting system became operational in late 2013, Young-Davidson has been able to achieve a peak ore production rate of 7,000 tonnes per day. Now, with the infrastructure in the lower mine nearing completion, and the tie-in of the upper shaft with the lower shaft expected to be finished in June, borehole hoisting at the mid-shaft location has been shut down. Ore hoisting is scheduled to resume from the base of the 1,500-metre Northgate shaft in mid-2020, and YoungDavidson expects daily ore production to hit 8,000 tonnes per day with two ore skips rated at 24.5 tonnes each for the long term, Guimond said. The decision to put a loading pocket mid-shaft had significant financial benefits, according to Guimond. “Really since 2016 until the end of 2019, we’ve been basically self-sustaining,” he said. “The revenue generated from the early ore production allowed us to cover all of our operating costs and capital expenditures and still generate positive free cash flow for the company as a result of having that mid-shaft loading pocket.” Overall, the use of raise-boring technology to develop the mine’s Northgate shaft has had three main benefits. “When we looked at it from a point of view of timeline, it was a lot quicker for us to do it by raise-boring than it would be for conventional sinking, a lot cheaper, and a lot safer,” Guimond said. CIM

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Old rocks, new eyes Juniors are capitalizing on historic core assets in Northwest Territories By Herb Mathisen

Scott Cairns, manager of mineral deposits and bedrock mapping, gives a tour of the Northwest Territories Geological Materials Storage Facility.

t last November’s Yellowknife Geoscience Forum, it was hard not to notice a pattern emerging in presentations from precious and base metal explorers. Whether it was Osisko Metals exploring the Pine Point property that hosted a lead-zinc mine from 1964 to 1987, or Gold Terra Resource Corp. (formerly TerraX Minerals) working close to where more than 14 million gold ounces were mined at Con and Giant, companies touted their ability to analyze veritable treasure troves of physical data (in the form of core samples) stored on or near their properties. Examining historic drill core is nothing new, but with so much of the energy and spending in the Northwest Territories focused on greenfield diamond discoveries over the last two decades, explorers looking for other minerals have been able to consolidate large land packages in past-producing or relatively heavily explored parts of the territory. Some of the jurisdiction’s most advanced exploration projects have taken advantage of piles of core left over in rickety, rotting boxes by previous owners, dating back as far as the 1950s. Seabridge Gold looked at historic core, originally drilled by Noranda, to help increase its resource at the Courageous Lake project northeast of Yellowknife. More recently, Nighthawk Gold sampled core drilled by Royal Oak at its Colomac project north of the N.W.T. capital. Since first acquiring property north of the old Giant mine in 2013, Gold Terra has built up its land package at its Yellowknife City Gold Project from 37 square kilometres to 783 square kilometres. It has also gained access to upwards of 85,000 metres of historic core. Early on, Gold Terra relogged and assayed 85 holes from roughly 35,000 metres of old core stored at Giant, which allowed the company to better focus its own drilling. Alan Sexton, vice-president of exploration, said this was a huge help in zeroing in on Crestaurum and Barney Zone – two of the three major deposits that made up the company’s maiden resource estimate in November 2019. Sam Otto, its other main deposit and the target of its 2020 winter drill program, got a boost when geologists were able to examine old core American Barrick had drilled decades earlier, which the Northwest Territories Geological Survey (NTGS) had in its possession. 46 | CIM Magazine | Vol. 15, No. 2

The rock library This is exactly how the territorial government hopes a new, dedicated core warehouse at the Yellowknife Airport can help miners. The Northwest Territories Geological Materials Storage Facility is essentially a giant rock library that junior explorers, grassroots prospectors, mineral processing engineers and researchers can access to view core from different properties or to compare their findings to similar deposits across the territory. One Friday morning in January when the mercury dropped to -41 Celsius without the windchill, Scott Cairns, manager of mineral deposits and bedrock mapping, provided a tour of the warehouse. “Sorry, it’s not heated,” he warned, opening the door. (Cairns encourages clients to use the facility during the spring, summer and fall – for obvious reasons.) Inside, five shelves 20-feet high and about four times as long, are stacked with core boxes. In all, Cairns said, there are roughly 950 drill holes comprising some 55 kilometres of core housed in the facility. The rock collection holds samples from across the Northwest Territories. “We try to get the best hole through the deposit – the most representative or a deep hole that represents the stratigraphy or the geology of the deposit best,” said Cairns. “That’s what we want in this collection, so somebody interested in the deposit can come have a look at it and get a feel for what that mineral deposit is actually like.” The core had been at the mercy of local wildlife while stored outdoors for more than a decade, so a great deal of work went into rehabilitating and relabelling the collection before the warehouse opened in 2017. Ravens, in particular, were attracted to the aluminum tags on the boxes and would chew them off. “Sometimes you’re left with very few labels and it can take some real detective work trying to figure out where this stuff is actually from,” said Cairns. Today, with the new facility, geologists can quickly search, find and analyze the core they are looking for. They can even assay it, provided they share the results with the Geological Survey office. Cairns said core from the collection has helped

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it costs roughly $250 per metre. “We spent $15.5 million just on our own core being drilled in the last six years,” he said. “For historic core, you can probably do all of the same things you do for core you drill yourself for $50 per metre.” Robin Adair, vice-president of exploration at Osisko Metals, agreed with Sexton’s one-fifth cost estimate. When More data for less money Osisko acquired the Pine Point property two years ago, it Gold Terra has drilled roughly 62,000 metres on the began sorting and relogging an extensive core graveyard left Yellowknife City Gold Project so far, said Sexton, and when you over from Cominco Ltd. and others. Of the roughly 10,000 drill factor everything in – staffing, drills, assays, trucks and meals – holes contained therein, Adair said fewer than half were recoverable due to the degradation of the core boxes and loss of identifying markers. Still, the team examined core from areas on the property that they were already interested in and the historic core confirmed data they had acquired through other exploration methods. “It moved us way up the confidence curve,” said Adair. “We actually drilled twin holes to be firmly sure.” AT FACILITIES AROUND THE WORLD, OVER 10,000 Osisko has not yet used the N.W.T. government’s core library, but if it MACHINES PROVIDE BEST VALUE, PERFORMANCE & decides to look afield from the Pine Point SAFETY FOR MINING CUSTOMERS property, it will consult the collection. A core library in New Brunswick has HIGHEST PERFORMING CRUSHERS for helped the company with its projects in the historic Bathurst mining camp, Adair primary and secondary crushing said. He also stressed how vitally important it is for governments to require minMANY VIBRATORY FEEDER OPTIONS for ing companies to submit detailed reports fast, controlled feeding that include raw data and then make that information readily accessible to the public. APPLICATION EXERTISE, ADVANCED In the Northwest Territories, the relaMATERIALS, and RAPID RESPONSE tively small number of geoscience staff means it can be a struggle to digitize all the delivery & service reports and data that come in. But the close-knit jurisdiction has natural advantages – long-time staff in Yellowknife are Impactors & Vibratory Feeders living resources. “There are holes in here Granulators that I drilled when I was with exploration,” said Cairns, out at the rock library. It is not surprising then that they have developed symbiotic relationships with local exploration companies. When the Geological Survey office alerted Gold Terra to the historic core sitting at Giant mine’s Akaitcho shaft, the company dug it out of the bush and gave it a new lease on Roll Crushers Hammermills life. “They’ve assisted with the scanning and management of a lot of Royal Oak exploration records that pertained directly to properties that they own now,” said Cairns. “It’s obviously in their interest, but they’re doing it and then providing the digital scanned and organized stuff back to our office, which is an enormously good corporate citizen thing to do. We really appreciate it. And it’s good news both INFO@TERRASOURCE.COM | 855-291-1379 | WWW.TERRASOURCE.COM ways.” CIM 48 | CIM Magazine | Vol. 15, No. 2

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A deep dive into the history of mine development Vern Evans on the evolution and future of shaft sinking By Tijana Mitrovic

ern Evans began working at the potash shafts in Saskatchewan in the 1970s right when he was out of university. At the time, those mines were the most advanced in the world – and he has worked in shaft sinking ever since. Evans met Charles Graham on the job in the 1980s and later consulted for him when Graham was the managing director at CAMIRO Mining Division. Bemoaning the fact that innovation in lateral development had been stalled for the past 40 years, the two decided to look back further and see how shaft sinking had evolved. The result was a six-part CIM Magazine series titled “The Evolution of Shaft Sinking,” which ran from 2007 to 2008 and proved itself a popular reference on the subject. The articles covered the history of shaft sinking from before 1600 to 2007, and now Evans has come back to the topic to write a seventh instalment, covering the years from 2007 to the present. CIM Magazine spoke to Evans, a senior consultant at Stantec, about the original series, coming back to the topic after 13 years, and the future of shaft sinking.

CIM: How did you get interested in this history? Evans: [Charles Graham and I] were mainly talking about lateral development at the time because he was trying to increase the rate of drill blast lateral development, so we got off topic a little bit and got into shaft sinking. I had more experience in shaft sinking than drill blast tunnellings, so we decided to [focus on the history of] shaft sinking. [We] started out writing one [article] and it evolved into a number of shorter ones.

CIM: How would you summarize the articles you’ve already published? Evans: If you look at the series of articles, there was tremendous progress in advance rates up until the ’70s when the shaftsinking advance rates seemed to hit a bit of a plateau. The tunnelling industry was just developing tunnel-boring machines at the time so they [were progressing], but [shaft sinking] seemed to have hit a plateau in advance rates… I think that’s changing right now, and hopefully in the next 20 years we’ll see something like [what] happened in the tunnelling industry back in the ’60s and ’70s when they went to mechanical excavation. But we’re not there yet.

CIM: What did you learn while writing the articles? Evans: I learned [that] there were super advances right from the start of history. We went through the same [progress] as the [rest of the] mining industry of course: development of compressed air, steam, hoisting. All those things, as they improved

in mining, they also improved in shaft sinking. Things became easier, it wasn’t quite as hard to do things.

CIM: How do you feel about the current and future state of shaft sinking? Evans: I’m more excited about the last ten years than I have been for a long time. I worked on the start of the Jansen project, where they excavated two complete shafts down over 1,100 metres, all with mechanical excavators. I then went over to Russia and was involved for five years over there with mechanical excavation of shafts. I’m really hoping that we can move in that direction... Besides the machines they used at Jansen and are now using in Belarus, there’s probably going to be some other shafts. Hopefully, we’ll end up with a machine that can actually excavate hard rock instead of the soft rock that we’ve used to date.

CIM: What are the biggest changes you can see? Evans: Certainly, we’re doing things safer. We’ve developed man-riding buckets, so you don’t have to climb in out of a sinking bucket now. You’ve got a conveyance that opens the door and you can walk in, close the door, somewhat like an elevator – so that’s more of a convenience than anything else. The big thing is mechanical excavation. We’ve done five shafts in the last ten years or so and it looks like we’ll do at least four or five in the next ten and hopefully a lot more. The problem with shaft sinking is we don’t sink enough shafts. It’s not a really important thing for a mining company to develop a mechanical shaft-sinking machine because they’re probably only going to sink a couple shafts in the history of the mine. The people who are sinking all the shafts now are in China. In the last 15 years, they’ve sunk a thousand shafts and it would be really interesting to know where they are. … If they would get interested in mechanical excavation with the number of shafts they sink, [mechanical shaft sinking] could probably make some real headway. But trying to get into the Chinese shaft sinking business I suspect is somewhat difficult.

CIM: Do you think there’s a way that Canada can catch up to China in terms of shaft sinking in the coming years? Evans: Not a chance. In the last ten years we’ve maybe sunk 20 shafts. That’s two a year. The Chinese sink 50 or 60 [per year]. So no, China is where the action is now. And listen, they’ll reach a plateau [in the number of shafts sunk] too. A lot of those shafts are for coal mines [and] coal is going out of fashion. But certainly, right now and in the near future, they’re going to sink a whole bunch more shafts than anyone else in the world. March/April 2020 • Mars/Avril 2020 | 49

CIM: Which developments do you think are the most critical? Evans: The same things are critical in shaft sinking as are criti-

methods like freezing were introduced in 1883 and cementation in 1896? Evans: The new evolution will be in mechanical excavation.

cal in mining: the improvement of hoisting, improvement in pumping water, the development of compressed air-powered machines, getting away from hand mucking into mechanical mucking, speeding up the improvement of all the equipment – those I suppose are the main ones.

That would just change everything. There would be nobody on the shaft bottom [during operation], it would all be mechanical excavation, and that’s a radical departure from anything we’ve ever done.

CIM: Which developments are you most interested in and intrigued by, personally? Evans: Personally I’m really interested in those Herrenknecht machines, if they can be developed for hard rock. It’s been tried before. [Redpath Mining] developed a machine back in the ’80s, and U.S. Bureau of Mines also developed one back in the ’80s, but nobody really gave it a chance. They tried it for a while but it didn’t work, whereas [BHP] should be credited. They took those mechanical shaft sinkers of Herrenknecht to Jansen and even though they didn’t work very [well], they kept them in those shafts right [to] the bottom. That was great, because they were able to find out a lot of things and now the second generation machines will be better, and the third generation will be better after that.

CIM: Is there really anything new in shaft sinking or is it all just a continuous evolution of old techniques, given

CIM: Do you think there is a new concern in shaft sinking that there wasn’t, say 10 or 20 years ago? Evans: I think the problem in shaft sinking, and maybe a little bit in mining too, is getting young people interested in it. It’s not a job that appeals to a lot of young people. You’re down there in a not very great environment, certainly most things are mechanized now, but [it’s] probably not something that excites young people. So, I have a concern about getting people into the shaftsinking business. There has to be something there that would entice them. Everything computerized [and] mechanical might be exciting for young people whereas the old way, what we’ve been doing for the last 50 years, probably doesn’t excite too many young people.

CIM: If you were to come back to this topic 50 or 100 years from now, what do you think you would say about modern shaft sinking? Evans: Well, I would hope they’d all be mechanized. CIM

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What does it take to develop a climate-resilient mine site? (Short answer: good climate data models and a willingness to accept them) By Cecilia Keating

summer storm that struck the northern Ontario town of Timmins in 1961 has served as the benchmark that Canadian tailings dams have been designed to withstand. The late-night downpour, which killed a family and ripped up roads, foundations and homes, breached the tailings dam of the Coniaurum gold operation, spewing waste into a local river. The 48-year-old gold mine closed soon after. Despite the severity of the storm and its harrowing implications, the increased incidence of floods and storms across northern Ontario has rendered the decades-old environmental design storm benchmark obsolete. Over the last decade, there have been numerous examples where the so-called “one-in-100-year storm” event has been trumped. “Everyone’s favourite [regulatory storm], the Timmins storm event of 1961, is no longer appropriate to establish intensityduration-frequency (IDF) curves for designing a dam,” explained Marc Butler, director of regulatory affairs at Glencore. To cater to this new and changing climate, a narrow dam being developed at Glencore’s Strathcona operation just outside Sudbury is being designed “to a future standard,” relying on IDF curves that account for multiple climate models, he said. IDF curves are graphical representations of the probability that a given average rainfall intensity will occur and are used to inform dam design. The dam will be constructed with these principles in mind, resulting in a larger structure. The new design is just one way that Glencore is future-proofing its operations in an increasingly wet, hot and flood-prone Sudbury basin. Working closely with environmental consultancy Golder, the miner has overhauled its underground ventilation and water management systems to prepare them for future climate projections. “People in mining need to accept the fact that the world is going through climate change, and that if we don’t adjust our operations, we’re putting our facilities at risk,” explained Butler. Temperatures in Canada have increased by 2.3 degrees Celsius in Canada since the mid-20th century, with the northern parts of the country warming at nearly double the global rate, according to Natural Resources Canada. Over the decades to come, precipitation is set to get heavier and more frequent, shifting from snow to rain. Droughts and heatwaves are expected to multiply and snow cover, sea ice and permafrost coverage to wane. This has major repercussions for the Canadian mining sector. The seasons for ice roads and air strips needed for transport are becoming shorter and less reliable. Permafrost melt could cripple tailings retention structures, slope stability and other mine site infrastructure. Increased rainfall, snowmelt, floods and droughts will test water drainage and diversion structures. Warmer temperatures will strain underground ventilation systems and hasten evaporation and erosion from waste ponds.

Brendan Marshall, vice-president of economic and northern affairs at the Mining Association of Canada (MAC), is confident that the mining industry has the tools it needs to step up to the challenge. “At the end of the day, risk management is a fundamentally ingrained reality of the mining industry. This is adding another lens on a core operational reality of the industry. It’s hardly a revelation,” he said. “Mining companies have always had to manage water, precipitation and weather variability. With climate change, we are now seeing accelerations and decelerations in the rate of those weather patterns and changes.”

“THE KNOWLEDGE IS THERE, AND THE DETERMINATION IS THERE TO CREATE THE KIND OF RESILIENT MINE SITES AND RESILIENT STRUCTURES THAT WE NEED, BECAUSE THE POTENTIAL COST OF NOT DOING IT IS SO SUBSTANTIAL.” – Charles Dumaresq, MAC vice-president of science and environmental management

MAC is completing a climate adaptation guidance document, with help from a number of industry stakeholders and a $325,000 NRCan grant. To be released later this year, the guidanceis designed to help mining companies understand climate change’s potential impacts, advise on how to measure those impacts, identify how those impacts may affect site infrastructure and operations, and suggest how and when to apply adaptive management measures. “It will help members prioritize actions and activities they are already undertaking to manage risk and, in some instances, bolster them further,” Marshall said. Charles Dumaresq, MAC vice-president of science and environmental management, said the readiness of the industry to acknowledge climate change as a problem and undertake adaptation work sits “on a spectrum.” But for the most part, “people are increasingly recognizing that this absolutely needs to be done. The knowledge is there, and the determination is there to create the kind of resilient mine sites and resilient structures that we need, because the potential cost of not doing it is so substantial,” he said. With the industry facing increasing pressure, including from regulators, investors and insurers to demonstrate comprehensive and appropriate climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies, even the stragglers will need to adapt, Dumaresq added. March/April 2020 • Mars/Avril 2020 | 53

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Step-wise process for identifying priority physical climate risks and measures to address them

MAC is not the only group rallying the industry to shore mines and supply chains against climate change. In a report published in November, the International Council of Mining and Metals warned that “no company or geography is immune” to the impacts of extreme weather and climate change. It noted that climate change had already “led to reduction in or shut-down of production, increases in capital expenditure, health and safety impacts and made vulnerable communities more prone to social unrest.” Indeed, BHP admitted in a trading update in late January that smoke and dust from bushfires in Australia had affected production at its coal mines in December. Closer to home, mid-tier miner Centerra Gold’s Mount Milligan copper and gold mine in British Columbia has been plagued by weather-related water issues, operating at reduced capacity in recent years. (When asked for comment, a Centerra representative said that “2017 and 2018 were very dry years, and the area where the mine is located was experiencing drought conditions, which reduced the amount of water provided by the spring melt and runoff.”)

Potential logistics challenges A slow response to the threat climate change poses to operations “could materially affect the survival of a lot of smaller mining companies,” according to Ross Polis, Newmont’s regional 54 | CIM Magazine | Vol. 15, No. 2

director of environmental planning. “As the world’s largest gold miner, we have a lot of advantages. We have a lot of people and a lot of resources,” he said. “But it could really be a project killer, or a company killer, for juniors out there who aren’t as prepared.” Newmont has partnered with the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado, to produce climate models for the years 2040 and 2100 at each of its global operations. The results are expected in the spring, and site-specific risk assessments will follow, with a view to rolling-out sitespecific climate adaptation approaches in 2021. While hesitant to speculate on the specific climate impacts to operations ahead of the official risk assessments, Polis mused that increased incidence of storms and hurricanes could pose a threat to Newmont’s transport networks. “A lot of our operations, specifically in the Americas, rely on sea transportation, whether that’s to supply cyanide, explosives or just food and resources,” Polis said. “To get in a place like Suriname, ships have to travel through the Caribbean or the Panama Canal. A changing climate that has more intense storms and hurricanes is recognized as a risk to the business.” In Canada, blizzards and inclement weather could disrupt flights that shuttle staff and goods between Toronto and remote

mines in northern Ontario and Quebec, he said. This could present a human resources challenge. “If [a storm] passes in a day or two, that’s not a critical issue, you can still get people in. It is, however, a cost issue and a disruption, and from an employment perspective, people may start looking for jobs elsewhere because they don’t want to deal with that delay. From a family point of view, people may say: If I can’t reliably get on this flight, I don’t want to work at a place like that,” Polis said. Climate change might also force the company to redesign its water management systems or its social Categories of climate change impacts on businesses (based on Freed and Susmann, 2008, cited in ICMM, 2013). contracts with local Indigenous communities. “Cover with capillary barrier effects, or CCBE, is a cover “If the seasons become shorter – if the frozen season gets made of several materials, where fine-grained material is sandshorter – we will need to manage water more frequently. We may wiched between coarse-grained material layers,” explained need to have more maintenance of pumps, pipes and infrastruc- Thomas Pabst, scientific director of the RIME at Polytechnique. ture, and more infrastructure to handle volumes of melted water. “It works even in the summer if the permafrost melts on surface, We would need to increase our programs, for both water moni- so it’s a double security system. The more frost the better, of toring and surveillance of water facilities,” he explained. course.” At its Musselwhite site in Ontario and its Éléonore site in QueAll the materials for the CCBE method can be recycled from bec, Newmont’s social contract with local Indigenous communi- the mine site, he added, making the approach even more envities might evolve to include providing assistance on how to ronmentally friendly. The method has been used in mines in navigate the impact new weather patterns will exact on local southern Quebec in the past. resources, wildlife and livelihoods, according to Polis. “It potenWhether or not RIME’s industry partners will apply and scale tially has a social and community component. How are we a good its research – which also investigates how reclamation and water neighbour helping communities through this?” management practices will be affected by climate change – is up to them, said Pabst. “We’re just trying to develop new Rethinking tailings dams approaches and new solutions. It’s the job of consulting compaThe warming of Canada’s North poses a major threat to the nies to take this into account in the design.” security of tailings dams, where miners have long relied on insuPabst said he was encouraged by the enthusiasm for trialing lation covers (or “thermal covers” or “freeze back” covers) on climate adaptation approaches from operators at Quebec mine waste ponds to prevent acid mine drainage. sites. “Leftover waste [in Canadian Shield mines] tends to react “As important as what executives are doing in head office, it’s with oxygen and water and produce sulfuric acid, and the most the people on site who are driving this change,” he said. “It’s the cost-effective way to prevent that from happening is to cap people on site, the people in communities who are actually there them,” said Vincent Le Borgne, research and development man- and who want their family and their neighbours to have a nice ager for Montreal-based GKM Consultants. “When [tailings dam living environment … There are so many examples where people covers] are frozen, it means that no water gets in and chemical on the mine site have found the money for these tests, even reactions are very slow. But if the climate starts warming and though they don’t have the official budget.” there’s rainfall, the chemical reactions happen faster, water gets RIME recently clinched $11.2 million of investment from in and generates sulfuric acid and that can leach into the envi- industrial partners, Agnico Eagle Mines, Canadian Malartic ronment. That’s a major, major concern for a lot of Arctic mines Mine, Iamgold, Glencore’s Raglan mine, Newmont Goldcorp’s right now.” Éléonore mine and Rio Tinto Fer et Titane, to continue researchThe Research Institute on Mines and Environment (RIME), ing and developing new solutions to current environmental comprised of researchers from Polytechnique Montréal and the issues in the mining sector. Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue, has been testing alternative solutions to insulation covers at Agnico Eagle Realistic data models operations in Nunavut and at Glencore operations in northern While there is no one-size-fits-all approach to climate adapQuebec at the Raglan Mine. tation, Pabst noted that all mining operations stand to benefit March/April 2020 • Mars/Avril 2020 | 55

