The Britannia Mine Museum, located at Britannia Beach on the Sea-to-Sky Highway 10 minutes south of Squamish, was the recent co-recipient of the Min
The Britannia Mine Museum, located at Britannia Beach on the Sea-to-Sky Highway 10 minutes south of Squamish, was the recent co-recipient of the Mining and Sustainability Award.
A number of dignitaries and guests were at the ceremony including Steve Carr, deputy minister, Ministry of Energy, Mines and Natural Gas, Province of British Columbia; Karina Brino, president and CEO, Mining Association of BC; Leonie Tomlinson, Britannia Mine Museum board member; Carol Watts, Britannia Mine Museum Visitor Services and Operations Manager and various mining industry VIPs.
The Britannia Mine Museum are co-recipients of the 2012 Mining and Sustainability Award presented by the Mining Association of BC and the Province of British Columbia. The annual award recognizes the diverse companies, communities, First Nations, non-governmental organizations, government agencies and individuals committed to advancing and promoting sustainable development in the BC mining sector. The award was presented to the Britannia Mine Museum on Saturday, May 4th at 11 a.m. as part of BC Mining Week during the Family Fun Day festivities at the museum.
The Britannia Mine Museum is located on the site of the former Britannia Mine on the Sea-to-Sky Highway between Vancouver and Squamish. The Britannia Mine operated from 1900 to 1974, and the museum has been instrumental in helping to remediate the site. This non-profit, self-supporting charity first opened in 1975 as the British Columbia Museum of Mining and changed its name in 2010. Although it is not an actual mining operation, the Britannia Mine Museum contributes to promoting sustainability in the mining sector in a number of ways. The museum provides a hands-on experience for visitors and educates them about the history of mining in B.C. as well as the role of the industry in this province in the present and future. In everything it does, the Britannia Mine Museum strives to illustrate to the general public the contributions that mining makes to British Columbia.
The award was presented by the Mining Association of BC and the Province of British Columbia.
Pictured in photo: (From left to right) Rory Odenbach, head interpreter, Britannia Mine Museum, Gavin Dirom, president and chief executive officer, Association for Mineral Exploration - British Columbia, Katherine Flett, director of Marketing, Britannia Mine Museum, Professor Malcolm Scoble, UBC, department head, Mining Engineering, Karina Brino, MABC president and CEO, Steve Carr, deputy minister, Ministry of Energy, Mines and Natural Gas, Province of BC, Carol Watts, director of operations, Britannia Mine Museum, Robert A. Dickinson, chairman, Hunter Dickinson Inc., Leonie Tomlinson, executive vice-president, Hunter Dickinson Inc., Brent Leigh deputy chief administrative officer, District of West Vancouver