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“NOTHING ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION IS ONE-AND-DONE. WHAT WE KNEW IN 2011 IS ALREADY BEING CHALLENGED IN TERMS OF MOST APPROPRIATE SOLUTIONS FOR THE LONGER TERM. WE WILL BE IN ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT FOREVER.” – Marc Butler, director of regulatory affairs at Glencore from using site-specific climate change models instead of “rough estimates.” When evaluating existing approaches to surface water management, RIME found that Quebec-based operations were relying on values that were “too conservative,” in their estimates of how much the climate and weather patterns are changing Pabst said. “Climate change needs to be considered in a much more realistic way; working with climatologists is much more efficient than just multiplying the existing precipitation rates by 30, 40 or 50 per cent.” RIME collaborated with Montreal-based climatology consortium Ouranos to develop climate scenarios for 2050 and 2100 at each of its research locations. “The consequences of climate change will change from one place to another,” Pabst explained. “There is no general conclusion what to do, apart from that it should be incorporated in a realistic way into design.” Sean Capstick, a principal with Golder, also said that accurate climate data was key to developing climate-resilient

mines. For nearly a decade, the firm has worked to ensure Glencore’s two nickel operations and its smelter in Sudbury are shored against climate change. Its starting point for the project all those years ago was climate datasets published by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). “It started as a water problem,” Capstick said. “And now they’re saying, we should be considering climate change anytime we make a capital decision or a long-term operational issue.” Golder’s GoldSim climate software (which is freely licensed for anyone to use) has been incorporated into the company’s broader Sudbury risk register and has materially impacted site design. Installed at the smelter, the water balance model now generates daily, monthly and annual records and considers global climate modelling for air and water and seasonal variations like rain-on-snow events. Glencore’s Butler said that the GoldSim model has pushed the miner towards greenlighting a project that will increase groundwater flow to a surface water wastewater treatment system. It has also been applied to road and culvert maintenance, seasonal discharge scenarios and dam maintenance – “a whole multitude of plans from those less serious to critical,” he said. Glencore’s Butler mused that climate adaptation is going to involve a radical mindset shift for the industry and will have multiple iterations. “Nothing about climate change adaptation is one-and-done. What we knew in 2011 is already being challenged in terms of most appropriate solutions for the longer term,” he said. “We will be in adaptive management forever.” CIM

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Sleeping giant Barrick recently spent two years and $20 million reclaiming the tailings storage facilities at Giant Nickel, a closed mine in B.C. it acquired, but never operated, as part of a lucrative merger almost 20 years ago By Kylie Williams

arrick Gold Corporation inherited the closed Giant Nickel mine in southwestern British Columbia when it merged with Homestake Mining Company in 2001. The site, its best days already a generation in the past, was just a liability among a broad portfolio of assets around the world. At the time, the mine had been idle for 27 years, and what remained was an estimated five million tonnes of tailings material over 22 hectares. Activity at the site, however, picked up in 2016 as Barrick launched a $20-million project to reshape and reclaim the land. Last fall, Barrick was rewarded for its efforts with the Jake McDonald Annual Mine Reclamation Award, presented by the BC Technical and Research Committee on Reclamation (BC TRCR) for cleaning up sites previously disturbed by mining. “We’re all just really proud of what we achieved,” said Allison Brown, Barrick’s Canadian closed sites manager who has overseen the project since 2016. “It was especially gratifying to have our peers in the industry and some of our regulators acknowledge all of the effort that we put in.”

Closed ain’t closed Barrick began internal reviews of its tailings storage facilities in 2015 to ensure they complied with the company’s internal tail-

ings and heap leach management standard. The standard aligns with international, national and local requirements, including those published by the International Council on Mining and Metals and the Canadian Dam Association. “It was through that review process that Barrick identified that, although the Giant Nickel facility was in a state of passive closure, it wasn’t in full compliance with the current Barrick standard,” said Brown. “And that’s just a function of its age.” The Giant Nickel deposit, originally named the Pride of Emory deposit, is about 10 kilometres north of Hope and was first staked almost a century ago in 1923. Underground development began in 1926 but ceased in 1938 due to poor market conditions. Mine and mill development restarted in 1952 and commercial production began in 1958. Over 40 years of sporadic development and operation, the Giant Nickel mine – also known as Giant Mascot – produced 4.3 million tonnes of ore yielding 26,000 tonnes of nickel and 13,000 tonnes of copper. According to assessment reports, the ore graded about 0.77 per cent nickel and 0.34 per cent copper with cobalt, chromium, platinum, gold and silver as by-products. It has the distinction of being British Columbia’s only nickel producing mine. BC Geological Survey records concluded that the “scattered nature of the mineralized zones and the fact that most of them were blind, forced the closure of the mine” in 1974.

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The mine's processing plant while in operation in 1959 and in 2012 after it was stripped to its foundations.

One mine, many owners Over its decades-long history, Giant Nickel had numerous owners. The final hand-over came in December 2001 when Barrick merged with Homestake to create what was, at the time, Canada’s largest gold producer and the world's second-biggest gold mining company. Barrick’s primary targets in 2001 were Homestake’s Eskay Creek in northern B.C. and shares of the Williams and David Bell mines in the Hemlo district, Ontario. In Australia, Barrick gained half of the Kalgoorlie Super Pit and some gold mining operations in the Yilgarn region, Western Australia, in the merger. The Giant Nickel mine was just a footnote. Homestake had begun to decommission the mine and mill infrastructure in 1993 and undertook some reclamation of the tailings. During operation, tailings from the mine were deposited in a relatively flat valley to the west about 300 metres below the mine. The tailings had been engineered into two tailings storage facilities (TSF), known as the Upper TSF and the Lower TSF. The Upper TSF was shaped to shed water, capped with rock fill and topsoil, and allowed to revegetate with native plant species. However, Barrick identified tailings-impacted seepage originating from the toe of the Upper TSF south embankment. Parts of the Lower TSF were also capped in the early 1990s, but a large area was left uncovered and developed a permanent pond of water behind the main embankment. Following the 2015 review, Barrick engaged engineering firms Knight Piésold and JDS Energy & Mining, alongside local contractors, and set to work improving the geotechnical stability and water management infrastructure at the TSF and shaping and revegetating the disturbed areas.

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and Petroleum Resources (MEMPR), and found them at that point to be “fairly benign,” said Brown. Both TSFs had been exposed to the elements for 50 years and were thoroughly oxidized, and “mostly not acid generating.” The team built a diversion channel around the length of the facility, three emergency spillways and an underdrain system for the Upper TSF embankments. There was some water leaving the site with higher than acceptable iron levels, so the team created a passive treatment channel to remove the excess iron in seepage leaving the Upper TSF. “It’s basically a really nice looking, meandering rock-filled ditch that takes the water that comes out of the tailings facility, filters it, and the iron drops out before it discharges to the receiving environment,” said Brown. The treatment channel was put to the test in 2018 and 2019 by much higher than average rainfall at the site. As of January 2020, the treatment channel has held and is performing its task well and the monitored water leaving the site is high quality. Like everything on the site – aside from some specialized granular filters and perforated high density polyethylene pipework – the treatment channel was built with natural materials sourced from the site itself or from the immediate area surrounding the site. “Rock, sand, clay, whatever we needed to build the different structures, came from within a five-kilometre radius of the tailings facility,” said Brown. Over the course of the project approximately 480,000 cubic metres of rock material was moved. Overall, the project involved characterizing the materials on the site, then stabilizing the 50-year-old facility and ensuring that it met modern earthquake stability requirements. New water management infrastructure decreased the release of contaminants to the environment by draining, reshaping and constructing new paths for water leaving the site. Barrick planted approximately 4,000 tree seedlings on the borrow areas and has created a new space for recreational users to safely access the vast trail network around the site.

project proﬁle Building community capacity Half of the budget for the project was directed to local contractors and service providers based in Hope, including members of the local Yale First Nation. These local operators were familiar with the site and the challenges with access and weather, and some, said Brown, had either worked at the mine or had family members who did. “One of our main goals for this project was to work with the local First Nations and identify not only opportunities to employ local First Nations people, but also to help them develop new business opportunities or support existing businesses,” said Brown. In keeping with this goal, and the goal of using local materials, one local entrepreneur started a new business providing a woodchipper to the site and creating mulch from the cleared vegetation to be used for revegetation at the end of the project. “The people in Hope have been incredibly supportive throughout this whole process,” said Brown.

Photos courtesy of Barrick/Allison Brown

Challenges overcome The two greatest challenges on the project were responding to unanticipated conditions on the site and communicating with the overlapping land users who have an interest in the area over and around the tailings facility. The former was addressed using a pragmatic combination of site investigations and “field fit” techniques based on conversations amongst the project team. The latter, however, was more difficult. Barrick has mineral title in the area, but forestry companies operate in the surrounding forest and recreational vehicle and biking groups frequently visit and camp in the area. Despite rumours published in various media outlets, Barrick has no plans to turn the site into a ski resort. “Trying to identify everybody’s needs and expectations and how those aligned with our reclamation goals was really tricky,” said Brown. “Invariably, a group would pop up in the middle of the project that we hadn’t realized had any interest in the area.” In the end, the input of all groups contributed to a better outcome. Camping features and a new recreation site were included on land outside of the TSF footprint to help the local dirt biking association achieve some of its goals for the future, and Barrick continues to engage with provincial forestry groups to ensure the revegetation aligned with their management goals. Although the award from BC TRCR was a feather in the cap, the biggest milestone on the project for Brown was reached in November 2018, when the earth works were completed and most of the workers and machinery left the site. Today, the site is “pleasantly quiet,” said Brown. The revegetation is successful, the structures are holding up and water and geotechnical monitoring are ongoing. “The real goal for Barrick is to make this as close to a walkaway as possible,” said Brown. “It’s a tailings facility, so we may never be able to walk away, but we’ll hopefully de-risk it to a point where relinquishment or divestment for future development becomes more probable.” CIM

Left from top: Tailings sampling for geochemical characterization; Diversion and treatment channels were created to manage the water that flows from the TSF; “We are all really proud of what we achieved,” said Allison Brown, Barrick’s Canadian closed sites manager, who poses here with her mother. March/April 2020 • Mars/Avril 2020 | 59

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While the roll out of battery electric heavy production equipment has been a recent development, lighter duty vehicles such as those manufactured by Prairie Machine (above) have been at work in underground operations for much longer.

The drive T to electric Experience, economics and incentives are sparking the shift to underground battery electric vehicles By Alexandra Lopez-Pacheco

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he industry is buzzing with developments in underground battery electric vehicles (BEVs), and that activity will likely amp up with the recently announced tax write-off of eligible zero-emission vehicles. MacLean Engineering, for example, has been gradually introducing electrified versions of its vehicles since 2016, including the BH3 Blockholer in 2019. By the end of this year, the company expects to have completed the electrification of all its ground support, ore flow and utility vehicle categories. Epiroc’s entry into the BEV sector began in 2013 with its release of a scooptram and has since expanded to include haul trucks, drills, bolters as well as a broader range of scooptram sizes. Normet also launched a suite of utility BEVs in 2018 under the “SmartDrive” name, while German manufacturer SMT Scharf scooped up Alban, Ontario’s RDH Mining Equipment and its line of BEV equipment. Last year, Sandvik, whose battery electric offerings include the 14-tonne and 9-tonne capacity LHDs and DD422iE batterypowered electric development drill, acquired Artisan Vehicle Systems, a manufacturer specialized in BEVs, which had just added its 10-tonne capacity battery electric loader to its line up. Meanwhile, Rokion, a division of Prairie Machine, recently released the R400 truck platform, its latest BEV

offering, which includes a sixto-12 passenger crew truck and a three-to-nine passenger utility truck option. Caterpillar plans to bring out its own lithium-ion powered LHD, the R1700XE, later this year following a testing program that included trials at a Glencore operation in Sudbury. The loader will have a 15-tonne capacity. And this list does not capture it all. The mining industry’s shift to electrification is almost at the tipping point, according to Anthony Griffiths, product manager for MacLean Engineering’s Fleet Electrification mining division. And the shift is not just coming from OEMs. It’s also coming from miners. “Last December we had three requests for EV fleet A MacLean Engineering battery electric boom truck in operation at a mine in Val d'Or, Quebec. quotes from three different new projects and all three said their projects would be nonBEV manufacturers have focused on reducing maintenance diesel,” he said. “They were not interested in quotes on diesel costs by taking a modular approach in the design of their equipequipment.” ment. That’s the case with Rokion trucks. “In addition to offering a cleaner solution to diesel, one of our goals was to mitigate Charging up the need for specialized service personnel by making it easier for Zero emission machines already offer the same or even better existing repair crews to swap out a drive or battery module,” performance as diesel, and this is only the beginning, according said Kipp Sakundiak, general manager for Prairie Machine. Franck Boudreault, Epiroc’s electrification global product manFor its part, Artisan developed the Pitstop auto-swap battery ager. “Productivity and profitability will only improve from for one of its haul trucks that it says it will eventually add to all here,” he said. He estimates the capital cost of Epiroc’s BEVs are of its vehicles. It consists of an AI and camera system that guides about 25 per cent higher than diesel counterparts, but expects the vehicle to the charging bay and a mechanism that lifts the that gap will close within the next 5 years. used battery out and replaces it with a fresh one in a matter of An area in which BEVs lag behind diesel equipment remains in eight to nine minutes. the distance electric vehicles can cover between charges. OEMs Sandvik’s DD422iE drill, on the other hand, uses a combinahave developed a variety of solutions, from quick charging, which tion of tethered and battery electricity. This was one of the reain the case of large equipment can put a heavy toll on the electri- sons Barrick introduced a DD422iE at its Hemlo project in cal infrastructure, to battery swapping, which can take time and northern Ontario in the latter part of 2019, and shortly after may require additional infrastructure. But OEMs have been another one at its Turquoise Ridge project in Nevada. working on improvements and solutions for this issue. “Barrick decided to look at this technology,” said Glenn “Our equipment started with 50 kw charging capabilities,” said Heard, Barrick’s senior VP of mining, “as it is relatively risk-free Griffiths. “We have since upped that to 100 kw and the battery given the development drills plug into power when at the face technology will continue to improve. And our charging design is drilling and therefore the battery is only used to travel between based on our proven on-board charging method, so you don’t need mining faces.” to swap batteries.” Meanwhile, Caterpillar’s in-house developed MEC 500 Todd Pratt, CEO of FVT Research, which specializes in bat- lithium-ion battery operating and charging system, can charge tery electric drives and works with OEMs and rebuilders to the R1700 EX “with little or no impact to the mine’s existing convert diesel vehicles to battery electric ones, said BEVs electrical infrastructure,” according to Caterpillar. overall have become increasingly reliable. “We’ve had some Epiroc offers normal charging with battery swap for loaders vehicles underground that haven’t required maintenance on and trucks and on-board charging for drill rigs, but last year the the drive system for 12 months,” he said. “It’s hard to get company also introduced a battery service to help improve the effidiesel equipment that can match that. The industry as a whole ciency of the BEVs as well as help reduce the machine’s capital is new and it has had some growing pains but I think our costs. “We call it batteries as a service,” said Boudreault. The servequipment and most of our competitors’ equipment is proving ice provides customers with battery management to ensure equipitself to be quite reliable.” The company recently got a $2-mil- ment that is very demanding on batteries receive fresh ones as lion grant from NRCan’s clean growth program to support soon as a battery hits a degree of capacity loss that would reduce vehicle electrification. the driveability of the vehicle. “We provide the right battery for the March/April 2020 • Mars/Avril 2020 | 61

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underground BEVs

right application, so as the battery wears out, we will inform the customer and replace the cells without any additional cost. Then we use the cells we replaced in secondary applications that are well-suited for batteries with some capacity loss.” OEMs are also incorporating greater safety systems into their batteries. Epiroc, for example, introduced a thermal system “that either cools down the cells or warms them up, depending on the conditions,” said Boudreault. “We find that critical to have a smooth continuous operation and optimized battery life and it is something that was introduced in the second generation.” The company also developed numerous safety measures to address concerns in the mining industry about the safety of taking batteries underground. “We call it the onion ring approach, starting with safety features at the smallest possible level and adding safety layer over safety layer,” said Boudreault. “It starts with the chemistry we use in the batteries, which is a very stable and controllable one.” The layers include an intelligent management system that detects any abnormal behaviour in cells and isolates them, short-circuitry protection and mechanical crash protection.

Preparing for the future Of course, while the new electrified mine will come with lower operational costs, the possibility for increasing capacity by adding more zero emissions vehicles and more importantly, for greater health and safety for miners, it will also come with

new challenges, said Barrick’s Heard. These include “increased power reticulation requirements in the underground and retrofitting that into operations,” he said. “If you had a full fleet, then battery management/charging would need to be tightly scheduled to manage peak power demands. Which school of thought: Battery swap or in-machine charging? There are pros and cons for both and I presume these will change as battery technology changes.” Heard also believes mine design will need to change in order to take advantage of regenerative charging. BEV technology will also require new technical expertise, according to Mike Mayhew, who, with BEV experience on both the operations and equipment manufacturing sides, recently cofounded Mayhew Performance to provide miners with consulting on BEV selection and implementation for their operations. To that end, he is working with Collège Boréal in Sudbury to launch a training program for BEV maintenance in the fall. “College Boreal will provide an education platform for the students to be engaged in the BEV maintenance program, and will allow industry to participate, train and develop future technician(s) to service the vehicles in operations as the technology continues to evolve in the years to come,” said Mayhew. “The next steps are the most important,“ continued Mayhew, “as we change the remaining [equipment] of the industry to go fully electric so we can continue to do the right thing for the industry and create a zero emissions underground mine.” CIM

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Fostering the future CIM kicked off the year with the launch of a national student mentoring program By Michele Beacom

s Roy Slack said in this issue’s President’s Note, CIM is committed to fostering a robust, connected and engaged CIM community. A key part of that community is the future leaders of our industry: the students in the various mining-related programs across the country. The CIM Mentorship Program seeks to connect post-secondary students in mining disciplines with industry mentors to facilitate knowledge transfer, reduce student attrition, develop future leaders and provide every opportunity for students to have a successful and rewarding career in the mining industry. Last year CIM and Queen’s University embarked on a mentorship pilot project. It was so successful that CIM decided to expand it. Launched nationwide in January, at the time of publication, 31 mentees have been matched up with mentors. The response to the program has been very encouraging, said CIM Mentorship Program lead Tenisha Valliant, with both mentors and mentees across the country applying for this opportunity. “We’ve paired up mentees with mentors literally from B.C. to Newfoundland,” she said. Mentorship has been proven to enhance a student’s chances for success both academically and in their future careers. In fact, said Valliant, “the national accreditation board that regulates programming for mining engineering students evaluates them on both technical and non-technical skills. The CIM Mentorship Program really addresses those soft skills.”

That’s what Peter Wake, mining engineering student at Queen’s and one of the mentees in the program, hopes for. Soon to graduate, he will first work with his mentor on interviewing and networking skills. Wake had specifically requested a mentor experienced in social responsibility in his application. After his first meeting with his mentor, Jan Boon, a consultant in social responsibility, Wake said, “I think Jan will be an excellent resource for [learning] how to contribute to solving these big picture problems facing the mining industry, such as climate change and how to create a more diverse and inclusive mining industry.” Boon, now retired from the Geological Survey of Canada, has many years of experience working in and studying corporate social responsibility in mineral exploration. An early proponent of social responsibility, he had been instrumental in the 2002 renegotiation of the Intergovernmental Geoscience Accord. Then, as now with the latest five-year renewal, the accord aims at helping Canada manage its energy and mineral resources in a responsible manner with regard to environmental, water, climate change and land-use issues. Wake and Boon are currently setting up their mentoring plan. So far, Wake said, “the process has worked very smoothly and quickly. The CIM Mentorship Program Guidelines were a useful resource as I set up the initial meeting and thought about my goals for the program.” CIM March/April 2020 • Mars/Avril 2020 | 63

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Un géant endormi Barrick a passé deux années et a investi 20 millions de dollars dans la remise en état des installations de stockage des résidus de Giant Nickel, une mine fermée de Colombie-Britannique que la société a achetée dans le cadre d’une fusion lucrative il y a près de 20 ans sans jamais l’exploiter Par Kylie Williams

Nous publions progressivement sur notre site Internet les articles du CIM Magazine en version française.

e magazine était prêt à être mis sous presse lorsque la décision a été prise d’annuler l’édition 2020 du congrès et de l’Expo de l’ICM. Au vu de cette décision et de tous les développements qui l’ont suscitée, nous essayons d’appréhender les répercussions de cet instant au niveau professionnel, sociétal et familial. Lorsque vous recevrez cette édition, il est à souhaiter que les efforts déployés dans le pays et dans le reste du monde pour freiner la propagation de ce méchant virus se soient révélés efficaces et que nous ayons une meilleure idée des mesures à prendre pour la suite. Pour ceux d’entre vous qui ont été renvoyés chez eux dans l’intérêt de la « distanciation sociale » et de la responsabilité citoyenne, cette édition sera, nous l’espérons, l’occasion de vous éloigner de l’écran de votre poste de travail à domicile pour apprécier la lecture sur un support légèrement plus tactile, support qui, d’ailleurs, constituait le point de départ de cette lettre… Au milieu du désordre qui règne sur mon bureau gît le 1966-1967 Canadian Mines Handbook (le manuel des mines canadiennes de 1966-1967), une publication annuelle de la revue hebdomadaire The Northern Miner, « gracieusement offerte par Doherty Roadhouse & McCuaig Bros ». Les pages du répertoire des sociétés minières sont parsemées de coupures de presse : Baffin Iron Ore ‘Ready for Furnaces’ (le minerai de fer de Baffin « prêt pour les fourneaux ») ; « Deux hauts fonctionnaires de Soquem sont congédiés » ; des notes manuscrites sur des bordereaux de versement concernant des participations dans des sociétés minières qui n’existent plus depuis longtemps ; des nouvelles des développements miniers par téléscripteur ; ou encore des billets de trajets avec correspondance servant de marque-page pour une raison impénétrable. Une véritable collection d’échantillons instantanés faisant allusion à une histoire cachée plus vaste. Je ne suis pas certain de savoir comment ces bouts de papiers ont atterri sur mon bureau, mais leur charme leur a permis de survivre à certaines de mes crises impulsives de grand nettoyage. Les étagères du bureau de l’ICM regorgent de ce genre d’objets ; des volumes reliés datant des débuts de l’institut recouvrent les murs et récompensent les curieux qui en extraient un exemplaire pour le feuilleter. Sachez que le contenu très utile de ces archives physiques a été numérisé et peut désormais être consulté dans nos archives virtuelles de documents techniques, une collection numérique que nous continuons d’enrichir avec le contenu de ces trésors reposant sur nos étagères. Le projet de refonte du site Internet du CIM Magazine a été l’occasion d’en faire de même avec des articles qui datent de bien avant mon arrivée à l’ICM en tant que rédacteur. Si les archives virtuelles ne sont pas si évocatrices et n’ont pas l’odeur si caractéristique des éditions imprimées, l’engouement qu’elles ont provoqué auprès des lecteurs nous a donné une idée précise de ce qui attirait les visiteurs vers notre site. En 2007, Vern Evans et Charles Graham écrivaient une série en plusieurs parties intitulée The Evolution of Shaft Sinking (l’évolution du fonçage de puits). Comme l’explique M. Evans dans notre Q & R intitulé A deep dive into the history of mine development (p. 51, en anglais uniquement), ce projet est né de la frustration face à la lenteur du développement dans ce domaine, et il a attiré un flux régulier de lecteurs, du moins pour les parties auxquelles ces derniers avaient accès. Nous avons republié sur le site du CIM Magazine cette série créée il y a 13 ans. Elle inclut une rétrospective des développements depuis ce temps-là, qui nous est gracieusement offerte par MM. Evans et Graham. Nous espérons que d’ellemême, cette ressource s’avère utile, mais souhaitons également qu’elle serve de point de départ pour explorer ce thème plus avant grâce aux ressources supplémentaires disponibles dans les archives virtuelles de documents techniques. Puisez dans la mine d’information que vous offre l’ICM. Ryan Bergen, Rédacteur en chef editor@cim.org @Ryan_CIM_Mag

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Les valeurs restent les mêmes

ous traversons une période difficile. Des personnes sont incommodées, des entreprises subissent des pertes importantes. Certains se sentent affaiblis, sont très malades ; d’autres n’ont pas survécu. Paradoxalement peut-être dans ce contexte, la fermeture des frontières est en réalité un signe que le monde entier travaille de concert pour endiguer le flot de cette maladie planétaire. Dans son ouvrage intitulé The Last Lecture (le dernier discours), le professeur d’informatique et éducateur Randy Pausch écrivait que lorsqu’il s’était plaint à sa mère de la complexité de ses examens de doctorat, elle lui avait répondu « qu’elle comprenait ce qu’il traversait ; qu’à son âge, son père était au front en pleine Seconde Guerre mondiale ». Cela lui a permis de relativiser. On peut se plaindre de la situation dans laquelle on se trouve aujourd’hui, mais rappelons-nous que beaucoup vivent dans des conditions bien pires que les nôtres. J’en sais aussi peu, voire moins, sur le COVID-19 que la plupart des personnes qui liront ce billet. Je regarde les actualités ; la situation a l’air très grave. Nous devons être raisonnables et faire notre possible pour endiguer la propagation de cette maladie, mais aussi nous rappeler que la vie continue. Lorsque la crise sera passée, les choses seront-elles différentes ? Est-ce que tout ira mieux ? J’aimerais penser que ce sera le cas. Je me souviens avoir entendu il y a plusieurs années que, si les stratégies changent, les valeurs, elles, restent les mêmes. Cette devise a été de bon conseil pour moi. De fait, il faut admettre que chaque condition, situation ou marché requiert de nouvelles approches, mais si l’on aspire à vivre conformément à un système de valeur, il ne faut pas déroger à ces valeurs. Protégeons nos populations. Soutenons les communautés dans lesquelles nous vivons et travaillons. Soyons honnêtes, avec nous-mêmes et avec les autres. Ces valeurs sont le fondement de notre déontologie. Comme le disait John Maxwell, There is no such thing as business ethics, there is only ethics (l’éthique des affaires n’existe pas ; seule l’éthique existe). Pourquoi adopter une certaine éthique avec notre famille et nos amis et une éthique différente au travail ? Nos valeurs personnelles et professionnelles doivent être universelles. La question est de savoir comment nous pouvons ressortir plus forts de cette crise. Mis à part les connaissances que nous

allons développer face à une pandémie de cette nature, notre industrie peut, au final, bénéficier de cette expérience dans certains domaines. Nous faisons notre possible pour préserver nos proches de traumatismes. Cette pandémie pousse de nombreux pays, entreprises et communautés à mettre en place des stratégies permettant de faire face à la maladie. Aujourd’hui et à l’avenir, nous serons ainsi mieux préparés pour gérer la prévention des maladies. Dans le domaine de la sécurité, beaucoup reconnaissent que la santé mentale constitue une difficulté notoire, une composante que nous commençons à peine à mieux comprendre. La conciliation de la vie professionnelle et de la vie privée est un élément central de notre santé mentale. Ou, comme j’aime à le dire, puisque le travail fait partie de notre vie, il s’agit réellement de trouver un équilibre de vie. Les sociétés sont obligées aujourd’hui d’envisager des options de télétravail et d’autres manières permettant à leurs employés de prendre soin de leurs proches tout en contribuant au fonctionnement de l’entreprise. Si l’on parvient à trouver une solution viable, ceci pourrait bien être une bénédiction en termes de santé mentale, une solution qui pourrait aboutir à d’autres stratégies permettant de gérer le stress auquel nous sommes tous exposés aujourd’hui. La plupart des personnes travaillant dans des exploitations minières et des opérations de traitement des minerais n’ont malheureusement pas le luxe de travailler à domicile. Mais est-ce réellement le cas ? Depuis des années, nous envisageons et développons des technologies d’exploitation à distance et des équipements autonomes. Serait-ce là le tremplin dont nous avons besoin pour adopter et mettre en œuvre ces technologies ? Dans toute situation, j’essaie toujours de voir les côtés positifs. En ce moment, j’ai du mal à en trouver, mais notre rôle en tant que dirigeants et chefs de file consiste à tirer des enseignements utiles de la situation actuelle et de nous tourner vers l’avenir. Une chose est sûre : si certaines personnes ou sociétés agissent en opportunistes ou refusent de collaborer avec les autres, beaucoup d’autres ont la volonté de faire ce qu’il faut. C’est ce qu’il se passe lorsqu’on évolue conformément à ses valeurs ; lorsqu’on se souvient que si les stratégies changent, les valeurs, elles, restent les mêmes.

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Comment créer un site minier résistant aux phénomènes climatiques ? (réponse : avoir de bons modèles de données sur le climat et être disposés à les accepter) Par Cecilia Keating

n 1961, une tempête estivale a frappé la ville de Timmins, dans le nord de l’Ontario. Depuis, cet événement sert de référence pour la construction des barrages de résidus miniers au Canada, afin qu’ils résistent à ce genre d’épisodes climatiques. La pluie torrentielle qui s’est abattue en pleine nuit pendant la tempête a tué une famille et détruit des routes, des fondations et des foyers. Le barrage minier de l’exploitation aurifère de Coniaurum a cédé, entraînant le déversement de déchets miniers dans une rivière locale. La mine d’or, en activité depuis 48 ans, a fermé ses portes peu de temps après. Malgré la gravité de la tempête et ses conséquences désastreuses, la fréquence accrue des inondations et des tempêtes dans le nord de l’Ontario a rendu obsolète cette référence en matière de conception environnementale en vigueur depuis des décennies. De fait, au cours des dix dernières années, les exemples de ce que l’on appelle « la tempête du siècle » se sont multipliés. « On ne peut plus se fonder sur la [référence réglementaire] préférée de tous, la tempête de Timmins qui a eu lieu en 1961, pour établir des courbes d’intensité-durée-fréquence (IDF) destinées à la conception d’un barrage », expliquait Marc Butler, directeur des affaires réglementaires à Glencore. Pour être préparé au changement climatique et à cette nouvelle réalité, un barrage étroit en cours de développement à l’exploitation Strathcona de Glencore, à proximité de Sudbury, est conçu « conformément à une norme future » reposant sur des courbes IDF tenant compte de divers modèles climatiques, indiquait-il. Les courbes IDF sont des représentations graphiques de la probabilité de la survenue de précipitations d’une intensité moyenne, et servent à éclairer la conception des barrages. Le barrage sera construit en gardant ces principes à l’esprit, et se traduira par une structure plus grande. Cette nouvelle conception est l’un des moyens pour Glencore de préparer ses exploitations du bassin de Sudbury, toujours plus humide, chaud et prédisposé aux inondations, aux événements climatiques futurs. En collaboration étroite avec Golder Associés, une société de conseil spécialisée dans l’environnement, la société minière a réorganisé ses systèmes souterrains d’aérage et de gestion de l’eau afin d’être préparée aux prévisions climatiques futures. « Les personnes travaillant dans l’industrie minière doivent accepter que le monde est en plein changement climatique, et qu’à défaut d’adapter nos exploitations, nous mettons nos installations en danger », expliquait M. Butler. D’après Ressources naturelles Canada (RNCan), les températures ont augmenté de 2,3 °C (degrés Celsius) depuis le milieu du XXe siècle au Canada. Les régions septentrionales du pays se réchauffent à un rythme environ deux fois plus rapide qu’au niveau mondial. Au cours de la décennie à venir, les précipitations devraient s’intensifier et devenir plus fréquentes, et la neige se transformera progressivement en de la pluie. Les épisodes de

sécheresse et de canicule vont se multiplier ; quant au manteau neigeux, à la banquise et au pergélisol, ils diminueront. Cette situation a de profondes répercussions sur l’industrie minière canadienne. Avec des saisons toujours plus courtes, les routes de glace et les bandes d’atterrissage nécessaires au transport deviennent de moins en moins fiables. La fonte du pergélisol risque d’endommager les structures de confinement des résidus, la stabilité des chantiers et les autres infrastructures des sites miniers. L’augmentation des précipitations, la fonte des neiges, les inondations et les sécheresses mettront à rude épreuve les structures de drainage et de diversion, tout comme la hausse des températures qui risque d’abîmer les systèmes souterrains d’aérage et d’accélérer l’évaporation et l’érosion des bassins de résidus miniers. Brendan Marshall, vice-président des affaires économiques et du Nord de l’association minière du Canada (AMC), est convaincu que l’industrie minière a entre les mains les outils nécessaires pour se montrer à la hauteur de cet enjeu. « En fin de compte, la gestion des risques est une réalité fondamentalement intrinsèque à l’industrie minière. Cette situation apporte une autre perspective sur une réalité opérationnelle essentielle de l’industrie ; c’est loin d’être une révélation », indiquait-il. « Les sociétés minières ont toujours dû gérer la variabilité des ressources en eau, des précipitations et du climat. Avec le changement climatique, on assiste à des accélérations et des décélérations du rythme de ces régimes climatiques et de l’évolution de la situation. » L’AMC travaille actuellement sur un document d’orientation dédié à l’adaptation au climat, et bénéficie de l’aide de nombreuses parties prenantes de l’industrie et d’une subvention de 325 000 dollars de RNCan. Ce rapport, qui sera publié dans le courant de l’année, vise à aider les sociétés minières à comprendre les conséquences possibles du changement climatique, à les conseiller quant à l’évaluation de ces conséquences, à identifier en quoi ces dernières pourraient affecter l’infrastructure et les activités, et à leur suggérer des manières d’appliquer, au moment opportun, des mesures de gestion adaptative. « Il aidera les membres à accorder la priorité à certaines actions et activités qu’ils entreprennent déjà afin de gérer les risques et, dans certains cas, les renforcera », indiquait M. Marshall. D’après Charles Dumaresq, vice-président en charge de la gestion scientifique et environnementale de l’AMC, la volonté dont fait preuve l’industrie pour reconnaître le changement climatique en tant que problème et adopter des mesures d’adaptation « est très diverse ». Cependant, « nous sommes de plus en plus nombreux à prendre conscience qu’il faut absolument s’y conformer. Les connaissances sont là, de même que la détermination pour créer le genre de structures et de sites miniers résistants dont nous avons besoin ; rappelons que le coût potentiel de l’inaction est considérable », déclarait-il. March/April 2020 • Mars/Avril 2020 | 67

L’industrie est confrontée à une pression croissante de la part des autorités réglementaires, des investisseurs et des assureurs, qui lui demandent de présenter des stratégies appropriées d’adaptation et d’atténuation du changement climatique, ajoutait M. Dumaresq. Ainsi, même les sociétés à la traîne vont devoir s’adapter. L’AMC n’est pas le seul groupe ralliant l’industrie autour de la consolidation des mines et des chaînes d’approvisionnement pour se protéger du changement climatique. Dans un rapport publié en novembre, l’International Council of Mining and Metals (ICMM, le conseil international des mines et métaux) prévenait « qu’aucune société ni zone géographique ne sont à l’abri » des retombées des conditions météorologiques extrêmes et du changement climatique. Le rapport indiquait que le changement climatique a d’ores et déjà « entraîné la réduction ou l’arrêt de la production, une hausse des dépenses d’investissement, des répercussions sur la santé et la sécurité, ainsi qu’une hausse de la vulnérabilité des communautés plus enclines à l’insécurité sociale. » De fait, BHP a reconnu dans un rapport d’activités de fin janvier que la fumée et la poussière des feux de forêt en Australie avaient affecté la production dans ses mines de charbon en décembre. Au Canada, la mine de cuivre et d’or Mount Milligan de Centerra Gold, une société minière de taille intermédiaire de Colombie-Britannique (C.-B.), a été touchée par des problèmes d’approvisionnement en eau découlant des conditions climatiques, l’obligeant à fonctionner à capacité réduite ces dernières années. [Nous avons invité la société à nous communiquer plus d’informations, et un représentant de Centerra nous a expliqué que « 2017 et 2018 avaient été des années de forte sécheresse, et la région où se trouve la mine a dû faire face à des conditions de sécheresse extrême, qui ont considérablement réduit la quantité d’eau provenant généralement de la fonte des neiges et du ruissellement printanier »].

Des problèmes potentiels d’ordre logistique Une lente réactivité à la menace que pose le changement climatique pour les exploitations « pourrait potentiellement affecter la survie de nombreuses petites sociétés minières », expliquait Ross Polis, directeur régional de la planification écologique à Newmont. « Les grandes sociétés d’exploitation aurifère comme nous bénéficient de nombreux avantages, notamment d’un nombre élevé de personnes et de ressources », indiquait-il. « Mais pour les petites sociétés minières qui ne sont pas aussi bien préparées, ce problème pourrait véritablement anéantir un projet, voire la société. » Newmont a fait équipe avec le National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR, le centre national de recherche atmosphérique) à Boulder, dans le Colorado, afin de créer des modèles climatiques aux horizons 2040 et 2100 pour chacune de ses exploitations dans le monde. Les résultats devraient être publiés au printemps, et les évaluations des risques spécifiques à chaque site suivront, dans la perspective de publier en 2021 des approches à l’adaptation au changement climatique, site par site. S’il hésitait à avancer des hypothèses quant aux répercussions spécifiques du changement climatique sur les exploitations avant la publication officielle des évaluations des risques, M. Polis indiquait que la fréquence accrue des tempêtes et des ouragans pourraient faire peser une grande menace sur les réseaux de transport de Newmont. « Nombre de nos opérations, particulièrement en Amérique, reposent sur le transport par voie maritime, qu’il 68 | CIM Magazine | Vol. 15, No. 2

s’agisse de l’approvisionnement en cyanure, en explosifs ou simplement en nourriture et en ressources », expliquait-il. « Pour nous rendre dans une région comme le Suriname, les bateaux doivent traverser les Caraïbes ou le canal de Panama. Un climat où les tempêtes et les ouragans deviennent plus intenses constitue un risque pour toute entreprise. » Au Canada, les blizzards et la météo inclémente entraînent des perturbations des vols qui transportent du personnel et des marchandises entre Toronto et les mines reculées du nord de l’Ontario et du Québec, expliquait-il. Ceci pourrait poser des problèmes en termes de ressources humaines. « Si [une tempête] passe en un jour ou deux, ce n’est pas très grave, on pourra toujours faire venir les personnes, même si cela constitue un problème de coût et une perturbation. Du point de vue professionnel, ces personnes pourraient se mettre à la recherche d’autres emplois afin d’éviter d’avoir à gérer ce genre de désagréments ; du point de vue personnel, si elles ne peuvent pas compter sur des vols fiables pour se rendre sur leur lieu de travail et en revenir, elles pourraient choisir de ne pas travailler dans ces régions », indiquait M. Polis. Le changement climatique pourrait aussi obliger la société à repenser ses systèmes de gestion de l’eau ou ses contrats sociaux avec les communautés autochtones locales. « Si les saisons raccourcissent, autrement dit si la saison des gels est moins longue, nous devrons gérer nos ressources en eau plus souvent. Il nous faudra multiplier l’entretien des pompes, des canalisations et de l’infrastructure, et [la] développer de manière à faire face aux volumes générés par la fonte des eaux. Nous devrons renforcer nos programmes pour la surveillance de l’eau et des réseaux d’alimentation en eau », expliquait-il. Sur les sites de Musselwhite en Ontario et d’Éléonore au Québec, le contrat social de Newmont avec les communautés autochtones locales pourrait évoluer de manière à leur offrir une aide quant à la façon de gérer les répercussions des nouveaux régimes climatiques sur les ressources, la faune et les revenus au niveau local, indiquait M. Polis. « La composante sociale et communautaire est indéniable. Comment peut-on être un bon voisin et aider nos communautés à faire face à cette situation ? »

Repenser les barrages de résidus miniers Le réchauffement dans le nord du Canada pose un grave problème pour la sécurité des barrages de résidus miniers. De fait, les sociétés minières opérant dans ces régions comptent depuis longtemps sur les couches d’isolation (aussi appelées « couches de protection thermique » ou « couches de regel ») qui recouvrent les bassins de résidus miniers pour éviter le drainage minier acide (DMA). « Les déchets résiduels [dans les mines du Bouclier canadien] ont tendance à réagir au contact de l’oxygène et de l’eau et à produire de l’acide sulfurique. La manière la plus rentable d’éviter cela est de les recouvrir », indiquait Vincent Le Borgne, directeur de la recherche et du développement pour la société GKM Consultants à Montréal. « Lorsque [les couches de revêtement des barrages de résidus miniers] sont gelées, l’eau ne peut pas s’infiltrer et les réactions chimiques sont très lentes. Cependant, si le climat commence à se réchauffer et les précipitations augmentent, les réactions chimiques se produisent plus rapidement, l’eau s’infiltre et génère de l’acide sulfurique qui peut se déverser dans l’environnement. C’est une préoccupation majeure pour beaucoup de mines de l’Arctique en ce moment. »

article de fond L’institut de recherche en mines et environnement (IRME), où travaillent des chercheurs de Polytechnique Montréal et de l’université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT), met à l’essai des solutions de remplacement pour les couches d’isolation dans les exploitations d’Agnico Eagle au Nunavut et à la mine Raglan de Glencore, dans le nord du Québec. « La couverture avec effets de barrière capillaire (CCBE, de l’anglais cover with capillary barrier effects) est composée de plusieurs matériaux ; des matériaux à grains fins sont coincés entre des couches de matériaux à grains grossiers », expliquait Thomas Pabst, directeur scientifique de l’IRME à Polytechnique. « Cela fonctionne même en été si le pergélisol fond en surface ; c’est donc un double système de sécurité. Bien entendu, les résultats sont toujours meilleurs avec une couche de gel plus conséquente. » Tous les matériaux nécessaires pour la méthode CCBE peuvent être recyclés à partir du site minier, ajoutait-il, ce qui rend cette approche encore plus écologique. Cette méthode a déjà été utilisée dans les mines du sud du Québec. Comme l’expliquait M. Pabst, il revient aux partenaires de l’industrie de l’IRME de décider s’ils souhaitent mettre en application et approfondir leur recherche, laquelle étudie également le retentissement du changement climatique sur les pratiques d’assainissement et de gestion de l’eau. « Nous essayons simplement de mettre au point de nouvelles approches et de nouvelles solutions. C’est aux sociétés de conseil d’en tenir compte dans la conception. » M. Pabst déclarait être encouragé par l’enthousiasme des exploitants de sites miniers au Québec concernant la mise à l’essai des approches d’adaptation au climat. « Quel que soit le travail qu’effectuent les dirigeants au siège social, le véritable moteur de ce changement, ce sont les personnes sur le site », indiquait-il. « Ces personnes, ainsi que les membres des communautés habitent là-bas et souhaitent que leur famille et leurs voisins vivent dans un environnement agréable […]. On compte de nombreux exemples où les personnes travaillant dans le site minier ont trouvé l’argent nécessaire pour mener ces essais, même si cela sort du budget officiel. » L’IRME a récemment recueilli 11,2 millions de dollars d’investissement auprès de ses partenaires de l’industrie, dont font partie Mines Agnico Eagle, Mine Canadian Malartic, Iamgold, la mine Raglan de Glencore, la mine Éléonore de Newmont Goldcorp ainsi que Rio Tinto Fer et Titane, qui lui permettront de poursuivre ses recherches et de développer de nouvelles solutions aux problèmes environnementaux actuels dans le secteur minier.

Des modèles de données réalistes Bien qu’il n’existe pas d’approche unique à l’adaptation au climat, plutôt que de se fonder sur « des estimations approximatives », l’adoption de modèles de changement climatique propres à chaque site profitera à toutes les exploitations minières, indiquait M. Pabst. Dans son évaluation des approches existantes à la gestion de l’eau de surface, l’IRME a constaté que les exploitations du Québec se fondaient sur des valeurs « trop conservatrices » dans leurs estimations de l’évolution des régimes climatiques et météorologiques. « Le changement climatique doit être considéré de manière bien plus réaliste ; il est plus sensé de collaborer avec des climatologues que de simplement multiplier par 30, 40 ou 50 % les taux existants de précipitation. »

L’IRME a collaboré avec Ouranos, un consortium de climatologie de Montréal, afin de développer des scénarios climatiques aux horizons 2050 et 2100 pour chacun de ses lieux de recherche.

LES CONNAISSANCES SONT LÀ, DE MÊME QUE LA DÉTERMINATION POUR CRÉER LE GENRE DE STRUCTURES ET DE SITES MINIERS RÉSISTANTS DONT NOUS AVONS BESOIN ; RAPPELONS QUE LE COÛT POTENTIEL DE L’INACTION EST CONSIDÉRABLE – Charles Dumaresq, vice-président en charge de la gestion scientifique et environnementale de l’AMC

« Les conséquences du changement climatique varieront d’un lieu à l’autre », expliquait M. Pabst. « En règle générale, il n’y a pas de marche à suivre, mis à part le fait qu’il convient d’intégrer cette composante de manière réaliste dans la conception. » Sean Capstick, directeur chez Golder, indiquait également que des données climatiques précises étaient indispensables pour développer des mines résistantes au climat. Depuis près d’une décennie, la société œuvre pour s’assurer que les deux exploitations de nickel de Glencore et sa fonderie à Sudbury sont préparées à affronter le changement climatique. Toutes ces années, son point de départ pour le projet était des ensembles de données sur le climat publiées par le groupe d’experts intergouvernemental sur l’évolution du climat (GIEC) des Nations Unies. « Tout a commencé par un problème d’eau », déclarait M. Capstick. « Maintenant, on nous dit de tenir compte du changement climatique à chaque fois que l’on prend une décision relative au capital ou si l’on rencontre un problème opérationnel sur le long terme. » GoldSim, le logiciel d’évaluation du climat de Golder (qui fait l’objet d’une licence gratuite pour quiconque souhaite l’utiliser) a été intégré dans le registre des risques généraux pour Sudbury de la société et a eu des incidences positives sur la conception du site. Installé à la fonderie, le modèle de bilan hydrique génère désormais des registres quotidiens, mensuels et annuels et prend en compte la modélisation climatique mondiale pour l’air, l’eau et les variations saisonnières telles que les épisodes de fonte et de pluie sur la neige. Comme l’expliquait M. Butler de Glencore, le modèle GoldSim a incité la société minière à donner le feu vert à un projet qui augmentera l’écoulement des eaux souterraines vers un système de traitement des eaux usées en surface. Il a également été appliqué à l’entretien des routes et des ponceaux, à des scénarios de déversement d’eau saisonnier et à l’entretien des barrages, « une multitude de plans allant du moins grave au plus critique », déclarait-il. D’après M. Butler, l’adaptation au climat exigera un changement radical des mentalités dans l’industrie et fera l’objet d’itérations multiples. « Rien dans l’adaptation au changement climatique ne se fait du premier coup. Ce que l’on savait en 2011 est déjà remis en question en termes des solutions les plus appropriées sur le plus long terme », concluait-il. « Nous serons pour toujours en phase de gestion adaptative. » ICM March/April 2020 • Mars/Avril 2020 | 69

Avec l’aimable autorisation de Barrick/Allison Brown

La mine Giant Nickel, le seul producteur de nickel de Colombie-Britannique, a fermé ses portes en 1974.

Un géant endormi Barrick a passé deux années et a investi 20 millions de dollars dans la remise en état des installations de stockage des résidus de Giant Nickel, une mine fermée de Colombie-Britannique que la société a achetée dans le cadre d’une fusion lucrative il y a près de 20 ans sans jamais l’exploiter Par Kylie Williams

ors de sa fusion avec la société minière américaine Homestake Mining en 2001, Barrick Gold Corporation a hérité de Giant Nickel, une mine fermée du sud-ouest de la ColombieBritannique (C.-B.). Son heure de gloire déjà lointaine, le site constituait davantage un problème qu’un atout pour le vaste portefeuille d’actifs répartis aux quatre coins du monde de la société. À l’époque, la mine était inactive depuis 27 ans, et le site renfermait encore quelque cinq millions de tonnes de résidus miniers sur plus de 22 hectares. L’activité à la mine a cependant repris en 2016 lorsque Barrick a lancé un projet de 20 millions de dollars visant à remodeler et à assainir le site. À l’automne dernier, Barrick a été récompensée pour ses efforts. Le BC Technical and Research Committee on Reclamation (BC TRCR, le comité technique et de recherche de la C.-B. sur la remise en état) lui a remis le Jake McDonald Annual Mine Reclamation Award (le prix annuel Jake McDonald de remise en état des sites miniers) pour ses activités d’assainissement de sites miniers anciennement pollués par des activités minières. 70 | CIM Magazine | Vol. 15, No. 2

« Nous sommes tout simplement très fiers de ce que nous avons accompli », déclarait Allison Brown, directrice des sites canadiens fermés de Barrick et responsable du projet depuis 2016. « Il était tout particulièrement gratifiant de voir nos pairs de l’industrie et certaines de nos autorités réglementaires reconnaître tous les efforts que nous avons déployés. »

Fermée ou pas, là est la question Barrick a commencé les examens internes de ses installations de stockage des résidus en 2015 pour s’assurer qu’elles étaient conformes aux normes internes de la société en matière de gestion des résidus et de lixiviation en tas. Ces normes s’alignent sur des exigences locales, nationales et internationales, et notamment sur celles publiées par l’International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM, le conseil international des mines et métaux) et l’association canadienne des barrages (ACB). « Cette procédure d’examen a permis à Barrick de se rendre compte que l’installation de Giant Nickel, bien qu’en phase de fer-

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meture passive, n’était pas totalement conforme aux normes actuelles de la société », indiquait Mme Brown. « Cette non-conformité était simplement relative à son âge. » Le gisement Giant Nickel, initialement baptisé Pride of Emory, se trouve à environ 10 kilomètres au nord de la municipalité de Hope et a été jalonné pour la première fois il y a près d’un siècle, en 1923. Le développement souterrain a commencé en 1926 mais a été interrompu en 1938 en raison de la conjoncture défavorable. Le développement de la mine et du concentrateur a repris en 1952, et la production commerciale a commencé en 1958. Durant ses 40 ans de développement et d’exploitation sporadiques, la mine Giant Nickel (également connue sous le nom de Giant Mascot) a produit 4,3 millions de tonnes de minerai, générant 26 000 tonnes de nickel et 13 000 tonnes de cuivre. D’après les rapports d’évaluation, le minerai affichait une teneur de 0,77 % de nickel et de 0,34 % de cuivre, avec du cobalt, du platine, de l’or et de l’argent en tant que produits dérivés. Il s’agit de la seule mine de Colombie-Britannique qui produit du nickel. Les données du BC Geological Survey (le service géologique de la C.-B.) concluaient que « l’éparpillement des zones minéralisées et le fait que certaines étaient des zones aveugles ont entraîné la fermeture de la mine » en 1974.

Une seule mine, plusieurs propriétaires Durant son histoire s’étalant sur plusieurs décennies, Giant Nickel est passée entre les mains de plusieurs propriétaires. La dernière cession est intervenue en décembre 2001, lorsque Barrick a fusionné avec Homestake pour créer ce qui était, à l’époque, le plus gros producteur d’or du Canada et la seconde plus grande société d’exploitation aurifère au monde. Les principales cibles de Barrick en 2001 étaient le gisement d’Eskay Creek de Homestake dans le nord de la C.-B. et des parts des mines Williams et David Bell dans le district Hemlo, en Ontario. En Australie, Barrick est devenue propriétaire, grâce à la fusion, de la moitié de Super Pit, une mine d’or à ciel ouvert située près de Kalgoorlie, et de quelques exploitations aurifères de la région de Yilgarn, en Australie-Occidentale. La mine Giant Nickel n’était qu’un à-côté. Homestake avait commencé la mise hors service de l’infrastructure de la mine et du concentrateur en 1993, puis avait entrepris des travaux de valorisation des résidus. Pendant l’exploitation, les résidus avaient été déposés dans une vallée à la topographie relativement plane à l’ouest, à environ 300 mètres en aval de la mine. Ils avaient été répartis entre deux installations de stockage des résidus (ISR), l’ISR supérieure et l’ISR inférieure. L’ISR supérieure était conçue de manière à permettre l’écoulement de l’eau, et était recouverte d’un remblai de pierre et d’une couche arable, favorisant la végétalisation à l’aide d’espèces végétales indigènes. Cependant, Barrick a constaté une infiltration des résidus provenant de la base de la digue sud de l’ISR supérieure. Des parties de l’ISR inférieure ont aussi été recouvertes au début des années 1990, mais une grande zone ne l’a pas été et un bassin permanent d’eau s’est développé derrière la digue principale. Après l’examen de 2015, Barrick a fait appel aux sociétés d’ingénierie Knight Piésold et JDS Energy & Mining ainsi qu’à des entrepreneurs locaux pour commencer des travaux dédiés à l’amélioration de la stabilité géotechnique et de l’infrastructure de gestion de l’eau dans les ISR, puis pour l’organisation et la végétalisation des zones perturbées.

Nouvelle formule de remise en état « Au début du projet de remise en état, nous disposions de très peu d’informations concernant les propriétés géochimiques des résidus », expliquait Mme Brown. Barrick a entrepris un vaste projet de forage afin d’échantillonner et de caractériser les résidus, une exigence du Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources (MEMPR, le ministère de l’énergie, des mines et des ressources pétrolières) de la C.-B., et a constaté à cette étape qu’ils étaient « relativement inoffensifs », indiquait-elle. Si les deux ISR avaient été exposées aux éléments pendant 50 ans et étaient extrêmement oxydées, « de manière générale, elles n’étaient pas acidogènes ». L’équipe a creusé un canal de dérivation autour de l’installation, et a installé trois évacuateurs de crues d’urgence ainsi qu’un système de drain de sortie pour les digues de l’ISR supérieure. Une partie de l’eau s’écoulant du site affichait des teneurs en fer supérieures aux taux acceptables, aussi l’équipe a créé un canal de traitement passif afin d’éliminer le fer excédentaire dans l’eau d’infiltration qui s’écoulait de l’ISR supérieure. « Il s’agit en fait d’une jolie rigole méandreuse remplie de roches qui recueille l’eau s’écoulant du parc à résidus miniers et la filtre, et qui élimine le fer avant de se déverser dans le milieu récepteur », expliquait Mme Brown. En 2018 et 2019, des précipitations bien supérieures à la moyenne sur le site ont mis à l’épreuve le canal de traitement. Depuis janvier 2020, ce dernier tient et fonctionne bien, et l’eau s’écoulant du site est de bonne qualité. Comme tout le reste sur le site, mis à part quelques filtres granulaires spécialisés et des tuyaux perforés en polyéthylène à haute densité, le canal de traitement a été construit à l’aide de matériaux naturels provenant du site ou de la zone l’avoisinant. « La roche, le sable, l’argile, nous avons trouvé tout ce dont nous avions besoin pour construire les différentes structures dans un rayon de cinq kilomètres du parc à résidus miniers », expliquait Mme Brown. Durant le projet, environ 480 000 mètres cubes de matériaux rocheux ont été déplacés. Globalement, le projet visait à caractériser les matériaux sur le site, puis à stabiliser l’installation de 50 ans ainsi qu’à garantir sa conformité aux normes contemporaines de stabilité en cas de séisme. La nouvelle infrastructure de gestion de l’eau a permis de réduire la libération de polluants dans l’environnement en drainant, remodelant et construisant de nouveaux canaux d’écoulement de l’eau hors du site. Barrick a planté environ 4 000 semis d’arbres sur les zones d’emprunt et a créé un nouvel espace dédié aux utilisateurs à des fins récréatives qui leur permet d’accéder en toute sécurité au vaste réseau de sentiers entourant le site.

Renforcer les capacités de la communauté La moitié du budget dédié au projet était destinée aux entrepreneurs locaux et aux prestataires de services basés à Hope, notamment aux membres de la Première Nation de Yale. Les exploitants locaux connaissaient bien le site et les enjeux relatifs à l’accès et aux conditions climatiques, expliquait Mme Brown. Certains avaient personnellement travaillé à la mine ou des membres de leur famille y avaient travaillé. « L’un de nos principaux objectifs pour ce projet était de collaborer avec les Premières Nations afin d’identifier les nouvelles possibilités d’emploi pour les membres des Premières Nations de la région, mais aussi de les aider à développer de nouveaux March/April 2020 • Mars/Avril 2020 | 71

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débouchés commerciaux ou de soutenir les entreprises existantes », indiquait Mme Brown. Dans le respect de cet objectif et pour privilégier l’utilisation des matériaux de la région, un entrepreneur local a créé une nouvelle société qui fournissait au site une découpeuse à bois et réalisait un paillage avec les végétaux enlevés, lequel servira à la végétalisation à la fin du projet. « Les habitants de Hope nous ont beaucoup soutenus pendant tout le processus », indiquait Mme Brown.

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« Nous sommes très fiers de ce que nous avons accompli », déclarait Allison Brown, directrice des sites canadiens fermés de Barrick, qui pose ici sur le site aux côtés de son père. Si le prix attribué par le BC TRCR était une source de fierté, le plus grand tournant du projet pour Mme Brown a été atteint en novembre 2018, lorsque les travaux de terrassement ont pris fin et que la plupart des travailleurs et des machines ont quitté le site. Aujourd’hui, ce site est « agréablement silencieux », se réjouissait-elle. La végétalisation est réussie, les structures résistent et la surveillance géotechnique et de l’eau se poursuit. « Le véritable objectif pour Barrick est de progressivement se libérer, dans la mesure du possible, de ses obligations sur ce site », concluait Mme Brown. « Il s’agit d’un parc à résidus miniers, aussi il nous sera difficile de tout simplement disparaître, mais nous espérons réduire les risques à un point tel que l’abandon ou la cession en vue d’un développement futur deviendront plus probables. » ICM

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Les deux plus grandes difficultés du projet étaient de faire face aux conditions imprévues sur le site et de communiquer, dans le cas d’une utilisation parallèle des terres, avec les personnes s’intéressant à cette zone et aux environs du parc à résidus miniers. Pour faire face au premier problème, la société a adopté une association pragmatique d’études sur le site et de techniques « adaptées au terrain » fondées sur des conversations entre les membres de l’équipe. Le second était plus complexe. Barrick possède un titre minier dans cette zone, mais des exploitants forestiers mènent leurs activités dans la forêt voisine et des véhicules récréatifs (VR) et des groupes de cyclistes la visitent fréquemment et viennent régulièrement y camper. Malgré les rumeurs publiées par divers organes de presse, Barrick n’a aucunement l’intention de transformer cette zone en station de ski. « Il a été réellement difficile d’identifier les besoins et attentes de tous, et de les aligner sur nos objectifs de remise en état », expliquait Mme Brown. « Invariablement, en plein milieu du projet, un groupe d’utilisateurs des terres se présentait et nous déclarait son intérêt pour cette zone, alors que nous n’en avions absolument pas conscience. » Au final, les contributions de tous les groupes nous ont permis de parvenir à de meilleurs résultats. Des options pour le camping et un nouveau site de divertissement ont été inclus sur des terres suffisamment à l’écart de l’empreinte laissée par les ISR afin d’aider l’association locale de motos tout-terrain à atteindre une partie de ses objectifs futurs. Barrick continue par ailleurs d’échanger avec des groupes forestiers provinciaux afin de s’assurer que la végétalisation est bien conforme à leurs objectifs de gestion.

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MINING LORE Mining’s aerial pioneers

y the end of the First World War, most of southern Canada had been connected by railway. But as mining companies began to explore mineral deposits on the Canadian Shield and into the Arctic, getting food, supplies and workers through the bush proved difficult. The railway didn’t extend that far north, and the difficult terrain was tough to navigate and even more difficult to survey. That’s when bush planes and their pilots flew into the picture. The mountains, hills, endless forests and countless lakes made travelling by land nearly impossible. The de Havilland DHC Beaver was one of the aircraft suitable for bush pilots. But by outfitting small planes with floats or skis depending on the season, the endless Another legendary tale comes from 1921. The previous year, lakes became ideal airstrips for transporting materials to explo- Imperial Oil discovered oil along the Mackenzie River near Fort ration camps and cut a week-long trip through heavy bush to a Norman in the Northwest Territories. The find was too far north matter of hours. to be deemed profitable, but Imperial decided nonetheless to use Before the 1920s, most of northern Canada was uncharted. the oil there to add to its general reserves. The company decided This forced surveyors to take to the sky to map the land. to send two planes to beat the prospectors heading to the locaProspectors quickly realized the potential and began using bush tion by land. While attempting a landing, one of the plane’s skis plane pilots to transport supplies and as aerial surveyors. While and propeller were destroyed. While the crew faced the possibilit had its risks, there was good money for anyone who was will- ity that they may be stuck until the summer, engineer William ing to fly over thousands of kilometres of dense bush to remote Hill, alongside a Hudson’s Bay Company cabinetmaker named mining locations. Walter Johnson, managed to repair the plane, including the conOne of the first pilots to do so was Clennell Haggerston struction of a new propeller using wood from a sleigh and moose “Punch” Dickins. He was the first pilot to receive the Distin- hide as glue. The new propeller worked perfectly and the planes guished Flying Cross during the First World War after complet- took off and landed safely. ing 73 missions by the age of 20. He would also serve during the Beyond the impact that bush planes had on mineral developSecond World War. Dubbed by the press as “The Flying Knight of ment in Canada, they were a great boon to the people living in the Northland,” Dickins traversed over 1.6 million kilometres by mining communities. In the 1950s, the remote mining town of air over the Arctic, sometimes flying so close to the magnetic Wawa, along Lake Superior, had no roads in or out of the town. north pole that his compass became unreliable. Working as a Keith Messenger, an American who had served in the Second bush pilot between the wars, Dickins flew the first prospectors World War, established an aerial mail service between the town to Great Bear Lake – where uranium used in the Manhattan Proj- and Sault Ste. Marie 230 kilometres away. Messenger rigged his ect was found – and flew one of the first aerial surveys of Canada plane with skis to land on Wawa Lake. By the time a highway was in 1928. finally built into the town in 1960, Messenger was making five Edward Stull was another flying enthusiast and early bush round trips a day. pilot. Stull and a couple of other pilots formed Wings Ltd., a comAs Canada became connected by land over the 20th century, it pany that flew mining equipment and supplies to Arctic com- was the pilots brave enough to transport mining supplies, munities in the 1930s. Stull won a spot in the newspapers and including dynamite, across unmapped, unknown land to remote the respect of his peers when he managed to land safely despite locations that helped establish the Canadian mining industry we one damaged ski dangling uselessly from the aircraft. know today. CIM 74 | CIM Magazine | Vol. 15, No. 2

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Combines versatility with durability. This Tundra cooler comes with one dry goods basket, and will keep goods cold in sweltering weather

This ice chest is plenty roomy and can hold a limit of redfish or your prized brisket without breaking a sweat. Comes with one dry goods basket,

The bear-resistant design of the Tundra 75 cooler will protect your food, drink, or catches from burly party crashers of any stripe. Comes with one dry goods basket.

Yeti Tundra 35

Fog Gray

FITS 13 CANS

$349.99

Yeti Tundra 45

$399.99

Yeti Tundra 65

$479.99

*Set-up and run charges will be applied to all decoration on YETI products and are not included in the pricing shown above.*

Yeti Tundra 75

$599.99

YETI

Storm Grey Charcoal

Fireside Red

DAYTRIP LUNCH BAG

LOWLANDS BLANKET

Camino Carryall 35

Pack a lunch you’ll actually look forward to with the Daytrip™ Lunch Bag.

The Lowlands™ Blanket helps transform every outdoor concert, tailgate, or backcountry post-up into your personal base camp.

Designed to make any adventure’s dirty work a little easier, the Camino™ Carryall is the perfect allpurpose, here-to-there bag for any and every day.

Daytrip Lunch Bag

Lowlands Blanket

Camino Carryall 35

$99.99

$249.99

$199.99

*Set-up and run charges will be applied to all decoration on YETI products and are not included in the pricing shown above.*

THe BASICS

OUR BEST SELLERS At a price you’ll love THE BASICS

L07240 (M) / L07241 (W)

Cadet SoftSHell JAcket › 100% polyester mechanical stretch softshell bonded to brushed tricot. Breathable, wind and water resistant fabric.

Women’s

YKK front and side entry lower pockets zippers. Two inner lower pockets.

Men’s

Women’s

Black

Blue

Green

Gunmetal

Sizing: XS-4XL (M) XS-2XL (W) L07240 (M) / L07241 (W)

Navy

Red

Silver Melange

Burgundy Melange

Charcoal Melange

Midnight Melange

Men’s

41.60

L02008

L07200 (M) / L07201 (W)

› 100% polyester woven with wind resistant and

› Polyester / spandex 3-layer bonded fleece

Westgate Coaches jacket

Navigator SoftSHell JAcket

water repellent finish. Dome snap closure at front. Welt pockets. Raglan sleeve with elasticized cuff.

Black

softshell. Active stretch, breathable, wind and water resistant properties. Adjustable tab closure on cuffs. Two zippered front pockets with zippered right chest pocket.

Olive

Navy

Sizing: XS-4XL L02008

Black

33.43

Sizing: XS-4XL (M) XS-2XL (W) L07200 (M) / L07201 (W)

L02130

Crosswind LIGHTWEIGHT BOMBER JACKET › 100% nylon woven with wind resistant and water repellent finish. Mesh body lining. Rib knit collar, cuff, hem. Welt pockets with snap closure.

Navy

Sizing: S-4XL L02130

Navy

Olive

47.54

*Additional decoration charges will apply*

*Garment sizing may affect pricing*

Black

55.00

L00670 (M) / L00671 (W)

L00660 (M) / L00661 (W)

› 80% Cotton / 20% polyester ringspun cotton blended fleece full zip hoodie.

› 80% Cotton / 20% polyester ringspun cotton blended fleece pullover

Lakeview Full Zip Hoodie

Cedar Point Pull Over Hoody

Double layer hood lined with jersey. Contrast chevron tape at neck seam

hoodie. Double layer hood lined with jersey. Contrast chevron tape at neck seam.

Women’s

Black

Blue

The BASICS

BASICS ON A BUDGET Women’s

Black

Red

Navy

Grey

Burgendy Men’s Grey

Purple

Gold

Forest

Men’s

Navy

Blue

Sizing: S-4XL L00670 (M)

38.13

Sizing: XS-2XL L00671 (W)

Sizing: S-4XL L00660 (M)

38.13

34.47

Sizing: XS-2XL L00661 (W)

34.47

F2042 (M)

ATC™ ESACTIVE® Vintage 1/4 Sweatshirt

Sizing: S-4XL F2042 (M)

› 15.7-oz, 60/40 cotton/polyester fleece. Combed and ring spun cotton. Tear away label. Athletic Heather

Black Heather

Cardinal Heather

Charcoal Heather

38.24

Navy Heather

F2046 (M)

ATC™ ESACTIVE® Vintage Crewneck Sweatshirt

Sizing: S-4XL F2046 (M)

› 15.7-oz, 60/40 cotton/polyester fleece. Combed and ring spun cotton. Tear away label. Navy Heather

Charcoal Heather

Athletic Heather

Cardinal Heather

26.07

Black Heather

F2044 (M)

ATC™ ESACTIVE® Vintage Two Tone Hooded Sweatshirt

Sizing: S-4XL F2044 (M)

› 5.7-oz, 60/40 cotton/polyester fleece. Combed and ring spun cotton. Jersey lined hood with contrast drawstring. Black Hth / Charcoal Hth

Cardinal Hth / Charcoal Hth

Forest Hth / Charcoal Hth

*Additional decoration charges will apply*

38.24

Navy Hth / Charcoal Hth

*Garment sizing may affect pricing*

THe BASICS

64000 / 64000L

Softstyle T-shirt

› 100% ring-spun cotton, preshrunk jersey knit 7.5 oz

Charcoal

Lime

Iris

Azalea

White

Natural

Navy

Black

Orange

Sand

Red

Cardinal Red

Royal Blue

Mint Green

Jade Dome

Metro Blue

Indigo Blue

Purple

Maroon

Sport Grey

Daisy

Dark Chocolate

Military Green

Dark Heather

Carolina Blue

Irish Green

Heather Cardinal

Heather Navy

Heather Indigo

Kiwi

Cherry Red

Ht Irish Green

Heather Sapphire

Heather Royal

Ht Military Green

Heather Purple

Heather Red

Antique Heliconia

Antique Sapphire

Coral Silk

Heather Orange

Berry

Graphite Heather

Tropical Blue

Sizing: S-3XL 64000 / 64000L

ATC8004 (M) / ATC8004L (W)

Ring spun Tank

› 6.8-oz, 100% combed and ring spun cotton › Ultra soft 30 single jersey › Tear away label White

Black

Charcoal Heather

Lime Shock

True Red

Wild Raspberry Sapphire

True Royal Athletic Grey

Sizing: XS-4XL ATC8004 (M) / ATC8004L (W)

10.42

8000

Adult T-shirt Dryblend › 50% Cotton, 50% polyester preshrunk dry blend moisture wicking fabric 9.4 oz

Jade Dome

Sand

Ash Grey

Black

Red

Daisy

Ft Green

Sapphire

Royal

Navy

White

Orange

Purple

Lt Blue

Maroon

Dk Grey

Elec Green

Heather Scarlet

Sport Grey

Heather Royal

Sizing: S-4XL 8000

4.85

*Additional decoration charges will apply*

*Garment sizing may affect pricing*

Gold

4.85

The BASICS

88181 (M) / 78181 (W)

Core 365 Origin Performance Piqué Polo

› 100% Polyester pique fabric › Moisture wicking, antimicrobial material with UV protection performance

Campus Purple

Burgundy

True Royal

Campus Gold

Platinum

Forest

Black

Classic Red

Acid Green

White

Electric Blue

Safety Yellow

Carbon

Campus Orange

Classic Navy

Charity Pink

Sizing: S-5XL (M) / XS-3XL (W) 88181 (M) / 78181 (W)

15.58

SHORT SLEEVE tees & sleeveless tee

› 6.3-oz, 100% polyester jersey with wicking technology. No Bleed

Fabric (NBF) created with a unique cationic dye process for easy printing Side seamed

Sizing: XS-4XL S350 (M) / L350 (W) S3527 (M) / L3527 (W) L3520 (W)

$ 8.68 10.42 $ 10.42 $

*Ask for colours available in your preferred style.

Adult XS-4XL S350

White

Forest Green

Black

Extreme Orange

Silver

Coal Grey

Extreme Yellow

Women’s XS-4XL L350

True Royal

Deep Orange

Carolina Blue

Gold

True Red

Women’s XS-4XL L3520

Purple

True Navy

Maroon

*Additional decoration charges will apply*

Adult XS-4XL S3527

Kelly Green

Wild Raspberry

Women’s XS-4XL L3527

Lime Shock

Extreme Pink

Light Pink

*Garment sizing may affect pricing*

THe BASICS

18500

Heavy Blend Hooded Sweatshirt › 50% cotton, 50% polyester, preshrunk | 13.5 oz

Heather Scarlet

Ht Sport Maroon

Ht Sport Navy

Ht Sport Green

Ht Sport Royal

Graphite Heather

Safety Pink

Antique Sapphire

Ant Cherry Red

Cherry Red

Safety Orange

Safety Green

Kiwi

Irish Green

Carolina Blue

Dark Heather

Military Green

Dark Chocolate

Sport Grey

Ash Grey

Maroon

Purple

Indigo Blue

Light Blue

Royal

Charcoal

Red

Sand

Orange

Black

Forest Green

Navy

White

Sizing: S - 5XL *In select colours 18500 Sapphire

Gold

Light Pink

Cardinal Red

18600

› 50% cotton, 50% polyester, preshrunk fleece knit, 13.5 oz

23.87

Navy

Forest Green

Black

Maroon

Safety Green

Carolina Blue

Sport Grey

Red

Royal

Purple

Dark Chocolate

Dark Heather

Safety Orange

Graphite Heather

Irish Green

Heavy Blend crewneck Sweatshirt

› 50% cotton, 50% polyester, preshrunk | 13.5 oz

Light Pink

Gold

Sapphire

White

Navy

Forest Green

Black

Orange

Sand

Charcoal

Safety Pink

Ht Sport Maroon

Ht Sport Scarlet

Royal

Light Blue

Indigo Blue

Purple

Maroon

Ash Grey

Sport Grey

Dark Chocolate

Graphite Heather

Ht Sport Green

Ht Sport Navy

Dark Heather

Carolina Blue

Irish Green

Safety Green

Safety Orange

Cherry Red

Antique Cherry Red

Antique Sapphire

Ht Sport Royal

Sizing: S - 5XL *In select colours 13.00

*Additional decoration charges will apply*

White

18000

20.22

Sizing: S - 5XL *In select colours

Full Zip Hooded Sweatshirt

18000

Heliconia

*Garment sizing may affect pricing*

HEADWEAR

› Front: 65% polyester, 35% cotton › 6 panels Structured › Back: 100% polyester mesh › 3 1⁄2” crown › Mid profile › Permacurv® visor

Black

Blk / Char

Blk / Gold

Blk / White

Blk / Wh / Gr

Brw / Khaki

Drk Grn / Wht

Char / Red

Gry Char / Blk

Hthr Gry / Blk

Char / Ryl

Hth Gry / Dk Grn

Kha / Wht

Mrn / Wht

Purp / Wht

Nvy / Nvy

Rd / Blk

Nvy / Wht

Sizing: Min Qty: RC112

Char/ Blk

O/S 12

10.24

Char / Neon Bl

Char / Neon Or

Char / Neon Pk

Char / Neon Ylw

Hth Gry / Wht

Hth Gry / Ryl

Char / Wht

Hth Gry / Nvy

Dk Grn / Wht / Gry

Rd / Wht

Nvy / Wht / Gry

Rd / Wht / Gry

Ryl / Wht

Ryl/Wht/ Gry

HEADWEAR

RC112

Richardson Trucker Snapback

Green/White

FP431

› 6 Panel Constructed Pro-Round › Deluxe buckram laminated front panels with Pro-Stitch › Plastic adjustable back strap

Bern

Mango/Navy

YU6789M

Premium Curved Visor Snapback

Sizing: Min Qty: FP431

O/S 12

4.92

Black/Tangerine

Black/Red

White/Black

Black/White

Black/Black

Graphite/Black

Black/Grey

Orange/Black

Navy/White

Navy/Navy

Navy/Light Blue

Navy/Mango

Burgundy/Black

Royal/White

Khaki/Black

Stone/Black

Stone/Navy

Stone/Royal

Grey/Black

Mango/Navy

Bamboo Green/ White

Blueberry/ Navy

› 80% acrylic, 20% wool › Mid-profile › 6 panels › Structured

› Permacurv® visor › Matching undervisor › 8 rows of stitching on visor › Snapback closure

Sizing: Min Qty: YU6789M

O/S 12

11.27

Dark Grey

Heather Grey

Maroon

Navy

Black

Red

Royal

White

Maroon

*Additional decoration charges will apply*

HEADWEAR

FF6597

Cool & Dry Sport › Features: 100 % polyester › Structured, mid-profile, 3 1/2”crown, six panel, moisture wicking.

› Permacurv visor › Sizes: S/M 6 3/4’’ - 7 1/4”, L/XL 7 1/8’’ - 7 5/8’’ Royal

Sizing: Min Qty: FF6597

White

Grey

Red

Black

Navy

Royal

SM, L/XL 12

14.36

FF110C

Cool & Dry Pro-formance

› 97% Polyester/3% Spandex › Structured, mid-profi le, 3½” crown › Six-panel,Permacurve® visor › Moisture-wicking › Pioneered FLEXFIT technology › Velcro® closure White

Sizing: Min Qty: FF110C

Royal

White

Grey

Red

Navy

Black/Red

Black/Grey

Black

O/S 12 $

14.98

8G017M

Cotton Drill / Nylon Mesh › 6 Panel Constructed Pro-Round (Urban Camo, Mesh Back)

› Deluxe buckram laminated front panels with Pro-Stitch

BL/BL

BL/SL

CH/BL

CH/SL

NV/NV

NV/SL

› Slightly-curved peak with 8 rows of stitching

› Plastic adjustable back strap BL/BL

Sizing: Min Qty: 8G017M

O/S 12

7.50

FF6511

Trucker Mesh › 55% Polyester, 43% Cotton, 2% Spandex › Front, 100% Polyester Mesh Back Structured. Low-Profile, 6 Panel.

› Permacurv® Visor. Fitted. › One Size 6 7/8”- 7 1/2” Charcoal / White

Sizing: Min Qty: FF6511

O/S 12

Black/White

White/Navy

Red

White/Black

Navy/White

Royal/White

Royal/Navy

Red/White

Navy

Black

Charcoal

9.70

8F010M

Deluxe Chino Twill › 6 Panel Constructed Pro-Round › Deluxe buckram laminated front

BR/BR/TN

CH/CH/BL

GL/BL/BL

panels with Pro-Stitch

› Plastic adjustable back strap

KG/BL/BL

*Additional decoration charges will apply*

Sizing: Min Qty: 8F010M

O/S

NV/CH/CH

O/BL/BL

PU/BL/BL

RD/BL/BL

RY/BL/BL

BL/BL/CH

BL/CH/CH

KG/BL/BL

7.20

Flat Bill Snapback

Navy

Camo

Orange

Natural

› Flat Visor › Snapback Closure

Sizing: Min Qty: YU6089M

Green Undervisor

Spruce Green

Royal

Natural / Black

Silver

Maroon

Red

Hth / Ryl

O/S 12 $

Purple

Hth / Blk

Hth / Rd

10.44

HEADWEAR

› 80% acrylic, 20% wool › High-profile › Multicam colours: 98% cotton, 2% spandex › 6 panels › Structured › 3 3/4” Crown

YU6089M

Navy / Red

Hth / Prpl

Heather Grey Dark Grey

Dark Navy

› Front: 65% polyester, 35% cotton › Back: 100% polyester mesh › Mid profile

YU6606

Retro Trucker CaP

Hth / Nvy

Drk Hth

Black / Red

Blk / Silv

› 6 panels Structured › 3 1⁄2” crown › Permacurv® visor

Blk / Prpl

Black

Sizing: Min Qty: YU6606

O/S 12 $

7.99

Char/Char

Brown/Khaki

Khaki

Moss/Khaki

Navy

Navy/White

Black/White

Char/Black

Orange/Khaki

Pink

Red

White

Moss/Khaki

Char/White

Green Camo

Multi Black

› 63% Polyester / 34% Cotton / 3% Spandex › Mid-Profile 6 Panel Permacurv Visor › Structured › Fitted › Silver Undervisor › XL/XXL only available in select colors › Sewn Eyelets

FF6277

Cotton Blend Cap

Olive

Navy

Grey

FF6196

Silver

Grey

Spruce

Stone

Khaki

Purple

Black

Carolina Blue

Sizing: Min Qty: FF6277

Multi Alp/White

S/M, L/XL, XL/XXL 12

12.84

Maroon

White

Gold

Red

Pink

Dark Grey

Orange

Royal

Dark Navy

3C120M

Glen Check

Black/White

› 97% polyester, 3% spandex

Canvas-Bush Style

Black

› Cotton storage pocket

Mid-profile, 6 panels

underneath crown top

› Structured 3 1/2” crown › Sewn eyelets › Permacurv® visor › Solid undervisor Sizing: Min Qty: FF6196

Multi Green

› 10 Rows of stitching on brim › Metal eyelets & snaps on crown sides

› Elastic adjustable sweatband

S/M, L/XL 12

15.23

Brown/Khaki

Sizing: Min Qty: 3C120M

S/M, L/XL 12

13.20

Natural

Navy

Forest Green

*Additional decoration charges will apply*

HEADWEAR

Unique 3D puff embroidery

Custom hardware

LOGO

Step One Come in to our showroom or call to get started! Our expert sales reps and knowledgable art department will get you started on creating unique designs to help you stand out!

Step Two

Embroider anywhere

Don’t have any ideas? No problem, let us help!

Customize the back strap

After an initial design is established, now it’s time to experiment! With endless color and fabric options, you can easily create an eye catching design that is unique to your company. Don’t worry about the final decision yet, we will get samples made to make sure you’re 100% happy.

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CUSTOM HATS Today!

Custom peak decoration

BCP

*Find more styles online. Logo placemet is limited to right side only*

Black Clover™ Premium Clover BCP02

BCP06

BCP09

BCP15

BCP22

BCP31

BCP09

BCP51

BCP58

BCP70

BCP75

BCP81

BCP82

BCP88

BCP91

BCP93

BCP70

› 100% Players Performance Wick › Sweat Band Lining › Premium Stretch A-Flex Fitting 21

*Additional decoration charges will apply*

› Low Profile, Structured Cap › Black Clover logos appear on

the front, back and left panels. Right panel blank.

Sizing: Min Qty: BCP

S/M, L/XL 12

39.99

Adidas

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ADIDAS

› Pre-curved brim › Six-panel construction

TOUR HAT

GOLF TOUR HAT

› UPF 50+ UV protection › 100% polyester ripstop

Navy Blue/White

Black/White

Sizing: S/M, L/XL TOUR HAT

35.00

Grey Three/White

White/Black

GOLF PE HAT CR

GOLF PERFORMANCE CRESTABLE HAT

Royal Blue

GOLF PRINT H CR

GOLF DIGITAL PRINT CRESTABLE HAT

Grey Two

› Pre-curved brim › Six-panel construction › UPF 50+ UV protection › 100% polyester dobby

Black

› Stretchy hook-and-loop adjustable back strap

› Tonal right side badge of sport

Grey Three

› Pre-curved brim › Six-panel construction › UPF 50+ UV protection

Black

White

› 100% polyester ripstop › Tonal right side badge of sport

Sizing: O/S GOLF PE HAT CR

College Red

20.00

Navy Blue

Sizing: O/S GOLF PRINT H CR

30.00

Collegiate Navy

*Additional decoration charges will apply*

*Garment sizing may affect pricing*

GOLF GYM BAG

Adidas

Golf Gym Bag › Draw cord closure › Webbing carry handle › 100% polyester oxford › Bottom part: 100% recycled polyester plain weave

Dimensions: 14.5” x 18.5” Volume: 2L

Black

GOLF GYM BAG

20.00

GOLF SHOE BAG

Golf Shoe Bag › Zip closure › Front zip pocket › Carry loop on top › 100% polyester oxford › Front pocket: 100% recycled polyester plain weave

Dimensions: 14” x 4.75” x 8” Volume: 8.5L GOLF SHOE BAG

30.00

Grey Five Melange

GOLF COOLER BAG

Golf Cooler Bag

huge savings

› Ower front and back panel › Zip closure › Silver lining material › Crossbody carry strap › 100% recycled polyester plain weave

For your 2020 golf tournament

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Dimensions: 8” x 7.5” x 11.5” Volume: 11L

Black

GOLF COOLER BAG

30.00

GOLF DUFFLE BAG

GOLF MEDIUM BP

› Adjustable shoulder strap with

› Front zip pocket › Side zip pockets › Padded laptop sleeve › Adjustable shoulder straps with

Golf Duffle Bag

Golf Medium Backpack

movable pad

› Dual carry handles with grip › Two-way zip › Side zip pocket › Slip-in mesh pocket › 100% recycled polyester

chest strap

› Air mesh back › 100% recycled polyester plain weave

plain weave

Black

Dimensions: 11” x 1” Volume: 41L GOLF DUFFLE BAG

Dimensions: 19.5” x 8.5” x 13.5” Volume: 36L GOLF MEDIUM BP

70.00

70.00 Black

GLF TRAVEL BAG

GOLF PREM BP

› Bottom wheels › Front zip pocket › Top and side carry handles › Telescoping pull handle › Casters on bottom › 100% recycled polyester plain weave › Front panel: 100% polyester oxford

› Front zip pocket › Side zip pockets › Padded laptop sleeve › Adjustable shoulder straps

Dimensions: 20” x 8” x 14

Dimensions: 18.75” x 7” x 12.5”

Golf Rolling Travel Bag

Golf Premium Backpack

with chest strap

› Air mesh back › 100% recycled polyester plain weave

Volume: 36L GLF TRAVEL BAG 23

Volume: 26L $

200.00

*Additional decoration charges will apply*

Black

*Garment sizing may affect pricing*

GOLF PREM BP

100.00

Black

ADI PERF POLO (M) / TRNMNT SS P (W)

Adidas

Adidas Performance Polo

› Lightweight moisture-wicking fabric. UPF 50+ UV protection › 3-button polo with ribbed collar Sizing: S - 3XL

Sizing: XS - 2XL

ADI PERF POLO (M)

55.00

TRNMNT SS P (W)

55.00

Black CY5953

Grey CD3331

White CD3321

Navy CF9353

Royal CF9353

Red CD9358

Orange CF9349

Green CF9351

Black CD3416

Grey CY9115

White CD3998

Navy CD3415

Royal CD3413

Red CD3412

Orange CD3410

Green CD3418

3-STRIPE BASIC

Men's 3-Stripe Basic Polo › Regular fit is wider at the body, › with a straight silhouette › Three-button polo collar › UPF 50+ UV protection › Brand mark on nape of the neck › 100% recycled polyester piqué

White/Black

Glory Blue/Grey Two

Grey Three/Black

Real Coral/Black

Sizing: S - 3XL 3-STRIPE BASIC

65.00

Black/White

Collegiate Navy/White

W NVLTY SS P

Women's Microdot Short Sleeve Polo

Collegiate Red

› Regular fit is wider at the body, with a straight silhouette

› Five-button polo with self-fabric collar › Light weight moisture wicking fabric › All-over microdot print › UPF 50+ UV protection › Curved hem › Brand mark on lower right hem › 76% recycled polyester / 13% polyester / 11% elastane single jersey

White

Sizing: XS - 2XL W NVLTY SS P

Black/White

65.00

Collegiate Royal

Night Indigo/ White

Mgh Solid Grey

*Additional decoration charges will apply*

*Garment sizing may affect pricing*

A402 M STRTDPOL (M) / A403 W STRTDPOL (W)

Adidas

Lifestyle Polo

› Recycled polyester with striated heather › Self collar with three button placket › Open hem sleeve and bottom hem › Brand mark on right sleeve › 100% recycled polyester › Corporate exclusive

Men’s

Sizing: S - 3XL A402 M STRTDPOL (M)

60.00

Women’s

Sizing: XS - 2XL A403 W STRTDPOL (W)

Lucky Blue

Collegiate Navy

ADI SOFTSHELL

Black Heather

GOTO FL ZP JKT

Men's Go-To Full Zip Jacket

Women's Go-To Full Zip Jacket

› Regular fit is wider at the body,

› Athletic fit is wide at the chest and

› Water resistant fabric with fleece

› Stand-up collar › Water resistant fabric with fleece

with a straight silhouette

snug in the body and sleeves

lined shell

› Stand-up collar › Front zip pockets, full zip › Brand mark on left sleeve › 100% polyester doubleknit

lined shell

› Long sleeves with telescoping cuffs › Full zip, on-seam zip pockets, internal headphone pocket, thumbholes

› Shaped elbows, droptail hem › Brand mark on left sleeve › 100% polyester doubleknit Collegiate Navy

Black

Sizing: S - 2XL GO-TO JACKET

Mgh Solid Grey

Sky Tint/ Tech Indigo

Sizing: XS - 2XL GOTO FL ZP JKT

115.00

110.00

W CLMSTRM JKT

Women's Climastorm® Jacket › Wind and water resistant body fabric › Critically seam sealed › Full zip construction with three-piece hood

› Brand mark on right hem › 100% polyester

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Black

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*Additional decoration charges will apply*

Sizing: XS - XL W CLMSTRM JKT *Garment sizing may affect pricing*

130.00

Black/ Mgh Solid Grey

A450 M LTWTHOOD (M) / A450 M LTWHOOD (W)

› Lightweight cotton blend hoodie

Adidas

Lifestyle Hoodie

Men’s

with drawstring

› Open hem sleeves and bottom cuff › Contrast 3-stripes on right body › Two front pockets › Brand mark on left sleeve › 95% cotton / 5% elastane Women’s

Sizing: S - 3XL A450 M LTWTHOOD (M)

75.00

Sizing: XS - 2XL A450 M LTWHOOD (W)

Tech Indigo

75.00

Black

Glory Blue

MDWT FZ

RVSBL FULL ZP J

Men’s Midweight Full Zip Textured Jacket

Women’s Reversible Full Zip Jacket

› Regular fit is wider at the body,

› Regular fit is wider at the body, with

› Ribbed stand-up collar › Slight droptail hem › Colourblocked › Front pockets, full zip › Brand mark on right sleeve › 67% recycled polyester / 33%

› Front pockets, full zip, thumbholes,

with a straight silhouette

Mgh Solid Grey

Tech Indigo

a straight silhouette cuffed hem

› Stand-up collar › Reversible › Long sleeves with cuffs › Brand mark on lower right hem › 74% cotton / 26% polyester spacer

polyester doubleknit

Grey Three/Grey Two/Grey Six/Black

Sizing: S - 2XL MDWT FZ

95.00

Trace Royal/ Grey Three/ Collegiate Navy/ Grey Three

Collegiate Navy/ Grey Three/ Grey Three/ Grey Two

Sizing: XS - 2XL RVSBL FULL ZP J

Metal Grey

Black

95.00

ADI SOFTSHELL

Men’s Softshell Jacket › Regular fit is wider at the body, with a straight silhouette

› Long sleeves with partially ribbed cuffs › Stand-up collar › Front zip pockets, full zip, bungee drawcord on hem

› PFC-free water-repellent finish › Brand mark on left sleeve › 93% recycled polyester / 7% elastane dobby Sizing: S - 2XL ADI SOFTSHELL

100.00

Black

Grey Three

*Additional decoration charges will apply*

Collegiate Navy

*Garment sizing may affect pricing*

NIKE

BV9219

› 91% recycled polyester, 9% spandex. Dri-FIT. Standard fit. › Premium Polo Performance. Crafted from soft, stretchy

TIGER WOODS BLADE POLO

fabric. Pearlized buttons on the placket, a silver ingot on the left sleeve and the TW logo on the back of the neck add a premium finish. Rolled-back shoulder seams and hem vents.

Gym Red

BV9219

Sizing: S - 2XL BV9219 Black

White

Blue Void

BV0356

Nike Victory Polo

NEW STYLE

› 100% recycled polyester. Dri-FIT technology. Standard fit. › Swoosh on left sleeve. Double-knit fabric with soft feel and piqué texture. Shoulder seams rolled forward and collar ribbed to help prevent curling. 2-button placket.

Gridiron

Black

Sky Grey

White

Classic Green

University Red

Sizing: S - 3XL BV0356 University Blue

College Navy

Game Royal

Court Purple

54.43

Team Maroon

BV0217

Nike LADIES VICTORY POLO

NEW STYLE

› 100% recycled polyester. Dri-FIT technology. Standard fit. › Swoosh on bottom left. Lightweight and breathable. Subtle stripes

on the collar put a sporty spin on this on-course favourite. 3-button placket and hem vents. Updated material with more stretch. More lightweight and breathable than previous versions. Court Purple

Black

White

University Blue

College Navy

Game Royal

University Red

Sizing: XS - 2XL BV0217

*Additional decoration charges will apply*

*Garment sizing may affect pricing*

54.24

89.71

NIKE

CI7903

› 100% recycled polyester. Dri-FIT technology. Standard fit. › Swoosh on left chest. Double-knit fabric with soft feel and piqué texture.

› 87% polyester, 13% spandex. Dri-FIT. Standard fit. › Swoosh on left sleeve. Stretchy jersey fabric and rolled-forward shoulder

NIKE BLADE VICTORY POLO

Shoulder seams rolled forward and blade collar. 2-button placket.

Black

White

Blue Void

Sky Grey

NIKE STRIPED GOLF POLO

seams. Vent at the back. Hem vent and collar ribbed. 2-button placket.

Blue Void

Black

Sizing: S - 2XL

Pure Platinum

CI7903

54.43

66.98

BV0398

BV0227

› 100% polyester. Dri-FIT technology. Standard fit. › Swoosh on left sleeve. Soft and lightweight midlayer.

› 100% polyester. Dri-FIT technology. Standard fit. › Swooch on left sleeve. Soft, stretchy knit fabric. Ring pull

VICTORY HALF-ZIP GOLF TOP

NIKE LADIES BLADE POLO

Elastic cuffs. 1/2 zipper with a cover that blocks out the cold.

zippered placket and blade collar. Hem vents.

Gridiron

Team Crimson

Game Royal

College Navy

Pink Quartz

Sizing: S - 2XL

BV6235

Black

University Red

Black

Sky Grey

Sizing: S - 3XL

White

Blue Void

Sizing: XS - XL

BV0398

BV0227

70.33

66.98

BV0223

BV0261

› 100% recycled polyester. Dri-FIT. Standard fit. › Swoosh on bottom left. Subtle stripes on the collar. 3-button placket

› 96% polyester, 4% spandex. Dri-FIT technology. Standard fit. › Swoosh on left sleeve. Side pockets and hem vents. Textured zipper

LADIES SLEEVELESS VICTORY POLO

and hem vents. Made with sweat-wicking fabric. Updated material with more stretch. More lightweight and breathable than previous versions.

Black

LADIES FULL ZIP GOLF JACKET pull. UV protection up to 40 UPF.

Black

White

Sizing: XS - XL BV0223

NIKE

BV6235

66.98

Blue Void

Barely Grape

*Additional decoration charges will apply*

White

Sizing: XS - XL BV0261

92.11

*Garment sizing may affect pricing*

UNDER ARMOUR

1300131 (M) / 1300132 (W)

1276312 (Men’s) / 1276355 (Women’s)

› 100% Polyester › UA tech™ fabric is quick-drying, ultra-soft, and has a more natural feel › Moisture Transport System wicks sweat and dries fast

› 100% Polyester; soft & durable circular knit with brushed interior › Reflective quarter-zip for visibility during after-hours training

UA Tech Quarter-Zip

Sizing: S-4XL

Sizing: XS-2XL

1300131 (M)

Mid Nvy / White

UA Qualifier Quarter-Zip

49.98

Royal / White

Sizing: S-4XL

1300132 (W)

Black / White

Graph / White

49.98

White / Graph

Sizing: XS-2XL

1276312 (M)

Midnight Navy

64.98

Royal

1276355 (W)

Graphite

Black

Red

1295286 (M) / 1295300 (W)

1259102 (M) / 1300184 (W)

› 100% Polyester › Armour Fleece® is light, breathable & stretches for superior mobility › UA Storm® technology repels water without sacrificing breathability

› 100% polyester › Bonded two-layer soft shell material with a warm brushed inner layer

UA Double Threat Armour Fleece® Hoodie

UA Armour Ultimate Soft shell Jacket

Red Crn Hth / Steel

Black / Steel

Sizing: S-4XL 1295286 (M)

64.98

Tr Gr Ht / Steel

Mid Nv / Steel

Sizing: XS-2XL $

64.98

1295300 (W)

*Additional decoration charges will apply*

Midnight Navy

Graphite

Sizing: S-4XL $

64.98

*Garment sizing may affect pricing*

1259102 (M)

Royal

White

Black

Sizing: XS-2XL 114.99

1300184 (W)

114.99

UNDER ARMOUR

Tropic Pink

1261172 (M) / 1317218 (W)

1348082 (M) / 1348083 (W)

› Performance fit; 95% polyester, 5% elastane with 4-way stretch › 30+ UPF protects your skin from the sun’s harmful rays

› 95% Polyester, 5% Elastane › Smooth, anti-pick, anti-pill fabric for a more comfortable, snag-free finish › Moisture Transport System wicks sweat and dries fast

UA Corp Performance Polo

Sizing: S-4XL

Sizing: XS-2XL

1261172 (M)

Sizing: S-4XL

1317218 (W)

59.98

Black

Graphite

Royal

White

Sizing: XS-2XL

1348082 (M)

69.98

Artillery Green Red

Custom Corporate Colorblock Polo Shirt

1348083 (W)

65.00

True Gray Heather

Midnight Navy

Mid Nvy / White

1342657

Royal / White

Black / White

Graph / White

White / Graph

Sizing: O/S

UA Undeniable 4.0 Medium Duffle

1342657

› UA Storm technology is highly water-resistant › Tough, abrasion-resistant bottom & side panels › 2 large front zippered organization pockets › Removable, padded, HeatGear® shoulder strap for

55.00 Royal

Pitch Grey

total comfort

› Padded top grab handle

Graphite

1259095

Men’s Ultimate Short Sleeve Buttondown

› 100% Polyester, perforated AirVent fabric › Moisture wicking › Front chest zip pocket

Red

Black

Academy

1325822

Color Blocked Airvent Cap Midnight Navy / White

Sizing: M/L, L/XL 1325822

25.00

Graphite / White

Graphite

1282140

Royal / White

Black

Black / White

CHINO RELAXED TEAM CAP Sizing: M/L, L/XL 1282140

White

25.00

Midnight Navy

Sizing: S-4XL 1259095

74.98

White / Graphite

Desert Sand / White

Graphite / White

*Additional decoration charges will apply*

Black / White

Midnight Navy / White

Red / White

*Garment sizing may affect pricing*

STORMTECH

active print polos Black/Bright Red Black/Kiwi

NXT-1 (M) / NXT-1W (W)

Wavelength Polo

COLOURS:

› STORMTECH H2X-DRY® Moisture Management

› Snag Resistant Fabric › UPF Rating 30+

Black/Electric Blue Black/Titanium

Sizing: S - 3XL

Sizing: XS - 2XL

NXT-1 (M)

37.50

NXT-1W (W)

37.50

RFP-1 (M) / RFP-1W (W)

Silverback H2X-DRY® Polo

› STORMTECH H2X-DRY® Moisture Management

› Snag Resistant Fabric › UPF Rating 50+ › 3-Button Placket COLOURS:

Black/Black Heather

Azure Blue/Black Heather

Sizing: S - 3XL RFP-1 (M)

Bright Red/Black Heather

33.75

Sizing: XS - 2XL RFP-1 (W)

Bright Red

33.75

TM-1 (M) / TM-1W (W)

Azure Blue

Equinox performance Polo

DXP-1 (M) / DXP-1W (W)

› STORMTECH H2X-DRY® Moisture

› STORMTECH H2X-DRY®

› Snag Resistant Fabric › UPF Rating 50+ › 3-Button Placket

Reflex Polo › ›

Management

› Classic 3-Button Placket › Hem Side Slits › Collar Stand

Moisture Management Snag Resistant Fabric UPF Rating 30+

COLOURS:

Carbon/Black Bright Red/Black Dolphin

TM-1 (M)

Kiwi

Sizing: S - 3XL DXP-1 (M)

Sizing: S - 3XL Sizing: XS - 2XL

Sizing: XS - 2XL 37.50 DXP-1W (W)

*Additional decoration charges will apply*

33.75

37.50

Azure Blue/Black

TM-1 (W)

33.75

STORMTECH

urban lifestyle polos SPL-1 (M) / SPL-1W (W)

Mistral Heathered Polo A double pique heathered polo with a combination shoulder that allows for unrestricted motion. H2X-DRY® technology wicks moisture away from the skin while the women’s offers an open-v buttonless placket and princess seams.

COLOURS:

Earth Violet Charcoal Heather

Ocean

Dolphin

Titanium

Sizing: S - 3XL

Sizing: XS - 2XL

SPL-1 (M)

33.75

Carbon Heather

SPL-1W (W)

33.75

Carbon Heather Cool Silver Heather

Navy Heather

PR-1 (M) / PR-1W (W)

TXR-1 (M) / TXR-1W (W)

Mirage Polo

› STORMTECH H2X-DRY® Moisture › › › ›

Management Snag Resistant Fabric UPF Rating 40+ Classic 3-Button Placket (M’s) Open-V 3-Button Placket (W’s)

Sizing: S - 3XL TXR-1 (M)

› Hem Side Slits › Collar Stand › Self-Fabric Collar › Mechanical Stretch › Gradient Sublimated Print on Front Sizing: XS - 2XL

45.00

TXR-1W (W)

Thresher Performance Polo

› STORMTECH H2X-DRY® Moisture › › ›

Management Snag Resistant Fabric UPF Rating 40+ Classic 3-Button Placket (M’s)

Sizing: S - 3XL 45.00

PR-1 (M)

› Open-V 3-Button Placket (W’s) › Side Slit Hem › Set-in Sleeves › 1x1 Rib Knit Collar and Cuff › Mechanical Stretch

Sizing: XS - 2XL 33.75

PR-1W (W)

33.75

*Additional decoration charges will apply*

STORMTECH

essential polos XP-1 (M) / XP-1W (W)

Inertia Sport Polo Look cool under the collar in this true style staple. Its self-fabric collar is designed to maintain its shape even after washing, while the snag resistant fabric offers seamless mechanical stretch and UPF protection. High contrast piping at the collar and shoulder enhances the look of sophisticated quality and taste.

Sizing: S - 3XL XP-1 (M)

30.00 Kelly Green/Black

Sizing: XS - 2XL XP-1W (W)

Royal/Black

30.00

COLOURS:

Black/Graphite Navy/Graphite

Jewel Green

Scarlet/Black

Lilac/Black

Orange Violet

White

CPX-1 (M) / CPX-1W (W)

PS-1 (M) / PS-1W (W)

Omega Cotton Polo

› UPF Rating 50+ › Rib Knit Collar and Sleeve Cuff › Partial Collar Stand › Classic 3-Button Placket (M’s)

› Open-V 2-Button Placket (W’s) › Hem Side Slits

COLOURS:

Ocean

Sizing: S - 3XL

Apollo H2X-DRY® Polo

› STORMTECH H2X-DRY® Moisture Management › Self-Fabric Collar › Snag Resistant Fabric › Mechanical Stretch › UPF Rating 40+ › Double Needle Stitching at Cuff and Hem › 3-Button Placket COLOURS:

Black

CPX-1 (M)

white/Black

Bright Red

White

Sizing: XS - 2XL 26.25

CPX-1W (W)

*Additional decoration charges will apply*

Black

Graphite Navy

Royal

Forest Kelly Green Scarlet

Sizing: S - 3XL 26.25

PS-1 (M)

Lilac

Sundance

Sizing: XS - 2XL $

22.50

PS-1W (W)

22.50

STORMTECH Azure Blue

Black

Cool Silver

PGL-1 (M) / PGL-1W (W)

PG-1 (M) / PG-1W (W)

ECLIPSE H2X-DRY® PIQUE POLO

› STORMTECH H2X-DRY® Moisture › ›

ECLIPSE H2X-DRY® PIQUE L/S POLO

› 3-Button Placket › 1x1 Rib Knit Collar › Mechanical Stretch

Management Snag Resistant Fabric UPF Rating 40+

› STORMTECH H2X-DRY® Moisture › ›

COLOURS:

Carbon

Navy

Sizing: S - 3XL

Bright Red

Kiwi

White

Sizing: XS - 2XL

PG-1 (M)

› 1x1 Rib Knit Collar › 3-Button Placket › Mechanical Stretch

PGT-1 (M) / PGT-1W (W)

Carbon

Sizing: S - 3XL

PG-1W (W)

18.75

Bright Red

18.75

22.50

Carbon

PGT-2 (M) / PGT-2W (W)

› Crew Neck with Self Fabric Collar › Mechanical Stretch

Management Snag Resistant Fabric UPF Rating 40+

PGL-1W (W)

22.50

White

› STORMTECH H2X-DRY® Moisture

Sizing: XS - 2XL

PGL-1 (M)

White

Eclipse H2X-DRY Pique Tee

COLOURS:

Eclipse H2X-DRY® Pique L/S Tee

› STORMTECH H2X-DRY® Moisture › ›

Management Snag Resistant Fabric UPF Rating 40+

› Self-Fabric Crew Neck Collar & Cuff › Mechanical Stretch

COLOURS:

Black

Carbon

Sizing: S - 3XL PGT-1 (M)

Management Snag Resistant Fabric UPF Rating 40+

COLOURS:

Black

› ›

Navy

Azure Blue

Kiwi

White

Sizing: XS - 2XL 15.00

PGT-1W (W)

Black

Sizing: S - 3XL 15.00

PGT-2 (M)

Sizing: XS - 2XL 18.00

PGT-2W (W)

18.00

*Additional decoration charges will apply*

STORMTECH

SOFTSHELL OUTERWEAR SERIES

Dolphin

Bright Red

KS-3 (M) / KS-3W (W)

Greenwich Lightweight Softshell

water resistance

LEVEL 3 10,000mm

breathability

3,000g/m2

This lightweight is no push-over. Move to the rhythm of your soul in the go-to Greenwich Lightweight Softshell. It is artfully designed to move with you, not around you, contemplating your needs at every turn. The PFC-free water-repellent finish and windresistant fabric shun the cold and cut out drafts. Reflective shoulder trim adds extra visibility in low light, for protection of a different kind. Breathability, durability, warmth, and comfort have come together to create the pinnacle of lightweight weather solutions.

› STORMTECH H2XTREME® 10,000/3,000 Waterproof / Breathable Outer Shell › PFC-Free Waterproof/Breathable Bonded Shell › Reflective Trim › Internal Pocket › Audio Port COLOURS:

Black

Navy

Sizing: S - 3XL KS-3 (M)

*Additional decoration charges will apply*

Azure Blue

Sizing: XS - 2XL $

56.25

KS-3W (W)

56.25

STORMTECH Black/Kiwi

Charcoal Twill Electric Blue

HS-1 (M) / HS-1W (W)

Epsilon H2XTREME® Shell

› STORMTECH 3-Layer H2XTREME® › ›

8,000/5,000 Waterproof / Breathable Outer Shell Laser-Cut and Bonded Bicep Pocket with Waterproof Zipper Reverse-Taped Front Zippers

water resistance

breathability

LEVEL 2 8,000mm

5,000g/m2

› Chest Pockets with Media Port › Adjustable Hem with Drawcord › Adjustable Cuff Tabs › Attached, Articulated Hood › Internal Pockets

COLOURS:

Navy

Sizing: S - 3XL

Red

150.00

Black/Black

breathability

1,000g/m2

› Zippered Pockets › Adjustable Hem › Adjustable Cuffs › Articulated Sleeves

Black/Azure Blue

Sizing: S - 3XL

HS-1W (W)

150.00

Sizing: XS - 2XL

HGL-1 (M)

Black

112.50

Azure Blue/Black

KSL-1 (M) / KSL-1W (W)

Dolphin

Belcarra Softshell

› STORMTECH H2XTREME® 10,000/3,000 Waterproof / Breathable Outer Shell PFC-Free Waterproof/Breathable Bonded Shell Adjustable Attached Hood Zippered Hand Warmer Pockets

water resistance

breathability

LEVEL 3 10,000mm

3,000g/m2

› Audio System › Elasticized Hem and Cuffs (M’s) › Adjustable Waist (W’s) › Partial Elasticized Cuffs (W’s) › Kick Pleat (W’s)

Black

Dolphin

Sizing: S - 5XL

112.50

Black/Azure Blue

KSB-1 (M) / KSB-1W (W)

water resistance

orbiter Softshell

LEVEL 1 600mm

breathability

1,000g/m2

› D/W/R Outer Shell › Zippered, Brushed Tricot Pockets, › Chin Saver › Reverse Taped Center Front Zipper

Black/Bright Red

Sizing: XS - 3XL 67.50

HGL-1W (W)

COLOURS:

KSL-1 (M)

LEVEL 1 600mm

› D/W/R Outer Shell › Contrast Reverse-Taped Front Zippers › Attached Articulated Hood › Internal Full-Length Stormflap › Chest Pocket

Nightshadow/ Treetop Green (M’s)

Sizing: XS - 2XL

HS-1 (M)

› ›

water resistance

Sidewinder Shell

COLOURS:

Black

›

Black/Bright Red

HGL-1 (M) / HGL-1W (W)

KSL-1W (W)

Black/Carbon

Black/Kiwi

Sizing: S - 3XL 67.50

KSB-1 (M)

Navy/Carbon

Bright Red/Black

Sizing: XS - 2XL 57.75

KSB-1W (W)

57.75

*Additional decoration charges will apply*

STORMTECH

technical rainshells XNJ-1 (M) / XNJ-1W (W)

Mission Technical Shell Tell wet weather to take a hike. Nothing should stop you from hearing the crunch of fallen leaves underfoot, so put on a shell that is resolute about providing maximum outdoor protection. The urban styled Mission Technical Shell shuts out the rain and keeps the wind out with its exclusive H2XTREME® waterproof/breathable technology, snap off hood and waterproof zippers. Comfort comes standard with pit zips for core ventilation, while the ergonomic design promotes unrestricted movement. water resistance

LEVEL 3 10,000mm

breathability

6,000g/m

Garden Green

Burgundy

COLOURS:

Sizing: S - 3XL XNJ-1 (M)

240.00

Sizing: XS - 2XL XNJ-1W (W)

Black

Sky Blue

Black/Azure Blue

Dark Orange (Ladies Only)

SSR-3 (M) / SSR-3W (W)

water resistance

Stratus Lightweight Shell

breathability

LEVEL 2 5,000mm

5,000g/m2

› STORMTECH H2XTREME® 5,000/5,000 › Internal Full-Length Stormflap Waterproof / Breathable Outer Shell › Concealed Rollaway Hood › Sealed Seams › Upper Back Yoke with Mesh › Center Front Zipper with Welts › Lined Vents › On-Seam Side Zippered Welt Pockets › Open Hem with › Partial Elastic Cuffs with Adjustable Tabs Adjustable Drawcord COLOURS: › Packable Into Included Pouch

Black

SSR-3 (M) 37

water resistance

LEVEL 2 5,000mm

olympia shell

› PFC-Free Water Repellent Finish › Critically Sealed Seams › Adjustable Attached Hood › Internal Full-Length Stormflap › Zippered Chest Pocket

breathability

5,000g/m2

› Zippered Hand Warmer Pockets › Adjustable Hem with Drawcord › Adjustable Cuffs › Articulated Sleeves

COLOURS:

Black/Granite

Sizing: XS - 2XL 112.50

Black/Bright Red

GXJ-2 (M) / GXJ-2W (W)

Navy

Sizing: S - 3XL

Navy

SSR-3W (W)

*Additional decoration charges will apply*

Sizing: S - 3XL $

112.50

GXJ-2 (M)

Sizing: XS - 2XL 90.00

GXJ-2W (W)

90.00

STORMTECH Fire Orange Violet (Ladies only)

XB-3 (M) / XB-3W (W)

water resistance

› STORMTECH H2XTREME® 10,000 / 3,000 › › › ›

breathability

LEVEL 3 10,000mm

Patrol Softshell Waterproof / Breathable Outer Shell Sealed Seams Waterproof Zippers Detachable Articulated Storm Hood Adjustable Shockcord Hood

Sizing: S - 3XL

3,000g/m2

› Adjustable Hem › Dropped Back › Dual Chest Pockets › Articulated Action Elbows › Adjustable Cuffs with Gusset

COLOURS:

Sizing: XS - 2XL

XB-3 (M)

210.00

XB-3W (W)

210.00

Black/ Carbon

Azure Blue water resistance

LEVEL 2 3,000mm

LIGHTNING SHELL

breathability

3,000g/m2

› STORMTECH 2-Layer H2X® 3,000/3,000 › Internal Chest Pocket Waterproof / Breathable Outer Shell › Adjustable Cuffs › Fully Sealed Seams › Attached Adjustable Hood › Internal Full-Length and Partial External › Adjustable Hem Stormflap › Articulated Sleeves › Pit Zips › Embroidery Access COLOURS:

Black

THX-2 (M)

127.50

Navy/ Navy

Electric Blue

Jewel Green

Azure Blue water resistance

LEVEL 2 5,000mm

Hurricane Shell

breathability

5,000g/m2

› STORMTECH H2XTREME® 5,000/5,000 › Adjustable Drawstring Hood Waterproof/Breathable Outer Shell › Dropped Back › Sealed Seams › Brushed Tricot Pocket Lining › Waterproof Zippers › Internal Zippered Security Pocket › Adjustable Cuffs › Articulated Action Elbows › Stowable Storm Hood › Soft Hood Brim

COLOURS:

Bright Red

Sizing: XS - 2XL $

Charcoal Twill/Black

HRX-1 (M) / HRX-1W (W)

Navy

Sizing: S - 3XL

Black/ Kiwi

Black

Bright Red

THX-2 (M) / THX-2W (W)

Black/ Black/ Electric Blue Bright Red

THX-2W (W)

Sizing: S - 3XL 127.50

HRX-1 (M)

Sizing: XS - 2XL 112.50

HRX-1W (W)

112.50

*Additional decoration charges will apply*

STORMTECH

Performance rainshells GSX-1 (M) / GSX-1W (W)

Axis Shell

water resistance

LEVEL 1 600mm

breathability

1,000g/m2

Maximum ventilation, minimal bulk. Lightweight, soft to the touch but with hard-wearing hexagonal-ripstop fabric. Electronics are protected from a shower or two by an internal media pocket. Comes in a variety of eye popping color combinations.

Sizing: S - 3XL GSX-1 (M)

56.25

Sizing: XS - 2XL GSX-1W (W)

56.25

Royal/Black Sport Red/Black

COLOURS:

Black/ Black

Black/ Royal

Black/ Forest

Black/ Black/ Black/ Black/ Black/ Grey/ Navy/ Electric Nightshadow/ Treetop Maroon Sport Red Orange Sundance Lime Black Navy Blue/Flame Treetop Green/ Red Green Black

Navy/Navy

Electric Blue

Stadium Red/Black

TRS-1 (M) / TRS-1W (W)

water resistance

LEVEL 1 600mm

Tritium Shell

› D/W/R Outer Shell › Elasticized Cuffs › Adjustable Drawstring Hood › Adjustable Hem › Dropped Back

breathability

1,000g/m

› Internal Media Port › Internal Zippered Security Pocket › Mesh Lining › Chin Saver › Embroidery Access

COLOURS:

Lilac/Black

Sizing: S - 3XL

Kiwi

ozone hooded Shell

› D/W/R Outer Shell › Elasticized Cuffs › Adjustable Drawstring Hood › Adjustable Hem › Dropped Back

water resistance

LEVEL 1 600mm

breathability

1,000g/m2

› Internal Media Port › Internal Zippered Security Pocket › Mesh Lining › Chin Saver › Embroidery Access

COLOURS:

Black/Black

TRS-1 (M)

TMX-1 (M) / TMX-1W (W)

Treetop Green/Black

Black

Sizing: XS - 2XL 60.00

TRS-1W (W)

*Additional decoration charges will apply*

Dolphin

Sizing: S - 3XL $

60.00

TMX-1 (M)

Bright Red

Orange

Sizing: XS - 2XL 45.00

TMX-1W (W)

45.00

water resistance

breathability 2

LEVEL 2 5,000mm

Stingray Jacket

600g/m

› 4-Way Stretch STORMTECH H2XTREME® Waterproof / Breathable Fabric › Sealed Seams › Articulated Sleeves › Adjustable Cuffs › Adjustable Hem › Internal Full-Length Stormflap › Stowable Hood into Collar › Zippered Pockets › Waterproof Center Front and Hand Pocket Zippers

Sizing: S - 5XL

Sizing: XS - 2XL

ZZJ-1 (M) Black/Carbon Heather

STORMTECH

ZZJ-1 (M) / ZZJ-1W (W)

ZZJ-1W (W)

150.00

Black/Carbon Heather

SSR-4 (M) / SSR-4W (W)

water resistance

breathability

LEVEL 1 600mm

Logan Shell

› D/W/R Outer Shell › Critically Sealed Seams › Upper Back Yoke Vent with Mesh › Stowable Hood › Welded Brim › Adjustable Hem & Cuffs

1,000g/m2

› Internal Chest Pocket › Mesh Lining › External Full-Length Stormflap ›

with Top and Bottom Snap Closures Embroidery Access

COLOURS:

Black Spring Green Navy

Electric Blue

Sizing: S - 3XL

Hot Red

Sizing: XS - 2XL

SSR-4 (M)

75.00

SSR-4W (W)

KX-2 (M) / KX-2W (W)

Equinox Performance Shell

water resistance

LEVEL 1 600mm

› D/W/R Outer Shell › Packs into Self Pocket › Adjustable Hem and Cuffs › Side Panel Vents › Front Pockets › Reflective Trim on Shoulder

75.00

breathability

1,000g/m2

Packs into Self Pocket

COLOURS:

Black

Carbon

Navy

Azure Blue

Kiwi

Cool Silver Bright Red

Sizing: S - 3XL KX-2 (M)

Sizing: XS - 2XL $

30.00

KX-2W (W)

30.00

*Additional decoration charges will apply*

STORMTECH

layering / hoodies HTZ-1 (M) / HTZ-1W (W)

Base Thermal 1/4 Zip Base camp of layering. Streamlined base layer with H2X-DRY® moisture management technology that wicks moisture away from the skin. The Base Thermal 1/4 Zip features a grid back fleece which offers superior thermal properties, while allowing for excellent airflow and breathability.

COLOURS:

Ocean

Dolphin

Earth

Sizing: S - 3XL

Sizing: XS - 2XL

HTZ-1 (M)

52.50

Black/Kiwi

Bright Red

reflex hoody

› STORMTECH H2X-DRY® Moisture Management › 1/4 Zip › Contrast Cover Stitch Detail › Chin Saver

› STORMTECH H2X-DRY® Moisture

COLOURS:

Black/Bright Red

Black/Carbon

Sizing: S - 3XL TFW-1 (M)

› › ›

Management Moisture Wicking Fabric Articulated Elbows Underarm Gusset

Black/Electric Blue

Black

Sizing: XS - 2XL 41.25

TFW-1W (W)

*Additional decoration charges will apply*

52.50

TCX-1 (M) / TCX-1W (W)

Pulse Fleece Pullover

HTZ-1W (W)

Azure Blue

Navy/Carbon

TFW-1 (M) / TFW-1W (W)

Raspberry

Fire Orange

Dolphin

Sizing: S - 3XL 41.25

TCX-1 (M)

› Kanga Pockets › Scuba Hood › Contoured Hem

Jewel Green

Sizing: XS - 2XL 67.50

TCX-1W (W)

67.50

STORMTECH

PERFORMANCE FLEECE

Sage Denim

FH-2 (M) / FH-2W (W)

Juneau Knit Hoody Casual just became serious. From sea to sky to summit, life is built upon layers of experience and memories. The Juneau Knit Hoody is the perfect urban or outdoor mid-layer for those days where winter is more than just a hint in the air. Its ultra-soft sweater-knit fleece, scuba hood and low-profile, zippered hand warmer pockets are the perfect combination of comfort, style, and function. Make your life story the one that keeps them talking.

COLOURS:

Sizing: S - 3XL FH-2 (M)

97.50

Sizing: XS - 2XL FH-2W (W)

Graphite

97.50

Kiwi Azure Blue

Hot Red

SX-4 (M) / SX-4W (W)

Reactor Fleece Shell

› Anti-Pill Polyester Polar Fleece › Contrast Cover Stitching

› Chin Saver › Brushed Tricot Hand Warmer Pockets

COLOURS:

Black

Reactor Fleece vest

› Anti-Pill Polyester Polar Fleece › Contrast Cover Stitching

› Chin Saver › Brushed Tricot Hand Warmer Pockets

COLOURS:

Granite

Navy

Sizing: S - 3XL SX-4 (M)

Granite

VX-4 (M) / VX-4W (W)

Hot Red

Black

Sizing: XS - 2XL $

41.25

SX-4W (W)

Navy

Azure Blue

Sizing: S - 3XL 41.25

VX-4 (M)

Kiwi

Sizing: XS - 2XL 33.75

VX-4W (W)

33.75

*Additional decoration charges will apply*

STORMTECH

urban casual series

Indigo

Earth

BXQ-1 (M) / BXQ-1W (W)

Bushwick Quilted Jacket When the temperature unexpectedly dips, this quilted polyfill jacket with a snap closure center front zipper and zippered hand warmer pockets is guaranteed to keep you warm and protected from chills. When the clouds close in, go undercover with the adjustable attached hood and draw the adjustable waist in on the women’s style.

› Diamond Quilted Polyfill › Center Front Zipper and Snap Closure Placket › Hand Warmer Pockets › Internal Chest Pocket › Cuff Plackets with Button Closure

› Flapped Chest Pockets with Snap Closures (M’s)

› ¾ Length › Kick Pleat › Decoration Access

COLOURS:

YOUR LOGO HERE Leather Patch Decorating Option

Black

Sizing: S - 3XL BXQ-1 (M)

*Additional decoration charges will apply*

Sizing: XS - 2XL $

135.00

BXQ-1W (W)

135.00

STORMTECH Light Denim

SFD-1 (M) / SFD-1W (W)

Blueridge Denim Shirt

Black

› Full Front Button Closures › Cuff Placket with Button Closures

› Flapped Chest Pockets with Button Closures › Contoured Hem

Sizing: XS - 5XL

Sizing: XS - 3XL

SFD-1 (M)

52.50

SFD-1W (W)

SFD-1W

AFV-1W

52.50

FLX-1 (M) / FLX-1W (W)

Logan Thermal L/S Shirt

› Micro Fleece Lining › Insulated Sleeves with Taffeta Lining › Pleated Back Yoke › Full Front Snap Closures › Flapped Chest Pockets with Snap Closures › Cuff Placket with Snaps COLOURS:

Carbon Plaid Navy Plaid

Sizing: S - 3XL FLX-1 (M)

67.50

Sizing: XS - 2XL FLX-1W (W)

Black/Red Plaid

67.50

SFX-1 (M) / SFX-1W (W)

Earth/Navy

Logan Snap Front Shirt

› Full Front Snap Closures › Cuff Placket with Snap › Chest Pocket Flaps with Snaps › Contoured Hem

Black/ Dolphin

QPX-1 (M) / QPX-1W (W)

North Beach Shacket

COLOURS:

› Stormtech Thermal Shell Technology › Collar Stand › Diamond Quilted Polyfill › Internal Chest Pocket › Full Placket with Snaps › Cuff Placket with Snaps › Chest Pocket Flaps with Snaps Carbon Plaid

Sizing: S - 3XL QPX-1 (M)

Black/ Dolphin

90.00

Sizing: XS - 2XL QPX-1W (W)

90.00

Titanium Plaid

Navy Plaid

Black/Red Plaid

Sizing: S - 3XL SFX-1 (M)

45.00

Sizing: XS - 2XL

Earth/Navy

SFX-1 (W)

45.00

*Additional decoration charges will apply*

DRESS SHIRTS

DRESS SHIRT

urban casual knits/sweaters KNB-1W (W)

DELANO KNIT BLAZER A versatile blazer brings almost every look together. From a night out with friends to closing that deal around the boardroom table, the Delano Knit Blazer commands a room. It wows on the outside with its notched lapel collar, contoured princess seaming and functional, well-placed pockets, while charming on the inside with its high-quality inner lining.

Sizing: XS - 2XL BXQ-1W (W)

75.00

COLOURS:

Carbon Heather

Black

Grey Heather

Grey Heather Black

KNC-1W (W)

SVN-1 (M) / SVN-1W (W)

AVONDALE CARDIGAN

› Full Front Button Closures › 1x1 Rib Crew Neck Collar, Cuff and Hem › Fully Fashioned Armholes

LAGUNA V-NECK SWEATER

› V-Neck › 1x1 Rib Collar, Cuffs & Hem › Fully Fashioned Armholes

COLOURS:

Sizing: S - 3XL SVN-1 (M) Sizing: XS - 2XL KNC-1W (W)

41.25

Sizing: XS - 2XL 45.00

*Additional decoration charges will apply*

Black

Navy

SVN-1W (W)

*Garment sizing may affect pricing*

41.25

Navy

DRESS SHIRTS

D620 (M) / D620W (W)

Devon & Jones Crown Woven Collection™ Solid Broadcloth

› 55% cotton, 45% polyester broadcloth, true non-iron performance straight from the dryer. Patented pucker-free taped seams, specially fused collar, cuffs and placket.

Black

Burgundy

Crystal Blue

Dill

Black

Burgundy

Crystal Blue

Dill

Sizing: XS - 6XL

French Blue

Navy

French Blue

Pink

Navy

White

Pink

White

D620W (W)

43.21

DG540 (M) / DG540W (W)

D620S (M) / D620SW (W)

Devon & Jones CrownLux Performance™ Micro Windowpane Shirt

Devon & Jones Crown Woven Collection™ Solid Broadcloth Short-Sleeve Shirt

› Performance nylon fine shirting offers a crisp, professional

› Specially fused collar, cuffs and placket for total garment performance › Split back seam with bias cut back yoke

look while staying cool and comfortable.

French Blue/White Burgendy/White

Navy/White

French Blue/White Burgendy/White

Sizing: S - 4XL DG540 (M)

Sizing: XS - 3XL DG540W (W)

43.21

White

Black

French Blue

Navy

Sizing: XS-6XL 43.21

D620S (M)

Sizing: XS-3XL $

D620SW (W)

43.21

18CV316

18CV304

› Performance nylon fine shirting offers a crisp,

› 55% cotton, 44% polyester, 1% elastane, 5.4 oz › Incorporate versatile, smart style into your wardrobe

Van Heusen Long Sleeve Dress Twill Slim Fit Shirt professional look while staying cool and comfortable.

English Blue

White

Black

Ultra Blue

White

Sizing: S-2XL

43.21

Van Heusen ¾ SLEEVE DRESS TWILL SHIRT

Black

18CV316 (M)

Silver

Sizing: XS - 4XL

D620 (M)

Navy/White

Silver

Ultra Blue

English Blue

Sizing: XS-2XL 18CV304 (W)

31.10

*Additional decoration charges will apply*

31.10

*Garment sizing may affect pricing*

BAGS / PACKS

urban bags / packs Carbon Heather

SPT-1

Oasis Backpack Go boldly forth with timeless design and technical performance, magnetic easy-snap straps provide quick access to the spacious main compartment and padded laptop sleeve, and the ergonomic padded shoulder straps adjust at your discretion.

Sizing: 18.5” H x 11” W x 6.5” D SPT-1

67.50

Steel Blue Camo

Black

Desert Camo

BPX-4

BPX-3

Three Main Zip-Up Compartments Hidden Front Zip Pocket Padded Airmesh Back Panel Dual Webbing Carry Straps Internal Organiser for an Office on the go

Padded and Brushed Tricot Lined Tablet Sleeve Large Main Compartment for Books, Binders and Files Breathable, Air-Flow Padded Back Panel Dual Side Mesh Beverage Pockets RFID Blocking Material on Front Side Pocket

Yaletown Commuter Pack

Trinity Access Pack

COLOURS:

Black

Carbon

Sizing: 18.3” H x 11.4” W x 6.3” D BPX-4

Sizing: 18.75” H x 12.75” W x 9” D BPX-3

75.00

60.00

SPT-2

CTX-2

Ergonomic Padded Shoulder Straps Large Main Compartment with Internal Laptop Compartment External Zippered Pocket Easy Snap and Adjustable Straps for Main Compartment Access

2-in-1 Duffle and Backpack Waterproof Fabric Base Adjustable and Ergonomic Shoulder Straps Large Main Zippered Opening 2 Internal Zip Mesh Pockets Large Zippered End Pockets ID Sleeve Dual Side Carrying Handles Compression Straps Embroidery Access

Mistral Rucksack

Equinox 30 Duffle Bag

COLOURS:

Black

Carbon

Earth

Etched Print

Sizing: 17.5” H x 13.5” W x 6.5” D SPT-2

*Set-up and run charges will be applied at time of order.*

Black

Carbon

Sizing: 23” L x 10” W x 12” H 52.50

CTX-2

82.50

BAGS / PACKS

SWX-1

Nomad Backpack No fuss, no fanfare, just on-point practicality. The Nomad is a classically styled, durable and waterproof backpack that embraces spontaneity. When life calls, merely throw your essentials into the spacious main compartment, pop your laptop in the suspended sleeve and add your smalls to the front pocket. Now all that remains is to adjust the ergonomic shoulder straps and feel the comfort of the airflow padded back panel. You’re all set for adventure. Just like that.

COLOURS:

Red/Black

Sizing: 18.5” H x 11” W x 6.5” D Black/Black

Graphite/Black

Azure Blue/Black

Earth/Black

SWX-1

67.50

EPB-1

TBX-2

Ergonomic Padded Shoulder Straps Padded Airmesh Back Panel Two Main Zippered Compartments with Two-Way Zippers Laptop Compartment Internal Accessory Pocket and Document Sleeve 4 External Zippered Accessory Pockets

Waterproof Fabric Base External Zippered Pocket Carry Handles Adjustable Shoulder Straps Large Main Zippered Opening Adjustable Side Straps 3 Internal Pockets Decoration Access

Odyssey Executive Backpack

Soho Gear Bag

COLOURS:

Dolphin/Black

Black

Carbon Heather

Sizing: 16” H x 13” W x 6.7” D

Sizing: 22” H x 11” W x 9” D

EPB-1

TBX-2

60.00

TNX-1

PHP-1

Durable Fabric Splash Resistant Zipper Wipe Clean Interior Fabrication External Zip Pocket Internal Pockets Carrying Handle

Compression Straps Adjustable Waist Belt Splash-Resistant Zippers Three Zippered Compartments Wipe Clean Interior Fabrication Internal Key Clip

COLOURS:

Cupertino Toiletry Bag

45.00

Sequoia Hip Pack

Graphite/Black Graphite/Black

Black

Black/Gunmetal

Sizing: 9.8” L x 4.3” W x 6.25” H TNX-1

Sizing: 6.75” L x 2.5” W x 4.5” H $

18.75

PHP-1

18.75

*Set-up and run charges will be applied at time of order.*

OFFICE SUPPLIES

Q24AM

Tuscon Medium Ivory Edge Journal

50 20.90

100 19.00

250 18.00

TUSCON Cube Notes

Culmer Striker Ball Pen

› 240 ivory pages with grey lines › Size: 5 1/4” x 8 3/8” › Colour ribbon marker › Back paper pocket › Pen loop and elastic closure › Colour page edges › Imprint area: 3” x 3” › Recommended branding: Deboss or Laser Min Qty Q24A

75025

STRIKER-BALL

Min Qty STRIKER-BALL

› 640 white pages with grey lines › Perforated pages › Size: 5 5/16” x 7 7/16” › Imprint area: 4” x 1 1/4” › Recommended branding: Deboss

50 9.95

Min Qty 75025

50 21.40

100 19.40

250 18.40

Tuscon Medium Banded Journal

› 192 white pages with grey lines › Silver ribbon marker › Matching elastic closure › Size: 5 1/4” x 8 3/8” › Imprint area: 3” x 3” › Recommended branding: Deboss or Laser

Q5625

Medium Ivory Slim

› 256 white pages with grey lines › Two ribbon markers › Size: 7” x 9 11/16” › Imprint area: 4” x 4” › Recommended branding: Deboss

Min Qty N3425

50 11.20

100 10.20

250 9.70

500 8.90

N0325

Tuscon Large Wire

› 192 white pages with grey lines › Wire-bound › Size: 7 1/8” x 10 1/16” › Imprint area: 4” x 4” › Recommended branding: Deboss or Laser Min Qty N0325

25 19.60

50 17.80

100 16.90

or Laser

50 10.70

100 9.70

250 9.20

500 8.50

67625

76125

› 256 white pages with grey lines › Two ribbon markers › Size: 7” x 9 11/16” › Imprint area: 4” x 4” › Recommended branding: Deboss or Laser

› 128 white pages with grey lines › Perforated pages › Size: 5 7/8” x 8 3/8” › Imprint area: 3” x 3” › Recommended branding: Deboss or Laser

Tuscon Medium Journal

Min Qty 67625 49

50 $ 14.60

100 $ 13.30

250 $ 12.60

500 17.00

500 16.60

N3425

Min Qty Q5625

Tuscon Mid-Size Notes

GLIDE-BALL

Culmer Glide Ball Pen 500 $ 11.60

*Set-up and run charges will be applied at time of order.*

Min Qty GLIDE-BALL

50 16.95

Min Qty 76125

50 9.80

100 8.90

250 8.40

500 7.75

200 15.60

OFFICE SUPPLIES

Pens under $2

G1264

IJ300RT

Gigi Ballpoint Pen Min Qty G1264

I153

Paper Mate InkJoy 250 $0.39

Min Qty IJ300RT

LINDSAY BALLPOINT PEN / STYLUS 300 $0.95

Min Qty I153

250 $1.69

Under $5

G3108

I138

Ali Executive Ballpoint Pen Min Qty G3108

G3115

GLACIO BALLPOINT PEN/STYLUS 125 $3.19

Min Qty I138

THEO BALLPOINT PEN/STYLUS 150 $2.29

Min Qty G3115

100 $3.99

Under $ 20

LINK-BALL

ZOOM-BALL

Culmer Link Ball Pen Min Qty LINK-BALL

G3148

ZOOM BALL PEN 50 $13.95

Min Qty ZOOM-BALL

BELMOND DONALD BALLPOINT PEN 50 $7.95

Min Qty G3148

75 $7.00

*Set-up and run charges will be applied at time of order.*

Drinkware

SANTa FE MUG AND SAVANNAH MUG

DRINKWARE

The Santa Fe ceramic mug uses our speckled granite-look glazing technique with a rich version of the same color inner glaze and a contrasting rim, perfect to start your day the right way. Min Qty

Aqua (Premium)

Black

Gamboge (Premium)

Burgundy (Premium)

Plum

Green

Coral (Premium)

DCC1025 Solid interior

7.67 Call for pricing $

DCC1025 Premium

Santa Fe Mug Hawaiian Blue (Premium)

Sand

The thickly glazed, speckled granite-style finish of the Savannah ceramic mug with its black rim will infuse your cappuccino with a vintage look, perfect to warm you on cold winter nights. Min Qty

DCC1361

DCC1361 Premium

7.85

Colbolt / White

8.27

Ocean Blue / White

Orange / White (Premium)

Terra Cotta/ White

Black

Green

Sand

White / White

Savannah Mug Burgundy Red / White (Premium)

Sidley And Dereham Mug

Sidley Mug Yellow

The Sidley ceramic mug is finished with a satin black glaze and contrasting glossy rim.

Dereham Mug - Yellow

Coral {Premium)

Country Blue

Orange (Premium)

Pink

Purple (Premium)

Red (Premium)

White

Rye Green

The Dereham ceramic mug gives a contemporary satin black glaze treatment to the classic coffee cup shape.

MALIBU MUG

The best-selling Malibu ceramic mug is available in 24 colors. There is a color for every need and if you want to have the look of a coffee house, there is nothing better than the classic shape of our Malibu collection.

*Set-up and run charges will be applied at time of order.*

Min Qty DCC1004 Sidley

72 6.29

DCC1004 Sidley Premium

DCC1023 Dereham

DCC1023 Dereham Premium

7.02 7.32

7.92

Min Qty DCC1001 DCC1001 prem

72 4.70 Call for pricing $

Almond

Black

Burnt Orange (Premium)

Brown (Premium)

Green

Hunter Green

Light Grey

Cobalt Blue

Navy Blue

Ocean Blue

Pink (Premium)

Purple (Premium)

Plum (Premium)

Royal Blue (Premium)

Red (Premium)

Deep Purple (Premium)

Rye Green (Premium)

Teal (Premium)

Wedgewood Blue

White

Yellow

Burgundy

Bright Yellow

Orange (Premium)

Pinehurst Beer Glass

Sussex Pilsner

Min Qty BWC4221

Min Qty BWG3112 16oz BWG3113 20oz

12 $17.90

Wilburton Pilsner Min Qty BWG3032 16oz BWG3033 20oz

Octavia Beer Glass 24 $11.90 $12.90

Barrett Pilsner 24 $10.90 $11.90

Min Qty BWC3012

Drinkware

Cheers to summer!

Min Qty BWC4241

12 $20.30

Belgian Beer Glass 12 $27.30

Min Qty BWG3601 13oz BWG3602 16oz

Marathon Beer Glass

Wilmington Beer Glass

Classic Pilsner

Min Qty BWG211

Min Qty BWG132 16oz BWG133 20oz

Min Qty BWG411

24 $10.90

Rochdale Beer Glass

24 $10.50 $11.50

Min Qty

BWC4231 12.5oz

$17.90

BWC4232 18.5oz

$19.30

Aurora Pilsner 24 $12.90 $13.90

Min Qty BWG3022

24 $10.90

Musgrove Stein 24 $14.90

*Additional decoration charges will apply*

Min Qty BWG492 16oz BWG493 22oz

*Printed option Available*

24 $17.90 $21.30

Drinkware

WB7381

TRITAN™ 750 ML. (25 FL. OZ.) WATER BOTTLE Made of Tritan™ Copolyester this water bottle holds up to 750 ml. (25 fl. oz.) With screw-on sip lid. Dishwasher safe. Min Qty

WB7381

BLACK

PURPLE

BLUE

GREEN

ORANGE

RED

5.82

YELLOW

1625-53

Corzo Copper Vacuum Insulated Cup 12oz Durable, double-wall 18/18 stainless steel vacuum construction with copper insulation, which allows your beverage to stay cold for 24 hours and hot for at least 6 hours.

1625-85

thor copper vacuum insulated bottle 22oz

Min Qty

1625-53

14.78

Durable, double-wall stainless steel vacuum construction with copper insulation, which allows your beverage to stay cold for 48 hours and hot for at least 12 hours. 24

Min Qty 1625-85

19.70

WHITE

PROCESS BLUE

Black

Grey

Mint Green

Navy

NAVY

SILVER

GREY

MINT GREEN

BLACK

SL257PR

Pace Trail Vacuum Water Bottle 13.5 oz Vacuum-insulated, Copper-lined deep draw liner maintains optimal drinking temperatures and provides 12X heat retention with a lead-free vacuum seal. Features a twist off stainless lid. Min Qty

SL257PR

Orange

Process Blue

Silver

15.99

White

WB9698

BRISBANE 600 ML. (20 FL. OZ.) BOTTLE Vacuum-insulated, Copper-lined deep draw liner maintains optimal drinking temperatures. Screw on lid with silicone carry loop handle. Min Qty WB9698

25 16.75*

*Upcharge for Woodgrain WHITE

*Set-up and run charges will be applied at time of order.*

BLACK

WOODGRAIN

WHITE

RED

Drinkware

BLACK

SL259PR

14oz Urban Peak® summit vacuum camp mug Vacuum-insulated, Copper-lined deep draw liner maintains optimal drinking temperatures and provides 7X heat retention. Features a clear push-on, sip-through lid.

NAVY

Min Qty

GREY

SL259PR

WHITE

SL260PR

SL258PR

Urban Peak® 12oz bedrock trail vacuum can cooler Vacuum-insulation maintains optimal drinking temperatures and provides 6X heat retention. Features 2 attachments: clear screw-on, sip-through lid and a black can/bottle ring

22.99

14oz Urban Peak® Trek Vacuum Camp Mug Vacuum-insulated, Copper-lined deep draw liner maintains optimal drinking temperatures and provides 7X heat retention with a lead-free vacuum seal. Features a clear push-on, sipthrough lid.

BLACK

GREY

BLACK WHITE

WHITE

GREY

Min Qty

SL260PR

15.99

NAVY

GREY

BLACK

WHITE

NAVY

GREY

Min Qty NAVY

BLACK

SL258PR

WHITE

21.99

WHITE

GREY BLACK

SL255PR

SL253PR

SL232PR

Urban Peak® 12 oz Staple Trail Vacuum Tumbler

Urban Peak® 16 oz Bevel Trail Vacuum Tumbler

Urban Peak® 16 oz Silo Trail Vacuum Tumbler

Vacuum-insulated, Copper-lined deep draw liner maintains optimal drinking temperatures and provides 8X heat retention.

This tumbler is Copper-lined, with a deep draw liner, vacuum insulation provides 9X heat retention and spill-proof flip-top AS plastic lid featuring unique Tritan snap-locking closure.

This tumbler is Copper-lined, with a deep draw liner, vacuum insulation provides 9X heat retention and spill-proof flip-top AS plastic lid featuring Tritan snaplocking closure.

Min Qty

SL255PR

24 18.99

SL253PR

24 $

19.99

SL232PR

24 18.99

*Set-up and run charges will be applied at time of order.*

Lifestyle

LIFESTYLE

846

HEATED Lazy bear chair Kuma Outdoor Gear Lazy Bear Heated Chair features the exclusive ADDHEAT Control System. Price includes 10,000 mAh Power Bank. Rated for 350lbs. Size: 34”h x 34”w x 27”d

Min Qty 846

6 220.83

490

bear Buddy chair It’s a double Lazy Bear Chair! Get ready to get close and personal sharing this 2 seater! Equipped with two stem glass holders on either side. Size: 38”w x 59”h x 22”d

Min Qty 490

6 141.67

433

LAZY BEAR chair Supreme comfortability and ample space to kick back and relax. Fully padded seating including a convenient insulated drink holder. Rated for 350lbs. Size: 34”w x 34”h x 27”d

Min Qty 433

6 105.00

495

The bear essentials This compactable chair has a removable snap-in 600 D polyester seat that allows you to wash and dry it without any fuss. Rated for 250 lbs. Size: 25”w x 37.5”h x 20”d

Min Qty 495

6 50.00

*Set-up and run charges will be applied at time of order.*

lifestyle 100427-038 ®

9098

CFR-2

Features MaxCold® insulation with 25% more foam to keep drinks and food cooler longer.

The Igloo® Akita Hard Lined Cooler keeps things cool with enhanced insulation. The cooler has a removable liner and dual mesh water bottle pockets.

This cooler features a zippered insulated leak-proof storage compartment with a 16 can capacity, external pocket, carry handles and adjustable shoulder strap.

Igloo Seadrift™ Hard Lined Cooler

Min Qty 100427-038

6 114.25

3850-62

NBN Mayfair 12 Can Cooler This cooler features a PEVA lining. The front vinyl lash tab compliment the luxe material of this cooler. Switch out the interchangeable zipper pullers for a custom look. Min Qty 3850-62

24 24.02

SALT SPRING COOLER BAG

Igloo® Akita Hard Lined Cooler

Min Qty 9098

12 58.54

Min Qty CFR-2

12 $

75.00

CB161

CB163

Durable top-loading 12 can waterproof cooler featuring extra thick foam insulation. Made from matte PVC Mesh Tarpaulin, 38C PVC lining, 10mm foam with pocket.

Constructed from 500D Tarpaulin, matte PVC TPU, 38c PVC lining, full length front slash pocket, Stainless Steel bottle opener, and frontbottom reflective strip.

Min Qty

Urban Peak® Waterproof 12 Can Hinge Cooler

CB161

12 36.49

CB163

12 $

39.99

3850-12

2180-40

CB152

Zippered main compartment holds up to 12 cans plus ice. Thermal Drink Pockets™ on top of cooler for open beverage storage. Ultra Safe™ leak-proof, easy clean PEVA lining.

Insulated PEVA lining, front and corner pockets top quick access pocket and adjustable shoulder strap. Available in three different colours; red, royal and white.

Features MaxCold® insulation with 25% more foam to keep drinks and food cooler longer.

Min Qty

California Innovations® Pocket Cooler

3850-12

36 24.48

Graphite Color Pop 12 Can Cooler

2180-40

Urban peak® waterproof 48 can cooler

72 15.42

CB152

6 69.99

*Set-up and run charges will be applied at time of order.*

Lifestyle

Essentials for your

Backyard Barbecue 100103

1033-64

Features MaxCold® insulation with 25% more foam to keep drinks and food cooler longer. Leak resistant, antimicrobial liner that’s easy to clean.

This on trend cutting board is crafted from black marble and acacia wood. This chic piece is the perfect addition to any home.

Available Colours

Igloo® Legacy Lunch Companion Cooler

Min Qty 100103

Black Marble and Wood Cutting Board

1033-64

67.40

24 29.25

471

FL9575

classic plaid throw

Lumens 2-IN-1 Lantern

This blanket checks ALL boxes! Heavy 330GSM weight, LARGER 60”x70” size, striking plaid designs & if that wasn’t enough, the softest plush finish ever.

This lantern shines bright at 300 lumens! With COB LED technology you have the choice of a bright lantern or a replica camp fire all in one.

Available Colours

Min Qty 471

Min Qty

37.50*

FL9575

*Call for pricing on Lazer patch

1250-09

Laguiole 6 Piece Steak Knife Set

The Grill Paddle

This set has durable triple-riveted handles that are weighted for easy control and leverage. Sharp non-serrated edges on the 9” knives make easy work of thick steaks.

Cedar BBQ Grill Paddle for cleaning your outdoor BBQ. A safe and environment friendly way to clean your grill without the use of wire brushes! Choose between our standard, large and X-large paddles for your next big barbecue!

Available Colours

Min Qty 1250-09

10 88.23

Min Qty

Small

8.25

Min Qty

Large

9.25

Min Qty King Pin

Min Qty

*Set-up and run charges will be applied at time of order.*

25 18.95

1 35 $

9.33

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1450-07

Modesto Picnic Carrier Set This 7-piece set includes a wine opener, two stainless steel knives and forks with polished wood handles, a polished wood cutting board, zippered canvas wrap and canvas tote that holds three bottles of wine. Durable straps for easy carry. Min Qty

1450-07

$28.58

EC134

SH302

Sandy food storage box

fabrizio outdoor mat

Keep your sandwich, salad and fruit in this eco friendly bamboo storage box with the lid made from 100% bamboo and the base, 60% bamboo fibers. Dishwasher safe.

With its top handle and foldable hook & loop closure, this wipe-clean Fabrizio outdoor mat, in 2 plaid patterns and water-resistant vinyl bottom, will ensure your outdoor activity is comfortable.

Available Colours:

Available Colours

Min Qty EC134

Min Qty

15.00

SH302

2 25 17.00

SH114

SH300

fabrizio CHEESE PLATTER KIT

fabrizio16-PIECE BBQ SET

These stainless-steel cheese tools and bamboo cutting / cheese board are all compactly organized in a Fabrizio portable vinyl zip case. The tools included are a fork-tipped spear, cleaver & cheese plane.

Prepare your grilled vegetables and meats like a pro! Includes a spatula, tongs, a knife and a fork, 4 skewers and 8 corn holders, all compactly bundled in a Fabrizio zip case with elastic loops to secure everything in place.

Available Colours

Min Qty SH114

Min Qty

25.00

SH300

2 15 40.00

SH109

SH113

fabrizio BOTTLE CARRYING CASE

fabrizio bottle opener

This vinyl carrying case with its 2 metal handles and magnetic snap closure holds a standard 750ml bottle (not included) and can be used over and over again to bring along a bottle of your favorite vintage.

Sleeved in elegant Fabrizio vinyl, this stainless steel SS420 bottle opener will be a useful staple in anyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kitchen or bar.

This 3-in-1 kit includes a bamboo handle with corkscrew, bottle opener and foil cutter knife tools in stainless steel. This useful tool is securely packaged in a Fabrizio snap button closure vinyl carrying pouch.

Available Colours Min Qty SH109

Available Colours Min Qty SH113

Available Colours Min Qty EC132

2 25 $ 18.00

2 100 $ 4.50

50 9.00

*Set-up and run charges will be applied at time of order.*

EM-JA016-SB

TECH

JBL Charge 4 portable bluetooth® speaker Full-featured waterproof portable speaker with high-capacity battery to charge your devices. Wirelessly connect up to 3 smartphones or tablets to the speaker and take turns playing TECH

powerful stereo sound. Min Qty EM-JA016-SB

1 219.99

T252

MIAMI 2-IN-1 WIRELESS SPEAKER / WIRELESS CHARGING DOCK Full-featured waterproof portable speaker with high-capacity battery to charge your devices. Wirelessly connect up to 3 smartphones or tablets to the speaker and take turns playing powerful stereo sound. Min Qty T252

20 28.00

T230

ADDI BLUETOOTH SPEAKER Metal speaker with controls for adjusting volume, play/pause, skipping songs, accepting/rejecting/redialing phone calls, a built-in microphone and LED status indicator. Compatible with audio devices that have a 3.5 mm audio jack and Bluetooth technology. Min Qty T230

T327

T291

7198-76

› These stylist earbuds have stereo sound and

› Covered in Heather grey fabric, this rubberized

› Power your music with this portable Bluetooth

Min Qty T327

Min Qty T291

Min Qty 7198-76

NOMAD EARBUD KIT

a tangle free audio cord with a gold plated color 3.5mm plug, a built-in microphone for answering mobile calls and a multi-function button to play/pause and skip songs.

20 38.00

75 9.75

*Set-up and run charges will be applied at time of order.*

NOMAD WIRELESS SPEAKER

wireless V4.2 & IPX4 water-resistant speaker (4-watt sound output) is the perfect companion to bring just about anywhere with you by just clipping the black metal carabiner.

25 20.00

Clip Clap Bluetooth Speaker

Speaker! Quality sound in a small form that plays your music or other audio from any Bluetooth enabled device. Making the Clip Clap Bluetooth Speaker compatible with just about anything that plays music. 50 10.25

TECH

OR2902

Boltron Wireless Charging Pad Keep your smartphone devices charged and ready to go when you are! The Boltron makes charging as simple as placing your mobile phone device on a surface so you can grab and go without the hassle of a tangled mess or unplugging cords. The Boltron charging pad allows you to simultaneously charge 5 smartphone devices (2 via USB outputs and 3 wireless charging-enabled devices on the pad). Say hello to the future of charging. Min Qty OR2902

1 $86.66

T1042

T1034

› Kepler’s full coverage 4CP backdrop for your logo is not only pretty,

› Count on the T1034 Pardo G2 for power when you have this trusty UL Certified

KEPLER WIRELESS CHARGING POWERBANK

it’s functional too! Rest your smartphone on the suction cup charging pad and let Kepler do the work while an LED backlight dramatically illuminates the center your brand’s message. Min Qty T1042

20 $30.00

PARDO-G2 2,200 MAH UL CERTIFIED POWER BANK

power bank with you. The matte metallic aluminum exterior houses a UL Certified 2,200 mAh Lithium Ion rechargeable battery. Min Qty T1042

50 $11.25

T1038

T1043

› In true Ophelia style, this rubberized plastic wireless charging dock provides

› This rubberized plastic 2-in-1 pen holder / wireless charging dock provides an

OPHELIA WIRELESS CHARGING DOCK

an illuminated backlit background for your logo. Simply lay your smartphone on the silicone ring to wireless charge it. Min Qty T1038

25 $18.00

TOBI 2-IN-1 PEN HOLDER/WIRELESS CHARGER

inventive solution to managing desk clutter. Organize your writing instruments and eliminate smartphone wires. Min Qty T1043

20 $28.00

*Set-up and run charges will be applied at time of order.*

GOlf

GOLF

SM-7952

5300-68

20F-7111

› The Golf Buddy features 12 golf ball tees and 3 golf

› Large ID window for golf scorecards. Quick

› High quality animal headcover › Size: Driver (fits most 460cc drivers) › Material: plush polyester fur

Min Qty:

300

Min Qty:

1.56

5300-68

Golf Buddy

ball markers on a beaded chain.

SM-7952

BEAVER HEADCOVER

clasp attaches to standard golf bag D-rings. Unzips to hold three golf balls in removable zippered pouch. Attachments to secure six tees and divot replacement tool. 96

Min Qty:

13.48

20F-7111

19.92

25C-1046

25A-1010

25C-1051

› Pearl Grey microfibre towel › Smooth surface is extremely absorbent

› 500g velour finish cotton; size: 16 x 22” › Nickel plated attachment hardware

› Absorbant microfibre towel in vibrant colours › Can hang folded or fully open

SUEDE GOLF TOWEL

Tri-Fold Towels

Min Qty: 25C-1046

MICROFIBRE WAFFLE GOLF TOWEL

Min Qty:

7.88

25A-1010

Min Qty:

10.75

25C-1051

7.88

2050-49

2050-53

› Automatic opening. Vented polyester canopy with

› Auto opening umbrella. Polyester canopy with colour › 60” Auto Open Golf size umbrella, vented windproof

46” Vented, Auto Open PinWheel Umbrella

Colours Available: Min Qty: 2050-49 *Additional decoration charges will apply*

5 36

19.52

2051-04

42” Auto Open, Color Splash Umbrella

unique pinwheel design, colour-match handle and matching polyester case. Two-section folding metal shaft. Folds up to only 17.25” long.

Triton Golf Valuables Pouch

60” Heathered Auto Open Golf Umbrella

pop under canopy and matching button on handle. Carrying sleeve with color matching 2” cuff. Twosection folding metal shaft. Ergonomic black rubber coated handle with wrist strap. Folds to 16” long with a 5.5” diameter.

canopy. Heathered grey fabric on upper canopy combined with colour matching trim and handle accents give this golf umbrella a unique ontrend design.

Colours Available: Min Qty: 2050-53

Colours Available: Min Qty: 2051-04

4 48

16.50

4 24

26.40

TOP CUFF

WEIGHT

POCKETS

STRAP

4.9LBS

CONVERTIBLE

Min Qty: STAND-BAG

N6553901 Grey/Black

N6554001 Black/Charcoal

N6553801 Black/Red

GOlf

Taylormade Select Plus (STAND BAG)

1 $

216.00

N6554301 Black/Pink

The TaylorMade Select Plus Stand Bag features a 7-way top with a front integrated grab handle and 2 grab handles on the side covered with colour-coordinated air mesh cushioned fabric, with full length dividers. The lightweight stand system provides added stability while you are playing your round of golf.

1. Anti-slip stand system 2. Adjustable strap system 3. Removable ball pocket embriodery 4. Multiple Grab handle top 5. Veloured lined dry pocket

N6554601 Blue/White

TOP CUFF

WEIGHT

POCKETS

STRAP

7LBS

CONVERTIBLE

Min Qty:

Taylormade Select Plus (CART BAG)

CART-BAG

240.00

1 5

N6553101 Black/Charcoal

N6553201 Black/Red

N6553701 Blue/White

N6553401 Black/Pink

Organization and durability combine to form the TaylorMade Select Cart Bag. Featuring a multi-material construction, the Select Cart Bag utilizes a 14-way padded top with full-length dividers and integrated putter well for meticulous club organization. 7 pockets â&#x20AC;&#x201C; including a large apparel pocket and velourlined valuables pocket â&#x20AC;&#x201C; provide a secure place for all on-course gear.

1. 14-way top provides a slot for every club 2. Oversized front facing pockets 3. Large internal insulated cooler pocket 4. Velour lined valuables pocket 5. 3 Full length dividers eliminate club crowding

N6552901 Grey/Black

*Additional decoration charges will apply*

GOlf Pro V1 / Pro V1 Yellow Qty (dozens)

12-23 $

77.86

24-47 $

71.33

48-119 $

68.67

120+ $

12-23 $

55.00

24-47 $

50.00

48-119 $

47.33

120+ $

Qty (dozens)

43.13

27.14

24-47 $

24.00

48-119 $

21.33

120+ $

12-23 $

Qty (dozens)

18.75

71.33

48-119 $

68.67

120+ $

45.71

24-47 $

41.33

38.67

12-23 $

27.14

24-47 $

24.00

48-119 $

21.33

*Additional decoration charges will apply*

120+ $

18.75

32.86

12-23

24-47 $

29.33

48-119 $

26.67

24-47

48-119

74.51 $73.09 $72.37 up to 5-colour imprint; $50 set up charge $

›

77.86

24-47 $

71.33

48-119 $

68.67

120+ $

63.13

120+ $

Qty (dozens)

35.00

12-23 $

39.29

24-47 $

35.33

48-119 $

32.67

120+ $

29.38

Soft 15’s 12-23 $

Qty (dozens)

12-23 $

TruFeel / TruFeel Yellow / TruFeel Matte Red

48-119 $

Qty (dozens)

63.13

120+ $

Qty (dozens)

23.75

Chrome Soft / Chrome Soft Yellow

Soft 12’s

77.86

24-47 $

Rush 15’s 12-23 $

Qty (dozens)

12-23 $

Velocity / Velocity Orange / Velocity Pink

Rush 12’s Qty (dozens)

Qty (dozens)

63.13

Tour Soft / Tour Soft Yellow Qty (dozens)

AVX / AVX Yellow

Pro V1X / ProV1X Yellow

12-23 $

32.86

24-47 $

29.33

48-119 $

26.67

120+ $

23.75

Chrome Soft X Triple Track / Yellow 120+ $

67.07

Qty (dozens)

12-23

›

24-47

48-119

74.51 $73.09 $72.37 up to 5-colour imprint; $50 set up charge $

120+ $

67.07

GOlf Supersoft White / Yellow / Orange / Green / Pink / Red

ERC Soft / ERC Soft Yellow

Qty (dozens)

12-23

24-47

48-119

37.65 $36.23 $35.51 up to 5-colour imprint; $50 set up charge $

›

120+ $

32.67

12-23

24-47

48-119

30.59 $29.17 $28.45 up to 5-colour imprint; $50 set up charge $

›

120+ $

26.08

48-119

›

120+ $

52.74

Qty (dozens)

12-23

24-47

48-119

48.71 $47.29 $46.57 up to 5-colour imprint; $50 set up charge $

›

12-23 $

72.31

24-47 $

69.63

48-119 $

67.15

120+ $

Qty (dozens)

62.67

Qty (dozens)

12-23

24-47

48-119

37.65 $36.23 $35.51 up to 5-colour imprint; $50 set up charge $

›

120+ $

32.67

TP5 x 120+ $

Qty (dozens)

42.99

RBZ

TP5 Qty (dozens)

24-47

59.15 $57.73 $57.01 up to 5-colour imprint; $50 set up charge $

Superhot (15 Pack)

Warbird / Warbird Yellow Qty (dozens)

12-23

Supersoft Magna / Supersoft Magna Yellow

12-23 $

72.31

24-47 $

69.63

48-119 $

67.15

120+ $

62.67

Tour Response / Tour Response Yellow 12-23 $

24.62

24-47 $

23.71

48-119 $

22.86

120+ $

21.34

Qty (dozens)

12-23 $

55.39

24-47 $

53.34

48-119 $

51.43

120+ $

48.00

Special Requests:

› Rush orders: please inquire with Logo department › Std. imprint on golf ball will be 7/8” (0.875”) round › Minimum order 12 dozen per sku › Minimum 12 dozen/packs for 1-2 colour logo; 24 dozen/packs for 3-4 colour logo

› $50 charge set-up Soft Response / Soft Response Yellow /Red

Noodle Long & Soft (15 pack)

Qty (dozens)

12-23

›

24-47

48-119

120+

36.93 $35.56 $34.29 $32.01 *Red and yellow ball custom printing in black only $

12-23 $

24.62

24-47 $

23.71

48-119 $

22.86

120+ $

21.34

*Additional decoration charges will apply*

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